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https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2022/07/19/inside-the-unrecorded-lobby-meeting-between-the-anti-cannabis-group-and-the-drugs-minister/

 

Inside The Unrecorded Lobby Meeting Between The Anti-Cannabis Group And The Drugs Minister

July 19, 2022 - BREAKING NEWS, LOCAL NEWS

 

WITH news that the Cannabis Risk Alliance (CRA) lobbied the junior minister responsible for the country’s drug strategy Frank Feighan without any notes or minutes recorded due to a loophole in the Lobbying Register, WWN has obtained secret transcripts of the meeting between Dr Ray Walley, Professor Mary Cannon, Dr Matthew Sadlier, Dr Bobby Smyth and Dr Hugh Gallagher on 26 January, 2021.

 

CRA: “Whasssssup, Frankie baby?”

FF: “Lads. what’s the fucking craic, these lockdowns eh? Enough to drive you to drink”

CRA: “Or weed… bahahahaha”

FF: “Just to confirm, no one’s recording this zoom meeting, right? You don’t need to record any meeting with me if none of you are working full-time at the Cannabis Risk Alliance”

CRA: “God no, handy loophole though”

FF: “Yeah, makes ya think who else is abusing it hahaha”

 

ALL PARTICIPANTS LAUGH

 

CRA: “Jesus, yeah, if this got out that we were all talking secretly to you, then us calling out the alcohol lobbyists actually registering the lobbying with politicians would look pretty hypocritical of us”

FF: “Don’t worry, that will never happen. Okay, so what have we this time round?”

CRA: “Well, we had a great idea to try stop cannabis being legalised and highlight the risks in the form of one of those RSA adverts. You know the ones were people get maimed and dead and stuff?”

FF: “Yeah, I know the ones… ‘can I tell you about my life… errrrcccchh’ [Minister Feighan sings song from old RSA ad while mimic driving before hilariously mimicking crash scene]”

CRA: “Hahaha spot on, exactly, yeah, only this time it’s not drink, it’s cannabis, and even more traumatic where the users brain explodes after smoking a joint, people strung out on the street begging, stealing handbags, that kind of thing”

FF: “Right! Sounds a bit extreme though?”

CRA: “Yeah, well cannabis is highly addictive and dangerous, so… “

FF: “Yeah, but, isn’t everything harmful if you do too much of it? Sure, you can be addicted to chocolate… “

 

EVERY MEMBER OF THE ALLIANCE CHASTISES THE MINISTER FOR HIS CASUAL REMARK FOR SEVERAL MINUTES BEFORE CONTINUING

 

FF: “Okay, okay, I get how passionate you guys are and want to be seen among your peers as being at the forefront of keeping it illegal – that’s great – but this cannabis thing is a real pain in my balls; the government don’t want to seem anti or pro weed and prohibition is only funding crime gangs here and forcing dangerously high cannabis into the black market. If we regulate its strength so it’s not so harmful to people and use the VAT proceeds from its sale to educate young people into the possible dangers, then surely thats the best road to take going forward?

 

EVERY MEMBER OF THE ALLIANCE CHASTISES THE MINISTER FOR HIS CASUAL REMARK FOR SEVERAL MINUTES BEFORE CONTINUING

 

FF: “All I’m saying is that cannabis seems to be helping a lot of people with a lot of different ailments, from epilepsy to anxiety and depression, taking them off harmful prescription drugs while also being an exit drug for some hard drug addicts as opposed to a gateway drug as stigmatised by a lot of opposers.

 

EVERY MEMBER OF THE ALLIANCE CHASTISES THE MINISTER FOR HIS CASUAL REMARK FOR SEVERAL MINUTES BEFORE CONTINUING

 

FF: “Aw fuck it, lads, look, I tell you what; we’ll keep fobbing this off until the next government comes in and has to deal with it, okay? Chat to you all again, I’m sure… of course, without registering it with the Lobbying Register bahahahaha”.

 

EVERYONE LAUGHS

 

CRA: “Thanks, Frank. Just keep the status quo and let us medical professionals decide everything – it’s never gone wrong in the past”.

 

CALL ENDS BEFORE DRUGS MINISTER ROLLS UP A BIG FAT ONE

 

https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2022/07/19/inside-the-unrecorded-lobby-meeting-between-the-anti-cannabis-group-and-the-drugs-minister/

[Rubin Farr]

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Picked up a strain called Randy Watson today, lol

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Takes some bollocks to set up a UK grow house in an old police station 

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/large-cannabis-factory-found-closed-133050234.html

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[diatoms]

Harvard Health Publishing

 

Staying Healthy

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/the-endocannabinoid-system-essential-and-mysterious-202108112569

The endocannabinoid system: Essential and mysterious

August 11, 2021

• By Peter Grinspoon, MD, Contributor

Many of us have heard of some of the transmitter systems within our bodies, such as the sympathetic nervous system, which gives us our fight-or-flight response. Fewer have heard of the more recently discovered endocannabinoid system (ECS), which is amazing when you consider that the ECS is critical for almost every aspect of our moment-to-moment functioning. The ECS regulates and controls many of our most critical bodily functions such as learning and memory, emotional processing, sleep, temperature control, pain control, inflammatory and immune responses, and eating. The ECS is currently at the center of renewed international research and drug development.

