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Zbigniew Leszczyc w "Herby Szlachty Polskiej", zacne szlacheckie rodziny NYCZ przypisuje do kalnu Jastrzebiec. O JASTRZEBCU natomiast tak powiada: "W polu blekitnem podkowa srebrna koncami do gory, w jej srodku krzyz zloty. Na helmie nad korona jastrzab z skrzydlami troche do lotu wzniesionemi, w prawa strone tarczy skierowany, takza podkowe z krzyzem trzyma w prawym szponie. Poczatkowo herb przedstawial tylko jastrzebia, skad pochodzi nazwa rodu Jastrzebiec, ktory rzekomo z wojewodztwa sandomierskiego sie wywodzi, pozniej w najrozniejsze strony kraju sie rozpowszechnil. Jastrzebiec nosi takze nazwe Bolesta, Bolescic, Boleszczyce, Kaniowa, Kudborz, Kamiona, Lubrza, Nagora i Lazanki. Z herbu tego powstaly najrozmaitrze odmiany z jedna lub wiecej podkowami. Herbem Jastrzebiec pieczetuja sie rodziny Nycz, Polska, Prusy 1702 r. Rzekomo jednego sa pochodzenia z Neczami".
Wojna z terroryzmem - TAK!
Wojna z narkotykami - NIE!
Amerykanska wojna z narkotykami sprawila, ze cala Ameryka Lacinska wpadla w rzady socjalistow, komunistow i populistow. Rugowanie plantacji koki przy pomocy napalmu i innych srodkow roslinno-zabojczych w imie amerykanskiej wolnosci i demokracji stalo sie zabojcze dla Amerykanow, ktorzy swoja glupia polityka prohibicjonistyczna stworzyli sobie groznych wrogow za miedza.
Podobna niemadra polityka w Afganistanie, gdzie Amerykanie lansuja swoja wojne z narkotykami niszczac plantacje maku dla afganskich chlopow, ktorzy uprawiaja mak przez tysiace lat, z gory skazana jest na niepowodzenie.
Miejmy tylko nadzieje, ze rzady Kanady i Polski powiedza fanatycznym Amerykanom NIE i nie beda uzywac swoich wojsk do zwalczania pol makowych. Najbardziej zdroworozsadkowym rozwiazaniem jest legalizacja produkcji opium w tym biednym i zrujnowanym wojnami kraju.
Polscy zandarmi w Afganistanie beda szukali narkotykow
Warszawa W ramach Polskiego Kontyngentu Wojskowego w Afganistanie bedzie sluzyc 17 funkcjonariuszy Zandarmerii Wojskowej. Maja oni przeprowadzac kontrole w jednostkach wojskowych, szkolenia kadry dowodczej oraz badania polskich zolnierzy na zawartosc narkotykow w organizmie.
W czwartek w Komendzie Glownej ZW odbyl sie pokaz specjalistycznego sprzetu oraz wyposazenia wykorzystywanego przez zandarmow do wykrywania oraz identyfikacji narkotykow i materialow wybuchowych. Podczas spotkania z dziennikarzami przedstawiono stan przygotowan zandarmow do realizacji zadan w ramach PKW w Afganistanie w kwestii zwalczania narkomanii.
Detektory umozliwiajace wykrywanie oraz identyfikowanie nawet sladowych ilosci narkotykow i materialow wybuchowych moga byc wykorzystywane do kontrolowania osob, pojazdow lub badania roznego rodzaju paczek i przesylek.
Afganistan jest zrodlem wiekszosci narkotykow, ktore trafiaja do Europy. "Ale walczymy tez z narkotykami na co dzien. Znacznie wzrosla wykrywalnosc tego typu przestepstw, natomiast w Afganistanie zolnierze beda wystawieni na szczegolne pokusy i dlatego prowadzimy szkolenia" - podkreslil Sikorski.
W okresie przygotowania do misji przeprowadzono analize zagrozenia narkomania na terenie Afganistanu, szkolona jest kadra dowodcza oraz prowadzone sa badania ankietowe zolnierzy. W trakcie misji zolnierze zandarmerii beda wspoldzialac z policjami wojskowymi innych krajow oraz dowodcami pododdzialow. Po powrocie zolnierzy do kraju zostana przeprowadzone m.in. kontrole samolotow oraz bagazy (GAZETA 19, 26 - 28 stycznia 2007).
Health Canada asked to approve Canadian-grown
sources of opium for medicinal purposes
First marijuana - next poppies?
