California Watch and Learn

Posted on May 16, 2011 by poshinks

Colorado is the next battleground for fully legalizing Marijuana and prepares to show other states that this can be done!

“We’re going to have a great legalization debate in 2012,” predicted Laura Kriho of the Cannabis Therapy Institute, a powerful grass-roots organizer that alerts marijuana advocates to lobby public officials on measures related to pot.”

“We’ve had medical marijuana out there now for more than 10 years without any of the terrible things they said were going to happen. We haven’t seen an increase in accidents, in visits to emergency rooms, in crime—we haven’t seen increases in anything bad,” Kriho said.

Read more: CO pot advocates turn to 2012 ballot measure – The Denver Post


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Stewie Loves Lois in Mom Mommy Mama

Posted on May 8, 2011 by poshinks

Mischievous Stewie ♥ Lois  = Happy Mother’s Day!

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Expecting Moms, do you Puff-Puff…Breathe?

Posted on May 4, 2011 by poshinks

Mother’s Day is right around the corner and I was wondering about my favorite green plant and mothers. Mothers and babies. Pregnancy and Cannabis.

I had to dig a bit deeper to find out what’s the truth about ingesting marijuana -inhaling or consuming- once a woman gets pregnant.

There are numerous studies flowing around in the “Sea of Internet”, concluding negative effects or no significant changes between groups of marijuana smokers and absentees. Besides the research, personal experiences seem to pop out more often to paint horrible conditions such as hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) that could have easily been helped by marijuana and thus save babies lives.

“If you have never been through Hyperemesis (HG) or have never known someone with it is impossible to describe it.  It is like your worst hangover, on steroids, 24 hours a day, for the duration of a pregnancy.  It feels like you are dying (in fact, your body is slowly doing just that) and it is hard to care that you are dying, because you are so sick. It is isolating and depressing, both while you are going through it and afterwards.  Life without HG will never exist for me.” Read the heartbreaking story of this brave woman.

It’s obvious to me that any sane woman would prefer a toke or two in the morning instead of millions of drugs pumped into her daily and her baby for the period of 9 months.

Jamaica…

In Jamaica it is a well accepted custom that mama’s ease their “morning sickness” in the first trimester with marijuana. The result?

Pediatrics 1994;93:254-260

Conclusions. The absence of any differences between the exposed on non-exposed groups in the early neonatal period suggest that the better scores of exposed neonates at 1 month are traceable to the cultural positioning and social and economic characteristics of mothers using marijuana that select for the use of marijuana but also promote neonatal development.”

Netherlands…

A 1999 survey of 12,885 mothers did not demonstrate significant differences in growth among newborns exposed to Cannabis in utero vs those with no exposure, controlling for maternal tobacco use. “The use of cannabis is not a major prognostic factor regarding the outcome of pregnancy,”- authors Drs. John P. Morgan and Lynn Zimmer concluded in Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts: A Review of the Scientific Evidence.

 

 

In conclusion…

Think about your baby first and foremost-you should know that no drugs is the safest choice during pregnancy, but if a drug can help your baby’s or your life then do yourself a favor- educate yourself about it. I would always prefer an herb over something man-made but that is my choice. Your personal choice will effect your babies life, be smart about it.

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Visit Poshinks at Roots Festival on Adams 2011

Posted on April 30, 2011 by poshinks
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Easter Traditions Celebrate Fertility

Posted on April 24, 2011 by poshinks

Easter: Ham, deviled eggs, red painted eggs, chocolate eggs, bunnies, sprinkling*… what does Easter really mean? (HOP TO Shopping) History:

Christians celebrate Easter to commemorate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Some aspects of modern Easter celebrations, however, pre-date Christianity. According to the Venerable Bede, Easter derives its name from Eostre, an Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring. A month corresponding to April had been named “Eostremonat,” or Eostre’s month, leading to “Easter” becoming applied to the Christian holiday that usually took place within it. Prior to that, the holiday had been called Pasch (Passover), which remains its name in most non-English languages.

