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America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.In this new article she asks whether it's time now and concludes:
Is it time? Morally, yes. Absolutely. If you do it, and if there's a heaven, I hope you get a good seat. But if you pot a bureaucrat figuring it'll light some fire under the cold, dead butts of a complacent nation ... good luck.
Gypsy Smith at WorldNetDaily - This Ashcroft Must Go! flash animation on the senate communist bloc's opposition to John Ashcroft. Sung to the tune of "This Jesus Must Go" from Jesus Christ, Superstar. Hehe. [wnd]
Richard Cowan at Marijuana News - The Medical Marijuana Problems: Good analysis of why the prohibitionists are scared to death of the medical marijuana movement. [mjn]
Hemp seed oil is a very important supplement for many people. It is one thing to ban medical marijuana, which is identical to non-medical marijuana. It is quite something else to ban a food product because they claim that a few people have beaten a positive "drug test" by claiming that it was caused by THC in hemp seed oil. When the health food industry counterattacks -- as they will -- they may find themselves wondering about the government's suppression of the single most important and versatile herbal medicine. If they do not think about this, we will remind them....
In some ways, I think that medical marijuana is God's little trick on the prohibitionists. After all, they had gotten away with outlawing the least dangerous drug, while promoting, even subsidizing the most dangerous drugs.
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Understand that the FDA system actually depends on clinical observations of the side-effects of pharmaeuticals to detect any problems that the double-blind "scientific" testing system may have missed. FDA approved drugs are recalled because of serious problems reported in the clinical settings. Where are these problems with marijuana? The absence of these "side-effects" actually has more significance for the "recreational" use of marijuana than for its medical use. After all, some of the most useful over-the-counter drugs can have lethal side-effects.
And that is why the prohibitionists are locked into the suppression of medical marijuana at all costs and why any acceptance of medical marijuana by the establishment will hasten the end of marijuana prohibition.
Joel Spolsky on Software - Daily Builds are Your Friend: extols the virtues of a build server that daily builds your system from scratch. We had one of these at the Apple Cambridge Research lab. We also have one for our 2 million lines of Progress code at Shaker where I work now. I don't do it for my Java application. Only three people change that code. We review each other's uploads right after they happen. [latte]
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