Medical Cannabis Awareness

- Our response to Ms A. Bressington, Drug Free Australia

- Our Letter to Amnesty International

(Ms Bressington's speech was counteracting a bill that another female M.P. was trying to put forward on the positive issues of medical cannabis.  All Ms Bressington's remarks are in plum).

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The Hon. A. BRESSINGTON 

    In California, where a bill has gone through that is almost identical to the one that we are debating here, “….there has been a marked increase in cannabis use by teenagers”,

.....just like with the psychoactive drug ethanol

 - (with kids as young as 10 now getting caught up in the ‘drug‘ that they are taught is a ‘drink‘),

.....the psychoactive drug tri-methyl-xanthine / caffeine in the form of coca-cola, chocolate and its products, tea, coffee, and energy drug drinks

- (even though drug cartels like Red Bull, V and Mother don’t like to put the word drug where it belongs, but read what the teens say about it on the chat websites and you soon see just how addictive this drug is…some having as many as up to 8 cans of energy ‘drink’ drugs a day).

.....And yes, just like with cigarettes

 - (the fact that there are ads on tv now against cigarettes has not made much difference to teens. In fact, I am amazed at just how many people - including adults - who still do smoke or have since taken it up….although quite a few now hide the fact, just like people hide the fact they take ‘illicits’. It’s become the new ‘illicit’ while remaining legal).

.....Oh, and let’s not forget the amount of prescription and OTC drugs that teenagers are being prescribed or having bought for them, or even getting ‘on the street’.

    WE ARE A DRUG TAKING, PILL POPPING NATION more-so than any other time in History. Our children are taught to take drugs and see drugs being taken from the time they are born. There is a drug for everything (the majority of them advocated by the Government).
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“…..and doctors are writing medical certificates (for a fee)…..”

    Don’t all doctors deal psychoactive drugs for a fee?  They are writing prescriptions on behalf of Drug cartels who kill over 13,000 a year with their drugs….and many of them are getting rewards, awards and presents for doing so.  10,000 dead a year from prescriptions ; 2,000 a year from NSAIDS; 1,000 a year from OTC’s (Australian stats).

“…..for 12 months for an unrestricted quantity that can be used for any and every illness“…...

    For over 3,000 years, Cannabis has been documented as being highly beneficial for a MULTITUDE of diseases, illnesses and disorders, including: -

Cancer; Pain Relief; Anti-inflammatory action; Seizure Disorder control; Muscle Relaxant and Spasm Control; Nausea, Hunger Stimulation; Stomach Cramps including period pain; different forms of Neuralgia (especially Migraine); Diabetes; Bloody Fluxes;  IBS; Skin Disorders and much, much more, without the fear of death or poisoning from one of the many drugs backed by the same Politicians who tell us to ‘say no’ to this particular, psychoactive drug of choice THC. 

Cannabis, by the way, has been documented by highly recommended Doctors, Nurses, Patients (past and present and will continue into the future …and are not ‘anecdotal’ as so often misquoted.

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   There is a word ‘belief’ in the English language. It comes form the old German word ‘liefen’. This word translated means: “To make allowance for.” Not just having faith because you’ve seen it - not requiring proof -  It’s just  KNOWING.  Christians understand this concept and as many of our Politicians, the people in Drug Free Australia etc are Christians one would expect they know this concept also.  (To make allowance for someone else’s beliefs).

    Everything stems from a belief in something, and the majority of things that were once punishable offences have had allowance made for them. We may not personally agree with all of them, but belief in something is a person’s individual choice. Others can try and change a persons belief, but if their belief is strong, nothing is going to change their mind. We certainly should NOT force people to ’our’ way of thinking.

    Educate, inform, but never force. Look what happened when the Temperance movement and the Government and the Gun and Badge Gang tried to enforce the prohibition of Alcohol.  Other things that have been forcefully prohibited over the years (punishable ‘offences’) - caffeine; tomatoes; the kilt; books; being a single mother; and many, many more.

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“…..In fact, I made the point last night that one teenager was given a medical permit because her high heels hurt her feet….”

    Talk about ‘straining at gnats to swallow camels’.  However, if she went in to score some acetaminophen or Ibuprofen or Codeine or any other drug dealt in the drug dealers known as chemists (as well as supermarkets that have now become multi-drug cartels, traffickers and dealers), she could score as much of these drugs as she wanted to and risk DEATH or kidney failure and other nasty toxic side effects from those drugs mentioned,.

“…..That tells us one of two things: either teenagers believe that medical marijuana is a panacea for all conditions including sore feet,……” 

    Thousands upon thousands in Australia alone (millions around the world) swear that Cannabis, as a medicine, is of proven medical benefit, just as it is.  The Government, itself,  is not against Cannabis as a medicine, they just want it manipulated and dealt they way they see fit. 

    To paraphrase a legal drug cartel’s statement (Panadol ad) in Australia, ‘Medical Cannabis…it’s my choice”.  Unfortunately, it’s not the Government’s choice. They prefer drugs that can kill you and cause numerous side effects that you have to score more drugs from them to counteract the negative effects.

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“…..or the whole process of medical ‘marijuana’ in California, which has been in place since 1997, is considered to be a bit of a joke……”

     A bit of a joke? Drug Policies worldwide (except for a very few respectful countries) are a complete and utter deluded joke. “Our drugs all good, your drugs all bad”, for instance…. and/or  “Our medicine essential for human survival, while your medicine is ‘medicus nullius’ (no medical benefit whatsoever). “Our drug cartels can do anything they like, while we wipe out yours”?  “Our drug culture must be elevated, while yours must be eradicated”?  Sounds like apartheid to us, or clearly defined as, ‘a policy of social segregation upon individual and collective coverings defined by differential and/or preferential treatment”.

    History has taught us that any time an apartheid is put on a subject matter, or on a culture, then abuse runs rampant on BOTH sides of the apartheid divide.  This ‘black vs white’ mentality, when it comes to drugs of choice, must be removed before it destroys our country.

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“…..The DEA also made the point that cannabis production in the state forests has become a billion dollar a year industry and that those particular national parks now have become no-go zones for hikers and hunters”.

                              Talking about Billion Dollar Drug Industries…..

       Let’s not forget Ethanol (alcohol - so many different forms);

       tri-methyl-xanthine (caffeine - coca cola, energy drinks, coffee etc);

       nicotine (patches, potions, pills, suppositories as well as cigarettes);

       OTC’s; prescription drugs.

    As for ‘no go’ zones, it’s becoming increasingly more dangerous to go out on a Weekend (and sometimes in the middle of the week) due to ethanol anti-social behaviour. (The prevalence of ‘glassings’ and assaults has risen dramatically with our Emergency rooms being tested to their very limits).

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“….The Californian medical marijuana initiative has been recognised as a pseudo-legalisation of cannabis by the United States authorities for some time…..”

    Who cares? Drug apartheid has completely destroyed any form of respect for any drug of choice, and all drug lords (licit and illicit) are after money, not respect. Just look at the ethanol drug crisis in Australia, (and in fact around most of the world), to see this.

    Where is Drug Free Australia on, and we quote, $3.2 million litres of the psychoactive drug ethanol that was scored from ethanol drug dealers in the Northern Territory. That’s a bootload of drug on par with heroin/di-morphine. But who cares….it’s only a ‘drink’, and 6,000 died when they ‘drank’ themselves to an early grave. Meanwhile, cannabis still has not killed a single person of its own volition.  Stupidity and abuse, on the other hand, kills 34,000 a year from licits and 833 from illicits. Yet they say we need to target the ‘illicit’ drugs only and with great fervour!

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“…..the case of a Californian man who had established a website offering medical marijuana for sale, regardless of whether one possessed a certificate of recommendation from a doctor……”

    Interesting. Californian man establishes website selling medical cannabis. And what about the many, many websites offering - legally - as many damn toxic drugs as you want, with full backing from Drug Enforcement Agencies and Drug Bodies., and they didn’t need a certificate either, or recommendation. 

    Regarding drugs….the generation that criticises the generation that comes after them is the one that raised them and dealt drugs to them from the age of 4 months onward (e.g. “Because you‘re gorgeous, we‘ll deal drugs straight to you……..”), while burning in their minds the empty slogan, “Don’t do drugs”. …..

