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republished from: https://panaceachronicles.com/2017/05/31/epileptic-seizures-autism-dementiaalzheimers-cannabis-and-coca-leaf-tea/ Epileptic Seizures, Autism, Dementia/Alzheimer’s, Cannabis … And Coca Leaf Tea? First, A Short Summary: Researchers are “just discovering” that Cannabis can control Epileptic seizures ( Most recent New England Journal of Medicine ) Researchers have not yet looked at Cannabis for use in Dementia/Alzheimer’s, even though seizures are common and are a leading cause of death in Dementia/Alzheimer’s. Maybe that’s because while Congress has committed some $5.4 billion this fiscal year to cancer research, about $1.2 billion to heart disease and $3 billion to research on HIV/AIDS, research funding for Alzheimer’s is “only” $566 million. Clearly that’s just not enough for researchers (mostly Big Pharma employees) to look into Cannabis as a treatment. On a related note, California researchers have just shown that a sleeping sickness drug developed in 1916 can rever...

prerequisite reading: http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2016/02/points-about-progressive-era-war-of.html   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Washington_Wiley Contrary to what is commonly regurgitated, the drug war did not start with Richard Nixon . Rather, it was the phrase "war on drugs", that came with the re-codification of drug prohibition that occurred under Nixon with the enactment of the 1970 U.S. Controlled Substances Act . This re-codification was necessary following the 1969 Leary case that had the Supreme Court officially find the statutory basis of US drug prohibition since the 1914 - the power to tax - unconstitutional as violating an individual's right against self incrimination. The 1970 CSA would instead base itself upon the power to regulate interstate commerce. The U.S. drug war dates back to the prohibitions established via the 1937 “Marijuana” Tax Act and the 1914 Harrison "Narcotics" Tax Act regarding “opium or coca leaves, t...

The media hysterics against opioids, such as The New York Times, ought to be ashamed of themselves! http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/opioid-epidemic-drug-mix-overdose-death Bob Bee- It's prohibition that serves to ensure opioids are more dangerous than they otherwise would be, due to uncertainty of purity and dosage of unregulated, black market drugs. Thus prohibition makes fatal OD's more likely, not less. Opioids should be legalized, regulated, and taxed like tobacco and alcohol. That way, users would know exactly what they were buying and the dosage. Also, opioid legalization would mean good, old, natural opium would be legally available. Users could opt for opium (active ingredients include morphine & codeine. It can be eaten, smoked, or consumed as a tea) as a safer alternative to ultra-potent pharma-junk powders & pills. Opium's safer as it's less concentrated and is harder to fatally OD on. End the counter-productive,...

and USDA prosecutions with zero showing of any actual harms from the cocaine content https://books.google.com/books?id=Z_OQycfkoasC&pg=PA84&lpg=PA84&dq=cocaine+content+soft+drinks&source=bl&ots=mhN0XhP7t2&sig=Pv8LlyLyhd-tG5pQV_jTyJ-V6Tw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-J4HVeXXMqm_sQSE5ID4CA&ved=0CEUQ6AEwBzgK#v=onepage&q=cocaine%20content%20soft%20drinks&f=false Cocaine content of beverages in milligrams per fluid ounce Wiseola        under 1 mg Celery Cola        under 1 mg Koca Nola        under 1 mg Kola Coca        5 mg Vin Mariani        6-8 mg Kola Cardinette    9 mg Maltine with Coca    9 mg Coca Cordial        30 mg Metcalf Coca Wine    32 mg Wiseola - under 1 mg per fluid ounce Celery Cola - under 1 mg per fluid ounce http://con...

Historical accounts of Vin Mariani focus perhaps exclusively upon the years prior to the prohibition era. Here is a bit of the history following the 1906 U.S. Food and Drug Act that effectively blacklisted cocaine via including it on a list of ingredients that had to be labeled, though not including the other popularly used stimulants of caffeine and nicotine. 1907: Vin Mariani for the U.S. market deleted the cocaine, adding a rear side label- see below.  I don't yet have information if they continued to provide the regular version as an alternative. GUARANTEED BY MARIANI & Co. UNDER THE FOOD AND DRUGS ACT JUNE 30, 1906; SERIAL No. 448 VIN MARIANI [MARIANI WINE] 17 PER CENT ALCOHOL BY VOLUME AN IMPORTED FRENCH BORDEAUX WINE WITH A SPECIAL  PROCESSING OF LEAVES OF ERYTHROXYLON COCA PREPARED AND BOTTLED AT OUR NEW YORK FACILITY  MARIANI AND COMPANY PARIS, FRANCE: 41 Boulevard Haussman.   NEW YORK: 52 West 15th Street   "THE STANDARD OF MARIANI PREPARATION...

a re-post from 1997 about the Drug Policy Foundation's denial of a proposed panel on Opium and Coca for their conference that year in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Drug Policy Foundation (DPF) was the predecessor organization to the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), that was created in 2000 with the DPF's merger with the Lindesmith Institute that was headed by Ethan Nadelmann- current DPA Executive Director.   The President of the DPA's Board of Directors, Ira Glasser meanwhile served on the Board of Directors of the DPF.  The DPA had been founded by Kevin Zeese from the National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws (NORML), with Dr. Arnold S. Trebach of American University in 1986, who had left the organization in 1997. The Drug Policy Foundation, and the Drug Policy Alliance have been advised through the bro bono program of Covington & Burling , Washington D.C.'s leading corporate food, pharmaceutical and Tobacco industry law firm founded by an instrumental figure in est...

the manufactures of anti depressants and sleeping pills want a "drug free" society to have people arrested and incarcerated for having cannabis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Hoffmann-La_Roche How Big Pharma Lobbyists Are Bringing Mandated Drug Tests To A State Near You by Nicole Flatow Posted on April 8, 2013 at 12:50 pm   Updated: April 8, 2013 at 2:12 pm http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/04/08/1833421/how-big-pharma-lobbyists-are-bringing-mandated-drug-tests-to-a-state-near-you/ In the Nation, Isabel Macdonald has an excellent long read on the history of U.S. drug testing , beginning with a government program to test returning Vietnam War veterans and the drug-testing provisions in President Ronald Reagan’s Drug Free Workplace Act as part of the misdirected War on Drugs. Even then, the medical community dismissed the Act’s provisions requiring all federal grantees to test employees as “chemical McCarthyism,” as well as unscientific and discriminatory, since...

Herbert Kleber under the influence of buprenorphine? I have to get this off my chest. I have been a total shill for the status quo. I twist science in order to make it fit just as those would do in the old USSR to conform to that state's failed economic policies. Consider this.  I make a living bashing Cannabis, in order to support massive human rights violations required for keeping it illegal. Yet when have I ever called for such prohibitionist polices towards alcohol? I am as bad as all of these police unions.  They know how any times they are called to deal with alcohol related violence, and how rarely if ever anything related to Marijuana, asides perhaps from that which has been adulterated with something like PCP.  yet all they care about is their police overtime, busting, excuse me, kidnapping and stealing hapless drug dealers, excuse me, non officially approved pharmacist merchants, and being able to get away with shooting the family pet to death. And I also make ...