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Well push's come to shove.............
The Kenyan half-brother of President Barack Obama has been arrested for alleged marijuana possession.
George Obama was arrested in Nairobi with one joint of marijuana, police chief Joshua Omokulongolo said.
"He is not a drug peddler. But it is illegal, it is a banned substance," he said. Mr Obama has denied the allegations.
The US president and George Obama share the same father, but are thought to have only met each other briefly.
George Obama, who is in his 20s, is due in court on Monday.
"They took me from my home," George Obama told reporters in Nairobi from his jail cell. " I don't know why they are charging me."Well push's come to shove.............
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Cannabis scholar & minister, Paul von Hartmann makes a one-minute appeal for people to support "essential civilian demand"* for the world's most useful and environmentally significant agricultural resource, and openly recognize the urgency of ending restrictions on Cannabis agriculture by this spring.
*Executive Order 12919 (Clinton 1994)Cannabis scholar & minister, Paul von Hartmann makes a one-minute appeal for... more
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WASHINGTON — A recent Drug Enforcement Administration raid on a South Lake Tahoe, Calif., medical marijuana dispensary showcases one of the legal conflicts inherited by the Obama administration.
The Jan. 22 raid near the California-Nevada border occurred two days after Obama took office and before the new president's own Justice Department team was in place. The raid resembled many conducted during the Bush administration, but seemingly clashed with Obama's campaign opposition to such tactics.
"I think the basic concept of using medical marijuana for the same purposes and with the same controls as other drugs prescribed by doctors (is) entirely appropriate," Obama told Oregon's Mail Tribune newspaper in March. "I'm not going to be using Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws on this issue."
Now, citing the Tahoe episode, medical marijuana activists and civil libertarians are urging Obama to freeze future raids. Some hope, as well, that Obama will reverse a Bush administration decision and let additional legal marijuana production to take place.
At the very least, activists and law enforcement officials alike are awaiting clarification about what's changed in the world of medical marijuana. This could take time.
"We're sympathetic to the fact the administration is just getting its feet on the ground," Marijuana Policy Project spokesman Dan Bernath said on Thursday, "but this does show he needs to appoint folks who will respects his principles and policies."
Attorney General Nominee Eric Holder has not yet been confirmed by the Senate, and his proposed deputy hasn't yet had a confirmation hearing. The phrase "medical marijuana" never came up during Holder's extensive hearing, nor in the follow-up written questions asked by senators.
Obama has yet to nominate a permanent DEA administrator, though acting administrator Michele Leonhart is considered one potential candidate and would be the first African-American woman to run the agency. Obama, likewise, has yet to nominate a new head of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
"The new drug czar could recommend policies that are more restrictive, or more lenient," noted Bill Ruzzamenti, director of the Central Valley High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area in California.WASHINGTON — A recent Drug Enforcement Administration raid on a South Lake... more
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what's up with this crap mr. obama
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Marijuana charges against a former city of Ukiah firefighter have been dropped in the Superior Court of Mendocino County.
Mendocino County court did not find good cause to continue and the case against Terry Lynn Israel was ordered dismissed Dec. 17, according to court documents.
In January 2008, Israel was cited on suspicion of cultivation of marijuana, possession of marijuana for sale and maintaining a place for the production of a controlled substance.
An August preliminary hearing determined that Israel would not be charged with possessing or cultivating marijuana. It was reported then that a special agent testifying said no statements were made indicating Israel cultivated or possessed marijuana. No marijuana was found in her direct possession.
The city of Ukiah confirmed that Israel is no longer on the city's payroll.
With Israel, two others faced marijuana related charges. Eric Weston, Israel's son, and Victor Villalobos, were also cited when law enforcement took more than 600 plants from Israel's ***Canyon Court home.
In August, the court said Villalobos would not face any charges and that Weston would face all three charges.Marijuana charges against a former city of Ukiah firefighter have been dropped in the... more
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Obama may be stuck with anti-pot crusading GOP US Attorney
Now the Bush-appointee -- who spent $12 million to put that oh-so-notorious kingpin Tommy Chong behind bars for nine months -- has been struck with another bout of headline-grabbing obstinance. Buchanan says she won't step down once President-elect Obama takes office next month.
