Schapelle Corby | Search Engine Trend Watcher and Statistics

Schapelle Corby | Search Engine Trend Watcher and Statistics:

“Schapelle Corby – Australian girl stuck in Indonesia on trumped up drug running schemes, wrong girl, wrong place, wrong time possibly.”

This bloglink is a cute analysis of Google, MSN and Yahoo “blogdom” traffic. It clearly shows that since Schapelle’s trial in early May public interest world wide has grown and is continuing to gather momentum. 100’s of 1000’s of people are finding the 20 year sentence for failing to lock her bags quite unpalatable.

Regretable, but despite the media interest in Schapelle Corby in New Zealand, no one connects the dots of this injustice to family values United Future Outdoor (UFO) Party’s weekend policy conference several days after UFO threatened to bring down the government on confidence and supply…So much for Mr Stability!

THEN we learn NZ’s Prime Minister, Right Hon Helen Clark is gunning for a worlds first, a free-trade agreement with China – media reports: human rights are a big issue. Not one media guru/political pundit noticed we signed up with Thailand who ‘dispatched extrajudicially’ 2400 drug users in less than 90 days, or that we have a favoured trade relationship with Singapore.. who cruely and inhumanly botched the hanging of a family man for possessing 1kg of cannabis.

Is there a despot nation we dont want an trade agreement with?

30 years ago we fought our own police in the streets – because there wasn’t a single coloured person playing in a South African rugby team…

Where is our sense of self determinism? Our sense of civic justice? The pride in equity for all?

Are we ‘maintaining a silence closely resembling stupidity’ as written on the national Wanganui Police Computer Center wall when a dissaffected young individual, Neil Roberts blew him self up on the front steps… on principle. Huh?

As a nation, We dont need a new flag, we need a soul transplant.

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Cannabinoids May Play Role In Treating Depression

Cannabinoids May Play Role In Treating Depression:

“The cannabinoids Delta(9)-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD) may exert sedative, hypnotic, anxiolytic, antidepressant, antipsychotic and anticonvulsant effects. Pure synthetic cannabinoids, such as Dronabinol and Nabilone and specific plant extracts containing THC, CBD, or a mixture of the two in known concentrations, are available and can be delivered sublingually. Controlled trials of these cannabinoids as adjunctive medication in bipolar disorder are now indicated.”

But human research is contrained… why? Because cannabis’s researched and media reported ‘correlation’ of use in this group is infered to be causative and thus cannot be self-medication.

Persons labeled “of weak moral fibre” being coupled to depressive indicators based upon an erroneous subclinical judgement are quite probably an (if not the) impediment to effective treatment where trust/empathy between patient and clinician correlates highly to successful outcomes.

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Whole Plant Cannabis Medicine Needed On Market

Whole Plant Cannabis Medicine Needed On Market: “In 1993 the CB2 receptor, which is found mainly outside the brain, was discovered. This set the stage for the discovery of an entire basic system in the human body, the endogenous cannabinoid system!”

Also see: http://mildgreens.com/media/vioxx1.htm

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Panel says Switzerland needs new drugs policy

Panel says Switzerland needs new drugs policy:

“Switzerland should adopt a more coherent and credible drugs policy that includes alcohol and tobacco as well as illegal drugs, says a government commission.”

Hmmmm. This sounds very like the suggestion for New Zealand (based upon a comprehensive policy analysis) made by the MildGreens 6 years ago. A “Class D” solution. First, acknowledge there are some harms and balance these against harm minimisation policy implementation, costs and objectives.

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Liver metabolism goes to pot

Journal of Clinical Investigation – Liver metabolism goes to pot

Endocannabinoids are natural cannabis-like proteins that can stimulate appetite and regulate fat metabolism by binding to receptors called CB1. Drugs that block these receptors may be useful for treating obesity by suppressing appetite and food intake.

In a new study appearing in the May 2 print issue of The Journal of Clinical Investigation, George Kunos and colleagues from the NIH examine the possible role of the liver as a target of the metabolic actions of endocannabinoids.

