Cannabis Hemp News

This article is taken from the cannabis culture website, the story of a freedom fighter, Mark Emery, deemed a terrorist by the United States of America, classed in the top 50 of most wanted men in drug violations over countless amounts of gangs and organizations just one man. Fuck the U.S.A is what i say. CANNABIS CULTURE - Join 'The Worldwide Rally For The Prince of Pot', and show your support for Marc Emery, the marijuana activist who is going to jail in the United States for FIVE YEARS for selling marijuana seeds. Rallies will be on the saturday prior to the day of his sentencing in Seattle, US, expected in October. Join the Facebook Page Marc Emery i…

LONDON, (Reuters) - A judge Tuesday ordered actor Jamie Waylett, who plays school bully Vincent Crabbe in the "Harry Potter" movies, to serve 120 hours of community service after he admitted growing cannabis at his mother's home. District judge Timothy Workman told Waylett, who turned 20 Tuesday, that the cannabis cultivation was on a small, but sophisticated scale. "Mr. Waylett, I accept that the cultivation of this cannabis was on a small scale, and this was not in any way a commercial venture on your part," Workman told the City of Westminster Magistrates Court. "Nevertheless you used a sophisticated growing system to do so," he was quoted as saying by the Press …

Cannabinoids, the active components of Cannabis sativa L. and their derivatives, inhibit tumor growth in laboratory animals by inducing apoptosis of tumor cells and impairing tumor angiogenesis. It has also been reported that these compounds inhibit tumor cell spreading, but the molecular targets of this cannabinoid action remain elusive. Here, we evaluated the effect of cannabinoids on matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) expression and its effect on tumor cell invasion. Local administration of {Delta}9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the major active ingredient of cannabis, down-regulated MMP-2 expression in gliomas generated in mice, as determined by Western blot, immunofluoresc…

"Would you believe it? One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers - they saw it as competition. Industrial hemp is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffiene." Gympie Times Saturday 18th July, 2009 Page 2 Author unknown editorial@gympietimes.com (It may not be much and flawed, but great to see some positive media information, very strange to find in the paper I thought)

Author: Lisa Leff Date: 22/07/09 Source: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_...EMPLATE=DEFAULT Copyright: © 2009 The Associated Press

I'm not sure how legitimate this is, looks more like cashing in than bona fide but good for a laugh. http://sites.google.com/site/420college/

Just a short video on legal pot in Mendocino count, California. Note the LED light in the greenhouse at 17 seconds. I guess its there to delay flowering? Strange choice? http://media.brisbanetimes.com.au/national...hes-639955.html

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…