By HELEN COLLIS
Patient Irvin Rosenfield, pictured four years ago, campaigns for the legalisation of medical cannabis. He is taking his story to Kentucky lawmakers next week
A stockbroker with a crippling bone disease who has smoked more than 130,000 joints in his lifetime credits the relaxing drug for his long life.
Irvin Rosenfeld, 60, says he would not be alive if he hadn’t been issued with 12 daily government-supplied marijuana cigarettes for more than 30 years, for the treatment of the rare bone disorder, multiple congenital cartilaginous exostosis.
Mr Rosenfeld, from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is the longest surviving patient to be assigned to the federal medical cannabis program, which began during the HIV epidemic in the 1970s, and is sharing his experience with lawmakers in a push to get it legalised.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2400900/On-roll-The-father-claims-smoking-130-000-joints-30-years-saved-life.html
Month: August 2013
Medical Marijuana Could be Subsidized for the Poor in DC
Anthony Sodd InTheCapital
Washington D.C. is considering a rule that would require medical marijuana dispensaries to subsidize the cost of the drug for poor patients. The rule would require that dispensaries put aside 2% of their income to help lower the price of the drug for the needy.
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http://inthecapital.streetwise.co/2013/08/23/dc-medical-marijuana-could-be-subsidized-for-the-poor/
New Government Funded Study Finds THC Improves Sleep
Posted by Johnny Green
A new study published by the American Journal of Addiction, and funded in part by the National Institute of Health has found that THC – one of the primary components of cannabis – is “significantly associated with shorter sleep latency”, as well as “less difficulty falling asleep”.
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http://www.theweedblog.com/new-government-funded-study-finds-thc-improves-sleep/
It Turns Out That Smoking Marijuana May Actually Make You A Safer Driver
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.
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Beer/Marijuana Commerical
Cannabis Can Prevent Cancer Caused By Cigarette Use, According To New Study
by Johnny Green
A new study published by the journal J-Stage, and funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, has found that cannabinoids – whether THC, CBD or CBDV – were effective at blocking a certain enzyme which is known to cause cancer, and is produced in large amount when cigarettes are consumed.
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http://www.theweedblog.com/cannabis-can-prevent-cancer-caused-by-cigarette-use-according-to-new-study/
How to Make Cannamilk
Devilmonk
It occurred to me while writing another recipe (that called for cannamilk) for our Great Recipes While High series that we don’t have a recipe for cannamilk! In professional kitchens we have what we refer to as “mother” sauces. A mother sauce is a sauce (like marinara, demi-glace, béchamel, etc.) that you use as a base ingredient in many other dishes. Cannamilk could be considered a “mother sauce” in the world of edible cannabis as it really can be substituted into any recipe that calls for milk, making it versatile like cannabutter orcannaoil.
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http://www.weedist.com/2013/08/how-to-make-cannamilk/
Medical Marijuana Stops Spread of Breast Cancer – NBC NEWS
Seeds sown for world’s first hemp industrial base
LAURA RICHARDS
Fairfax NZ – HEMPING IT UP: New Zealand hemp advocate Greg Flavall stands in a field of hemp overseas showing how tall the plant can grow.
Hemp Technologies’ Gregory Flavall, based in Taranaki, would like to see the world’s first hemp industrial village located in his home province.
Originally from Stratford, Flavall has brought his knowledge and expertise of the hemp industry to Taranaki from the United States and the United Kingdom where he learned first-hand about processing hemp for a variety of uses.
With the tag line of ”Food, Fuel, Shelter, Jobs – Hemp is Now!,” Flavall said Hemp Technologies would like to help farmers in Taranaki realise better income and employ people to process hemp.
”Maize growers are looking for alternatives because maize beats the crap out of the earth while hemp does not. Hemp is a replenishing plant for the earth, like lucerne or alfalfa as we call it. It re-nitrogenises the soil after harvest, and it’s good at aerating soil, and is a break crop for other crops.”
Full Article:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/cropping/9060081/Seeds-sown-for-worlds-first-hemp-industrial-base
Originally from Stratford, Flavall has brought his knowledge and expertise of the hemp industry to Taranaki from the United States and the United Kingdom where he learned first-hand about processing hemp for a variety of uses.
With the tag line of ”Food, Fuel, Shelter, Jobs – Hemp is Now!,” Flavall said Hemp Technologies would like to help farmers in Taranaki realise better income and employ people to process hemp.
”Maize growers are looking for alternatives because maize beats the crap out of the earth while hemp does not. Hemp is a replenishing plant for the earth, like lucerne or alfalfa as we call it. It re-nitrogenises the soil after harvest, and it’s good at aerating soil, and is a break crop for other crops.”
Full Article:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/cropping/9060081/Seeds-sown-for-worlds-first-hemp-industrial-base
Mixed Praise for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s Conditional Veto
Vanessa Waltz
PHOTO: Meghan Wilson and her two-year-old daughter Vivian Wilson, who suffers from Dravet Syndrome. Marijuana has been proven to alleviate the devastating damage caused by the seizures Vivian suffers.
On Friday, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie made a surprising decision in his conditional veto of S2842, a bill intended to ease medical marijuana restrictions for children.
The bill, introduced by Assemblywoman Linda Stender earlier this year, sought to lift New Jersey’s ban on edible cannabis, eliminate the three-strain limit for dispensaries, and allow minors to get medical marijuana cards with the recommendation of a single doctor rather than three.
Politicians and activists alike had predicted a conditional veto, and as expected, Christie struck the provision for a single prescribing doctor.
But the other part of Christie’s veto – amending the bill to allow edibles only for minors and not for adults – was met with shock and disbelief from advocates.
“Restricting oral preparations of medicinal cannabis to pediatric patients only is irrational,” said Dr. Sunil Aggarwal, a leader in the field of medical cannabis research. “Adult patients will have to make oral preparations themselves with the limited amount of herbal medicinal cannabis they are allowed to procure from New Jersey dispensaries.”
Full Article:
http://www.ladybud.com/2013/08/19/mixed-praise-for-new-jersey-governor-chris-christies-conditional-veto/