| Educating fellow Green Party candidates about cannabis and prohi |
Date Created: 03/07/2010 Replies: 0 |
| Under prohibition, there is more "harm" from cannabis than there would be under a legal system. Decriminalization means some users won't go to jail, but the producers still will -- meaning they will continue to hide grow-ops in basements (when they should be growing in greenhouses, with safety standards and inspections) and organized crime will continue to profit from the prohibition-inflated prices.Making cannabis/hemp legal would ensure that gangs no longer control th.... |
| Nobody Should Be Punished For Smoking Cannabis |
Date Created: 02/14/2010 Replies: 0 |
| Nobody Should Be Punished by Their Boss Simply for Smoking Cannabis“Nobody in New Zealand should be ever punished by their boss simply for smoking cannabis on their own time”, said Dakta Green today.“So long as no-one is being hurt and no disturbance caused, what goes on outside of the job is no matter of the company or the employer”.Mr Green was referring to the current investigation by TVNZ into claims that its staff smoked cannabis during a vis.... |
| New drugs chief Les Iversen said cannabis 'safer' |
Date Created: 01/31/2010 Replies: 0 |
| A retired professor who said cannabis was one of the "safer" recreational drugs has taken over as chairman of the government's drugs advisory panel.Pharmacology specialist Les Iversen replaced David Nutt, who was sacked by the home secretary last October for "lobbying" against government policy.Prof Iversen said: "I think cannabis for the time being is past history."He said much more active attention was currently being paid t.... |
| A Doctor's Case For Legal Pot |
Date Created: 01/16/2010 Replies: 0 |
| Most Americans are paying too much for marijuana. I'm not referring to people who smoke it—using the drug generally costs about as much as using alcohol. Marijuana is unaffordable for the rest of America because billions are wasted on misdirected drug education and distracted law enforcement, and we also fail to tax the large underground economy that supplies cannabis. On Monday, the New Jersey legislature passed a bill legalizing marijuana for a short list of medical uses. O.... |
| Dutch Delay Plan to Make Border Cannabis Cafes Members Only |
Date Created: 01/10/2010 Replies: 0 |
| A plan to make Dutch border town cannabis cafes members only in a bid to thwart "drug tourism" is on indefinite hold, a Dutch official said Monday. The plan, which was supposed to go into effect January 1, needs further study, the official said.http://stopthedrugwar.org/files/maastricht-coffee-shop.jpgdownstairs of a coffee shop, Maastricht (courtesy Wikimedia)"We need to finalize our preparations before we can put the project into operation," said Pet.... |
| Dutch plan to curb cannabis sales to foreigners delayed |
Date Created: 01/10/2010 Replies: 0 |
| THE HAGUE — A plan to transform cannabis-vending coffee shops near the Belgian border into private clubs from January 1 has been postponed indefinitely for further study, a Dutch official said Monday."We need to finalise our preparations before we can put the project into operation," Petro Hermans, a project officer for the southeastern city of Maastricht, told AFP."We are studying the legal feasibility of the project," he said, adding the date of Janua.... |
| Medical marijuana a high priority in Pa. |
Date Created: 12/14/2009 Replies: 0 |
| State lawmakers are debating a recently introduced bill to legalize medical marijuana. Hearings have begun, with testimony regarding both the benefits and dangers of legalization.But that debate may be premature, according to local professionals. And worse, the road to legalization may require an entirely different strategy than lawmakers across the country have taken.Local reps weigh inIt's still early in the process, but here's what two local state reps sa.... |
| Cannabis can treat multiple sclerosis |
Date Created: 12/14/2009 Replies: 0 |
| A systematic review, published in the open access journal BMC Neurology, found that five out six randomized controlled trials reported a reduction in spasticity and an improvement in mobility.Shaheen Lakhan and Marie Rowland from the Global Neuroscience Initiative Foundation, Los Angeles, USA, searched for trials evaluating the cannabis extract delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD).According to Lakhan, "We found evidence that combined THC and CBD ex.... |
| Alcohol 'will become nation's biggest killer' |
Date Created: 12/14/2009 Replies: 0 |
| ONE of Britain's leading experts on the effects of drugs has called for drinking laws to be tightened up – and a big hike in the price of booze.Professor David Nutt says the measures are needed because of a 'terrifying' health crisis linked to excessive drinking.Formerly the Government's top drugs adviser, he was speaking in advance of a conference in Devon on psychiatry and mental health."There's a tidal wave of alcohol damage c.... |
| Cannabis spray reduces cancer pain |
Date Created: 12/14/2009 Replies: 0 |
| Cancer patients who used a cannabis mouthspray had their pain levels reduced by 30%, researchers have said.The cannabis-based spray, like a mouth freshener, was used on 177 patients by researchers from Edinburgh University.They found that it reduced pain levels by 30% in a group of cancer patients, all in the Edinburgh area, who had not been helped by morphine or other medicines.The spray was developed so that it did not affect the mental state of patients in .... |
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