Comments on: Gordon: Double Standard For Rastas, Hebrews

By: Puma

Puma — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 06:26:13 +0000

If you recall…it was Moses told pharoe “Let my people go”.
..Hebrew doctors are very good for the most part…and homeopathic drugs and herbs are all throughout pharmaceuticals…nothing new there .critically ill patients…to the patient that needs a better anti inflammatory,to calm stress levels ……any standard…but look carefully Hebrews do selfless things…it is called Mitsva…I have to check the spelling…

By: sage

sage — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 12:33:54 +0000

Poor attempt to justify deaths by prescription drugs. PS, 0 deaths in 5000+ years of use of ganja by humans.

By: sage

sage — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 12:26:51 +0000

You can’t comment on my post, cat got your tongue?

By: pabear

pabear — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 09:38:22 +0000

yet when someone get drunk at a bar and leaves get in to an accident we will hold a bar tender or owner responsible but when someone dies from big pharma drugs it all good there’s a label on it what a wonderful world we live in

By: Build a Better Bermuda

Build a Better Bermuda — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 03:17:59 +0000

Damn, this comment was meant @C sept 10 2:14pm

By: Build a Better Bermuda

Build a Better Bermuda — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 03:15:47 +0000

Chronic migraines are among some of the conditions that can is has been documented to be an effective treatment for, though if it is to be used as a long term treatment, I would recommend switching to an alternative form of intake to smoking. Vaporizing systems are equally good, but produce less carcinogenic smoke or some shops produce pills, though the later is not as effecient.

By: more than enough

more than enough — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 02:18:15 +0000

Any of you anti smoke campaigners heard about the smoke up being advertised right here on bernews… its called ‘Indulge’ it promotes the smoking of tobacco and drinking alcohol.
It is bieng advertised as a luxury…an oppurtunity to enjoy the finer things in life.
Talk about dressing up a terd…
I suggest that the anti smoking crowd rally up and get this dealt with, or are they focused solely on fighting ppl who smoke a much less harmful plant material? Which is also a much safer intoxicant than alcohol

By: sage

sage — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 00:21:38 +0000

Ah yes children, that’s right, if you smoke that devil weed you will form a cult and order serial killings, guaranteed! Alcohol, on the other hand, is perfectly acceptable (Charles never touched the stuff) and although we are well aware you kiddies start hitting the sauce (in your homes) as early as seven, we recommend you follow “THE LAW” and start at eighteen because science proves the brain continues to develop until 25 yrs and we can more easily mislead, pull the wool over the eyes of and deceive those who have the better part of a decade to stunt their brain development on a substance everyone knows full well is harmful, hell we will give you a car license the same day you get your drinking license and you can buy liquor on a sunday at a gas station to boot, nothing untoward about that. To show how seriously we take this matter we will make carding mandatory if requested. Be safe now and make sure to practice “responsible alcohol behavior”.

By: Build a Better Bermuda

Build a Better Bermuda — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 23:58:25 +0000

Please see me response to pabear’s above, expanded answer, drug abuse, suicide or failure to follow the prescription protocol, account for almost the entirety of that statistic. A small portion might be accounted for from an undeclared/unknown allergy too.

By: Build a Better Bermuda

Build a Better Bermuda — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 23:53:47 +0000

Simple, you answered it yourself, drug abuse, they are abusing them, using outside of the recommended protocols. In fact, most abusers of perscription drugs aren’t even perscribed them, but buy them from dealers off the street like any other illegal drug. You cannot hold a company responsible for what happens when someone uses their product outside of the companies defined protocols. That is why they define the protocols, to establish the boundaries of their liability.

By: more than enough

more than enough — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 22:16:25 +0000

We refused to be what you wanted us to be
We are what we are and that’s the way it’s going to be
If you don’t know
You can’t educate us for no equal opportunity
Talkin’ bout my freedom
People freedom and liberty
We been trodding on your wine press much too long
Rebel rebel…
Babylon system is the vampire
Falling empire
Sucking the blood of the sufferer
We been trodding on yuh wine press much too long
Rebel

The hon. Robert Nesta Marley O.B.E.

By: Creamy

Creamy — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 21:55:17 +0000

Herb ain’t a drug? Yeah whatever.
If you drive under the influence of it you can kill people.
So much for your theories about how “it can’t hurt anyone”.

