WHAT IF I SMOKE POT FOR MEDICINE?
For those who have eyes to see and are willing to look, go to my site,
VoteKenLarsen.com, and look up all the information on the medical
value of pot. Look up my article on CT-3, an experimental drug that
combines aspirin with marijuana. It is equally potent as aspirin and
other NSAIDs (Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs) against
inflammation, pain and fever. Yet, the marijuana half of the molecule
completely protects the digestive tract from NSAID injury. I gave 5 rats
300 times the effective anti-inflammatory dose of Indomethacin, a common
NSAID. They all died. When I opened them up, their stomachs and bowels
were covered with black ulcers and deadly perforations. Yes, you can go
to the store, buy a bottle of aspirin, chug them down and die. On the
other hand, I gave 5 rats 10,000 times the effective anti-inflammatory
dose of the new drug combining aspirin with pot - as much as I could put
in their stomachs. After lying still two days, apparently stoned, they
were all healthy and fine. Upon examination, I saw no visible evidence
of any ulcers or damage. I proved, as much as science can prove
anything, that marijuana is a powerful medicine and should be taken by
everyone who needs aspirin, ibuprofen, or any other NSAID for arthritis,
head-aches, fever, or any other kind of inflammation or pain. That
research was performed in a Federal institution, the Salt Lake Veterans
Administratin Hospital, and published in the world's most prestigious
pharmaceutical journal, The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental
Therapeutics, Vol 291: pages 31-38, 1999.
Of course there is plenty of other evidence that Marijuana is a valuable
medicine. Steve Kubby has escaped to Canada so he could continue using
the Marijuana his doctors agree has saved his life from a tumor on his
adrenal gland. Go to my site, votekenlarsen.com, and look for yourself.
In spite of the lies from our government, Marijuana IS a valuable
medicine. Nobody has ever taken a lethal dose.
Constitutional Issues for Medical Pot:
The Ninth Amendment says, "The enumeration in the Constitution, of
certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others
retained by the people." Rather than try to list such rights, let us
consider the opposite, a list of non-rights. In the Declaration, the
Founders said everyone was equal, so we do not have the right to violate
the equality of others. Then, they said each of us has an undeniable
right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I submit to you
that this means we do not have the right to use force or fraud to harm,
endanger or disrupt others. As long as we respect those rights in
others, whatever we choose to do is a right, guaranteed by the Ninth
Amendment. Thus, as long as we do not cause harm to another's person,
property or reputation, and as long as we do not cause unreasonable
endangerment, such as driving while incapacitated, and as long as we do
not disrupt others, such as running naked and screaming into a church
meeting, we have the right to use whatever medicine we choose. Marijuana
is a medicine. The Ninth Amendment guarantees our right to use it. If
challenged in court, I'm sure I could get several dozen medical
professionals to sign a statement that if it were legal and they could
control the dose, they would prescribe marijuana for certain conditions.
Reason requires that the Ninth Amendment grants medical marijuana as a
constitutional right. Doctors inject Novocain, Lidocain and Xylocain,
derivatives of the dreaded cocaine. There is no prohibition. Doctors use
Hydrocodone, oxycodone, methadone and other derivatives of opium,
another dreaded drug, with no prohibition. These and many other common
prescription drugs are more intoxicating, more addictive and more deadly
than marijuana. How can a Justice of the Supreme Court allow these drugs
and logically rule that medical pot must be prohibited? Why do we
continue persecuting an unpopular minority whose medicine is less
dangerous than alcohol, nicotine or caffeine? Where is the logic in this
madness?
So, why is medical Marijuana illegal? My theory is that the
pharmaceutical companies have bought and own our government. They cannot
profit from Marijuana. Virtually anyone can learn with a small pamphlet
and a packet of seeds to grow and prepare his own in his back yard. The
free use of medical Pot would reduce the need for some very profitable
prescriptions, not to mention avoiding their side effects. That's why
it's illegal. Drug companies would lose. It is also a serious threat to
the powerful timber industry for making paper, and the politically
active cotton industry for making rope and cloth. Are you tired of being
lied to and cheated out of a useful medicine? Are you starting to get
angry?
WHAT IF I SMOKE POT FOR RELIGION?
Marijuana was used for spiritual experiences thousands of years before
Moses, Christ, or Mohammed. The Hindu God, Shiva, taught his followers
how to make tea from Pot for spiritual enlightenment. The Arabic world
learned to process Pot into potent Hashish thousands of years ago.
During alcohol Prohibition in the 20's, Christians were allowed to use
alcohol as a holy sacrament. It's okay if you are in the majority.
Religious pot smokers are in the minority. Wasn't the US Constitution
designed to protect minorities from the majority? Wasn't America settled
by refugees from religious persecution? Wasn't Utah settled by refugees
from religious persecution. Isn't the war on religious marijuana a form
of un-American persecution? How can a Judge rule in favor of persecuting
consenting adults who are not causing any harm, endangerment or
disruption? Isn't it time for America to act like America?
