Cannabis May Help Alleviate Allergic Skin Disease
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- Cannabis May Help Alleviate Allergic Skin Disease
- Medical Marijuana: Legal fears hack away at state’s pot plan
- Nigeria: NDLEA Seizes N378m Indian Hemp in Delta
- North Dakota sees promise in industrial hemp
- Letter: Medical marijuana article
- The Fresno Bee, Calif., Lewis Griswold column: Missing cow leads to…
- Couple found guilty in pot case: El Dorado doctor and husband insist…
Cannabis May Help Alleviate Allergic Skin Disease
Science Daily – Science Daily (press release) – Aug 17, 2007
Mechoulam’s research group at the Hebrew University isolated two naturally occurring cannabinoid (cannabis-like) components — one from the brain, named anandamide (from the word ananda, meaning supreme joy in Sanskrit), and another from the intestines named 2-AG. These two cannabinoids, plus their receptors and various enzymes that are involved in the cannnabinoids’ syntheses and degradations, comprise the endocannabinoid system. These materials have similar effects to those of the active components in hashish and marijuana, produced from the cannabis plant. Research by groups throughout the world has since shown that the endocannabinoid system is involved in many physiological processes, including the protective reaction of the mammalian body to a long list of neurological diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. In the article in Science, the researchers detail how the endocannabinoid system serves as a major regulator of cutaneous (skin) contact hypersensitivity (CHS) in a mouse model. In this model, they showed, for example, that mice lacking cannabinoid receptors display exacerbated inflammatory skin responses to an allergen. Because the data indicate that enhanced activation of the endocannabinoid system may function to dampen the CHS response, the researchers administered cannabinoids such as tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), a constituent derived from the cannabis plant, to the experimental animals.
Medical Marijuana: Legal fears hack away at state’s pot plan
Santa Fe New Mexican – Aug 17, 2007
Alfredo Vigil said the second phase of the new state law that would have made that happen won’t be pursued. “The Department of Health will not subject its employees to potential federal prosecution, and therefore will not distribute or produce medical marijuana,” Vigil said in a written statement Wednesday. That decision appears to leave patients who participate in the state’s Medical Cannabis Program with three options: grow their own marijuana plants; purchase bags of pot on the black market; or get a prescription for the legal, synthetic form of tetrahydrocannabinol, one of 400 chemicals in the marijuana plant. But Reena Szczepanski, director of Drug Policy Alliance New Mexico — a group that lobbied for the law — insists there are other solutions, if only King would provide “more meaningful” legal direction. “I hope they aren’t ruling out any producing or distributing by other entities,” she said. “We’re not expecting department employees to risk prosecution themselves. We ask them for a serious conversation with the AG about other possibilities.
Nigeria: NDLEA Seizes N378m Indian Hemp in Delta
AllAfrica.com – Aug 17, 2007
Speaking with VANGUARD at the state headquarters of the command, Ogwashi-Uku yesterday, the Agency's State Commander Mr. Suleiman Ahmed Ningi said that arrangements were underway to burn the seized exhibits before the end of next month September. GA_googleFillSlot(“AllAfrica_Story_Inset”); Apart from the seizures the command said it secured 46 convictions of suspects who are presently serving various terms of imprisonment within the period under review and also seized 17 vehicles, four motorcycles used in conveying the exhibits. Ningi also seized the opportunity to appeal to the state government to assist them with logistic support, noting that "the drug war is for all.
North Dakota sees promise in industrial hemp
Topeka Capital Journal – Topeka Capital Journal (subscription) – Aug 17, 2007
“This is not any subversive thing. this is just practical agriculture. Well, says the DEA, maybe you’re not shady, but shady outsiders could sneak into your field of harmless hemp and spike it with some marijuana plants. So these goofballs have refused to authorize the planting of a crop that could save some family farmers while harming no one. Ron Paul has introduced a bill in Congress to back off the DEA head cases and allow American farmers to grow hemp. For more information, call Paul’s office: 202-225-2831.
Letter: Medical marijuana article
Caribbean Net News – Aug 17, 2007
The author admitted he was a Christian, which is great. However some of the so called side affects of marijuana are based solely on personal opinion. Like him saying that the use of cannabis leads to "idol worship" which may have been true for the Hindus years ago, but not those Christians in America. Patients who use marijuana for medical purposes do not worship any other god than they did before, some worship the one and only true living God, some others. Also he mentioned that medical marijuana is like a patch that needs to be reapplied over and over therefore it is not a cure. Wake up your stoned head (brain turned to stone) that’s the exact reason for medical marijuana, to relieve symtoms for patients with life-long diseases and terminally ill patients. One thing he mentioned about the side affects of marijuana is that it controls nausea, this is true… But I started using marijuana again when I got this life long disease called Gastric Paresis caused from diabetes another life-long disease. Also smoking cannabis does not cause cancer, tests have shown, but the US government has denied these facts for the last seven years and holds on to them in hopes it will prevent the legalization of marijuana for medical and personal use, tobacco does cause cancer, plus you don’t get all those chemicals in you system from the cigarette paper, also the dangers of smoking can be totally removed by the use of a vaporizer which heats the cannabis to the degree it needs to release its cannbinoids the best and most effective being Delta 9 Tetrahydracannibinol or THC. 80 percent of the population in America want marijuana legalized for medical purposes, plus the growing of hemp (non-THC containing marijuana) grows wild in Iowa because of the hemp farming done in our state and others for ropes, clothing, duffel bags, etc. to help win World War II, if hemp farming were to be made legal we would have an economic boon for it is used in making fiber, fuel, food, clothing, and medicine. But with all these uses you can see how many big corporations would like to keep it illegal. Any other complaints about marijuana are based on personal opinion which is created from closed minds, ignorance, and fear. Please pass this on to the writer of this incorrect article, also I suggest you use facts not personal opinion just look at what the comedy now but a health documentary then "Reefer Madness" this shows is so completely incorrect it is laughable.
The Fresno Bee, Calif., Lewis Griswold column: Missing cow leads to…
Free with registration – Fresno Bee – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 17, 2007
, Lewis Griswold column: Missing cow leads to marijuana farm bust. 17–It’s been a record year for pot plant busts in Tulare County, reports Capt. Dahl Cleek of the Sheriff’s Department. So far, 267,000 plants have been confiscated from.
Couple found guilty in pot case: El Dorado doctor and husband insist…
Free with registration – Sacramento Bee – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 17, 2007
| Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, CA) (August, 2007). 17–An El Dorado County couple who insist they treat marijuana only as a medicine, but who ran afoul of the federal government’s zero tolerance for the drug, were found gui… “Mollie” Fry, a physician, and her attorney husband, Dale C. Schafer, of a conspiracy to distribute and grow at least 100 plants. The jury also found them guilty of manufacturing marijuana. In Schafer’s case, the panel found he had manufactured at least 100 plants. Fry, 51, and Schafer, 53, are scheduled to be sentenced Nov. They each face a minimum of five years in prison.