Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956
A serious professional, [Laura] Kam [Founder and CEO of Kam Global Strategies, a Jerusalem-based public relations firm] has embarked on a very serious mission to make the State of Israel – where medical cannabis is legal and used therapeutically every day – the world’s center for research and further development of the plant. One thing she knows from the outset is that, for the moment at least, we need not worry about competition in this area from America.
“In the US, cannabis is regulated as a ‘Schedule 1 drug,’ akin to heroin, so there is virtually no research going on with it,” Kam says.
“No institution with ties to the federal government, such as the National Institutes of Health, will do any kind of research on cannabis. Israel has much more liberal cannabis research policies than the US, so investment money has been pouring into Israel for research.
Source: http://www.jpost.com/Metro/On-a-crusade-for-cannabis-456932
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 19 2016, @10:07PM
Just imagine what kinds of mutant superweed Israelis could produce if they irradiate it in their secret nuclear research facilities which they pretend not to have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 19 2016, @10:16PM
i wanna be donatello... you can be splinter
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 19 2016, @10:24PM
Ok let's put cannabis in a pizza and get baked.
(Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Monday June 20 2016, @01:18AM
Cowabonga!
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by julian on Sunday June 19 2016, @10:46PM
This is a great opportunity for Israel, or any nation that recognizes the medicinal power of cannabis. It is a plant primed for an explosion of market activity around its uses that we've barely begun to scientifically explore.
We are currently experiencing a public health crisis in the USA from opioid abuse. Many addicts are sufferers of legitimate injuries needing some form of palliative care. Many are addicts seeking to use recreationally drugs that were manufactured for legitimate use. In the effort to dissuade the latter group from abusing we've further restricted legal opioids. Newer opioids like fentanyl are more potent, more concentrated. The iron law of prohibition means that black markets will centralize around the most physically concentrated form of the substance being delivered. This was seen in the movement from beer and wine to hard liquor during alcohol prohibition. Newly minted addicts, cut off from their low-dose vicodin and oxy then move to illicit heroin or diverted fentanyl. Purity and concentration varies between batches, leading to many dead addicts from overdose.
How many of these lives could have been spared from addiction or death if cannabis had been an option for palliative care? I'm a Democratic Socialist and even I recognize this is a perfect case where the market can step in and improve human life if the government would simply step back and let things work out as they will. There's little risk, since humanity has been testing cannabis on itself for thousands of years with virtually no mortality attributed to its use directly. It works, for many ailments. It's in demand. The government's disposition to cannabis should be the same as towards ibuprofen; set minimum standards for production quality, purity, and safety, then let the market work.
This would appear to be a rare situation where liberals and conservatives could agree on something to benefit everyone. Liberals want to end the racist, classist, war on drugs. Conservatives value free markets and less government involvement in business (who want to grow and sell cannabis). We are throwing away a huge market by keeping cannabis Schedule I, and millions of people are denied life improving medication. This insanity needs to end, or the sane people will simply take their dollars to sane countries like Israel.
As an American, I'd rather that didn't happen.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday June 19 2016, @11:08PM
But butbut butbutbut pleasure is BAD! All forms of it, even the ones that don't actually hurt anyone! Especially if it's cheap and doesn't make someone else shedloads of money right now!
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 20 2016, @02:11AM
http://www.google.ca/patents/US6630507 [google.ca]
The hypocrisy goes to 11
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday June 20 2016, @05:13AM
https://xkcd.com/670/ [xkcd.com]
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1) by tractatus_techno_philosophicus on Monday June 20 2016, @02:03PM
I wish I could mod your post above 5.
No moral system can rest solely on authority. ~A.J. Ayer
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 19 2016, @11:09PM
No wonder an illegitimate country that should not have existed is doing all it can to elicit money from drug addicts and those who aren't drug addicts. When more of your 'citizens' start sending money to israel, the more money the jews will have (on top of the billions they get in aid!!??!).
Also, doing physics, mathematics and general scientific research is hard. Cannabis is easy. You just water the plant and it grows. This equals big money for the smallest amount of work. Scientific research is beyond the jews.
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Monday June 20 2016, @12:57AM
Can you log in and repost that? I wanted to mod you the fuck into a hole, but you were already at -1.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 20 2016, @12:17PM
Spotted the zionist jew!
(Score: 2, Interesting) by tisI on Sunday June 19 2016, @11:29PM
This is because years ago Dow Chemical saw cannabis as a threat to it's hemp rope business. Throw enough money at congress and now you have it outlawed. More money at propaganda and for eternity the entire country thinks cannabis is the cause for all of societal's ills.
And that my friends is how you herd sheep.
"Suppose you were an idiot...and suppose you were a member of Congress...but I repeat myself."
(Score: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Monday June 20 2016, @12:45AM
This is because years ago Dow Chemical saw cannabis as a threat to it's hemp rope business.
Um, cannabis is hemp? You may have slightly mis-remembered the stoner mythology.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 20 2016, @02:10AM
Yep, he has it wrong. Hemp was a threat to Hearst's logging and paper mill operations.
(Score: 2) by Ellis D. Tripp on Monday June 20 2016, @02:25AM
And DuPont (not Dow), with their new synthetic fiber called Nylon. Their woodpulp chemicals business surely played a part as well....
"Society is like stew. If you don't keep it stirred up, you end up with a lot of scum on the top!"--Edward Abbey
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 20 2016, @05:21AM
cotton farmers and the textile industry, which was built around selling overpriced and labor intensive cotton over the much easier to produce (but coarse and lower quality) hemp. Hemp's one major shortfall (and the reason hemp rope is unpopular) is that it wicks moisture towards the center of the strands instead of away from them, like cotton does.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 20 2016, @04:14AM
> You may have slightly mis-remembered the stoner mythology.
Comes with the territory.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Monday June 20 2016, @03:25AM
Woah! Dude! Those are like...the same thing. Don't toke and post, bra. Now, what were we talking about? Tacos? I want tacos.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 19 2016, @11:46PM
Crusade for Cannabis?
What's next, a Jihad for GHB? Hejira for Heroin?
(Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Monday June 20 2016, @05:21AM
I got a chuckle out of the title myself. Jews don't go on Crusades - that's a Christian thing, just like jihad is Islamic. As far as I know, Jews just do Holy War, but since I don't speak Yiddish or Hebrew, I don't know the word. But, the story was a good one.
Yiddish holy war
הייליק מלחמה
heylik mlkhmh
Hebrew holy war
מלחמת קודש
I can't tell the difference between those, or Russian, or Chinese. It's all Greek to me!
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 20 2016, @05:35AM
Today's Jews are Khazarian, not children of Israel and they are a race, not a religion. So holy war for them cannot exist.
Did you know that earning money for honest work is also Jihad? But they don't mention that.
Forget religion, actually. It is messed up.