yes I have read the side effects. To which medications are you referring? There are many side effects. Of the thousands of medications I aware, I know of precious few that can actually produce cancerous tissue and I don't think you know them. Prove me wrong! I'm not talking about clinical trials here so don't tell me about transposons. I want to know which pharaceuticals which are given to patients will produce carcinomas.

I have learned that if you write a book full of stuff that people want to believe it will be assumed true and passed off as fact regardless of the truth. You simply want to these items to be true.

Drugs aren't good. Stop using them and justifying them as medications!!!!

In terms of energy output compared with energy input for ethanol production, the study found that:

corn requires 29 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced;
switch grass requires 45 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced; and
wood biomass requires 57 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced.
In terms of energy output compared with the energy input for biodiesel production, the study found that:

soybean plants requires 27 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced, and
sunflower plants requires 118 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced.

Substances or groups of substances, and medical treatments that are known to be carcinogenic

Have you ever read the side effects of most medication you get prescribed? Most have carcinogenic compounds in them, amongst other harmful attributes.

GENERIC NAME: conjugated equine estrogens
BRAND NAME: Premarin
DRUG CLASS AND MECHANISM: Estrogens are one of the two major classes of female hormones. (Progestins comprise the second major class.) Estrogens are used primarily to treat the symptoms of menopause and states in which there is a deficiency of estrogen, for example, in women who have had their ovaries removed.

DRUG NAME: DIETHYLSTILBESTROL
SYNONYM(S): DES, Stilbestrol, Stilboestrol
COMMON TRADE NAME(S): Honvol® (Baxter), Stilbestrol® (Wellspring)

DRUG NAME: MELPHALAN. SYNONYM(S): L-PAM, L-phenyalanine mustard, L-sarcolysin. COMMON TRADE NAME(S): Alkeran® (GlaxoSmithKline) B.

Cyclophosphamide is used to treat: lymphomas, multiple myeloma, leukemias, mycosis fungoides, euroblastoma, ovarian carcinoma, retinoblastoma, breast cancer.

I contend that the third law of thermodynamics says fossil fuels are relatively efficient in engines.

Third law of thermodynamics
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The third law of thermodynamics was developed by Walther Nernst and is thus sometimes referred to as Nernst's theorem.

This states that the entropy of a system at zero absolute temperature is a well-defined constant. This is because a system at zero temperature exists in its ground state, so that its entropy is determined only by the degeneracy of the ground state. OR It states that 'it is impossible by any procedure, no matter how idealised, to reduce any system to the absolute zero of temperature in a finite number of operations'.

Seems the only real medicines are the extreme toxins used to treat cancer.

I'm fully aware of carnot efficiencies and I contend that the third law of thermodynamics says fossil fuels are relatively efficient in engines. Show evidence to the contrary. I'm waiting.

Critics of Pimentel's study cite questionable deductions, for example; 1,000,000 Btu per acre for labor, 5,656,000 Btu for machinery, as well as additional deductions for steel and concrete production and construction of ethanol refineries, while not saying from where these numbers were derived. (Shapouri, Hosein, James A. Duffield, Michael Wang. The Energy Balance of Corn Ethanol: An Update. USDA: Office of the Chief Economist; Office of Energy Policy and New Uses. Washington, DC. July, 2002) It’s only fair to hold gasoline to the same standard that ethanol is being put through. The focus of the USDA report, and others, was on ethanol and the energy balance equation, but according to a report by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, when taking into account the energy needed to extract, transport and refine crude oil into gasoline, the final energy product of gasoline has an energy ratio of 0.805. That means ethanol production is 81% more energy efficient than gasoline. Continuous refinements to ethanol production procedures have much improved the benefit/cost ratio, and most studies of modern systems indicate that they now have a positive net energy balance. Also, when ethanol is mixed with water vapor and converted into hydrogen, it does not need to be as pure as when it is used in a combustion engine, making the process more efficient..............
A 2002 report by the United States Department of Agriculture concluded that corn ethanol production in the U.S. has a net energy value of 1.34, meaning 34% more energy was produced than what went in.............. The study also concluded that the energy used to produce and convert the ethanol was from abundant domestic sources, with only 17% of the energy used coming from liquid fuels, therefore, for every 1 Btu of liquid fuel used, such as gasoline or diesel fuel, there was a 6.34 Btu gain. MSU Ethanol Energy Balance Study: Michigan State University, May 2002. This comprehensive, independent study funded by MSU shows that there is 56% more energy per unit volume of ethanol than it takes to produce it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_as_a_fuel#Net_fuel_energy_balance

