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  Ted and Pat Oparowski, citing Romney's compassion of visiting their young son with cancer. The boy died.   http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2012/08/31/vt_couple_says_romney_helped_ill_son_before_death/ MONTPELIER, Vt.—A Vermont couple says they're grateful to Mitt Romney for helping them and their terminally ill son decades ago when he was suffering from cancer.   Speaking Thursday at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., Ted and Pat Oparowski, of Randolph, tenderly recalled how Romney befriended their 14-year-old son David as he was dying of cancer in the late 1970s.   Pat Oparowski said they would "be ever grateful to Mitt for his love and concern."   She said Romney, who they knew through their church in Massachusetts, spent time in the hospital with their son, helped the boy write a will and bought him fireworks that were eventually set off in Maine.   She said Romney also gave the boy's eulogy at his funeral.    He...

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O'Reilly makes a valuable mis-step/half-truth, which Nadelmann neglects to answer "cocaine and meth incapacitate" (3:23) Nadelmann could have at least mentioned the interply of pharmakokenetics and prohibition's iron law regarding Opiates and Cocaine in shifting markets to infinitely more concentrated forms of drugs and more problematic modes of drug taking.   For instance cocaine is a stimulant alkaloid found in small amounts in Coca leaves, as are caffeine and nicotine respectively in Coffee/other beverages and Tobacco.  But how much of the later two are consumed in white powder form, essentially unmeasured, of unstandardized potency, and in modes of taking that invite overdosing leading to the very incapacitation O'Reilly cites.   Do a tiny line of cocaine hci or chrystal meth and perhaps one is still within a range of enhancement -- aka a milder effect not interfering with life but rather the role of a gentle uplift.  But do a slightly larger amount, an...

Another Jury Revolts Against Marijuana Laws, "They felt marijuana should be legalized." by Scott Morgan, August 16, 2012, 10:42pm Jacob Sullum shares this incredible story from a defense attorney in Kansas. I had a jury trial this morning on level 3 possession with intent MJ, level 4 possession drug paraphernalia and level 10 no drug tax stamp. During voir dire, my almost all white, middle-class, middle-aged jury went into full rebellion against the prosecutor stating that they wouldn't convict even if the client's guilt was proven beyond a reasonable doubt -- almost all of them! They felt marijuana should be legalized, what he does with it is his own business and that the jails are already full of people for this silly charge. Then, when the potential jurors found out that the State wanted him to pay taxes on illegal drugs, they went nuts. One woman from the back said how stupid this was and why are we even here wasting our time. A "suit" from the front...

Judge Mary Gilbride Saunders District Court 387 N. Chestnut Street Wahoo, NE 68066-1869 August 9, 2012 Your Honor: At my initial appearance on April 23rd, you directed the jail administration to treat me as someone who had had, in the previous 7 months, two heart attacks including full cardiac arrest, a double bypass and a stent put in. They took me out of a cell where I had no way of signaling if I were in distress, but since that time the nursing staff here has disregarded your directive in several respects. I am in receipt of a list of meds from my surgeon Dr. Kantamneni and cardiologist Dr. Mnuk of St. Mary’s Hospital in Madison, WI that includes melatonin. As I’ve been tormented by insomnia all of my adult life, I took melatonin on an as-needed basis before my heart attacks. The nursing staff here is defying the MDs in Madison, saying it is “not our policy to hand out sleep aids.” But melatonin is not Benadryl. It is a naturally occurring pineal substance that must be supplem...

http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Paul_Ryan.htm/ Click here for 4 full quotes on Drugs OR background on Drugs . Voted NO on more funding for Mexico to fight drugs. (Jun 2008) Voted NO on military border patrols to battle drugs & terrorism. (Sep 2001) Voted YES on prohibiting needle exchange & medical marijuana in DC. (Oct 1999) Rated -10 by NORML , indicating a "hard-on-drugs" stance. (Dec 2006) http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Paul_Ryan.htm/Paul_Ryan_Drugs.htm Rated -10 by NORML , indicating a "hard-on-drugs" stance : Strongly Favors topic 19 YES on prohibiting needle exchange & medical marijuana in DC: Strongly Favors topic 19 NO on military border patrols to battle drugs & terrorism: Strongly Opposes topic 19 NO on more funding for Mexico to fight drugs: Opposes topic 19

Police make themselves into criminal gangs for cigarette-pharma market protection Roger Pion, vitimized by such a gang- resists by crushing their combat vehicles while sparing that of the book-keeper. Imagine how many lives would have been saved resisting the drug 'laws' unlawful unconstitutional cigarette-pharma market protection if the people had made it clear back around 1906-1914 that they would not tolerate the Harvey Wiley - William Randolf Hearst - J.H. Covington cigarette-pharma market protection rackett of banning Vin Mariani and other Coca products, while permitting Virginia Bright Leaf cigarettes.