Tuesday, 26 August 2008

The Idealism of a Heart Attack Survivor - If only

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Imagine how many crimes would stop happening if everyone had enough money!

But it won’t stop whilst money is in short supply.

If you lock a system whereby, without money there are no goods or services, then that system cannot work… especially if that system is based on historical performance and artificial controls… controls that are often in the direct hands of people who have their own personal agenda’s… which often include large amounts of money - which have to be siphoned out of the system somewhere - creating a shortfall somewhere else.

At the moment world leaders are talking about taking about a hundred years or more to just break the boundaries of actual poverty. The Millennium Declaration Goals of the United Nations - many to be achieved by 2015 were shown to be totally inaccurate based on the actions of signatories to it in the few years after it was published.

Countries put their own people first and themselves first - it’s a human thing J

There is a way of rebuilding the way money is used so that it never gets in the way of creative living or even the simple necessities of human, animal or plant life - let alone the planetary needs of a group of fauna and flora and history like we are - we deserve to live and enjoy because we are unique and amazing - leaving the tools to do that job up to a set of old era based economic ways instead of building a new, working system for the modern era is not only criminal on any world scale but also wasteful and backward thinking.

How and when are we, the world, ever going to

Feed, clothe, educate and supply the world?
Get off world and colonise the planets?
Colonise the sea?
Make sure we don’t loose any more creatures or plants of this planet?
Capture for posterity everything that is happening from now on?
Save all world languages?
Sort out all the mental health problems directly attributable to living and working in a bad system

Let alone anything else each of us wants that we cannot do or have at this moment because of the severe restraints that money imposes - certainly in the UK if nowhere else (I can only talk about the UK because this is where I have spent most of my life).

If your life has allowed you a direct plug in to normal financial lifestyle tools then you will have credit, debt and work that pays just enough to keep you going whilst you build up a stock of money for retiring or speculating.

If you don’t live in this way then usually you live in debt with little or no money to add to a steadily increasing bank roll and no way to aim for anything other than drug and drink induced hilarity or sadness and anger.

If poverty was a lonely thing, suffered in silent, boxed in solitude then maybe poverty would only feel like a lack of a few things but, when confronted by multimedia presentations of how good life can be if you have money then poverty becomes unbearable - especially when you know that with money you would be alive and capable instead of barely just alive.

At the moment most world systems are run on the trickle down effect - huge sums fed in to a single person who then trickles it through his fingers down to the next people down the line who, in turn, trickle it through their fingers etc. The effect of this is to ensure that the top few get all that they want whilst making sure that those at the bottom get little or nothing because of the abstract concept of quantities… as each person lets some of their money go what they retain becomes less…. In a world of unknowns and costly prices for some of the simplest dreams you never know how much you might need in reserve - you never know when the next large dollop is going to land - so each of the tricklers withholds just a little bit more than they need and before you know it the bottom is coping with full drought whilst knowing, deep in their hearts, that money would solve their problems - would allow them to eat, to sleep safe, to grow and expand.

There is not enough money in the system at the moment to cope with any major new needs of the planet. There is not enough money now to cope with the needs of the poor. There is no more evidence than that needed. If something is dying somewhere because of something that money could buy then the system is failing.

But there does seem to be a way that keeps everything fairly balanced and doesn’t create waves except where waves need to happen… There are so many systems and sub systems running in this world at the moment that re styling money would only enhance what is happening - being designed to do exactly that - enhance.

Enhanced Capitalism - where money is only an accounting and performance tool - no longer a life or death tool. Where everything is capitalised when it has to be - Where each individual has a respected part to play in the whole, even if that part is not instantly apparent.

Each and every life is special and individual and important. Look around - it’s rare stuff - nothing as far as our life finders can see - light years and real years of time spent looking and no one yet.

So we have what we have. A whole ecosystem which we can learn to balance with but not while one lot of men are trying to kill off another lot of men.

Capitalism will always have its adversary because it is designed as an aggressive system - has had to be in order to gain ground - yet people don’t see that none of the money side is necessary in life at all - except maybe as a metering system with regards to the system as a whole. Money can be all of the things it is at present whilst being a readily available substance - like air… not like gold or diamonds or a Faberge egg.

