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J Da's avatar

Its good to see them come together to a rational compromise.

Beth C Coddiwompler's avatar

Yes, we have to remember this is a long game, and a long game is how battles are won. Fostering unity and resisting splintering and division is the only way.

Beth C Coddiwompler's avatar

Kudos to Target for getting on board. Costco needs to do the same, but instead, it has decided to make it harder to make healthy choices by getting rid of their green signs signifying organic products. Now, you have to spend hours scouring the store to find them.

Tell Costco to get on board by bringing back the green signs and, while they're at it, reducing the number of products with inflammatory seed oils, synthetic dyes, GMOs, harmful preservatives and other health-destructive ingredients. And ending the sale of organic produce that has been treated and contaminated with Apeel or Organipeel.

Costco has the power and clout to get on board with the MAHA Movement. So do other big retailers. Let's encourage them to do so. Losing customers is not cost effective, which will happen if they don't amend their ways. Costco ought to realize this and get on the right side of history, which is very much in the making.

And may it be everyone's mission to buy at least 50% of their food from small, local farms and producers you know and trust.

John Day MD's avatar

Costco does good research on products, and you can find that by searching each of them, but placing green labels may open Costco to lawsuits.

You might ask Costco why they stopped doing that. I suspect that legal-liability is the answer.

That situation might or might not change.

John Day MD's avatar

An important question now and going forward is how farmers in the US are to be supported. Under Nixon/Kissinger/Butz the "newer deal" was to "get big or get out", as Butz often said.

This weaponized US agriculture against farmers across the whole world, certainly starting at home, and made wheat and corn strategic weapons.

Every place that a chemical could be used in production, a chemical has been used, reducing costs farther and farther. Farmers have also been steadily squeezed out, and mostly have to hold other jobs. They are my age, retirement age, and competent young people from rural communities are not taking it up, because they see hard work, exploitation, failure and losing-the-farm.

The cost which we all bear is poisoned food, with low nutrient content, and dead soils andno insects on the windshiled when driving in rural America.

Is it possible to pay enough to de-weaponize farming? Will it be tried?

John Prinz's avatar

The FDA needs to approve marijuana medicine in any form to us Americans in pain.

Beth C Coddiwompler's avatar

DMSO is an excellent painkiller, with many other health-promoting properties as well. It might be worth trying. Read Healing with DMSO for practical, how-to information.

John Prinz's avatar

In America Robert Randall was the first Federal Medical Marijuana Patient in 1976. This Federal Medical Marijuana Program is still supplying one federal patient, Irvin Rosenfeld. In CA Dennis Peron fought for AIDS patients to bring CA State Compassion Use Act. 1996 CA State patients had Mmj. This was the same year Rx Oxycontin came out to pain patients like me. So why did our Federal government have a Medical Marijuana Program yet feared marijuana medicine? CA CUA forever. Learn to grow to have..

John Prinz's avatar

I believe DMSO is outlawed in America, only Horses or animals. Sounds crazy. I learned from my psychiatrist that DMSO is used in Rx patches... to help bring the other compounds into deeper.

John Day MD's avatar

You can get a 1# jar of 99% DMSO gel in the horse section at Tractor Supply Company, near the "Horse Paste" Ivermectin. Online, too.

Beth C Coddiwompler's avatar

No, you can get it, preferably in glass bottles, from the DMSO Store online.

And yes, it helps other things work better in a synergistic way, in addition to dozens of benefits on its own.

John Prinz's avatar

It's sold in our feed store in my little town...the cowboys use it on their horses. But it's outlawed in California. CBD is now outlawed in America because of Congress passing the BBB. The only FDA approved CBD is Rx Epodoilex... it's only for a special group of children... Other patients like me would have to have a prescription for off label drug. CBD.

John Day MD's avatar

Not a "painkiller", but helps cells, including nerve cells get back to normal function, though pain often decreases in minutes after use "YMMV".

John Day MD's avatar

Are you getting sunshine and keeping your vitamin-D levels in the upper normal range?

