Skin Cancer Patient Says Oil From Medical Marijuana Is A Cure

Michael McShane. (Credit: Patient Provided)

Michael McShane. (Credit: Patient Provided)
 

FERNDALE (WWJ) – A Ferndale man claims he’s found a cure for his cancer and it’s now legal in Michigan.
WWJ’s Sandra McNeill spoke with Michael McShane who claims he’s been using a topical oil made from medical marijuana on the skin cancer on his forehead and in just over two months it’s nearly gone.
“I’ve got biopsies, chart notes, photographs … in about three weeks I’m going to go back  and really wrap this part of the case up,” said McShane. “It’s made the same way a lot of the fragrances and perfumes are made, and the oil is applied, in my case, directly to the skin, and within 10 weeks my cancer is gone.”
 
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http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2011/08/29/skin-cancer-patient-says-oil-from-medical-marijuana-is-a-cure/#photo-1

NYPD Told to Stop Arresting People for a Little Bit of Private Pot

NYPD Told to Stop Arresting People for a Little Bit of Private Pot

 
A new internal operations memo from New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly orders officers to stop arresting people carrying small amounts of marijuana, as long as it’s not out in the open. Under New York law, pot possession up to 25 grams is a criminal offense only if it is being burned or in plain view; whereas, if the drug is concealed, the violation is simply a ticketable offense. Kelly’s note this week reminds officers that if they take out the drugs during a search or demand that someone empty their pockets, it should not result in an arrest.
 
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http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/09/nypd_told_to_stop_arresting_pe.html

Russia may legalize cannabis for agriculture, industrial use

Russia may legalize cannabis for agriculture, industrial use

Russia may legalize cannabis for agriculture, industrial use

 
Russia may soon authorize the cultivation of hemp – otherwise known as cannabis sativa – for agricultural and industrial needs, Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service said on Friday.
On September 28, the country’s State Anti-drug Committee will decide whether to allow the cultivation of hemp, currently prohibited in Russia.
Russia was a world leading producer of hemp, used as a source of oil, food, fibers, housing and industrial materials, until 1961 when the Soviet Union ratified the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs which declared cannabis – along with heroin – a highly toxic narcotic.
Russia is currently one of the world’s biggest importers of hemp fibers and oil, the country’s drug control watchdog said in a statement.
 
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http://en.ria.ru/russia/20110923/167070332.html

Joe Grumbine and Joe Byron Denied Medical Defense in Long Beach Pot Trial

By Nick Schou
 
Why Joe Byron and Joe Grumbine, the operators of two shuttered cannabis clubs in Long Beach as well as Garden Grove‘s Unit D collective, were ever charged for selling marijuana in the first place is a mystery. After all, Long Beach not only does not have any laws banning marijuana clubs in the city, but it actually has an ordinance allowing them to operate, which is why there are now numerous clubs that, for a tidy $15,000 permit fee, are currently doing exactly the same thing that Byron and Grumbine now face prison time for doing: selling weed to patients qualified to smoke the stuff under state law.
But yesterday, this weird case got even more bizarre when Long Beach Superior Court Judge Charles D. Sheldon ruled that Byron and Grumbine could not wage a so-called “affirmative defense,” meaning that jurors will have no choice but to view them as regular drug dealers rather than medical marijuana purveyors who were arguably carrying out the law rather than breaking it.
 
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http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2011/09/joe_grumbine_and_joe_byron_den.php

Petition to legalize pot is first to hit White House threshold

By Brendan Sasso
A proposal to legalize marijuana is the first idea on the White House’s online petition site to gather enough signatures to break the threshold required to receive an official response.
The White House has promised to evaluate and issue a formal response to any idea that receives more than 5,000 signatures within 30 days. Visitors are free to offer their own proposals. 
The first proposal to reach that limit asks, “Isn’t it time to legalize and regulate marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol? If not, please explain why you feel that the continued criminalization of cannabis will achieve the results in the future that it has never achieved in the past?” 
 Currently, the fourth and sixth most popular petitions on the site also advocate legalizing marijuana.
 
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http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/183411-marijuana-legalization-first-online-petition-to-require-white-house-response

Hemp Energy Farming Breakthrough Study –Corroborates Jack Herer’s Assertions

by Norman B (“Deviations from the Norm”)
Hot off the lab table: Five scientists working at Lund University in Sweden on October 31, 2010, published online their findings about the potential of Hemp as an energy crop. The findings support activist Jack Herer’s teachings, that through growing Hemp on a percentage of our available land, our society can switch to completely clean fuel that causes no Global Warming.
 
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http://mamamojournal.blogspot.com/2010/11/hemp-energy-farming-breakthrough-study.html#comment-form

Hemp 4 Haiti


 
“Created to support ongoing disaster relief efforts in Haiti, the Hemp 4 Haiti Project, is focused on providing sustainable, reusable goods and products to the victims of natural disasters. The exterior packaging is crafted from high-quality, hand braided hemp that can be easily unwoven after the non-perishable goods contained within have been consumed. Once unwoven, the hemp has numerous practical applications vital to relief efforts.  Fully reusable and sustainable, Hemp 4 Haiti eliminates the waste and environmental pollution that other disaster relief products leave behind.”
 
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http://www.thedieline.com/blog/2011/9/22/hemp-4-haiti.html

Roseanne Barr for president? You better believe it!

by Meagan Morris
Roseanne Barr wants to run for president
Yep, the comedian is serious about running for president in 2012, according to an interview she did with Wendy Williams.
“It’s absolutely true,” Barr said when Williams asked if she was running. Her platform? “Legalizing marijuana is first… and hemp. Marijuana is a good medicine and a lot of people know that.”
The audience –full of women — cheered for the veteran sitcom star when she made the announcement.
“I use medical marijuana for my glaucoma and I thank God that I have it,” she continued. “I also will forgive all student loans.”
 
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http://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/842245/roseanne-barr-for-president-you-better-believe-it

Cannabis Coffee Shops: Should America Adopt Dutch Marijuana Regulations?

by Carly Schwartz
SAN FRANCISCO — Should Americans be able to buy marijuana in coffee shops?
A new study by U.C. Berkeley Law and Policy Professor Robert MacCoun explores whether the United States would benefit from regulating cannabis like the Dutch. MacCoun examined the effects of the drug on Dutch society over the course of more than 30 years and discovered that America might have a lot to learn from what he dubs “quasi-legalization.”
 
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/20/cannabis-coffee-shops-america-dutch_n_972557.html