This move effects quality of life in the profoundest of ways - Things change and they change fast. All the other systems and subsystems support the change - or are adapted to do so.

How does it work?

Take away the right of any country to starve any of its citizens of the currency of that country.

In five years time give everyone in the world an account with 1 in it.

Then add on 1,000 zero’s.

Between now and then start talking about what will happen… prices staying the same etc… actual and relative poverty explained….

Build lifelong learning tools into the account - and easy access to answers and desires, needs and even whims within reason and possibility…

Ask workers if they will stay on after five years or walk off … and sort other workers to take their places…

Sort out the ramifications of such a drastic change in world running… five years of talking and sorting…

Black White Economy… what happens?

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Written in 2007 as well.

Written in 2007

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IT’S COMING NOW!
THE NEXT STAGE OF HUMANITIES GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT!
ALL THANKS TO A FOLDER ON MOBILE PHONES…
Simply Put…
New phones have a button you push or a voice command that lets you record all of what is being inputted and outputted through the phone on an audio level…

The data- the conversation- sound input, is saved in a directory on the phone - whilst being sent and received across the network at the same time in order for the phone call to take place.
So…
Take this talk straight through to an secure online repository (meaning you can use this with any old phone - from anywhere) and use standard and specialist data handling techniques on the words spoken in order that operations can be done with it and on it and because of it… before sending back to the client.
These operations can be
• Any and all functions of a diary / appointments book.
• A command interpreter / Command fulfiller.
• A verbal real-time any formula calculator.
• A real-time language translator.
• A lie detector / voice stress analyser.
• A visitor veracifier.
• An analyst.
• A rules applicator / guidance tool.
• A brain use maximizer and minimiser… a balancer.
Now…
Add the input and output of the people using the system for social credit / capital and personal and group benefit and it can benefit the World holistically!
Power up the switch board of life! It’s finally here Sir Tim… and any old phone will do
But add the visuals and all the data from modern phones…
• An injustice recorder and analyser with auto help mode - great for wars… Lots of mobile phones in Africa… throw a few more in now…
• A society analyser.
• Object and person recognition becomes far simpler - neighbourhood watch?
• Identification of anything - antiques for instance
• A next generation marketing tool.
• Great for getting stuff at the best price.
• Superb for entertainment on a personal, local, regional, national, international or global scale.
• Superb for games on a personal, local, regional, national, international or global scale.
• Superb for catastrophic events on a personal, local, regional, national, international or global scale - so much better than what we have available now!
YOU CAN HELP BUILD THIS NEW SYSTEM TODAY!
Connect to this in any way you want - A letter or fax through to any phone (default service) or the web and email or, for the power user blue tooth link… there all the time you need it there. Working while you play. Ready with more organised answers for whatever you need an answer for… in whatever format works for you… Some of the most expensive and powerful programmes in the World acting on your behalf… real-time document storage and retrieval... in a vault that can understand and act on any of that data… Instantly!
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A financially and legally astute phone link with a global knowledge base and ever expandable storage space for everything you can output into it - with real-time backup and higher than government level security on all data of any sort within your vault… Whilst you let it know what you want it to do for you and it gets on and does it…
Programmable in any language, capable of triggering any command on any computer from “Print all the stuff I said about John this morning” to “pull together everything about John A Smith and Co Ltd, mechanical engineers in Glasgow. Sort it by how much, who, when, where and why.” Even “You know what electricity I actually used last quarter so what should my bill actually be? Pay what I actually owe and write them an email explaining it all - and be polite!”…. !!
And so much more …
Just start using the service and the data types you input - conversations, photo’s, business documents, searches - have operations that can be / are triggered by that data’s particular format. If it’s a conversation it’s converted to text and stored or acted upon - ask a question and it reads and understands and goes to find an answer - if there isn’t an answer it goes out and asks people until it finds one - the person who finds the answer might score points or even cash (it could even be you for someone else!). Ask it to find you the best heart surgeon in the World and it will find that person by checking all the data and by asking people until it can offer you the names of the best surgeon or surgeons; You get a phone call, or a text, or an email, or a fax, or a even a letter in the post the next day. If it’s a set of commands it will see if it can understand and comply with them - “Switch on the lights outside and in the kitchen” can do just that. Because this technology understands language and is linked to personal databases, the sentence “Call mummy’s doctor and tell him mummy’s asleep and won’t wake up” will trigger a number of actions from connecting directly with the doctor and possibly even contacting the child’s aunt and even the nearest neighbours whilst finding someone online who is capable of talking calmly to a seven year old who is scared if there is no one else for them to talk to.

