By Kevin Drum

 
 
Today, for the first time ever, Gallup reports that a solid majority of Americans are in favor of legalizing marijuana.
 
Full Article:
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/10/marijuana-will-probably-be-legal-most-country-2020

The Hot Press Newsdesk

 
 
Two Irish GPs, with between them 40 years of specializing in addiction treatment, have called for cannabis to be legalized here in a landmark article that will appear in the Thursday October 24 issue of Hot Press.
 
Full Article:
http://www.hotpress.com/Cannabis/news/Irish-Doctors-Call-For-Cannabis-To-Be-Legalised/10355316.html

The Associated Press
 
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Sick military veterans who want medical marijuana would get it more easily under legislation that’s getting committee approval.
 
Full Article:
http://www.wandtv.com/story/23760260/vets-homes-patients-would-get-marijuana-under-law

Submitted to Ladybud by Mercedys McNight, Chief Operating Officer atCannaMLS & Serra Frank, Founding Executive Director of Moms for Marijuana International; PHOTO: Diane Fornbacher
 
“There are many more heartbreaking stories of children being torn from their families, their lives dragged through the hell of the family law court system, and some even lost to their families forever through forced adoption, all because family protection agencies, court systems, and specialists refuse to realize that marijuana is not dangerous and does not present the immediate harm required by law to remove a child from their family.
The most heartbreaking consequence of these situations is that children are being thrown into the homes of strangers, away from everyone and everything they know and love. Immediate harm is required by law to remove a child from his or her home. The science and toxicology of cannabis have proven that cannabis is NOT harmful. But surely, ripping families apart is.”
 
Full Article:
http://www.ladybud.com/2013/10/22/moms-for-marijuana-time-to-end-the-war-on-families/

 
MONTEVIDEO, URUGAY– The government of Uruguay sets to one dollar the price of a gram of marijuana, which the state will harvest and sell when parliament passes a law promoted by the government of Jose Mujica. This law seeks to combat drug trafficking in the country.
 
Full Article:
http://hispaniolainfo.com/2013/10/?p=1822

Would you ever consider medical marijuana for your child?

 
The poll is at the end of the article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/21/medical-marijuana-pediatric-epilepsy_n_4137260.html

By sctinker

 
Realm of Carings Josh Stanley will be presenting an educational seminar on a newly discovered internal property found in Cannabis. We will also be discussing where Oklahoma stands currently on this treatment. Please come join us. If you have family in Oklahoma please inform them.
 
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1050621

BY PAUL LUKE, THE PROVINCE

TERRACE, B.C.: OCTOBER 9, 2013 – Lottery winner Bob Erb at his home in Terrace, B.C.Photograph by: See Notes / Direction , PROVINCE

 
A year ago, the universe decided to wallop the world with a heart as big and rough-edged as a giant ­marijuana leaf.
Bob Erb, by no means rich, had spent his six decades quietly donating to everything from homeless strangers to schoolchildren needing winter coats. But that was before the Terrace man won $25 million in a Lotto Max draw on Nov. 2, 2012.
 
Full Article:
http://www.theprovince.com/business/million+with+heart+Lotto+jackpot/9055519/story.html

By Dave Philipps
Mia Halabi, right, rests from a seizure after her mother, Miriam Khaled, center, and grandmother, Hoda Halabi, left, set her down in her new Colorado Springs home Saturday, October 12, 2013. The family moved from New York for Mia, who has 10-15 seizures a day, in hopes of treating her epilepsy with the oil from the cannabis strain Charlotte’s Web. Michael Ciaglo, The Gazette
When Mohammad Halabi was a boy, his parents fled war in Lebanon to give their child a chance at life. This month, as Halabi drove to Denver International Airport to pick up his wife and 2-year-old daughter, he realized he was doing the same thing.
Halabi’s daughter, Mia, has severe epilepsy. Treatment by some of the country’s best neurologists and with the most powerful drugs has done little. This year, doctors told him to prepare for her death.
“No matter what we did, nothing helped. She just got worse until she was almost a vegetable,” he said. “She had no chance at life.”
Then in July, he and his wife, Miriam, saw an online video of a Colorado Springs girl’s astounding recovery from epilepsy using an oil made from a special strain of marijuana. The girl, who had been catatonic, was now laughing and dancing in a ballerina outfit.
The Halabis live in New York City, where medical marijuana is illegal.
“As soon as we saw it, we knew we had to go,” he said.
 
Full Article:
http://gazette.com/families-of-children-with-epilepsy-moving-to-colorado-drawn-by-success-of-marijuana-oil/article/1507895