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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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Cannabis smokers are unwittingly funding Islamist extremists linked to terror attacks in Spain, Morocco and Algeria, according to a joint investigation by the Spanish and French secret services. The finding will be seized on both by campaigners for a harsher clampdown on cannabis and by those who argue that legalization is the only way to end a petty dealing trend that is dragging growing numbers of teenagers into crime. The investigation by the Centro Nacional de Inteligencia and the Renseignements Generaux was launched after Spanish police found that the Islamists behind the March 2004 bombings in Madrid bought their explosives from former miners in return for blocks …
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Check this out.... not sure why this didn't post the first time... Lemme try this again... Ali xx Seems the Seniors are finding what REALLY works... Good on' em... Love and stuff, Alison xx Small but growing number of seniors using drugs Updated Sun. May. 13 2007 10:01 PM ET CTV.ca News Staff Seniors constitute the fastest growing population group in Canada, and some of them use illicit drugs. Researchers say older adults tend to be an under-recognized group of drug users but it's a trend that needs study and attention. Mavis Becker is a senior who enjoys drugs. The Vancouverite, who's about to turn 65, says she has a lot o…
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Space will be the final frontier for busting marijuana grow operations in Canada now that police researchers are backing satellite technology that can uncover hidden cannabis plantations. While RCMP weren't hot about the idea a few years ago, a study just completed by the Canadian Police Research Centre shows that police forces would be crazy not to use the technology, if they can afford it. Staff Sgt. Brian Thiessen, who led the recent study in British Columbia, said he was initially told not to bother with the research since it had already been attempted and failed. Using satellite and airborne imagery in the summer of 2006, police researchers were able to find th…
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Finally got access to this after all these years.... Two of these men are my Attorney's... This was archived from 2002. Check out what one of our Members of Parliament had to say THEN... Dan Mcteague... Try this... http://real.drugpolicycentral.com:8080/ram...ap/globalsun.rm Enjoy! Ali xx This interview was one of my all time favorites and still is.. So glad I can finally access it... ;-D P.S. I haven't chnaged a whole lot since then and this was five years ago... I also wasn't with LEAP yet. One of the first interviews I did on my own as an activist - a MAJOR NATIONAL PROGRAM to boot!!!
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Part 2 Love and stuff, Alison xx
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Check it out guys... Part 1 It's loud so be ready... remember there were over twenty thousand people there that day and I wanted them ALL to hear me... http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=camlproductions Love and a squish, Alison xx
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Marijuana Activists Brutalized by Moscow Police During Annual Demonstration Posted in Chronicle Blog by David Borden on Sun, 05/06/2007 - 9:06pm Eugene Kazachenko distributed the following disconcerting report from Moscow yesterday: Dear sisters and brothers! My name is Eugene Kazachenko. I'm from Moscow, Russia. Today, some hours ago my friends from Marijuana march were arrested. They tried to stretch the banner with calling to legalize marijuana. The goal of this march was legalization marijuana for medical use. Now there are about 20 people arrested. The police was very cruel with marijuana activists. With fear for life of our brothers and sisters…
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Hemp use facilitates schizophrenia This story will get the legal hemp movement spitting hemp chips , I might email it around the "hemp traps" to rev them up and to get them to re-think there position of distancing themselves from the MMJ and Cannabis Law Reform Movements -the RATS ...Jess BERLIN 02-May-07 STUDIES show that regularly smoking hashish or marijuana doubles the risk of developing schizophrenia, said Prof Peter Falkai of the Berlin-based German Society of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology (DGPPN). Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the main psychoactive substance in hemp, is said to be responsible for the psychotic effect of cannabis. Adolescents ca…
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Just found this.... Love and stuff, Ali xx AlterNet http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/51277/ New Studies Destroy the Last Objection to Medical Marijuana By Bruce Mirken, AlterNet. Posted May 2, 2007. New research on "vaporization" has demonstrated that all those fears about the ill effects of smoking marijuana are 100 percent obsolete. Anyone who advocates for medical marijuana sooner or later runs into arguments about smoking: "No real medicine is smoked." "Smoking is bad for the lungs; why would any doctor recommend something so harmful?" It's a line of reasoning that medical marijuana opponents have used to great effect in Congress, s…
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This was a forum I went to on April 30th - 4/20 the "Hippy New Year" as we call it. It was very educational with speakers from all across the Country and quite a few medical patienst like myself. There were around 100 people there that day while planned "Smoke Outs" were going on all over Toronto, Niagara Falls and elsewhere across Canada. I spoke to Joe at length that day as did many others... I'll keep you posted if and when other stories come from this reporter. It was a great day overall.... Enjoy! Love and a squish, Alison xx The personal dope on medical marijuana May 02, 2007 04:30 AM Joe Fiorito The pot smokers came to a downtown…
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Here's another good one... Love and stuff, Ali xx Newshawk: Legalise Cannabis Alliance http://www.lca-uk.org Pubdate: Tue, 01 May 2007 Source: Guardian, The (UK) Copyright: 2007 Guardian Newspapers Limited Contact: letters@... Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardian/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/175 Author: James Randerson, science correspondent, The Guardian Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?207 (Cannabis - United Kingdom) Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/decrim.htm (Decrim/Legalization) CANNABIS CHEMICAL CURBS PSYCHOTIC SYMPTOMS, STUDY FINDS One of the active chemicals in cannabis inhibits psychotic symptoms in people with schizophren…
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Thought you all might be interested in this... Enjoy! Love and a squish, Alison xx This Bud Is Not For You By Willy Noiles – View Magazine April 27, 2007 Critics say Health Canada is profiting off the sick and dying after it was revealed the government–run agency is charging patients 15 times more for medicinal marijuana than it pays to buy weed in bulk. Records obtained by the Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act reveal that Health Canada has a 1,500 per cent mark–up on the marijuana it gets from its sole supplier. “It makes me sick to know this is happening, that this is how Health Canada treats people,” says Burlington activist a…
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Study Finds Highest Levels of THC in U.S. Marijuana To Date 20 Year Analysis of Marijuana Seizures Reveals a Doubling in Pot Potency Since Mid-80's; New Strains of Marijuana May Be Behind Increase in Teen Marijuana Treatment Admissions and Rise in Emergency Room Episodes Related to Marijuana White House Drug Czar Warns: "This isn't your father's marijuana." (Washington, D.C.)—Today, the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) released the latest analysis from the University of Mississippi's Potency Monitoring Project which revealed that levels of THC—the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana—have reached the highe…
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