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Medical Cannabis in U.S.A. 13 JULY 2006
NORTH AMERICA: USA
UPI
- Research undertaken by Texas University and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science tends to show that cannabis is an effective pain-killer.  Click here for more info.

30 JUNE 2006
NORTH AMERICA / USA
PUBLIC HEALTH
AP
- The House of Representatives has rejected a proposal that would have granted limited exemption for users of therapeutic marijuana from prosecution by the Justice Department.  Click here for more info.

16 MAY 2006
NORTH AMERICA / USA
PUBLIC HEALTH
Associated Press
On 14 May the Food and Drug Administration bestowed its blessings on Cesamet, a synthetic version in pill form of the active ingredient of marijuana produced by Maleant Pharmaceuticals International.  Click here for more info.

28th FEBRUARY 2006
NORTH AMERICA / USA
PUBLIC HEALTH
ANI
- Research undertaken by Dr.Gregory I. Liou, molecular biologist in the Georgia State Medical College, has shown that marijuana could improve vision defects in diabetics. He said that ‘We are studying the effects of cannabinoids in the human body, with particular reference to combating retinal degeneration in diabetes’.  Click > here < for more.

14/12/2005
NORTH AMERICA / USA
CURIOSITY
Asian News International;
  - Rock star Melissa Etheridge said that she smoked and inhaled marijuana under medical supervision during her chemotherapy and benefited greatly from it. ‘This ought to be legalised’, she said. ‘I ask myself how that therapy would have been without this help’.  Click here for more info.

06/09/2005
NORTH AMERICA / USA
LEGALISATION
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
- Source: Research published by the Marijuana Policy Project.  Kids living in areas where the administration of therapeutic marijuana is legal are at no greater risk than their peers elsewhere.  Moreover, after a decade of rise in marijuana use, the years 200-present show a decline.  Click > here < for more.

15/09/2005
Medical Cannabis in Oregon NORTH AMERICA / USA - Oregon
JUSTICE
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
- The Supreme Court will consider the appeal of a sentence that supported an employer for having fired a worker who was using marijuana for therapeutic purposes in the state or Oregon.  The man was acting under proper authorisation under Oregon law to relive the muscular pains from which he suffered frequently.  Several spot-checks had found him cannabis-positive.

11 APRIL 2006
NORTH AMERICA / USA - Emeryville, California
JUSTICE
San Francisco Chronicle:
- The city of Emeryville was forced to pay fifteen thousand dollars to an ill person who used marijuana for therapeutic purposes because city police had confiscated thirty plants he was growing at home. The town fathers had to come to terms when it was discovered that the confiscated plants had disappeared from police custody.  Click here for more info.

27-10-2005
NORTH AMERICA / USA - Santa Cruz, California
Medical Cannabis in California Ansa
- Santa Cruz has become America’s first city with an official bureau for supervising the ‘compassionate’ distribution of therapeutic or medicinal marijuana -- thus the decision of the town council.  Mayor Mike Rotlin is looking into possible collaboration with pharmacies.

28/04/2005
Medical Cannabis in Alabama NORTH AMERICA / USA - Alabama
LAWS
AP
- A state legislature committee has approved in principle a proposed law that would legalise the therapeutic use of marijuana by chronic sufferers of pain, but the final text is not expected to be approved this year.

Alabamian's for Compassionate Care is an informal network of people working together to enable treatment of the chronically ill and injured in Alabama by allowing them legal access to marijuana for medical treatment, as prescribed by a licensed physician. visit: www.compassionate-care.org for more.  Click > here < for more.

No Reason To Suffer
Blog: US Marijuana Party.
  Where does the government get the idea it has the right to know what prescriptions my doctor prescribes for me?  As a sufferer of chronic pain, I have taken many of the drugs listed in a recent article in The News.  There are more I haven't taken because of government interference with a doctor's ability to "doctor" his patients.  Click > here < for more.

26 MARCH 2006
NORTH AMERICA / USA - Alaska
LEGALISATION
- The state supreme court has approved of the state law that allows legal possession of four ounces or 112 grammes of marijuana for personal use. Polls show that fifty per cent of citizens agree, forty-seven per cent disagree.  Click > here < for more.

1st MARCH 2006
Medical Cannabis in Colorado NORTH AMERICA / USA - Colorado
LEGALISATION
cbs4:
- SAFER (Safer Alternatives for Enjoyable Recreation), a group that fought for cannabis legalisation in Denver, will extend its campaign throughout the state. Sixty-eight thousand signatures have been collected for demanding that the issue be included in November’s election.  Click > here < for more.

12 FEBRUARY 2006
NORTH AMERICA / USA - Hawaii
PUBLIC HEALTH
Pacific Business News:
- Five years after the effective start of the therapeutic-marijuana law, three thousand people are registered as authorised consumers . . . but only eight physicians can see to the needs of eighty cent of these owing to the opposition of the majority of medical personnel.  Click > here < for more.

164 Doctors Can Prescribe Marijuana Medical Cannabis in Hawaii

Question: I was wondering if you can point me in the direction of two things.  One, how can I contribute to the legalization of medicinal marijuana everywhere?  Second, where can I find a doctor on Oahu who is participating in writing prescriptions to patients (who, of course, meet the requirements under the law) for marijuana use?  Click > here < for more.

18/08/2005
NORTH AMERICA / USA - Hawaii (Honolulu)
PUBLIC HEALTH
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The state’s first clinic for the administration of therapeutic marijuana will open in Honolulu on 7th September under the aegis of the Hemp and Cannabis Foundation of Portland, Oregon.  Choice of this venue was prompted by Hawaii’s lax enforcement of the law that authorises such therapies, but it is difficult to find physicians willing to go along.  To date there are 2,700 authorised candidate patients.

Daily Illini
22 FEBRUARY 2006
NORTH AMERICA / USA - Illinois
LEGALISATION The state senate’s Commission for Social Services has approved by a vote of six to five Bill 2568, which legalises the consumption of therapeutic marijuana. This measure must now be approved by the General Assembly.  Click > here < for more.

LAWMAKERS CONSIDER MEDICAL MARIJUANA Medical Cannabis in Massachusetts

BOSTON, 08 Jan 2006 -- Massachusetts could become the fourth New England state to legalize medical marijuana under a plan before state lawmakers

On the heels of Rhode Island's approval last week of medical marijuana use, lawmakers here are pushing a measure, with the support of some North of Boston legislators, that would allow doctors to treat patients with marijuana. Backers say people who suffer from debilitating pain and chronic diseases should be able to gain relief without fear of arrest, something 11 states have approved.  Click > here < for more.

11-8-2005
Medical Cannabis in Michigan NORTH AMERICA / USA - Michigan
Two Medical Marijuana Victories In Michigan
On November 8, 2005, voters in two Michigan cities passed medical marijuana initiatives by dramatic margins, joining the growing national trend of voters who are bypassing legislators and using the ballot box to protect medical marijuana patients from arrest.

