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Marijuana And Demonic Possession

 

Phelps Pot Smoking No Biggie? Ask an Aura Reader. (2/4/09)

 

“While it is very likely that other illicit drugs may cause some cases of schizophrenia, marijuana is by far the leading offender, perhaps in part due to it being the most popular and most heavily abused illicit drug.  Marijuana causes temporary paranoid feelings in many users and mild perceptual hallucinations are common.  However, the research evidence is extremely strong, proving beyond any reasonable doubt that marijuana causes a large number of cases of schizophrenia in the modern world.  A number of studies have found marijuana has a stronger link to causing schizophrenia than other drugs.” 

 “…young people who had used cannabis three times or more by age 18 were more likely to have a depressive disorder at age 26, even after use of other drugs was controlled for.”

 “The results showed that 34.7% of first-episode schizophrenic patients had a lifetime history of substance abuse.”

                                                                                                           --
Marijuana: One Cause of Schizophrenia

 

“I have a girlfriend who is Cherokee. And I was sharing this with her; talking about this. And I said, you know, something’s really bugging me about this whole thing. Like what is it about anesthesia, and what is it about smoking pot that seems to be leading people to become schizophrenic? And you know what she said to me? She said, listen, we’ve got, within my culture, within generations, of medicine men… They perform ceremonies that are mind altering; with mind altering drugs. But she said that the Cherokee medicine men, and the elders, are absolutely dumbfounded, in amazement, that we, regular, modern citizens of today’s culture would ever think of consuming a mind altering drug, that removes you from your body, without the protection of a shaman. I said, what do you mean? And she said, well, because, when you leave your body, under the influence of these various substances, which they consider spiritual, in her faith; when you leave your body, in her faith; when you leave your body, other things will come and occupy it; unless someone is observing and monitoring and protecting you.”

“I’m fully convinced now, after speaking to hundreds of schizophrenics, that schizophrenia is literally demon possession. I’m absolutely convinced of it. I mean, these people hear voices and they speak to them. And they are literally other entities other than themselves.”
             -- Katherine Albrecht
on The Tuesday (5/5/09) Katherine Albrecht Show

 


Marijuana and Psychosis

Cannabis link to 80 per cent of new mental cases (1/29/08)

If cannabis is safe, why am I psychotic?


The National Institute on Drug Abuse Adds Warning of Major Depressive Disorders (MDD’s) Experienced by Marijuana Users
Causal association between cannabis and psychosis: examination of the evidence.

Psychosis and Marijuana - Study in Australia (5/8/97)

Marijuana Mental Disturbances
Cannabis use as a probable causative factor in the later development of schizophrenia

Cannabis and neurological soft signs in schizophrenia: absence of relationship and influence on psychopathology.

Self reported cannabis use as a risk factor for schizophrenia in Swedish conscripts of 1969: historical cohort study.

Cannabis and schizophrenia: impact on onset, course, psychopathology and outcomes.


News, Articles & Commentaries

Governor asks: What if pot's legal and taxed? (5/6/09)
From Beijing to Bongs (2/4/09)
What If Marijuana Were Legal? Possible Outcomes (NPR)
#20 Marijuana Arrests Set New Record

Barney Frank and Ron Paul Introduce Hemp Farming Legislation - HR 1866 (4/3/09)
Taxing pot could become a political toking point: An Assemblyman from San Francisco argues that it's time to tax and regulate the state's biggest cash crop in the same manner as alcohol. Opponents say it would create new costs for society. (2/24/09: LA Times) related
- Tom Ammiano, CA. State Assemblyman, Wants Marijuana Legaized (CNN video: YouTube)

Kellogg's to drop Michael Phelps from endorsements over bong photo (2/6/09)
New marijuana law rolls into MA. (1/2/09)

Mellowing Out on Marijuana (11/8/07: TIME)
King Hemp IV: Rope and Dope (10/1/07)

Local law enforcement not going to write citations for certain marijuana offenses (9/01/07)
Calif. pot clinics proliferate (3/10/07)
Perry pardons man's life sentence for pot (3/9/07)

U.S. Is Sued Over Position on Marijuana (2/21/07)
FORMER COP TO SELL VIDEO SHOWING DRUG USERS HOW TO AVOID POLICE DETECTION (12/21/06)
Pot is called biggest cash crop (12/18/06: Los Angeles Times)

These are the latest Marijuana Reform ads refused in Washington D.C. (12/13/06)
No 'smoking' gun -- Research indicates teen marijuana use does not predict drug, alcohol abuse (12/4/06)
Nevada religious leaders make case to legalize pot (10/4/06: MSNBC)
Albert Hofmann, father of drug LSD, dies in Switzerland
HR 5843 Decriminalizes Personal Marijuana Use
LSD's creator celebrates 100th birthday: Researchers say drug still has more potential as Albert Hofmann reaches milestone (1/12/06)
US: 75% in AARP Poll Back Medical Marijuana Use (12/19/04)
Murder case sharpens fight over pot laws (10/31/04)
Marijuana Petition Signature Count Back on After Ruling (8/13/04)
Superior Court Judge Violated Pregnant Women's Rights by Sentencing Her to Prison To Protect Fetus, N.J. Appeals Court Rules (6/16/04)
Netherlands seeks to stub out 'cannabis tourism' (4/23/04)
Detective indicted on charges he helped frame immigrants (4/16/04)
Pot legalization petition on track (12/31/03)
A New Generation of Drugs

