Huge Show Will Bring Truth About Med Marijuana To Florida Seniors

Photo by Lance Draizin

 
By Steve Elliott, Toke of the Town
If you plan to come to the big Silver Tour Show on Jan. 29th at Temple Shaarei Shalom in Boynton Beach, Please call and tell them how many seats you need. The room holds 500, but the show is going virile. Reservations are highly recommended. Please call the Temple office at 561-364-9054, Ext.101.
We’ve pointed out before that one Florida man — legendary former pitchman and marijuana smuggler Robert Platshorn — may hold the key to cannabis legalization in the United States. The reason we say that is that skilled pitchman Platshorn has proven he can sway senior audiences to support medical marijuana, and most of us are aware, seniors vote in heavier numbers than any other age group.
Platshorn, through the Silver Tour, brings the truth about marijuana to senior citizens in Florida and nationwide, and one of the biggest events yet on that tour will take place on January 29 in Boyton Beach, Fla.
The show, “Learn the Real Facts About Medical Marijuana,” will be free and all ages are welcome. It will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday, January 29, at the Temple Shaarei Shalom in Boynton Beach.
Besides Platshorn — the author of Black Tuna Diaries and director of NORML of Florida, who is featured in the hit film, Square Grouper — the film Cannabis Science, which features Dr. Donald Abrams, Dr. Robert Melamede, and Dr. Raphael Mechoulam, among other medical marijuana experts, will also be screened.
 
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http://www.thesilvertour.org/huge-show-truth-marijuana-seniors

Cypress Hill Smokeout Festival 2012 Announces Lineup Featuring Sublime with Rome, Korn, Wiz Khalifa, Cypress Hill, The Dirty Heads, and Café Tacuba

By Carey Uhl

 
Lovers of weed and weed-inspired musicians ought to prepare themselves for the Cypress Hill Smokeout Festival 2012.  Come March 3 at NOS Events Center in Southern California, twenty artists will take two separate stages in celebration of music, and, well, marijuana.
Last year, Incubus frontman Brandon Boyd expressed his surprise that the audience hadn’t slipped into a weed coma by the time Incubus had taken the stage.  Throughout the day, billows of smoke escalated from a huge mass of fans that never seemed to crash from their perpetual high.
Cypress Hill Smokeout Festival 2012 should have the same tenacity as last year, with headliners including Sublime with Rome, Korn, Wiz Khalifa, Cypress Hill, The Dirty Heads and Café Tacuba.  More announcements are sure to come in the near future regarding the other bands that will be playing.
 
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http://www.mxdwn.com/2011/12/26/news/cypress-hill-smokeout-festival-2012-announces-lineup-featuring-sublime-with-rome-korn-wiz-khalifa-cypress-hill-the-dirty-heads-and-cafe-tacuba/

Tooth Soap introduces hemp-based product

By DrBicuspid Staff

 
Tooth Soap has expanded its line of organic and nontoxic products with Tooth Soap Peppermint and Hemp Whip.
Hemp oil contains properties that are beneficial to the body, according to the company.
“Clearly, the Tooth Soap line of green oral care products would not be complete without one formulation that included organic cannabis sativa (hemp oil),” said Karen Van Cleef, Tooth Soap CEO.
 
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http://www.drbicuspid.com/index.aspx?sec=sup&sub=hyg&pag=dis&ItemID=309446

Vets confounded by dueling medical marijuana rules

Written by Christopher Cadelago


 
For two years, John Riccio worried that smoking marijuana to relieve his chronic back and shoulder pain would get him in trouble with the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Then the department last year began allowing former service members to use medical marijuana — in states that have laws permitting it — in conjunction with their regular treatment. Riccio, a Navy veteran living in South Park, says he sleeps easier now that he can talk about it with his VA doctor without risking his benefits.
The policy clarification has veterans like Riccio wondering why the government continues to classify marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug alongside heroin and deny that the plant has any medicinal use. In October, the four U.S. attorneys in California announced a massive crackdown on marijuana growers and storefront dispensaries.
“It’s complete hypocrisy and it’s a war on people,” said Ricco, a 31-year-old Wisconsin transplant who left the Navy in 2008. “It’s a war on good, compassionate, law-abiding people.”
The directive on medical cannabis has added a new wrinkle to a years-old dispute between the federal government and a growing number of states that allow marijuana for sick and dying patients.
 
