Documentary Planned for Cancer Patient Cured by MMJ

Documentary Planned For Critical Cancer Patient Cured By Medical Marijuana

Cannabis Science Inc. (nasd otcbb:CBIS) a pioneering US biotech company developing pharmaceutical cannabis products, is pleased to announce that it has been contacted by Lynnice Wedewer, Ph.D. who is a 34 year multiple cancer patient survivor who has been cured of 7 of her 8 cancers in a major part because of medical cannabis. Dr. Wedewer wishes to share her story through Cannabis Science and help our case and education towards general acceptance of medical cannabis as a natural and viable treatment for cancer.

In 1979, Iowa passed a medical marijuana law which impacted five children suffering from cancer and who were placed into a cancer treatment program using medical cannabis under the supervision of the University of Iowa. Dr. Wedewer was one of those children and only 1 1/2 years ago did the law in Iowa finally change to allow these patients to finally speak out about their treatment and success stories in battling cancer with medical cannabis.

The Company is excited to feature Dr. Lynnice Wedewer’s cancer success story and testimonial in its upcoming documentary, along with other cancer survivors who were cured through the use of medical cannabis.

Dr. Wedewer runs a website http://www.lynnicewedewer.com where she provides her testimony, speeches, educational material, marijuana facts, interviews and documentaries, and other informational links regarding marijuana.

Dr. Robert Melamede, Ph. D., Cannabis Science Inc., President & CEO said, “These are exciting times to be part of a burgeoning medical marijuana movement and shedding light on patients who are telling their stories and opening up medical files to demonstrate the cancer curing power of medical cannabis. We are enthusiastic and hopefully that Dr. Lynnice Wedewer’s testimonial and cancer success along with other patient success stories, including profound medical evidence, will help to educate and finally open up the eyes of federal regulators to decriminalize medical cannabis; so more people’s lives can be saved by this natural herbal remedy and stop killing people with man-made pharmaceuticals.”

About Cannabis Science, Inc.

Cannabis Science, Inc. is at the forefront of pharmaceutical grade medical marijuana research and development. The Company works with world authorities on phytocannabinoid science targeting critical illnesses, and adheres to scientific methodologies to develop, produce and commercialize phytocannabinoid-based pharmaceutical products. In sum, we are dedicated to the creation of cannabis-based medicines, both with and without psychoactive properties, to treat disease and the symptoms of disease, as well as for general health maintenance.

CURED OF CANCER

4th of July Pipes & Bongs

Fourth of July Marijuana Pipes And Bongs

Posted by Johnny Green at 2:49 pm Smoking Pieces Add comments

I was smoking off of my Chong Bong and watching the movie Glory, and it got me wondering what ‘patriotic’ smoking pics are out there on the internet.  These are what I found.  If readers have one they would like me to add to this article, e-mail me at johnnygreen@theweedblog.com:

This is an American Flag Peace Pipe. Someone got an A in Arts and Craft!!

I find this bong to be so ironic. I imagine when it was made, the person actually thought that Obama was going to respect states’ medical marijuana laws…so sad….

The perfect pipe for the firework show sneak!

Also very good for the mobile smoking.

My friend has this bong. George Washington would be proud!

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A Bill that would take Marijuana off the controlled substances list.

cannabis Washington, D.C. — When the smoke clears, it may be remembered as a rare moment of political unity in Washington. House of Representatives Democrat Barney Frank and conservative Republican libertarian Ron Paul joined forces to introduce a bill that would take marijuana off the government’s list of controlled substances and eliminate criminal penalties. “Criminally prosecuting adults for making the choice to smoke marijuana is a waste of law enforcement resources and an intrusion on personal freedom,” Frank said in a statement on Thursday. “I do not advocate urging people to smoke marijuana, neither do I urge them to drink alcoholic beverages or smoke tobacco, but in none of these cases do I think prohibition enforced by criminal sanctions is good public policy,” Frank said. The move comes a day after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton returned from Guatemala and Jamaica on a trip aimed at injecting more funds and logistical support into American efforts to fight drug-trafficking. Critics argue U.S. attempts to beat back the drug trade have been costly and ineffective. According to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the government spent about $15.1 billion on the fight against drug trafficking in fiscal year 2010, up from $14.8 billion in fiscal 2009. Marijuana is the most widely used illegal drug in the United States, with an estimated 11.5 million current users, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency. At least one-third of the U.S. population has used marijuana sometime in their lives, and most of that marijuana was smuggled in from Mexico and other parts of Latin America, the DEA said. The Global Commission on Drug Policy, a high-level international commission, earlier this month declared the global “war on drugs” a failure and urged nations to consider legalizing cannabis and other drugs to undermine organized crime and protect their citizens’ health. But Clinton says progress in Colombia, where drug violence is down sharply, as a model. “Our experience in Colombia has shown what proactive investments and committed partnership can do,” Clinton said in Guatemala on Wednesday.