In Ferndale, by a margin of 61% to 39%, voters removed the threat of arrest and jail under city law for seriously ill people who use and grow marijuana with their doctors' recommendations.  In Traverse City, by a margin of 63% to 37%, voters made the prosecution of medical marijuana patients the city's lowest law enforcement priority.   Click here for more.

23rd FEBRUARY 2006
NORTH AMERICA / USA - Missouri
LEGALISATION
Columbia Missourian
- Following the proposal of a law that would allow physicians to prescribe marijuana to seriously ill patients, the whole debate has flared up again in the House of Representatives. The law currently in effect allows the prescription of opium, cocaine and amethamphetamione, but not marijuana.  Click > here < for more.

8 FEBRUARY 206
NORTH AMERICA / USA - Nevada
LEGALISATION
KVBC.com:
- The campaign to legalise marijuana is under way under the aegis of the Committee to Regulate and Control Marijuana . In November the voters will be asked to say Yea or Nay on the controlled and taxed sale of the stuff to over-twenty-one-year-olds in special stores.  Click > here < for more.

14-10-2005
Medical Cannabis in New Jersey NORTH AMERICA / USA - New Jersey
THERAPEUTIC MARIJUANA
Join Together
- All gubernatorial candidates favour therapeutic administration of marijuana.  ‘When faced with certain realities we must offer every possible medical means’ says Republican Doug Forrester, and his Democratic opponent Jon Corzine echoes it with ‘We must do all we can in aid of the sufferers’.  Click > here < for more.

25 JANUARY 2006
Medical Cannabis in New Mexico NORTH AMERICA / UNITED STATES - New Mexico
LAWS
The Associated Press;
The State Senate Public Affairs Commission unanimously approved the law that would legalise marijuana consumption by sufferers of serious diseases.  The text must now be approved by two further commissions and requires that the patients be included in a programme set up by the Health Department.  Click > here < for more.

31 MARCH 2006
NORTH AMERICA / USA -- Rhode Island
LEGALISATION
AP:
- The state law on therapeutic marijuana, passed in January, became effective on 31st March, after the state Health Department passed the decree actual application to the state Secretary of State. The Medical Marijuana Program will issue an ID document that authorises the bearer to cultivate twelve plants or to buy two and a half ounces -- seventy-one grammes -- of marijuana. Go to:  Click > here < for more on the story.

Medical Cannabis in Rhode Island MARIJUANA NOW LEGAL FOR CHRONICALLY ILL in Rhode Island 5th JANUARY 2006
NORTH AMERICA / USA - Rhode Island
LAWS
Ansa - The state Legislature has overridden Governor Don Carcieri’s veto and thus made law of the therapeutic use of marijuana for victims of cancer, AIDS and other painful incurable diseases. This makes Rhode Island the eleventh state (of fifty) to take such a step.

Thu, 05 Jan 2006.   Overriding the governor's veto, the Rhode Island House of Representatives voted 59-13 yesterday to legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes.

Gov. Donald Carcieri vetoed the original bill, sponsored by Rep. Thomas Slater ( D-Providence ), last year, but the Senate overrode the veto before it broke for its summer recess.  The House saved the override vote for yesterday.  Click > here < for more.

03/09/2005
Medical Cannabis in Virginia NORTH AMERICA / USA - Virginia
LEGALISATION
PRWEB
- The Virginia Nurses’ Association, which represents 80,000 persons, recently confirmed support of legalising therapeutic uses of cannabis.  The association is the first of fourteen similar ones to take this position.

18 FEBRUARY 2006
NORTH AMERICA / USA - Washington State
CULTIVATION
Neue Zuercher Zeitung
- Illegal marijuana cultivation has become one of the most profitable crop of the state of Washington -- thus the local police authorities, who in 2005 confiscated a hundred and thirty-five thousand seedling plants that had a value of two hundred and seventy million dollars.  Click > here < for more.

Medical Cannabis in Wisconsin MEDICAL POT BILL WILL GET HEARING

Every day for the past 23 years, Irv Rosenfeld has smoked up to a dozen marijuana cigarettes.

On probably every one of those days, someone, somewhere, was arrested for doing the same thing. But the government not only doesn't care about Rosenfeld's drug use; it's been his supplier.

One of just seven remaining patients in the federal government's "compassionate use" program, which provides marijuana for medical uses, Rosenfeld said the drug helps him cope with the excruciating pain caused by an estimated 200 benign bone tumors that daily poke at his muscles and veins.

For more information see also:

Wisconsin Medical Society
Also, Information: (Cannabis - Medicinal)
... and: (Chronic Pain)
... and: (Irvin Rosenfeld)
... and : (Gregg Underheim)

28-09-2005
NORTH AMERICA / USA - Wisconsin
LEGALISATION
Wisconsin is ready to allow therapeutic use of marijuana.  Even Bush-Republican representative Gregg Underheim is in favour, maintaining that ‘obviously people are way ahead of the politicians in this’.  The Marijuana Policy Project has published a poll in which a majority of citizens of all ages and political preferences approve.   Click > here < for more.



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Last week President Obama quietly announced that he would nominate Michele Leonhart to lead the Drug Enforcement Agency. Ms. Leonhart, who was appointed and promoted by George W. Bush, oversaw the Bush administration’s tactic of raiding the homes of desperately ill individual medical marijuana patients in California. Ms. Leonhart also has a record of adamantly fighting against allowing scientific research of the potential medicinal value of marijuana. Ignoring the ruling of a federal judge, Ms. Leonhart single-handedly blocked applications from respected university researchers studying medical marijuana.

Tell your Senator not to confirm Ms. Leonhart. We need a DEA leader who understands the potential value of medical marijuana -- not a Bush-era holdover who thought raiding the homes of cancer patients was a good idea.

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Marijuana use by seniors goes up as boomers age

By MATT SEDENSKY, Associated Press Writer - Feb. 22, 2010 | MIAMI - In her 88 years, Florence Siegel has learned how to relax: A glass of red wine. A crisp copy of The New York Times, if she can wrest it from her husband. Some classical music, preferably Bach. And every night like clockwork, she lifts a pipe to her lips and smokes marijuana. Long a fixture among young people, use of the country's most popular illicit drug is now growing among the AARP set, as the massive generation of baby boomers who came of age in the 1960s and '70s grows older.

The number of people aged 50 and older reporting marijuana use in the prior year went up from 1.9 percent to 2.9 percent from 2002 to 2008, according to surveys from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The rise was most dramatic among 55- to 59-year-olds, whose reported marijuana use more than tripled from 1.6 percent in 2002 to 5.1 percent.

Observers expect further increases as 78 million boomers born between 1945 and 1964 age. For many boomers, the drug never held the stigma it did for previous generations, and they tried it decades ago. Some have used it ever since, while others are revisiting the habit in retirement, either for recreation or as a way to cope with the aches and pains of aging.  Visit: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35517361/?GT1=43001 for full text, comments and to leave yours.


The DEA RAIDS AGAIN

The raids continue - when will the policy change? by ASA | On Wednesday, August 12th, officers representing seven different law enforcement agencies conducted raids in Los Angeles on two medical marijuana dispensaries and the owner's home. Please urge our President and Attorney General to stop this practice. Dozens of officers representing the DEA, FBI, IRS, LA County Sheriff, and three city police departments executed the paramilitary style raids, which included helicopter air support. According to the Los Angeles Times, they even shot the dog.

