Mother Jones: Latin American Nations Distance Themselves from USA, Debate Legalizing Marijuana

Latin American Nations Debate Legalizing Pot —By Josh Harkinson Mon Jun. 10, 2013 At last week’s annual summit of the Organization of American States, Latin American leaders distanced themselves from the United States’ drug policies and agreed to consider the widespread legalization of marijuana. The OAS summit “was really a tipping point for this movement” …

Michelle Monk: Chinese Plant Compound Wipes out Cancer in 40 Days, Says New Research + Innovation and Technology Repression RECAP

Chinese Plant Compound Wipes Out Cancer in 40 Days, Says New Research A little-known plant with a truly bizarre name is now making headlines as a cancer killer, with the compound of the plant vanishing tumors in mice with pancreatic cancer. Known as the ‘thunder god vine’ or lei gong teng, the Chinese plant is …

SchwartzReport: Nobel-Level Break-Through on Back Pain and 10 Health Benefits of Marijuana

Phi Beta Iota:  Both articles are posted in full below for our viewers that prefer not to click through. Here is an extraordinary breakthrough in medicine. It reminds me of the work done by by Dr. Barry Marshall and Dr. Robin Warren of Perth, Western Australia in the late 70s and early 80s that established …

Stephen E. Arnold: A Fresh Look at Big Data & Big Data (-) Human Factor (+) Transformation (+) RECAP

A Fresh Look at Big Data May 8, 2013 Next week I am doing an invited talk in London. My subject is search and Big Data. I will be digging into this notion in this month’s Honk newsletter and adding some business intelligence related comments at an Information Today conference in New York later this …

John Maguire: YouTube (20:35) Disentangling the Quantum Enigma

An Overview of new findings in Quantum Biology that may help extend Quantum Theory in general; and that may help expand our understanding of human interconnectedness and the “paranormal” as well. I am not a guru, all interpretations are open for mindful, respectful discussion. I do appreciate you sitting through the rather long 20 minutes …

SmartPlanet: Why More US States Could Legalize Marijuana — and Profit From Doing So….

Why more U.S. states could legalize marijuana   By David Worthington | December 13, 2012, 8:19 PM PST Marijuana advocates scored major victories at the polls in the U.S. November election. Voters approved ballot measures in Colorado and Washington that bucked federal law to legalize the drug’s recreational use. The victories could be short lived …