"It doesn't serve justice for all the U.S. attorneys to submit their resignations all at one time," she told a local paper last week, adding, "I am open to considering further service to the United States."Obama may be stuck with anti-pot crusading GOP US Attorney
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Inside America’s Pot Industry, Business, Domestic Production, Government, Drug, Medicine, Economy, Profit
While it may not be traded on Wall Street any time soon, marijuana has become a booming cash crop. CNBC's Trish Regan goes behind the scenes to explore the inner workings of this secretive industry, focusing on Northern California's "Emerald Triangle," now the marijuana capital of the U.S. In this scenic pocket of America, the pot business, much of it legal under state law, now makes up as much as two-thirds of the local economy.Inside America’s Pot Industry, Business, Domestic Production, Government, Drug,... more
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Amazingly, MAPS is the only organization that is attempting to resolve the controversy over medical marijuana via the FDA research route.
MAPS' goal is to initiate and fund a serious drug development research program aimed at proving to the satisfaction of the FDA that marijuana is safe and efficacious for specific medical uses and should become a legal, FDA-approved prescription medicine.Amazingly, MAPS is the only organization that is attempting to resolve the controversy... more
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For the last several years, MAPS has provided financial support for the development of the compassionate use of marijuana in Israel, in conjunction with a program of medical access developed by the Israeli Ministry of Health. The Ministry reviews applications from physicians on behalf of their patients and has licensed four different medical marijuana production facilities. These facilities have permits from the Israeli Ministry of Health to provide marijuana for free to Ministry-approved patients. Since the production facilities can only give marijuana away, they rely on donations to cover costs. An excellent article on the Israeli medical marijuana program was published recently in an Israeli newspaper, and has been translated by Dana Peleg, MA.
By Dan Even, Maariv, HaMagazin, January 2009
• While Police persecute dealers, the number of Medical Marijuana
permissions is rocketing sky high.
• More and more patients with chronic diseases, mental disorders and even
shell shock get a prescription for joints from their doctors.
• HaMagazin research reveals a massive increase in Medical Marijuana
patients in Israel, including patients who suffer from mental problems or
traumas.
• Many of these patients describe the amazing improvement that has
occurred in their lives since they smoked their first joint.
• And yet, in order to obtain their medicine they still need to go through a
long obstacle course.
Article continued at link above.
http://www.maps.org/mmj/For the last several years, MAPS has provided financial support for the development of... more
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Having spent years reporting on the War on Drugs, Lisa Ling offers her perspective on marijuana.
"I really think that it's time that our law makers and drug enforcement officials, perhaps scientists and intellectuals, actually sit down and scrutinize this issue and figure out a way to possibly better regulate it, possibly decriminalize it, and there is a way, I think, because, relative to methamphetamine and cocaine, it's not as extreme a drug. I don't know if marijuana will ever become legalized, it quite possibly could become decriminalized, but I do know that the arguments for legalization are very strong!"Having spent years reporting on the War on Drugs, Lisa Ling offers her perspective on... more
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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has rejected the decision of Administrative Law Judge Mary Ellen Bittner and blocked a medical marijuana research project at the University of Massachusetts Amherst — a project considered vital if marijuana is ever to be an FDA-approved medicine. The DEA’s ruling, dated Jan. 7, was only released today.
MPP and other supporters of research reacted with outrage. “It’s no surprise that an administration that has rejected science again and again has, as one of its final acts, blocked a critical research project,” said Aaron Houston, MPP’s director of government relations. “With the new administration publicly committed to respecting scientific research and valuing data over dogma, this final act of desperation isn’t surprising, but the true victims are the millions of patients who might benefit.”