While nothing yet is confirmed, ASA has learned that the raids may have been conducted over allegations of tax evasion and failure to pay workers' compensation. This does not seem to justify the presence of seven different law enforcement agencies. Despite California law and recent court decisions, are medical marijuana facilities still being singled out? Heavy-handed tactics like these seem to contradict the President's stated intentions of creating a new federal policy on medical marijuana.

From California cities to the Iowa Board of Pharmacy, more and more communities are taking the time to explore reasonable regulations facilitating access to medical marijuana. It is time for the federal government to follow suit. Please urge President Obama and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to end DEA raids and develop a sensible national policy on medical marijuana. Thank you for your help!

Sanjeev Bery
National Field Director
Americans for Safe Access

Americans for Safe Access is the nation's largest organization of patients, medical professionals, scientists and concerned citizens promoting safe and legal access to cannabis for therapeutic use and research. Contact info: 1322 Webster St., Ste. 402, Oakland, CA 94612 * Phone: 510-251-1856 * Fax: 510-251-2036 * or visit - http://www.safeaccessnow.org/

Advocacy group says DEA medical marijuana arrests may be firsts under Obama - Written by Elizabeth Larson - Monday, 24 August 2009 | UPPER LAKE – An advocacy group said Monday that several arrests by the Drug Enforcement Administration that followed a federal raid in Upper Lake last week are believed to be the first involving medical marijuana since President Barack Obama took office. Tom Carter and Brett Bassignani were arrested Aug. 18 on charges of conspiracy and possession with the intent to distribute marijuana, as Lake County News has reported.

An informant had allegedly made a purchase deal with Bassignani and referenced Carter in the transaction, but last week Carter's federal defense attorneys filed a document in which they challenged the charge, saying they were weak and should be dismissed. Court document reveal there were additional arrests as well – those of Carter's neighbors, Scott Feil and Diana Feil, and Diana Feil's stepfather, Steven Swanson. The charges against the Feils and Swanson, however, are not elaborated in the documents that Lake County News was able to obtain Monday.

A US Attorney's Office spokesman could not be reached for comment on the case Monday. Scott Feil was the former manager of the United Medical Caregivers Clinic medical cannabis dispensary in Los Angeles, and has been fighting a federal forfeiture case for several years, according to Dale Gieringer, PhD, coordinator for California NORML, a group dedicated to reforming marijuana laws.

Gieringer said the Upper Lake situation is significant because, although there have been about three or four other DEA raids involving that are alleged to be medical marijuana collectives, this is the first time arrests were made and federal charges filed since President Obama came into office in January. Earlier this year, US Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the federal government would no longer prosecute marijuana offenses that are legal under state medical marijuana laws. Since then, the DEA has raided two or three dispensaries in San Francisco and Los Angeles, but without making any arrests, according to California NORML. Gieringer said the 154 plants seized from Carter's property – which Carter's wife, Jamie Ceridono, said were covered by medical recommendations – is a small number and is in keeping with what would be found at a medical marijuana collective.

"It sounds like the key to this whole case is this informant who was setting something up," said Gieringer. California NORML, which has kept track of all federal marijuana arrests since they started, denounced the federal government for continuing to interfere in California's medical marijuana laws in the wake of the Upper Lake arrests.

The group reported that more than 100 medical marijuana defendants have been charged under federal law. Gieringer called for concrete changes in federal law, and said the Obama administration so far hasn't announced any changes in federal laws or regulations.

Obama appointees haven't yet replaced Bush appointees – who Gieringer called "marijuana-hostile" – in the DEA and the U.S. Attorney's Office in Northern California. The locals arrested last week were transported to the Bay Area. Feil is due for a detention hearing at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday in San Francisco. Carter's detention hearing is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, and Ceridono said she and supporters plan to attend.  Visit: http://lakeconews.com/content/view/10037/764/ for full text, comments and to leave yours.


Survey on the Modes of Delivery of Cannabinoids

Subject: IACM-Bulletin Special of 18 August 2009 | There is an international survey on the advantages and disadvantages of different modes of delivery of cannabis-based drugs and substances. People who want to support the survey are cordially invited to spread the word on it in the internet. There are direct links to the questionnaire in different languages:

English: http://www.cannabis-med.org/limesurvey/index.php?sid=91387&lang=en

German: http://www.cannabis-med.org/limesurvey/index.php?sid=91387&lang=de

Spanish: http://www.cannabis-med.org/limesurvey/index.php?sid=91387&lang=es

French (soon available): http://www.cannabis- med.org/limesurvey/index.php?sid=91387&lang=fr

Dutch: http://www.cannabis-med.org/limesurvey/index.php?sid=91387&lang=nl

Anyone who uses cannabis or other cannabinoids for medicinal purposes and has experience with two or more of the following substances or modes of delivery is invited to participate:

    - Smoking of cannabis,

    - Inhalation of cannabis with a vaporizer,

    - Oral use of cannabis as a tea,

    - Oral use of cannabis in baked goods/cannabis tincture,

    - Oral use of dronabinol/Marinol (THC),

    - Oral use of nabilone/Cesamet,

    - Inhalation of dronabinol (THC) with a vaporizer,

    - Sativex,

    - other use.

Participants remain anonymous. The survey was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Medical School of Hannover and is headed by the chairwoman of the IACM, Dr. Kirsten Mueller- Vahl, Professor at the Medical School of Hannover (Germany), in cooperation with Dr. Arno Hazekamp of the University of Leiden (The Netherlands), Dr. Donald Abrams, Professor at the University of California San Francisco (USA), Dr. Ethan Russo, Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Montana (USA), Dr. Franjo Grotenhermen of the nova-Institut (Germany), Dr. Mark Ware, Assistant Professor at the McGill University, Montreal (Canada), Dr. Ricardo Navarrete-Varo, Malaga (Spain), and Dr. Rudolf Brenneisen, Professor at the University of Bern (Switzerland).

The questionnaire is available at: http://www.cannabis-med.org

Contact info: International Association for Cannabis as Medicine (IACM), Am Mildenweg 6, D-59602 Ruethen, Germany * Phone: +49 (0)2952-9708571 * Fax: +49 (0)2952-902651 * or visit - http://www.cannabis-med.org

If you want to be deleted from or added to the IACM-Bulletin mailing list or if you want to change your e-mail address please visit www.cannabis-med.org/english/subscribe.htm. You may choose between different languages (English, German, French, Dutch, Italian and Spanish). The articles of the IACM-Bulletin can be printed, translated and distributed freely for any non-commercial purposes, provided the original work is properly cited. The source of the IACM-Bulletin is "IACM, www.cannabis-med.org".


WHY NOT TWO DAYS INSTEAD OF 366?

