Study: Substance in Marijuana Clears Facial Dermatitis
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- Study: Substance in Marijuana Clears Facial Dermatitis
- Where there’s smoke, there’s Hempfest
- Marijuana grow house discovered; six arrested
- Pot hunt | Portland Press Herald
- For a pot smoker in pain, no help is on the way
Study: Substance in Marijuana Clears Facial Dermatitis
FOX News – Aug 19, 2007
Allergic contact dermatitis affects about 5 percent of men and 11 percent of women in industrialized countries, according to an article published in the journal Science. A group of domestic and international researchers have found that two naturally occurring cannabinoid (cannabis-like) components found in the body’s endocannabinoid system – one from the brain, named anandamide and another from the intestines named 2-AG provides protection against dermatitis. These cannabinoids have similar effects to those of the active components in hashish and marijuana, produced from the cannabis plant. Further research using mice has shown that THC – the ingredient in marijuana that produces a “high” in users — significantly decreased the allergic reaction in comparison to untreated mice. Related Stories.
Where there’s smoke, there’s Hempfest
Seattle Post-Intelligencer – Seattle Post Intelligencer – Aug 19, 2007
McPeak and a core group of about 100 volunteers plan the event year-round and pay more than half the estimated $180,000 production bill with vending revenue. Last year’s event was marred by access problems and restrictions forced by the construction of the neighboring Olympic Sculpture Park. As a result, space for Hempfest vendors in 2006 was reduced, and event organizers lost an estimated $27,000 in revenue, volunteer coordinator Katie Morse said. The tiff between the Seattle Art Museum and Hempfest was fueled when a crowd overran a construction fence at the sculpture park, causing about $16,500 in damage that SAM officials demanded that the pot advocates pay for. They did — after their lawyers went back and forth with city officials. This year, Morse said SAM is “being very cooperative,” and museum spokeswoman Cara Egan said employees there are “really looking forward to the event. ”
If anything, Seattle’s marijuana laws have been reformed somewhat since Hempfest’s inception.
Marijuana grow house discovered; six arrested
Charlotte Sun-Herald – Aug 19, 2007
The grow house is the eighth to be discovered in Charlotte County so far this year. The Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office was conducting undercover surveillance of the house at 5475 Grovewood Circle when, at about 3:30 p. , a narcotics unit detective and Florida Power & Light personnel knocked on the door, a CCSO report said… The car didn’t signal a left turn onto Bronco Road, so the law enforcement officers in the unmarked car turned on their lights and stopped the car. When they went to driver Adalberto Castillo’s window they could smell marijuana, the report said. Five garbage bags of marijuana plant stems, shake and root balls — almost 30 pounds of usable marijuana — were found inside the car. Castillo told detectives that he and a friend were growing marijuana inside his home and they were trying to dump the bags in the woods, the report said. Every person inside the car was arrested on a charge of trafficking in marijuana. They were:
* Castillo, 38, who is one of the two owners of the Grovewood Circle house, according to Charlotte County Property Appraiser’s records. The house was purchased in 2004 for $185,000.
Pot hunt | Portland Press Herald
Portland Press Herald – Aug 19, 2007
Growing fewer than 100 plants is a misdemeanor, so even aggressive growers use small plots. (Page 2 of 3)
LIVERMORE- A drug agent peered from the seat of a Maine
Army National Guard helicopter, radioing directions to agents
mounted on all-terrain vehicles below, directing them to small,
isolated clearings of bright green marijuana plants. A thousand feet below, other agents negotiated a warren of
trails through the woods and pulled up to a cluster of plants,
some of them almost 5 feet tall. They yanked them out by the
roots, stacking them on the back of the ATV and, after hitting
several similar patches, drove back out to the dirt road a half-
mile away… “It’s the most abused drug in the nation after alcohol, and Maine
is no exception,” McKinney said. “And it is even more of a
problem with our youth as a drug of choice and abuse. ”
Marijuana, whether grown locally or imported from Canada or
states to the south, is the primary drug of abuse in Maine,
according to the U. Drug Enforcement Administration. A
national survey on drug use and health done by the federal
Department of Health and Human Services found 36 percent of
Mainers age 18 to 25 reported using marijuana in the past year. That’s one of the highest rates in the nation.
For a pot smoker in pain, no help is on the way
Globe and Mail – Aug 19, 2007
I don’t understand why the active ingredient of marijuana isn’t solely prescribed in pill form. Then there is no threat to the rest of us from the irresponsible recreational abusers… And I take up to 50 sprays a day for relief then. I also have the cannabis pill, Cesamet, there is another one for nausea called Marinol but neither have all of what we need for relief. Also, eating it by making cannabis butter to make cookies and stuff takes away the worst – after about 45 minutes- but I STILL need to smoke for relief. Remember, I take up to two THOUSAND mg of morphine for relief when I don’t have enough – or the right strain of cannabis.