Michelle Aldrich: Cancer Free with Cannabis Oil


 
Michelle thought she was just coming down with the flu, but the chest x-rays revealed much more – pneumonia, and a tumor. On January 12th, 2012, she was diagnosed with lung cancer.
Michelle has been a cannabis activist for over 40 years, so her course of action was certain, cannabis oil.
Michelle is a member of the San Francisco Medical Cannabis Task Force. She is on the Advisory Board for Patients Out of Time and, along with her husband Michael, are recipients of the High Times Lifetime Achievement Award.
Interview conducted at the Seventh National Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics, April 27, 2012 – Tucson, AZ.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AZU-brG7i4&feature=youtu.be
 

Book Banning: The Illinois Department of Corrections Bans The Cannabis Papers by “Publius”

A science book explaining the importance of cannabinoids to human health and happiness has been reviewed and banned from the prisons of theIllinois Department of Corrections (IDOC). The book ban came into effect in April after the publisher, Bryan Brickner, sent a copy of The Cannabis Papers: a Citizen’s Guide to Cannabinoids to IDOC prisoner Jason Alan Spyres (#K99397), a citizen who has served nine years of a 30-year cannabis sentence.
 
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http://www.sfgate.com/business/prweb/article/Book-Banning-The-Illinois-Department-of-3675440.php

Medical Marijuana Cancer Patient Wins Freedom to Medicate! Bob Crouse Celebrates Victory, But Can’t Go Home Because of Wildfire Threat

Bob Crouse Medical Marijuana Jury Acquittal
 
{Colorado Springs, CO} — Leukemia patient Bob Crouse celebrates a victory to use cannabis as his cancer treatment of choice. In a battle for his life that lasted over a year, on Friday, June 29, 2012 at 4:20pm, a jury of 12 El Paso County residents declared Crouse to be “not guilty” on all charges.
 
Read more here:
http://www.cannabistherapyinstitute.com/patients/crouse/

John Harrison, inventor of Tone Tubby hemp speakers for rock stars, dies at 59

By Paul Liberatore

John Harrison stands in his office on Friday, Jan. 21, 2011, in San Rafael, Calif. His company, Tone Tubby, makes speakers with cones made of hemp instead of the usual paper. Harrison died June 24. He was 59.

John Harrison, whose Tone Tubby company in San Rafael supplies innovative hemp speakers to such rock stars as Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton and Metallica’s Kirk Hammett, died unexpectedly June 25 at his home in Petaluma. He was 59.
Mr. Harrison apparently died in his sleep of unknown causes, his family said.
After moving to Marin from Atlanta, Ga., in 1974, Mr. Harrison started A Broun Soun, an oddly-spelled speaker re-coning and reconditioning company on Terra Linda’s Joseph Court. He soon became the go-to guy for musicians and studios in need of speaker repair.
“If you owned a recording studio, you knew John real well,” said his longtime friend, former studio owner Pete Slausen. “He was a bubbling, effervescent kind of guy.”
Bill Laymon, bassist for the New Riders of the Purple Sage, praised Mr. Harrison in an email as a “gifted technician” who always radiated positive energy. “The Bay Area music scene has suffered a great loss,” he said.
In rock music circles, Mr. Harrison, who also played keyboards in rock bands, was as well known for his eccentric personality and unbridled enthusiasm as he was for his inventive products.
“John Harrison looks like an unmade bed, talks more than Larry King and says he sees sound as color,” Chuck Squatriglia wrote in a 2010 article in Wired magazine. “He makes speakers out of hemp, and to spend any time with him leaves you thinking he’s smoking some of the product. It would be easy to dismiss him as a lovable, eccentric old hippie. But the man might just be a mad genius.”
That genius emerged a decade ago when, coming home from a Tubes concert, Mr. Harrison came up with the idea to substitute hemp — the industrial fiber from marijuana — for paper in the vibrating cone in speakers of guitar and bass amplifiers. R.E.M.’s Pete Buck said the “hempcone” speakers gave him “the coolest, most authentic early ’60s garage band tone.”
Mr. Harrison tried them out first on Santana, a longtime customer of his speaker repair shop.
“Santana was the first guy in the world to play through hemp and he immediately loved it,” Mr. Harrison said in a Marin Independent Journal article last year. “Eight years later he’s still using the originals.”
 
