True For Cannabis, Coca & Opium & Any Other Plant

Interesting how pro U.S. Constitution Hillsdale College and others IGNORE the concept of Freedom of Medicine and Diet; in over 30 years of being on the Hillsdale College Imprimis lecture series mailing list, I have yet to see any thing on this, despite the drug inquisition's serious 'judicial' burden upon the population.  The 'drug war' is human rights-criminal racketeering for a despicable patent medicine [pharmaceutical] - Tobacco protectionist racket dating back to cir 1904

ATTENTION** Federal Cannabis Hemp Marijuana Prohibition is Unconstitutional!

There has been no Amendment to the U.S. Constitution EVER regarding Cannabis.

The 9th Amendment in the Bill of Rights says : "The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people".

In other words, we do have the right to use alcohol and cannabis even though those rights are not listed in the Constitution. And the proof is it did require a Constitutional amendment, the 18th, ratified in 1919, to prohibit alcohol. It required another amendment, the 21st, ratified in 1933, to repeal that prohibition when the people and the government realized how stupid it was -- just as Cannabis prohibition is. 

But there has not been a Constitutional amendment in the case of Cannabis. Because it can be proven in court that Cannabis is not as harmful as alcohol, it can not be prohibited without amending the Constitution. The 18th Amendment, alcohol prohibition, is a binding precedent. Just in case you are ever arrested, have that evidence and expert witnesses ready. A jury has the authority to nullify an unconstitutional law, and declare the defendant not guilty. And surely routine drug testing/urinalysis is a violation of the 4th Amendment, regarding unreasonable search & seizure, and the 5th Amendment, regarding self-incrimination. 

Thank You
Len Schropfer, Nebraska

 

http://southmallblogger.blogspot.com/2012/07/standing-for-drug-policy-reform-at.html

Harvard Did Right

Was commissioned by the U.S. Congress of Technology Assessment to do a report upon reducing Coca cultivation in South America.

Yet the report would explicitly recommend against that, instead arguing that Coca should be legalized.

http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/alternative-coca-reduction-expansion.html

Alternative Coca Reduction [Expansion] Strategies in the Andean Region

Commissioned by the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress, this report, dedicated to the official line that Coca cultivation ought to be reduced, Alternative Coca Reduction Strategies in the Andean Region, adopted from a contractor report prepared for the OTA in July, 1991, ended up presenting findings that contradict this dogma of official policy:

...the utility of traditional coca consumption for Andean populations cannot be ignored. Three physiological benefits of coca use (for relief from altitude sickness, as a remedy to vitamin deficiencies, and in conserving body heat), are specifically appropriate to Andeans who must endure the stresses of high-altitude labor and a low protein diet. Evidence does not [emphasis added] support claims that traditional long-term traditional use is harmful. Rather, the multiple advantages of coca use indicate that it has a strong positive role in Andean health. [47]

Alternative Coca Reduction Strategies in the Andean Region, noted Coca's widespread medicinal/therapeutic/dietary importance as an:

 

Anesthetic/antiseptic: Indigens and non-indigens apply coca topically as a local anesthetic; coca also has antiseptic qualities. The cocaine alkaloid has been shown to exert a powerful bactericidal action on gram-negative and coccus organisms.

Curative/preventative remedy: Coca tea, consumed by indigenous and non-indigenous Andean people, alleviates the symptoms of altitude sickness; combats the effects of hypoglycemia; and helps prevent various lung ailments (an attribute of particular significance to the mining population). For example, chewing coca leaves is believed to limit inhalation of silicates that cause silicosis.

Dietary supplement: Coca leaves contain vitamin A and significant amounts of B, B, and C; they also contain calcium, iron, and phosphorus, in either the leaves or the calcium carbonate customarily taken with the leaves. Leaf chewing helps alleviate nutritional deficiencies of a diet consisting principally of potatoes.

