Editors Note: I am a firm believer that "spice" and its active ingredients should both have laws which prohibit people under 18/21 from buying it (requiring i.d checks) - REAL quality controls (since people will consume it anyway ;
legal or not... its the invetible) -
and in the end: it should be considered, defined and
treated as that which it trulyis... a Medicine.
Not Feeling Well? Perhaps You're 'Marijuana Deficient' Alter Net | 3/24/2010 | By Paul Armentano
Scientists have begun speculating that the root cause of disease conditions such as migraines and irritable bowel syndrome may be endocannabinoid deficiency.
"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."
Abraham Lincoln (1809-65), U.S. President.
Speech, 18 Dec. 1840, to Illinois House of Representatives
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IL: Marijuana Substitute, K2, Readily Available Chicago Sun-Times / Feb, 20, 2010 / Jim Janssen
You don’t have to look hard to find legal dope for sale at Chicago head shops. The marijuana substitute called K2 is openly on display, sold as incense for up to $35 a gram.
… so says the Oregon based physician featured in this video.
The good doctor obviously knows his marijuana – and so he should, he has prescribed it as a medicine more times than any other doctor in the state of Oregon.