It seems probable that around the second century A.D., Christian missionaries seeking to convert the tribes of northern Europe noticed that the Christian holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus roughly coincided with the Teutonic springtime celebrations, which emphasized the triumph of life over death. Christian Easter gradually absorbed the traditional symbols. Read more: Easter Symbols and Traditions

 

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Easter: sex and drugs celebration read more cannabisculture.com

Eggs & Rabbits

In the Christian tradition, Lent is a 40 day period lasting from Ash Wednesday to Easter where one prepares for the “holy week” by prayer, ‘almsgiving’ and self-discipline. In Medieval Europe, eggs were forbidden during Lent. All eggs laid during that time were often boiled or otherwise preserved. As a result eggs became the staple of Easter meals, and a treasured Easter gift for children and servants. Not only eggs but rabbits, hares, have been viewed as symbols of new life and fertility through the ages. (“&%$# like rabbits” anyone?) The story appears to have originated in Germany, where tales were told of an “Easter hare” who laid eggs for children to find. German settlers to America brought the tradition with them and spread it to a wider public. They also baked cakes and pastries for Easter in the shape hare and made chocolate bunnies and eggs.

*Sprinkling:Good morning, good morning, my lovely lily blade, I’ll sprinkle you with rose water, just so you won’t fade. A red egg to me was visible, through a thick forest, did I amble, In a lamb-drawn shaking chariot here  I did scramble. Here’s the rose water, my pearl, my lily of the valley, Where’s the egg, the red egg, which in my satchel I tally!

Easter Sprinkling in Hungary

Easter Sprinkling in Hungary

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Earth Day and International Mother Earth Day

Posted on April 22, 2011 by poshinks

A little bit of history…

Earth Day was founded by United States Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental forum first held on April 22, 1970. An organization launched by Denis Hayes, who was the original national coordinator in 1970, took Earth Day to become international in 1990 and organized events in 141 nations. In 2009, the United Nations designated April 22 International Mother Earth Day. As of 2011 Earth Day is celebrated in more than 175 countries every year.

As a Planet Earth resident and temporary citizen here is a little bit of what you should do…

Recycle! Not just your garbage but your electronics, clothes everything! Check out Recyclebank for some points you can earn while doing the right thing.

Buy with care! Do you really need a 15th flip-flop or a 9th pair of sneakers? Buy wisely and try to look for quality bargain items. A little DIY will also go a long way. Purchasing sustainable items such as hemp will make you feel good about Mother Nature.

Educate yourself! The more you know the more you can act on. Look around. Learn. Read. Find a way to participate in saving Earth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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History of 420 (4/20) Cannabis Freedom

Posted on April 20, 2011 by poshinks

A version of 420 was allegedly created by a group of teenagers ”the Waldos”  in San Rafael, California in 1971 . (Their chosen hang-out spot was a wall outside the school) They first used the term in connection to a fall 1971 plan to search for an abandoned cannabis crop that they had learned about. The Waldos assigned the Louis Pasteur statue on the grounds of San Rafael High School as their meeting place at 4:20 p.m. The Waldos referred to this event with the phrase “4:20 Louis”. Many failed attempts to find the crop eventually shortened their phrase to simply “4:20″, which after a while evolved into a code word the group started using to mean pot-smoking in general. (source Wiki)

Have a safe and smokey 4/20!

 

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Breaking Bad

Posted on April 17, 2011 by poshinks

“The title of the series comes from the American Southwest slang phrase “to break bad,” meaning to challenge conventions, to defy authority and to skirt the edges of the law.”

AMC’s drama Breaking Bad is a perfect series for it’s blunt emotions, slap-in-the-face reality and the chili portrayal of a repressed chemistry teacher’s life who finds out that lung cancer may soon eats him alive.

After our main character, Walter White, receives some life changing news he decides that family is indeed the most important thing in the world and he starts acting accordingly. As a genius but seriously burnt out chemistry teacher, he starts producing the world’s highest quality crystal meth.