NORTH AMERICA: USA (Blog) - June 12, 2009 - By Jacob Sullum | As I predicted/hoped, U.S. District Judge George Wu used the "safety valve" for nonviolent, low-level drug offenders to avoid imposing the otherwise mandatory five-year sentence on Charlie Lynch, former operator of a medical marijuana dispensary in Morro Bay, California. Medical Cannabis in U.S.A. The only thing that might have prevented Wu from using this provision was a determination that Lynch had acted as a "leader" of a criminal enterprise, and Wu decided that he hadn't. At the same time, Wu said he felt constrained to impose a sentence of at least one year because a cancer patient whose parents brought him to the dispensary was under 21, triggering a provision of federal law that doubles the sentence that would otherwise apply.  Visit: http://www.reason.com/blog/show/134098.html for more info.

CARCIERI VETOES BILL ALLOWING MARIJUANA DISPENSARIES, House and Senate Move to Override Governor's Veto

NORTH AMERICA: USA / PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Republican Governor Carcieri has, as promised, vetoed legislation that would make Rhode Island the second state in the nation to allow state-licensed dispensaries to sell marijuana to the chronically and critically ill. In his first veto message of the year, Carcieri said:

"Although the intent of the legislation is to allow consenting adults to use marijuana only for medicinal purposes based on illness, the increased availability, along with a complacent attitude, will no doubt result in increased usage, and will negatively impact the children of Rhode Island."

However, the identical House and Senate versions of the marijuana-dispensary bill passed both chambers with enough votes to easily override the governor's veto. In fact, the lead House sponsor -- Rep. Thomas Slater -- said both the Senate president and the House speaker have promised him they would override the veto, if necessary. Echoed the Senate sponsor, Rhoda E. Perry: "I believe we have the intent and the numbers to override the veto."

In an interview on Friday moments after the veto came down, Slater said he expects to start a medical marijuana protocol on his own doctor's advice in the coming days in an effort to help relieve the symptoms of advanced breast cancer and stimulate his appetite. State law already allows doctors to prescribe marijuana for use by people with severe, chronic and debilitating illnesses, such as cancer, hepatitis C and HIV. As of April 30, there were 681 people registered to do so with the Department of Health.

But that law, adopted in 2006, does not provide a legal avenue for any of these registered patients -- or their 581 registered caregivers -- to obtain the drug.

"The principal problem that our patients had was their fear of dealing with the illegal market," said Perry, D-Providence. "They were very frightened."  Visit: http://www.projo.com/news/content/marijuana_veto_06-13-09_NDEN34V_v16.3db725c.html for the full story.

NADELMANN VS BENNETT ON CNN

Tonight's "Great Debate": Is the war on drugs a failure and would legalizing marijuana be a better solution? Former drug czar Bill Bennett and the head of the Drug Policy Alliance in a frank discussion about addiction, crime, and violence. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) BROWN: Time for our "Great Debate." And tonight's premise: The war on drugs is a failure. The Obama administration just announced a new strategy to fight drug trafficking at the U.S.-Mexican border, adding literally hundreds of agents in the field and new technology at ports of entry. But critics say it's all basically for a lost cause.

So, joining us to debate, CNN political contributor Bill Bennett, who is host of the national radio talk show "Morning in America." He was also the nation's drug czar under President George H.W. Bush. And, officially, that is the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. And he says we can win the war on drugs. On the other side of this, Ethan Nadelmann, who is founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, which works to promote new drug policies and alternatives to the current battle that we're fighting, the war on drugs.  Visit: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0906/11/ec.01.html for more info.

A DRUG WAR TRUCE?

Obama's new drug czar says the administration won't legalize pot - but pressure for real reform is growing. By Tim Dickinson | Looking at the headlines, you might get the impression that America is approaching a cease-fire in the War on Drugs. After four decades of mindless prohibition and draconian prison sentences for addicts and casual users, the first four months of the Obama era have seen a rapid turn toward rationality. The administration has announced that it will no longer bust clinics that legally dispense medical marijuana, and incoming drug czar Gil Kerlikowske declared flatly in May that he had "ended the War on Drugs." Prominent politicians from Virginia to California — including Sen. Jim Webb and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger — have begun to discuss the merits of legalizing and taxing marijuana. And most striking of all, New York — the state that pioneered the use of prison cells for drug addicts — has repealed its repressive Rockefeller drug laws, replacing the nation's harshest sentences with a progressive approach to treatment. "We put a stop to 35 years of bad policy," Gov. David Paterson tells Rolling Stone.  Visit: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/28600327/a_drug_war_truce/1 for more info.

SMOKED CANNABIS' EFFECT ON LUNGS | NORTH AMERICA: USA (Video) - Does regular marijuana smoking cause COPD, Emphysema and/or Lung Cancer? In part 1, Donald Tashkin, MD examines risk of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Donald P. Tashkin, MD - Medical Director of the Pulmonary Function Laboratory, Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles. Presented to Fifth Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics held in Pacific Grove, CA, April, 2008. Conference hosted by Patients Out of Time.  Visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXKhHv5VuEI for more info.

LIBERALS TEAM WITH CONSERVATIVES TO PASS A NASTY NEW DRUG LAW

By Dana Larsen, CANNABIS CULTURE | NORTH AMERICA / CANADA: On June 8, Canada's Parliament passed a new set of mandatory minimum penalties for a variety of marijuana and drug offences. Medical Cannabis in Canada The new law now goes to the Senate, where it will likely be approved. Even though Canada's Senate has many members who oppose prohibition, it is extremely rare for the Senate to block a bill passed by Parliament, especially when it has the support of both Liberals and Conservatives. According to Conservative Justice Minister Rob Nicholson, the law is aimed at "serious drug traffickers, the people who are basically out to destroy our society."  Click here for more info.

EUROPEAN UNION / UNITED KINGDOM (WebCast) Broadcasting on the Drug Truth Network, this is Cultural Baggage. It's not only inhumane it is really fundamentally Un-American... "NO MORE" "DRUG WAR" | Cultural Baggage Radio Show - 06/10/09 - Claudia Rubin w/ RELEASE in the UK, regarding their campaign: "Nice People Take Drugs" + Dr. Joel Hochman's warning to parents & Julie Roberts of Drug Policy Alliance on forthcoming cannabis distribution in New Mexico Medical Cannabis in the United Kingdom My Name is Dean Becker. I don't condone or encourage the use of any drugs - legal or illegal. I report the unvarnished truth about the pharmaceutical, banking, prison and judicial nightmare that feeds on eternal drug war. "Hello my friends and welcome to this edition of Cultural Bagage. I think we have got a great show for you today. Our first guest is going to be Claudia Rubin, she is with RELEASE, in the U.K."  Visit: http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/?q=node/2453 for more info.


Stimulus dollars fund NW study on marijuana

by KATU.com Staff | VANCOUVER, Wash. - A Southwest Washington psychology professor has received federal stimulus money to study marijuana and pain management. WSU Vancouver Professor Michael Morgan qualified to receive $148,438 for his two-year study, which aims to determine whether the use of marijuana along with other anti-pain medications such as morphine provides better pain relief than either drug alone. The grant from the National Institutes of Health is part of the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the economic stimulus package enacted by Congress and signed by the president in February.