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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/dec/25/some-vets-caught-between-dueling-medical/
 

Deputies Give Marijuana Back To Dispensary Under Court Order

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~

 
Deputies returned two pounds of seized cannabis to a California dispensary on Friday after a court ruled that the marijuana had been improperly confiscated.

The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department confiscated two pounds of marijuana from Common Roots Collective during a shakedown, I mean “inspection, on December 1. But the dispensary’s lawyer argued that the deputies violated federal law, since authorities, including code enforcement officers, had entered the property on an inspection order and not a search warrant, reports CBS 13.
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Pot measure could bring in millions of dollars


 
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — An independent report finds that a proposed initiative to legalize marijuana in California could bring in hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
Researchers at the Legislative Analysts Office predict the California Cannabis, Hemp and Health Initiative 2012 would boost sales tax revenue for state and local governments. The LAO says it would also reduce criminal justice costs.
Proponents of the measure say that could be good news for the state which is deep in the red.
 
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http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news%2Fstate&id=8478678

B.C. Medical Health Officers Join Call To Legalize Pot


 
B.C.’s medical health officers are joining a powerful coalition of health, academic and justice experts calling for an overhaul of Canada’s anti-drug policies.
 
In a written statement, the Health Officers’ Council of B.C. says it has unanimously passed a resolution to support Stop the Violence BC. The council includes all medical health officers throughout the province as well as physicians, researchers and consultants.
 
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http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/12/22/canada-marijuana-legalization_n_1165566.html

It Turns Out That Smoking Marijuana May Actually Make You A Safer Driver

Travis Okulski

 
An amazing study authored by professors D. Mark Anderson (University of Montana) and Daniel Rees (University of Colorado) shows that traffic deaths have been reduced in states where medical marijuana is legalized.
According to their findings, the use of medical marijuana has caused traffic related fatalities to fall by nearly nine percent in states that have legalized medical marijuana (via The Truth About Cars).
The study notes that this is equal to the effect raising the drinking age to 21 had on reducing traffic fatalities.
One key factor is the reduction in alcohol consumption. The study finds that there is a direct correlation between the use of marijuana and a reduction in beer sales, especially in the younger folks aged 20-29.
A drop in beer sales supports the theory that marijuana can act as a substitute for liquor.
The study also finds that marijuana has the inverse effect that alcohol does on drivers. Drivers under the influence of alcohol tend to make rash decisions and risky moves, whereas those under the influence of marijuana tend to slow down, make safer choices, and increase following distances.

Jurors Need to Know That They Can Say No

By PAUL BUTLER, former federal prosecutor

 
IF you are ever on a jury in a marijuana case, I recommend that you vote “not guilty” — even if you think the defendant actually smoked pot, or sold it to another consenting adult. As a juror, you have this power under the Bill of Rights; if you exercise it, you become part of a proud tradition of American jurors who helped make our laws fairer.
The information I have just provided — about a constitutional doctrine called “jury nullification” — is absolutely true. But if federal prosecutors in New York get their way, telling the truth to potential jurors could result in a six-month prison sentence.
Earlier this year, prosecutors charged Julian P. Heicklen, a retired chemistry professor, with jury tampering because he stood outside the federal courthouse in Manhattan providing information about jury nullification to passers-by. Given that I have been recommending nullification for nonviolent drug cases since 1995 — in such forums as The Yale Law Journal, “60 Minutes” and YouTube — I guess I, too, have committed a crime.
 
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/opinion/jurors-can-say-no.html?_r=1

Hemp Crete Technology

By William Connelly
 
North Carolina is home to Hemp Technologies, a company responsible for building the first modern made hemp home in the United States. David Madera and Greg Flavall co-founded this company with the intention of building ecologically sustainable houses with non-toxic, healthy materials.
Hempcrete is their building material, a concrete-like mix of hemp and lime. Hempcrete offers a range of advantages over other materials, as Madera notes, “it’s a breathable material; its non-toxic; it can never have mold; it can never have mildew. It petrifies over time so the walls actually get harder and harder so instead of something falling down in 30 years it lasts for 600.” Madera goes further saying, “50 percent of our landfills are filled with construction materials. Whenever you use cement you have 10 to 15 percent extra that has to go to the landfill. Drywall is not nearly as anti-microbial and often gets mold behind it, which causes people to get sick. With industrial hemp, there is no waste. If there is a little bit left on the last day of the job you can throw it into your yard as fertilizer.”
 
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http://www.mountainx.com/article/38303/The-Swannanoa-Journal-Hemp-Crete-Technology