US marijuana ’stronger than ever’
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- US marijuana ’stronger than ever’
- Marijuana ‘on prescription’
- Marijuana Martyr
- US marijuana grows stronger than before
- Officers find bags of marijuana hidden in truckload of mangos
- 1,400 Pounds Of Marijuana Found Inside 18-Wheeler
US marijuana ’stronger than ever’
NEWS.com.au - Apr 26, 2007
"This could explain why there has been an increase in the number of medical emergencies involving marijuana. "
The pharmacy department at Mississippi has compiled data on 59,369 samples of cannabis, 1225 hashish samples, and 443 hash oil samples confiscated since 1975. "The highest concentration of (THC) found in a cannabis (marijuana) sample is 33. 12 per cent from Oregon State Police," the report reads. Share this article.
Marijuana ‘on prescription’
NEWS.com.au - Apr 27, 2007
content-row clearfloat –> MARIJUANA would be prescribed by doctors in South Australia for medicinal purposes under planned legislation. Democrats MP Sandra Kanck yesterday said a bill was being drafted to prevent people using the drug for medicinal purposes from being fined. She said some doctors already were advising patients to use marijuana to help manage their pain. Australian Medical Association state president Chris Cain has supported the move but only if certain conditions are met. "We don’t disagree with the concept of marijuana for medicinal purposes but it needs to be in a standardised form," he said. But the AMA doesn’t support inhaled marijuana. Anti-drugs MP Ann Bressington said the move sent the wrong message about drug use.
Marijuana Martyr
Nashville Scene - Apr 26, 2007
Prosecutors are trying to seize the property as a drug-case
forfeiture, and Ellis is fighting against the odds to save his home of
nearly 40 years. “If
I were a rapist, the government couldn’t take my farm,” Ellis says. “I
grew cannabis and provided it free of charge to sick people, so I run
the risk of losing everything I own. That just doesn’t compute to me. ” But
a strange thing has happened while the government has been trying to
make an example out of Ellis. Colleagues, friends and neighbors are
rallying around him—along with a whole lot of people who had never
heard of him before. The balding, bespectacled 57-year-old with the
amiable manner of a favorite uncle has become an improbable cause
célèbre… This month, New Mexico became the 12th
state to permit the use of medical marijuana. But despite shelves full
of scientific studies that show marijuana can provide nausea and pain
relief to people with cancer, AIDS and glaucoma, among other ailments
(without the detrimental side effects of narcotic painkillers), the
rest of the country—including Tennessee, of course—bans the use of pot
in any situation. And no matter what any state statute or medical study
says (who needs science anyway?), the Bush administration maintains a Reefer Madness mentality. Backed
by the Supreme Court, which believes in state’s rights only when the
justices agree with what the state is doing, the Justice Department
holds that medical marijuana use remains illegal everywhere under
federal law, even when state law declares it legal. The feds have
prosecuted sick people for smoking doobies in states that actually
permit medical marijuana. There’s
legislation in the Tennessee General Assembly to allow the use of
medical marijuana in this state.
US marijuana grows stronger than before
Daily News & Analysis - Apr 26, 2007
Analysis of seized samples of marijuana and hashish showed that more of the cannabis on the market is of the strongest grade, the White House and National Institute for Drug Abuse said. They cited data from the University of Mississippi’s Marijuana Potency Project showing the average levels of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, in the products rose from 7 per cent in 2003 to 8. 5 per cent in 2006. National Institute on Drug Abuse Director Dr. Nora Volkow fears the problem is not being taken seriously because many adults remember the marijuana of their youth as harmless.
Officers find bags of marijuana hidden in truckload of mangos
abc13.com - Apr 26, 2007
HPD officers discovered what they describe as a significant amount of marijuana inside an 18-wheeler that was pulled over. About 1,400 pounds of marijuana wrapped in trash bags were hidden behind a load of mangos. The 27-year-old driver was arrested. Officers seized the 18-wheeler. This afternoon, they unloaded and separated the drugs and mangos.
1,400 Pounds Of Marijuana Found Inside 18-Wheeler
Click 2 Houston.com - Apr 27, 2007
Houston police said an officer stopped the truck on the Southwest Freeway near Bissonnet Street at about 9 a. The driver gave the officer permission to search the trailer, police said.