Stephen Colbert is nothing if not a principled capitalist, and he proved so on Thursday night as he gave the thumbs up to the legal-and-lucrative ganja.
 
Video:
http://tv.yahoo.com/news/stephen-colbert-endorses-marijuana-market-toking-video-135600708.html

Photo of The Federal Correctional Institution in Florence, Colorado (FCI Florence)
 
Oh, the joy and heartbreak of being here in Colorado.
It is somewhat ironic that the Feds would send me here, to the only state that has made sales of marijuana completely legal, not only for its own citizens but also those just passing through.
I am serving a 10-year mandatory minimum sentence for growing marijuana at low or no cost to whoever needed it in Northern California. I grew 30,000 plants out in the open to make sure anyone who needed medical marijuana got it, regardless of whether they could afford it. I am also a Rastafarian minister and using cannabis is part of our spiritual practice, and should be protected by the law. The judge in my case even stated she didn’t think I belonged in prison, but that she had to sentence me to the mandatory minimum.
I began my sentence in FCI Lompoc, in Southern California and was moved to FCI La Tuna near the Texas-Mexico border. I requested a move and here I am now at FCI Florence, in Colorado.
 
Full Article:
http://cannabisnowmagazine.com/current-events/joint-opinions/i-am-serving-a-10-year-mandatory-minimum-for-marijuana-in-colorado

NEW DELHI: Cannabis, the plant from which bhang, ganja and hashish come, has been regarded a traditional intoxicant in India. And yet it is outlawed in its homeland.
Around the end of the 19th century, the British imperial government in India wanted to import Scotch whisky. This was also the time when resentment against the colonial power was gathering critical mass. Hence, there were protests — bhang and ganja, argued some, were indigenous intoxicants; alcohol, it was claimed, was alien to Indian culture.
The British government, always correct in procedure, set up an inquiry commission — were bhang and ganja as safe as Scotch whisky? Christened the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, the inquiry was characteristically thorough. Hundreds were interviewed, including medical experts. At the end of its two-year labour (1893-94), the commission concluded that bhang or ganja were only as harmful as scotch. That, sadly, stymied the entry of scotch whiskey into India. But it also proved that cannabis derivatives, such as bhang, ganja and hashish, were ‘soft’ drugs; not injurious to health as ‘hard’ drugs.
 
Full Article:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/How-hemp-was-outlawed-in-homeland/articleshow/32110623.cms

Campbell wrote: “To forbid or even seriously to restrict the use of so gracious a herb as hemp would cause widespread suffering and annoyance and to large bands of worshipped ascetics, deep-seated anger. It would rob the people of a solace in discomfort, of a cure in sickness, of a guardian whose gracious protection saves them from the attacks of evil influences…Bhang brings union with the divine spirit. We drank bhang and the mystery of who I am grew plain. So grand a result, so tiny a sin.”
 
Full Article:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Grand-result-just-a-tiny-sin/articleshow/32109620.cms

Posted by Parvez Jabri

 
Researchers in Industrial University of Behbehan, Iran has produced the gel of hemp pulp nanofiber used in kraft paper production.
If developed to industrial levels, it would rule out the imports of high-quality paper especially to produce cartons, Meher News Agency reported.
 
Full Article:
http://www.brecorder.com/business-a-finance/industries-a-sectors/162487-iranian-researchers-produce-high-quality-paper.html

Justin Kander

 
 

Editor’s Note: Justin Kander is webmaster of the Phoenix Tears organization and author of the Comprehensive Report on the Cannabis Extract Movement, a 100-page report that examines and analyzes the mounting evidence in support of cannabis extracts as medicine.

Recent news surrounding the use of cannabis extracts for cancer and other diseases has largely been concentrated in the United States, where thousands of families are beginning to use high-cannabidiol oil for various forms of epilepsy.

However, use of marijuana as a medicine is not limited to America or epilepsy, and throughout the world, people are beginning to use cannabis-derived medicine for epileptic and other conditions.

Full Article:

http://www.medicaljane.com/2014/03/15/cannabis-extract-medicine-begins-to-take-hold-worldwide/

TOM RAGAN/LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
The biggest misunderstanding about medical marijuana, as explained by Vicki Higgins of Wellness Education Cannabis Advocates of Nevada. She delivered her remarks Friday after the state held it’s last public hearing on medical marijuana dispensaries.
 
Full Article:
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevada-medical-marijuana-dispensary-rules-clear-another-hurdle

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