Introducing Sativex, it’s a mouth spray with a peppermint flavor for medical weed patients that delivers a dose of THC without any combustion, making it even safer for the lungs than a vaporizer. If approved by the FDA, the highly concentrated substance could create pressure on institutions like the DEA to accept the facts: Cannabis does provide medical value, which would force a cascade of policy changes, effectively removing it from its current Schedule I classification. However, unless it’s cheap, patients will be better off with the original product, the formula of which has remained virtually unchanged for thousands of years.

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.

That will then allow researchers to isolate specific genes, which is good for both recreational smokers and chronic patients alike.

For the latter, it could lead to the development of pot strains that deliver just the medicinal properties without the fun-getting-high effect, but for connoisseurs, the cultivation of super pot will become very possible.

By keeping it caged up as a Schedule I substance, it’s almost impossible for researchers in the U.S. to study it further, leaving the good herb in a state of limbo. For the lucky few that have gotten samples to test—including the government’s own National Institutes of Health—along with smart people in other nations without such restrictive policies, the preponderance of evidence overwhelmingly contradicts the DEA’s findings. Meanwhile, a plethora of HIGHLY ABUSED, opium-based drugs like OxyContin and Percocet, are not only Schedule II, but also sold legally.

They conducted their study on rats, but sound like they’re ready to take things to the next level:

In our opinion, these data provide sufficient preclinical evidence to justify a clinical evaluation of [one to one THC to CBD] cannabis-based medicine … as a neuroprotective agent capable of delaying disease progression in patients affected by HD.

Although it’s true that blacks are imprisoned for weed-related offenses at much higher rates than whites, back in the day, officials were more concerned with villainizing Mexicans. Mr. Soros explains:

Racial prejudice also helps explain the origins of marijuana prohibition. When California and other U.S. states first decided (between 1915 and 1933) to criminalize marijuana, the principal motivations were not grounded in science or public health but rather in prejudice and discrimination against immigrants from Mexico who reputedly smoked the “killer weed.”

What Mr. Soros didn’t mention is that the word “marijuana” itself was used to help promote this racial defamation. Before that it was simply known by its less stigmatized botanical name: cannabis. (Photo: Ana Botella Crew)

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).

It nicely boils down how important this referendum is. the RAND people basically misleading everyone about the effects legalization would have on Mexican drug cartels and the latest polls showing a slight dip for those in favor of, it could use all the help it can get.