MMJ bill passes the Senate in New Mexico

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The story is up at http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21550.shtml and presently the original article is up at http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/38802.html

Santa Fe, NM -- By an overwhelming majority, the state Senate on Tuesday approved a bill that would allow sufferers of serious medical conditions to smoke marijuana without fear of prosecution.

Strong majorities of both political parties contributed to the 34-6 passage of SB258, sponsored by Sen. Cisco McSorley, D-Albuquerque . “I think it’s wonderful,” said Essie DeBonet, an Albuquerque AIDS sufferer who has lobbied for the bill the past two sessions. “The Senate showed their concerns for people.”
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I think it is events like this that give us that want to repeal prohibition a chance to do some choir talking. Its nice to have a place not to have to fight against prohibition and just talk about the present situation with the choir.

The vote of the Senate shows that the politicians are catching up to the people. It really was more evident in Rhode Island when the legislature overwhelmingly overturned the veto of the governor. It is a good bet that the governor will not be re-elected and his veto about assures his departure.

The wind has changed and science across the world is racing to bring cannabis products on the market. I will summon one lie of the prohibitionists when they say that there is a drug for anything that cannabis will do. It is a lie of course and one of the things that cannabis does best is help with nausea. Nausea means that you cannot even keep medicine on your stomach. If you cannot treat nausea it can kill you. But examining this lie shows the twisted thinking of a drug warrior, because even if something else did it, why would people not have the choice of cannabis, especially since it should be legal anyway? When the warning labels of cannabis medicine are read side by side to the pill alternatives, cannabis will win.

But a big thing that people with these dreaded diseases often site is how cannabis helps them with the mental aspects of loss of health and maybe the impending loss of life. The research came last year that says that when nerve cell A starts yelling at nerve cell B, nerve cell B will tell it to calm down.

It is something known all along as 100 million American have "chilled" on pot. A hundred years ago when medicines were mostly plant extracts cannabis lead the way, even over the opiates that had sales from addiction. Cannabis was the predominate sedative and there is a good chance it is still the leading sedative in the country despite being illegal.

My big question is what will the extracts with the THC removed do. Closely related to that is what happens to people with an endogenous cannabinoid deficiency. Also last year, research explained a question many cannabist have and that is why do you not get high the first time you try cannabis or not even the second. Research says that cannabinoid receptors have to grow when given cannabinoids, like you have to put water on seeds to make them sprout.

I am a member of the medpot.net forums out of Canada and Terry Parker is an epileptic that got the possession laws struck down in all of Canada and forced the courts to demand that Canada adopt MMJ. Terry has a great story himself because of the experimental lobotomies done on epileptics rather than giving them medpot. At medpot.net we are all aware of what cannabis could do for epileptics and it applies to everybody because half the people that die from seizures will not know they have epilepsy. Turmel who is leading the attack on the laws he says are already struck down on cannabis, talks of people carrying an emergency joint with them in case of attack and he too is a champion for the epileptics.

But Terry says that CBD is what helps the epilepsy and it really would be sad to think that a little bud from a hemp plant once a month or whatever with no THC could have prevented all the epileptic deaths. Well, that is what I am waiting for science to answer. What will science say about CBD and THC-free pot do for the inflammation diseases? What will different strains of pot with the THC removed do? Should everyone be given some THC-free cannabis just to grow the receptors, kind of like a vaccination?

If I had a newspaper like the FreeNewMexican where I could go to their website and comment on the articles I would take it. The one-way media needs to be left to the 20th century. The comments are supportive of the MMJ bill and the vote.