To Minimize Harm Legalize Marijuana: New Scientist - NewsGrabs 4 January 2009
To Minimize Harm from Marijuana, Legalize It for Recreational Use: New Scientist
"Despite the undoubted dangers associated with marijuana, the Beckley report concludes that it is far less harmful to users and to society in general than other illicit drugs such as heroin and cocaine, and far less damaging than the legal drugs tobacco and alcohol."The Beckley commission's ideas will be aired in March at a meeting in Vienna, Austria, of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs. The UNCND will report to a meeting of the UN general assembly later this year that will set international policy on drug control for the decade to come.
Video: Marijuana Prohibition - How the War on Hemp came about
(video no longer on YouTube)
"The war on drugs is really a war on Marijuana." This video shows how and why Marijuana and Hemp were transfromed from successful agricultural crop supplying raw material for medical and industrial uses to public enemy number one. Time for a radical re-think? You decide.
Thiamine 'reverses kidney damage'
According to the researchers, this cheap and readily available supplement could benefit most people with diabetes - both type 1 and type 2 - as between 70% and 90% of people with diabetes are thiamine deficient.The experts say thiamine works by helping protect cells against the harmful effects of the high blood sugar levels found in diabetes.
Grape-seed extract kills laboratory leukemia cells, proving value of natural compounds
"These results could have implications for the incorporation of agents such as grape seed extract into prevention or treatment of hematological malignancies and possibly other cancers," said the study's lead author, Xianglin Shi, Ph.D., professor in the Graduate Center for Toxicology at the University of Kentucky."What everyone seeks is an agent that has an effect on cancer cells but leaves normal cells alone, and this shows that grape seed extract fits into this category," he said.
Fluoride in drinking water lowers IQ
Drinking fluoridated water or otherwise ingesting fluoride is associated with lower IQ. Here are 23 published studies that report an association of reduced IQ with high fluoride exposure.
GMOs Not the Answer to the Food Crisis - Top Vatican Official
In what seems to be a reversal of a long held pro-GMO position of the Vatican, Cardinal Martino, talking about the food crisis, is reported to have said that "a more just system of food distribution, not the manufacturing of genetically modified foods is the key to addressing the problem".
Lung cancer link to food additive
Researchers fed mice with lung cancer a diet with similar percentages of phosphates to those in human food, and found tumour growth accelerated.Phosphates are an essential nutrient for living organisms, and adding phosphates to food can improve its texture and ability to retain water.
But the study suggested that high levels of inorganic phosphates may be interfering with the body's cell signalling systems.
Book: Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption
By Marcia Angell
No one knows the total amount provided by drug companies to physicians, but I estimate from the annual reports of the top nine US drug companies that it comes to tens of billions of dollars a year. By such means, the pharmaceutical industry has gained enormous control over how doctors evaluate and use its own products. Its extensive ties to physicians, particularly senior faculty at prestigious medical schools, affect the results of research, the way medicine is practiced, and even the definition of what constitutes a disease.
Video: Medication Madness
Peter Breggin on Fox TV about his book Medication Madness. Peter Breggin says "do not put your kids on drugs" and he explains why he thinks one shouldn't.
Dr. Bernadine Healy, Former Head of the NIH, Pushes for Study of Autism-Vaccine Link
"I think public health officials have been too quick to dismiss the [vaccine-autism] hypothesis as 'irrational,' without sufficient studies of causation... without studying the population that got sick," Dr. Healy told CBS's Sharyl Attkisson. "I have not seen major studies that focus on 300 kids who got autistic symptoms within a period of a few weeks of the vaccines."
Cancer vaccine kicks up controversy in India
Critics say that the Indian health ministry which acted so fast to put the controversial Merck vaccine on chemist shops ahead of the clinical trial (in the 16-23 age group) should have instead promoted the inexpensive Pap test across the nation if it was really serious about reducing cervical cancer deaths.