Stimulant: Coca leaves give energy for work, reduces physical discomfort and fatigue, alleviates hunger, sharpens mental processes, and, at high altitudes, helps the chewer keep warm. [48]

Alternative Coca Reduction Strategies in the Andean Region additionally notes that "reports that Coca is bad are unfounded," and significantly, though deferring somewhat to political and economic realities, suggests that we consider re-legalizing Coca, and its potential benefits:

"Options [to reduce the coca supply for cocaine production] might include expanding the international market for legitimate coca products (e.g. coca tea, pharmaceuticals). However, the large amounts of coca produced are likely to overflow existing legitimate markets.

Alternatively, developing new products from coca may have some merit. Potential medicinal and therapeutic applications include:

1) treatment for spasmodic conditions of the gastro-intestinal tract, motion sickness, toothache and other mouth sores;

2) caffeine substitute;

3) anti-depressant; and

4) adjunct to weight reduction and physical fitness.

Examination of the other alkaloids found in coca might yield additional industrial possibilities. Although the research and development time required to bring new products to market may reduce the short term utility of this approach, it could be a useful component in an overall package of efforts to reduce illicit coca production."

I felt vindicated, having said a bit of this in my papers published in the D.P.F. conference paper compendium, particularly the latest of these three, “Coca Conversion: Onwards to Coca!”

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Of course both of the major U.S. political parties would do wrong.  Democrat Party U.S. President Bill Clinton would ignore the recommendations, as did the opposition Republican Party, which subsequently abolished the U.S. Congress's Office of Technology Assessment.

MIT-Academia's Contempt for Humanity

2014: Jonahan Gruber, who was recently exposed for revealing the fraud behind Obamacare and by extension Romney/Care of a scheme that presents numbers suggesting it as an endless money pit due to the nonsense occurring with enforced medicine starting during the early 1900s.  Such as choices as this.  And the pharma market protectionism against God Given herbs as this.

http://economics.mit.edu/faculty/gruberj

1989: Let's not forget that MIT was used as the platform for the 'debunking ' of low temperature nuclear fusion -- otherwise known as "cold fusion" -- during the late 1980s.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/12/30/the-history-of-mits-blatant-suppression-of-cold-fusion/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion

On 30 April 1989, cold fusion was declared dead by the New York Times. The Times called it a circus the same day, and the Boston Herald attacked cold fusion the following day.^[47]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_E._Jones

Remember that the bullsh*t factor goes up exponentially in situations involving a massive threat to the existing economic order.

The Essence of Quackery 2- A Blurred Understanding of Vastly Different Dosing

Some interest in cocaine had indeed been rekindled in 1878-79 by reports from North America in which it was claimed that 16 cases of morphine addiction had been successfully treated by injections [sic!!!] of cocaine.  Bentley (1878, 1880), an American physician, published an enthusiastic article on this type of treatment.  A method was then adopted which consisted of injecting 0.1 grams of cocaine every time the patient showed morphine withdrawal symptoms.  This method was apparently adopted by all the private clinics of North America, but it did not give rise to any significant publications until Hammond (1886) and Brower (1886) drew attention to the dangers involved.

p 20 Maier' Cocaine Addiction (Der Kokainismus) translated by Oriana Josseau Kalant

This is a serious problem with 'scholastic' works that frame a given drug as simply one of 'addiction'- altogether neglecting the abuse of the drug as something intrinsic to that drug regardless of the form/mode of administration.

The above quote seriously blurs the distinctions between vastly different modes of cocaine use, and is wrong, as Bentley reported such successes with dilute cocaine in the form of Coca infusions- with isolated cocaine suitable for injections not even commercially available until 1884 or 1885!

http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/search?q=bentley

From the book by Joseph Kennedy, Coca Exotica:

In July of 1878, Bentley was called to a house somewhere in the hills of Kentucky; when he arrived there, he was astonished to find a tenth of an acre in opium poppies (Papaver somniferium). The lady of the house, a forty year old widow, confessed to the doctor that she had been an opium eater for quite some time, consuming about a half pound of the drug a year. Bentley says: “I persuaded here to give up the habit. She declared that she could not. She agreed, however, to try, so I sent her one pound of the fluid extract of coca to begin with. When used up, she sent for half the quantity, stating that she thought it would complete the cure. I sent her one half pound. She sent me her opium crop that winter, with the message that the medicine had cured her.