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 http://www.marinij.com/sanrafael/ci_20975052/john-harrison-inventor-tone-tubby-hemp-speakers-rock

Colombia court: No jail time for possession of cocaine, marijuana for personal use

By Associated Press

 
BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia’s Constitutional Court has ruled that people cannot be jailed for possessing cocaine and marijuana for personal use.
The decision ratifies a previous Supreme Court ruling that said people cannot be jailed for possession of a so-called personal dose. A 2009 law placed the dose at up to 20 grams of marijuana and one gram of cocaine.
 
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/colombia-court-no-jail-time-for-possession-of-cocaine-marijuana-for-personal-use/2012/06/29/gJQAUthBCW_story.html

The Stop Mass Incarceration Network to New York City: Drop the Charges Against the Stop & Frisk Defendants!

We call on the District Attorneys of Queens and Kings (Brooklyn) Counties to drop prosecution of those arrested protesting Stop-and-Frisk on November 1, 2011 at the 73rd Precinct in Brownsville, Brooklyn, and November 19, 2011 at the 103rd Precinct in Jamaica, Queens.
We call on the District Attorneys of New York (Manhattan) and Bronx Counties to drop the prejudicial prosecutions of “Noche” Diaz.
Further Resolved: We call for an immediate end to NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Policy.
 
Read and sign the resolution here:
http://www.stopmassincarceration.org/

How Hemp Can Solve the Population Explosion

By: Mike Fata

Jack Fields | Photo Researchers | Getty Images
 
“An estimated 70-80 percent of all agricultural land use, or 30 percent of the planet’s land surface, is used for livestock production. Consider how many more people would be fed if transitioned those acres used for animal feed to crops like hemp. The yield from the field would feed more people, and the time to bring food to the grocery shelf is drastically shortened.
Hemp is one of the most versatile crops in the world. For food products, only the hemp seed is used. The rest of the plant — the stalk or fiber, can be used for clothing, building materials or energy. Thus, transitioning fields from animal feed to crops like hemp produces a wide variety of products to support our growing population. Plus, crops like hemp are far more likely to sustain a population than crops seeded for animal feed.”
 
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http://www.cnbc.com/id/48010735

Marijuana Now the Most Popular Drug in the World

By ELIANA DOCKTERMAN
Cannabis Plants
REUTERS / Nir Elias
 
According to a U.N. report on global drug use, cannabis was the world’s most widely produced, trafficked, and consumed drug in the world in 2010.
Marijuana boasts somewhere between 119 million and 224 million users in the adult population of the world (18 or older). And there are no signs to indicate the popularity of marijuana will fall anytime soon. Cannabis is consumed in some fashion in all countries, the report says, and it is grown in most. Though the use of the drug is stabilizing in North America, and Oceania, smoking pot is on the rise in West and Central Africa, Southern Africa, South Asia and Central Asia.
In 2010, marijuana use was most prevalent in Australia and New Zealand. The U.S. and Canada came in second, followed by Spain, France, Italy, and the Czech Republic. Nigeria, Zambia, and Madagascar were tied for fourth place.
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http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/06/29/marijuana-now-the-most-popular-drug-in-the-world/
 

In France, “Cannabis Social Clubs” Start Growing in Defiance of Pot Laws

LES INROCKUPTIBLES (France)
PARIS – French marijuana activists are stepping up their fight to legalize the drug, opening several “Cannabis Social Clubs” across the country.
Known as a CSC, they are cooperatives of regular marijuana users who grow the plant for their own consumption, explains French magazineLes Inrockuptibles. The goal is to be able to get the drug without supporting drug trafficking. Plants are cultivated in gardens, on balconies or even in members’ closets. These not-for-profit organizations advocate a “controlled self-production” and are hoping to able to supply cannabis for “therapeutic” purposes as well.
The weed will be free and split equally among all members in exchange for a yearly 25-euro membership fee. These clubs first appeared in Spain and are already spreading to Belgium, countries where marijuana possession, consumption and production for personal use aren’t criminal offences. In France, there are bans against presenting the drug in “a positive light,” as well as its production, possession and even consumption.
 
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http://www.worldcrunch.com/france-cannabis-social-clubs-start-growing-defiance-pot-laws/5716

Medical marijuana businesses collecting donations for wildfire firefighters

By William Breathes
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While some of us were at home lighting up last night, firefighters across the state were working to extinguish some of the most frightening blazes in the state’s history.
To help support firefighters on the front lines near Fort Collins,Colorado Springs and Boulder, several medical marijuana businesses have come together to collect supplies needed.
 
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http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2012/06/medical_marijuana_donations_wildfire_firefighters.php