"This research is innovative in the field," Morgan said in a news release. "Currently there are no other projects that are studying this chemical relationship using these parameters." His project was picked because of "its potential to stimulate the economy and create or retain jobs within the community" as well as its likelihood of making scientific progress in two years, school officials said in a news release.  Visit: http://www.kpic.com/news/local/46728052.html for more.

City closes medical marijuana clinic loophole

By Rick Orlov, Staff Writer - Updated: 06/02/2009 | In a move to check the proliferation of questionable medical marijuana clinics, city officials moved Tuesday to close a loophole that has allowed nearly 500 clinics to set up shop over the past two years despite a city moratorium. A city panel voted to change the language on an interim measure that allowed clinics to open under a "hardship exemption" clause. The clause allowed clinics to argue why they should be allowed to open even with the moratorium in place. The City Council's Planning and Land Use Management Committee approved a proposal from Councilman Jose Huizar to strike the exemption from its Interim Control Ordinance, adopted in September 2007.

"I am a supporter of Proposition 215 to give reasonable access to medical marijuana," Huizar said in a written statement. "But, we have seen a proliferation of these clinics operated by people who are seeking a quick profit"  Visit: http://www.dailynews.com/breakingnews/ci_12504085 for more.

Video: Orange County Seniors Demand Medical Marijuana Access

by David Borden on Sun, 05/31/2009 | This video by "Drug Crazy" author Mike Gray is from Orange County, California -- not a liberal bastion, but medical marijuana has been state law there for over 12 years. Senior citizens are calling for access to medical marijuana, local authorities are sympathetic, and advocates are willing help. But they can't find a landlord willing to rent to them, presumably because of threats by the US DEA to use asset forfeiture laws to take the property away. Along with the sheer barbarism of these federal policies, the video also hints at what may be the largest tragedy, people who because of those policies never find out that marijuana could have helped them.  Click here for more info and to see the video.

WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF MARIJUANA WERE DECRIMINALIZED? A Freakonomics Quorum

By Stephen J. Dubner | Two years ago we ran a quorum debating the pros and cons of decriminalizing marijuana. Since then, a largely theoretical debate has moved quite substantially toward the realm of reality, with a growing number of states and municipalities having changed their laws. The details from place to place vary greatly and are very much a patchwork; the most prominent state to make a move is Massachusetts. The California legislature, meanwhile, is wondering whether marijuana could save its economy — which, as we read just this morning, is badly in need of saving. Although President Obama doesn’t seem interested, arguments in favor of decriminalization are popping up everywhere, from the Law Enforcement Against Prohibition platform to the senior thesis of a graduating economics major at Brown named Max Chaiken, which finds that “a legally taxed and regulated marijuana market could generate upwards of $200 billion annually in excise tax revenues for the federal government … [which] would be enough to fund Medicaid.”  Visit: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/22/pot-quorum/ for more.

B.C. POT GROWER WON'T FORFEIT HOUSE, SUPREME COURT RULES

In a landmark ruling, the country's top court said Friday that a convicted marijuana grower in North Vancouver won't lose her house as part of her sentence. It's the first time the Supreme Court of Canada has tested federal drug laws that allow confiscation of assets related to crime. It ruled 5-2 that Judy Ann Craig, convicted in 2003 of growing pot worth more than $100,000 in her home, does not have to give up her house as crime-related property. Prosecutors had said the laws are a powerful deterrent against home-based grow-ops. But Craig's lawyer Howard Rubin argued the law should target only organized traffickers and not unfairly punish home-based growers.  Visit: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/05/29/pot-supreme-court.html for more.

UNDER THE RADAR: US DEMOCRATS OVERSEAS PASS MARIJUANA RESOLUTION

By Stephen C. Webster | The Democratic Party Committee Abroad, otherwise known as Democrats Abroad, passed a resolution on April 25 recommending the legalization of marijuana in all 50 states. The news appears to have gone completely unnoticed by all mainstream outlets. The Democrats Abroad are considered a state party by the Democratic National Committee, which affords them eight elected, voting members. They help U.S. citizens who are traveling and living outside the United States cast ballots in national elections. The DNC maintains a pool of 200 voting members divvied up by individual states’ populations. The resolution was first put forward by the Japanese branch of Democrats Abroad. After only minor debate, according to Daily Kos diarist YoYogiBear who says he created the resolution, it passed, moving up for debate by the Democratic Party Committee Abroad, where it was met with some resistance.  Visit: http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/26/under-the-radar/ for more.

ILLINOIS SENATE PASSES MEDICAL MARIJUANA BILL 30-28!

The Illinois Senate passed the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act, also known as SB 1381, by a vote of 30-28. SB 1381 would allow seriously ill patients with diseases like cancer, HIV/AIDS, and multiple sclerosis to use marijuana if recommended by their doctor. If this legislation becomes law, patients with a state- issued ID card would be allowed to possess up to six plants and 2 ounces of usable marijuana. Here are a couple of things you can do to help keep SB 1381 moving forward:  Visit: http://www.mpp.org/states/illinois/alerts/illinois-senate-passes.html for more.

First thieves, then cops take man's medical pot

By RAY LANE, KOMO-TV STAFF | "FBI! Get on the floor!" Those were the words Roger Spohn said he heard as four gunmen masquerading as federal agents stormed into his Wallingford home.

The men wanted one thing: marijuana - which Spohn was growing plenty of for legal medical use - and they took off with several pounds of it. But when Seattle police responded to the home invasion call, Spohn didn't get sympathy or protection. Rather, according to him, a bigger crime was committed.

Officers and detectives moved in and hauled away hundreds of marijuana plants that were a part of a large growing operation inside the house. Spohn, who is legally able to grow up to 15 plants for medical use, said he was cultivating a larger amount for fellow medical marijuana patients.

"Every patient can't grown their own 15 plants. It's fairly difficult getting them to root and keeping them alive," he said. Growing good, medical-grade marijuana is not easy, according to Spohn. But patients with terminal or debilitating health conditions rely on it.

No matter, Spohn was detained for hours as police chopped up the plants and stuffed them inside bags.  Visit: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/406593_pottheft27.html for more.

Government runs nation's only legal pot garden

OXFORD, Mississippi (CNN) -- Here, in what could be called the Fort Knox of dope, Mahmoud ElSohly waits patiently as an assistant unlocks the stainless steel door to a climate-controlled vault. Mahmoud ElSohly oversees the nation's largest legal marijuana garden at the University of Mississippi. Once inside, under the gaze of security cameras and a blinking motion sensor, another scientist pries open the lid of a large cardboard barrel, opens a large plastic bag and digs his hand into the vat of meticulously manicured marijuana.

We are in the Coy W. Waller Laboratory Complex on the campus of the University of Mississippi, getting a look at the only legal marijuana farm and production facility in the United States. This is the government's "cannabis drug repository." This is the government's stash.