    No wonder kids are confused and Drug Free Australia organisations do not help, in fact they hinder. They hinder respect and correct and factual information being taught. They hinder safe drug taking practices, as people now hide to take their drugs of choice, while the ones who take the Government’s drugs of choice can flaunt their drug abuse any time they like and get called ‘revellers’, ‘drinkers’, and ‘party goers’ (remembering of course, that these same deluded organisations, stated that “we need to remove the word ‘party’ from the word drug….illicits only, of course).  This is nothing but bias and cowardice.
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    In the same day as another politician sent us this speech by Ms Bressington, there was, and we quote,

 - the statement of $3.2 million litres of the drug ethanol in the Northern Territory
 - Tracy Grimshaw from A Current Affair happily discussing ethanol drug taking with Daniel Craig (a.k.a. James Bond) as if it was a joke.
 - The Lion Nathan ethanol drug cartel launched a take over bid of the tri-methyl-xanthine drug cartel - Coca Cola Amtil;
 - we had Jim Beam “40 shots of Rock” drug cartel and music CD push;
 - we had Ian ‘Dicko’ Dickson stating on Idol - family show -  (which seems to have had a lot of ethanol drug discussion this year, including when they went to the Drug and Music Awards - the Arias), “Spano, you , me, beer, next week”.
 - On Nine’s Booze Network (NBN - and yes, they warrant this name something fierce, which includes Nine’s Wide World of Ethanol Drugs…..oops sorry, Sport - but is there any separation between the two? )
 - The TV programme 20 to 1 was proudly brought to us by Australia’s new ethanol drug lord, “Natural Beer”, where they take natural ingredients and ferment them into a neurotoxic, cancer causing, psychosis causing, psychoactive recreational drug…that has nothing natural to do with it any more. But, ‘say no’ to natural cannabis. 

(Note: For the record, we do not agree with hydro, as chemicalisation of anything causes side effects and damage. Just look at our hospitals flooded with people suffering from legal drug damage).

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“…..Records reveal that he (the person who had the Medical Cannabis website) had distributed more than 50 pounds to 149 different customers in 35 different states. On 11 February 2000, the defendant was indicted by a federal grand jury in New Orleans on charges of distribution of marijuana and advertising the distribution of a schedule 1 controlled substance. During the execution of the search, agents also seized numerous recommendation letters that appeared to have been issued by doctors in various states to his customers……”

    What is the Government really worried about here? The fact that more than 50 pounds were distributed to people who believed that medical cannabis works for them…or that the money that went to buying that 50 pounds should have gone to them and their (buzzword) legal drug lords instead, who deal drugs way more dangerous than cannabis ever could be……most prescription drugs have an LD50 ratio of 4:1 to 16:1 compared to Cannabis at 40,000:1 and THC by itself at 10,000:1.

    (Note: Heath Ledger didn’t die from illicit drugs, he died from a cocktail of licit ones, and any one of those drugs he took could have killed him on its own! Funny how when the paparazzi thought he had died from an overdose of illicit drugs they blew the story way up and kept it going, but as soon as it was established he had died from pharmaceutical drugs, it all went quiet).

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“…..In an article entitled 'Looking through the smokescreen: smoked marijuana is not a medicine', Gordon Taylor, a veteran of the Drug Enforcement Agency, states:  Contrary to what legalisers contend, DEA targets not the sick and dying but criminals engaged in cultivation and trafficking of illegal drugs. In many instances those who provide considerable funding to the medical marijuana movement use the sick and terminally ill as a smokescreen to hide their true agenda, which is across the board legalisation of marijuana. …”

    First things first - If smoked cannabis is not good medicine…..then why have they not allowed vapourisation or other ingestion methods?

    Secondly, do you really think that the most destructive agency in America would state the truth? You better believe the DEA targets the sick and dying, and they also target people who grow natural medical cannabis (respectful, caring growers) for those sick and dying people who cannot grow it themselves.

    The others, we class as the same as ethanol drug lords - no respect, wanting as much money as possible for their drugs and their drug cartel shareholders ie Lion Nathan, Fosters Group, etc. They don‘t have to show respect, they have the apartheid slogans ‘legal/‘licit‘, ‘drink‘, ‘beverage‘, ‘smokes‘, ‘ciggies’,  ‘medication’, etc. …even with their 34,000 dead and the hundreds of thousands hospitalised without drug organisations or Politicians batting an eyelid.

    Thirdly - As for the true agenda of the ‘charlatans’, when it comes to ‘illicits’, they don’t want it to be legalised. They make too much money. No difference whether a drug cartel is so-called on the Licit side or the Illicit side. They’re all out to feather their own nests.

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(Regarding the ‘Harm reduction Journal’)…..“Essentially all applicants queried about their current use were consuming inhaled cannabis on a regular basis in amounts that varied considerably but tended to remain stable over time“.

    The 4,117 randomly selected participants in the study had a median age of 32, and 87.9 per cent began using prior to the age of 19, with most continuing to use. The study later adds that there was a 'decided preference for inhaled' (meaning smoked) cannabis.

    Correct us if we’re wrong, but isn’t 18 the age when a person is classed as an adult and supposed to be responsible for their own actions?  It never ceases to amaze us that the Government trusts people in how much of the psycho-active recreational drug ethanol they consume and the percentage of the drug ethanol in their glass…. or caffeine (shots of very strong black coffee are now popular as are ‘Mother’ and other highly caffeinated so-called ‘energy drinks’)….but they feel they have to still treat over 18’s like babies when it comes to adults choosing another psychoactive recreational drug of choice and feel they have to threaten and punish them. 

    If the Government were parents and still tried to rule their adult child’s life, force them to believe what they believe, and not allow them to make a responsible choice because it did not ’jive’ with our own, then others would think it very strange. In fact, it would be tantamount to abuse.

    As for children under the age of 18, they  need guidance and good, honest advice and a good example shown to them. How many parents can say that when they state, “No drugs!” to their child, they are users, abusers and addicts themselves…albeit of the buzzword ‘legal/licit’ drug collective.

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"...So, that is clear evidence that cannabis is not being used by genuinely ill patients on the recommendation of their doctor but, rather, by life-long users who have a preference for smoking cannabis”.

    There are two sets of Cannabis consumers. The recreational ones (like there are recreational ethanol consumers) and medicinal (like there are pharmaceutical consumers). It’s two different subjects. It’s like saying that  pharmaceutical drugs are not being used by genuinely ill patients, but rather by life-long users who have a preference for consuming ethanol.

    Ill people who choose cannabis as their medicine are already sick. They are not going to put something toxic in their body that will make them sicker. They can do that quite well with the myriad of pharmaceutical drugs they can choose from and for a lot lower cost! So, why do thousands upon thousands of people in Australia choose Cannabis as their medication over pharmaceuticals? ……Because it works for them!

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“…..It is a shameful event when cannabis becomes comparable to Coke—not cocaine but the caffeinated beverage……”

    So it’s a shameful event that Cannabis, with the drug THC at a 40,000:1 toxicity death ratio, become comparable to coke with the drug tri-methyl-xanthine at 100:1, and she called her drug a ‘beverage’.

    Kids can now go into McDonalds and score this drug and get a refill, or two or three or four. Energy drink Drug cartels are involved with all sorts of children’s sports and other events/ activities/ mediums….and she’s not ashamed of this?

    Ethanol drug cartels own Sports, Politics, Music, Fashion, Celebrities, Teachers, Police, Councillors, Parents and children. One Nation Under Grog seems to be the master command of both the U.S. and Australia. And, just in case Ms Bressington does not realize it, her caffeinated beverage (that is dealt to children younger than two by their parents and pushed on them by the advertisers who work for the drug lords) contains a psychoactive drug.  Plus, it is a highly addictive drug and a stimulant meth drug at that. 

    Maybe if it was called tri-methyl-xanthine of the xanthine chemical drug group, then she’d realize how much drugs are targeting all ages, equally,  with everyone’s complete approval.  Caffeine kills (300 a year - Australian stats)…cannabis doesn’t.

    Under the Criteria of Harm, Cannabis is statistically safer than caffeine and hundreds of thousands of times safer than the drug dealt in Parliament in their drug dealer -  the Pub.

    QSTN: How many people have to die and suffer miserably from the abusive practices of licit drug cartels, before Politicians and ’drug bodies’  feel ashamed of their own drug lords?

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“……To the best of my knowledge Californian authorities recanted their support when confronted with the international denunciation……”

    Another Spanish Inquisition or Teutonic Order Mastery Policy. “Denounce your rights, beliefs, freedoms, in favour of our own or we will hunt you down, heretic“.
 
“….However, spurred on by the success in California and undeterred by the flagrant abuse of cannabis for so-called medicinal purposes…..”