The medicine Bentley prescribed for her was the fluid extract of coca manufacture red by Parke Davis and Company in Detroit, Michigan. The preparation they offered was standardized in the United States Pharmacopoeia, 6th to 8th editions (1880—90), and contained 0.5 grams of coca alkaloids per one hundred cubic centimeters of solution. Of course, cocaine was one of those alkaloids contained in the fluid extract, but according to Bentley’s recommended dose (1 drachm of fluid extract when the desire for whiskey or opium is quite urgent), a patient would only consume .0185 grams (slightly more then 1/200 of a gram) of cocaine per dose, and even then it would automatically be taken in conjunction with coca’s natural complement of other alkaloids; because it was prescribed to be drunk, this solution would necessarily have to pass through the liver and kidneys. In these two important respects the use of the fluid extract closely resembled the Indian method of taking the drug, a procedure proven harmless by centuries of use. It is also interesting to note that one would have to take 13.5 one drachm doses of Parke Davis fluid extract just to get the amount of cocaine alkaloid consumed daily by an average Peruvian Indian. This is based upon Hanna’s study that estimates the average Indian digests approximately 0.25 grams of cocaine a day by normal coca use.

This would be akin to condemning caffeine, and thus Coffee, by taking ultra concentrated doses of caffeine by injection, and stupidly assuming that made caffeine in coffee unacceptably dangerous.

It represents an extremely poor - blurred understanding of cocaine adopted in medicine, particularly within the field of anesthesiology as injected cocaine was used as a nerve block.  It alas plagues medical schools and the medical profession to this very day.

This sort of sloppiness is also unfortunately rampant with too many historians.

See:

http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/09/absurdity-of-simply-defining-cocaine-as.html

My College's Disturbing Disregard of Freedom of Medicine and Diet

 

Having been on the Hillsdale College Imprimis mailing list since about 1980, and having been involved with fighting the main thing used to justify growing government power the so called war on drugs, I have long been dismayed with Hillsdale's disregard of freedom of medicine and diet.

Prejudice against Cannabis (Marijuana) had its streak throughout Hillsdale.  The Dean of Men at Hillsdale was a kindly man with who we were quite friendly having been invited to his house with a few other students to watch the election results in 1980 when Ronald Wilson Reagan was elected President, as well as 4 years later to watch the same for Reagan's re-election. Yet even he embodied this prejudice against Cannabis, as did the Coach, another man I remember as kindly, yet was very anti Cannabis just as if raised (brain-washed) by the lame-stream media.

Initially I shared it to a degree, having seen a dorm-mate who smoked it upon waking up and subsequently had either a D or C- average and left school.  But several years later had seen other dorm mates who only smoked later in the day or only in the evening who had B+ and A- averages, so as I came to see it was not Cannabis per se, but rather too early in the day.   By 1983 I took my first toke and stepped into the community of Cannabis consumers.

I ran into the coach at a 2011 Hillsdale event in Stamford Connecticut, who told me that "they need to go after all the people who smoke Marijuana" as he breathed through plastic tubes connected to a breathing apparatus, confessing to me that he had been a regular smoker of cigarettes and had quit 25 years ago, as I confessed to being a near daily smoker of Cannabis for about that same time, and that my lungs were fine, and that we are all human beings and the war on drugs a war on people with differing ideas.

The gentleman representing Hillsdale at the 2011 Connecticut event, retorted that the war on drugs was a "moral" issue and that governments have the right or rather power to legislate morality- to which I retorted "market distortion-perversion protecting the most intrinsically dangerous agricultural stimulant from the safest resulting on some 100 million deaths owing to the driving concern behind the drug war beneath the veneer of racism mentioned by most historians who ignore the real underlying reason: economics as the USDA mainly feared Coca as a "Tobacco Habit Cure".