What is the ECS?

The ECS comprises a vast network of chemical signals and cellular receptors that are densely packed throughout our brains and bodies. The "cannabinoid" receptors in the brain — the CB1 receptors — outnumber many of the other receptor types on the brain. They act like traffic cops to control the levels and activity of most of the other neurotransmitters. This is how they regulate things: by immediate feedback, turning up or down the activity of whichever system needs to be adjusted, whether that is hunger, temperature, or alertness.

To stimulate these receptors, our bodies produce molecules called endocannabinoids, which have a structural similarity to molecules in the cannabis plant. The first endocannabinoid that was discovered was named anandamide after the Sanskrit word ananda for bliss. All of us have tiny cannabis-like molecules floating around in our brains. The cannabis plant, which humans have been using for about 5,000 years, essentially works its effect by hijacking this ancient cellular machinery.

A second type of cannabinoid receptor, the CB2 receptor, exists mostly in our immune tissues and is critical to helping control our immune functioning, and it plays a role in modulating intestinal inflammation, contraction, and pain in inflammatory bowel conditions. CB2 receptors are particularly exciting targets of drug development because they don’t cause the high associated with cannabis that stimulating the CB1 receptors does (which is often an unwanted side effect).

The ECS's role in learning and memory

We know that the ECS plays a critical role in learning and memory due to several lines of research. The most obvious observation is that one of the main side effects of high dosages of recreational cannabis use is the temporary disruption of short-term memory. Memory returns to normal with abstinence. There have also been some sophisticated studies of how humans acutely respond to the administration of THC (the active ingredient in cannabis) and the ways in which this alters both their ability to memorize things in the short term and the patterns observed on their functional brain imaging.

According to the popular writer Michael Pollan in his bestselling book The Botany of Desire, cannabis is one of the plants that humans have cultivated, or co-evolved with, for thousands of years. This is in part, Pollan writes, because the act of forgetting plays a valuable role in the ability of our brains to function without being overloaded with data from our senses that we are continually bombarded with. Pollan hypothesizes that if we didn’t forget, we wouldn’t function, and cannabis helps us do this. The role that the ECS plays in forgetting also opens up opportunities for the treatment of PTSD, a condition in which there are unpleasant, intrusive memories that people can’t help but remember, and that cause a whole syndrome of troublesome and dangerous symptoms related to the pathological remembering.

The ECS's role in hunger and fine-tuning weight-loss medications

The cautionary tale of the drug rimonabant, a drug that blocks the CB1 receptor, is an interesting example of the central role the ECS plays in so many crucial functions. It was developed as an anti-obesity drug. The thinking was that the ECS controls hunger. We know this because, among other lines of evidence, cannabis gives you "the munchies," so if you block the CB1 receptor it should cause weight loss. Rimonabant did cause weight loss, quite successfully. But, because the ECS also regulates mood, it had to be withdrawn from the market on an emergency basis because people who were taking it were becoming suicidal. However, we can imagine a case, as we better understand the complexities of the ECS, where we may be able to create a weight-loss medication that acts on those cannabinoid receptors that affect weight loss, but that doesn’t act on those receptors that control mood.

Exploration of the ECS may lead to new drug discoveries

Study of the ECS was initially focused on attempts to understand (and demonize) an illegal drug, but new research has since flourished into a far more broad-based exploration into what is an astoundingly intricate and far-reaching system by which our bodies learn, feel, motivate, and keep themselves in balance. We are truly at the dawn of an age of discovery of the ECS and the development of new medicines that may help alleviate some of the cruelest diseases that people (and animals) suffer from. I am incredibly excited to see what discoveries await us as we continue to untangle the mysteries of the ECS.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/the-endocannabinoid-system-essential-and-mysterious-202108112569

 

Peter Grinspoon, MD

Contributor

Dr. Peter Grinspoon is a primary care physician, educator, and cannabis specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital; an instructor at Harvard Medical School; and a certified health and wellness coach. He is the author of the forthcoming book Seeing Through the Smoke: Cannabis: Finding Truth Among Tangled Beliefs, as well as the groundbreaking memoir Free Refills: A Doctor Confronts His Addiction. He is a board member of the advocacy group Doctors for Cannabis Regulation. He is also a TedX speaker and commonly lectures on the topics of cannabis, psychedelics, addiction, opioids, and physician health.

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[GORDO]

I miss being able to do this stuff without going into anxiety attacks. Anyone suffered from this and got over it?

I can't even do it alone in the comfort of my own home within going in a downward spiral of shitty thoughts.

[cichlisuite]

1 hour ago, GORDO said:

I miss being able to do this stuff without going into anxiety attacks. Anyone suffered from this and got over it?

