Tuesday, February 04, 2014 5:51:02 AM
Ann Coulter Is Against Weed Because A Pool Guy Didn't Clean Her Pool, Or Something
Published on Jan 22, 2014 by CNN [ http://www.youtube.com/user/CNN ]
Piers Morgan and Ann Coulter debate the legalization of marijuana comparing it to smoking cigarettes or drinking alcohol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTlRulEFFgc [with comments] [via/embedded at/title taken from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/23/ann-coulter-pot-economy-piers-morgan_n_4650921.html (with comments)]
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Turning dryer lint into art
[ http://www.ripleysnewsroom.com/lint/ ]
Uploaded on Mar 6, 2011 by CBS News [ http://www.youtube.com/user/CBSNewsOnline ]
Laura Bell did laundry and collected dryer lint for 7 months and then spent 200 hours turning it into a 14 foot by 4 foot rendition of Leonardo Davinci's "The Last Supper." She sold it to Ripley's Believe it or Not! for $12,000. Bill Geist meets the artist behind the lint.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn8wYDpAHzw [with comments]
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Key Christian Conservative Admits Medical Marijuana Has Benefits
President and CEO of Focus on the Family, Jim Daly, at his office during an interview.
(Photo By Andy Cross/The Denver Post via Getty Images)
By Matt Ferner
Posted: 01/17/2014 3:34 pm EST | Updated: 01/25/2014 4:01 pm EST
Colorado may have legalized recreational marijuana use, but one prominent Christian conservative says it's only a matter of time before those laws are rolled back, even as he conceded that the substance may have some legitimate medical benefits.
Jim Daly, president of Focus On The Family, a Colorado-based evangelical group that traditionally takes a conservative approach to social issues, made his remarks to KRDO in Colorado Springs [ http://www.krdo.com/news/focus-on-the-family-president-speaks-out-on-recreational-marijuana/-/417220/23971450/-/sprviwz/-/index.html ] on Thursday. During the conversation, Daly said that he believes "there are some medical benefits derived" from marijuana, but that he doesn't approve of recreational marijuana use and that its legalization -- recently effected in Colorado and Washington state -- won't last.
"I think five to 10 years from now, we're going to look back on this and say, 'Maybe that wasn't such a wise idea' and we're going to rescind those laws," Daly told the station.
Daly also recently wrote a blog titled "Moral and Biblical Thoughts About Marijuana [ https://community.focusonthefamily.com/b/jim-daly/archive/2014/01/15/moral-and-biblical-thoughts-about-marijuana.aspx ]" in which he offers a more lengthy opinion on the morality of legal weed.
"Of all the problems associated with marijuana, however, the moral concerns might be the strongest," Daly writes. "The Bible is very clear in warning against drunkenness (Ephesians 5:18). Granted, a person might drink a glass of wine at dinner and not become intoxicated, but what about marijuana? Isn't 'intoxication' the main point of using marijuana for recreational purposes?"
But Mason Tvert, communications director of Marijuana Policy Project and key backer of the Colorado amendment that legalized marijuana [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/06/amendment-64-passes-in-co_n_2079899.html ], disagrees, telling The Huffington Post that Daly's view of marijuana is similar to the old prohibitionists' claims about "demon weed."
"But the devil is in the details," Tvert said. "Marijuana is actually less harmful than alcohol. Mr. Daly appears to believe it is not only immoral for an adult to use marijuana, but also to consume any amount of alcohol beyond a glass of wine at dinner. In both cases, he is clearly out of touch with the views of most Americans. Our society recognizes that it is okay for adults to consume alcohol as long as they do so responsibly. There is no logical reason they should be punished for the responsible use of a less harmful substance like marijuana."
Tvert added, "If we're truly going to focus on the families, we need to stop steering adults toward using the more harmful substance."
Colorado Springs is home to Focus On The Family, but it is also home to the Realm of Caring, a nonprofit group founded by six Colorado brothers [ http://theroc.us/ ] to distribute a specialized medical marijuana strain, dubbed "Charlotte's Web," for children with epilepsy.
