Category: Cannabis News Corner

Cops puzzled by ‘free dope’ left on roadside

Jeannie Herer


 
Police are puzzled by the discovery of three garbage bags full of freshly-cut marijuana with a sign reading “Free dope. Mull up” dumped by a road on the New South Wales south coast.
A local man made the discovery on Bolong Road, near Nowra, on Saturday morning while on his way to go fishing.
Police say the bags contain around 16 kilograms of marijuana with a street value of around $90,000.
 
Full Article:
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/2012-11-20/cops-puzzled-by-free-dope-left-on-roadside/1048842

Let’s make an honest woman out of Mary Jane

Jeannie Herer

By John-Ross Boyce

 
A cloud of smoke is swirling lazily over the states of Washington and Colorado right now. Midnight burrito sales in Denver are poised to go through the roof this month. Seattle just spent the whole weekend watching “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” reruns. Walla Walla finally understands why “Dark Side of the Moon” is the biggest headtrip of the 20th Century. Grand Junction just bought an old Spiral-Graph on eBay and when it arrives in the mail, man, it’s going to be epic. It’s official. Recreational marijuana, for the first time since the 19th century, is legal, if only in 2 states.
Meanwhile, America’s officially registered wet blankets are wringing their hands, terrified at some antiquated vision of reefer madness wreaking pungent havoc all over the countryside. Perhaps you count yourself among their ranks. You think that making an honest woman out of Mary Jane is going to incite violence and destruction in the streets. You think that legalizing weed will make it more accessible to children, whose futures will be snuffed out like so many roaches. You think that the evening news will be clogged with the names of unfortunate fools who met the Grim Reaper at the business end of a water pipe.
You’re wrong. That’s not what marijuana does. You’re thinking of alcohol, which is legal.
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, there are approximately 80,000 deaths attributable to excessive alcohol each year in the United States alone. Search the CDC’s website for deaths attributed to marijuana and you will find zilch. Because no one dies from smoking too much pot. They fall asleep in front of a b-grade Kung fu movie. In some extreme cases, they’ll throw up a little. Do you know that withdrawals from alcohol addiction can actually kill you? Because they can. Do you know what happens when you “withdraw” from marijuana? Taco Bell tastes less delicious.
 
Full Article:
http://www.uvureview.com/2012/11/19/lets-make-an-honest-woman-out-of-mary-jane/

Backyard pot grown for health – survey

Jeannie Herer

Backyard pot grown for health - survey
 
The interim findings of a survey of backyard cannabis growers shows most grow it for medicinal purposes.
In the first study of its size in Australia, the National Drug Research Institute is conducting an anonymous online survey to find out more about people who grow small amounts of cannabis in their backyards, cupboards and sheds.
A research fellow at the institute, Monica Barratt, said about 250 people had taken part so far and it was hoped the responses would double in coming months before the information was collated and compared with similar studies in the US, Canada, the UK and across Europe.
‘The majority grow for personal use and also to avoid contact with criminals,’ Dr Barratt told AAP on Sunday, ahead of her presentation at a major alcohol and drug conference in Melbourne this week.
 
Full Article:
http://www.skynews.com.au/health/article.aspx?id=817758

Study Accidentally Finds Chemotherapy Makes Cancer Far Worse

Jeannie Herer

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A team of researchers looking into why cancer cells are so resilient accidentally stumbled upon a far more important discovery. While conducting their research, the team discovered that chemotherapy actually heavily damages healthy cells and subsequently triggers them to release a protein that sustains and fuels tumor growth. Beyond that, it even makes the tumor highly resistant to future treatment.
Reporting their findings in the journal Nature Medicine, the scientists report that the findings were ‘completely unexpected’. Finding evidence of significant DNA damage when examining the effects of chemotherapy on tissue derived from men with prostate cancer, the writings are a big slap in the face to mainstream medical organizations who have been pushing chemotherapy as the only option to cancer patients for years.
The news comes after it was previously ousted by similarly-breaking research that expensive cancer drugs not only fail to treat tumors, but actually make them far worse. The cancer drugs were found to make tumors ‘metasize’ and grow massively in size after consumption. As a result, the drugs killed the patients more quickly.
Full Article:
http://naturalsociety.com/chemotherapy-makes-cancer-far-worse/
 
 

The Dope On Cannabis Cuisine

Jeannie Herer
By: CBS NEWS


 
The effects of eating marijuana are said to be gentler and longer-lasting than smoking, and we imagine more than a few troublesome family members might benefit from a bowl of Scott’s pumpkin bisque this Thursday.
“It’s an amazing way to get through Thanksgiving,” James laughed. “For families that don’t love and hug and embrace each other, this is an amazing way to make that happen. It’s usually a very joyous occasion and everybody tends to leave full and happy.”
“And no leftovers!” added Durrah.
 
Full Article:
http://everythinglubbock.com/fulltext?nxd_id=134332

Texas Reads : You won’t get bored reading singers musings from the road

Jeannie Herer

By Glenn Dromgoole
 
Willie Nelson’s new book of musings from the road doesn’t have a table of contents. It’s more like a table of curious smorgasbord treats. You don’t know what’s coming next, but it certainly won’t be boring.
I was surprised when I opened my review copy of “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die” (William Morrow, $22.99 hardcover, 192 pages) to find the front page autographed, accompanied by a hand-drawn self-portrait by Willie himself! I called the publicist to thank her, only to find out that all the books are like that. He illustrated and signed a master — at the front and also at the back, which is scrawled simply “The End.”
In between are all kinds of observations — or maybe ramblings — from Willie, the icon of Texas music, on everything from music to marijuana to religion to politics to marijuana to the environment to family to life to farming to, did I mention, marijuana. If that isn’t enough, the foreword was written by none other than Kinky Friedman.
On smoking: “Cigarettes killed my mother, father, stepfather, stepmother, and half my family, and you can still buy them anywhere. If you make pot legal, and tax it and regulate it like alcohol and tobacco, you will stop the dealing on the borders and save thousands of lives.”
 
Full Article:
http://www.reporternews.com/news/2012/nov/18/texas-reads/