One thing I cannot stand is educated people who make themselves ignorant by kow-towing to authority.

American doctors kow-tow to the War on Drugs and that is why there is such absolutely shameful ignorance in the medical profession regarding the endocannabinoid system.

This makes me feel very angry and resentful.

Probably because it makes me feel so powerless. It makes me relive the powerlessness of suffering from fibromyalgia, interstitial cystitis and PTSD at the same time.

I wanted to DIE back then. I really did, because it hurt so much every day just to live, and I had to forget trying to work on my career.

Talk about grief -- having to abandon your professional dreams -- not a good feeling.

I thank God and everyone in the marijuana legalization movement that I was able to end my suffering with one medication that -- beyond all belief -- worked for all three conditions!!!!

Now I can live like a human being, for the most part, as long as I stay in a medical marijuana state and only travel to medical marijuana countries.

God bless marijuana.

Someone needs to enlighten all the doctors who aren't up to speed on cannabinoid science.

I'm going to go work off my anger with a good bike ride.

I couldn't even dream of going on a bike ride when I was suffering from fibromyalgia and interstitial cystitis.

Either one of my joints would hurt too badly to handle the bike, or I would have to pee every five minutes and not be able to get more then five minutes from home.

It's only because of marijuana that I can live a fairly normal life now.

Endocannabinoid system -- ever heard of it, Dr. Burton?

Probably not -- because the War on Drugs has so completely dumbed down American medical science.

Here are two links you can study to bring yourself up to speed:

Clinical Trial: THC Reduces Pain In Fibromyalgia Patients

http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6937

THC Analog Suppresses Pain, Bladder Over-Activity From Interstitial Cystitis, Study Says

http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6916

You can also Goggle Clinical endocannabinoid deficiency by Dr. Ethan Russo.

Fibromyalgia is real. I had it, along with PTSD and interstitial cystitis.

That was a hellish life, let me tell you.

Fibromyalgia feels like waking up with a different sprained joint every morning.

One day my ankle would hurt so badly I had to crawl down the stairs to get breakfast. The next day my ankle would be fine but my wrist hurt so badly I could barely get dressed.

The pain was bad enough to make scream and cry. It felt like some horrible major sprain -- but there was no swelling or bruising.

Interstitial cystitis feels like having thousands of little ants with razor blades strapped to their feet marching through your bladder.

I had to pee constantly but nothing would come out.

It was a horrible horrible, horrible life, and I even suffered enough to consider suicide.

But I was saved by the Miracle Herb, which also just happened to cure my PTSD at the same time. Amazing!!!!

Some day when this stinking lousy ignorance-spreading War on Drugs is finally over, MAYBE medical science in America will be able to play catchup.

Maybe one day the endocannabinoid system will make it into biology texts and all doctors, no matter how well educated, will learn that it exists and what it does.

If they can just get past that little issue of skin color, their anti-Semitism could unite them.

It's the Republicans who destroyed American confidence in the value of freedom by turning America into the most heavily incarcerated country in the world.

We beat any socialist or Communist country out there when it comes to our love for depriving our own citizens of their freedom.

I think social conservatives ought to be renamed "socialist conservatives" because of their love for putting Americans behind bars.

What is the first solution that a social conservative offers for any problem?

Take away their freedom! Put them behind bars!

Social conservatives take a big steaming piss on freedom every time they get the chance.

Republicans claim to promote free enterprise while they're trying to shut down medical marijuana dispensaries all over California.

God should strike these hypocrites with lightning every time the word "freedom" comes out of their lying mouths.

I'm certainly no fan of Dick Cheney but I'm blown away by the confidence that Democrats are showing that the US prison system is free from prisoner abuse.

The US prison system is closed system that experts in prisoner abuse are only able to study by interviewing prisoners AFTER they've been released.

It's not a good sign that US prisoners can't be interviewed by human rights workers while they're still in prison.

The prisons make those rules because US prison guards are largely unaccountable to the public for their treatment of prisoners.

If Chuck Graner had done all that stuff in a US prison, he would not be in jail right now, and he would still have his job, and most likely none of you would even know that he had done it.

I read in the Chronicle of Higher Education that sociologists haven't been allowed inside US prisons in over 20 years.

If we put the Gitmo prisoners into US prisons, then maybe there will be more outside scrutiny of the system.

Like, for example, by Salon even?