…you mean just like Australia and other parts of the world are undeterred by the flagrant abuse of ethanol for so-called relaxation, fun, party, and socialisation purposes?

“…..Unfortunately, medical marijuana initiatives have also been successful in the Netherlands and Canada, with very similar ramifications to those experienced in California……”

    Unfortunately? For who? Those that hate…those that want us to buy their drugs only.

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By the way……

 - Where’s the damage, where’s the destruction, where are the smashed bongs, or people being burnt by others stubbing out their joints on them?

 - Where are the ‘glassings’ or ‘porcelain-ings’, or ‘plastic-ings’ from people slashing others with glass, porcelain or plastic bongs?

 - Where are the groups of cannabis users walking down the street raining their bongs on police, security , ambos etc. or in the emergency rooms for any other reason except being forced into there or denied the information of how to lower the EXCESSIVE (abuse) THC bombardment of the brain, which manifests as dysphoria and which the Government tries to call psychosis. 

    NOTE: However, unlike Govvy’s drugs, true cannabists know exactly how to remove the excess bombardment. They also know how to stop the ethanol brain damage with cannabis. What a pity ARBIAS doesn’t. 

    Lenora Long from Monash University stated years ago that CBD, contained in the Indica breeds of cannabis, is an anti-psychoactive and an anti-psychotic….or put simply, when it comes to cannabis, for every up there is a down. You can’t say the same for any of your drugs.  Respectful Cannabists know how to regulate any negative effects caused by excessive THC bombardment. The Government doesn’t tell anyone else. They don’t want to. They’re hard core addicted to eradication and cannabis clinics. 

    If you think ‘crack’ is addictive, try prejudice.

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“…..without having reported conclusive research results to the World Health Organisation, the governments of Canada and the Netherlands authorised the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes. …..”

    Why? In their own words, ’WE TRUST OUR PEOPLE’. Unfortunately, the Christian Party in the Netherlands Government doesn’t agree and sounds very much like Drug free Australia…shame really...(By the way, we have nothing against Christians, we are Christians, too. We just happen to have a different viewpoint on this subject).

   It can be correlated directly with President John F. Kennedy’s statement , “We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people”.

    Prime Minister Kevin Rudd stated, “We are not going to throw the fair go out the back window”, but yet it has first been thrown into the garbage, sullied considerably and then thrown out the back window to land in the gutter where it remains to this very day.

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“…..The board is also concerned that cannabis is used for medicinal purposes in some jurisdictions of the United States, without having definitive proof of its efficacy. ….”

    This is an insult and a violation of an individual’s rights and belief. There is no better definitive proof of efficacy of medicinal cannabis than thousands upon thousands (in Australia alone) stating, “Medical Cannabis works for me. Medical Cannabis, it’s my choice for Cancer, for strokes, for seizure disorders, for hunger stimulation, for pain removal (both anodyne and analgesic), for nausea, for skin disorders, for constipation, for food and chemical allergies/ sensitivities / intolerances and so on.  Plus there is definitive proof that has been written down for the past 3,000 years, but no-one in the Government or those that are attached to the Pharmaceutical Drug cartels want to know it.

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“……The reality is that there are people in our society who, for varied reasons, desire the legalisation of illicit drugs. Known collectively as legalisers, they are willing to employ any tactic to achieve their aim, including the misnomer 'medical marijuana'.  . …..”

    Medical marijuana really is a misnomer…it’s medical cannabis.  Marijuana actually means ‘intoxicant’ so could  also be rightly used by those who consume ethanol, the same as 'pot' which was originally used for beer.

     As for legalisers….cast your memory back to the 1920’s when the psychoactive recreational drug ethanol was prohibited and people who were caught with it or making it were persecuted and jailed.

    Suddenly, there appeared ‘legalisers’ from all walks of life who fought for the reversal of the prohibition policy because they did not believe it was a fair policy, and they believed they had a right of choice whether they wanted to consume it or not. Not everyone was an abuser of this drug, yet a collective group of people successfully made it seem that way and somehow got the Government of the day to bring in prohibition through manipulation, lies, exaggerations, half truths and unimportant truths.

    As for being willing to employ any tactic to achieve their aim, including the misnomer ‘drink’…….the ethanol drug cartels, dealers, pushers and advertisers are some of the guiltiest!
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“…..' Cannabis is the most widely abused drug in the United States and in the world, ' Professor Ghodse said. ' Cannabis is classified under international conventions as a drug with a number of personal and public health problems. It is not a ' soft ' drug as some people would have you believe”…..

            No prizes for guessing what Prof. Ghodse’ drug of choice is!

Let’s write this truthfully:……. 

“The Psychoactive drug ethanol is the most widely abused drug in the United States and in the world. Ethanol is classified under international conventions as a recreational, psychoactive drug with a number of personal and public health problems including coma and death.  It is a hard drug on par with heroin and not a drink as all people think it is and get told it is by their Government and their drug lords.  Cannabis’ Criteria of Harm puts it in a Class C category, while ethanol is Class A”.

Let’s look at this Australian style:

Mortality:   6,000 dead and rising per year. (‘All good, mate” or just all dead, mate)
Morbidity: 72,000 hospitalisations (and no doubt more by now, that was 2004’s stats).
                    Plus 60 medical conditions including cancer, psychosis, setting off of
                    schizophrenia, brain damage, diabetes, amygdaloid syndrome (to lose
                    control of ones rage and other emotional responses); seizures (many
                    people have seizure disorders yet not one drug cartel, one drug body, or
                    one Gov’t will tell them this or put out any warning signs about it……
                    And the list goes on and so does the delusion that they’re only ‘drinking’.
Toxicity:     1:4 LD50 death ratio (some individuals can have a higher tolerance level
                   of this toxic drug, and it won’t kill them up to 1:20). The drug ethane hydr-
                     -oxide turns from ethanol to acetaldehyde (and 8 times as toxic as
                     Ethanol neurotoxin  - note: neuro-toxic acetaldehyde drug poisoning is
                    lovingly called a ‘hangover’ and it’s recommended that you score the
                     psychoactive drug acetaminophen to help counteract the effects of your
                     drug abuse.
Addictiveness:  We all know that the drug ethanol is highly addictive.
Relationship with Crime:  Hmmmm! Well, let’s start with:

 84% of street and ethanol drug dealing establishment assaults

 74% of domestic violence (and all the drug groups can do is put out an Ethanol drug holder stating, “Alcohol + anger = violence)”. 

 45% reported child abuse.

Smashed bottles, whole bottles, cans and vomit all over our streets, in people’s gardens (tossed), in parks, on the beaches, thrown through people’s windows etc.
And let’s not forget Australia’s favourite new drug abuse past-time-
‘glassings’! Yet, they’re trying to ban the glass and the bottle, but not the abuse that manifests on the innocent glass or bottle which was abused, just like the drug that was contained in it.
                 
…….. (which is why we love the British poster slogan which shows a young girl holding an ethanol drug container while vomiting in the street, and the slogan reads, “My council clears up my mess”. At last, some truth in advertising).

 Ms Bressington on the subject of Sandra Kanck, MP…..“My point was that she can be quite selective about the treaties and conventions that she is prepared to be behind….”

    This is the proverbial pot (excuse the pun) calling the kettle black.

    Ms Bressington's entire speech has been selective, with no thought or respect for those who are actually involved. Ms Bressington is not involved, it’s not her drug of choice and she has proven she hates the very mention of it. She already has her mind made up and will not be ‘confused’ with any facts . She has only stated abusive things, yet there are many, many, MANY benefits to medical cannabis users from cannabis as their choice of medicine. These people are already sick. They are not going to put anything into their bodies that will make them worse.

    As for the treaties and conventions…did it work when Catholics were allowed to write the policies for Protestants and vice versa? Did it work when the Nazis were allowed to write the Policies for the Jews? Did it work when Stalin was allowed to write the policies for the Cossacks? Did it work when China was allowed to write the policies for Tibet? Did it work when the Government was allowed to write the policies of so-called ‘white’ Australia?

    Does any form of social segregation policy against subject matter work?

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“…..George Soros. He is described as the Daddy Warbucks of drug legalisation….. .”

    If George Soros is described as the Daddy Warbucks of drug legalisation, then ethanol drug lord John Singleton should be described as the Daddy Warbucks of drug supremacy and drug advocation for all ages.

