The standards of “medical research” in the modern age may very well have sunk to a new low, thanks to the drug war.
Looking at the methodology of the following study, we noticed it is based on the “self-reporting” of a group of only 12 individuals.
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine
Released: Thu 24-Jan-2008, 12:20 ET
Marijuana Withdrawal as [...]
In breaking news from our Regina Leader Post . . .
Huge marijuana grow-op trial begins
Barb Pacholik
The Regina Leader-Post
Thursday, January 24, 2008
An RCMP raid turned up a marijuana grow operation like this province had never seen before — 6,000 plants, guns, roadblocks, and the potential for a $3-million profit, a Regina courtroom heard Wednesday.
In [...]
In our ongoing effort to compile interesting news for medical users of marijuana, here’s a recent piece from yet another small newspaper . . .Â
The incredible shrinking Constitution
Dunkirk Observer - covering the northern Chautauqua County region of New York State
1/16/2008 - Perhaps the most significant political event in the recent decade was a [...]
Plan Colombia
Noam Chomsky
Excerpted from Rogue States, 2000
In 1999, Colombia became the leading recipient of US military and police assistance, replacing Turkey (Israel and Egypt are in a separate category). Colombia receives more US military aid than the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean combined. The total for 1999 reached about $300 million, along with [...]
In another look back at happenings in history . . . from news archives . . .
Sunday, Jan. 12, 2003
A New Brew
TIME Magazine
By HELENA BACHMANN/Geneva
The crowd is young, hip and thirsty. But there is plenty of cold beer around and the spirits are, um, high, especially when the word gets out that the brew [...]
This blast from the past, was found as a part of our ongoing news archive project . . .
News - March 2, 2001
Shakespeare on Drugs?
By Kate Wong
William Shakespeare’s famed plays and sonnets may have been written under the influence, according to new research. In the current issue of the South African Journal of [...]
When we read this story earlier today, we couldn’t help but think of our friend dykster and her monkey!!!
Aussie Teen Blames Pot for Animal Thefts
1 day agoDARWIN, Australia (AP) — An Australian teenager blamed the influence of marijuana for his decision to steal two crocodiles and a monkey, local media reported Wednesday.
Benjamin Glen Watts, [...]
In the news . . . 1 year ago this month . . .
You’ve Got Jail
By Robert Scheer
Truthdig.com
January 2006
In case someone in the Justice Department is reading this, let me hasten to explain why I just clicked on the Victoria’s Secret online catalog photo featuring a certain “Very Sexy Lace & Mesh Garter Belt.” [...]
As has been widely reported in the media, tennis star Martina Hingis has tested positive for cocaine, although she denies ever taking the drug, leading to counter allegations that she’s getting some kind of bum rap . . .
With that in mind, we’ll take a Cannabis Chronicles look at the drug allegations . . [...]
The food police debate continues.
We have all heard how coffee, chocolate, wine, and various ways in which we indulge ourselves is bad for you. Sometimes it even seems like every time you found some little way or thing made you feel a bit better, tasted good, or was a reprieve from pain and stress, [...]
Delivering sad news for the Cannabis Community, the Drug Policy Alliance announced today that MMJ Rx activist Mae Nutt passed from this mortal coil earlier this week . . .
Marijuana Activist Mae Nutt Dies
January 4, 2008
Medical marijuana activist and grandmother Mae Nutt, died January 1, 2008 in Roseville, CA. Mrs. Nutt was a medical marijuana [...]
In recent news as reported by the Asian News International Newtork . . .
Cannabinoids can inhibit tumor cell growth in highly invasive cancers
By ANI
Wednesday December 26, 02:25 PM
Washington, Dec 26 (ANI): A new study has found that Cannabinoids, the active components in marijuana, may aid in inhibiting tumor cell growth in highly invasive cancers.
Although, [...]
Was rummaging through the BBC’s old archives, and ran across the following story . . .
Wednesday, 8 October, 2003, 10:58 GMT 11:58 UK
BBC News
Pupils in drug dealing game
STAFF SPOTTED PUPILS PLAYING THE GAME
Five primary school pupils have been disciplined by their school after being caught playing drug dealers with packets of flour.
Staff at St [...]
this little snippet courtesy of the BBC - Prince Charles sketches Tiger’s Nest in Bhutan - February 11, 1998
Along the way, the Prince met Bhutanese peasant farmers who scratch a living from the hills. They keep pigs and feed them on marijuana plants which grow wild in the hills.
A Bhutanese official explained: “The marijuana makes [...]
