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  • BBC and Channel 4 censorship of the Cannabis Man!
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    So where were we before Channel 4 and the BBC decided to rain on our parade? Well, we were having a little look at how it might actually be a good idea to try and take drugs out of the hands of dealers and protect citizens from crime and adulterated substances.
    Obviously this represents a concept that might be mistaken for joined up thinking so it’s unlikely that there will be a queue of politicians lining up to join us.
    However, before we get back to the straight forward sensible stuff (…)

  • Cannabis is not about Drugs
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Today is the day, as promised when we will take the time out to have a little look at the benefits that cannabis could bring to a society willing to embrace its possibilities.
    But first, and perhaps most importantly, it may be necessary to address one or two of the issues raised by previous posts under this banner.
    Many, many are supportive but others raise issues and debating points that we will not duck.
    We are not sure at which point the Cannabis Man’s views have ever expressed a (…)

  • The Cannabis Man Fights On
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    So what exactly is it about cannabis that frightens governments so much? Now isn’t that a question that great swathes of the world’s population would like an answer to? Let’s face it, many, many people turn to cannabis at one point or another in their lives. We all know that just about ever pop musician in the world has a relationship with this plant, that’s not mention at least one member of the Royal Family in Britain and people on probably every street in the nation not to mention in many (…)

  • Cannabis is illegal by mistake.
    3 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It was added to a list of proscribed substances in an act of crass stupidity by a junior apparatchik during the 1920’s.
    Of course, however the mistake is made, we all know that our wonderful governments do not admit to fallibility. How we have suffered as a result. Now the time has surely arrived for us, as a nation, to take a grown up standpoint on such a ridiculous decision.
    Cannabis is called weed for a single reason: if it gets the chance it will grow anywhere. From that position (…)

  • Agent Orange: The Legacy of a Weapon of Mass Destruction, Jeremy Laurance reports from Ho Chi Minh C
    2 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Saturday, April 1, 2006 by the Independent/UK
    Thirty-five years after the US sprayed the jungles of Vietnam with toxic defoliant, thousands of babies are still being born with horrific defects. But unlike the American veterans, no one in the war-ravaged country has received any compensation.
    On a table in the dimly lit room lay a small white bundle, tied with a silver ribbon. With a brilliant smile and a barked order, Professor Nguyen Thi Phuong had directed me to the morgue (…)

  • Brain Cells Fused with Computer Chip
    1 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Ker Than LiveScience Staff Writer posted: 27 March 2006 11:36 am ET
    The line between living organisms and machines has just become a whole lot blurrier. European researchers have developed "neuro-chips" in which living brain cells and silicon circuits are coupled together.
    The achievement could one day enable the creation of sophisticated neural prostheses to treat neurological disorders or the development of organic computers that crunch numbers using living neurons.
    To create the (…)

  • WHY POLIO? WHY NOT AUTISM?
    29 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Anne McElroy Dachel
    It is becoming more and more obvious that we have a growing crisis on our hands in the U.S., yet we’re at a loss on how we should deal with it. Increasingly, we’re hearing about autism. There are walks and ribbons to create awareness for autism. Parents support groups have formed all over the country. Schools have had to focus on the needs of the growing number of students with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder. This debilitating, neurological disorder seems (…)

  • Russia: 30,000 birds died of bird flu in 24 hours
    27 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    UPI - March 16, 2006
    Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency reports that more than 30,000 birds have died of bird flu in southern Russia in the past 24 hours. No specific strain was mentioned. "In Krasnodar Territory, 21,912 chickens have died over the last 24 hours, and the total number of dead birds has reached 350,288," a local emergencies ministry official was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti. In the North Caucasus republic of Daghestan, the official said, a further 10,818 birds have died in (…)

  • Chernobyl Disaster Linked to Higher Rate of Infant Mortality in Britain by Ian Herbert and Deborah
    24 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Thursday, March 23, 2006 by the Independent / UK
    The debate over the health effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Britain reopens today with research which suggests that infant deaths were higher in areas where rain fell as the plume of fallout passed overhead.
    A study by the epidemiologist John Urquhart, to be presented at a conference at City Hall in London marking the 20th anniversary of the disaster, suggests that infant deaths may have risen by 11 per cent (…)

  • ’There Is No Such Thing as Bird Flu’ says German Virologist
    18 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Airborne Menace
    ”[We’re being asked to believe] that migratory birds in Asia have been infected with an extremely dangerous, deadly virus. These mortally diseased birds then keep flying for weeks on end. They fly thousands of kilometres, and then in Romania, in Turkey, Greece and elsewhere infect hens, geese or other poultry, with which they have had no contact, and which within a very short time get diseased and die.
    But the migratory birds do not get diseased and do not die, but (…)