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Author: Marsha Rosenbaum and Paul Armentano Date: June 23, 2007 Source: http://www.alternet.org/story/54977/ Copyright: © 2007 Independent Media Institute. All rights reserved.
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Australian tennis player PAT CASH has let slip about his past drug use - after he confessed to baking marijuana cookies in his sporting heyday during a U.K. radio interview. The sporting ace - who has previously admitted to smoking cannabis on his way to winning the 1987 Wimbledon tennis championships - made the contentious revelation during a live interview with fellow tennis star Michael Stich, while they were discussing fellow tennis stars' hobbies on BBC Radio Five Live. Cash said: "The only think I used to bake was a bit of hash cookies in the old days." But bosses at the station are not impressed and have since warned the star to be more cautious on air. A spokeswom…
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Hamburg (dpa) - A hundred years ago, an over-the-counter cannabis extract ointment was sold as a household remedy for eczema and other allergic skin reactions, but was later withdrawn from the market as a quack product. Now scientists in Germany have discovered that cannabis does in fact reduce the itching and swelling of allergic skin reactions and they have called for a reappraisal of granny's household remedy. The research, conducted on mice, points towards new cannabis-based treatments for irritated skin. Extracts from the hemp plant were traditionally used to treat inflammation and could be bought from pharmacists in the early 20th century. But doubts about t…
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http://www.cannabisculture.com/library/images/uploads/5024-MedPot.jpg sounds like canada's medical marijuana program took 1 step forward and wants to take 2 back more if they start forcing patients to buy government grown shwag that isnt tailored to the individuals needs
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from the daily telegraph. http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/stor...5006003,00.html 4.1 kg kitchen spices hidden in a boogie board.....
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Writer agrees with decriminalization of marijuana Editorial - Saturday, June 23, 2007 @ 09:00 Editor: While I think Rick Reimer has done an excellent job expressing his opinion about the present status of marijuana, I would like to address how we got here in the first place. Cannabis sativa is on record as being the oldest cultivated plant in human history, mostly for its fibre for cloth, sails and rope. Its seed head was harvested for its great food content, both for humans and for livestock, and for its heavy oil content. Pre-1930, it had taken hard labor to extract 50 per cent of the usable fibre. After 1935, industrialization created machines that enabled 95 p…
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Ed Rosenthal, the self-described "Guru of Ganja" convicted for a second time last month of violating federal drug laws by growing marijuana for medical patients, wants a new trial. The 62-year-old cannabis cultivation expert, former High Times magazine columnist and steadfast advocate for legalizing marijuana claims U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco wrongly prohibited him from telling jurors his goal was helping the sick, not selling drugs. "The court erred in excluding all evidence regarding the scientific value of medical marijuana," Rosenthal's attorney, Robert Amparan, said in court papers filed earlier this month. Responding to that motion in …
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BUYING cannabis in the Dutch city of Maastricht will soon mean having your fingerprints taken, your face scanned and your biometric data recorded. All 15 coffee shops in the southern city are spending about €100,000 ($159,000) installing a security system that makes it harder for an under-age cannabis smoker to enter than a terrorist to set foot in Europe, according to Marc Josemans, head of the local coffee shop union. “We are ashamed for this attack on your privacy”, reads an explanatory leaflet about the system, which is due to start in September. The coffee shops face a continual struggle to prove they are not selling to people under the age of 18, or more than fi…
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New frontier for medical cannabis -- topical pot Anti-inflammatory traits helped heal skin of mice in study by Kavita Mishra, San Francisco Chronicle June 9th, 2007 Skin allergies may be the next reason to use marijuana -- a topical form, at least. Scientists have long suspected that marijuana, used for recreational purposes and to help fight chronic pain, nausea and even some mental disorders like anxiety and depression, also had anti-inflammatory effects in the body. Now they think they know why. In a study published in the current issue of the journal Science, researchers show exactly how they think that works, elucidating how the body's own cannabinoids, c…
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It seems like every day there's a study relating to narcotic prohibition. Unfortunately the abundance of new information has us neglecting the past.Sometimes I think, when and how did prohibition start?What was the catalyst? Most of us can't even remember what we had for lunch two days ago, me especially with the MS, so I gave myself a little history lesson. It's good, as they say, those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it. Interestingly six weeks after the Harrison Narcotic Act (1914) was passed the first anti-prohibition editorial appeared in the New York Medical Journal, May 15, 1914. "As was expected … the immediate effects of the Harrison anti-…
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sppose i should post more of these articles At a recent backyard barbecue in Miami's Upper Eastside, a group of middle-age, middle-class folks tamely sipped berry cocktails and beers. Among them: a couple of lawyers, a couple of city administrators and an arts administrator. Somewhere between the skirt steak and the apple pie, somebody lit a joint and passed it around. Nobody blinked. Even in mainstream, white-collar settings, smoking marijuana can be commonplace and unremarkable, like having a little wine with dinner. Once a stamp of the arty, the marginal and the counterculture, today marijuana's popularity cuts across social boundaries. Yet several high-prof…
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I wrote this originally on Sunday but didn't have time to put it on line until today.... Ali xx So here is a neat one for you guys... Gary and I decide to take a friend out to the the Horse Races and try our luck as we hadn't been for years. What better way to spend a rainy Sunday evening we thought? Besides even though it was raining, my face wasn`t really bothering me much. What I`m smoking seems to be helping wonderfully... So we get to the Race Track/Casino and it's busy as usual. My girlfriend hadn't been to see Horse Racing so she was VERY excited to say the least.... Inside we go to the Race Track and see that we had ten minute…
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Hi every one. Here is a link to a news 'blast' about Ron Paul & RE legalizing hemp. Also some about the lost, stupid, senseless war on cannabis AKA the war on drugs. US citizens, check this out. The main stream media does not seem to like Ron, so to me that in itself is a hint that he may be OK. http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=42457 I would vote for him. Also Glenn Beck has been chatting Ron up in a + light. Lou Dobbs also I think. May be there is hope for the US Prez. election after all, but Ron is gonna need support from us. Check it out, then decide. Yours for the RE legalization of cannabis & hemp!!! medMUser PS: The article contain…
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Dr. Tod H. Mikuriya, a California psychiatrist who was widely regarded as the grandfather of the medical marijuana movement in the United States, died on May 20 at his home in Berkeley. He was 73. The cause was complications of cancer, his family told California news organizations. Dr. Mikuriya, who helped make the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes legal in California, spent the last four decades publicly advocating its use, researching its effects and publishing articles on the subject. He was an architect of Proposition 215, the state ballot measure that in 1996 made it legal for California doctors to recommend marijuana for seriously ill patients. He was al…
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This was published the other day in the U.S. My response is next.. Ali xx P.S. There were four of us from Canada who got published in response.... VERY cool.... Winona Daily News, MN Letters: letters@winonadailynews.com Published - Tuesday, May 15, 2007 Medical marijuana is a push to legalize By Stan Gierhan, Winona . In regards to the editorial opinion concerning medical marijuana, why reinvent the wheel? Medical marijuana already exists, it’s called marinol. It has THC as the active ingredient, which is effective in controlling nausea and also used for stimulation of appetite. It has also been used to help control pain. So w…
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