By: Build a Better Bermuda

Build a Better Bermuda — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 21:42:55 +0000

Wow, I cannot quite find the time to say how far off you are there, but will address 2 glaring points
1 – Hebrew is indeed a language, spoken by the the Hebrews/Israelites, so there is the Hebrew religion or Judaism as it is more modernity known
2 – King James did not authorize the bible, he authorized a bible for the Church of England in the early 1600′s, the bible was originally authorized by the Council of Nicaea to solidify Christianity’s separation from Judaism in the 3rd century
Your attempt to redefine history to justify your own anti-semitism is quite obvious, and discredits your own arguments

By: Build a Better Bermuda

Build a Better Bermuda — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 21:27:56 +0000

Charles Manson was a regular Marajuana user, so you may wan to rethink your whole statement there.

By: Build a Better Bermuda

Build a Better Bermuda — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 21:25:45 +0000

You are quite correct in this statement, hemp though is seldom used as the name for the plant itself, but instead is used to define the fibres and what they produce, typically taken from the stalk and stem material.

By: Toodle-oo

Toodle-oo — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 21:18:53 +0000

@ Sage , so if someone decides to smoke herb there is NO CHANCE whatsoever that after doing it for many ,many years they still have zero chances of developing mouth, throat or lung cancer , just to name a few ?

Take a deep breath and just answer the question without letting your obviously emotional bias get in the way , please.

By: sage

sage — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 20:17:26 +0000

Stop lying, herb does not, has not and will not KILL, ever, no matter how many times you regurgitate your BS.

By: Ella

Ella — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 18:19:47 +0000

The guy is out to lunch – without a picnic!

By: Ella

Ella — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 18:17:47 +0000

Actually, I think he’s American, married to a Bermudian.

By: Build a Better Bermuda

Build a Better Bermuda — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 18:03:32 +0000

@ sage, if you are going to use someone research to validate your argument, you may want to read it more carefully. 20 year research project from 1985 – 2005 showed that, indeed, marajuana did not impair lung function in the moderate to low user. He also stated the average user smoked between 2 – 3 joints a month, when compared to the average cigarette smoker that was 8 cigs a day. Frankly I have never stated anything bad about casual use, everything I have takes about on this page, relates to abuse, and a heavy user will smoke anywhere between 2 – 3 joints a day. It is as possible to abuse marajuana as it any other substance, and through that abuse, there are multiple ways it can kill you, most of them not being immediately.
As for testing in road death situations, the very nature of marajuana makes it very hard to create a road side sobriety test, and most drugs tests will just show the presence of THC metabolytes in the body, but more elaborate testing can produce a rough estimate as to when it was consume by their concentration. It is the expense of these tests that make them inhibitive for traffic offence testing, but usable to determine cause of death in a road fatality event, so when they say the there are 400 confirmed road deaths where the victim was under the influence of marajuana, they would be quite sure and you only asked for one. Modern science has found more than enough evidence of the dangers that marajuana abuse can bring, particularly through smoking, try to keep up.

By: sage

sage — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 18:03:00 +0000

Yes, where they have drinks in the pilots lounge or show up hungover, that is fine. Simply buying weed would not effect a pilots flying abilities, and even smoking it would be less dangerous than alcohol.

By: sage

sage — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 17:56:36 +0000

Herb ain’t a drug, and how much should be allowed before you are “intoxicated”? I bet you will say “zero tolerance” yet we tolerate half- hot drivers legally endorsed up to 0.8.

By: Build a Better Bermuda

Build a Better Bermuda — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 17:44:43 +0000

@long time, as you requested, please find the attached link for the Royal College of Psychology
http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/mentalhealthinformation/mentalhealthproblems/alcoholanddrugs/cannabisandmentalhealth.aspx?theme=mobile
I have very little conflict with what you say, except that it is quite possible to abuse marajuana. It would not be in the same fashion as a substance like alcohol, but it is possible to abuse it like any other substance, and that abuse will have long reaching consequences.
I also do not find being drunk any worse than being high off MJ, in the rare times that if choose to get drunk, I am in fact a happy drunk, it is the after effects that are the b!*<¥. I have also repeated several times, that the way you take marajuana will vary the effects you get and what the long term risks are. Smoking is possibly one of the worst ways health wise, but best way high wise. Simply, there is more than enough modern science out there on marajuana to show that it has it's dangers, and is certainly capable of killing you in one form or another, and it is dangerous ego or pride or hubris, to deny that it can't. Abusing it, as with any substance, just destroys any possible health benefits it can offer.