Editing by Jackie Frank

Source: Reuters (Wire)

Author: Pedro Nicolaci da Costa

Published: June 24, 2011

Copyright: 2011

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swat team storms home over 2oz of MMJ

SWAT Team Storms Home, Seize 2 Oz. From Legal Pot Patient

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By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ in Medical, News

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​Twenty police officers, some in masks and riot gear, stormed an Arizona home last week after receiving a tip that the owner was in possession of an ounce of marijuana.

The homeowner, Ross Taylor, is a legal, card-carrying patient under the state’s new medical marijuana law, and is therefore allowed to possess up to 2.5 ounces of cannabis, reports Ray Stern at Phoenix New Times. Taylor is also the owner of Cannabis Patient Screening Centers, a new company that matches up patients with doctors for medical marijuana recommendations.

The aggressive cops handcuffed Taylor and his wife, served a search warrant on the home and found a grand total of two ounces of marijuana and a small amount of hashish, which is concentrated cannabis.

Graphic: Phoenix New Times

Surprise, surprise: The guy who got raided (for no good reason) also owns a company which matches up medical marijuana patients with recommending doctors. Of course, the cops claim they didn’t know that. And why would they?

​The over-enthusiastic porkers seized the marijuana and some paraphernalia from an upstairs closet, even though the total weight was under the legal threshold, then informed Taylor he’d “likely be hearing from the prosecutor’s office” about criminal charges.

Sgt. Bill Balafas, acting as spokesman for the Gilbert Police Department, claimed that because Taylor bought the pot from another person, as opposed to growing it himself, his possession of it wasn’t legal despite his status as a patient.

“People are being harassed,” said Taylor. “They want political control.”

Police claim they had no idea that Taylor owned a medical marijuana-related company, nor that he had a valid registration card. Does this mean that they’ll feel free to come swarming in as a low-IQ SWAT team and knock down the doors of any patient without even checking first?

“That’s the first problem, as we see it,” Stern wrote. “Cops went through the trouble of drafting a search warrant and having it signed by a judge, but apparently didn’t bother to check in with the state Department of Health Services to find out if Taylor was in the patient registry, which he was.”

Exactly what good it does having a patient registry when half-wit cops refuse to check the damn thing before going all Rambo on seriously ill medical marijuana users would appear to be a valid question at this point.

The raiding cops cut Taylor’s power and water to his home just prior to the raid, presumably to stop anyone from flushing the pot or sending it down the disposal.

They knocked and “screamed” they had a search warrant, according to Taylor, so he let them in.

The excitable drug warriors even handcuffed three employees of All My Sons Moving and Storage, who were in the process of helping Taylor move into his new home. The cops, some with shields and holding shotguns, announced they were “with the SWAT team” and detained the innocent movers for about an hour, according to Kevin Anderson, manager of All My Sons.

Taylor, meanwhile, showed the cops his medical marijuana card. One of the masked, hostile, evidently not-very-damn-intelligent officers told him, “I don’t even know if you’re supposed to have this card,” and referred to the Gov. Jan Brewer’s lawsuit against the new law.

Of course, don’t hold your breath expecting clueless Gov. Brewer, who wouldn’t know leadership if it bit her on her wrinkled ass, to accept any responsibility for encouraging rogue actions like this against suffering patients.

Taylor told the officers he’d bought the pot from another qualified patient, and they told him that meant his weed wasn’t legal. During the raid, police claimed they called the state health department and were told that patients “cannot legally buy from anyone else,” according to Balafas.

Balafas did not know the name of the DHS representative to whom the officers talked. Laura Oxley, spokeswoman for the DHS, was also unable to provide a name.

The official Arizona DHS website answers the question, “Where can I legally buy marijuana if I am a qualifying patient?” thusly:

“Qualifying patients can obtain medical marijuana from a dispensary, the qualifying patient’s designated caregiver, another qualifying patient, or, if authorized to cultivate, from home cultivation.” [Emphasis added.]

Balafas also claimed the hashish wasn’t legal under Arizona’s medical law, which would be interesting, since hashish is nothing more than concentrated marijuana.

“If so, it would be nothing less than a loophole for cops to bust qualified patients who have converted pot plants into a more concentrated form,” Stern writes in New Times.

“Maybe this was their way of saying ‘Welcome to Gilbert,’ ” Taylor said of the police raid.

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750,000 MMJ Patients in CA

Medical Marijuana Patients Number 750,000 In California

Graphic: MJ Dispensaries of Southern California

Retail Market Is $1.5 Billion To $4.5 Billion Per Year

​There are now more than 750,000 medical marijuana patients in California, representing two percent of the population according to the most recent data, estimates California NORML. At the high end, an estimate of more than 1,125,000 patients, or three percent of the population, is consistent with the data.