Professor Lyle Craker had applied for permission to cultivate marijuana for use in medical research. At present, marijuana for research can only be obtained through the National Institute on Drug Abuse — a government monopoly that does not exist for any other Schedule I drug. Because NIDA’s marijuana is of notoriously poor quality and has only been inconsistently available to researchers, scientists and advocates consider Dr. Craker’s project essential to the advancement of medical marijuana research.
The long and difficult process of seeking approval culminated on Feb. 12, 2007, in a ruling by Judge Bittner that Craker should be allowed to proceed. But such administrative law judge rulings are not binding on the DEA. In the nearly two years since the ruling, several small, pilot studies have shown marijuana to safely and effectively relieve nerve pain that afflicts millions suffering from HIV/AIDS, multiple sclerosis and other conditions, making more advanced research — including strains custom-tailored for various conditions, which was one of the goals of Craker and his colleagues — vital.
“Once again, science has taken a back seat to ideology in the Bush administration, with research that could benefit millions needlessly stalled,” Houston said. “They can delay progress, but they cannot stop it.”The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has rejected the decision of Administrative... more
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Positions on the medical use of marijuana vary, but thousands of patients suffering from cancer, AIDS, and other diseases claim marijuana provides them relief from devastating symptoms such as intractable nausea, vomiting.
In a 1997 article for the The New England Journal of Medicine, Jerome P. Kassirer, M.D., wrote that physicians who prohibit prescribing marijuana for seriously ill patients are misguided, heavy-handed, and inhumane.
We asked High Times Cultivation Editor Danny Danko if he could help us put a cost on this relief and what types of pain they ease.Positions on the medical use of marijuana vary, but thousands of patients suffering... more
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Maybe it's because I was born a couple of months after Woodstock and wasn't around when marijuana was as common as iPods are today, but I'm constantly amazed that after all these years--and all the wars on drugs and all the public-service announcements--nearly 15 million Americans still use marijuana at least once a month. California and 10 other states have already decriminalized marijuana for medical use. Now two of those states--Colorado and Nevada--are considering ballot initiatives that would legalize up to an ounce of pot for personal use by people 21 and older, whether or not there is a medical need.
This article contains soooo much misinformation re: Cannabis that it is almost hard to believe that it was written by an actual Physician...and potential Surgeon General.Maybe it's because I was born a couple of months after Woodstock and wasn't... more
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Using the same tests used to judge new chemotherapies, the SETH team discovered that this herbal compound kills human brain tumor cells at a concentration that is nontoxic to normal brain cells. A computerized microscope captured images of the cells every 5 minutes to compile the time-lapse videos. After 20 hours of treatment, Δ9-THC kills all cancer cells but leaves normal brain cells alive. Cell death is evidenced by cells shrinking to inanimate white spheres
This is a repeat of studies done in 1974 by researchers at the Medical College of Virginia, who had been funded by the National Institute of Health to find evidence that marijuana damages the immune system, found instead that THC slowed the growth of three kinds of cancer in mice -- lung and breast cancer, and a virus-induced leukemia.
February, 2000 Researchers in Madrid injected the brains of 45 rats with cancer cells, producing tumors whose presence they confirmed through magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). On the 12th day they injected 15 of the rats with THC and 15 with Win-55,212-2 a synthetic compound similar to THC. "All the rats left untreated uniformly died 12-18 days after glioma (brain cancer) cell inoculation ... Cannabinoid (THC)-treated rats survived significantly longer than control rats. THC administration was ineffective in three rats, which died by days 16-18. Nine of the THC-treated rats surpassed the time of death of untreated rats, and survived up to 19-35 days. Moreover, the tumor was completely eradicated in three of the treated rats." The rats treated with Win-55,212-2 showed similar results.
The SETH Group preformed this experiment in 2004 and was published in The Journal of Neuro-Oncology (2005), volume 74, pages 31-40.
I have a friend dying from a slow growth brain tumor similar to the type in the video. Her doctors have told her to overdose on pain killers before the tumor causes her mind to completely go. This video brought her some hope and she wants to try THC treatment even though she has never used any drugs in her life. BUT because the DEA is doing such a fine job protecting the citizens, she cannot find even the smallest amount of dirt weed to try and save her own life since her government has failed her.
