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Monday, August 12, 2013

THE SHIRT-A MARIJUANA MIRACLE-LIKE A CARTOON

OK-HERE'S THE SHIRT
     This blog is nothing if not sensitive to you, dear reader. Several of you responded that I should have shown the neon yellow tennis shirt which earned me such derision last week.  Some of my tennis mates even suggested I should show the shirt.  OK, I hear you.
   I admit it is way out of my usual white or blue color zone, but I've been reminded that a couple of others have been seen sporting the color on the pro circuit.
The great champion Rafa Nadal...
Courtesy of thesidelinesagenda.com
...and the battling Argentinian Juan Martin Del Potro
Courtesy straightsets.blogs.nytimes.com
     Wow is it empowering to be linked in the same post to Nadal and Del Potro!  Pretentious and absurd too!
A MARIJUANA MEDICAL MIRACLE?
     Dr. Sanjay Gupta, one of the best of the broadcast journalists, presented an astounding and heart rending story  in his CNN Special Report WEED.  The piece linked here, details how a compound in marijuana has essentially saved and then improved the life of a young girl with a medical condition that results in seizures.  As a result of the success many other children are being treated as well.
     I was surprised to learn that Israeli medical researchers are leading the world in finding medical application for marijuana in treating dementia and cancer-the disease states and not just the symptoms. 
     CNN is attempting to reassert itself as a valued news organization and Gupta's work is a big piece of that.  He's found a way to report medicine and science in an accessible and enlightening manner.

LIKE A CARTOON
    I saw this the other day and thought the termite control tenting made it look like a cartoon house-something out of a Tim Burton movie.
   See you down the trail.

12 comments:

  1. I think Dr. Gupta heroic to buck the political system and put science back into the drug equation. He's to be admired for taking a principled stance.

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  2. I am buying the shirt (for you) and it will come in handy if you have to direct traffic in the event of a natural disaster.
    The pest control tents are a major plot driver in the first part of season five of Breaking Bad. Steer clear of them.
    FBP

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  3. Yowzer!!! I have a visor to match that shirt. I'll show it on my blog tomorrow.

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  4. Yes Tom, Dr. Gupta is a wonderful journalist, at one time I remember, Pres. Obama intended to propose him as Surgeon General.I cant help but contrast his statement with a front page story in the LATimes yesterday regarding the company, Perdue who produced Oxycontin ,they has a list of the doctors that prescribed that drug heavily , and never shared it with anyone. And so it goes, as my good friend of many years likes to say, remember the business of business is business , bottom line rules. Many years ago I had to break the law to acquire marijuana, for someone very close to me, in the terminal stages of cancer, to help alleviate the awful suffering she went through. And of course ,medical marijuana being legal in California and many other states, but the feds say no. All this is truly reefer madness.

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  5. I hot yeller pants. Short yeller pants. - Buster

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  6. Dr. Gupta pointed out is was a very specific strain that had a high content of chemical that does not make you high but does have a medicinal effect. My wife has an illness where seizures can occur but she is under control with medicine that does not effect her otherwise. I have always wondered why they can't put the medicinal chemicals from marijuana into a pill so people did not have to ingest smoke in their lungs which has to be bad in the long run. Not to mention second had weed smoke which stinks and I am sure is also as harmful as any smoke in your lungs. I also worry about people smoking weed and then driving and don't even try to defend that. I was a CHP officer for 3 decades.

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    1. I think it's wonderful that a plant most people call a weed can, with proper harvesting, help save the life of a child when traditional pharmacology didn't work. Gupta's report dealt with a medical use that involved a use of the compounds of the plant. He pointed out that recreational use is something else entirely though in the case of the Israeli research smoking of the plant produced positive benefits for patients of cancer and dementia. I don't think he or anyone would advocate driving under the influence of any mind altering substance.

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  7. Re: cartoon house...or a local installation by an aspiring artist imitating a 20th century Great Master? Gotta start somewhere. http://christojeanneclaude.net/projects/wrapped-reichstag#.UgpJwhatpaE

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  8. I believe medical marijuana is available in pill form.

    As for the termite house, does it kill them or do they simply move on to the neighbors'?

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  9. Tom, that tenis racquet you're carrying looks big enough to need wheels.

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    1. Steve-
      It must be all optical illusion...there are days when I wish it was larger, like the size of shovel, but then again there are days when I return a shot as though I had all of the finesse of a shovel, or a club!

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  10. Very good post. I will be linking to this in my own blog for sure.


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