Showing posts with label death. Show all posts
Showing posts with label death. Show all posts

Wednesday, 29 April 2026

LIBERATION - a poem by Alun Buffry, April 29 2026

LIBERATION

 

Death is liberation

From all consternation.

Some think reincarnation.

Some think devastation.

But beyond expectation,

Defying explanation,

Is a transformation

That is liberation.



 

Have no fear, shed no tear,

Ask no seer, it’s where we’re,

Heading for that wall,

We’ll rise, we will not fall.


 

The gift that is creation,

Through joy and trepidation,

We travel to cessation

As here and now our destination.

We give some consideration,

In temporal adoration,

Imagine situations,

Beyond perpetuation.


 

Just focus on the light within,

That frees us from imaginary sin,

Let gratitude for life begin,

And clarity and love will win.


Thursday, 25 May 2023

Stop Capital punishment for cannabis trafficking

 https://petitions.eko.org/petitions/stop-capital-punishment-for-cannabis-trafficking

 Cannabis is a remarkably safe plant, so please let the punishment fit the crime, people in any country Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, United Arab Emirates, People's Republic of China, United States, Singapore, shouldn't be executed. The latest executions in Singapore, are looking barbaric to the rest of the world. So we ask for you as President to stop any future executions, as a modern example to all the others countries would change these laws as well.

Why is this important?

The Global Cannabis Community is about 200 million people, who use this plant for many reasons, as this plant is versatile, for medical, industrial, recreational and spiritual uses laws have changed globally the last few decades.
We are shocked that people are still being executed for Trafficking cannabis.


Tuesday, 3 February 2015

Misinformation: Cannabis killed 53-year-old, say family as they warn others against smoking it

quote "The grieving family of a cannabis user have told how they believe the drug killed him.
John O’Brien, 53, from Swinton, began taking the drug to cope with life-changing brain injuries sustained in a car crash."

" and he said he was trying to get off it and was on a cannabis substitute.
“The tragedy was a few weeks before his death he’d joined a gym"

so let's get this right: the poor guy had brain damage from an accident and used cannabis to help him cope - he took it for 10 years, obviously thinking it was doing him good THEN he started using a "substitute" (which they do not name" and joined a gym.

THEN he died and now his family want to blame the plant that helped him so much and stop others getting the benefits - of course they don't blame the substitute, the accident or the gym.

as for the coroner, what does he know - obviously nothing or he would not claim that this poor chap was the only person ever to die from cannabis poisoning out of the billions that have used it 
 
By Amy Glendinning

The grieving family of a cannabis user have told how they believe the drug killed him.
John O’Brien, 53, from Swinton, began taking the drug to cope with life-changing brain injuries sustained in a car crash.
But over a ten-year period, the Class B drug took its toll on his body and caused his heart to literally stop working.
A coroner at Bolton Coroner’s Court ruled that the Salford man has died from cannabis cardiotoxicity, a condition which can cause a drop in blood pressure which could prove deadly.
John’s relatives have now issued an urgent warning to others, urging them to be wary of the dangers of smoking the drug.
His twin brother Mark, 54, a builder who also lives in Swinton, said John began taking the drug to cope with the pain of losing his job and relationship in the accident which left him with personality changes and unable to work.
He was travelling in the back of a friend’s car not wearing a seatbelt when he was catapulted forward, hitting his head on the seat in front of him.
Signed off disabled, John developed a £25-a-week cannabis habit. He was found lifeless at home last September by his former partner, who had remained his carer since the accident in 1988.
Because he collapsed partially upright against a sofa, it is thought the cannabis cardiotoxicity starved his brain of blood, leading to his death.
John’s family say people have been stunned that cannabis killed him - and want to speak out to warn others.
Mark said: “Obviously we knew drugs were bad for him but we didn’t think they would kill him.
“He said he’d smoke to forget all the things he’d lost as a result of the car accident.
“We’d always be on at him to give up cannabis and he said he was trying to get off it and was on a cannabis substitute.
“The tragedy was a few weeks before his death he’d joined a gym and really cut down on it.”
Research into the effects of cannabis on the cardiovascular system is still only beginning - but one study found middle-aged men are most likely to be seriously affected.
Evidence was also found that marijuana may trigger pre-existing heart conditions that users were previously unaware of.
Mark said: “When we tell people he died due to cannabis they just don’t believe it.“