Since 1968, the National Institute on Drug Abuse has contracted with the university lab to grow, harvest and process marijuana and to ship it to licensed facilities across the country for research purposes. The lab also collects samples of marijuana seized by police to determine its potency and to document national drug trends.  Visit: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/18/government.marijuana.garden/ for more. NOTE: The CIND patients also get their medicine from this source. It's unfortunate they didn't mention the CIND patients ... More unfortunate that it was deliberate. This is ... part of the propaganda campaign against medical marijuana and cannabis in general.

Medical-pot advocate-grower gets 10 years

(05-18) 14:47 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- A medical-marijuana advocate who grew 32,000 plants on his land in Lake County was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday by a federal judge who criticized the law she was applying. Images View More Images Video View Larger Size More Bay Area News Feds want secrecy over alleged torture flights 06.12.09 'Red flag' raised in suspect's death in Oakland 06.12.09 Judge: Ex-Bush lawyer can be sued over torture 06.12.09 Public told to stay away from gray whales 06.13.09

"I think that amount of time is excessive, but it's not up to me," U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel said in sentencing Charles "Eddy" Lepp in a San Francisco courtroom crowded with his supporters. Patel gave Lepp until July 6 to report to prison and said she would reconsider the sentence if Congress changed the law, which requires a 10-year term for growing at least 1,000 marijuana plants.

Lepp, 56, was arrested in 2004, after federal agents said they had found more than 32,000 marijuana plants in gardens near his home in Upper Lake, most of them in plain view of Highway 20. He said the plants were all for patients who had a right to use marijuana with their doctors' approval under California law. Courts have ruled, however, that the state law does not bar federal prosecutions.

Lepp also said that he was a Rastafarian minister, for whom the plants were a sacrament, and that he was growing the plants for 2,500 members of his church who were sharecroppers. Patel barred the religious defense last year, saying Lepp could not credibly claim that his faith compelled him to distribute thousands of plants to unidentified parishioners. A jury convicted Lepp in September of conspiracy and cultivation with the intent to distribute marijuana. His lawyer, Michael Hinckley, argued for a lesser sentence, but Patel said the 10-year term was mandatory because the evidence showed Lepp led the operation and supervised others.  Visit: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/19/BASQ17MLBA.DTL for more. Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/people/Eddy+Lepp Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmj.htm (Marijuana - Medicinal)

U.S. Supreme Court rejects Prop. 215 challenge

(05-18) 12:13 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- California's medical marijuana law survived its most serious legal challenge Monday as the U.S. Supreme Court denied appeals by two counties that argued they were being forced to condone violations of federal drug laws. Images View Larger Image More News Obama pledges to quickly sign anti-smoking bill 06.13.09 Feds want secrecy over alleged torture flights 06.12.09 'Red flag' raised in suspect's death in Oakland 06.12.09 Woman pleads not guilty to killing Sandra Cantu 06.12.09 The justices, without comment, denied a hearing to officials from San Diego and San Bernardino counties who challenged Proposition 215, an initiative approved by state voters in 1996 that became a model for laws in 12 other states. It allows patients to use marijuana for medical conditions with their doctor's recommendation.

The counties specifically objected to legislation requiring them to issue identification cards that protect holders from arrest by state or local police for possessing small amounts of marijuana for medical use. The cards are objectionable because "the state law authorizes individuals to engage in conduct that the federal law prohibits," said Thomas Bunton, a lawyer in the San Diego County counsel's office. "We are disappointed that the court did not take the case to resolve what we believe was a conflict between federal and state law."

Medical marijuana advocates were relieved.

"This was the most threatening case to state medical marijuana laws, the only one that tried to invalidate state laws," said attorney Graham Boyd of the American Civil Liberties Union, which represented patients and advocacy groups in the case.

"No longer will local officials be able to hide behind federal law and resist upholding California's medical marijuana law," said Joe Elford, lawyer for Americans for Safe Access, which also took part in the case.  Visit: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/19/BASQ17MIN1.DTL for more. Note: The ACLU's opposition brief to the Court http://www.aclu.org/drugpolicy/medmarijuana/39603lgl20090415.html Note: The Americans for Safe Access page on the case http://www.americansforsafeaccess.org/article.php?id=4405 Cited: San Diego County Board of Supervisors http://www.sdcounty.ca.gov/general/bos.html Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/topic/Proposition+215 Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/topic/San+Diego+County+supervisors


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News From NORML

Is it not amazing how scientific research continues to show us all, almost at a weekly pace, something new and potentially therapeutic about the cannabis plant?  If a medical or biomedical explorer emerged from the jungle today with a plant that has numerous therapeutic benefits, was non-toxic, is an excellent source of fiber, fuel and fabric, and could possibly help medical patients worldwide with cancer, that person and plant would be cheered around the world.

Sadly, and with high irony, that plant does exist in our lives, it is called cannabis and possessing it in most of America will be met by fierce governmental opposition and intervention--not reward or recognition.  However, it appears that science (and rational thinking) may just win the day here.

"Cannabinoids possess anticancer activity [and may] possibly represent a new class of anti-cancer drugs that retard cancer growth, inhibit angiogenesis (the formation of new blood vessels) and the metastatic spreading of cancer cells."  So concludes a comprehensive review published in the October 2005 issue of the scientific journal Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry.

Not familiar with the emerging body of research touting cannabis' ability to stave the spread of certain types of cancers?  You're not alone.  For over 30 years, US politicians and bureaucrats have systematically turned a blind eye to scientific research indicating that marijuana may play a role in cancer prevention.  Fortunately, scientists overseas have generously picked up where US researchers so abruptly left off, publishing dozens of studies on cannabinoids¹ anti-cancer properties in the past few years.

NORML highlights this research in a new report, "Cannabinoids As Cancer Hope," by NORML Senior Policy Analyst Paul Armentano.  You may read the full report and citations > here

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International View on Medical Cannabis News Soldiers for Drug Peace, Unite!

17 MAY 2006
THE UNITED NATIONS
RESEARCH / MARKET STATISTICS
Source: Il velino
- The 2005 report of the UN Office for Drug and Organised Crime Control: Thirty-one per cent of world cannabis production and eighty per cent of the cannabis smoked in Europe comes from Morocco and passes through France.

20 MAY 2006
OCEANIA / AUSTRALIA
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stopdrugwar:
- Health minister Christopher Pyne has set up a uniform and very severe code for cannabis prosecutions, adhered to by all the Australian states. For Pyne, cannabis is ‘as dangerous as cocaine and heroin’.  Click > here < for more.

7 FEBRUARY 2006
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- The Federal Chancery has officially recognised as valid the signatures collected on 13th January last that demanded a national referendum on the depenalisation of consumption, possession and acquisition of cannabis for personal use. The date for this event has yet to be set.

1 FEBRUARY 2006
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The mayors and police authorities under whose jurisdiction marijuana cultivation comes to light could be charged with dereliction of duties on the principle that ‘they couldn’t not have known’ -- thus a proposal by the new interior minister, Sokol Olldashi.

13th December 2005
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  Twenty per cent of the population have used one drug or another some time in their lives. This breaks down into: cannabis 20.1%, ecstasy 3%, amphetamines 2.4%, opiates 0.7%, hallucinogenic mushrooms 2.7%, LSD 1.7%, sniffables 2.4%. Source: Austrian Federal Institute of Public Health.  Click > here < for more.

