| An American Pastime: Smoking Pot |
Date Created: 07/15/2008 Replies: 0 |
| USA -- The Netherlands, with its permissive marijuana laws, may be known as the cannabis capital of the world. But a survey published this month in PLoS Medicine, a journal of the Public Library of Science, suggests that the Dutch don't actually experiment with pot as much as one would expect. Despite tougher drug policies in this country, Americans were twice as likely to have tried marijuana than the Dutch, according to the survey. .... |
| Symposium over nieuwste inzichten in toepassing van medicinale c |
Date Created: 07/14/2008 Replies: 0 |
| Cannabis is politiek en maatschappelijk nog altijd een gevoelig onderwerp. Uit onderzoek is inmiddels gebleken dat medicinale cannabis effectief kan zijn bij aandoeningen als Multiple Sclerose en neurogene pijnen, en ingezet kan worden bij klachten veroorzaakt door chemotherapie en HIV-medicatiebehandeling. Op het symposium ‘Medicinale Cannabis in Nederland vanaf 2003’ wordt een laatste stand van zaken gegeven van de toepassingsmogelijkheden en toedieningswijzen van medicinal.... |
| Medicinale cannabis met vijf jaar verlengd |
Date Created: 07/14/2008 Replies: 0 |
| Minister Klink wil de beschikbaarheid van medicinale cannabis voor wetenschappelijk onderzoek en geneesmiddelontwikkeling met vijf jaar verlengen.Dat laat hij de Tweede Kamer vandaag weten.Medicinale cannabis (in de volksmond ‘mediwiet’) moet een gewoon geregistreerd geneesmiddel worden, vindt Klink. Met de verlenging wil hij de ontwikkeling van een geneesmiddel met cannabis als grondstof een serieuze kans van slagen geven. Een Nederlands bedr.... |
| Should Pot Be Criminal Offense in Massachusetts? |
Date Created: 07/14/2008 Replies: 0 |
| Massachusetts -- Though it would still be illegal, smoking marijuana in Massachusetts won't be a crime later this year if voters approve a statewide ballot initiative in November. The Committee for Sensible Marijuana Policy began in the fall of 2007 petitioning the state Legislature to make the punishment for possession of marijuana a civil infraction. Currently, a person caught with marijuana faces up to six months in jail and up to a $500 fine, regardless .... |
| Jesus 'Healed Using Cannabis' |
Date Created: 07/14/2008 Replies: 0 |
| Jesus was almost certainly a cannabis user and an early proponent of the medicinal properties of the drug, according to a study of scriptural texts published this month. The study suggests that Jesus and his disciples used the drug to carry out miraculous healings. The anointing oil used by Jesus and his disciples contained an ingredient called kaneh-bosem which has since been identified as cannabis extract, according to an article by Chris Bennett in the drugs magazine, High Times, entitled Was.... |
| It's time to stop treating marijuana use as crime |
Date Created: 04/08/2008 Replies: 0 |
| Hemp (marihuana) income do not add crime to neighborhoods ("Cannabisincome pull transgression to community," March 1) but ganja perioddoes. Ganja is a relatively unhazardous God-given flora that millions ofotherwise trusty law-abiding citizens take to use and arguably shouldbe directly re-legalized. Plane polity studies historicallyreject the "gateway" theory.The so-called gateway to plosive drugs exists because group who cozenb.... |
| Eradicating a Plant: A United Nations Project |
Date Created: 04/08/2008 Replies: 0 |
| For few geezerhood now the Integrated Nations has by international provision setout to extirpate not exclusive to put a preclude to the so-called "drug" use ofmarijuana, but also to actually destruct the hemp being from the follower- obscure of class from their own uses.This, of instruction, is cypher altogether new. E'er since the "industrialisedrevolution" there has been an elite of profiteering megalomaniacs whoimpoverishment t.... |
| Hemp Concrete in 6.2 million pound Eco-centre |
Date Created: 04/08/2008 Replies: 0 |
| Environmentally-friendly objective prefabricated from a difference of the hempplant is state old on a new £6.2m assign at an eco-centre in Powys.Made from hemp and titled hemcrete, the miscellanea is state practical towalls at the Middle for Disjunctive Subject (Cat), neighboring Machynlleth.A lot of vigor is old to sort the standard make of concrete incomparison to its "greener" cousin, said Cat.Hemp is licit and effort of th.... |
| Medical Marijuana: Now In Vending Machines |
Date Created: 02/01/2008 Replies: 0 |
| Los Angeles To Provide Authorized Users With 24-Hour Access The city that popularized the fast food drive-thru has a new innovation: 24-hour medical marijuana vending machines. Patients suffering from chronic pain, loss of appetite and other ailments that marijuana is said to alleviate can get their pot with a dose of convenience at the Herbal Nutrition Center, where a large machine will d.... |
| Drugs debate |
Date Created: 02/01/2008 Replies: 0 |
| A police raid on a house near Bicester where just 13 cannabis plants were seized has prompted a flood of comments from people who read the story on the Oxford Mail's website. Scores of readers posted comments following the arrest of a 35-year-old man in Fringford, near Bicester, for possessing and cultivating cannabis with an estimated value of £1,000. He was released without charge. .... |
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