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Congressmen Help Launch Drug War Exit Strategy Guide
Bill Piper - Drug Policy Alliance, Director of National Affairs On Thursday, the Drug Policy Alliance will release An Exit Strategy for the Failed War on Drugs. This comprehensive report contains 75 broad and incremental recommendations for legislative reforms related to civil rights, deficit reduction, law enforcement, foreign policy, sentencing and re-entry, effective drug treatment, public health, [...]
Read more.Stopping the IRS War on Medical Marijuana Providers
special to Drug War Chronicle by investigative reporter Clarence Walker, cwalkerinvestigate@gmail.com Dispensaries providing marijuana to doctor-approved patients operate in a number of states, but they are under assault by the federal government. SWAT-style raids by the DEA and finger-wagging press conferences by grim-faced federal prosecutors may garner greater attention, but the assault on medical [...]
Read more.Study finds marijuana buffers against negative psychological effects of social exclusion
By Eric W. Dolan Research published online May 14 in Social Psychological and Personality Science has uncovered that marijuana buffers people from experiencing social pain. “Prior work has shown that the analgesic acetaminophen, which acts indirectly through CB1 receptors, reduces the pain of social exclusion. The current research provides the first evidence that marijuana also dampens [...]
Read more.Interconnected Carbon Nanosheets Derived from Hemp for Ultrafast Supercapacitors with High Energy
Huanlei Wang †‡, Zhanwei Xu †‡, Alireza Kohandehghan †‡, Zhi Li †‡*, Kai Cui ‡, Xuehai Tan†‡, Tyler James Stephenson †‡, Cecil K. King’ondu†‡, Chris M. B. Holt †‡, Brian C. Olsen †‡, Jin Kwon Tak §, Don Harfield §, Anthony O. Anyia §, andDavid Mitlin †‡* We created unique interconnected partially graphitic carbon nanosheets (10–30 nm in thickness) with high specific surface area (up to 2287 m2 g–1), significant volume fraction of mesoporosity (up to 58%), and good [...]
Read more.Do you agree with the federal government’s crackdown on medical marijuana?
Please vote in the poll! http://missoulian.com/do-you-agree-with-the-federal-government-s-crackdown-on/poll_3254fa98-bbd2-11e2-935c-001a4bcf887a.html
Read more.Medical marijuana shouldn’t be for ‘adults only’
By Margaret Storey My 9-year-old daughter has Aicardi syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that causes extremely hard-to-control seizures, debilitation, disability and early mortality. She began having seizures at three months of age, and since that time has had multiple seizures every day, with rare exception — probably to the tune of nearly 200,000 seizures [...]
Read more.Cannabis linked to prevention of diabetes
JEREMY LAURANCE Smoking cannabis may prevent the development of diabetes, one of the most rapidly rising chronic disorders in the world. If the link is proved, it could lead to the development of treatments based on the active ingredient of cannabis, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), without its intoxicating effects. Researchers have found that regular users of [...]
Read more.June 15th Springfield Medical Marijuana Rally/Concert/Block Party
On 6/15/13, PCUCAMP will be hosting a Medical Marijuana SUPER-EVENT! This 13 hour Rally/Concert/Block Party (From 12noon to 1am) on 6/15/13 will be held at Donnie’s Homespun, one of Springfield, Illinois’s Premiere Entertainment Centers. This venue has 2 floors, features an extra wide stage, pro sound & lighting and on June, 15th will be featuring [...]
Read more.New player in Fisher says Coast should become hemp capital
Kathy Sundstrom Political candidate Mark McGuire says hemp should be cultivated on Sunshine Coast caneland. Warren Lynam A NEW political hopeful for Peter Slipper’s seat has a plan to save the Sunshine Coast caneland and generate more jobs for the region – plant hemp. The Australian Independents’ candidate for Fisher, Mark Maguire, says he [...]
Read more.NSW committee recommends cannabis use be legalised for terminally ill
MARK COULTAN From:The Australian A NSW parliamentary committee has recommended that use of marijuana be legalised for medical purposes by people with cancer or AIDS, or other terminal illnesses. If approved by the NSW government, patients with specific conditions, certified by their specialist doctor, would be allowed to possess and use up to 15 [...]
Read more.Hemp Can Save the Planet
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- Congressmen Help Launch Drug War Exit Strategy Guide
- Stopping the IRS War on Medical Marijuana Providers
- Study finds marijuana buffers against negative psychological effects of social exclusion
- Interconnected Carbon Nanosheets Derived from Hemp for Ultrafast Supercapacitors with High Energy
- Do you agree with the federal government’s crackdown on medical marijuana?