Marijuana Pipe Dreams
The News Review:
- Marijuana Pipe Dreams
- Cannabis father rollerblade climb
- STATE POLICE HELICOPTER PILOT ZEROES IN ON MARIJUANA CROP
- Aussies flout law: Bali drug pushers target tourists
Marijuana Pipe Dreams
New York Times – Aug 27, 2005
, which first stalled and then finally denied his request for a permit. There are precedents for his re quest, because researchers already get supplies of other drugs — like heroin, LSD and Ecstasy — from independent laboratories licensed to make them. But researchers who want marijuana have only one legal source: a crop grown in Mississippi and dispensed by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Scientists say they need an alternative partly because the government’s marijuana is of such poor quality — too many seeds and stems — and partly because the federal officials are so loath to give it out for research into its medical benefits. Discovering benefits, after all, would undermine the great anti-marijuana campaign that has taken hold in Washington. Marijuana is deemed to be such a powerful ”gateway” to other drugs that it’s become the top priority in the federal drug war, much to the puzzlement of many scientists, not to mention the police officers who see a lot of worse drugs on the streets. People with glaucoma and AIDS have sworn by the efficacy of marijuana, and there have been studies by state health departments showing that smoking marijuana is especially good at controlling nausea…
Scientists say they need an alternative partly because the government’s marijuana is of such poor quality — too many seeds and stems — and partly because the federal officials are so loath to give it out for research into its medical benefits. Discovering benefits, after all, would undermine the great anti-marijuana campaign that has taken hold in Washington. Marijuana is deemed to be such a powerful ”gateway” to other drugs that it’s become the top priority in the federal drug war, much to the puzzlement of many scientists, not to mention the police officers who see a lot of worse drugs on the streets. People with glaucoma and AIDS have sworn by the efficacy of marijuana, and there have been studies by state health departments showing that smoking marijuana is especially good at controlling nausea. Scientists would like to test these effects, but they can’t do good studies until they get good marijuana. Critics of medical marijuana say that it’s unnecessary because patients can obtain the benefits of its active ingredient, THC, through a drug that’s already available, Marinol. But many patients say it doesn’t work as well.
Cannabis father rollerblade climb
BBC News – Aug 27, 2005
“My feet hurt now and I can’t wait to have a pint of Guinness in an hour or so’s time. Mr Hammond, who works for the mental health charity Rethink, used rough terrain blades with six-inch tyres. Stephen Hammond began smoking cannabis when he was 17 and by the time he was 20 he was smoking up to 10 joints a night at weekends. His illness began as extreme lethargy and increasing paranoia, including the belief that people could hear his thoughts. Ruined lifeHe then began having auditory hallucinations in which he heard intrusive voices, for which he is now taking medication. Mr Hammond said his son had identified his heavy use of cannabis as a trigger for the illness. He told BBC News: “It has pretty well ruined his young life and had a devastating effect on the family.
STATE POLICE HELICOPTER PILOT ZEROES IN ON MARIJUANA CROP
highbeam.com – Aug 27, 2005
find Evansville Courier & Press articles. When a police helicopter discovered marijuana growing in northernVanderburgh County on Friday morning, the pilot flew i.
Aussies flout law: Bali drug pushers target tourists
Sunday Times.au – Aug 27, 2005
One drug supplier told The Sunday Times that business was booming with young backpackers. “For now, we are busy because many tourists now come,” he said through an interpreter. He said he sold marijuana, ecstasy and shabu-shabu (crystal methamphetamine) to dealers who distributed it on the streets or at bars and nightclubs to tourists, mainly Australians. “They are almost always Australians. Ecstasy is the most popular,” he said. The Sunday Times was approached in broad daylight on five occasions in six minutes to buy drugs. The offers continued later in the evening…
“They come up to us at least every day,” Mr Dyke said. “It’s mostly the people on the street. They go, `Transport, transport’ and then, `Marijuana, magic mushrooms. “It was the couple’s first overseas trip and their families had drummed into them the need to be careful. “Considering the laws here and the death penalty, it’s pretty frequently offered. It’s out of control,” he said.