ANOTHER CARROT DANGLE, WATCH OUT    

OLA, CA – You’d think that after so many years of government chicanery those who have the loudest voice in the medical marijuana patients movement would not act like hungry dogs grappling a lone steak thrown into their midst, but ‘our masters’ know us better than we know ourselves it seems. Inside Occupy LA and perhaps at other camps as well, there is an insidious group among the clouds of pot smoke that seek to de-nut and neuter all MMJ patients by turning them into the pleading, feeble addicts that heroin users become. How is this happening? It’s called RMLW and a lot of otherwise intelligent folks are sipping the Obama/Soros kool-aid, which ain’t kool.

The California cannabis initiatives, e.g., the not-lamented and now defunct Prop. 19, and now Regulate Marijuana Like Wine, have been sneaky tricks, undoubtedly funded from behind the scenes to take away Californians' excellent Prop. 215 right to grow cannabis in their own backyards and use it like the natural herbal remedy that it has always been.  Who threw $1 million into Prop. 19 at the last minute?  George Soros.

Was this out of the goodness of Soros' heart -- or out of financial interests?  These interests include the biotech companies that want to market GMO, patentable cannabis, and the "cancer treatments -- not cures --because our “bread and butter" drug companies who know that the THC in whole, herbal cannabis is the preventative and cure for cancer -- and who'd therefore like to foist less-than-one-percent cannabis plants on everyone, and who are no doubt behind the increased media attention to CBD as the "important" cannabinoid?

The legal analysis of Steve Kubby's Regulate Marijuana Like Wine initiative shows that it is cleverly written so that the end result -- if it passes -- will be not the legalization of recreational, "like wine" marijuana, but the redefinition of medical marijuana to be GMO cannabis with less than 1 percent THC! Steve Kubby has been working on a patentable "non-toxic" cannabis lozenge, and he's working with the pharmaceutical companies to do this.  What is the "toxic" ingredient in cannabis?  It's the synthetic THC, i.e., Marinol, that has been implicated in some deaths. 

And how do we grow cannabis without it being "toxic"?  By only allowing the production of GMO cannabis -- i.e., GMO cannabis with a knock-out gene that prevents the plant from producing THC -- a plant which can be patented because it's GMO.  And a GMO plant will cost more money -- and the only seeds and clones which will be legal if RMLW passes will be ones that produce less than 1 percent THC.
This seems incredible when you read RMLW, because RMLW was carefully written to specifically say that GMO marijuana is forbidden, and to specifically say other things that, in fact, are not what will happen when a court interprets what RMLW really means.
As final circumstantial evidence that Kubby and RMLW cannot be trusted, I will add that the November 2011 JEMM (Journal of Education on Medical Marijuana -- you can find it on their website -- contains an e-mail sent to the San Franciscan Libertarian chat group pointing out how Kubby got them to endorse his initiative and then set about quietly revising it without notifying them and generally behaving in a very suspicious manner. Kubby, Judge Jim Gray, and attorney Bill McPike, all official proponents of RMLW, have steadfastly refused to debate anyone in public before a live audience open to anyone to video and share, on the merits of their initiative. Why? What are they trying to hide by refusing to debate the merits of their initiative in public?  This is what Richard Lee tried to do with Prop. 19. He actually REFUSED to debate Lanette Davies in a previously scheduled debate at S.F. INTCHE in 2010 after Lanette and others successfully debated his Oaksterdam partners in L.A. at HempCon, plus he even had Lanette and Dennis Peron removed from the stage at INTCHE rather than be made to look like the weasel he was. There is a battle being waged over who will control cannabis -- us or them.  It's all about the money, of course.
"Marijuana" is NOT like wine.  "Marijuana" is a confusing term, because we use it to mean both the plant itself AND its dried flowers.  Cannabis is the correct term for the plant itself. 
Cannabis is NOT like wine, it's like a grapevine. Just like a grapevine, you can use its leaves and its "fruit" (the flowers and seeds) raw or lightly heated (under 300 degree F) and not get high -- just get healed.  And if it were regulated like a grapevine, you'd be able to make the equivalent of 250 gallons of wine without ANY government taxation, regulation, or control.
This is why I am supporting the only good initiative offered - Repeal Cannabis Prohibition 2012. RCP 2012 simply decriminalizes cannabis for all adults 19 and older and continues to allow those under 19 to use cannabis with a simple doctor's recommendation.  No new taxes, no new regulations, no new controls or fines with the end result being a lot less arrests, prosecutions, and imprisonments!
Don't "Legalize" Marijuana/Cannabis -- Liberate it! Reschedule it! True Liberation is Freedom from Laws! Repeat After Me: No New Taxes, Regulations and Controls! “We Don't Need No Stinkin' Licenses"* to Grow a Plant! Don't Vote to Give Up Your Human Right, Under International Treaties Enforceable Under the U.S. Constitution, to Grow Any Plant to Use for Food (cannabis seeds) and Medicine.

The federal government we all know is in bed with Big Pharma.  Big Pharma makes money by selling patentable drugs, as opposed to encouraging people to use natural or "old-fashioned," non-patentable drugs and remedies.  Big Pharma has TWO full-time, paid lobbyists for EACh elected official in Washington DC – two for each Senator and two for each Congressperson -- plus, of course, expense accounts to employ whores (male and female), make campaign contributions, to do surveillance and blackmail or bribe officials.

The 2010 study out of Spain about how ALL the compounds in cannabis cause glioblastoma cells to commit autophagy is very relevant.  Also relevant is how we know that eating good foods is better than taking vitamin pills -- better to eat an orange that contains not only Vitamin C, but all the flavenoids and terpenes, than to take a pill with only one ingredient in it. 
Dr. William Courtney spoke to the issue of using whole foods/herbs instead of prescription medications when he decried the name change of the International Cannabis Research Society to the International Cannabinoid Research Society at the January 22, 2011 medical marijuana conference in Laguna Woods, California.  (You can see his and Kristen Peskuski's presentation by getting a copy of the conference from this website: cbdconference.org for $19.95 -- it's well-worth the cost to see this presentation and the slides that accompanied it.)

This emphasis on "cannabinoid medicines" instead of on whole, herbal cannabis is a scary development. You can use whole, herbal cannabis to treat any MS now, and you don't NEED any "cannabinoid medicines". You can make your own glycerites from cannabis, juice the leaves, drink the juice and get better that way.

We’re all aware that commercial medicine goes through a series of protocols before it becomes available to the public. That process includes research and
testing all along the way... in vitro, animal experimentation, experimental
uses for dread diseases, human clinical trials, mass production and use. The process takes time, but human trials in various cannabis studies are going on around the world and have been for a little while now.

As a science nerd I know that raw data is the heart of what science
is.  In order for cannabinoid medicines to be available to everyone the scientists need reams of raw data for analysis from fresh observation so that continued development, research and application can be achieved with everyone’s participation.

(* from "The Treasure of the Sierra Madres"; this report by Karen Pike; all emphasis – Ed)