Last week he was on the receiving end a 'roughing up' by Rogers County sheriff Walton. The video shows the sheriff choking him and striking his head into a closed door. The event underscores just how frustrated law enforcement is over losing powers they long had. This is the 3rd initiative petition in 19 months which has successfully overturned state policy and police powers. The people have lost faith in the Keating Initiative to 'get tough' with people who use unauthorized medications. Keating is a former FBI agent and federal prosecutor who;
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| Oklahoma now has the highest incarceration rate in the nation that leads the world in incarceration. This begs the question; "Are we Oklahomans more evil than any other society?" Does our 'get tough' policy destroy more lives than we must? A generation of results has now led;
| Tulsa businessman, Ray Jennings, talks about his near-death battle with cancer. His family moved to their Colorado home so Ray could try one more option before he dies. |
This week, Chip Paul collaborated with journalist George Lang to publish a simple history of Oklahoma Marijuana history. We recommend reading the article in the Oklahoma Gazette.
Medical Cannabis proponents were under no illusions of the real oppositions they faced. This is largely a culture war for many political conservatives. The vast majority of the most active voters are old enough to remember when 'Pot' was emblematic of a 70s culture war. The establishment detested the hippies choice of wardrobe, hairstyle, music, politics, and most of all... vices.
Where the 'old man' would turn to a casual beer while he listened to the country music collection; the kids wore bell-bottoms & tie-dyed shirts and shared a bong with friends while the rock & roll blared on the hi-fi. Sure, that was 50 years ago, but it's still deep within the psyche of folks who fear a counter-culture.
Chip Paul owns a venture startup called Gnu Pharma. His many goals include making a new class of naturopathic medicines readily available to patients in Oklahoma whose physicians prudently conclude that Cannabis is a viable if not preferable course of treatment.
Where the 'old man' would turn to a casual beer while he listened to the country music collection; the kids wore bell-bottoms & tie-dyed shirts and shared a bong with friends while the rock & roll blared on the hi-fi. Sure, that was 50 years ago, but it's still deep within the psyche of folks who fear a counter-culture.
Chip Paul owns a venture startup called Gnu Pharma. His many goals include making a new class of naturopathic medicines readily available to patients in Oklahoma whose physicians prudently conclude that Cannabis is a viable if not preferable course of treatment.
| The local cops & prosecutors may still hold a bitter disposition of Chip Paul. They probably see him as a two-bit drug pusher. But Mr. Paul and others see the local drugstore and the AMA-certified doctors as the real threat to many Oklahomans. Too often our pharmacology sees a disease as an opportunity to gain a lifelong client of their potions which provide temporal comfort, yet do nothing to rid the patient of the disease. If this sounds far-fetched, then you probably haven't read the story of how stomach ulcers once were thought to be incurable and when a lowly country doctor from rural Australia defied the medical establishment, they destroyed his research, reputation, and career. Ten years later Dr. Barry Marshall was a celebrated Nobel Laureate. | |
