Medicinal Marijuana (Weekly News)

On the island of saint Vincent and the Grenadines, it has recently been found out that the island contains "high grade marijuana".  The island is said to be considering the development of a medical marijuana industry, how ever the current problem with this is how to export this to first world countries such as Canada, America, etc as some other islands such as Grenada, St.Lucia, etc have already stated they do not want to be involved in this.  As well as issue of proper legality in these countries as well as payments, as banks are proper regulated and may not accept money that is gotten through weed money.  

Many do not believe that this move will be successful for the island, although the prime minister seems to differ.  Some persons have stated that, Marijuana is not yet legal in Canada, while another stated that Canada is the world leading medical marijuana selling.  However in my opinion, I do believe that this could open up a new form of revenue for the island, I do not believe that the island is yet advanced enough to be able to get this legally exported  much less sustained.

There seems to be no other islands exporting medical marijuana although it is legal in islands such as Jamaica.  No other island within the Caribbean seems to be attempting to make an actual exportation business.

The source of this is IwitnessNews, this news states that it is unbiased however, seems to lean more towards which ever party is in power, which at the current moment is ULP.

This story highlights the issue of the governmental system, because as the elections approach  this may be a ploy to simply gain votes rather than to benefit the people.  As seen with the international airport they recently built which absorbed majority of the economies income which they did not need, that same money could of been used within the education system or within the hospital.  Only time will tell if this will be the case with the exportation of medicinal marijuana.

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Schizophrenia patients calmed by video game

Person with this condition are trained to control the section of their brain that deals with verbal hallucinations by the use of video games but in particular one in which they are able to control a space rocket. 

A small study was conducted in which a small sample of patients were used, the video game was linked to their human and speech region of their brain.

King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, States that this can be used to help treat patients who do not respond to medication.

The 12 patients experience nasty and threatening verbal hallucinations on a day to day basis. 

To attempt to control these symptoms, they were asked to play a video game while in an MRI scanner, using their own mental strategies to move a computerised rocket, in doing so they were able to quiet the external voices in their head.

Although there are no other similar experiments, there are a lot of similar theories to do with not only this condition but other similar mental illnesses. 

This highlights the issue of mental illnesses as well as the way the people that have them are perceived, and that although society is advanced we are not yet advanced to the point of curing or properly assisting persons with these illnesses, or not willing to spend the money or time on these issues. 

However, promising it is that patients are being calmed by video games, some question still remain such as; how effective is it long term? What would cost and funding be if found successfully linked? What would it mean for he video game industry? Etc.

Many see this as possibly life changing for a lot of patients and their families as this could allow severe patients to be home amongst family than in hospital, isolated.

The source is BBC News, this news group is seen as generally unbiased, and their views on the matter seem neither here nor there. 

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It was reported on the BBC  News that 20 month old Alfie Evans whom suffers from a progressive neurological degenerative condition, that future treatment would be futile.

The child is said to be in a semi-vegetative state and has not been precisely diagnosed. The UK doctors said it would be inhumane to continue treatment.  It has also been said that scans show "catastrophic degradation of his brain tissue".

They believe mechanical ventilation should be stopped for Alfie whom was born May 2016.  Although, his parents and family disagree and want to keep him alive for as long as they possibly can, others of professional medical status think otherwise.

A similar case is that Charlie, whom had mitochondrial depletion syndrome, a rare genetic condition that causes progressive muscle weakness. Unfortunately, Charlie died at 11 months old in a hospice.

I believe that this is a very sad and sensitive issue, that I hope gets treated as such.  Although, stopping treatment will allow the child a peaceful death, I also believe ultimately the parents should have the final say.

It does not surprise me that BBC News reports this story while seemingly taking the governments side concerning the matter as they are a right wing paper.

Hypodermic needle theory

The stereotype of muslims has been portrayed in an extremely negative light, especially since 9/11.  This has led to "islamaphobia".  Due to the reports of newspaper and commentary on social media platforms, most persons view muslims in a demeaning and negative light that may not be 100% accurate.  Most persons may see muslims as "terrorists" "extremely religious""abusive" especially towards their women, etc.  However, this may not be the case for all muslims.  It it wrong to cateogarise everyone under this denomination in the same negative light, and oppressing them due to their beliefs and customs.  There are some muslims and other cultures trying to bring positive light on that of islam, with some entering media as beauty gurus trying to empower other muslim women and show that they are also beautiful regardless of if their hair is covered.  Others, trying to show that not all muslims are terrorists and that they are not all immigrants and not all poor.  However, especially because of the government, who mainly seem stuck on deporting them, it does not help that they are using their influence to continue the oppression of muslims.  The extensive research used has not highlighted a single positive piece of information on anything about muslims or what has happened for them to reach where they are.

Video game terms

(1) Genre: A style or category of art, music or literature.

(2) Platform: A computer system made specifically made for playing video games.

(3) Action: Armed conflict

(4) Sport: An activity involving physical exertion and skill against another set of persons.

(5) Text adventure: a video game that uses text characters instead of bitmap or vector graphics.

(6) Simulation: Imitation of a situation or process.

(7) Combat: Fighting between armed forces.

(8) Strategy: A plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim.

(9) MMPORG: An online role playing game in which a very large number of people participate simultaneously.

(10) RPG: A role playing game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting.

(11) Sci-fi: Short for science fiction, dealing with imaginative concepts such as; futuristic science, technology, etc.

(12) Fantasy: The activity of imaging impossible or improbable things.

(13) Survival horror: A sub genre of video games, inspired by horror that focuses on the survival of the character as the game tries to "jump scare" players.

(14) FPS: Frames per second, a measurement for how many unique consecutive images a camera can handle per second.

(15) A game, toy or problem designed to test ingenuity or knowledge.

(16) Avatar: An icon or figure representing a particular person in a video game, internet forum, etc.

(17) Augmented reality: A technology that superimposes a computer generated image on a user's view of the real world, thus providing a composite view.

(18) Persistent worlds: A virtual world which continues to exist and develop internally even when there are no people interacting with it.  For example: Sims.

(19) Retro: Imitative of a style or fashion from the recent past.