The Stanleys started Realm of Caring to help families in need, and say they resent the stigma often associated with the plant [ http://gazette.com/pot-with-a-purpose-teller-county-brothers-marijuana-grown-for-medical-benefits/article/1506955 ].
"This particular plant has 0.5 percent THC and 17 percent CBD -- or cannabidiol -- the non-psychoactive ingredient [in marijuana]," Josh Stanley said about Charlotte's Web [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH5yzEu3JGQ (next below)].
CBD has been found to be effective at treating not just epilepsy, but also at stopping metastasis [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/19/marijuana-and-cancer_n_1898208.html ] in many kinds of aggressive cancers and at killing cancerous cells [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/25/marijuana-cancer_n_4158865.html ] found in people with leukemia.
Colorado voters legalized marijuana for recreational use in 2012, but it wasn't until Jan. 1, 2014, that retail sales began in the state [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/01/marijuana-shops-open-colorado_n_4519506.html ]. Washington state's first recreational marijuana shops are expected to open later this year.
Copyright © 2014 TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/17/focus-on-the-family-leade_n_4618187.html [with comments]
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Meet The Children Who Rely On Marijuana To Survive
Photos by Nichole Montanez show children who have begun or hope to begin medical marijuana treatment.
01/31/2014
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/31/cannabis-for-children_n_4697135.html [with embedded video report, and comments]
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Pete Carroll: NFL Should See If Medicinal Marijuana Can Help Players
Head coach Pete Carroll of the Seattle Seahawks addresses the media during Super Bowl XLVIII media availability at the Westin Hotel January 27, 2014 in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Elsa via Getty Images
01/27/14 07:14 PM ET EST
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Pete Carroll is in support of the NFL looking further into whether medicinal marijuana could be beneficial for players.
The Seattle Seahawks coach said Monday he supports Commissioner Roger Goodell's message last week that the league could consider medicinal marijuana as a treatment if science proved it could be beneficial for players who have suffered concussions.
Carroll says regardless of the stigmas involved, the medicinal value should be examined, "because the world of medicine is trying to do the exact same thing and figure it out and they're coming to some conclusions."
Sunday's Super Bowl matchup between the Seahawks and Broncos features the two states where recreational marijuana use is legal: Washington and Colorado.
© 2014 Associated Press
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/27/pete-carroll-nfl-medical-marijuana_n_4677328.html [with embedded video report; no comments yet]
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DEA Chief Slams Obama For Pot Remarks: Reports
01/27/2014
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/25/michele-leonhart-obama_n_4666606.html [with embedded video report, and comments]
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Marijuana Advocates Call On White House To Fire DEA Chief
01/28/2014
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/27/michele-leonhart-speech_n_4674181.html [with embedded video report, and comments]
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Eric Holder Just Announced A Major Shift On U.S. Marijuana Policy
01/24/2014
U.S. treasury and law enforcement agencies will soon issue regulations opening banking services to state-sanctioned marijuana businesses even though cannabis remains classified an illegal narcotic under federal law, Attorney General Eric Holder said on Thursday.
Holder said the new rules would address problems faced by newly licensed recreational pot retailers in Colorado, and medical marijuana dispensaries in other states, in operating on a cash-only basis, without access to banking services or credit.
Proprietors of state-licensed marijuana distributors in Colorado and elsewhere have complained of having to purchase inventory, pay employees and conduct sales entirely in cash, requiring elaborate and expensive security measures and putting them at a high risk of robbery.
It also makes accounting for state sales tax-collection purposes difficult.
"You don't want just huge amounts of cash in these places," Holder told the audience at the University of Virginia. "They want to be able to use the banking system. ...