2 JUNE 2006
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Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt has expressed ‘great dissatisfaction’ with the decision of Maastricht mayor Gerard Leers to relocate seven of hid city’s ‘coffee shops’ along the Belgian-German border.  Click > here < for more.

12th December 2005
Medical Cannabis in the CZECH REPUBLIC CZECH REPUBLIC
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  The government plan to modify exiting laws to permit medically controlled administration of therapeutic cannabis. Source: Vaclav Sebor, speaker of the Health Ministry .  Click > here < for more.

06/09/2005
Medical Cannabis in Germany EUROPEAN UNION / GERMANY
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Visit www.hanfapotheke.org to order therapeutic cannabis.   ‘It gives an opportunity for relief to seriously ill sufferers who neither have nor desire access to the illegal drug market”, explains Dr. Franjo Grotenhermen.  A 2004 court decision held that cannabis use can be justified by medical necessity.

7-5-2006
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Reactions to the announcement by the new Public Health Minister Dr. Livia Turco that she would raise the threshold quantities of cannabis that one person may own without incurring penalties or being automatically classified as a pusher -

- Daniele Capezzone, Radicali Italiani secretary, considers the move a very positive one and expresses the hope that the new government will head toward antiprohibitionism and more damage reduction.

The Rosa nel Pugno (Rose in the Fist) Party of Italy - Donatella Poretti, MP for the Rosa nel Pugno (Rose in the Fist) Party and member of the Chamber of Deputies Commission on Social Affairs, thinks the announcement is a small step min the right direction. During the first visit of Minister Dr. Turchi to the Commission, Poretti reiterated the need for stopping the catastrophic effects of the Italian law as it now stands.

ITALY
Medical Cannabis in Italy 9th MARCH 2006
EUROPEAN UNION / ITALY
NEW IDEAS
ANSA
- By way of protesting against the new Fini Law’s obscurantism, Catholic priest Andrea Gallo, a ‘rolled-up shirtsleeves’ cleric and founder of the waterfront rehab community of San Benedetto al Porto, smoked a joint in the ceremonial chambers of the City of Genoa government.

28-10-2005
EUROPEAN UNION / ITALY
PUBLIC HEALTH
ANSA
- A serious study has been launched to determine the pain-relieving effectiveness of cannabis among cancer victims.  Forty patients in Turin and Rome will be studied for twenty weeks.  The laws and prevailing cultural prejudices are creating unnecessary obstacles.

CANNABIS DRUG FILED FOR APPROVAL Medical Cannabis in the United Kingdom

The first cannabis-based medication for MS has been filed for approval by British regulators.

GW Pharmaceuticals' Sativex, an under-the-tongue spray, can now be given on a named-patient basis.

But the company is applying to regulators across Europe for a licence to make it more widely available.

The company has been seeking a full UK licence for the spray since 2003, but regulators said they wanted to see more information before issuing one.

Eighty-five thousand people in the UK have MS. It is not yet certain how many of them would benefit from Sativex.

The spray is intended to treat the muscle spasticity associated with the degenerative disease.

Positive Data

The drug is a mouth spray containing two chemicals found in cannabis, tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol.

Sativex was first approved in Canada in April 2005. It received approval for use by individual MS patients in the UK the following month. GW Pharmaceuticals has now filed licence applications in the UK, Denmark, Spain and the Netherlands.

Stephen Wright, a spokesman for the company, said he was confident about new data available on the drug.

He said: "We have a sizeable body of positive clinical data to support the efficacy and safety of Sativex in MS spasticity."

A spokesman for the MS Society said: "People with MS are sourcing raw cannabis of whatever quality from goodness knows where, and running goodness knows what risks.

"It is important that we do see properly tested, effective, cannabis-based drugs."


27 MAY 2006
EUROPEAN UNION / UNITED KINGDOM
LEGALISATION
The Guardian:
- Two Labour MPs, Paul Flynn and Brian Iddon, came out in favour of legal therapeutic marijuana at the recent meeting of the Cannabis Education Trust.  Click > here < for more.

17 MAY 2006 EUROPEAN UNION / UNITED KINGDOM RESEARCH Source: News Medical: - The publication Anaesthesiology: Research undertaken by the Imperial College of London has shown that Cannador, which consists of extracts of cannabis, can be a serious reliever of post-operative pain.? Unlike traditional pain-killers, it has no side-effects.  Click > here < for more.

24 MAY 2006
EUROPEAN UNION / FINLAND
LEGALISATION
Adnkronos
- All two hundred MPs recently received a cannabis seed in the post, accompanied by an anonymous letter asking for legalisation of cannabis consumption. A study published in 2003 by the European Drug Observatory claimed that about twenty per cent of Finns between ages fifteen and thirty-four admit to having smoked cannabis at least once.

03-10-2005
Medical Cannabis in France EUROPEAN UNION / FRANCE
INVESTIGATIONS
- The conclusion of the first serious, scientific study of the relationship of drug use and traffic accidents is proving immensely embarrassing to the government.  Whilst alcohol is a disastrous cause of accidents, cannabis is hardly involved at all, although not completely out of the picture.  Click > here < for more.

6 FEBRUARY 2006
Medical Cannabis in Ireland EUROPEAN UNION / IRISH REPUBLIC
LEGALISATION
IrishHealth.com:
- Two thirds of the readers of IrishHealth.com think that cannabis should be generally legalised -- not just for therapeutic use -- for all people over eighteen.  Click > here < for more.

09-10-2005
EUROPEAN UNION / IRISH REPUBLIC
THERAPEUTIC MARIJUANA
IrelandOn-Line
- The National Advisory Committee on Drugs wants to legalise therapeutic marijuana.  Polls show that a majority of citizens support this.  Click > here < for more.

Sunday: 04 JULY 2006
EUROPEAN UNION / UNITED KINGDOM -- Scotland
CONSUMPTION
A study by Edinburgh University
finds that rich kids smoke more joints than poor kids, a discovery on a par at least with that of soup plates and hot water.  Click > here < for more.

6 JULY 2006
EUROPE / RUSSIA
LAWS
MosNews:
- President Vladimir Putin said in the course of a press conference that marijuana would never be legalised in his country.  Click > here < for more.

2 JUNE 2006
Medical Cannabis in Spain EUROPEAN UNION / SPAIN
PUBLIC HEALTH
Norml:
According to a poll undertaken by the daily El Sur, the number of chronically or terminally ill Spaniards turning to cannabis has lately gone up by twenty per cent.  Click > here < for more.

4 JANUARY 2006
EUROPEAN UNION / SPAIN
PUBLIC HEALTH
El Pais:
  Ten patients have been selected for an experiment aimed at determining the therapeutic effects of marijuana. Four of these began treatments on 10th December, the others will begin in a few days. They are the first of six hundred participants in this invaluable pioneer project that the Region of Catalonia plans to bring to a conclusion in 2006.  Click > here < for more.

