Scientists Find That Old Cannabis Remedy Treats Skin Allergies
The News Review:
- Scientists Find That Old Cannabis Remedy Treats Skin Allergies
- Firefighters get high on marijuana blaze
- Bingham brings hemp study to North Carolina
- King Hemp part 2: Battle Lines: Natural, Or Synthetic…Life, Or Death
- EDITORIAL: Medical marijuana issue still to be settled.(Editorial)
Scientists Find That Old Cannabis Remedy Treats Skin Allergies
Deutsche Welle - Jun 25, 2007
They dabbed a bit of a cannabis extract on the little ears, and the allergic reaction went away. Teenagers looking for a good excuse to experiment with marijuana — in its topical form that is — may have one now. It turns out that granny’s over-the-counter cannabis ointment sold one hundred years ago to treat eczema, hives and other skin allergies, has a scientific basis after all. In the 1930s, the household remedy was dismissed as a quack product and banned due to the intoxicating effects of its active ingredient, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which induces the marijuana high. Now a research team from the University of Bonn has resurrected granny’s old herbal extract. It turns out that THC does in fact reduce the ugly zits and swelling from skin allergies.
Firefighters get high on marijuana blaze
The Age - Jun 25, 2007
It took more than 35 firefighters 1000 gallons of water and fivegallons of chemical suppressant to extinguish the warehouse blazelast week, fire chief Shawn Snider said. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were investigatingthe origin of the drugs. The fire marshal from Hidalgo County, Texas was investigatingwhether arson was the cause. Chief Snider said last Thursday that the firefighters wereexposed to so much marijuana smoke that they would not be able topass a drug test, despite wearing air packs to prevent them frominhaling toxic or hazardous fumes.
Bingham brings hemp study to North Carolina
Yes! Weekly - Jun 25, 2007
But a chemical analysis of marijuana reveals that the drug contains between 3 and 15 percent mind-altering THC, compared to a paltry 0. 3 percent for industrial hemp. “Serious marijuana growers don’t want industrial hemp legalized because it crossbreeds with their plants,” Bingham said. “If you smoke industrial hemp it will make you sick. “Some law enforcement agencies have said that hemp fields might provide cover for marijuana farmers, but Eidinger said that is unlikely to happen because of cross pollination. “The last place someone would want to grow marijuana is in a hemp field,” Eidinger said. Despite the differences between the two substances’ chemical makeup, Bingham faced opposition from legislators who were uncomfortable with the idea of legalizing a controlled substance… “If you smoke industrial hemp it will make you sick. “Some law enforcement agencies have said that hemp fields might provide cover for marijuana farmers, but Eidinger said that is unlikely to happen because of cross pollination. “The last place someone would want to grow marijuana is in a hemp field,” Eidinger said. Despite the differences between the two substances’ chemical makeup, Bingham faced opposition from legislators who were uncomfortable with the idea of legalizing a controlled substance. “Everybody assumes I want to legalize marijuana,” Bingham said. The USDA report combined the findings of several state studies similar to the one approved for North Carolina, including studies in North Dakota, Oregon and Kentucky. Researchers concluded that the market for hemp in the United States is and will likely remain a small, thin market.
King Hemp part 2: Battle Lines: Natural, Or Synthetic…Life, Or Death
OpEdNews - Jun 25, 2007
Back to the 1930s; DuPont held the patents for making plastics and synthetic fibers from petroleum, and patents for that environmentally-infamous sulfuric acid process for making paper from wood pulp. New machinery to unleash industrial hemp’s cornucopia of superior natural products suddenly made The King a serious threat to profits of the petroleum and timber industries—real Titans in terms of economic and political dominance. William Randolph Hearst had seen the looming threat of a modernized hemp industry deflating his paper-making empire, and had already conjured cannabis hemp into “marijuana”, a Mexican slang term (or the Americanized, confusing and even slightly spookier? “marihuana”). Rattling his newspaper chains, Hearst had for years terrorized Americans with horrors of the “evil weed from Mexico”. truly a Greatest Hit in the art of propaganda (a certain “Stairway to Heaven” for the weed with roots in Hell ) Most people were familiar with the benefits of hemp, and cannabis, and were totally blindsided when DuPont and Hearst and their henchmen diddled Congress into strangling America’s hemp industry in 1937 with the illegal Marijuana Tax Act.
EDITORIAL: Medical marijuana issue still to be settled.(Editorial)
Free with registration - Stamford Advocate - AccessMyLibrary.com - Jun 25, 2007
It’s not a surprising decision, even for a governor with Ms. Rell’s medical history. Unless or until the federal government decriminalizes marijuana use for medical purposes, states including Connecticut are going to hesitate to butt up against federal prohibitions, no matter how skillfully state laws are written. Agree or disagree with the veto, but Ms. Rell can’t be faulted for recognizing the common-sense reality that the Connecticut bill would break federal law. Yet the veto is unsatisfying.