Studies of alcohol as an internal combustion engine fuel began in the U.S. with the Edison Electric Testing Laboratory and Columbia University in 1906. Elihu Thomson reported that despite a smaller heat or B.T.U. value, "a gallon of alcohol will develop substantially the same power in an internal combustion engine as a gallon of gasoline. This is owing to the superior efficiency of operation..."62 Other researchers confirmed the same phenomena around the same time.

The U.S. Geological Service and the U.S. Navy performed 2000 tests on alcohol and gasoline engines in 1907 and 1908 in Norfolk, Va. and St. Louis, Mo. They found that much higher engine compression ratios could be achieved with alcohol than with gasoline........ "In regard to general cleanliness, such as absence of smoke and disagreeable odors, alcohol has many advantages over gasoline or kerosene as a fuel," the report said. "The exhaust from an alcohol engine is never clouded with a black or grayish smoke."USGS continued the comparative tests and later noted that alcohol was "a more ideal fuel than gasoline" with better efficiency...
The British Fuel Research Board also tested alcohol and benzene mixtures around the turn of the century and just before World War I, finding that alcohol blends had better thermal efficiency than gasoline ...

http://www.hempfarm.org/Papers/Fuel_of_the_future.html

* FEBRUARY 25, 2009

California Legislator Sees Benefit in Legalizing Pot
By STU WOO

SAN FRANCISCO -- A state legislator proposed legalizing the sale of marijuana in California, saying the plan would generate more than $1 billion annually for the cash-strapped state.

Assemblyman Tom Ammiano introduced a bill Monday that would legalize possession and sales of the drug for people aged 21 and older. The legislation would impose regulations and taxation similar to those for alcohol sales. Federal law makes it a crime to possess or sell marijuana, so the measure, if passed, would likely face an immediate legal challenge.

Mr. Ammiano, a San Francisco Democrat who is well known in the state as a champion of liberal causes, proposes a tax of $50 on an ounce of marijuana, which sells for a few hundred dollars on the street.

California's dire financial situation was the impetus for proposing the bill, said Quintin Mecke, a spokesman for Mr. Ammiano. The state, which last week closed a $42 billion budget deficit through steep spending cuts and tax increases, should be making money on pot sales, Mr. Mecke said. He estimated that marijuana is a $14 billion-a-year crop in California.

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Assemblyman Tom Ammiano says taxes on drug sales could help the state. Above, a worker at a cannabis dispensary weighs medicinal marijuana.
Assemblyman Tom Ammiano says taxes on drug sales could help the state.
Assemblyman Tom Ammiano says taxes on drug sales could help the state.

The pot-legalization bill will be up against significant opposition. "It's one of these [proposals] that is based on fallacious assumption that if we could only legalize marijuana, that we will have fiscal and social Shangri-La," said John Lovell, a lobbyist who represents three California police groups.

California has been drifting toward more-permissive approaches to pot. Various ways of decriminalizing marijuana have been considered for years in the state. In 1996, state voters passed a ballot initiative legalizing medical-marijuana use. Medical-pot regulation has been left largely to local jurisdictions, rather than statewide agencies.

But last summer, California Attorney General Jerry Brown created controversy by issuing restrictive new guidelines on how medical-marijuana operations should do business. He said that they should be small nonprofits and indicated that larger operations may be operating illegally.

A Zogby poll commissioned by a group that backs legalization found last week that 58% of West Coast respondents approved of selling and taxing marijuana like alcohol or cigarettes. A Rasmussen poll last week found that 40% of people nationwide support legalizing marijuana, with 46% against.

A spokeswoman at NORML, a group that backs legalization, said about a dozen states have decriminalized the use or possession of pot in some way. Alaska has one of the nation's most-relaxed rules, with no penalty for possessing one ounce or less in a residence.
—Justin Scheck contributed to this article.