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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008The Associated Press Jan 30, 2008 Medical marijuana vending machines take root in Los Angeles LOS ANGELES – 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 [...]
Simpson trial postponed till Feb. 8th
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008Chronicle Herald, NS 22 Jan 2008 Tom McCoag, Amherst Bureau MACCAN MAN’S LATEST MARIJUANA PLEA ON HOLD AMHERST – A Maccan-area man who says marijuana cures cancer will have to wait until next month to plead to a new charge of drug trafficking. Ricky Simpson, 58, was to have entered a plea Monday to a [...]
Marijuana May Fight Lung Tumors
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008Article from CBS News Apr 17, 2007 Charlene Laino Cannabis Compound Slows Cancer Spread In Mice, Researchers Say (WebMD) Cannabis may be bad for the lungs, but the active ingredient in marijuana may help combat lung cancer, new research suggests. In lab and mouse studies, the compound, known as THC, cut lung tumor growth in [...]
Cannabinoids have been shown to reduce the invasiveness of cancer cells
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008Journal of the National Cancer Institute December 25, 2007 Oxford University Press Inhibition of Cancer Cell Invasion by Cannabinoids via Increased Expression of Tissue Inhibitor of Matrix Metalloproteinases-1 Background Cannabinoids, in addition to having palliative benefits in cancer therapy, have been associated with anticarcinogenic effects. Although the antiproliferative activities of cannabinoids have been intensively investigated, [...]
Cannabinoids may also have an anti-cancer effect
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008West Australian, Australia 21 Jan 2008 NEW STUDY SHOWS MARIJUANA MAY FIGHT CANCER HAMBURG – The active ingredient in marijuana may suppress tumour invasion in highly invasive cancers, according to new research in Germany. Cannabinoids, the active components in marijuana, are already used medically to reduce the side effects of cancer treatment, such as pain, [...]
Police addicted to their own kind of dope – image and prestige
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008Lima News, OH 20 Jan 2008 Dave Doddridge AMERICAN WAR ON DRUGS PITS GOVERNMENT AGAINST PEOPLE I’ve read and reread the account of the shooting death of Tarika Wilson with great sadness. Some of the folks in Lima have sent letters saying all the typical things Americans have been led to believe: Wilson should not [...]
Change will be a reversal from the board’s previous position
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008The Ukiah Daily Journal, CA 20 Jan 2008 Rob Burgess MEDICAL MARIJUANA SALES TAX MAY END Medical marijuana dispensaries in California, including the two that currently operate in Mendocino County, may soon be exempt from state sales tax, said a representative from the California State Board of Equalization. The regulations will soon reflect the change [...]
Hemp farming in a new era of alternative opportunity
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008Grand Forks Herald, ND 20 Jan 2008 Wayne Hauge INDUSTRIAL HEMP POSES NO THREAT RAY, N.D. I am proud and honored by the negative comments of Jeanette McDougal and John Coleman, as well as mystified by their statements that provide little in the way of statistical evidence to support their negative stance on industrial hemp [...]
Confusion over cannabis classification continues
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008Independent on Sunday, UK 20 Jan 2008 Brian Brady and Jonathan Owen CANNABIS EXPERTS LASH OUT AT MINISTERS FOR IGNORING ADVICE An angry row has blown up over proposals to upgrade cannabis to a class B drug, with leading experts from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs ( ACMD ) accusing the Government [...]
Drug dog Ben sniffs out largest load of marijuana
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008Tucson Citizen, AZ 19 Jan 2008 Ryn Gargulinski 3,000 POUNDS OF POT SEIZED IN TRUCK AT SAN LUIS The San Luis port of entry had its highest single marijuana seizure Thursday – at 3,043 pounds – a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman said in a Friday news release. The 1 1/2 tons of marijuana [...]
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