Общество Любителей Конопли. Washington State Medical Cannabis Business & Marijuana Legal News. Formerly MMJ Business Daily Washington State MMJ News: April 21, 2014 Lottery for Rec Licenses Underway in Washington Washington State is holding a lottery this week to determine who can sell recreational cannabis via retail shops, representing a significant step forward for its fledgling marijuana program.
Noam Chomsky - An American Addiction. Could Afghanistan's opium crop be legalised? Drug Corporations Push Taliban Opium for Medical Use. Susanne Posel, ContributorActivist Post In 1998, scientists at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, discovered that noscapine could be used to combat tumors.
Noscapine is derived from the opium poppy plant; the same source of heroin and the painkiller, morphine. The drug version, called noscapine, is used as a cough suppressant in some countries. It is now being praised as a promising cancer-fighting agent. Noscapine has been used in trial testing on animals and human cancer cells. The production of noscapine may prove difficult because of the labor-intensive methods used to extract the natural chemical. Since 1998, a new study by scientists at the University of York and funded by pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, proves that synthetic noscapine (engineered opium) can be created by cross-breeding poppy plants and enhancing the production of noscapine by clustering together 10 genes responsible for its production.
Australia produces large quantities of legal opioids. The Amazing Revolving Door - Monsanto, FDA And EPA. Afghan Heroin - The Lost War - Nat Geo (FULL DOCU) Report: North Korea ordered its foreign diplomats to become drug dealers. The North Korean embassy in Beijing.
(Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images) It sounds crazy, but there is good reason to suspect that this story, in the prominent South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo, could be true. According to the story, North Korea ordered its diplomats in some number of foreign embassies, including at least one in Eastern Europe, to sell illegal drugs on the streets. Why Pot Is Illegal Everywhere in the World. Matt Yglesias says that legal marijuana would be amazingly cheap: One key but little-appreciated fact is that, according to persuasive research by Jonathan Caulkins, Angela Hawken, Beau Kilmer, and Mark Kleiman in their new book Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs To Know, is that legal pot would be amazingly cheap.
In fact, midgrade stuff would be so cheap that it might make sense for businesses to give it away like ketchup packets or bar nuts.....This would make pot far and away the cheapest intoxicant on the market, absolutely blowing beer and liquor out of the water. States vote to legalize Marijuana Chris Hayes MSNBC All parts. Colorado, Washington hope to bring in millions from marijuana taxes but the actual revenue picture is uncertain.
A caregiver picks out a marijuana bud in Denver.
Colorado and Washington state want more tax revenue from legal recreational use, but will it fall short? Deconstructing I-502. Initial Note : As an organization dedicated to ending our failed prohibition on cannabis, it was a difficult decision to come out in opposition to Initiative 502.
However, it was after a deep cost-benefit analysis – deciphering and examining the legal implications of each page of the initiative – that we came to our conclusion. We concluded that it’s not legalization, and it’s not a positive step forward. We encourage you to read the initiative yourself, examine both sides and come to your own conclusion. It’s a difficult decision. Under I-502, Pot Stores Banned Almost Everywhere in Seattle. I just got a new map from the city's Department of Planning and Development showing that even though marijuana retail stores are supposed to be legal in Seattle by year's end, there are few locations where you could realistically open one—almost all of them impractical.
Initiative 502 legalized marijuana possession and tasked the state with issuing licenses to growers, processors, and sellers. And as written, I-502 bans marijuana retail storefronts within 1,000 feet of the perimeter of certain properties, including parks, schools, arcades, libraries, community centers, and even public transit centers. The city has proposed its own restrictions on where marijuana outlets can open their doors (such as banning them on blocks zoned strictly for single-family houses). What happens when you overlay the state's and city's restrictions? There's almost no place in Seattle where you could actually set up a pot store: The yellow areas show where retail outlets are "potentially allowed. " Medical Marijuana, Hemp, and Self-Sufficiency. Your grandparents grew their own medicine and food.
