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Written by greenmachine on August 31st, 2010
Written by greenmachine on August 31st, 2010
Pot for Pain: A small study showed that people suffering from chronic pain felt less pain and less anxiety when they smoked marijuana compared to when they smoked a placebo. (via Yahoo! Health)
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Written by greenmachine on August 30th, 2010
Calgary company with help from local firms develops electric vehicle with body parts made from hemp
Don’t call it the cannabis car, but a Calgary transportation company and its partners including some Toronto firms have developed an electric vehicle with hemp body parts.
Calgary-based Motive Industries says it will ...
Written by greenmachine on August 30th, 2010
Smoking pot can make some of the pain go away, without the patient getting high.
The finding comes from what researchers in Montreal believe to be the first outpatient clinical trial of smoked cannabis, involving 21 people with chronic neuropathic pain.
The results, which included improvements in mood and sleep, ...
Written by greenmachine on August 30th, 2010
World — Smoking cannabis, also known as marijuana, reduced pain in patients with nerve pain stemming from injuries or surgical complications, new research shows.
Twenty-one adults with chronic nerve pain were taught to take a single inhalation of 25 milligrams of cannabis through a pipe, three times ...
Written by greenmachine on August 30th, 2010
Last week I posted a brief response to the Los Angeles Times commentary authored by Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske (along with five previous drug czars) condemning California’s Prop. 19.
Today the Los Angeles Times has posted my full rebuttal, which I’ve excerpted below.
Some marijuana tax revenue is better than none
via The ...
Written by greenmachine on August 29th, 2010
The shift by some states to legalize marijuana is being invoked by a pair of New York City attorneys who are challenging whether a Saratoga County man implicated in a coast-to-coast drug smuggling case should be subjected to severe federal penalties at a time when the Justice Department has arguably ...
Written by greenmachine on August 29th, 2010
The District is writing strict new rules to regulate its nascent medical marijuana industry, but some of the entrepreneurs best positioned to lead the way have blemished backgrounds – including drug convictions at odds with the city’s vision.
Among the District’s 300 proposed rules is a requirement that ...
Written by greenmachine on August 29th, 2010
Calif. — When the Los Angeles City Council adopted its medical marijuana ordinance, it aimed to rout unscrupulous dispensary operators whose unruly customers irritated residents and operators who opened up willy-nilly across the city, ignoring a ban on new stores.
But the ordinance has snared ...
Written by greenmachine on August 28th, 2010
USA — Residents in 14 states and Washington can now appeal to their doctors for prescriptions for medical marijuana to help them with their pain. Their employers, however, may not be so understanding.
In some cases, workers have been fired for failing drug tests despite having prescriptions ...