[...]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/23/marijuana-bank_n_4656145.html [with embedded video report, and comments]
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Hemp [Seed Oil] Gets High Five for Heart-Health Benefits
Jan 31, 2014
http://news.discovery.com/earth/plants/hemp-gets-high-five-for-heart-health-benefits-140131.htm [with comments]
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this is part 3 of a multi-part post -- continues with my next post, a reply to this one
Published on Jan 22, 2014 by CNN [ http://www.youtube.com/user/CNN ]
Piers Morgan and Ann Coulter debate the legalization of marijuana comparing it to smoking cigarettes or drinking alcohol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTlRulEFFgc [with comments] [via/embedded at/title taken from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/23/ann-coulter-pot-economy-piers-morgan_n_4650921.html (with comments)]
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Turning dryer lint into art
[ http://www.ripleysnewsroom.com/lint/ ]
Uploaded on Mar 6, 2011 by CBS News [ http://www.youtube.com/user/CBSNewsOnline ]
Laura Bell did laundry and collected dryer lint for 7 months and then spent 200 hours turning it into a 14 foot by 4 foot rendition of Leonardo Davinci's "The Last Supper." She sold it to Ripley's Believe it or Not! for $12,000. Bill Geist meets the artist behind the lint.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn8wYDpAHzw [with comments]
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Key Christian Conservative Admits Medical Marijuana Has Benefits
President and CEO of Focus on the Family, Jim Daly, at his office during an interview.
(Photo By Andy Cross/The Denver Post via Getty Images)
By Matt Ferner
Posted: 01/17/2014 3:34 pm EST | Updated: 01/25/2014 4:01 pm EST
Colorado may have legalized recreational marijuana use, but one prominent Christian conservative says it's only a matter of time before those laws are rolled back, even as he conceded that the substance may have some legitimate medical benefits.
Jim Daly, president of Focus On The Family, a Colorado-based evangelical group that traditionally takes a conservative approach to social issues, made his remarks to KRDO in Colorado Springs [ http://www.krdo.com/news/focus-on-the-family-president-speaks-out-on-recreational-marijuana/-/417220/23971450/-/sprviwz/-/index.html ] on Thursday. During the conversation, Daly said that he believes "there are some medical benefits derived" from marijuana, but that he doesn't approve of recreational marijuana use and that its legalization -- recently effected in Colorado and Washington state -- won't last.
"I think five to 10 years from now, we're going to look back on this and say, 'Maybe that wasn't such a wise idea' and we're going to rescind those laws," Daly told the station.
Daly also recently wrote a blog titled "Moral and Biblical Thoughts About Marijuana [ https://community.focusonthefamily.com/b/jim-daly/archive/2014/01/15/moral-and-biblical-thoughts-about-marijuana.aspx ]" in which he offers a more lengthy opinion on the morality of legal weed.
"Of all the problems associated with marijuana, however, the moral concerns might be the strongest," Daly writes. "The Bible is very clear in warning against drunkenness (Ephesians 5:18). Granted, a person might drink a glass of wine at dinner and not become intoxicated, but what about marijuana? Isn't 'intoxication' the main point of using marijuana for recreational purposes?"
But Mason Tvert, communications director of Marijuana Policy Project and key backer of the Colorado amendment that legalized marijuana [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/06/amendment-64-passes-in-co_n_2079899.html ], disagrees, telling The Huffington Post that Daly's view of marijuana is similar to the old prohibitionists' claims about "demon weed."
"But the devil is in the details," Tvert said. "Marijuana is actually less harmful than alcohol. Mr. Daly appears to believe it is not only immoral for an adult to use marijuana, but also to consume any amount of alcohol beyond a glass of wine at dinner. In both cases, he is clearly out of touch with the views of most Americans. Our society recognizes that it is okay for adults to consume alcohol as long as they do so responsibly. There is no logical reason they should be punished for the responsible use of a less harmful substance like marijuana."
Tvert added, "If we're truly going to focus on the families, we need to stop steering adults toward using the more harmful substance."
Colorado Springs is home to Focus On The Family, but it is also home to the Realm of Caring, a nonprofit group founded by six Colorado brothers [ http://theroc.us/ ] to distribute a specialized medical marijuana strain, dubbed "Charlotte's Web," for children with epilepsy.
The Stanleys started Realm of Caring to help families in need, and say they resent the stigma often associated with the plant [ http://gazette.com/pot-with-a-purpose-teller-county-brothers-marijuana-grown-for-medical-benefits/article/1506955 ].
