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Dale Clare - Medical Cannabis Advocate and Consultant

Dale Clare - Medical Cannabis Advocate and Consultant Produced by Ajnag / The ICU Lab http://ajnag.com http://theiculab.com

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The Surprising Effect Of Marijuana On Morphine Dependence

Injections of THC, the active principle of cannabis, eliminate dependence on opiates (morphine, heroin) in rats deprived of their... more

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The Patriots Guide to Marijuana Legalization

WHEN WE THINK of the drug war, it's the heavy-duty narcotics like heroin and cocaine that get most of the attention. And why... more

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Republicans would be wise to support medical marijuana, too

NEW HAMPSHIRE - As a committed Republican activist, it has not been easy coming forward and describing my experience with cancer... more

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Assessing the impact of cannabis use on trends in diagnosed schizophrenia

In conclusion, this study did not find any evidence of increasing schizophrenia or psychoses in the general population from 1996... more

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Fabrics of summer

Another rarely used fabric for clothing by Nepalis is hemp. Similar to linen and cotton, this natural fabric is also a cool choice... more

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Medical marijuana: Legal to smoke, illegal to obtain

Steve used to take prescription painkillers such as Vicodin after he tore the tendons in his right hand about six years ago.... more

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Medical marijuana: Just what the doctor ordered for North Carolina?

Prescription painkillers made her retch. Muscle relaxants ravaged her liver. So Jean Marlowe put down her pills and rolled a... more

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Tripping cross-country

Forty years later, Peter Fonda cracks up explaining why a grinning, glassy-eyed Jack Nicholson did an awesome job of acting high... more

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Prison guard arrested for allegedly planning to smuggle in cocaine and marijuana

A prison guard from Miramar was locked up Wednesday after sheriff's deputies arrested him for allegedly planning to smuggle a... more

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Honor Our Hemp-Raising Patriot Heroes

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison---virtually all Revolutionary Americans who had access to land---embraced hemp’s critical role in our early economy.

Accordingly, they raised it in mass quantities.

We must now honor them by demanding its immediate legalization, to save our economy and our ecology.

For rope, for paper, for clothing, for food, for fuel, this miracle plant has been a critical crop for cash and survival for 6,000 years, since the onset of ancient China.

Today it is a multi-billion-dollar product there and in Germany and Canada, among other major economies.

There is no rational reason for hemp to be illegal. Some law enforcement “experts” say it resembles marijuana, and therefore must be banned.

What are they smoking? Certainly not hemp, which gives its imbibers little more than a splitting headache and a nasty cough.

Today, marijuana is the largest cash crop in many states and regions of the United States. A billion dollars-worth of it was purchased under medical auspices last year in California alone. Properly taxed, its users freed from our overcrowded prisons, pot’s legalization could offer a giant step out of our financial morass.

But as an agricultural staple, marijuana pales alongside hemp. This miracle weed returns on its own year after year, requiring no pesticides, herbicides or special fertilizers. It is hardy, fast-growing and supremely productive.

A single hemp plant can provide the basis for very high-quality rope, sails for ships, cloth for clothing, paper for documents, seeds for food and oil, the cellulosic base for ethanol, and much more. It is the feed of choice for untold numbers of birds and land animals. It can be the basis for innumerable stressed eco-systems where it survives and thrives with virtually no human input.

As a staple spread across the Great Plains and through the rest of America’s battered farmland, it could help restore our shattered crop base and our devastated rural economy.

Presidents Washington and Jefferson---both of them extremely advanced agronomists---cataloged their techniques for growing hemp at great length. They would simply not comprehend the concept---let alone the reality---that hemp might be illegal.

Early drafts of both the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were written on sturdy paper made of hemp.George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison---virtually all Revolutionary Americans who had access to land---embraced... more