(“BIG BLUE TAXI”
(Parody of ‘Big Yellow Taxi’ - Joni Mitchell)
They destroyed our herbs
And put them in a Pharmacy.
Complete with side effects
Yet they deny us the right to be free.
All in all, it seems to go,
That you don’t know Human Rights ‘til they’re gone.
They poisoned Paradise,
And put in a Pharmacy.
They stole all our herbs
And they decided to tamper with them.
They chemicalize, synthesize,
Yet they don’t see it as a problem.
All in all, it seems to go,
That you don’t know Human Rights ‘til they’re gone.
They poisoned Paradise,
And put in a Pharmacy.
Hey Pharma, Pharma
Don’t force your drugs on me now.
My medicine comes from the earth,
Provided by herbs and trees, with ease.
All in all, it
seems to go,
That you don’t know Human Rights ‘til they’re gone.
They poisoned Paradise,
And put in a Pharmacy.
Just the other day
I was targeted by the ‘Man’.
And a big BLUE taxi
Stole away my medicine.
All in all, it seems to go,
That you don’t know Human Rights ‘til they’re gone.
They poisoned Paradise, and put in a Pharmacy.
Yes, they poisoned Paradise and put in a Pharmacy.
Dr. Dean Edell, M.D. USA
“Most of us in the medical profession believe this decision (banning medical cannabis) is Politically motivated.
Cannabis as medicine works”.
“PLEASE HELP ME” - (D. Nentwig copyright Nov 2007)
(Parody of “Help!” - Beatles).
Well I suffer with sei-zures every sin-gle day-ay-ay
And I get neuropathic pain, in many different ways
But even though I find relief in a single cup of Cannabis tea-ea-ea,
They say ‘No’ and tell us where to go
And they deny our right to be free.
Help me if you can, I’m being put dow-ow-n
Feeling like a cat in a bag, that’s being drow-ow-ned
Help me to get my medicine that grows in the grou-ou-nd,
Won’t you please, please help me?
My quality of life is improved, in oh so many ways.
With Cannabis my seizures seem to vanish, yes, for days
But still we’re forced to live in fear and feel so insecure,
While Politicians are all on drugs and they declare uncivil war.
Help me if you can, I’m being put dow-ow-n
Feeling like a cat in a bag, that’s being drow-ow-ned
Help me to get my medicine that grows in the grou-ou-nd,
Won’t you please, please help me?
Well I suffer with sei-zures every sin-gle day-ay-ay
And I get neuropathic pain, in many different ways
But even though I find relief in a single cup of Cannabis tea-ea-ea,
They say ‘No’ and tell us where to go
And they deny our right to be free.
Help me if you can, I’m being put dow-ow-n
Feeling like a cat in a bag, that’s being drow-ow-ned
Help me to get my medicine that grows in the grou-ou-nd,
Won’t you please, please help me?
Help me, help me-e-e ooh
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“THEN I GOT ‘HIGH’ ” (D.Nentwig copyright July 2006)
(Parody from “Because I Got High” by Afro Man).
I used to suffer from seizures
But then I got ‘high’.
I was an arthritis sufferer, too.
But then I got ‘high’.
Now I know the truth, and I wonder why,
We’re not allowed to get ‘high’, allowed to get ‘high’, allowed to get ‘high’.
Cannabis suppresses my night terrors,
That’s why I get ‘high’.
I have less stress in my endeavours,
That’s why I get ‘high’.
It removes my night terrors and I know why,
Because I get ‘high’, because I get ‘high’, because I get ‘high’.
My condition stops me from eating,
So I get ‘high’.
Instead of hunger I get nausea,
So I get ‘high’.
It brings on a mega attack of the ‘munchies’ and I know why,
For it stimulates hunger and the metabolic rate, and that’s no lie.
Ya da da da da da ….
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AIDS Treatment News. (Jan 23rd, 1998)
“The scientific case for medical cannabis use keeps growing stronger. Far more dangerous psychoactive drugs…… (Drugs that get you ‘high’, which include ethanol, nicotine and caffeine - recreational - and Pharmaceuticals - medicinal)….. like morphine are allowed in medical use.