I’m sure you’ll think of other things to use this kit for, everybody else has so far…
There’s a long list of uses!

If you want to talk about this in more detail (registering, franchising, partnerships, networking, Multimedia, press, employment, research, investment, general info, etc) call me on my UK mobile +44(0)7747838440 or write to me, Mark D. J. Aldiss, at Ty Crwn Bach, Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales, LL46 2YT, UK
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Cannabis and psychosis

Dr Philip Robson, Director of the Cannabinoid Research Institute, is an expert on the therapeutic potential of the components of cannabis. In 1996 he was commissioned by the Department of Health to carry out a critical review of the relevant scientific literature and in 1998 was called on to submit both written and verbal evidence to the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee investigation into cannabis.

Dr Robson says that although cannabis is a drug that has a 5,000 year history of use by humans, the amount of really carefully gathered scientific information about it is relatively limited in humans. He is interested in the potential of cannabis as a medicine for a wide range of medical conditions. He doesn't say that it is a wonder drug but simply that it probably has a place in modern therapeutics, alongside existing standard medicine. He is convinced that "in the future there will be a role for cannabis-based medicines in areas of medicine alongside the standard medicines which are not performing as the patient deserves at the moment."

I think it's a fascinating plant and it's one that historically has been very useful to humans. I think it's very important that we don't throw it away just because it's now a pariah drug as a result of its recreational use... It's a wonderfully interesting hotchpotch of hundreds of different chemicals, more than 60 of which in fact, are unique to the plant, they're called cannabinoids. THC is the best known of all, that's the psychoactive one that recreational smokers treasure.

Then there's CBD which has all sorts of interesting interactions with THC but many interesting properties in its own right, medicinal properties that is, such as anti-inflammatory, pain relieving, antispasticity, you know.. antipsychotic potentially, even neuroprotective And then all these other cannabinoids have hardly really been examined yet. And then there are lots of other plant components like turpenoids and phenols which when you look at them as individuals also have some intriguing potentially therapeutic activities like anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, all sorts of things that they are capable of doing independently.

It's a wonderfully interesting hotchpotch of hundreds of different chemicals, more than 60 of which in fact, are unique to the plant, they're called cannabinoids

And then of course there's the combined effects of all these things what you might call the synergistic effects that people are only really now just beginning to explore. I think some researchers have referred to them as an entourage effect, that some vital chemical within the plant can't do its full job unless it's surrounded and supported by a whole lot of support acts, a whole lot of... the orchestra if you like, the supporting instruments. I don't know whether that will be provable in time and in science but it's certainly an intriguing theory, and of course there are... there's good evidence about the interaction between CBD and THC but these other interactions are very much in their infancy.

So how much is known about cannabis, I mean how much has been known over the years about cannabis and its effects?

The medicinal use certainly goes back several thousand years and has found a place in virtually every pharmacopoeia throughout the world actually at some time. It came of course to Europe relatively late, mainly in the 19th century, sprang into prominence, and by the middle of the 19th century actually it became one of the most fashionable drugs to use, and then gradually went into decline for various reasons, I mean cannabis could be purchased from the grocer, and that really was very unpopular with doctors and pharmacists. So as synthetic medicines became more available, as other means of giving medicines became more available, like the hypodermic syringe, so there would be a move towards that area and a move away from plant medicines.

The medicinal use certainly goes back several thousand years and has found a place in virtually every pharmacopoeia throughout the world actually at some time

But then the huge breakthrough comes in the 1980s of the discovery of the endocannabinoid system with its receptors, its endogenous ligands, it's the bodies own cannabinoids and how they influence normal physiology and may impact on a whole range of diseases.