Video: Denying AIDS: The HIV Industry, Political Denialism, and Mass Genocide
(removed from YouTube)
Denying AIDS means to to rethink what we have all been told about HIV, about AIDS and about Africa. Mass hysteria in the world media outlets about African AIDS on a daily basis would drive a person into rage when noticing how hyped up estimates and statistics are and how Scientists feed the market for Antiretrovirals. Denying AIDS means to replace Toxic drug regimens with medications for the same classic diseases running rampant in Africa, the need for food, shelter, clean water and better sanitary conditions. Denying AIDS does not mean to deny diseases - every country has had them. Denying AIDS means to let go of the phoney construct the HIV Industry invented.
HIV/AIDS like parapsychology: science or pseudo-science?
“HIV/AIDS” fits a commonly postulated criterion for recognizing pseudo-science: the proponents insist that there’s overwhelming evidence on their side while being unable to cite a manageable number of specific publications containing definitive proof; for example, publications that demonstrate that a positive “HIV”-test means that active virions of “HIV” are present in the patient (as opposed to taking cellular material from the patient, incubating it with a whole mess of pottage, and then finding miscellaneous proteins or bits of nucleic acid that are presumed to come from virions — something one could never know without having had in hand, at one time or another, some actual certifiable virions derived directly from an AIDS patient [what used to be called “isolation” --- and still is, except by retrovirologists]).
The System Implodes: The 10 Worst Corporations of 2008
In the 20 years that we’ve published our annual list, we’ve covered corporate villains, scoundrels, criminals and miscreants. We’ve reported on some really bad stuff — from Exxon’s Valdez spill to Union Carbide and Dow’s effort to avoid responsibility for the Bhopal disaster; from oil companies coddling dictators (including Chevron and CNPC, both profiled this year) to a bank (Riggs) providing financial services for Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet; from oil and auto companies threatening the future of the planet by blocking efforts to address climate change to duplicitous tobacco companies marketing cigarettes around the world by associating their product with images of freedom, sports, youthful energy and good health.But we've never had a year like 2008...
IMF Chief Warns Of Riots In Response To Economic Crisis
Strauss-Kahn says advanced countries would see violent civil unrest if elite continue to exploit financial chaos for their own ends
Borrowing from Peter to Pay Paul: The Wall Street Ponzi Scheme Called Fractional Reserve Banking
“Then, bankers discovered that they could make loans merely by giving their promises to pay, or bank notes, to borrowers. In this way, banks began to create money. More notes could be issued than the gold and coin on hand because only a portion of the notes outstanding would be presented for payment at any one time. Enough metallic money had to be kept on hand, of course, to redeem whatever volume of notes was presented for payment.Transaction deposits are the modern counterpart of bank notes. It was a small step from printing notes to making book entries crediting deposits of borrowers, which the borrowers in turn could ‘spend’ by writing checks, thereby ‘printing’ their own money.”
Global cooling is here
"Global Warming is over, and Global Warming Theory has failed. There is no evidence that CO2 drives world temperatures or any consequent climate change," Imperial College London astrophysicist and long-range forecaster Piers Corbyn wrote British Members of Parliament on Oct. 28.So, is this all just propaganda concocted by Chevron-funded, right-wing, flat-Earthers? Ask Dr. Martin Hertzberg, a physical chemist and retired Navy meteorologist. "As a scientist and lifelong liberal Democrat, I find the constant regurgitation of the anecdotal, fear mongering clap-trap about human-caused global warming to be a disservice to science," Hertzberg wrote in Sept. 26's USA Today.
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Dr Mercola's health blog and Mike Adams' Natural News have good health information.
The Alternative Medicine Yahoo Group and the healthfreedom ning group are places where you can discuss and exchange information on what is happening in the world of natural health.
For the influence of electromagnetic waves from radio, mobile phones and other radio emitting devices, check out the emr-updates group on Yahoo.
A few sites to keep up to date with the other side of world affairs, the stuff you won't necessarily find on your tv or in the papers:
http://therealnews.com/
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com
http://www.commondreams.org
http://www.globalresearch.ca/
http://rawstory.com/
http://www.truthout.org/and remember ...
The individual is supreme and finds its way through intuition
posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Sunday January 4 2009
updated on Wednesday August 15 2012URL of this article:
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2009/01/04/to_minimize_harm_legalize_marijuana_new_scientist_newsgrabs_4_january_2009.htm