Somehow, cannabis has become a symbolic or Political hard line to be maintained by anti-drug believers (who believe their drugs are anything but drugs) regardless of human cost.
The costs will mount until the public can organise itself to insist that those who urgently need this medicine can obtain and use it, legally”.
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‘WE’RE GONNA TAKE YOUR DRUGS AWAY’. - (D.Nentwig - copyright Nov. 2007)
Parody “Hide your Love Away” - Beatles. 
Here they stand, drugs in hand,
Nailing other’s choices to the wall.
The ‘Fair Go’ has gone.
Drug apartheid has won.
They will make you feel sma-all.
Everywhere Politicians don’t care,
That we suffer every day.
We constantly see, that they hate you and me,
And we always hear them say.
“Hey..we’re gonna take your drugs away”.
“Hey..we’re gonna steal your rights away”.
They don’t care if we suffer and die,
As long as their Drug lords win.
They’re cheering them, advocating them,
In every me-di-u-um.
How can they say to me,
“Our drugs are the only way”.
While they gather round,
And hunt us down,
Just like the K.K.K.
And they say….
“Hey..we’re gonna take your drugs away”.
“Hey..we’re gonna steal your rights away”.
“Hey..we’re gonna take your drugs away”.
“Hey..we’re gonna steal your rights away”.
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St. Thomas Aquinas. - “Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust”
Abraham Lincoln. - “Those who deny freedom for others, deserve it not for themselves”.
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“THEY DON‘T WANT TO HELP” (D.Nentwig - copyright Oct. 2007)
(Parody, ‘Fools rush in’ - Elvis Presley)
Wise men say,
‘Medical Cannabis works for you”,
But still they don’t want to help
Disabled ‘scum’ like me and you.
Don’t we deserve -
A fair go, too?
But still they don’t want to help
Disabled ‘scum’ like me and you.
As each disease grows,
They deny us the tree,
While forcing us to
Take drugs from their Pharmacy.
They say, ‘Take only our drugs’
While they steal rights from me and from you,
But still they don’t want to help
Disabled ‘scum’ like me and like you.
They say, “I can’t help
Disabled ‘scum’ - like - you”.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder can cause vicious night terrors. Cannabis Indica stops the R.E.M. dream state. It helps people sleep. It helps people relax. Combined with a nutritious diet, ie B-vitamin group especially, it greatly helps with explosive anger and suicidal thoughts.
(NOTE: The above parody was written just after the Disability Advocate who we rang to speak to, stated that he could not help me. He was proud as punch to hear about my condition, but his tone changed and he treated me like a second class citizen as soon as he realized which medication I was talking about.
When it came to discussing the great benefit that medical cannabis contributes to my condition and my quality of life his statement was, “Oh, you’re talking about ‘marijuana’ aren’t you” in a very derogatory voice. After that he excused himself and hung up the phone).
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jnr. - “An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority compels a minority group to obey, but does not make binding on itself“.
.....He also stated, "Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere".
It's time we let the 'bells of freedom ring' when it comes to a sufferer being allowed the medication that suits and benefits them, and not just drug lords, politicians, media, law enforcement and pro-/anti-drug campaigners.
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Journal of the American Med. Assoc. (21/6/95)“One of Cannabis’ greatest advantages, as a medicine, is its remarkable safety.
- It has little effect on major physiological functions.
- There is no known case of a lethal overdose;
- Cannabis is also far less addictive and far less subject to abuse than many drugs used as muscle relaxants, hypnotics and analgesics”.
(Unfortunately, this medical group, just like pretty much all medical groups, kow-towed to the drug supremacy, drug choice denial policies of Governments and (legal) drug lords and they all joined in with a new call, "You can J.A.M.A. your beliefs, your choices, your culture and your pain and suffering where the sun don't shine. Our drugs are the ones you will take, or else")
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“A FAIR GO FOR ALL” (D.Nentwig - copyright Jan. 2008)
(Parody: “Another Brick In The Wall” - Pink Floyd).
