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California Adds Pot to List of Cancer-Causing Substances Posted on: Sunday, 5 July 2009, 10:30 CDT In a move that has the good people of California scratching their heads in perplexity, state lawmakers recently passed a measure that would eventually require medical marijuana—prescribed most frequently to alleviate suffering in patients with severe cancer—to carry a warning label telling of its potential cancer-causing risks. Last month state environmental regulators decided that cannabis should be added to its official list of substances known to cause cancer, which will likely lead to warning signs in marijuana dispensaries and cautionary labels on product packaging.…

Author: Sam Leung Date: 17 July 2009 Source: Canadian Press http://www.eastottawa.ca/article-cp1724761...n-US-court.html

Source: tvnz.co.nz = http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/kiwis-bigg...rijuana-2804157 HighTimes = http://hightimes.com/news/ht_admin/5581 New Zealand and Australia have one of the highest rates of marijuana use in the world. The UN 2009 World Drug Report found that marijuana was used at least once in 2007 by between 3.3% and 4.4% of the global population, making it the most popular illegal drug. Usage was highest in Central America (10.5% of the population) and Australia/New Zealand (11%). The report also says the global underground markets for cocaine and heroin appear to have shrunk in 2008, but amphetamine production and use may be increasing in developing countri…

You Can Now Legally Use iPhone to Find Cannabis (LOS ANGELES) - This week Apple releases a new iPhone and iPod Touch application which allows users to locate cannabis resources worldwide including the nearest medical cannabis collectives, doctors, attorneys, organizations, and other patient services in the states, such as California, that have passed laws allowing medical cannabis -- also commonly referred to as marijuana. Imagine you are an iPhone user who has been dealing with a chronic condition that you believe can be alleviated with cannabis to improve your quality of life. You now have the ability to access all the resources you need at your finger tips to acces…

A Tale of Two Studies For 35 years scientists have known that naturally occurring compounds in the cannabis plant possess potent and selective anti-cancer properties, a fact that I have documented extensively in previous writings here, here, and here. Yet for more than three decades the scientific study of these anti-cancer effects has remained almost exclusively limited to preclinical in vitro (in a petri dish) and in vivo (in lab animals) analysis, rather than clinical (human) study. Why? A just published review in the Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology provides an answer. Cannabinoid receptor ligands as potential anticancer agents - high hopes for new thera…

From the West Australian on Saturday, there was a follow up today but I'll have to type that manually I think as I can't find it on their dumb-ass site. Author: LEE RONDGANGER and RONAN O’CONNELL Date: 11/7/2009 Source: The West Australian Saturday 11th July 2009 Copyright: "West Australian Newspapers Limited 2008" (I think?) This shit makes me mad. They are effectively searching people at random at a train station without consent or reasonable cause. And all that effort for a few "hits" by the dogs, and then subsequent searches which showed nothing. DAMN YOU STUPID ASS LIBERAL/NATIONAL GOVERNMENT! *pant, pant*

California screaming: can stoners save the Golden State? 14/07/2009 4:46:00 PM, Stuart Fagg Next By Stuart Fagg, ninemsn The Republic of California is known for many things: Hollywood, beautiful people, violent street gangs and the Governator. It also has the eighth biggest economy in the world. With a gross domestic product of $1.8 trillion, it's bigger than the Australian, Norwegian and Saudi Arabian economies combined. That's pretty big. And now, it's broke. Earlier this month, the Golden State's budget crisis took a spectacular turn. California began this financial year with a US$26 billion hole in the books and has so little cash it's been forced to issue I…

http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/8973/kalpennl.jpg Kal Penn gets political This is one of the celebs I contacted requesting help for cannabis legalisation over here in Australia. Can't blame him for going into US politics instead though. Sorry I haven't been back in awhile. I live a long way from civilisation and rarely visit towns nowadays. I haven't forgotten about trying to create a grassroots movement for queensland. I've just been doing what I do best and buying up high traffic domain names. Just thought I'd ask if you wanted any free advertising. I have a funny feeling that I might be just about to make a headline or two. There is a new ICANN Preside…

Published: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 09:53 in Health & Medicine http://esciencenews.com/articles/2009/06/1...n.dna.new.study so does it cure it or make it worse. It reminds me of when i saw on Today Tonight how bad everything we eat if for us even if it was picked fresh of the vine.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/harry-p...g-cannabis.html The19 year-old, who plays Hogwarts bully Vincent Crabbe, will appear in court later this month accused of growing ten cannabis plants. He was first arrested in April after cops stopped his Audi car in Westminster, central London, and allegedly found eight bags of the Class B drug. The actor, who has appeared as a tubby villain in all six of the smash hit Harry Potter films, and a 19-year-old friend were taken to a nearby police station. After questioning, a team of officers raided his mother's three-storey home in Camden, north London, several hours later. It is alleged further drugs were found at th…

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/13/2624142.htm Sorry, this isn't quite Cannabis related but I know a few people that no longer drink because they prefer to smoke (me included). When's the last time you heard of someone stoned murdering someone?

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/0kIO4w3IJ7k/1.jpgWatch the News Segment Host Aaron Klein brings you the story of operation Green RX. An effort by local law enforcement and DEA to entrap and arrest all the collective grows who would deliver medicine to a valid patient in San Diego. A navy house was set up with surveillance so federal jurisdiction could be included. In November of 2008 a series of medical marijuana patients were filmed delivering medicine. Watch a collective member deliver medicine to an undercover cop on surveillance video! In February the DEA dropped out of the investigation after federal policy on medical marijuana made an abrupt 180 degree turn. The SDPD…

read this this morn was horrified at the quantity http://www.pontiacdailyleader.com/news/x737357940 One big drug bust took place in the first hour of Monday when troopers from District 6 State Police arrested two persons for possession of more than 2,000 pounds of cannabis. Lt. Fred Winterroth of District 6 said Monday afternoon that the arrested subject was driving northbound on Interstate 55 near Bloomington at 12:30 a.m. Monday when they were stopped for a routine motor carrier safety inspection of their semi. Winterroth said during the course of the inspection, inconsistencies aroused suspicions of officers. “A search of the semi-trailer revealed more than 1…