I think it's full role is only now being uncovered frankly, but it clearly has a role in cognition, in sort of interpreting the world in movement, in the appreciation of pain, in the control of a whole host of different organ systems to be honest, in a very subtle way...

Some people will be surprised that we have a system that is designed to be responsive to the active ingredients of cannabis. Have we somehow evolved with cannabis?

That's a very interesting one. I mean people have looked into this and there is some fascinating work being done. I think it's probably the case that the receptor system predates the plant in the world but we're talking millions of years back in both areas. It seems to be just a serendipitous interaction.

But no, the cannabinoid receptor was there long before the plant was available, but we have tapped into it, much as we've tapped into the opium poppy to take benefit of the opiates.

There appears to be growing evidence of a close link between the use of cannabis particularly by adolescents and the development of psychotic illness. What role do you think cannabis is playing in the development of psychotic illness?

Well can I say first of all I think that there's a clear consensus that smoking cannabis if you already have a mental illness is likely to make that worse. So let's take that as read because going on from that, there's an emerging literature which seems to suggest that it may actually be an independent risk factor to schizophrenia.

Terms like psychotic symptom, psychosis, schizophrenia, represent very different things but they seem sometimes to be used interchangeably

One has to take this research very seriously, but I think we do need to be cautious in interpreting it because it has a number of difficulties - there are a small number of studies that can be used to, as it were, base this association, less than ten, certainly, and one of the things I think which we have to start off by concerning ourselves about is a problem of definition. Terms like psychotic symptom, psychosis, schizophrenia, represent very different things but they seem sometimes to be used interchangeably.

A psychotic symptom is really a misinterpretation of reality. So for example, if I think someone is looking at me strangely, but there's no evidence for that, that could be psychotic symptom. A psychosis is a bunch of those symptoms which causes me to lose touch with reality.

And then schizophrenia is at the other end of the scale as the most devastating psychosis, one which is involved in with abnormalities of perception, emotion, thought, motivation, motor function, which devastates people's lives and has a terrible prognosis.

But they're not all the same thing at all and I think one thing that concerns me in the research which usually focuses on psychotic symptoms is the assumption that that equals a risk of schizophrenia. The next point is that it's been established for millennia that cannabis can produce as part of intoxication psychotic symptoms. These are generally transient and pass away as the drug is metabolised from the body.

Do you think there's any link between the possible antipsychotic properties of cannabis and the fact that many patients with mental illnesses do like to use cannabis?

I think the answer is that no one really can explain the observation that many more people with psychosis do seem to smoke cannabis than the general population. CBD maybe have an impact, it may be that somehow they just feel better in the conditions that they found themselves in which often, after all, are pretty unpleasant being in a mental institution or being very scared by the experiences that you're having. Perhaps the drug makes them feel more relaxed.

no one really can explain the observation that many more people with psychosis do seem to smoke cannabis than the general population

There is an intriguing observation made by a psychiatrist in Africa that where the black market cannabis contains more CBD, it seems that cannabis-related psychotic episodes seem to be less marked than in areas where the street cannabis contains very little. Just an anecdotal observation but it all adds to this intriguing possibility that CBD may have, in the end, a role in the treatment of psychosis.

So what is it about cannabis do you think that links it with psychotic symptoms because you say there is a strong link between cannabis and the development of temporary psychotic symptoms associated with it?

I think that one of the very important things to consider is the context in which the drug is taken. If people are feeling relaxed, unthreatened, congenial company, know what to expect, they will interpret a particular symptom in a very different way to someone who is feeling depressed, fearful, in a dreadful... um... dreadful surroundings, and the same symptom could have very different meaning for those two different people.

I think that one of the very important things to consider is the context in which the drug is taken... the same symptom could have very different meaning for those two different people

It's very context related. If I'm a 14 year old smoking lots of cannabis, I'm basically participating in an illegal activity which is going to have many other effects potentially in my life, my family are not going to be very pleased with this problem. I may even fall out with my family completely. I may drop out of schooling or do very badly at school. I may be involved with a bunch of friends who are much less constructive than would otherwise be the case. I might be involved in other delinquent activities.

