spoilsport :P

lol, sorry... I just don't want to get my hopes up.

email on my phone and I'm not linking you to my phone

find a link to Rasmussin, prolly one on Drudge, he has many links

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yeah i checked rasmussins latest polls and didn't see it
maybe they haven't updated the site yet?

I checked as well and couldn't find it. I would like to see this poll.

well I guess I'm special ! he emails this stuff to me direct !

it may actually be old


I guess it pays to look at the site

its actually doc prescribed pot but thats no problem to obtain in sunny california

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Socialism doesn't create a rising tide that lifts all boats. It drains the lake and teaches the boat riders not to help themselves by rowing.

Jesus loves you, allah wants you dead

"Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others."

Ayn Rand

ahhh ok thats what it was. i thought you were talking about full legalization on the federal level. i nearly creamed my jeans you know.

Synthetic Marijuana is called Marinol or Dronabinol and is legal, although very expensive, about 800 times the cost of distilling THC from a plant. Your doctor can prescribe it.

Marijuana takes on colon cancer:

The chemicals in marijuana could put the brakes on colon cancer, according to new research. That doesn’t mean smoking a joint will help, though, as the chemicals only form part of the process.

Raymond DuBois and colleagues at the University of Texas in Houston discovered that a key receptor for cannabinoids, which are found in marijuana, is turned off in most types of human colon cancer.

Without this receptor, a protein called survivin, which stops cells from dying, increases unchecked and causes tumor growth.

To better understand the role that the receptor, called CB1, plays in cancer progression, the researchers manipulated its expression in mice that had been genetically engineered to spontaneously develop colon tumors.

“When we knocked out the receptor, the number of tumors went up dramatically,” says DuBois. Alternatively, when mice with normal CB1 receptors were treated with a cannabinoid compound, their tumors shrank.
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Explanation:
Every second of your life thousands of cells in your body die and are replaced by new ones. There are approximately 50-100 trillion cells in your body. Occasionally, one of these cells does not die, but instead mutates. This mutation seems to be caused by the CB1 receptor being "switched off".The survivin protein is produced as part of the process and infects healthy cells and spreads cancer.

What this means is, when the CB1 receptor is off and the mutated cell is in close proximity to healthy cells, the healthy cells in turn switch off their own CB1 receptors.
Over time, a lump of these cells form. This is the cancerous tumor(s) your doctor informs you about. Cancer is the presence of mutated cells. Cancer screenings look for the presence of survivin, a protein. Malignancy means the cancer is spreading. If the cancerous tumor(s) can be killed (chemo-radiation) or surgically removed, you get rid of the cancer.

The THC method simply "switches on" the CB1 receptor again and the cancerous tumors burn themselves out through a process called autophagy in which they literally eat their own cell walls. The healthy cells are not affected. No more tumors or "CB1 off" cells means no more cancer. The Cannabinoid receptors in the human body are like light bulb sockets. Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) plugs in like a missing component.

You can't cure cancer by smoking a joint as burning the compounds make them ineffective. It has to be ingested in a high enough quantity to permeate the body, hence the THC oil. One pound of marijuana will produce 2 ounces of oil, enough for 2 months use. There is very little "high" with this type of use and it can be used for other types of disease caused by mutating cells.

13 states have legalized medical marijuana. In reality, Marijuana should be grown and processed under tight controls with only the best starting material and used as a cancer fighting agent. This is only one of many uses for this plant. Many people smarter than both you or I have done research.

Now, I'm betting you still won't change your mind, however, I challenge you to refute this scientific research.

I think the bill will be on the floor within 2 years. Maybe another year for it to pass. There seems to be less hate-mongering, jesus freaks running around these days, so it should pass.

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I am a conservative who thinks that pot might be equivalent to alchohol and might think it is legal-able?

I haven't come directly close to pot since college back in 1978, but now have kids who probably see it smoked on a weekly, daily(???) basis.
Beyond our preaching on pot, I get the feeling that my kids don't feel the same about it as we did.. or even on booze.

Somehow, they think of Pot as something like standing in an open field and spinning around until dizzy.

Wow, more must ASSUME BS from a person who won't stand by their supposed facts.

Hey Smith,
I have major friends in researchers in Cancer at a major, err, the best cancer center in the US, and if you send me your supposed facts, I'd be GLAD to verify them, or report what I see when I try to do so.

If you want to bitch, then you are good to go.
If you want an answer, then let me know.

So why can't California enforce state law, how are the Feds even necessary? This is nothing but an excuse for the Feds to keep a foot hold in the MMJ politics of California under the guise of reform. The raids on legitimate providers working within the law will continue.

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