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    In today's anti-drug climate, people don't want to hear about the commercial potential of marijuana. The reason is that the flowering top of a female hemp plant contains a drug. But from 1842 through the 1890s a powerful concentrated extract of marijuana was the second most prescribed drug in the United States. In all that time the medical literature didn't list any of the ill effects claimed by today's drug warriors.

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    no longer the hero

    if he ever was, McCain has become Richard III, Iago and Macbeth rolled into one.

    He is the scheming, lame and eternally bitter Richard of Gloucester, needing to kill all goodness around him so as to never face that contrast to his black soul, and needing war, too, as peace gives him nowhere to put his rage:

    But I, that am not shaped [...]



    Biden’s Greatest Hits

    Here is the best “straight talk” that came out of the debate.

    I doubt we will hear the hockey mom talk much or even see much of her anymore.  Too bad, she is quite helpful to Obama’s polling numbers.



    Rove convinces McCain to pick unqualified VP

    Watch the last part of this video where Rove talks about how Obama is likely to pick an “unqualified” candidate such as Tim Kaine and you will understand the title to this post.

    Is this reverse psychology on Rove’s part? Did he already know the McCain VP pick and was therefore taunting Obama to also pick an unqualified [...]



    eh

    Yes, Joe Biden has the brain and mouth to take on whoever McCain picks as VP (and to slap down this year’s swift boaters), and no, VPs don’t make policy, but if anything could telegraph Obama’s essential centrism, Biden’s the guy.

    Some of Joe’s greatest hits:

    On his support for the Iraq War vote:

    I will vote for this because we should be compelling [...]



    i just threw up in my mouth a little bit

    If I could pray, I would pray that is is just more Obama misdirection:

    Word has reached me that at Barack Obama’s Hawaii retreat, Evan Bayh’s chances to find himself the next Democratic VP candidate have moved to better than 50/50.

    The conflict between Georgia and Russia has been one of several factors that has helped boost his status. Bayh’s support of the [...]