All of those things that I've mentioned have a proven association with future mental illness and may not register in the research which is being done looking at the cannabis. So whilst I'm not saying that there isn't an association between cannabis smoking and the risk of later psychotic symptoms, I'm saying that there are a number of issues that perhaps lessen the power of that association in the existing research.

Whilst I'm not saying that there isn't an association between cannabis smoking and the risk of later psychotic symptoms, I'm saying that there are a number of issues that perhaps lessen the power of that association in the existing research.

I mean, I would like to say though, that all my instincts are that smoking cannabis or in fact using any psychoactive drug when your brain is still developing is terribly undesirable, and very much to be argued against.

The use of medicinal cannabis

It is believed that cannabis may treat a variety of illness

Throughout its long history cannabis has mostly been used for medicinal purposes and it wasn't until the 20th Century that it became the world's most widely used illegal recreational drug.

More recently medical researchers have begun to investigate cannabis' potential as a medicine once again.

Although cannabis' illegal status has made research more difficult, scientists have found that it can have an impact on the symptoms of many diseases, including asthma, glaucoma and muscle spasms, as well as loss of appetite and nausea due to AIDS and chemotherapy treatment.

In most countries around the world cannabis is still listed as a Schedule I drug: "unsafe, highly subject to abuse, and possessing no medical value."

However, Canada became the first country to adopt a system allowing the medicinal use of marijuana in July 2001.

In 2003 Holland became the first country in the world to offer cannabis as a medicine.

The Dutch Ministry of Health will provide cannabis to people suffering from Multiple Sclerosis, cancer, HIV/Aids, Tourette's syndrome and those suffering from long term pain.

The Medical Research Council conducted the first trials In the UK of cannabis as a potential medicine.

Two hundred Multiple Sclerosis (MS) sufferers were recruited to see what impact cannabis had on their symptoms.

Following on from this, British firm, GW Pharmaceuticals began clinical trials of its own cannabis medicine.

Sativex contains THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) and CBD (cannabidiol) in equal measure and is delivered via a vaopouriser and is designed to alleviate the symptoms of MS.

In April 2005 Sativex became the first cannabis medicine to be licensed anywhere in the world after it won approval in Canada.

GW has also applied for a license in UK and is awaiting approval.

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Monday, 25 August 2008

Cannabis users - some of the best people I have ever met

Image via Wikipedia Thank you.

Simple and straightforward.

Thank some of you very much for the true depth of friendship I would have hoped to find whilst living a life on this planet.

Thank you for helping me through those times when I literally couldn't work my own head or body properly.

Thank you for giving a damn. The fact that you smoke is more credit to you and less for a society who plays the stupid games that they play.

Thank you for everything I have learned through knowing you all; it's been very sound at times more thanks to you and no thanks to those supposedly there to help... time after time after time after time

and none of that has anything to do with cannabis.

To Gordon Brown I would love to say "Hello"

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Actually a bit more than that. This as well

"Your seeming bigotry and seeming lack of knowledge of who the tokers of your country are is sad. Many of your best teachers and best carers and nurses, doctors, artists, musicians, ... the list goes on - (I reckon even the Queen knows and likes someone who smokes, or has happily smoked) do smoke or have smoked or know someone who smokes and sees no harm - except occasionally when they usually try to help ... and in many cases succeed better than the help agencies who are sometimes paid too much for doing too little for their clientel.

Stop playing games with the lives of responsible adults. None of us want what you think is right on this subject. Listen to the people who know what life in our world is all about. They said leave well alone so you decided to go stamp about. Focus on more important things like we have to every day. You and your immature laws have made me a criminal for over thirty years. Time you helped those laws to grow up so I can use cannabis as I want and when I want without fear of the police deciding to come visit"

... or something like that...

Copy and paste to No. 10 ..... ...... ........ .......... (-:

How long d'you reckon it will take for the door to be knocked?

5 days?

30?

Tomorrow?

... gulpsville

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Some people NEED change NOW