John Prinz's avatar

Who has heard of high levels of THCA and THC to controls pain? I found a way to make strong cannabis medicine by way of olive oil. 1 tbsp equals 300 Mgs of THCA and THC... when I use 3-4 tbsp of THCA and THC, my pain goes... away for hours. I call it Fuchsatima... long active cannabis medicine stronger than Rx Oxycontin. Smoking a joint or hashish is short active medicine. I have knowledge and the plant. I don't have to pay for it. CA CUA patients have more freedom. Maybe my freedom comes from God. But I write to get our Federal government to bring cannabis medicine to the pain patients that don't have my knowledge. 34 years of pain, cannabis medicine saved my life. Harvard Professor Dr Grinspoons book Marihuana The Forbidden Medicine saved my life. What I Learned was Rx heroin was replaced by cannabis medicine. Easy to understand Rx Oxycontin was just heroin with a new name. Like Rx Epodoilex is just a new name for CBD. Dr Michael H Moskowitz was a psychiatrist and my Treating Doctor for 27 years. I have all 34 years of medical records to bring my knowledge to help others. CUA forever. It would be great if Congress made a Compassion Use Act for all of America.

John Day MD's avatar

Not constipating, either. Thank you for relating your experience.

What you make as an extraction used to be called "hash oil".

John Prinz's avatar

No hash oil is just rosin from the plant. Just like pressing to make live rosin. Rx Sativex made by GW pharma made it with alcohol and cannabis...in a spray. This alcohol formula is like Rick Simpson Oil. Google it if you never heard of it. RSO is cooked down to honey oil. But my Fuchsatima is made with olive oil, it a healthy way to make a strong cannabis medicine. THCA is just the bud before you put heat to it making it THC. Science. So my way is a strong cannabis medicine and I know this by having in tested in a Ca lab. It's all about the Mgs when it comes to Medicine. I have over 160 different medical reports from Dr Moskowitz about what I was doing and thinking. 2005-2021 each month. I have been disabled since 1992, used Doctors Way until I read the book Marihuana The Forbidden Medicine. 2005 is when I told Dr Moskowitz I replaced Rx Oxycontin and 13 other Rx drugs he gave me. Medical reports are very important... Dr Moskowitz retired in 2021 after he wrote his book Medical Cannabis by Doctor Michael H Moskowitz. Great knowledge in his book for anyone.

John Prinz's avatar

Millions of young Americans 45 year on down have been poisoned by Rx Oxycontin and other Opiates. Millions of these addicts never wanted that life. Millions of these addicts need cannabis medicine from the Pharmacy. Millions of Americans need our Doctor's support with cannabis medicine by way of Jazz Pharma that makes Rx Epodoilex CBD. President Trump changed the schedule of marijuana to a schedule 3 opening up new named medicines from the marijuana plant. Who holds the PATENT on marijuana plant? Federal government. How many Drug Mfg Companies own US patents on the marijuana plant? Google it, many have US patents to bring marijuana medicine to the patients. Now to really understand this, who started the Opiate epidemic? Congress approved Rx Oxycontin for Perdue Pharma just watch the movie Dopesick. I survived this Opiate epidemic but many Americans didn't. I spoke in Boston at a cannabis event 2019 about how I replaced Rx Oxycontin with strong cannabis medicine. Boston Globe never interviewed me if they did maybe others wouldn't be dead from Opiate overdose. The word overdose when it comes to the Opiate pain patient addict, it's always the addicts fault. I spoke how I taught US Senator Feinstein medical marijuana had medical values after replacing Rx Oxycontin with it. I spoke how I asked US Senator Feinstein to remove Rx Oxycontin from the Doctors and Pharmacist. I showed emails from US Senator Feinstein welcoming my views on medical marijuana. Many emails from US Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris, yet no one cared. Pain Patients need some form of pain medicine, by getting US Senator Feinstein to understand Rx Oxycontin was killing Americans not helping them. I thought GW pharma that makes Rx Sativex would come to us Americans in pain. Didn't happen. 2019 Boston Globe didn't do a story on PATIENT ZERO that survived the Oxycontin eppadmic. Who died two weeks later in Boston maybe could have been saved. Opiate's kill, doesn't matter if it comes by way of pharma or street fentanyl... addiction to opiate's is real death sentence... CANNABIS MEDICINE REPLACED RX HEROIN IN 1914, WHEN will someone listen. Patient Zero John Prinz survivor of the Opiate epidemic.

John Day MD's avatar

Good on ya, John. I keep wanting to read your name as "John Prine", which is a good thing:

Illegal Smile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmjnQjRvPUQ

John Prinz's avatar

Prinz means Prince in German. Patient Zero my Doctor Moskowitz gave me that name. I hope to write a book with AI... someday...

Kathy Boston's avatar

Bobby was on Joe Rogan. Glyphosate was discussed.

https://youtu.be/wk7DQom821s?si=GEU2ZMvPsxI898S0

Leza Smith's avatar

Trump needs to "encourage" the chemical companies to come up with a truly safe substitute in a hurry, we don't need yet another generation of muddle brained unhealthy citizens. Long game won't get it!!!!