by Art Writ
A study from the Haifa University has found out that a timely administration of marijuana could potentially block the development of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in rats. The said study was carried out by researchers from the psychology department of the said University and was also published in a journal called Neuropsychopharmacology. The research has discovered that rats which were administered with marijuana within a span of 24 hours after a traumatic experience were able to successfully curb any signs or symptoms of PTSD.
Read complete article here:
http://www.healblog.net/health-news/ptsd-symptoms-in-rats-lessened-by-marijuana/
Month: September 2011
Crime Rises When Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Close
When medical marijuana dispensaries close, crime rises in the surrounding neighborhood when compared to areas where dispensaries are allowed to remain open, according to a new RAND Corporation study. The findings challenge the common wisdom that marijuana dispensaries promote criminal activity.
Studying crime both before and after a large number of dispensaries were shut down in Los Angeles, researchers found that incidents such as break-ins rose in the neighborhoods of closed dispensaries relative to dispensaries allowed to remain open, at least in the short term.
In the blocks with the closed dispensaries, the study observed crime up to 60 percent greater than comparable blocks with open dispensaries, but the effects were not apparent across a wider area.
Read complete article here:
http://www.rand.org/news/press/2011/09/21.html
Treatment of Crohn’s disease with cannabis: an observational study.
CONCLUSIONS:
This is the first report of cannabis use in Crohn’s disease in humans. The results indicate that cannabis may have a positive effect on disease activity, as reflected by reduction in disease activity index and in the need for other drugs and surgery. Prospective placebo-controlled studies are warranted to fully evaluate the efficacy and side effects of cannabis in CD.
See Abstract here:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21910367
Police Harass Federal Medical Marijuana Patient Elvy Musikka – Toke of the Town
By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~
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| Paul Wellman |
| Federal medical marijuana patient Elvy Musikka holds a tin of joints send to her each month by the U.S. federal government |
Elvy Musikka, one of four surviving patients in the federal medical marijuana program, was detained by Oregon State Police early Thursday morning following a town hall meeting on medical marijuana.
Musikka was detained along with other registered Oregon medical marijuana patients after a state trooper staked out the co-op 45th Parallel and harassed cardholders as they left the building, reports Russ Belville in the Examiner.
Several members of the patient cooperative were detained by the trooper, who issued citations including a $1,000 ticket to a grower for “residue” left behind on an empty pipe by a patient.
Musikka was in town for the 45th Parallel’s Town Hall Meeting, which had occurred earlier Wednesday at the Clarion Hotel. At the hotel, an Oregon State Trooper parked just down the street from the public entrance to the parking lot.
“[I] cannot verify (but strongly suspect) it was the same trooper,” Belville said.
According to 45th Parallel clinic manager Joey Nieves, Musikka, who is in her mid-60s, was detained for more than an hour in a squad car as the ignorant trooper did not believe Musikka’s federal paperwork authorizing her to possess and use her federally produced medical marijuana anywhere in the U.S.
Read complete article here:
http://www.tokeofthetown.com/2011/09/police_harass_federal_medical_marijuana_patient_el.php
A World First in Australia- Hemp Farm offers visitors a greener side to Byron Bay
A Byron Bay industrial hemp farm is opening its doors to the public for daily eco-tours from 9th October. Family friendly, visitors to this sustainable permaculture farm may experience all the action of an eco farm without the hard work!
Industrial hemp has been legal to grow in Australia and New South Wales in particular for a few years now. Byron Bay’s first industrial hemp farm is run by local hemp expert, Director and Founder of the Hemp Farm Paul Benhaim who states “This is a normal crop in Europe, I was surprised to learn Australian’s have been missing out on all the fun of growing a crop of industrial hemp in Australia and it is about time I did something about this.”
Industrial hemp is well known for it’s use in ropes and clothes, but visitors to the Hemp Farm get a lot more. You can see the crop grow and learn about the equipment required for growing, harvesting and processing. The hemp farm is planned to be Australia’s centre of hemp food processing, with hemp seeds and hemp oil production already in place with plans for expansion early next year.
Visitors to the eco farm can see a demonstration of hemp milk, hemp ice-cream or hemp chocolate making and if you are lucky – get a taste of these healthy nutritious products that are sold widely throughout Europe and North America.
Read complete article here:
http://www.eco-business.com/press-releases/a-world-first-in-australia-hemp-farm-offers-visitors-a-greener-side-to-byron-bay/
Legalise marijuana (Times of Swaziland)
MANZINI – Smart Partners have suggested that the country should legalise marijuana to manufacture painkillers.
This was one of the submissions made by Table six which was represented by Senator Thulile Msane during presentations.
This has added to the growing suggestions that the prohibited shrub must be legalised.
Smart Partners were making submissions on ideas for the economic recovery, when the marijuana suggestion came up.
“We have to explore the use of herbs for treatment of ailments. We can also use marijuana to make painkillers. Nawuyigaye kahle imarijuana it can be useful for the production of painkillers,” she said.