The very nature of marajuana makes it very hard to create a road side sobriety test, most tests will just show the presence of THC metabolytes in the body, but more elaborate testing can show produce a rough estimate as to when it was consume by their concentration

By: OP

OP — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 17:39:43 +0000

A misleading website address. The story title is below.,..
Medical marijuana laws may reduce painkiller overdoses

By: Sara

Sara — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 15:04:36 +0000

Just as your airline pilot isn’t allowed to be drunk nor will he be allowed to be high. This should really just be common sense to all of you. If someone is not allowed to be drunk at their job they certainly will not be allowed to be high at their job.

By: Sara

Sara — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 15:04:15 +0000

Just as your airline pilot isn’t allowed to be drink nor will he be allowed to be high. This should really just be common sense to all of you. If someone is not allowed to be drunk at their job they certainly will not be allowed to be high at their job.

By: Sara

Sara — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 13:28:15 +0000

http://www.webmd.com/news/breaking-news/marijuana-on-main-street/marijuana-vs-alcohol

By: sage

sage — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 12:18:41 +0000

Every 19 minutes someone dies from pharmaceuticals.

By: sage

sage — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 12:16:36 +0000

Because it doesn’t, “reported studies” from where the “National Enquirer”? Try researching Dr, Donald Tashkin’s research on cannabis use and lung cancer which concluded that people who smoked ganja had less chance of lung cancer than those who smoked nothing, and even noted a protective effect. As for your 1993 “report” which shows 1% of road deaths “could be” attributed to cannabis use (cell phone stats?) means nothing since cannabis remains detectable up to a month after ingestion, long after any impairment could be of any effect.Even peanuts and plastic pen caps kill, herb doesn’t.Try again.

By: Whistling Frog

Whistling Frog — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 12:12:42 +0000

@ N.Blake Somner: And why shouldn’t we use the book of life for our own personal gain? You just did.

By: Sara

Sara — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 11:52:05 +0000

Thank you as I couldn’t even bother to respond as its like talking to my 2 year old.

By: Whistling Frog

Whistling Frog — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 11:48:43 +0000

@ Raymond Ray: How do you make that “Marijuana is a narcotic”? heroin, morphine, and pethidine are narcotics.. Marijuana doesn’t numb you, if anything it opens the mind and makes one more conscious of what their doing. A murderer, rapist or even a thief would not smoke or eat the best of herbs because the herb once ingested you start thinking of you consequences and your guilt. Marijuana is a all round healing herb for the body and mind. I personally don’t smoke it but I do cook with it in many ways…
This is a herb that will make a bad man turn himself inside out, thats why its call conscious food. Wicked men cannot and will not smoke or eat Marijuana.
Now go back and look up why Marijuana was made illegal in the first place. It stated that the white men were afraid of losing their women to men of color, who at that time was very much a more conscious man.
If you’ve never used herb, I don’t want to hear anyones hoopla about what they think it does to the body or mind. Go and inhale a big chalice or try baking with the finest of greens then come and blog about your experiences with herb.

Peace

Have a blessed day

By: pabear

pabear — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 11:40:32 +0000

wtf? in the 50′s it was illegal before 1937 it’s was used for just about everything we needed and farmer were making a living from it and just look at history, what happen in usa in those 30′s to 40′s?

By: Bermuda Bouy

Bermuda Bouy — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 11:39:07 +0000

I don’t want my airline pilot going into a shop, buying his weed then flying me anywhere. Leave it like it is.

By: pabear

pabear — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 11:10:39 +0000

so there no abuse going on in the pharmaceutical distribution end of the business bulls*** there is all kind of abuse and deaths so how dose no one go to jail for that drug trade

By: pabear

pabear — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 11:00:31 +0000

hmmm what are you talking about it’s a commodity how can all other commodity comes with a price set by the market and you would say this one won’t

By: Hmmm

Hmmm — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 10:48:06 +0000

They can’t do anything unless they have the plants as evidence. You know they be gone. Why didn’t he call the police and report plants in his yard that he was growing?