Since the Government knew of this in 1974 and spun it into “THC kills brain cells” doesn’t that mean the Drug War is responsible for the death for the death of millions of US citizens, many being Anti-Drug supporters. When is enough, enough? I hope that since President Obama mother died from cancer, he might have some compassion for America and legalize cannabis.
Until then, please flood North Carolina with weed!! It is the driest many have ever seen, and my friend is dying for a cure.
Sources:
http://www.sethgroup.org/
http://www.alternet.org/story/9257/
http://www.honoluluasa.org/Reference/potshrinkscancer.pdf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OqSRfzqwWAUsing the same tests used to judge new chemotherapies, the SETH team discovered that... more
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Last week, a bill was introduced that would allow seriously ill patients to raise a medical defense to charges of possessing marijuana for medical use. It would also protect doctors who make medical marijuana recommendations.
Please contact your state legislators today and ask them to give HB 164 their utmost consideration. This is a modest and compassionate proposal to make sure the seriously ill do not languish in prison for treating their suffering.
One of the main reasons that medical marijuana is finally an issue being discussed in the Texas Legislature is because no fewer than 13 states have enacted medical marijuana laws, the most recent being Michigan.Last week, a bill was introduced that would allow seriously ill patients to raise a... more
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In July, Obama told Rolling Stone that he believed in "shifting the paradigm" to a public-health approach: "I would start with nonviolent, first-time drug offenders. The notion that we are imposing felonies on them or sending them to prison, where they are getting advanced degrees in criminality, instead of thinking about ways like drug courts that can get them back on track in their lives -- it's expensive, it's counterproductive, and it doesn't make sense."
Meanwhile, economists have been making the beer argument. In a paper titled "Budgetary Implications of Marijuana Prohibition," Dr. Jeffrey Miron of Harvard argues that legalized marijuana would generate between $10 and $14 billion in savings and taxes every year -- conclusions endorsed by 300 top economists, including Milton "Free Market" Friedman himself.In July, Obama told Rolling Stone that he believed in "shifting the... more
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A Ukiah man known for his conspicuous pot-growing operations has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit claiming Mendocino County law enforcement officers ignored his request for an attorney while conducting a search of his home in February.
Amy Goodman on marijuana arrests:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P9BLxo_GKYA Ukiah man known for his conspicuous pot-growing operations has filed a federal civil... more
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For over 35 years America's war at home, the Drug War, has been raging. Owing in large part to drug war excesses, the United States now locks up more of its citizens than any nation on earth -- more than 2.3 million, with half a million of them behind bars for nonviolent drug offenses alone. That is more than Western Europe, with a much higher population, incarcerates for all crimes combined.
The historic election of Barack Obama signals a unique opportunity to begin to heal one of America's worst open sores and end the drug war, but that is not going to happen unless President-elect Obama nominates someone exceptional to the position of drug czar, or director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. The appointment of a "moderate" will not be sufficient, particularly when President-elect Obama's stated goals are to repeal the harshest drug sentences, remove federal bans on syringe-exchange funding to reduce HIV/AIDS, allow medical cannabis research, and support treatment alternatives for low-level drug offenders.For over 35 years America's war at home, the Drug War, has been raging. Owing in... more
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Bill Richardson believes we need to "rethink and decriminalize" our cannabis laws. Now that he's in office, he has the chance to achieve it.
December has been an interesting month for marijuana, or cannabis as it is known to scientists and all too few others. To kick off the month, the U.S. Supreme Court decided against reviewing a California state appellate court ruling arguing that its medical marijuana law trumped federal law. That, in effect, set the stage for better implementation of medical-marijuana law in not just California, but every state that has one, while also reminding local police that the job of enforcing federal drug policy is, in fact, not its job.
more@linkBill Richardson believes we need to "rethink and decriminalize" our cannabis... more
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