IACM-Bulletin of 20 January 2008 brief:
Canada: The regulation which allows growers of cannabis to supply the drug to only one patient is unconstitutional, a federal court rules
Canadians who are prescribed cannabis to treat their illnesses will no longer be forced to rely on the federal government as a supplier following a Federal Court ruling that [...]
Read the rest of this entry >>USA: The largest American association of physicians calls for reclassification of cannabis and protection of patients who use the drug according to state laws.
The largest association of physicians, the American College of Physicians (ACP), is calling on the federal government to ease its strict ban on cannabis as medicine and hasten research into the [...]
Read the rest of this entry >>LUI Day 58
Phenotype - the physical appearance of an organism . . . Genotype - the genetic constitution of an organism . . . . . . . . . (Definitions from - Botany for Gardeners) so the Genotype is the sum of [...]
Read the rest of this entry >>On this day six years ago, Reason Magazine published a piece on drug war propaganda, and how the US Government was attempting to connect terrorism and drug use.
Terror Tactic
The government blames drug users for the violence created by its disastrous policies.
Jacob Sullum | February 8, 2002
The federal government has told many outrageous lies about [...]
Although the article is about 6 years old, the following piece that was originally featured in Reason Magazine, it gives our readers a little more background on NIDA - the National Institute on Drug Abuse from the US . . .
Hungry for the Next Fix
Behind the relentless, misguided search for a medical cure for addiction.
Stanton [...]
It’s fairly well known that Geo W. Bush is a huge proponent of the death penalty, having gone so far as executing retarded persons while Governor of Texas.1
So it should come as little surprise that his “hand holding” buddies (we were going to call them kissing cousins but would prefer not to be [...]
Researchers working in support of the War on Drugs upped the ante yet again yesterday, with the release of a report that purports that smoking cannabis is directly related to gum disease and tooth loss.
Here’s how the news was reported in Pravda, the official paper of Russia . . .
Scientists: cannabis causes gum [...]
Read the rest of this entry >>We’d prefer not to be perceived as “attacking” our new science “friend”, or his “study” using 12 individuals to try and prove the so called “addictive” effects of Cannabis. He personally seems well intentioned enough, even if we do consider him hopelessly naive when it comes to the harsh reality of being used as [...]
Read the rest of this entry >>On this day - 5 years ago in drug war history . . .
Confronting the Empire
Noam Chomsky
Delivered at the III World Social Forum, February 2, 2003
We are meeting at a moment of world history that is in many ways unique – a moment that is ominous, but also full of hope.
The most powerful state [...]
If a certain researcher out there wonders why we are rather aggressive in our distrust of scientific attempts to prove that pot smoking is addictive, here’s an example of what’s passed for previous attempts at “science” by the National Institute on Drug Abuse . . .
Reefer monkey madness
Researchers persuade simians to get themselves stoned — [...]
semper fi . . . for one guy it becomes “semper mentior”?
A former Marine from Colorado, who was prominent in the news as a medical marijuana patient, was recently called to task by one of his platoon mates for lying about his injuries.
Jan 31, 2008 10:00 pm US/Mountain
Vet’s Medical Marijuana Story Under Friendly [...]
When reading news stories from across the pond, we see constant reference to the phrase “cannabis factory”. The news reports almost always read something to the effect that the police have closed xx number of factories in the last 12 or 18 months, and they closed another today . . .
In Canada they’d be referred [...]
Herbal Smoking Mixtures
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Herbal Smoking Mixtures
by Howie Brounstein
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Introduction
I became an adult immersed in the counter-culture of the Pacific Northwest. As a teacher, wild crafter, herbalist, [...]
Here’s another “blast from the past” . . .
In an 8 year old article from Salon.com that’s been stored away at the bird’s nest as a part of our personal archiving project, we learn that there’s no escaping the drug war, it even directly touches the television we view . . .
Washington script doctors
How [...]
