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Medical Marijuana Sprouts In Israel

September 19, 2013 at 8:36 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

And the Israeli government is funding breakthrough research on the healing potential of the cannabis plant Mimi Peleg’s job is to teach people how to use pot—how long to inhale smoke or vapor, how to administer sublingual drops, or how to ration out a pot cookie. Peleg directs large-scale cannabis training for the Israeli government’s state-run, discreet, successful and expanding medical cannabis distribution center, MECHKAR. MECHKAR began as a tiny program serving about 1,800 people from 2008-2009. Today, supplied by [...]

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Marijuana: The Next Diabetes Drug

September 18, 2013 at 2:06 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

When I saw on CNN the story represented in the title, from TIME magazine (5-23-2013), it really rocked me. I knew marijuana was good for about 40 disparate diseases but this was a real shock. The story originated in the American Journal of Medicine (AJM), by Dr. Murray Mittleman, of Harvard Medical School, and quotes three prior studies reporting almost the same. To quote in the first paragraph of the article, “Toking up may help marijuana users to stay slim [...]

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Why Female Potheads Still Feel Ashamed

September 17, 2013 at 9:05 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

Many men are open about their weed use, but women risk getting judged I’ve been smoking pot on and off since I was about 17. Throughout this time — we’re talking 25 years— I believe I bought my own pot once. I have always relied on the men in my life to provide it for me. When I look back at my history with marijuana, I simply have no connection to the weed in my life and where it comes from [...]

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CBD Helps Reverse Booze Brain Damage

September 17, 2013 at 9:03 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

A new study published by Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior reports that delivery of the non-psychoactive cannabinoid compound cannabidiol (CBD) through the skin can reduce alcohol-related damage to the brain. The study, which was given the catchy title “Transdermal delivery of cannabidiol attenuates binge alcohol-induced neurodegeneration in a rodent model of an alcohol use disorder,” was conducted at the University of Kentucky’s Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Researchers administered CBD to lab rats in two forms – one as a gel, the other as [...]

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Pot, Drug Possession Dominate New Arrest Statistics

September 16, 2013 at 12:53 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

The FBI crime statistics for 2012 are out, and once again, they demonstrate the massive amount of law enforcement resources we devote to preventing people from getting high. And from pot in particular. Of all drug arrests, 82.2 percent were for possession — meaning possession arrests outnumbered distribution arrests by about 4.5 to 1. For pot alone the disparity was even greater — 88 percent of marijuana arrests were for possession. Arrests for pot were actually slightly down from 2011, [...]

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Who Will Win Colorado’s Marijuana Ad Dollars?

September 14, 2013 at 1:47 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

Colorado, which decriminalized recreational marijuana last year, has become the first state to publish retail sales and marketing regulations for the virgin weed market. The new laws, detailed this week in a 136-page document, may help steer pot shop ad dollars to an unlikely beneficiary: old-school print media. According to Colorado’s Marijuana Enforcement Division, newspapers and magazines can now legally run weed vendor advertisements, as long as there is “reliable evidence” that “no more than 30 percent of the publication’s readership [...]

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Christie Signs Bill Changing MMJ Law to Help Certain Children

September 13, 2013 at 9:59 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

Gov. Chris Christie has signed a law changing details of New Jersey’s medical marijuana program with the aim of getting sick children forms of the drug that could help them. Christie signed the bill Tuesday, a day after his revised version was adopted by the state Assembly. The bill ends a restriction on legal dispensaries that had allowed them to grow only three strains of marijuana. It also allows them to produce pot in an edible form, but only for [...]

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Marijuana Law Would Create California Pot Police

September 12, 2013 at 1:35 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

A state law proposed this week would protect marijuana dispensaries “already operating legally under city or county laws” from local cops while creating a statewide police and regulatory agency that would oversee the pot shops. The legislation by California state Sen. Tom Ammiano mirrors a failed attempt to put a similar law before voters last year. We noted at the time that the cannabis-friendly ballot initiative sought to “create a new statewide police department strictly to keep an eye on pot shops:” [...]

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Will NFL Bend To Pressure To Ease Harsh Penalties For Marijuana Use?

September 11, 2013 at 1:16 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

The National Football League is the undisputed No. 1 sport in the country, generating huge TV ratings, legal and illegal gambling in the form of a massive Fantasy Football industry and widespread interest among all demographics. Yet there is one area where it is behind the times – the shift in public opinion about the recreational use of marijuana. To highlight this disconnect, the Marijuana Policy Project paid $5,000 for a 48-foot-wide billboard in Denver prior to the season-opener between [...]

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