    Drug Free Australia didn’t seem to give a damn when he brought known recreational drug abuser, Paris Hilton, to Australia to help launch his particular ethanol psychoactive drug form Pure Blonde. Yet we didn’t hear anyone mention anything about this drug lord, backed by all those who tell us to ‘say no to drugs’.

    When Premier Morris Iemma (and more recently Premier Rees)  proudly helped launch a new ethanol drug laboratory and drug manufacturing plant, everyone was happy, happy, happy. In fact, there was a bit of controversy mentioned about opening up yet another ethanol drug manufacturer (whoops…sorry….brewery) by a reporter and Mr Rees said, “Alcohol is legal and it will remain that way as long as I am Premier”.
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“…..I have had a conversation with another member here, and we both agreed that the citizen-initiated referendums really come down to 'he with the most money wins'. ….

    We know. We watch the stock market. We see drug empires rising with full backing from those who tell us to say no to drugs. We watch these drug empires buy their way into every medium and a lot of Political pockets.

    You’d better believe that ‘he with the most money wins”, but we should also remember the delusion of the Golden Rule - “He who has the gold makes the rules”. Who rules Australia? Ethan Nol - Prime Administer of drugs in this country and number one drug killer in this country.

    Yes, you read it right. Ethanol is the number one single drug killer pretty much worldwide.

    We cannot state that cigarettes are the number one drug killer, because nicotine is the psychoactive drug and people are slapping on patches and chewing gum regularly and not dying…albeit suffering toxic side effects.  But no-one cares about ethanol death dealers. If this term can be applied to illicits then it can be applied fairly to all drugs of choice that are proven to kill.

    George Soros is stated as '....donating $2.7 million' to the Medical Cannabis cause.
   
Good for him. However, no-one bats an eyelid when legal drug cartels sponsor a charity and then put their drug cartel name over the charity, as if the charity is just another drug pushing vehicle. If they really cared about the charity (or anything else they sponsor) then they would give the money without expecting any kow-towing and any allowances for them to now have mastery rights when it comes to drug pushing in that particular medium.

     John Singleton was just on TV stating that if alcohol ads were banned, then Sport would suffer. My goodness…what do other countries who have Sport that are not sponsored by ethanol drug pushers do? Oh yes, they find other people to sponsor them. (Perhaps if our Sports people weren’t sponsored by the ethanol drug, they wouldn’t be in trouble even a quarter as much as they are….we all read the papers and listen to the news.)

    George Soros is targeted for having supposed pro-drug organisations, yet the same people who target him are backed by drug cartels and pro-drug organisations, who haven’t even got the guts to call their drug a drug.
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“....So, why is it that legalisers such as Mr Soros and many others are willing to invest such time and money into the push for medical marijuana? The answer is simple: perception reigns supreme. In deciding whether to use illicit drugs and, more broadly, when forming attitudes towards illicit drugs, the perception of potential harm, penalty and societal acceptance are determinative factors, and for their aims of legalisation to ever be realised drugs must be perceived to be safe”.

“……To provide an example of just how destructive perception can be, I quote the tragic circumstances of the death of a young girl named Irma Perez from the Drug Enforcement Agency's website justthinktwice.com:
Irma was a 14-year old girl from Belmont, California who took an ecstasy pill on April 23 2004. She became sick immediately — vomiting and writhing in pain —
yet her friends did not seek medical help for her. Instead, they gave her marijuana [ to smoke ] , thinking it would relax her and possibly help her because they had heard it had medicinal qualities.

Irma suffered for hours and when she was finally taken to the hospital the next morning, she was in terrible shape. Five days later she was taken off life support and died. After her death, several of her organs were donated to five other people….”

“….Perceptions of safety killed Irma Perez, yet proponents of medicinal marijuana require, and intend, their campaigns to portray cannabis as a safe drug”……

  Just like Annabelle Katt (Australia)  was murdered through Government failure to provide respectful drug testing kits and then became a poster child for the pro-licit / anti-illicit drug groups, Irma took an ecstasy pill…just like millions of people worldwide who have not died unless it had something else put with it ie PMA. (Which was really what killed Annabelle Katt)….as well as abuse, of course. She ‘doubled up’ on a drug she knew nothing about, but then again Woolworth’s drug cartel has been telling people to “Double Up” on psychoactive drugs for years and they get away with it even though 6,000 people die a year from ethanol related problems.

    We know people who have the perception of Cannabis being an 'all bad' drug don't want to acknowledge it, or even consider it, but.....

    If Irma Perez had been consuming Cannabis, she would still be alive.
    If Annabelle Katt had been consuming Cannabis, she would still be alive.
    If Heath Ledger had stuck to Cannabis as his medication instead of switching to Govvy’s designer death drugs  (drugs designed with death in mind…Criteria of Harm), Heath would still be alive.
    If Elvis had consumed Cannabis instead of hating it and more than doubling up on prescription drugs, he would still be alive (unless obesity got him first).
    (It’s a fact - cannabis does not kill of its own volition).

Now, let’s look at Ms Bressington’s statements simply:

“Irma Perez became sick immediately, but her friends did not seek medical help”.

    Why don’t they seek help? For FEAR of discrimination, persecution, fines, and even jail because there is a law that has a criminal branding called, “Supply of an addictive/dangerous substance”, and if the friend gave her this drug without knowing whether it was actually MDMA or not, they could get in serious trouble.

    Meanwhile, hand out ethanol, nicotine, caffeine, OTC’s etc. (all addictive designer death drugs - they can all kill of their own volition) and no-one really bats an eyelid.

    Remember, everyone was hard core about finding out the truth about Heath Ledger when they believed he died from illicits, but when they found out he died from legal drugs they all went silent as the grave.  Heath’s dead…they’re still supplying.  Heath’s dead…they’re still lying.  Heath’s dead…his family’s crying, and Heath’s dead while we’re all still buying….or being forced to buy the same drugs that killed him, while those who would rather use Cannabis as their medication are being fined and, in some cases, jailed and then told that they MUST use the Pharmaceutical drugs.

Ms Bressington continued: “….Instead, they gave her marijuana [ to smoke ] , thinking it would relax her and possibly help her because they had heard it had medicinal qualities….”

    Whether they administered cannabis or not would not have made any difference to the equation. She died because of the outcome of FEAR. Yes, they did try to help her in the only way they knew how, but if there had been no stigma they would have taken her to the hospital, just as they would have done if she had overdosed on any licit drug.  14 years old…their main concern would be fear of what their parents would say, and when it comes to 14 year old children like Irma and Annabelle, there is only one thing to thank for 14 year old deaths of children from ‘illicit’ designer death drugs, and that is Prohibition.

    As for the kids believing that Cannabis could help her, statistics and studies have proven that through INGESTION (not smoko, which has its own set of toxins) brain damage and other toxic effects can be negated from drugs like MDMA and ethanol. But…it needs high levels of CBD to do this, as CBD is highly neuro-protective, protects against brain damage and covers the myelin sheath which is the only protection of the brain and the nervous system.

        This mistake that the children made is a direct consequence of drug apartheid policies and lack of factual information that they should be given by those ‘in the know’,….but instead usually take it by hearsay and get only a part of the truth.
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“….The honourable member (another female MP opposing Ms Bressington) seeks to permit the consumption and cultivation of a drug of abuse internationally recognised as illicit….”

    A drug is a drug of abuse only if you abuse it. Meanwhile, this country’s favourite drug of abuse is advocated and praised even when abused to the tune of $15.6 BILLION worth of death, damage, destruction and side effects. 

The mentality that is wielded against cannabis culture and cannabists is the same as saying:

    “All priests are rapists and child molesters”
    “All Police are corrupt”.
    “All Politicians are liars”.
    “All dogs attack people”
    “All kids drown in pools”
    “All drivers crash cars”
    “All planes fall out of the sky”
     And so on and so forth.

“……It is my understanding that the three international conventions on illicit drugs bind member countries, of which Australia is part, to prohibiting the consumption, sale and production of illicit drugs, cannabis included. I ask whether the honourable member willingly seeks to ignore the international conventions".

    You mean in the same way that Australia completely dismissed and ignored International conventions when we unilaterally went to War…you better believe Politicians and Presidents and Prime Ministers can easily ignore and dismiss International Conventions whenever they see fit!  It’s time Australia removed this disease that now infects us and we wrote our own drug conventions that allow a fair go for all, instead of the International Conventions that allow certain selective drug lords to set up worldwide drug cartel empires, that traffic and deal worldwide....all in the 'name' of legalism.