A new survey shows that 72 percent of Americans are against jail time for people arrested with small amounts of marijuana, the New York Post reported Oct. 28.
Vancouver to take new approach with legal injection site for addicts (6/9/03: Seattle Times)
REEFER SADNESS by Jeff Prince
Drug Czar Battles Hordes of Crazed Potheads! (4/18/03)
Senate Committee recommends legalization of cannabis (OTTAWA: 9/4/02) - Senator Pierre Claude Nolin (Chair of the senate committee) said "Scientific evidence overwhelmingly indicates that cannabis is substantially less harmful than alcohol and should be treated not as a criminal issue but as a social and public health issue."
Canada Moves Toward Reform Of Drug Policies (9/4/02)
Brits and Drugs (7/31/02) OR Great Britain has recently announced it's joining a wave of European countries that are relaxing their official policies toward marijuana.
NYC Mayor Bloomberg's Pot Use is NORML (4/10/02)
Canadian Medical Association Journal calls for Marijuana Decriminalization
America In A Fix by John L. Kane (a United States senior district judge in Denver, Colorado)

Courts rejects odor-based drug bust
Study: Marijuana may not lead to hard drugs (CNN)

Billy Rogers , campaign manager and spokesman for Nevadans for Responsible Law Enforcement, is the man behind the drive to make Nevada the first state with legal marijuana.
On September 6, 1988, the DEA's chief administrative law judge, Francis L. Young, declared that marijuana in its natural form is "one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. (CNN)
Commentaries by Michael Levine
Fake-drug suits may cost Dallas millions
DRUG WAR NEWS NOT FIT TO PRINT by Michael Levine
Hemp-Food Firms Fight U.S. Ban, Deny Marijuana Link (1/13/02: Washington Post)
Was Rainbow Farm Another Waco?
The Media Awareness Project
George Bush's Heroin Connection

Easing drugs law wins support
Jenna Bush Inhales
Portugal shifts aim in drug war (10/11/01: Christian Science Monitor)
Washington fares only slightly better in treating drug users (6/10/01: Seattle PI)
Amherst Voters Approve Referendum to "Deprioritize" Marijuana Enforcement
Police Foundation Report Calls for Marijuana Decriminalization, Lower Penalties for Other Drugs (UK)
Racial disparities found in Illinois drug prosecutions: 99% of Cook County youth tried as adults are non-white.
SIGN-ON STATEMENT TO PRESIDENT CLINTON is a list of clergy and faith leaders who have signed onto a letter calling for President Clinton to pardon all non-violent drug affenders who have served 5 yrs. or more.

The Truth About the War on Drugs
King County prosecutor backs lower drug penalties
Doc Ellis Says He Pitched 1970 No-Hitter On LSD (10-21-00: Sightings.com)
Switzerland plans legislation to decriminalize marijuana. (10/4/00: Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Mendocino marijuana may get legal approval if voters give their OK. ( 10/1/00: Seattle Times)
High hopes in Alaska for sweeping pot law.(9/25/00: Seattle Times)
The corrupting influence of nation's war on drugs. (Seattle Times)

Pot Seed Merchant, Winked at by Police, Prospers in Canada
The Drug Library: "THE WORLD'S LARGEST ONLINE LIBRARY OF DRUG POLICY"
The truth of how governments view drugs
A
post of how a person's aura looks like (to a metaphysician) after using drugs.

Who are these people who oppose some, if not all of the Drug War policies and tactics?
FBI Reports Marijuana Arrests Exceed Those For Violent Crime (10/21/99)
Why are police arresting more dope smokers than murderers, robbers, thugs, and rapists? (10/20/99: Libertarian Party)
National Agendas Color D.C. Marijuana Debate  (10/10/99: Washington Post)
Search and Seizure Setbacks: High Court Expands Car Search Authority (4/6/99: ACLU News)

What the WHO doesn't want you to know about cannabis
Portland NORML News - Sunday, May 10, 1998
The November Coalition is a "growing body of citizens whose lives have been gravely affected by our government's present drug policy." Their "goal is to make their voices heard, expose the folly of America's War on Drugs, and demand change." They "are encouraged by the scores of Federal Judges, physicians, law enforcement officers, lawyers, mayors, governors, educators and legislators who have become outspoken critics of our country's current policy."
Beyond Prohibition: Listen to, the highest elected official ever to advocate legalization of now illegal drugs, New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson's Tuesday, October 5, 1999 speech explaining the logic behind ending the legal discrimination against those who favor more benign forms of tension release than alcohol; like marijuana.

hemp.net is "An exhaustive source of information relating to medical, spiritual, industrial, and recreational uses of marijuana in Washington. Updates on the various movements to decriminalize or legalize the plant are also provided. The side also has infrmation about the Green Cross, which runs an underground system of medical marijuana distribution. In addition the site is the home page of hemp.net, an Internet service provider.

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