Legalizing marijuana a dangerous prospect
The News Review:
- Legalizing marijuana a dangerous prospect
- Benefits of Organic Outdoor Grown Cannabis
- War on drugs off track
- Firefighters Stumble Across Marijuana Plants After Putting Out Fire…
- Slain man’s wife, son are arrested
Legalizing marijuana a dangerous prospect
Hickory Daily Record – Dec 16, 2007
Illicit drug use already causes serious problems in society: Health issues, accidents, lost productivity in the workplace, and wrecked families. Legalizing marijuana would only further intensify these problems. Marijuana is a risk to our society morally and physically. Its use leads to use of harder illicit drugs which pose an even greater threat to society… Illicit drug use already causes serious problems in society: Health issues, accidents, lost productivity in the workplace, and wrecked families. Legalizing marijuana would only further intensify these problems. Marijuana is a risk to our society morally and physically. Its use leads to use of harder illicit drugs which pose an even greater threat to society. Our government has a duty to its citizens to protect us from harmful drugs such as marijuana. I urge you to consider the deteriorating effects of marijuana on individuals and their surroundings.
Benefits of Organic Outdoor Grown Cannabis
Bay Area Indymedia – Dec 16, 2007
While some claim up to a half-gram or more of usable bud per watt, yield from a short 10-week cycle is more likely to produce about 4 ounces. Let’s compromise and say we will get 8 ounces of usable bud. Is burning a half-ton of coal (or 400 lbs of natural gas) a good way to get less than one pound of bud? Can these few ounces of buds be truly called “organic” when the light used to grow them consumed a half-ton of coal (or 400 pounds of natural gas) to generate the electricity? Indoor cannabis produces less volume and lower potency despite the vast amount of electricity required to bring in a crop because the actual lumens the plants get is only a fraction of that available from natural sunlight. Chemicals will probably be used that may include systemics like Abamectin that are nuero toxins, pyrethroid (the synthetic version of natural pyrethrum), and Carbaryl under various brand names and concoctions. These synthetic insecticides have been linked to harmful health effects in humans, but perhaps more importantly threaten the food chain itself because they are extremely toxic to bees and aquatic life, both of which are key to the food chain and our existence on earth… Maturity and maximum production are not reached until a full 90 days or more after the onset of flowering. Therefore, indoor crops with less than 90 days flowering time will produce less volume, the trichomes will be smaller, and more (if not all) will be clear. It is commonly held belief that the effect of cannabis with mostly clear trichomes will be more cerebral and "up" while the effect of cannabis with a greater percentage of cloudy to amber trichomes will be stronger and have more of a "body stone" with increased appetite, "munchies", and induces sleep. In other words, if the goal is just to get high perhaps indoor is a good choice, but if you are looking for that couch lock dreamland of pain relief, a mature organic outdoor grown choice will better serve your needs. In any case, a longer outdoor cycle will increase the density and volume of trichomes, thereby increasing potency. Edibles Indoor grown cannabis seems unsuitable for conversion to concentrates intended for human consumption due to the high risk of ingesting toxins from fertilizers, pesticides and molds common to most indoor cannabis gardens.
War on drugs off track
Knoxville News Sentinel – Knoxville News Sentinel (subscription) – Dec 16, 2007
, who has depended on the use of cannabis as her effective medicine of choice, is one that bears scrutiny. Evans’ medical records demonstrate the effectiveness of cannabis in treating her glaucoma by reducing her intraocular pressure. All Rights Reserved… If cannabis, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration’s own administrative law judge Francis Young, is “one of the safest therapeutic substances known to man,” where was the threat that prompted the taking of her son? A boy with “a history of mental, emotional and behavioral problems” who “has been in treatment since the age of 7″ is better off with a parent familiar with those problems. Cannabis is a Schedule I substance, meaning it received a listing as a drug with a strong potential for abuse, no medical use and a lack of accepted safe use under medical supervision. Yet cannabis has a rating of LD50 (lethal dose 50 percent, the dose required to kill half the members of a tested population), which would require a smoker to consume nearly 1,500 pounds of marijuana within about 15 minutes to induce a lethal response. Safe human use of cannabis has a recorded history dating back thousands of years. This obvious contradiction has long been a point of contention with those seeking a change in federal policy. And there is a lot more contradiction in federal drug policy than our government’s position on cannabis. Perhaps it may be a case like Evans’ that takes America’s war on drugs to the tipping point of change.
Firefighters Stumble Across Marijuana Plants After Putting Out Fire…
LA Canyon News – Dec 16, 2007
An individual in the area reported seeing smoke coming from the back balcony of a home on the street at about seven o’clock in the morning and called the police. Fire officials were called to the scene and were able to quickly put out the fire on the upstairs patio at the home. That’s when firefighters stumbled upon marijuana plants.
Slain man’s wife, son are arrested
News & Observer – Dec 16, 2007
comp –> Thomasi McDonald, Staff WriterComment on this story RALEIGH – Two days after a man was found shot to death in his east Raleigh home, police arrested the man’s wife and son on multiple drug charges, court records show. Police arrested Michael Louis Imes, 31, and Lina Imes, 63, on Friday, two days after they found the body of Albert Louis Imes before dawn at 1229 Somerset Road, according to warrants filed at the Wake County Magistrate’s Office. Police have accused Michael and Lina Imes with being in possession of more than 4 pounds of marijuana, court records show. They have also accused the duo of using their Somerset Road residence to manufacture, deliver and sell marijuana, court records show. “Information that was developed during the course of the murder investigation led to the charges,” Jim Sughrue, a police spokesman, said Saturday. One week before Imes’ shooting, police were called to the residence to investigate an armed robbery. Police records show that the robbery was reported at 10:54 p.