“….Again, I remind members of the selective process with which the member uses and then abuses international treaties in this place….”

    We would also like to remind members of the selective drug policies that destroy this country and we would like to remind members that those who do not understand the difference between use and abuse, do not have the right to wield either word until they find out the true definition. 

    We would also like to remind members, that those who involve themselves in dishonourable conduct, do not deserve to have the word Honourable before their name, unless it has the word ’dis-’ before it. Dis- for discrimination. Dis- for disallowance. Dis- for Dismiss, as this is what they do so regularly instead of showing the individuals the respect of actually communicating with them, instead of just romper stomping on their heads and bulldozing their rights.    Cannabists do not deserve a ‘bulls-dose’, they do not deserve to be targeted by a selective klukos / inner circle that states, “our drugs all good, your drugs all bad…and even if they don’t state it, they believe it.

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“….The control measures applied in California for the cultivation, production and use of cannabis do not meet the control standards set in the 1961...”

    In 1961 they also stated, “ If it’s brown flush it down. If it’s black send it back”; “Better dead than red”.  Also, Homosexuals were bashed with full approval of much of society.  Single mothers were forced to give up their babies.  Foreigners were classed as second class citizens (and that included the British - ‘Poms’ - a derogatory name that the English hated) and many other forms of xenophobia.

    Congratulations! Some policies are making sure that xenophobia is alive and well in Australia, just like apartheid.  (Def: xenophobia - anything 'foreign'/ or different)

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“…..What Athol Moffitt is saying is that Australia's lack of attention to enforcement and a global initiative to drug policy will affect other countries, and for a government that continually professes to support global policy on issues such as global warming and renewable energy, and so on, surely we cannot be expected to be taken seriously in the international arena when our actions on drug policy have an adverse effect on other countries and compromise their efforts…..”

       You’re damn right that it compromises these drug supremacists efforts.

    - Their efforts to have everyone take their drugs only,
    - to bow down and kow-tow to their drug lords and drug cultures only,
    - their efforts to eradicate the competition of their drugs,
    - their efforts to teach that drugs can be all good or all bad depending solely on buzzwords;
    - their efforts to state that the Criteria of harm isn’t needed because we have the words ‘licit’ and ‘illicit’;
    - their efforts to make damn sure that their drugs and their drug cartels influence and infiltrate every medium upon earth;
    - their efforts to make legal drug trafficking a worldwide past-time.
    - and their efforts to keep the word drug as far away from their medicinal and recreational, psychoactive drugs as possible

    IF ABUSE IS THE PROBLEM THAT CAUSES THE ADVERSE EFFECT ON OTHER COUNTRIES AS WELL AS OUR OWN, then how does our actions on drug policy (except for apartheid discrimination) have an adverse effect on other countries and compromise their efforts?

    At the moment Prohibition is creating illicit drug empires in Mexico and they now have, (thanks to Prohibition), people getting tortured and killed over a commodity, just like people have been tortured and killed over sugar in the past when cartels controlled it and enslaved others to do it. Selective prohibition equals slavery.  Why, except for illegality, do we have to stop drugs of choice from coming across the border? Aside from Prohibition, there would be no money in it. They would just be trafficking it legally, just like they do the psychoactive drug ethanol in the form of Tequila and Mexican beer etc.
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“……As for approval as a medication, it would be a requirement for cannabis to undergo the thorough scrutiny of the Therapeutic Goods Administration. It is the role of the Therapeutic Goods Administration in Australia to ensure that all medications entering the system are of the highest standard for efficacy and safety; and included in this is an assessment of dosing and route of administration”…..

    Which is why we have 13,000 dead from Pharmaceutical drugs per year (!). But what should we expect when therapeutic greed has usurped therapeutic good and the administration believes that, “We don’t care if our drugs are toxic and yours aren’t. Take our drugs only".

Anyone remember Thalidomide? TGA approved. Remember VIOXX?  TGA approved, and  plenty more of drug recalls or warnings put out - all after being TGA approved.
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                EFFICACY AND SAFETY:  - Merck Institute. USA.

       “The main goals of drug development are effectiveness (efficacy) and safety.

    Because all drugs can harm as well as help, safety is relative. The difference between the usual effective dose and the dose that produces severe or life-threatening side effects is called the MARGIN OF SAFETY. The wider the margin of safety, the more useful the drug. If a drug's usual effective dose is also toxic, doctors do not use the drug unless the situation is serious and there is no safer alternative. http://www.merck.com

    (NOTE: Cannabis has a safety margin of 1:40,000, yet they force people who benefit from medical cannabis to dismiss the margin of safety in favour of the margin of revenue and drug cartel and political control. Remember, the wider the margin of safety, the more useful the drug).

                   Journal of the American Medical Association.

     "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 now used as muscle relaxants, hypnotics, and analgesics. The ostensible indifference of physicians should no longer be used as a justification for keeping this medicine in the shadows.” June 21, 1995. Commentary. p. 1874-1875.

      (NOTE: Not Draconian era of 1961, but 1995. We’re now in the year 2008!)

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REMEMBER:

    Every time you have a beer, a wine, a spirit, a liqueur….even caffeine etc, you need to get down on your knees and profusely thank an anti-prohibitionist /drug legaliser who fought for you and your drug rights, while you choose to violate other’s rights and freedoms and beliefs

.   For shame! 

    This is not the Fair Go, this is not” I am, you are, we are Australian”. This is the Great Australian Divide - dividing people, dividing communities, dividing politics, dividing parents and children, dividing Police, dividing families, dividing cultures, dividing beliefs, and just like the Dark Lord, ABUSE  also enjoys the mentality of ‘Divide and Conquer”.

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“…. I am sure all members in this place would share my reluctance to deny a genuinely ill person a genuine medicine…..”

    Dr. Kerryn Phelps stated in 1999 (not 1961)  (when she was the President of the A.M.A.), "I would challenge any Politicians to look any person in the eye, who has intolerable symptoms, and say, "We know there is something that might work for you, but we are not going to make it legal".

    Ms Margaret Hole stated in 1999 (when she was President of the NSW Law Society), "The illegality of Cannabis for people for whom it was the only workable palliative treatment, was a human rights issue. if I have a disease, I have a human right to be treated with the best medicine possible". She also stated that she could "see no reason why the law could not be changed to exempt people who needed cannabis for their conditions".

   Former Premier of NSW - Mr. Bob Carr. Hansard, 20th May 2003 "This (medical cannabis) is something practical we can do to reduce the sum of misery in the world. This duty is imperative when it comes to as complex an issue as the use of cannabis. As legislators we should be able to rise to this challenge......  ....The complexity of an issue does not provide a license to walk away while ordinary people suffer and acquire criminal records simply for treating their illness and relieving their suffering in the only way that works for them. With a sensible mixture of compassion and common sense we can make a medical cannabis regime work in this state, as it works in other jurisdictions around the world".

    Mr. John Della Bosca. MP. "The Government has a responsibility to look to other solutions (when talking about medical cannabis and cancer patients) to help patients suffering from these conditions as soon as possible".

    Then there’s the thousands upon thousands of medical cannabis testimonies, from individuals who gain benefit from medical cannabis and who gain no benefit from discriminatory politicians and their policies.

Our former Prime Minister, (John  Howard) said (when in Office), "It is not the role of Government to tell people what risks and choices they can and can't take".

Our present Prime Minister, Mr. Kevin Rudd,  (when in Opposition) stated, "Australians must not kow-tow to anybody when it comes to freedom in this country".

And 8th March found Mr. Kevin Rudd (P.M.) stating, "We are there to extend a helping hand to those in need"

 “Compassion is not a dirty word….It’s time we rehabilitated compassion into the National Political vocabulary of this great nation of ours”. Prime Minister, Mr. Kevin Rudd.

......This leaves many medical cannabis users wondering if they are actually part of the Australian community, as they see that none of the above 4 statements actually apply to them. 
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“…..Crude cannabis contains over 400 individual compounds, many of which have never been the subject of thorough research. …..”

    And are you going to ban lettuce, sage, the entire Brassica family, which have many compounds as well. As for her constant barrage that ‘smoking is the only way to consume cannabis and as such we must not tolerate cannabis at all', the Indians have been consuming ‘bhang lassi’ for years (cannabis, spices and yoghurt). People have been eating cannabis as a natural vegetable and spice and herb for thousands of years. Just because cartels and selective groups want to  violate the cannabis plant and separate it into its individual compounds, doesn’t mean they should.