KEVIN LIBIN
in Calgary
In a padlocked greenhouse, on the roof of the University of Calgary's science building, guarded by alarms and motion detectors, hide Peter Facchini's flowers. Prof. Facchini is one of only two researchers worldwide devoting their career to the study of papaver somniferum - the poppy. He has Ottawa's permission to grow, strictly for academic purposes, 100 plants. Not one more. Then, only if he follows the required security procedures. Health Canada is nervous the flowers might fall into the wrong hands. It is soon clear why. Inside the greenhouse, surrounded by a thicked of drying stalks, Prof. Facchini plucks out a swollen green pod. "There's some latex that's been exuding out and it's oxidizing," he says, dabbing up a spot of oozing brown sap with his finger. Or, in layman's terms: "When that gets dry, that's basically opium."
For as long as 8,000 years, humans have cultivated poppies to get their hands on that powerful substance - at least as long as we've been growing rice, corn and wheat. Archeologists have found evidence of poppy farming in ancient Mesopotamia. Early Greek, Roman and Egyptian texts show opium being used to treat pain. "We've been growing this for a long time, for the same reason we grow it doday," Prof. Facchini says. "Medicine."
Into the 19th century, upper-class Europeans and working-class North Americans smoked opium pipes to relax. Mothers relied on such opiate-based tonics as Winslow's Soothing Syrup to calm unruly children. But temperance movements of the early 20th century conspired with politicians leery of Chinese immigrants - who were known to smoke the stuff - to create the first sweeping drug laws. And for decades thereafter, even doctors caught prescribing opiates to suffering patients faced arrest.
Today, we wear them, or, rather flimsy, plastic reproductions of them, every November. But, in Canada, any actual poppies found growing outside of Prof. Facchini's laboratory are contraband. (Though you can easily find usable seeds in the baking aisle of your supermarket, "as soon as one germinates you're breaking the law," the professor says.)
But Prof. Facchini wants to change that. The flower is valuable to drug dealers who convert opium to heroin, but it's also the source of some of modern medicine's most popular and effective painrelievers. From the poppy blooms morphine, Oxycontin and Percocet - even the codeine that gives over-the-counter cough syrup that little extra buzz.
As it is, Canada imports roughly $100-million a year worth of codeine alone, says Glen Metzler, president of Metzler Trading Company in Lethbridge, Alta. Millions more in other opiates. His firm represents a handful of investors eager to research the potential of growing the poppy here, rather than buying its byproducts from overseas and paying a premium for the processed form.
When most Canadians think opium cultivation, we may imagine lawless regions, such as Afghanistan, where poppies are the currency of drug-runners who funnel proceeds to terrorists (and where U.S. troops, with the Karzai government, are working to eradicate the crop). But in reality, Western analgesic markets have relied for decades on puppies grown in Westernized economies: Australia, France, India, the U.K., Turkey and Spain. "So, why not Canada?" Mr. Metzler asks.
Agriculture Canada reportedly likes the idea, since Aussie farmers sometimes get from poppies several times the revenue they might earn from cereal crops. And Southern Alberta offers ideal growing conditions, Prof. Facchini says. "The government says it wants to diversify and increase agriculture revenues," he notes. "Well, you're not going to do it with wheat. And you're not going to do it with barley. But you can do it if you think outside the box and think about crops like poppy?
Mr. Metzler has approached Health Canada repeatedly, requesting permission to get a research permit to test poppies commercially. He's willing to take any precaution, such as ringing crops with tall fences. He has consulted with security experts about how to ensure the poppy fields remain inviolable. Health Canada already sanctions the growing of medicinal marijuana, he notes. Medicinal poppies don't seem a stretch.
And unlike the intoxicating government-brand reefer grown in abandoned Manitoba mines, the most lucrative strains of poppy are worthless to dope fiends. Australian varieties, for istance, produce Thebaine, the feedstock of pricey pharmaceuticals. But converting it to a street drug would take "a Ph.D. in chemistry and access to a proper laboratory," Prof. Facchini says.
Still, the effects of opium's demonization linger even today, says Dr. Romayne Gallagher, a Vancouver physician who specializes in pain management. "It's part of the misunderstanding about addiction," she says. "It's as if they think everyone's going to go out and get hooked on this stuff." And after more than a year of appealing to Health Canada, Mr. Metzler says the department's initial skepticism turned into silence. The health branch no longer returns his phone calls. "They just don't want to discuss it," he says. He is refocusing efforts on rallying the health and agriculture ministers and his local MP behind the plan.
There's no telling yet if Canadian poppy cultivation would be economical. The world market is oversupplied (one of the reasons, incidentally, that Prof. Facchini disagrees with the view of non-governmental organizations who see legitimizing Afghanistan's poppies as a means to support its fledgling economy). But after eight millennia of successful poppy production overseas, the professor figures, it couldn't hurt Canada to at least give it a try (NATIONAL POST, Saturday, February 10, 2007).
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