By Stephanie Smith, CNN

 
 
Aimee Curry recalls sitting on her couch one day, her back contorted, as spasms — remnants of a car accident that almost killed her in 1992 — rippled up and down her back.
A friend who had been visiting that day left, saying she would bring back some medication. “She came back with pot,” said Curry, who says at first she was aghast.
“I was like, ‘I can’t smoke that, my daddy said no,'” said Curry, 39, whose father is an ordained minister. “‘I can’t do that, it’s bad.'”
“But I was in so much pain, and they were promising me, ‘Aimee, this will take the pain away.'”
Curry ignored the preaching voice in her head and tried the marijuana. Soon after she mastered the inhale, she says, her back muscles relaxed. Her pain did not melt away — it still hurt when she finally got up from the couch — but, Curry said, “I didn’t care.”
“It states in the Bible not to abuse a drug, it doesn’t say you can’t use it,” said Curry. “If you ask me, cannabis is a gift from God.”
 
Full Article:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/07/health/cannabis-pain/

Here is Eddy Lepp’s new address. Please feel free to write him a letter. Thanks.
Charles Lepp c/o 90157011
Federal Prison Camp
P.O. Box 5000
Florence, CO 81226-5000

Raw Michelle

 
Fran Kerr, author of Clear Skin for Life and How to Heal from Acne Naturally, has been a fan of jojoba oil for years. “I still do love it. I’m a massive fan of it, but I have a new favorite now,” she admits. “It’s organic hemp seed oil. I am in love with hemp seed oil as a cleanser and moisturizer.”
Kerr once had severe acne and is now free of the condition. While Kerr still acknowledges jojoba oil’s ability to help keep skin in great condition, she says hemp seed oil is now her preferred choice for several reasons.
Full Article:
http://www.naturalnews.com/044205_hemp_seed_oil_acne_skin_care.html

Written by DAVID BIENENSTOCK

Despite costing the average MS patient in New Zealand more than $16,500 (USD) per year, Sativex contains relatively modest doses of THC and CBD, and no other active ingredients—an incredible marijuana mark-up that gives GW a strong incentive to help maintain cannabis prohibition at all costs, especially since whole-plant cannabis can be smoked or vaporized, bringing near instantaneous relief due to rapid absorption in the lungs, while Sativex takes an hour or longer to start working.
“Needless to say, the pharmaceutical industry is increasingly devoting its massive resources to the development of cannabinoid analogs or other products which can compete with herbal marijuana,” Dr. Grinspoon writes. “None of these products will be as inexpensive or useful as herbal marijuana. Legality, not efficacy, is their major appeal.”
 
Full article:
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/what-weed-means-for-the-future-of-sustainable-healthcare?trk_source=popular

By Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent

by David Koon

MATT AMARO

By JOANNA PRISCO via GOOD MORNING AMERICA

SIPHO KINGS

 
The apartheid regime was terrified of white people interacting with black people, and saw cannabis as a dangerous enabler. They ensured it stayed prohibited, perceiving it as a “danger” to race relations.
It has not always been considered off limits in South Africa. In Basotho tradition, cannabis has long been used to ease childbirth – an appreciation for its analgesic properties shared by many civilisations around the world.
Queen Victoria was prescribed cannabis to ease her menstrual cramps, and her physician wrote in the medical journal The Lancet: “When pure and administered carefully, it is one of the most valuable medicines we possess.”
A Chinese medical book from 2737 BC said cannabis treated gout, constipation, rheumatism and absent-mindedness. Shamans in the Middle East would burn it to enter a trance state, which led to them being called “those who walk on smoke”. Pipes dug up in William Shakespeare’s backyard were found to have traces of cannabis.
The arrival of Dutch settlers limited consumption in South Africa. Cannabis sativa ­– varieties of which may be legally grown overseas because of a low percentage of THC (the chemical compound that makes people high) – was banned for black people.
 
Full Article:
http://mg.co.za/article/2014-02-27-the-war-on-dagga-sobers-up

According to Johannes Lehmann, Professor of Agricultural Science at Cornell University and an internationally recognized expert on biochar, adding biochar to just 10 percent of the world’s croplands would store 29 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. This is roughly equal to the world’s annual greenhouse emissions.
 
Full Article:
http://www.mygtn.tv/story/24852233/biochar-fuels-vega-biofuels-entrance-into-the-marijuana-and-hemp-industries

House fire kills 6 members of Indianapolis family
The Indianapolis Fire Department said this is the largest single loss of life for a family because of fire that the department has seen.
This is the family of long time activist, Pony Boy of the band “Los Marijuanos” – Here is his Facebook link:
https://www.facebook.com/ponyboy.losmarijuanos.3