For years pharmaceutical companies have been developing bunk synthetic pot-like products that aren’t nearly effective (or as good) as the real thing, but a new drug being proposed to the FDA by a British company is, and that’s caused it contains extracts from the actual plant. And we’re not talking schwag. Read more »
Here’s an educational video from a 67-year-old woman about the hypocrisy of America’s drug prohibition entitled 420 – We Can’t Have That, which is done so fantastically bad it’s good. Her rapping style and geriatric drawl would make any subscriber to High Times happy, but that’s about it. The message is spot on though.
Here’s some of the coolest science news to ever be reported: the DNA of weed has been mapped out (both Sativa and Indica). Bubble-bubble. A company called Medicinal Genomics published the raw data, but will now have to assemble the 131 billion bases of cannabis sequence into a usable model. Read more »
The DEA, a federal agency with no medical expertise whatsoever and an obvious conflict of interest, has decided that pot lacks therapeutic value and therefore should remain a Schedule I drug. This decision was in response to a petition filed way back in 2002 seeking to have cannabis reclassified, but according to the feds, weed has “no currently accepted medical use.” REALLY? Read more »
The wondrous properties of weed are once again being heralded by researchers, this time for a study related to Huntington’s Disease. Using a mix of THC and CBD, an international team of really smart people discovered that the botanical combination can offer neuroprotection and hamper the spread of the hereditary disorder that wastes away the brain. Read more »
Just last week, the U.S. Department of Health’s National Cancer Institute raved about weed’s tumor-killing attributes on its website, but that was then and this is now. Seems like they’ve had a little change of heart. Check out the selective editing that NORML caught. Notice anything different? Back to 1975 it is.
Billionaire George Soros wrote a column in today’s Wall Street Journal detailing why he’s all for Prop 19. Basically, it will save money, resources, and give police the opportunity to focus their energies on real crime. It could also bring a semblance of equality to a criminal justice system that is currently out of whack and has been since pot was prohibited more than seven decades ago. Read more »
In less than two weeks, California voters will get the opportunity to vote on Proposition 19, a law that would tax and regulate the sale of weed. To help bolster that effort, “cause-driven design studio” I Shot Him Because I Loved Him, Damn Him created this nifty little video (and website). Read more »
Once again, in yet another study, smart people from the University of Montreal have determined that cannabis does help reduce chronic pain in patients and with much fewer side effects than prescription drugs reports ABC News. Good news right? Not for Dr. “Killjoy” from Duke University who said: “I don’t think I would ever encourage a patient to smoke anything. Can someone explain how is it that a doctor from a major university never heard of a vaporizer?
Just like “marijuana” in the 40s, K2 is the newest substance to get the Reefer Madness treatment by authorities and the media. The legal herb mixture is reportedly causing chaos amongst the youth with 30 new cases of severe reactions in St. Louis that include hallucinations, nausea and vomiting, making real weed a much safer alternative. Still, for some reason, kids in Missouri love this crap and so officials are responding the only way they know how: fear and panic!
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