This represents a substantial increase from Cal NORML‘s earlier estimates of 300,000 in 2007, 150,000 in 2005, and 75,000 in 2004, but is in line with registration rates in other comparable states that enjoy similar wide access to medical cannabis clinics and dispensaries.

The exact number of patients in California is uncertain, because patients aren’t required to register in the Golden State. Under Prop 215, California’s medical marijuana law, patients need only a physician’s recommendation to be legal.

Just a tiny fraction of the California’s medical marijuana population is enlisted in the state’s voluntary ID card program, which issued just 12,659 cards in 2009-2010. Therefore, California’s patient numbers must be estimated from other sources.

Among the most salient sources of data are medical marijuana registries in Colorado and Montana, which report patient rates of 2.5 percent and 3.0 percent, respectively.

Because California’s law is older and has more liberal inclusion criteria than in other states, usage there is likely to be higher, according to Cal NORML.

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Dale Gieringer, Cal NORML: “The data show that medical marijuana users are becoming an increasingly important constituency”

​ Despite this, there is no evidence that liberal access to medical marijuana has spurred overall marijuana use in California. According to U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) data, the total number of cannabis users in the state, including non-medical ones, amounts to 6.7 percent of the population (2.5 million) within the past month, or 11.3 percent (4.1 million) within the past year.

This places California only slightly above the national average in marijuana use (6.0 percent monthly and 10.4 percent yearly), and below several states with tougher marijuana laws.

Use of cannabis by California school youth has declined since Proposition 215 passed, according to data from the Attorney General’s Survey of Student Drug Use in California. The increase in medical marijuana use therefore appears to reflect a tendency for existing users to “go medical,” rather than the enlistment of new users.

The total retail value of medical marijuana consumed in California can be estimated at between $1.5 billion and $4.5 billion per year, assuming a market of 2 percent to 3 percent of the population, with average use of 0.5 to 1 gram per day, and an average cost of $320 per ounce.

“Marijuana’s popularity can be explained by its low toxicity, pleasant effects, and remarkably wide range of therapeutic uses, over 250 of which have been reported,” Cal NORML said in a press release.

By far the leading application is chronic pain, which accounts for the majority of all recommendations. Studies by California’s Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research have shown that marijuana is particularly effective for neuropathic pain, an otherwise difficult to treat condition that afflicts up to 7 to 8 percent of the population.

Patients who use marijuana for pain commonly report significant reductions in their use of other medications, in particular prescription opiates.

“The data show that medical marijuana users are becoming an increasingly important constituency,” said California NORML Director Dale Gieringer. “It is time for the federal government to stop ignoring the facts and recognize their right to medicine.”

An Ounce Or A Pound? Marijuana Decrim Stymies Searches

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Cops can’t tell by smell alone whether you have an ounce or multiple pounds of weed. Neither can police dogs.

​ ​(A recent Massachusetts case has brought attention to the growing haze of confusion around the state’s marijuana laws, as one high-profile case was thrown out when a judge said police cannot tell by smell alone whether an ounce or multiple pounds of pot are present. One ounce and under, of course, has been decriminalized in the state.)

Repercussions from the case may mean that police are wasting their time using drug-sniffing dogs as the basis for pot arrests, according to an opinion piece from GateHouse News Service.

In the Route 3 case, state police said they smelled marijuana on the breath of two passengers in the back seat of a taxi that had been stopped in Hingham for a broken license plate light.

When the officers then let a police drug dog sniff the vehicle, the animal signaled that it smelled drugs in the trunk of the taxi. When it was opened, a suitcase containing 13.5 pounds of marijuana was found.

The passengers, from Watertown and Falmouth, were arrested, but questions arose about whether police had probable cause to conduct the search.

An April ruling by the state Supreme Judicial Court prohibits police from searching a vehicle solely because they smell marijuana. Massachusetts voters in 2008 made possession of one ounce or less of marijuana a civil infraction and not a crime.

The court wrote that police cannot discern by smell alone whether someone has more than an ounce of marijuana.

Marijuana activists say the ruling should apply to drug dogs, too, and legal experts are unsure how the issue will be resolved.

San Diego MMJ

Today Is Signature Deadline For Petitioners Opposed To San Diego MMJ Rules

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By today opponents of the new medical marijuana regulations in San Diego, California need to turn in more than 31,00 valid signatures to force the city council to revisit their plan to restrict medical cannabis dispensaries to more than 600 feet from residences, schools, churches – basically people of any kind. Under the rules operators are also required to get a permit which will costs thousands to obtain and take up to two years to get.

Opponents of the rules say they are basically a ban on dispensaries, which are allowed under Prop 215, and will be detrimental to patients in San Diego. According to reports, The California Cannabis Coalition had over 40,000 signatures by last weekend.

At this point we can only hope that enough valid signatures were obtained, or else patients in San Diego are going to find access to their medicine severely restricted.

It makes you wonder why patients in the city deserve this kind of treatment.

UPDATE: Advocates Turn In More Than 46,000 Signatures

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