I can't even do it alone in the comfort of my own home within going in a downward spiral of shitty thoughts.

lot's of people I know have anxiety attacks when smoking weed, and it was also the main reason they stopped, or never tried again. I only have anxiety when I smoke after a long pause, but it subsides after several joints (in a 1-2 joints per day rhythm). I just plow through the anxiety intro. But this is physical anxiety (when the paths to amygdala open, or so they say), there are no bad thoughts that could trigger it -- it's more of a physical response of my body, idk. It could be the accumulated information that was once perceived as a (minor or not) threat, but rationalized by brain and dismissed during sober day-to-day activities, which then builds up in the primal brain areas. The bad thoughts for me come after I use it for some time (usually a month or so), but they don't cause physical anxiety, just a subtle dread over otherwise insignificant things, it's more cerebral, I also use this state to practice good mental discipline. Make lemons.

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On 8/25/2022 at 1:39 PM, cichlisuite said:

but it subsides after several joints (in a 1-2 joints per day rhythm). I just plow through the anxiety intro. But this is physical anxiety (when the paths to amygdala open, or so they say), there are no bad thoughts that could trigger it -- it's more of a physical response of my body, idk.

same here, I get extremely shaken after my first or second joints but after that it starts to cool down and the chill starts kicking in...

it also depends on the setting, it happens when I'm alone and when I'm alone surrounded by people I don't know... when I'm with my stoner friends It's not big deal...

[cruising for burgers]

I bought these... it doesn't do shit whatsoever... gonna stick to diazepan for now...

 

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What is cbg all about? Is this a new thing?

[cruising for burgers]

meh, same shit as CBD... this is getting too pharmaceutical...

[Rubin Farr]

Republicans keep fucking with our rules down here  

[rek]

On 8/25/2022 at 8:34 PM, GORDO said:

I miss being able to do this stuff without going into anxiety attacks. Anyone suffered from this and got over it?

I can't even do it alone in the comfort of my own home within going in a downward spiral of shitty thoughts.

there's two ways to look at shitty thoughts and bad trips. one way is to ignore them, and hope they don't get too heavy on the subconscious, or to face them and hopefully make any adjustments possible to the behaviors that may have contributed to that suffering.  I like to listen to Vernon Howard and Neville Goddard for constructive ideas re: thoughts.

 

also i don't condone any drugs. but i like this quote by hunter s thompson:
 

Spoiler

 

Edited August 27, 2022 by rek

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21 hours ago, Rubin Farr said:

Republicans keep fucking with our rules down here  

Flower products? So you can buy buds without restriction? Sounds pretty good to me 

Edited August 28, 2022 by Silent Member

[Rubin Farr]

18 minutes ago, Silent Member said:

Flower products? So you can buy buds without restriction? Sounds pretty good to me

 

 

 

 

It’s such a long and pointless story; they have been revising the bud limit too, it’s a rolling 35-day limit, and now they’re limiting concentrates as well. A 10% THC cap has been discussed before, but thankfully has died on the vine so far. DeSantis wants to brag about anti-drug “I did this and that to protect your children, from plants!” nonsense when he runs for POTUS, to appeal to hardcore Bible belt states.

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                             amazing news!

 

Biden pardons thousands with federal convictions of simple marijuana possession

The president urged governors to do the same with state offenses in a step toward addressing disproportionate arrests for people of color

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/06/biden-marijuana-pardon-possession-decriminalization

Associated Press

Thu 6 Oct 2022 20.33 BST
 

President Joe Biden has announced a pardon of all prior federal offenses of simple possession of marijuana.

“There are thousands of people who have prior federal convictions for marijuana possession, who may be denied employment, housing, or educational opportunities as a result. My action will help relieve the collateral consequences arising from these convictions,” Biden said in a statement released on Thursday afternoon.

“Sending people to prison for possessing marijuana has upended too many lives and incarcerated people for conduct that many states no longer prohibit. Criminal records for marijuana possession have also imposed needless barriers to employment, housing, and educational opportunities. And while white and Black and brown people use marijuana at similar rates, Black and brown people have been arrested, prosecuted, and convicted at disproportionate rates,” he added.

Administration officials said that the pardon could benefit around 6,500 people, the Hill reports.

“It’s time that we right these wrongs,” Biden said.

He went on to urge all governors to do the same with regards to state offenses, saying, “Just as no one should be in a federal prison solely due to the possession of marijuana, no one should be in a local jail or state prison for that reason, either.”

The president also called on the secretary of Health and Human Services and the attorney general to begin the administrative process to review how marijuana is scheduled under federal law.

Marijuana is currently classified in schedule 1 of the Controlled Substances Act under federal law. Drugs classified under this schedule have “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse”.

This classification puts marijuana in the same schedule as for heroin and LSD and even higher than the classification of fentanyl and methamphetamine, two drugs that are fueling the ongoing overdose epidemic across the country.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/06/biden-marijuana-pardon-possession-decriminalization

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[rek]

given that marijuana has a medical use, it shouldn't be a schedule 1 drug. and scheduling them didn't do anything to reduce crime really since the harsher the crime, the more profit is involved in crime, and the more severe that criminals deal with altercations with police and snitches. besides, peace isn't as profitable as war (so that's probably why it's an issue)

Edited October 9, 2022 by rek

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My Cannabis Journey by Peter Grinspoon M.D.

 

                             imagine growing up with carl sagan smoking cannabis in your living room and talking about the universe