The authors find that liver cells express CB1 and when stimulated, these cells activate a signaling pathway that ultimately increases fatty acid synthesis. The cellular proteins that are activated in the liver upon CB1 stimulation are the same as those known to be activated in the brain and thus may be a common molecular target for metabolic regulation and appetite control.
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Oh Dear, this is just another example of the research into the holistic relationship humans have with cannabis that the unprincipled family value ning nongs – United Future Outdoor – would rather be suppressed.  UFO’s were prepared to roll government on confidence and supply (the right to write a cheque out on treasury) rather than admit its prohibitory fetish over cannabis is a corruption of harm minimisation and social equity in  ‘public health’. If not perverse, what for heavens name is?  /Blair

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the mildgreen scoop on cannabis

The MildGreen Scoop on Cannabis

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Nandor should welcome parliamentary scrutiny – United Future

Scoop: Nandor should welcome parliamentary scrutiny: “Mrs Turner said she was indebted to the drug advocacy group, NORML, and its publication Norml News, to which Mr Tanczos is a regular contributor, for pointing out that the Bill as it stood was open to the status of cannabis being changed down by an order-in-council.”

Indeed, truth be known, it was Ministry Officials attending a select committee presentation by the MildGreens more than five years ago (March 2000), that confirmed the writers longheld view that Caucus could initiatiate the process of Order in Council after advice to the Minister from its independent advisory council (EACD) – exactly as the Minister of Health Hon Annette King intended of due process, to take the politics out of drug policy. [a expiditious process commenced by National Party MP. Georgina Tehuhu in 1999). There was always going to be a public consultation, although true EACD consumer representation, another mild green initiative at select cmte. has been largely ignored. [How for example can needle exchange be expected to ever deliver outcomes correctly when stakeholder views are ignored – for moral reasons.]

Its not as if there hasnt been an ‘herbal’ inquiry, or a recommendation.

Which begs the question… Why would ‘pre-election’ Labour go along with this abberation in proscribed law making?

A clear breach of ethics by all party’s to the conspiracy.

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and absolute power corrupts absolutely

Misuse of Drugs Act gets a makeover…

Anderton thanks Health Committee for work on bill

Party Pills Too Dangerous – NZ First

UF cited confidence agreement over drug issue

Confidence And Supply Move Threatens Stable Govt.

United statement on cannabis misleading

Even the ‘progressives’ lame analysis and corrections are misleading….

In the light of exonerative evidence, the hypocrisy of cannabis prohibition can only be described as a derilection of consensus politics, contempt for the public good, abuse of reason and failure to take good care of the community. / Blair Anderson, Candidate for Christchurch City Council, Pegasus Ward. 1998

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Pros and cons of cannabis debated

Pros and cons of cannabis debated (Dunedin)

SATURDAY , 14 MAY 2005 By TOM MCKINLAY
Warnings of the evils of cannabis mixed with appeals for a little less hysteria at a forum on cannabis at the University of Otago yesterday.

Speakers from the Green Party, United Future, Destiny New Zealand, the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party, International Socialists Organisation and the Dunedin School of Medicine tossed around the relative merits of prohibition and legalisation.

Prof Robin Taylor, of the Otago Medical School, steered clear of the moral and political issues to make a plug for inhaling fresh air.

Smoking cannabis, like smoking tobacco, had serious long-term health effects that were born not only by the individual but by society, the respiratory physician said.

Green MP and one-time Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party member Metiria Turei and United Future MP Gordon Copeland represented the poles of the debate in Parliament.

Ms Turei said it should be legal for people over the age of 18.

Mr Copeland said cannabis took a particular toll on young people, sapping their motivation, which was why no change to cannabis law was a condition of their support for the Labour Government.

The Destiny Church movement’s two representatives on the panel, Dunedin pastor Gary Davis and Destiny New Zealand policy director David Jesze, were the only panellists to admit to having smoked marijuana – though both opposed legalisation.

Mr Jesze said decriminalisation was not in the interests of future generations, he said.

Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party spokesman Paul McMullan said it was an issue of personal rights.

The increase in the use of cannabis had not been accompanied by the predicted negative health impacts, he said.

International Socialists spokesman Dr Brian Roper said prohibition had never worked and should be rolled back, but to solve the problem it was necessary to understand why people took drugs.

Many did so to make themselves feel better as they struggled to get by on inadequate incomes in a society that made them feel alienated and disempowered.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/print/0,1478,3280718a3845,00.html

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If We Target One Drug, It Must Be Marijuana

NORML.ORG US IA: OPED: If We Target One Drug, It Must Be Marijuana:

“Availability is the mother of use, so doing a far better job of reducing availability is high on the list. Beyond that — and recognizing that reducing demand is key to that goal — we should use the increased arrest rate as an opportunity to discourage use. ”

Absent: any measure or evidence the goal and the outcome accomplishes a harm minimising end game. Arrgh!

IOWA is having a medical marijuana debate subsequent to petitions etc. Sadly Joe Califino was US secretary of health, education and welfare from 1977 to 1979. You would think he would know better.

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