It is ridiculous that Hillsdale's Imprimis lecture series has never devoted any attention to that which has been used the most to justify growing government in so many ways, the so called war on drugs.

Hillsdale's Omission
http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/05/hillsdales-omission.html

Hillsdale- What 30 Years War?
http://continuingcounterreformation.blogspot.com/2007/06/hillsdale-college-what-30-years-war.html

My College

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02683104#page-1 

Academic Questions December 1991, Volume 4, Issue 4, pp 10-12 

Hillsdale college - Warren Treadgold, Ralph Hancock, Rodler Morris, Thomas Payne

To the editor: As former professors at Hillsdale College who a few years ago formed half of its division of history and political science, we feel compelled to respond to John Reist’s article, “Hillsdale College: Holding Fast to Principle” (Winter 1990-1991). In our experience, neither Dr. Reist nor Hillsdale’s President George Roche cares much for academic excellence, that traditional liberal arts, or freedom of expression. Hillsdale is gravely deficient in all three.

For years the Hillsdale administration has neglected its academic program to pay for “outreach” activities designed to promote Dr. Roche, maintained a curriculum that requires no appreciable knowledge of Western culture, and used every possible means, including dismissals and threats of lawsuits, to silence dissent of any kind among faculty and students.

Hillsdale’s athletic and pre-professional programs receive so much more emphasis than traditional subjects that US News and World Report classes it among colleges where fewer than half the students are liberal arts majors. Within this category of colleges that give a back seat to the liberal arts, Hillsdale’s regional ranking seems mostly to reflect memories of the time before 1986.

Along with several other Hillsdale professors, three of us resigned in despair within a year after Dr. Roche decided in the Spring of 1986 to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars needed for academic programs on construction of a new field house.

During that year the administration began the student newspaper, the Collegian, for its disagreement with college policies, threatening lawsuits and other reprisals against the student staff and any facility who defended it.

In Spring 1987, after the dean heading the publications board arranged for the appointment of a new Collegian editor over strong student protest, that dean filed suit for slander against one of us who has already resigned, citing remarks that he denied (and denies) making, but that Dr. Reist attributed to him in a conversation when no one was present. This suit was dropped three months later, after inflicting high legal costs, though not on the dean, whose husband is a lawyer.

That spring the one of us who had not resigned composed and circulated a letter to the Collegian, signed by fifteen other faculty members, deploring the use of lawsuits to settle disagreements within the college community. That summer Dr. Reist notified him of his dismissal, declaring that no explanation for it would ever be given. After an investigation the American Academy of University Professors concluded that the letter to the Collegian was “the determining factor” in that dismissal and censured Hillsdale for violating “generally recognized principles of academic freedom”.

Since then, with further dismissals, demotions, and other such actions, the administration seems to have silence most of Hillsdale’s present faculty, though the Collegian has found its choice against.

For example a recent editorial noted:

It seems as if certain professors who may not embellish themselves with the exact Hillsdale; mode of thinking are sinking to the depth of their departments, whipped with the iron chains of restrictions, or flat out fired … We know that some of our professors would like to open all the doors of a liberal arts education. However, it seems as if they are not allowed to do so by the administration. 

Administrators have reacted to this and similar columns by accusing the Collegian of “libel” and demanding prior review of its copy. We are members of the National Association of Scholars. We accepted positions at Hillsdale in the belief that it did indeed stand for academic excellence, the traditional liberal arts, and freedom of expression, as it claimed it did. But people who value these things should be warned that Hillsdale is not what it claims to be.

Warren Treadgold
Ralph Hancock
Rodler Morris
Thomas Payne

P.S. After this letter was drafted but before it was sent, we learned that the Hillsdale administration had forced the editor of the Collegian to resign, and that the rest of the student staff has resigned to express its support for her.

What 30 Years War?
 http://continuingcounterreformation.blogspot.com/2007/06/hillsdale-college-what-30-years-war.html