African Traditional Herbal Research Clinic Volume 8, Issue 10 NEWSLETTER November 2013 CANNABIS-BLANG-HEMP-MARIJUANA-POT-WEED / HERB Majority in US favor What is the African Traditional Herbal Research Clinic? marijuana Legalization, New We can make you healthy and wise Poll affirms Nakato Lewis Blackherbals at the Source of the Nile, UG Ltd. The African Traditional Herbal Research Clinic located in Ntinda, Uganda is a modern clinic facility established to create a model space whereby indigenous herbal practitioners and healers can upgrade and update their skills through training and certification and respond to common diseases using African healing methods and traditions in a modern clinical environment. A bud of Maui Afghooey medical marijuana is displayed at the Traditional healers are the major health labor resource PureLife Alternative Wellness Center on July 27 in Africa as a whole. In Uganda, indigenous traditional healers are the only source of health services for the Washington (AFP) - For the second time this year, a public opinion poll has indicated that a majority of majority of the population. An estimated 80% of the population receives its health education and health care Americans favor the legalization of marijuana. from practitioners of traditional medicine. They are Fifty-eight percent replied yes when asked if they knowledgeable of the culture, the local languages and thought the use of marijuana should be made legal -- local traditions. Our purpose is to raise public compared to 50 percent two years ago and just 12 awareness and understanding on the value of African percent in 1969, the Gallup polling institute said traditional herbal medicine and other healing practices Tuesday. Continued on page 2 in today’s world. I NSIDE T HIS I SSUE The Clinic is open and operational. Some of the services we offer are African herbal medicine, 2 Uruguay to sell Legal Marijuana for $1 a Gram reflexology, acupressure, hot and cold hydrotherapy, 3 Afrikan Spirituality- Language and Culture 4 Feature – Healing Power of Marijuana Barely Been Tapped body massage, herbal tonics, patient counseling, blood 6 Feature – Marijuana’s March toward Confounds Feds pressure checks, urine testing (sugar), and nutritional 8 Feature – Who is Trying to Patent Marijuana? 17 Cannabis and Pregnancy – Dangerous or Beneficial profiles. We believe in spirit, mind and body. Spiritual 19 Feature - Higher Level of Freedom:Benefit of Cannabis counseling upon request. 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Gallup's findings follow the legalization of marijuana in the western states of Colorado and Washington -- even though possession remains a crime under federal statutes which rank marijuana on a par with heroin. Other factors behind the trend, Gallup said, include the growing medicinal use of marijuana and a pledge from President Barack Obama's administration not to challenge the sale of marijuana in states that have made it legal. "Whatever the reasons for Americans' greater acceptance The measure would make Uruguay the first country in the of marijuana, it is likely that this momentum will spur world to license and enforce rules for the production and sale further legalization efforts across the United States," of marijuana. Photograph: Anthony Bolante/Reuters Gallup said. Uruguay's drug tsar says the country plans to sell legal Supporters of legalization cheered the results, which marijuana for $1 a gram to combat drug-trafficking, Gallup said were based on a random sample of 1,028 according to a local newspaper. adults interviewed by telephone on October 3-6, giving a The plan to create a government-run legal marijuana margin of error of plus or minus four percentage points. industry has passed the lower house of Congress, and "The news of such widespread support for ending Uruguay's president, José Mujica, expects to push it marijuana prohibition bodes well for efforts under way to through the Senate soon as part of his effort to explore change state laws around the nation," said Rob Kampia of alternatives in the war on drugs. the Marijuana Policy Project, an advocacy group. The measure would make Uruguay the first country in the "Now, it's time for Congress (in Washington) to act on this world to license and enforce rules for the production, clear public mandate by taking action to end the failed distribution and sale of marijuana for adult consumers. experiment of federal marijuana prohibition," added Aaron Marijuana sales should start in the second half of 2014 at Smith of the National Cannabis Industry Association. a price of about $1 a gram, drug chief Julio Calzada told But Carla Lowe of the California-based Citizens Against Uruguay's El País, on Sunday – an eighth or less of what Legalizing Marijuana, quoted by NBC News, said she was it costs at legal medical dispensaries in some US states. concerned that poll respondents who favor legalization Calzada said one gram would be enough "for one "are really not aware or knowledgeable about the marijuana cigarette or two or three slimmer cigarettes". marijuana that’s out there today." He said the idea was not to make money but to fight petty http://news.yahoo.com/majority-us-favor-marijuana- crime and wrench the market away from illegal dealers. legalization-poll-affirms-232229524.html ☻☻☻☻☻☻ "The illegal market is very risky and of poor quality," he said. The state was going to offer "a safe place to buy a quality product and on top of that, it's going to sell it at the same price". Continued on page 9 -2 - Traditional African Clinic – November 2013 AFRIKAN SPIRITUALITY Language and Culture By Sam Ditshego Pan Africanist Research Institute As a person who lived in a colonized country and was active in the liberation struggle, I understand the The traditional shrine as a symbol of our cultural history relationship between language and culture. There are many ways in which the phenomena of language and culture are intimately related. Language, of course, is determined by foreign domination lies in the fact that culture is the culture. Culture is a set of beliefs and practices which vigorous manifestation on the ideological or idealist govern the life of a society for which a particular language plane of the physical and historical reality of the is the vehicle of expression. Since language is rooted in society that is dominated or to be dominated. Culture culture and culture is reflected and passed on by language is simultaneously the fruit of a people’s history and a from one generation to the next, language and culture determinant of history, by the positive or negative encompasses a people’s past or history. influence which it exerts on the evolution of What is Culture? relationships between man and his environment, among men or groups of men within a society, as Culture is a set of beliefs and practices which govern the well as among different societies. The ignorance of life of a society. Frantz Fanon in The Wretched of the Earth as well as Black Skin White Masks observes that it this fact may explain the failure of several attempts at is hardly justifiable to try to find cultural expression for foreign domination--as well as the failure of some and to give new values to native culture within the international liberation movements. framework of colonial domination. Culture is the first Let us examine the nature of national liberation. We expression of a nation, the expression of its preferences, of shall consider this historical phenomenon in its its taboos and of its patterns. It is at every stage of the contemporary context, that is, national liberation in whole of society that other taboos, values and patterns are opposition to imperialist domination. The latter is, as formed. we know, distinct both in form and in content from A national culture is the sum total of all these appraisals. It preceding types of foreign domination (tribal, is the result of internal and external extensions exerted military-aristocratic, feudal, and capitalist domination in time free competition era). over society as a whole and also at every level of that society.