Constitutional Issues for Religious Pot:
The First Amendment says, "Congress shall make no law respecting the
establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;..."
Similar language is in the Utah Constitution, "The State shall make no
law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof: ... Perfect toleration of religious sentiment is
guaranteed. No inhabitant of this State shall ever be molested in person
or property on
account of his or her mode of religious worship;" (Articles I and III).
So, how can any judge who has taken an oath to obey the Constitution
allow the enforcement of state and federal laws that violate this
fundamental right? If taken to court for using Pot as an exercise of
religion, I have already collected over a hundred and forty signatures
under the statement: "We, the undersigned members of the Church of the
Hemp Goddess, do hereby truthfully acknowledge and sustain Dr. Ken
Larsen as Mouth of the Church of the Hemp Goddess." I have founded a
church. My church has a congregation. For them Pot is an exercise of
their religion. My Mormon ancestors were evicted from Missouri because
their religion was unpopular. Does not the First Amendment forbid the
majority from using government to prohibit the free exercise of
religion, even among an unpopular minority? One might argue that Pot is
harmful. One could also argue that the alcohol in the Christian
sacrament is more harmful. Let's at least admit that prohibition of
religious marijuana is a case of a judgmental majority using government
against a religious minority for being "different." Shouldn't judges
follow the constitutions, rather than the whims of the majority?
So, why is religious Pot illegal? It's simple. The word "assassin" comes
from the French for "those who use hashish". During the Inquisition, the
Crusades and the Dark Ages, the Christians and Jews made Pot illegal. In
return, the Muslims made alcohol, the Jewish and Christian drug,
illegal. We are still in the Dark Ages. Isn't it time to end the Dark
Ages? Isn't it time to allow freedom of religion to minorities
considered "evil" as long as they do not cause harm, unreasonable
endangerment or disruption? Isn't it time to end the American
Inquisition? Are you mad yet?
WHAT IF I SMOKE POT FOR HAPPINESS?
I'm sure more than 99% of pot users would answer honestly that for them
pot is a pursuit of happiness. Our Founders included the pursuit of
happiness among the inalienable rights of equal individuals that must be
secured by government. If I had been a dealer in alcohol in 1925, the
government had the authority to punish me because of the 18th Amendment
(Jan 16, 1919). Then, America realized what a terrible mistake
Prohibition was. Besides the violence and crime, the murder rate doubled
from 5 per hundred thousand per year to ten. That was intolerable, so
the 18th Amendment was repealed by the 21st Amendment (Dec 5, 1933). The
murder rate immediately fell back to 5. Today, with the drug war, the
murder rate is back up to 10. That's about 15,000 innocent people being
murdered every year in America because of the drug war. That's about
100,000 Americans killed because of the Drug War since 9/11. That's 25
times as many Americans murdered each year because of the Drug War than
killed each year in Iraq. Maybe you or someone you know will be next. Is
marijuana really that dangerous? Then there is all the increased
burglaries to pay hundreds of dollars an ounce for a weed that should be
practically free. Is your home next? Finally, consider the hundreds of
billions of your tax dollars wasted every year on this senseless war
against peaceful Americans. Are you excited about your "tax gift" from
the government? Ending the Drug War would give you about the same "tax
gift" every month. You don't have to use Pot to be a victim of the war
on Pot.
Constitutional Issues for Pot for happiness:
The 18th Amendment proves that prohibition of Pot is unconstitutional.
Without it, the government could not prohibit the manufacture or
importation of any substance people choose for happiness, including
chocolate, caffeine, tobacco, alcohol and Pot. So, Where is the
amendment that authorizes our government to wage war on Marijuana? The
answer is, "It's not there." The Tenth Amendment clearly states that if
a power is not given to government, it belongs to the people: "The
powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor
prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively,
or to the people." And, in the Utah Constitution: "This enumeration of
rights shall not be construed to impair or deny others retained by the
people." According to the constitutions that our President, Governors,
and every other government officer, including all judges, takes a solemn
oath to obey, our inalienable right to pursue happiness with pot, as
long as we are not harming anyone else, is guaranteed. The Attorney
General of California should be arresting and prosecuting every Federal
Officer who comes into his state to violate their own oaths of office
and wage war on Pot. Do we have a Constitution, or do we just let the
majority use government to step on the rights of unpopular groups? I say
we have three choices: 1. Obey the constitutions; 2. Change (amend) the
constitutions; or 3. Stop making false promises to obey the
constitutions. Otherwise we are liars and belong in prison.
Now are you mad? Are you mad enough to say something? Are you mad enough
to fight the unconstitutional tyranny our government is imposing on us?
Would you have resisted Hitler? Or would you have sat quietly, hoping
someone else would save you? The Founders clearly put that
responsibility on the heads of ALL the people, including YOU! "But when
a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariable the same
object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is
their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to
provide new guards for their future security." (Declaration of
Independence, second paragraph.) Will the Courts uphold the
Constitutions, or will the people throw off such government, and provide
new guards for their future security and the freedom to be different?
Welcome to Americans for Americanism.
Dr. Ken Larsen.