Why? To save money. Now the government says: “You can’t. Washington State Medical Marijuana Availability Could Jinx Recreational Pot Market. By Jonathan Kaminsky OLYMPIA, Washington, May 15 (Reuters) - Key officials helping to create Washington state's potentially lucrative recreational pot market say its success may hinge on preventing consumers from choosing to get high on readily available medical cannabis because of low and sometimes nonexistent taxes on it. The officials say it may be necessary to raise taxes or impose more stringent rules on medical pot to avoid undercutting the new recreational market and the tax dollars it is expected to inject into state coffers. Many "patients," they say, are in reality heavy recreational users who fake or exploit their maladies. The idea of changing the rules for medical marijuana alarms some patients and providers of the drug as medicine.
Under current state law, a range of medical professionals, including naturopaths and even some nurses can recommend marijuana for health problems ranging from cancer to persistent pain. Novel Study Reports Marijuana Users Have Better Blood Sugar Control. Printer friendly version Share 14 May 2013 Elsevier Current Marijuana Users Have 16% Lower Fasting Insulin Levels Compared to Non-Users, According to The American Journal of Medicine.
Study Demonstrates Smoking Pot Doesn't Cause Lung Cancer. The largest study ever conducted on marijuana’s relevance to lung cancer has come up with some somewhat surprising results.
The National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Drug Abuse funded the University of California at Los Angeles study, which found that smoking marijuana does not cause lung cancer, and it doesn’t seem to matter how much or how often it is smoked. Donald Tashkin, a pulmonologist at UCLA, has studied marijuana for 30 years. Furthermore, Tashkin’s work has previously established a tenuous link between marijuana smoking and negative health effects. For example, he found that marijuana tar contained higher concentrations of cancer-causing substances, and because of that and the fact that marijuana smokers hold smoke deep in their lungs for an extended period of time, it previously seemed likely that the health effects of prolonged exposure would become increasingly damaging:
Top 10 Cannabis Studies the Government Wished it Had Never Funded. Insane Bong & Pipe Ban signed by FL Gov Rick Scott. 2x = Felony! That’s right, starting July 1st smoking devices are now illegal in Florida. Anyone found in possession of a pipe two times (even if it has never been used) becomes a third degree felon. In Florida, this means you are permanently banned from voting. High Price by Dr. Carl Hart. Despite What You’ve Heard…Colorado is Not Yet Marijuana Heaven. Colorado Colorado Colorado. Let’s all move to Colorado because marijuana is 100% legal there now, and you don’t even need a medical marijuana card.
Well, I live in Colorado and I have to tell you, don’t believe the marijuana hype. The war on marijuana is alive and well in Colorado. It’s just taken on a different tone and approach. The main approach is for the state government and a few growers to make hundreds of millions of dollars off of marijuana. The IRS War on Medical Marijuana Providers [FEATURE] Special to Drug War Chronicle by investigative reporter Clarence Walker, cwalkerinvestigate@gmail.com Dispensaries providing marijuana to doctor-approved patients operate in a number of states, but they are under assault by the federal government. SWAT-style raids by the DEA and finger-wagging press conferences by grim-faced federal prosecutors may garner greater attention, but the assault on medical marijuana providers extends to other branches of the government as well, and moves by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to eliminate dispensaries' ability to take standard business deduction are another very painful arrow in the federal quiver.
The IRS employs Section 280E, a 1982 addition to the tax code that was a response to a drug dealer's successful effort to claim his yacht, weapons purchases, and even illicit bribes as business expenses. America's Corrupt Justice System: Federal Private Prison Populations Grew by 784% in 10 Year Span. A man rolls a marijuana joint during a demonstration demanding a new law on the drug in Uruguay on May 8, 2013.
Vermont's legislature on Monday voted to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana, making the New England state the 17th to relax Crossposted on Tikkun Daily. The Wire creator David Simon eviscerates the dystopia creating war on drugs. D.A.R.E., America's Most Famous Anti-Drug Program, Will No Longer Talk to 10- and 11-Year-Old Children About Marijuana. D.A.R.E., the national nonprofit that has promoted "Drug Abuse Resistance Education" to elementary, middle, and high school students since the early 1980s, will all but drop anti-drug material from its curriculum for fifth and sixth grade students, according to a state chapter leader and a letter released by D.A.R.E.* "D.A.R.E.
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