    Every time mankind tampers with something, it becomes more dangerous than it already is. And if she wants to talk about highly poisonous and highly toxic substances, she only has to look at the drug ethanol which is toxic enough without converting to the 8 times as neurotoxically poisoning acetaldehyde when it enters the body.
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“…..They simply cannot meet the standards that the Australian public has come to expect…..”

Yes, 34,000 dead from legal drugs. Let’s raise the standard.  
Hundreds of thousands hospitalised and suffering with acute and chronic side effects. Let’s raise the standard.

Drug cartels now controlling every medium in this country while getting those mediums to raise their drug cartel standard. Our entire cricket team is now wearing a drug cartel’s standard  (the size of a dinner plate) on their chest, as well as replacing the Baggy Green with the Baggy VB.  

Yes….the standards that the Australian public have come to expect are some of the most disrespectful and destructive standards the world has seen in a very long time.
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“…..I might add that as soon as those 400 individual compounds are combusted they turn into 2,000 chemicals, which contain a number of highly poisonous and highly toxic substances…..”

    Don’t criticise - vapourise! Don’t discriminate - educate. 

    Talking about thousands of highly poisonous and highly toxic chemicals….Australians live with more than this amount every day in their day to day life, and if someone was allowed to light up a joint in the supermarket drug cartel Woolworths, it would still be the least toxic /poisonous thing in Woolworths. Even our food and drink  is chemicalized and poisoned and then dealt to all ages. (We know you know about this, and we know a blind eye is turned away from these while the proverbial eye of Sauron’s gaze is fixed permanently on illicits only).

    By the way, who allowed Woolworth’s, Coles, IGA and other FAMILY supermarkets to become all age drug cartels? As soon as you walk in these supermarkets, you realize that, “Say yes to drugs” (their drugs only, of course) is the mandate of these cartels.

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“…..cannabis ……Its effect on a user is unpredictable ; it may be psychostimulant , psychodepressant or hallucinogenic ( in heavier doses ) , depending on the strength of the product, the manner in which it is used , and the individual. Because its effect cannot be predicted , naive users and adolescents are particularly vulnerable. Why some individuals are particularly vulnerable to it is not really understood. …..”

     First things first,  has anyone heard of the term ‘Cadbury Kid’ applied to ethanol drug takers who have one dose and that one drug dose is unpredictable? 

    Secondly, Naïve users are only naïve because they have not been properly educated. Whose fault is this? The information is there, it’s just suppressed. The reason why some individuals are particularly vulnerable to it is threefold,

   1) Any psychoactive drug can manifest negatively on people who already have mental and psychological problems, usually stemming from some sort of abuse.,
   2) Nutrition has a lot to do with it. People don’t eat properly these days and they don’t put the essential vitamins that drugs burn.
   3) Doctor O’Shaugnessy, decades ago, stated that carnivorous animals have a lot more psychoactive reaction to cannabis than graminivorous animals, and we wonder why the hippies who ate more fruit and vegetables than acid garbage didn’t get many, if any, negative side effects from their cannabis consumption.

    And for those who do have a negative reaction from THC bombardment can easily negate it by applying Indica leaves with a high CBD content. Can you say the same for any of your toxic drugs?

    We’re even told that NOTHING will stop a hangover, yet cannabis INDICA has been proven to not only negate a hangover, but to stop the ethanol damage of the brain caused by excessive ethanol drug bombardment, with one of these toxic side effects being….wait for it…..Psychosis. Yes, your drug causes psychosis.
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“A weekly user of marijuana has a constant store of THC in the body”.

    Then you would logically think that people would be walking around ‘stoned’ or ‘high’ all the time.

    Not so.  It’s the metabolites that are stored and they are released slowly (like a slow release pharmaceutical pill that Big Pharma has been putting out…including a slow release Ritalin pill). This is a boon for medical cannabis users who can take their medication in the evening or first thing in the morning and it will possibly last 24 hours. (We have spoken to many medical cannabis users who only take their medication once a day even for seizure disorders). God/Nature in his infinite wisdom made the slow release medication way before man ever thought of it.

“….As responsible legislators we must differentiate between the use of crude cannabis and the therapeutical use of cannabinoids”.

…..and as responsible legislators you must differentiate between the terms use and abuse and users and abusers.

.....and, as responsible legislators isn’t it time you also differentiated between a drug and a drink? (Alcohol is a DRUG in a drink of water, juice, soda or milk. Ethanol is not a drink. It is not ‘drink’ driving, it is ethanol drug driving. It is not binge ‘drinking’, it is ethanol drug abuse. Drunkies are just the same as junkies, no different).

“……Can the honourable member provide this chamber with evidence showing the safety of the use of crude cannabis for a period of a month, let alone 12 months?….. I think not.

    Well, you think wrong Ms Bressington.  In fact millions of people around the world could present themselves for study and be shown to benefit from Cannabis and you most probably still would not accept the fact.  Having followed the progress of medical cannabis users and even recreational cannabis users over the years, we can honestly say that the benefits of USE are great…yes, even in so-called ‘crude’ form…what we would call a naturally and organically grown plant that can actually be eaten in a salad without any adverse effects (and a heck of a lot of calcium and other vitamins and minerals).

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“…..To provide an example, in the member's opening remarks, she stated that under this bill cannabis may be used in the treatment of spasticity caused by multiple sclerosis. This is despite a comprehensive review by the American National Multiple Sclerosis Society finding no evidence to support that cannabis is beneficial…..”

    Ah yes, the societies that are sponsored and paid for by Governments and Pharmaceutical companies.  How about asking the PEOPLE what the cannabis does for them? Perhaps you’ve never even thought of that, Ms Bressington.   

    We know what a pharmaceutical drug did for an 80 year old lady…it made her see thousands of ants crawling all over her and her house.  We know what a pharmaceutical drug did for a 75 year old woman, put her in bed for a week with kidney problems (she hadn’t had kidney problems before that). We know what a pharmaceutical drug did for other people….killed them, caused side effects, made them sick, caused them to hallucinate, put them off their food, made them put on weight and any other ‘effects’.  

    Yet, other people will tell you that they are quite happy with these toxic drugs and they do the trick for them. That’s fine - it’s their choice to take them even with the possibility that the Big Pharma drugs may, might, could perhaps cause any of the above. They are willing to take that chance even though all Doctors know that they are only guessing that whichever drug they give to a patient will in fact help them and not cause side effects.  Everyone is different. Everybody’s body reacts in a different way to things. Different strokes for different folks. One man’s meat is another man’s poison.

“…..As I and others have detailed in this chamber previously, cannabis is not the safe drug that it was once largely held to be and is still held to be by some sections of the community, mostly the users…”

    No drugs are totally safe. Any doctor or scientist will tell you that. Alcohol is not safe. Caffeine is not safe. Nicotine is not safe. Pharmaceuticals are not safe. They all have their side effects and some even can end in death.  When abused or mixed with some other drugs then Cannabis has its problems…of course. Food is not safe, driving a car is not safe, sex is not safe and so on and so forth, but we don’t prohibit those things.

    Wheat, milk, eggs, shrimp, bees, honey, preservatives, additives, colours all have caused harm to certain people, but they are not banned. Those who have had a bad experience with wheat , milk, eggs etc. just learn not to use those foods and find something that will not make them ill.
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"....As has been cited by the Hon. Dennis Hood, a recent study out of Melbourne revealed that long-term cannabis consumption can lead to a reduction in the physical size of the hippocampus and amygdala by 12 per cent and 7.1 per cent respectively".

NOTE: Long term… not even just long term in moderation, but long term in abuse. People consume ethanol long term, all their lives in fact. But many people consume it in moderation and not abuse, but if they did then their brain would also show signs of reduction and even worse.

“…..those who have been addicted to cannabis unfortunately persists for many years after they have recovered…..

NOTE: the word is addicted to Cannabis. Once again, most people are not addicted to it.  (Also, remember, that when a person who has been addicted to ethanol stops his abuse he is still said to be a recovering alcoholic for the rest of his life. The same can be said for a sex addict or any other addict).

    By the way, take an ‘addict’ off the bong or joint and put him on a vapouriser or give him cannabis to eat or drink…and you will find that he will most probably crave the bong. WHY?

    It’s still Cannabis, it’s still got the drug THC in it.

    Have you guessed the reason yet?…..It's because they are addicted to the carbon monoxide (smoke) and the nicotine (drug) in the tobacco and delivery system they use to ‘smoke’ the cannabis.  (Most people use 50/50 or 60/40 tobacco and cannabis, not all cannabis).