We don’t need no discrimination.
We don’t need no forced control.
No more prejudice in our society.
Politicians, leave our herbs alone.
Hey, Politicians, leave our herbs alone.
All in all we’re just asking for a Fair Go for all.
All in all we’re just asking for a Fair Go for all.
I don’t need drugs from your Pharmacy.
I just use my herbs and they help me.
I have seen the writing on the wall.
Don’t think that I need anything else at all.
No, I don’t need anything else at all.
All in all we’re just asking for a Fair Go for all.
All in all we’re just asking for a Fair Go for all.
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Dr. Jerome Kassirer, M.D.- Editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, USA. (1997) - “I believe that a Federal Policy that prohibits Physicians from alleviating suffering by prescribing Cannabis for seriously ill patients is misguided, heavy handed and inhumane……It is also hypocritical to forbid Physicians to prescribe cannabis while permitting them to use morphine and meperidine to relieve extreme dyspnea and pain.
With both these drugs, the difference between the dose that relieves symptoms and the dose that hastens death is very narrow; by contrast there is no risk of death from cannabis……What really counts for a therapy with this kind of safety margin is whether a seriously ill patient feels relief as a result of the intervention, not whether a controlled trial ‘proves’ its efficacy.”
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Dr. Aiden Hampson, Biologist for N.I.M.H. (USA)
“We have found that Cannabinoids (CBD and THC) are very powerful anti-oxidants. In fact, they appear to be more powerful than Vitamin C or Vitamin E”.
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“A FAIR GO….UP AGAINST THE WALL” (D.Nentwig - copyright Nov 2006)
(Parody “In the Flesh” by Pink Floyd).
So you thought you might like to ‘have a fair go’,
To feel the warm thrill of acceptance that other people are shown.
Well, I got me some bad news for you ‘dickheads and losers’,
“Fair Go” ain’t well, he stayed back at Kirribilly hotel
And he sent us along to lend a ‘surrogate’ hand,
And now you’re going to find out on what this Government truly stands.
Are there any Cannabis users in the country tonight?
Get them up against the wall.
There’s another dickhead in the spotlight, just another loser to us,
Get him up against the wall.
To us they’re all useless, dysfunctional losers and goons,
Who let all this riff-raff into the room?
There’s one toking on a joint, and another one’s growing a crop.
If I had my way……….
I’d have all of you useless bludgers SHOT!
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The above parody was written not only for medical cannabis users, but for the entire Cannabist consumer culture, who legal drug takers/politicians etc. branded, openly, as ‘Dickheads’, ‘Losers’, ‘Scum’, ‘Unemployed’, ‘Useless’, ‘Can’t hold down a job’, ‘Can’t play sport’, and basically ‘have no place in their drug taking society’.
We wrote to them to complain about using such derogatory terms for people, and they excused themselves by stating, “We asked teenagers what they thought, and this was their response’. Brainwashed response more like it, especially as we now have 10 year olds prostituting themselves for a drug that they believe is a ‘drink’, and in rehab the drug ethanol is “now beating both ‘ice’/crystal methamphetamine and ‘heroin’/di-morphine”. (last quote from ‘Odyssey House’ Rehab statement, Sydney).
The Government of the time also decided to unleash a Body bag Campaign that left out 16,000 dead from cigarettes; 4,300 dead from ethanol; 10,000 dead from prescriptions; 2,000 dead from NSAIDS; 1,000 dead from OTC’s; and 300-500 dead from caffeine/tri-methyl-xanthine.
They also didn’t put all the people who died from obesity in it (food is a major ‘drug’ addiction these days). At the same time, all illicit drug deaths totalled 1,300. However, taking the law of averages per year, 800 die from all illicits, and yes...by showing respect to all drugs equally, and removing all bias and prejudice...the above illicit deaths and the massive collection of legal deaths, could have all been avoided and drug deaths, as well as nasty side effects and hospitalisations, could have become a thing of the past decades ago.