27 APRIL 2006
EUROPEAN UNION / THE NETHERLANDS
PUBLIC HEALTH
NORML
- Source: A study by several researchers at the University of Leyden, published in the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences: Administration of THC by means of the vaporiser called “Volcano” is “safe and efficient”.  Click > here < for more.

2 FEBRUARY 2006
EUROPEAN UNION / NETHERLANDS
NEW IDEAS
Reuters:
- The city of Groningen is planning to open a pharmacy for the sale of exclusively high-quality cannabis for therapeutic uses at reasonable prices. The idea is supported by The organisation Medicinal Cannabis Netherlands, which seeks to help seriously ill sufferers to get the very best stuff.  Click > here < for more.

6 APRIL 2006
Medical Cannabis in Canada NORTH AMERICA / CANADA
CURIOSITY
The Star
- Debut for Cannasat Therapeutics Inc. (CHT), one of the world’s few firms dedicated to research on and development of cannabis-based medicinals and therapeutics. During a pres conference, the firm’s directors admitted that theirs was an all-uphill road.

14/09/2005
NORTH AMERICA / CANADA
PUBLIC HEALTH
ALL HEADLINE NEWS - In 2006, Health Canada will launch a pilot programme of selling marijuana in pharmacies for therapeutic purposes.  This will make Canada the second nation, after Holland, where the substance can be bought openly.  Official statistics say that nine hundred sufferers of serious illnesses are legally using cannabis now.

11/07/2005
NORTH AMERICA / CANADA - Vancouver
PUBLIC HEALTH
VANCOUVER CBC - A new firm, PhytoCan Pharmaceuticals, headquartered on Vancouver Island, have been authorised by Health Canada to produce therapeutic marijuana in liquid form and as a spray.  A year and a half from now they will be ready to subject both products to the laboratory tests required before commercialisation.

24/06/2005
NORTH AMERICA / CANADA
PUBLIC HEALTH
USA TODAY - Physicians may freely prescribe Sativex for sufferers from multiple sclerosis.  Sativex is the new the medicinal derived from the marijuana plant that is administered by spraying it under the tongue.  The principal ingredients, THC and CBD, relieve pain without inducing a typical cannabis ‘high’.  Some twenty thousand people in Canada will benefit.

20 APRIL 2006
CENTRAL AMERICA • CARIBBEAN / BERMUDA
PUBLIC HEALTH
The Royal Gazette:
The minister for national drug control, Wayne Perinchief, favours depenalising cannabis. He insists on the necessity of considering drug addiction a health matter, not a criminal one.  Click > here < for more.

16/12/2005
Medical Cannabis in BERMUDA BERMUDA
POLITICS
The Royal Gazette;
  The new Drug Control Minister, Wayne Perinchief, favours reviewing the laws on marijuana. He proposes alternatives to gaol, more rehab centres and prevention programmes, and severer penalties for those who profit from narcotrafficking.  Click > here < for more.

28 MARCH 2006
CENTRAL AMERICA / MEXICO
LEGALISATION
El Porvenir:
- Patricia Mercado, presidential candidate of the Alternativa Socialdemócrata y Campesina, said that it is now essential to initiate serious political discussions about depenalising and legalising drugs, beginning with marijuana.  Click > here < for more.

7th December 2005
Medical Cannabis in Mexico NORTH AMERICA / USA
CULTIVATIONS
BBC -   Mexican producers are growing cannabis in national parks in California, Arizona and Texas. Source: the National Parks Conservation Association, during testimony before the U.S. Congress.   Click > here < for more on the testimony.   Click > here < for more on the story.

4-11-2005
CENTRAL AMERICA / MEXICO
LEGALISATION
Elías Miguel Moreno Brizuela, president of the Senate’s Health and Social Security Commission, announced that the Commission will discuss legalisation of marijuana for therapeutic use.  Click > here < for more.

17th MARCH 2006
SOUTH AMERICA / ARGENTINA
JUSTICE
stopthedrugwar
- The federal Court of Appeals has squashed the conviction of a Buenos Aires woman for cannabis possession because she needed it for therapeutic use. The court also ordered re-evaluation of the case in the light of the latest researches on therapeutic cannabis. The essence of the ruling is that the right to health and pain relief must be upheld.

10 JULY 2006
OCEANIA / AUSTRALIA
CONSUMPTION
AAP
- Former minister John Herron says tghat marijuana consumption is by now something more for an ageing section of the population, the youngest sectors having been influenced by anti-drug TV spots.  Click > here < for more.

15/12/2005
Medical Cannabis in FIJI ISLANDS OCEANIA / FIJI ISLANDS
CONSUMPTION
Radio New Zealand;
  A one-year study of two thousand adolescents between thirteen and fifteen years of age conducted by The National Drugs Council found that sixty-nine per cent had tried kava, a bushy Pacific-islands plant, fifty-one per cent alcohol, forty-two per cent cigarettes, and thirteen per cent cannabis.  Click > here < for more.

13 JULY 2006
OCEANIA / NEW ZEALAND
PUBLIC HEALTH
The National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML)
has published a poll according to which two out of three New Zealanders favour making marijuana available on medical prescription.

16 JUNE 2006
OCEANIA / THE PHILIPPINES
CULTIVATION
Philippine Daily Inquirer:
- The national police force would like to see yacon, a plant belonging to the sunflower family, replace the marijuana plantations in the Cordillera.  Click > here < for more.

OPED: Spice of Life - Cannabis
by: Pjo Taylor, The Statesman (India) < www.thestatesman.net >
Medical Cannabis in India

Sun, 01 Jan 2006.   Almost a forbidden subject these days, but the stuff has such a long history that I feel justified in touching on the subject.  

The argument nowadays is whether it is a medicine or a harmful addictive drug, and if you go back into historical record you'll find there has always been this dual role, this struggle between good and evil.  Click > here < for more.

14 JUNE 2006
MIDDLE EAST / ISRAEL
RESEARCHES
Jerusalem Post:
- Research by Yehoshua Maor of Jerusalem's Hebrew University suggests that cannabigerol, a synthetic derivative of cannabis, is beneficial in the treatment of hypertension  Click > here < for more.

22 JANUARY 2006
AFRICA / MOROCCO
CULTIVATIONS
Morocco Times;
- Mohamed Fettal, governor of the northern province of Taounate, has launched a campaign for planting six hundred thousand fruit and olive trees as replacements for cannabis plantations. A similar project is under way in Larache province.  Click > here < for more.

15 APRIL 2006
AFRICA / MOZAMBIQUE
CULTIVATION
Angola Press:
- In his annual report to Parliament, Justice Minister Joaquim Madeira came out against the destruction, proposed by several MPs, of cannabis plantations grown by local peasants. The proper solution would be a programme of offering them alternative crops.  Click > here < for more.

3 FEBRUARY 2006
AFRICA / SWAZILAND
NEW IDEAS
IRIN:
- ‘The massive hemp production could be used for making building materials’, says Andre du Plessis, an architect who works with the organisation InternAfrics . The Swaziland Council on Smoking, Drugs and Alcohol (COSAD) estimates that seventy per cent of peasant time and labour is dedicated to illegal marijuana production.  Click > here < for more.

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