“…..We also know that there is a definitive link between the consumption of cannabis and the onset of mental illness……” A study by the University of New South Wales has shown that cannabis users have a 40 per cent increased risk of developing schizophrenia, and regular users have an increased risk of 200 per cent.

    Logically then you would think that there would be an increase in schizophrenia, but it has stayed pretty stable (according to stats) at 2-3% of people who develop schizophrenia.  Oh yes, and don’t forget that schizophrenia can be developed and brought on and exacerbated by lack of nutrition, stress, illness, other drugs (including the legal ones). …but, there’s no fun news in that!

    Funny also, how people who consume cannabis also usually consume ethanol, caffeine, some form of pharmaceutical drug, junk food or low nutritional food, suffer from lack of sleep, stress at work or school or in relationships, and yet people are so sure that it’s only the cannabis that has brought on the problems!  

    Let’s also NOTE: that it was the ones who abused (or did it heavily) that have the problems. Who have the problems with obesity? Those who abuse food. Who have the problems with anything? Those who abuse. Abuse is the problem, not the subject matter.

    The other problem with ANY drug taken by a person under the age of 20 is that the amygdala/ myelin sheath is still being formed. Once the myelin sheath is formed, then it acts as a protector of the nervous system and brain circuitry. Solution. TEACH the youth not to use drugs of any sort !…even caffeine, and definitely not ethanol!….and certainly not to abuse!

    The problem is, that because kids have grown up with being administered drugs from a very early age and subjected to toxic chemicals in their every day life, their myelin sheath is continually being damaged even as it’s forming, so by the time they get to 21 they have a ‘sick’ nervous system protector already!

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“…..Cannabis consumption by inhalation is associated with increased respiratory symptoms….”

    Cannabis does not have to be smoked. We know one person who has a seizure disorder who takes his medication (cannabis butter) on a slice of toast at night and it sees him through 24 hours.  An older lady sprinkles cannabis on her food as a herb and it helps her particular illness. Others we have spoken to vapourise or eat it in pancakes, cakes or drink it as a tea.

    Yes, people do still smoke Cannabis because it is the quickest way to get it to take effect and some people need to have it take effect right away. It’s also cheaper as they can mix it with tobacco and therefore don’t need as much than when vapourised, eaten or drunk. More people would take the safer option if it was cheaper - money has a lot to do with choices people make.

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“…..Not only is marijuana (Cannabis) worse than alcohol (ethanol) and tobacco combined , but it has other distinctive properties that neither of the others have. I now consider marijuana to be the single biggest new health problem in our nation……”

       Some stats and charts to peruse and then see the lies for what they are:

    A very interesting chart. Alcohol is the ratio of 10 on this chart and heroin (intravenous, not smoked) is 5. Not really much difference. As for GHB - Doctors in the USA can prescribe GHB for cataplexy (8:1), yet D. who has Cataplexy is able to keep his cataplexy under control with....guess what......Cannabis (1,000:1......in actual fact it's much, much higher), but even so - if it comes to a medication CHOICE that has an effective fatal dose of 8:1 or a medication that has an effective fatal dose of 1,000:1 we know which we are going to choose!

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“…..It is easy and convenient to present half truths and outdated testimonials when nobody is even slightly inclined to ask questions…..”

    When you point the finger at someone else, there are 3 more pointing back at you, Ms Bressington and anyone else that thinks this.  If you want a testimonial that is not out of date, but is still current, please take a look at this website under 'Siezure Disorders'.

    Read the testimony that is written there about how cannabis helps cataplexy and its many effects, night terrors and arthritis. (At the moment there is no cure or real help for cataplexy. The US. Allows people with cataplexy to use GHB of all things and our Doctors in Australia can only prescribe toxic anti-depressants!  Yet they won’t allow cannabis? A world gone crazy).

     Who are the ones not inclined to ask questions? The Government and the Drug Bodies are famous for that. They only ask questions of ‘crash cases’ or people who have dealt with ‘crash cases’, they don’t go to the source and ask the people who have chosen to use it because it benefits them.  

     How many planes fly each day? Hundreds of thousands. But how many crash? Yet it’s only the ones that crash that we hear about, that people are interested in hearing about. They have a morbid sense of wanting to know all the facts, how many were killed, how people felt at the time etc.  

    The other people they talk to are the Scientists who are actually looking for anything negative to tell the Government so they ‘have an excuse’ to keep cannabis as a prohibited drug. 

 - How often do they get on the web or pick up a book and find out what pro-cannabis Doctors and Scientists are saying?

 - How often do they go to Youtube and watch the testimonies of the people who are using medical cannabis or the doctors who are talking about their findings?

 - How often do they actually gather medical cannabis patients together to find out what they want?

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“……It is fair to say that we have either reached or are close to reaching critical mass. In other words, more families are suffering from drug addiction than not and, whether or not the media print it, the message is that enough is enough of trying to convince us that our children are not worth more and do not deserve better….”

     One word that nobody seems to consider…..the ’other’ child that is allowed to get away with practically anything it wants and is in fact guiltier of a lot more than his sibling ’Mary Jane’ is. That child is Ethan Nol, the favourite son, the one the parents are proud to associate with, the one who calls the shots in life, the one who would be PRIME adMinister.

     Using Ms Bressington’s own example……The message is (for all drugs and all abuse)…..enough is enough of trying to convince us that our children are not worth more and do not deserve better……”  But how can our children be worth more when the parents themselves are drug users, abusers and addicts themselves (albeit mostly legal ones).

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“….I call upon members not to be conned by the emotive language and compassionate pleas into feeling as though voting against this bill is denying people a potential medication, because that is simply not the case. …”

   Thankyou in advance for taking the time to read this letter. It is an important subject to hundreds of thousands in Australia and millions around the world.

   We, Medical Cannabis Awareness, believe wholeheartedly in the right to choose the correct medicine that benefit’s the sufferer, and not just the Drug cartel and the Government that wants to push, advocate, manufacture and deal drugs as medicine.

   We believe that Alchemists and their Government backers do not have the right to violate and persecute herbalists as heretics, just because ‘they’ believe in Alchemic drug supremacy. No matter the side effects (both acute and chronic), as well as the amount of deaths from Alchemic drugs, our Government and our Media constantly tout that “No matter the side effects, don’t stop taking our drugs”. Meanwhile, they eradicate and brand as heretics (just like herbalists have been throughout history) any choice, including choices that are far less toxic than the drug choices that they want us to take.

   Selective Prohibition on drugs of choice that they don’t agree with, (while they force the supremacy of the drugs they do agree with), is an act of social segregation and an act of slavery - for, when one steals your right of choice, your right of decision making, and forces you to kow-tow to them and theirs, they make you their slave. This criminal act must not be allowed to continue.

   Even on the recreational psychoactive drug front, Governments and their drug lords plaster their drugs and their drug culture across our Country through every medium imaginable, targeting all ages equally through advocation and advertising - while at the same time they eradicate other’s choices of medicinal or recreational drugs and their cultures. There is a definition for this, it’s called Cultural Genocide. This crime cannot be allowed to continue.

   The reason medicinal choice is a human right is that no matter where you come from, or what you believe in, or what group you belong to, everyone believes that they have the right to choose the medicine or recreation or culture that best suits them, the individual. All individuals on the earth believe this, even though some individuals believe that they have the right to suppress and eradicate another’s choice in favour of the supremacy of their own.

   Even our Health Ministers believe that if you want a particular medicine that benefits you, even if it grows naturally and you don’t have to get it from a drug lord, then - and we quote - “It has to be approved as a therapeutic drug, it has to be made into a Pharmaceutical form, and an application must be made to the TGA to assess its quality, safety and efficacy”, but this must be done by an Alchemic drug cartel (albeit legal) after they have mutilated, manipulated, tampered with and extracted only the active ingredients out of it, slapped it into a pill, patch or potion, slapped a patent on it so that only Pharmaceutical drug cartels can deal it, then they deal it back to us for a price.

Let us look at these Criteria, simply………. Safety: 40,000:1 toxicity death ratio. Quality: You cannot improve on Nature and if you grow your own, you know exactly the quality of the herb you grow, exactly what went into it, exactly what was sprayed on it, and if you respect it, that it is 100% organic. This is the mandate of all true herbalists. Efficacy: It may not be efficient for drug cartels, but it’s certainly efficient for the sufferer who chooses it and knows that it benefits and works for them on a regular basis.