Instead of stating ‘Drug Abuse, what a Loser’ (taking in all drugs under a Criteria of Harm and not Political bias and revenue) , our Politicians and anti-illicit-only drug bodies, stated one of the most sadistic and untrue things about one of the most beneficial herbal genus/races on the Planet, and that statement was, “Cannabis, what a Loser!”
Now, it’s time to understand what our Government and Pro-legal/anti-illicit drug campaigners believe is a loser. ...........................................................................
Imagine a living, breathing, fornicating and procreating race that provides to the human, clothing, shoes (ie hempen sandals), paper, fuel, food, cleaning agents, toiletries, bow strings, building materials, sails etc. (note: the word ‘canvas’ comes from the Latin ‘canavasium’, meaning ‘made from cannabis’. The word ‘canopy’ comes from the Russian word for cannabis, ‘konoplya’).
Henry Ford built a car out of it, and it has been used to remove toxicity and radioactivity out of the soil.
When it comes to the medicinal part of it, where do we start. The history of documented Cannabis medicine goes back to 2,700 BC (Emperor Shen Nung).
Cannabis has been proven and documented as being:
1) an analgesic 2) an anti-rheumatic 3) anti-inflammatory 4) anti-histaminic 5) a vermifuge 6) a bronchial dilator 7) an anodyne 8) an anti-convulsant 9) an anti-spasmodic 10) anti-diarrheic 11) anti-biotic 12) anti-oxidant 13) appetite stimulant 14) anti-viral 15) an expectorant 16) an anaesthetic 17) an aphrodisiac 18) a neuroleptic 19) a neuro-protector 20) an anti-malarial (because of its fat-soluble qualities) 21) an anti-bacterial (note: Cannabis has been proven very effective against gram positive bacterial infections ie golden staph) 22) anti-fungal 23) a stroke reverser 24) an anti-carcinogen/tumour eradicator 25) as a topical application for skin disorders 26) an anti-diabetic (crushed seeds) and much, much more.
And they called this beneficial herbal race a loser and are doing their best to genocide it? To call this beneficial herbal race a ’Loser’ is also to brand all of the above and following quotes from Doctors etc. as null and void, and the Doctors etc. themselves as ’Losers’….. and that would include legendary medicinal practitioners like Dr. William O’Shaugnessy; Dr. R.R. Meens; Dr. H.A. Hare; Dr. J.R. Reynolds (Queen Victoria’s own Doctor); Dr. J. B. Mattison; Dr. W.C. Woodward - plus our own Australian Doctors - Dr. Kerryn Phelps and Dr. McDonald Christie among many others.
The scary thing about modern and corporate medicine is that instead of allowing individual choice of medicine and co-operation between different schools of medicine, thought, culture and practice, co-operation has been replaced with forced corporation. Why else would medical sufferers be forced to assimilate or suffer, be forced to integrate or suffer, be forced to choose between no choice at all or suffer?
Remember, ‘forced choice is no choice at all, it is slavery’.
Remember, ‘to forcefully and mandatorily deny someone the particular medication that they know works for them, the individual, is to forcefully recommend yours’.
"Remember the power of choice"…(Prime Network statement)
…even if it has been denied you.
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“IMAGINE THERE’S NO PROHIBITION” (D.Nentwig - copyright April 2006)(Parody - ‘Imagine’ by John Lennon)
Imagine there’s no Prohibition,
It’s easy if you try,
No more living in fear
And trying to understand why.
Imagine all of our people,
Living as one human race.
Imagine Universal tolerance,
And respect being shown across the world,
No-one being suppressed and hated,
And no more No Tolerance flags unfurled.
Imagine all of our people,
Living together in peace.
You may say that I’m dreaming,
But I know I’m not the only one.
I hope some day you’ll join us,
In living free under the sun.
Imagine no discrimination,
I wonder if you can,
No more biased and racist attitudes
Being unleashed as a Master Plan.
Imagine all of our people
Sharing the world equally.
You may say I’m ‘bloody’ dreamin’,
But I know I’m not the only one,
So I hope someday you’ll all join us
In just living free under the sun.
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Harry S. Truman (former U.S. President)
“When even one American (Australian)- who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans (Australians) are in peril”.
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