Why sent a note or letter to a govt office?

Perhaps the govt worker should be fired for not reporting it….that is an angle that should be followed up on. We can then see any letter.

By: Hmmm

Hmmm — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 10:43:54 +0000

OK rainbow guy.

By: Hmmm

Hmmm — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 10:42:51 +0000

The police didn’t know that he was activly growing, he told them he was applying for a license to grow.

He hasn’t indicated exactly who he told at the ministry either. Perhaps they thought he was a sandwich short of a picnic , if anyone actually saw it.

They should have passed that info along to the police.

Of course, this is us taking Alan’s word for it !!!! I have some doubts about his integrity following other articles and actions.

By: filobedo21

filobedo21 — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 10:41:17 +0000

@Black Soil – it is Rap Sheet.

By: pabear

pabear — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 10:32:41 +0000

well i figure you don’t have a clue how can a plant name cannabis and one thc level is different from the other now it’s a new or different plant that’s bullshit cannabis is hemp it’s marijuana it’s called by thousands of different name but there is only 3 types of cannabis indica sativa and ruderlis so when you figure something out call me

By: Creamy

Creamy — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 09:37:23 +0000

In 2011, 641 accidents in the UK were attributed to drivers under the influence of drugs. It included 49 deaths. Stats like this are what lead to a law change and roadside police testing equipment for cannabis.

By: long time

long time — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 07:00:52 +0000

and pots bra pots or google hydroponics or rock garrdens simple stuff he coulda had it there you you not even seen it “if” hidden correct

By: long time

long time — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 06:58:43 +0000

ay onion i really think what he is tryin to say why havent i been arrested yet im telling u what i did and to what extent where is my punishment and im not tryna disagree wit you in anyway but think about what you said or how u said it

By: long time

long time — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 06:48:42 +0000

lmao your stupid real talk id send you my whole A plus apa formatted and cited essay on that topic alone lol like really?? you clearly havent done any research on the topic like your argument is over point blank regardless of anything you have to say do your research before you try and drop knowledge

By: long time

long time — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 06:38:38 +0000

okok @ build a better bermuda gooooo find it and post u can abuse the living crap outta weed and the most harm you will cause is to your fridge or snack cabinet so please maam/sir find where just one case i repeat just one case where weed has killed and furthermore @sage never stated about smoking it in the above comment but is correct i unfortunately partake in all 3 ; drunk is awful compared to smoking weed you cant go off of what you read about weed downing it if you havent tried it or had a bad expierence while trying it if you understand what i mean like if some miserable people was to take a draw id bet youd be able to watch the stick fall out their @**

By: Puma

Puma — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 06:02:18 +0000

If it doesn’t adversely effect others…there is no good reason to say no….there is reasonable…and un reasonable……saying no and choosing for me is unreasonable….you do you…and I’ll do me…

By: from the us

from the us — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 05:55:22 +0000

no. please, just no. I could go look it up to see how many states have legalized it for medical use and two states have legalized it for recreational as well (hint: the only two teams to make it to the 2014 superbowl). the federal government is now considering legalizing two types for medical use. Berkley, CA has a requirement that distribution centres provide free medical cannabis to low income users which have cost growers into the BILLIONS. a WELFARE POT SYSTEM??? now I’ve seen it all. we have enough activists and liberals/socialists running around here, not to mention one of the highest unemployment rates ever under this joker of a president. before anyone accuses me of racism, he’s half white. no, there’s nothing for mr Gordon to do over here. you Bermudians may keep him!

By: Puma

Puma — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 05:51:16 +0000

It doesn’t damage your liver either….

By: Puma

Puma — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 05:49:20 +0000

If pot is available medically growers could produce and supply pot that doesn’t have hrmful ingredients innit….addictive substances are sprinkled on to it now to suppy needfor them…then one day they pull that back and say we don’t have that but here trythis instead…..if the medium is no more….then addicts will deminish…….when you see bi polar mood swings that is the additive making them desperate for more…..organic pot is lovely…it is also the only antiinflamitory that doesn’t give you heartburn…