"This particular plant has 0.5 percent THC and 17 percent CBD -- or cannabidiol -- the non-psychoactive ingredient [in marijuana]," Josh Stanley said about Charlotte's Web [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH5yzEu3JGQ (next below)].
"This plant is so important: the CBD is literally stopping the progression of epilepsy."
CBD has been found to be effective at treating not just epilepsy, but also at stopping metastasis [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/19/marijuana-and-cancer_n_1898208.html ] in many kinds of aggressive cancers and at killing cancerous cells [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/25/marijuana-cancer_n_4158865.html ] found in people with leukemia.
Colorado voters legalized marijuana for recreational use in 2012, but it wasn't until Jan. 1, 2014, that retail sales began in the state [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/01/marijuana-shops-open-colorado_n_4519506.html ]. Washington state's first recreational marijuana shops are expected to open later this year.
Copyright © 2014 TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/17/focus-on-the-family-leade_n_4618187.html [with comments]
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Meet The Children Who Rely On Marijuana To Survive
Photos by Nichole Montanez show children who have begun or hope to begin medical marijuana treatment.
01/31/2014
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/31/cannabis-for-children_n_4697135.html [with embedded video report, and comments]
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Pete Carroll: NFL Should See If Medicinal Marijuana Can Help Players
Head coach Pete Carroll of the Seattle Seahawks addresses the media during Super Bowl XLVIII media availability at the Westin Hotel January 27, 2014 in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Elsa via Getty Images
01/27/14 07:14 PM ET EST
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Pete Carroll is in support of the NFL looking further into whether medicinal marijuana could be beneficial for players.
The Seattle Seahawks coach said Monday he supports Commissioner Roger Goodell's message last week that the league could consider medicinal marijuana as a treatment if science proved it could be beneficial for players who have suffered concussions.
Carroll says regardless of the stigmas involved, the medicinal value should be examined, "because the world of medicine is trying to do the exact same thing and figure it out and they're coming to some conclusions."
Sunday's Super Bowl matchup between the Seahawks and Broncos features the two states where recreational marijuana use is legal: Washington and Colorado.
© 2014 Associated Press
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/27/pete-carroll-nfl-medical-marijuana_n_4677328.html [with embedded video report; no comments yet]
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DEA Chief Slams Obama For Pot Remarks: Reports
01/27/2014
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/25/michele-leonhart-obama_n_4666606.html [with embedded video report, and comments]
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Marijuana Advocates Call On White House To Fire DEA Chief
01/28/2014
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/27/michele-leonhart-speech_n_4674181.html [with embedded video report, and comments]
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Eric Holder Just Announced A Major Shift On U.S. Marijuana Policy
01/24/2014
U.S. treasury and law enforcement agencies will soon issue regulations opening banking services to state-sanctioned marijuana businesses even though cannabis remains classified an illegal narcotic under federal law, Attorney General Eric Holder said on Thursday.
Holder said the new rules would address problems faced by newly licensed recreational pot retailers in Colorado, and medical marijuana dispensaries in other states, in operating on a cash-only basis, without access to banking services or credit.
Proprietors of state-licensed marijuana distributors in Colorado and elsewhere have complained of having to purchase inventory, pay employees and conduct sales entirely in cash, requiring elaborate and expensive security measures and putting them at a high risk of robbery.
It also makes accounting for state sales tax-collection purposes difficult.
"You don't want just huge amounts of cash in these places," Holder told the audience at the University of Virginia. "They want to be able to use the banking system. ...
[...]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/23/marijuana-bank_n_4656145.html [with embedded video report, and comments]
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Hemp [Seed Oil] Gets High Five for Heart-Health Benefits
Jan 31, 2014
http://news.discovery.com/earth/plants/hemp-gets-high-five-for-heart-health-benefits-140131.htm [with comments]
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this is part 3 of a multi-part post -- continues with my next post, a reply to this one
Greensburg, KS - 5/4/07
"Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty."
from John Philpot Curran, Speech
upon the Right of Election, 1790
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