Cannabis Hemp News

Source: www.news.com.au sounds like properganda in order to get marijuana classed as a harder drug again to me besides its not like gangs would trust their crops to kids to grow and maintain even if they had all the knowledge they needed, at the most they would get them to manicure because their tiny hands would be able to get all the small leaves

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from www.brisbanetimes.com.au

Source: www.news.com.au

It's about time someone started lampooning the War On Some Drugs. It's well past ridiculous already. From http://slownewsday.wordpress.com

In two separate incidents at Sydney's North Shore, more than $1,000,000 worth of ecstasy and cannabis was uncovered by police yesterday. The drug haul follows the discovery of a clandestine lab and 10 kilograms of cocaine at addresses in Artarmon, Turramurra and West Ryde last month, but police said the North Shore was not being targeted for drugs. "It's more opportune than anything else. The timing is just coincidental, I would think," police spokesman David Rose said. He said an operation focusing on the North Shore's drug trade was not under way, and the two arrests made last night were not planned in conjunction with each other. In the first arrest, police too…

Author: Richard Bowden Date: 18/07/07 Source: AHN Copyright: © 2007 by AHN Media Corp

Source: www.news.com.au you'd think with them knowing the 18-25's are calling bullshit about the mental issues caused by drugs, in particular cannabis, they wouldnt be trying to make the teenagers believe they will get a mental illness from using drugs sure they might scare some kids away from drugs which will be a great thing, but once they grow up and start thinking for themself they'll try other drugs, not end up in a mental ward and then re-evaluate everything they have been told about drugs in the past

A substance found in the cannabis plant helps the body’s natural protective system clear dry, scaly skin rashes caused by allergic dermatitis, according to researchers from the U.S., Germany, Israel, Italy and Switzerland. Allergic dermatitis commonly causes acne-like rashes on the cheeks, eyelids and neck, as well as on areas of the elbow and the back of knees. Prolonged episodes can lead to facial wrinkles, thickening of the skin and facial pigmentation. The problem begins in youth and can continue through adulthood. Allergic contact dermatitis affects about 5 percent of men and 11 percent of women in industrialized countries, according to an article published in th…

Hemp Activists Get the Joint Jumping 2007-09-17 >> news category >> exclusive Source: BostonHerald.com Two of the nation’s leading advocates for legalized marijuana were arrested on Boston Common yesterday for lighting up a joint during the Boston Freedom Rally, a pro-hemp event that promotes decriminalizing the drug. R. Keith Stroup, 63, founder of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, and Rick Cusick, 53, an editor at High Times magazine, were charged with possession of marijuana, a misdemeanor. “We were smoking a joint behind the booth here,” Stroup said. “I’m sure the police would rather be chasing real criminals. We’re …

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Just passing this on from another List serve I'm on... Fabulous news for those afflicted! Love and stuff, Alison xx FYI Colleagues, A just published study appearing in the September 5th edition of the Journal of Neuroscience adds to the growing body of evidence that cannabinoids may halt the progression of certain neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's, ALS, multiple sclerosis, and Parkinson's. In this study, French investigators reported that the in vitro (in a petri dish) and in vivo (in animals) administration of the nonpsychoactive cannabinoid cannabidiol (CBD) inhibits prion accumulation in the brain and protects neurons against prion…

High prices From Economist.com THE costliest place in the world to get high is Japan, according to the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime's annual World Drug Report. The street price of a gram of cannabis weed was $58.30 in 2005, over twice as much as in the next most expensive nation, Australia. Americans pay nearly twice as much as Canadians. Similar disparities occur in Europe. Although the Netherlands is the only Western country where cannabis can be bought legally, punters pay more there than in Germany or France. Prices are cheapest in developing countries, where enforcement is less strict. Author: The Economist Date:Sep 12th 2007 Source: h…

This is our latest in Canada. Please be aware. Alison xx NEWS New dosage limits for medical marijuana: But where's the science? Pauline Comeau Ottawa, Canada New evidence-based guidelines are urgently needed to help doctors negotiate Canada's hazy medical marijuana landscape, particularly in light of Health Canada's efforts to impose new dose limits, say the nation's leading cannabis researcher and doctors who have been queried about their marijuana authorizations. Canada should also re-establish a formal process for developing responsible dosing strategies, says Mark Ware of McGill's University Health Centre, the sole researcher funded under the now def…