The show is a great inside look at the effects of a disease, unfortunately as common as cancer, mixing with suburban life and meth cooking. It also shows clearly to me that pot is not a gateway to hard drug use.

“Marijuana experimentation by adolescents does not lead to the use of harder drugs, according to the findings of a RAND study“

“While the gateway theory has enjoyed popular acceptance, scientists have always had their doubts,” said lead researcher Andrew Morral, associate director of RAND’s Public Safety and Justice unit.  “Our study shows that these doubts are justified.”

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I encourage you to watch this show (even when it drags sometimes) to see some A-list performances by the fantastic Bryan Cranston  as Walter White, Anna Gunn as the self-righteous wife and Aaron Paul as the trailer trash junkie.

Oh, and don’t forget what our ex-governor said about marijuana…

"That's not a drug. It's a leaf."

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Cannabis Could Cure Will We Ever Know

Posted on April 16, 2011 by poshinks

“The US National Cancer Institute, a branch of the National Institutes of Health, touts its website www.cancer.gov as presenting “Accurate, up-to-date, comprehensive cancer information from the U.S. government’s principal agency for cancer research.”

On March 17, NCI lived up to its mandate by publishing these two paragraphs on its Cannabis and Cannabinoids Physician Data Query (PDQ) General Information page for Health Professionals:

“The potential benefits of medicinal Cannabis for people living with cancer include antiemetic effects, appetite stimulation, pain relief, and improved sleep. In the practice of integrative oncology, the health care provider may recommend medicinal Cannabis not only for symptom management but also for its possible direct antitumor effect.”

“Cannabinoids may cause antitumor effects by various mechanisms, including induction of cell death, inhibition of cell growth, and inhibition of tumor angiogenesis and metastasis. Cannabinoids appear to kill tumor cells but do not affect their nontransformed counterparts and may even protect them from cell death. These compounds have been shown to induce apoptosis in glioma cells in culture and induce regression of glioma tumors in mice and rats.” (Article Source: California Norml)

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If it's good enough for an ALIEN!!!

 

 

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Discriminating Against Medical Marijuana Patients in the Workforce

Posted on April 15, 2011 by poshinks

California bill would constrict employers from letting go of or hiring medical marijuana users

Senate Bill 129 — introduced by Sen. Mark Leno (D- San Francisco) — would curtail employers from firing or refusing to hire employees based on a positive marijuana test if the employee is a registered medical marijuana user.

As Leno cleverly points out:

“When Californians approved the compassionate use of cannabis (with Prop 215), they never intended for it to apply only to unemployed people.”

Not to mention that this would demythologize the all to common judgement about potheads…that we are all lazy, uninterested, chips-munching, tube-watching idiots. Truth is, there are plenty of those out there even without smoking grass. (Jersey Shore fanatics anyone?)

Nevada County District Attorney Cliff Newell opposes the bill:

“It’s another short-sighted, harebrained bill that makes no sense,” Newell said. “It further legitimizes the use of marijuana where it may not be called for.”

How? The point in Bill 129 is:

(d)  Nothing in this section
shall  not  prohibit an employer from terminating the
employment of, or taking other corrective action against, an employee
who is impaired on the property or premises of the place of
employment or during the hours of employment, because of the medical
use of marijuana.

The problem is that the people who know or have reliable data and suggestions on how to handle marijuana are not the same people who call the shots.

Should medical marijuana receive the same treatment alcohol?  In that case, hell no, you shouldn’t smoke it on the job. You wouldn’t want anyone to be drinking while balancing on a scaffold or teaching math to kids in elementary school right?

Perhaps, it is like Tylenol, Xanax or another type of medicine? Then we should treat it like medicine on the job as well.

Who’s going to decide? You? Me? A senator? A governor? A president? Or just a stranger who pockets your taxes?

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“I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?” Willie Nelson

 

 

 

 

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