   A medical cannabis user is already suffering from an illness/ disease/ disorder. He/ she is not going to choose something that causes more misery, more suffering and more ill effects than what they already suffer with - which is why the greatest percentage of them reject, wholeheartedly, the Pharmaceutical/Alchemic drug flood now pushed on us by Governments, Drug Lords and other vested interests.

   The Health Dept. stated in their letter to us, “that Cannabis is an illegal drug”. This sickening buzzword is the only excuse they have for denying this medicine, and the buzzword ‘legal’ is the only excuse that they have for tobacco and ethanol causing 4.0% and 4.1% of the Global Disease Burden….but that’s okay - it’s Legal! People forget though that the kilt, the tomato, books, music, and many other things we enjoy and accept today, (including homosexuality) were classed as illegal, while slavery was (and still is) legal.

   The difference between ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’ drugs is exactly that - Just those two buzzwords, which have no influence on the International Criteria of Harm involved - mortality, morbidity, toxicity, addictiveness and relationship with crime. Just in case anyone hasn’t realized it by now, the words ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’, when applied to subject matter, are not reasons, they are prejudices.

   This is a blatant violation of human rights and the rights of people who choose natural, untampered with, unviolated herbal medicine.

   People who benefit from medical cannabis (and there are millions Worldwide) are treated as criminals, hunted down in their own homes, persecuted by Governments and Police, Media etc. who cannot admit to themselves that they also take psychoactive drugs of choice, they are dragged into courts, fined, condemned, discriminated against, ostracised and socially segregated from their own society, from their own people. This again is a criminal act and a violation of human rights.

The phobias that were stated by our Health Department are these:

1) “If cannabis was allowed for medicinal purposes, it could be diverted to non-medicinal purposes, which poses a significant risk to the community”.

   Again, this shows the bias of our drug supremacy Government, as medicinal cannabis users have to go out and score (off illicit drug dealers) their vital medication, while Governments, (including the present one, and the Wealth/Health Department) have allowed ethanol drug abuse in this country to pose more than a significant risk of $4.5 BILLION…no, sorry, $7.6 BILLION….no, sorry, the latest ethanol drug social cost statistic is $15.6 BILLION. The scary thing about this Government Department is, as long as you kow-tow to them and their drug lords, they are “the Dept. of Health and Ageing“. However, no matter your age, if you choose the competition/ the ‘heretic’s choice’ it becomes the Dept. of Wealth and Waging War, and you are their target….’for your own good, of course’.

   Then, on top of the social monetary cost, you have 6,000 dead in one year from a psychoactive, recreational drug (ethanol) that is our Politician’s official drug of choice, and as we all know, recreational cannabis is the main direct competition for their personal recreational, psychoactive drug. Their real fear about cannabis, on both medicinal and recreational drug fronts, is that people will stop buying/scoring their drugs and choose a safer option (under the Criteria of Harm not revenue)

They then stated……. 2) “It contravenes the United Nations Conventions, to which Australia is a signatory”. But, if our Governments really cared about United Nations Conventions, one would like to know why we went to War in direct violation of the United Nations. It seems our Governments can break United Nations Conventions when it suits them, but when it comes to a Fair Go for all, we are forced to kow-tow to a fossilised Policy that was set up solely for drug cartel supremacy. Ethanol drug prohibition was a good symbol of this. Ethanol was an illicit recreational drug at the time of Prohibition (1920’s) and it put this psychoactive drug in the hands of people like Horace Alderman and Al Capone.

   Once they realized Prohibition wasn’t working, (and they also realized that they loved their drug and its revenue too much to ban it), they re-instated it and it became the forced official recreational, psychoactive drug of the World, while they wrote laws to wipe out its competition.

   Prohibition on selective use and choice is a world war being waged to this very day on people who are doing nothing more than the war wagers are doing, and that is consuming a psychoactive, medicinal or recreational drug of choice and believing in its culture. This, again, is nothing but apartheid discrimination (a social segregation policy defined by differential and/or preferential treatments…..or to put it simply, “Our drugs all good, your drugs all bad”. “Our drug culture must be glorified”, while “Your drug culture must be crucified”).

   Like yourselves, we believe wholeheartedly in defending and standing up for inalienable human rights, beliefs, freedoms and culture, the things that make us human.

   Medical sufferers don’t live in test tubes, petri dishes and Pharmaceutical drug labs, neither do their illnesses and diseases. The sufferers live in the real world and their illnesses, diseases and disorders exist in them. Yet, they do not get consulted or even asked for an opinion. Instead, the consultation goes directly to the drug cartels and drug lords (ie Medicines Australia) to ask what particular drug they would like to patent and deal to the medical sufferer, whether the sufferer wants their forced choice of drug or not.

   It’s time that our Governments and our Medical Bodies started to put the sufferer first, and started to place need before greed, health before wealth, suffering before supremacy, compassion before Corporate control, respect before revenue, patients before Politics, medicine before Media, benefit before brutality, acceptance before apartheid (policies of social segregation), deliverance before discrimination and a Fair Go before (to quote the game Monopoly), ‘Do not get a Fair Go, go directly to court, pick up a fine on the way, and (in some countries) go directly to jail‘.

   When it comes to Alchemic drug supremacy over Herbalism, the author of the book “World of Herbs” - Lesley Bremness states, “It is not merely the monopoly of drug companies that causes concern. Many people are worried about the dangers of isolating so-called ‘active ingredients’, one danger is that the modifying agents are left out. Modifying agents are part of the make-up of some herbs, which render the whole herb safe. These may not appear active in isolated tests (remember, we don’t live in test tubes in drug labs), but they offset the side effects of the active constituents.

   (Medcanaware - ie drug lords are now taking the active ingredient out of the Cannabis herb/genus -THC- and sticking it into a pill and trying to deal it to people who already benefit from the natural cannabis herb/genus. But, they seem to forget that while THC is a psychoactive drug….. just like their favourite recreational drug of choice ethanol…. the CBD and other non-psychoactive ingredients actually negate the excess psychoactivity that manifests in dysphoric psychosis-like symptoms when taken in excess. THC reacts in the CB receptors in the brain, but CBD and the rest of the constituents in the Cannabis genus negate and regulate the “side effects” of pure THC bombardment….. but try telling that to the Government. They have their minds made up and don’t want to be confused with the facts).

   Dr. Guy from the U.K. stated, “Cannabis has the startlingly unusual property of being incredibly safe. The difference between a therapeutic dose and a deadly one is 40,000:1. By comparison, the figure for aspirin is 25 while morphine is 50”. Note: The official recreational drug of Australia, ethanol, has an LD50 toxicity death ratio of 4:1 - 20:1 depending on size, body mass and fitness.

   Dr. Kerryn Phelps, former President of the A.M.A., stated: “Cannabis was sometimes the only thing that helped people deal with the pain and intractable nausea of diseases such as leukaemia, lymphoma, and certain AIDS related conditions and the treatment”.

   (Medcanaware: Note: This is only the bare minimum of diseases and disorders Cannabis works for that sufferers have discovered for themselves, - Seizure disorders are a major part of medical cannabis application Worldwide, yet we are forced to take seizure medications that can kill and cause side effects…..get this… including seizures!)

   Dr. Phelps continued, “Yet such people face arrest and prosecution for using an illegal drug. The bottom line is, we are talking about people who on compassionate grounds need a medical treatment. I would challenge any Politician to look any person in the eye, who has intolerable symptoms…..and say ‘We know there is something that might work for you, but we are not going to make it legal”.

   To back this up, we would like to quote a statement written from the Dept. of Health and Ageing to us, “As you are aware, there has been discussion in the research literature about the use of Cannabis as a possible treatment option for a range of medical conditions. While some people report that it appears to relieve the symptoms of certain medical problems, Cannabis has not been approved as a therapeutic drug in Australia”.

   This letter was written on behalf of Nicola Roxon, Health Minister, by Virginia Hart, Asst Sec. for the Drug Strategy Branch. Their strategy has always been very clear, “If we can’t patent it and deal it and get revenue from it, then we don’t care how much you can benefit from it. We will not tolerate it and we will not tolerate you choosing it as your individual choice”.

   We have compiled a collective article on what Prohibition truly is and how many abusive words truly define it. We believe that you will understand this article, as remove the word ‘drug’ and replace it with any other subject matter, and the principles, the actions, the applications and the outcome of selective Prohibition are the same.

   Thankyou for taking the time to read this. We greatly appreciate it.

   Yours with respect,