Read complete article here:
http://www.times.co.sz/News/32483.html
Kansas City Hempfest 2011
Kansas City Hempfest 2011: Hemp for Jobs!
This is a FREE event.
Donations are greatly encouraged though!
RAFFLE PRIZES thanks to donations from
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IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY, 3918 Broadway, Kansas City, MO 64111
http://www.facebook.com/pa
HEADSPACE ON TROOST, 4254 Troost Ave, Kansas City, Mo. 64110
http://www.facebook.com/pr
HEMP OIL OF CANADA
http://www.hempoilcan.com/
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SPEAKERS AND PERFORMERS
MC: Sahj Kayah
SPEAKERS:
Dan Viets, Missouri NORML, Show-Me Cannabis Chairman
http://norml.org/index.cfm
Brian Leininger, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition/NORML
http://www.leap.cc/author/
Kelley Wesley, KC NORML/Women’s Marijuana Movement
Toni Bones, KC NORML Hemp Committee
Also Sean Randall, Amber Langston, and Jacqueline Patterson
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COMEDIANS:
Marty McIrvin
Travis Wright
http://www.youtube.com/use
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MUSIC:
MindzEye http://www.facebook.com/Mi
Sahj Kayah Divine Intervention http://www.facebook.com/pr
KanEyed http://www.facebook.com/ka
David Hasselhoff on Acid http://www.facebook.com/DH
Lando Kloud http://www.facebook.com/lk
http://www.facebook.com/pr
The Phantastics http://www.facebook.com/th
StoneDeph http://www.facebook.com/St
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PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST: http://www.facebook.com/ev
AFTER-PARTY: http://www.facebook.com/ev
WEBSITE: http://www.kchempfest.org/
Let It Grow – By John Sinclair
I left Amsterdam last week, after the shit hit the fan in Michigan, and the Dutch authorities were striving to match the sheer idiocy of the anti-marijuana crusaders in the United States by forcing 58 licensed cannabis coffeeshops out of business pursuant to a recent dictum that weed can’t be offered for consumption within 350 meters of a secondary school. “The cabinet does not want pupils’ education careers going up in smoke,” puffed education minister Marja van Bijsterveldt.
These grandstanding plays aimed at the most regressive sector of the citizenry look noble and civic-minded on the surface, but, in fact, have no actual relevance in terms of public safety. The coffeeshops being shut down have existed in proximity to the schools for 30 or 40 years with no appreciable impact on the student population.
In fact, nothing is more difficult in the Centrum of Amsterdam than minors acquiring cannabis products at a coffeeshop — or even getting up to the hash counter to order up some smoke. Strict ID checks are conducted without fail, because minors on the premises are grounds for immediate suspension of the shop’s cannabis privileges. Even if the school were next door to the coffeeshop, no students would be allowed entry in any event — ever.
Like raiding growrooms and linking growing to “serious crime” and “criminal violence,” shutting down marijuana outlets because of their proximity to a schoolhouse is an entirely cynical political ploy directed at the addled denizens of the religious and secular right in a last-ditch attempt to stave off the ever-encroaching rule of reason. But the real shame is that these small, independent businesses are being hounded out of existence in increasing numbers.
Read complete article here:
http://metrotimes.com/mmj/let-it-grow-1.1202612
The Oldest Recorded Cannabis Recipe
The following recipe is taken from what is considered the oldest cookbook ever written. Known as De Honesta Voluptate Et Valetudine (Of Honest Voluptuousness and Health), it was written by Bartholomaeus Platina in 1475 and contained around 300 recipes, one of them being for cannabis.
The recipe goes as follows:
To make cannabis yourself known as flax for thread
Use a mallet to crush clods collect after good harvest
Taken as food in wine or cake
Add cannabis to nard oil in an iron pot
Crush together over some heat until juice
A health drink of cannabis nectar
Carefully treat food and divide for the stomach and the head
finally remember everything in excess may be harmful or criminal.
Read complete article here:
http://goodandbaked.com/history/the-oldest-recorded-cannabis-recipe/
Hemp couture
Photography by Darryl James / Financial Post Magazine
Vancouver manufacturer creates a buzz in apparel
Changing the way an industry does business takes time, especially if there is a perfectly acceptable and entrenched way of doing things. Try doing it on your own and you may find more than a few closed doors, which underlines the importance of working with, not against, existing industry players.
A collaborative approach certainly is paying off for Naturally Advanced Technologies Inc. (NAT). Initially, it was primarily a hemp apparel manufacturer. But when industry veteran Ken Barker joined as CEO in 2006, he quickly realized the Vancouver-based company offered more potential than just selling T-shirts made from alternative fibres.
NAT first had to prove the hemp and flax fibres it manufactures, using enzymes to break down the raw material into fine strands, were a more effective, durable and sustainable alternative to cotton, which has been used to make clothing for millennia.
At the time, cotton was cheaper than alternative fibres even though it’s a land-intensive crop that requires huge quantities of water and large amounts of pesticides.
Read complete article here:
http://business.financialpost.com/2011/09/13/hemp-couture/