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1. NipItInTheBud2010.com news release warns of dangerous mold from marijuana grows
2. New endocannabinoid discovered: 2AG
3. Stupid Stoner Story: People getting busted for bringing pot to court

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• Irie Wednesday: Richie Spice – “Marijuana”

1. How effective is vaporized cannabis for us in preparing extracts?
2. I want to know if that new fad Carbonite is actually good or not?
3. Will using more cannabinoids make one age slower, resulting in a longer healthier life?
4. Does Cannabis help Gout?
5. Any new studies on cannabis and ADHD?
6. How does cannabis affect fibromyalgia?
7. Can you ask Doc to comment on cannbis and colon cancer… and if edibles would be appropriate in a case where half of the colon has been removed?
8. Can you tell me how effective is cannabis for epilepsy and how long this has been used for the illness?
9. My girlfriend may find out she has Crohn’s disease at the doc’s later. Is there any info you can give me on cannabis being the safest way to treat the disease?

• Robert Gibbs: The “Professional Left” is “crazy” and “ought to be drug tested”.

Richie Spice (Richell Bonner) was born on September 8, 1971 in Rock Hall, St. Andrew, Jamaica. He is one of the Bonner brothers all of whom are reggae artists, including Pliers and Spanner Banner.

Having gained popularity in the mid 90’s, Spice has performed at all major shows staged locally namely Reggae Sun Splash , White River Reggae Bash, Rebel Salute and many others. Spice has opened shows for the likes of Chaka Demus and Pliers, Spanner Banner and Rita Marley on extensive tours of Europe and the United States 1996-1997.

More recently, a remix of one of his more popular tracks, “Marijuana” by Digital Mystikz’s Coki, re-named “Burnin’” has focused more attention to him in the blossoming dubstep scene coming out of the UK. The original version of “Marijuana” also appears on the “These Are Serious Times” modern reggae compilation on XL Recordings.

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That "professional left" is what some might call "your base", Mr. President, and they think you should legalize marijuana.

Washington political news outlet The Hill reports on the recent “professional left” remarks made by the Obama White House’s press secretary Robert Gibbs.  Gibbs was expressing frustration at progressive activists who are complaining that the president hasn’t lived up campaign promises on a number of issues.

The press secretary dismissed the “professional left” in terms very similar to those used by their opponents on the ideological right, saying, “They will be satisfied when we have Canadian healthcare and we’ve eliminated the Pentagon. That’s not reality.”

“I hear these people saying he’s like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested,” Gibbs said. “I mean, it’s crazy.”

Over 850,000 of these people will likely be arrested this year and branded "criminal" for the rest of their lives.

I don’t disagree that comparing Obama to Bush is crazy; Bush could push the exact bill he wanted through Congress and Obama can pronounce “nuclear”.  It’s the “drug users are crazy” slur, the “drug test” variant of the “what have you been smoking?” that offends me.  It’s that joking about these drug tests that ruin thousands of lives is a response from an official addressing disappointment in the president.  Considering the vast majority of people who use “drugs” are using cannabis and the tests for “drugs” most often find cannabis metabolites, he’s talking about us, the 22 million* Americans who will use cannabis this year.

Full disclosure: I am one of the “professional left”** and attended that Netroots Nation conference Gibbs is obliquely referencing, representing NORML on a marijuana policy panel.

Republican, Democrat, we still get arrested. (We still have another year worth of George Bush data to collect.)

But NORML is a non-partisan organization, just as arresting marijuana consumers is a bi-partisan shame (4.9 million under Clinton, 6.2 million under Bush, but Clinton’s overall increase in the annual rate was +90% from beginning to end of his term while Bush’s was +17% between 2001 and 2008; we still await the 2009 final year arrest numbers which chronicle the marijuana arrests from the year before… think of the graph as “arrests up to 2009″, not “arrests up to and including 2009″.)

Gibbs said the professional left is not representative of the progressives who organized, campaigned, raised money and ultimately voted for Obama.

Legalization is actually pretty popular right now. More popular than the President and Congress.

Well, we know what President Obama and Robert Gibbs think of those of us who “ought to be drug tested”, especially us online activists in the “professional left” who helped get him elected.  We’re chuckled at when we suggest legalizing marijuana (see videos below), even as more than half of America on some polls – not just Left Blogsylvania – are beginning to think it is a damn good idea and California is voting on the issue this November.  Legalization is more popular than the Congress and the President – who once, like us, was just one bust away from being “Barry the Drug Criminal” for life – so maybe equating our criticisms of government to drug-induced psychosis isn’t the smartest political move.

This is not to ignore the millions of cannabis consumers who find themselves on the right side of the aisle, the Libertarians and true small government, personal responsibility, states rights Republicans, who we count as our ideological allies in ending adult marijuana prohibition.  There are 102 million of us who’ve tried cannabis, including the last three presidents and five of eight of the last major party candidates for president and vice president.***  Right now, our issue is the only thing on which members of the Tea Party and the Netroots Nation can agree on.  Somebody is going to get wise and start courting our votes.

* Remember these are numbers from a government-sponsored survey where an anonymous pollster surveys random strangers by telephone to ask whether they currently are violating state and federal law… so you might want to adjust upward a bit.  For comparison’s sake, there are more adults in America who will smoke pot this year than there are adult African-Americans in this country.

** And yes, I would be satisfied with Canadian health care, thank you very much!  My insurance premiums went up 24% this year!

*** The admitted marijuana users are italicized:

1992 Clinton / Gore vs. Bush / Quayle
1996 Clinton / Gore vs. Dole / Kemp
2000 Bush / Cheney vs. Gore / Lieberman
2004 Bush / Cheney vs. Kerry / Edwards
2008 Obama / Biden vs. McCain / Palin

Formed in 1999, Digital Motion are a techno band from Southlake, Texas. Members RT and Kevin play live shows in and around Dallas as well as distribute their music exclusively online through indie label Blue Plastic Girl Music. Online distribution has not stopped the entertainment industry from taking notice — their music has been used in movie trailers for films such as Jet Li’s “War” and Will Ferrell’s “Land of the Lost” as well as television shows and commercials, video games, and other forms of media. Digital Motion have released four full-length CDs; after a recording hiatus of a few years, they are working on new music and videos again this year that they call “big beat.”

Don’t be fooled by the minimalistic bleepy intro of the unpronounceable 108_B2 (Dope Mix). The multi-layered electronica contains intense bass lines and solid breaks that lend themselves well to fluid movement and hookah use. This track is clearly influenced by Eastern (primarily subcontinental) music and instruments, including a hauntingly ethereal sample of a chanting woman. It may also include the rather surreal digitally enhanced sample of a duck.

Digital Motion can be found on MySpace.

A message from Sahra Kant: Next week we have a special Electric Tuesday: a live interview with Amber Ladd! Please be sure to listen to my first NORML Show Live interview on Tuesday August 17th at around 4:20pm!

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1. Police bribing cannabis farmers in Morocco
2. Study shows more adolescents of more affluent and educated parents are more likely to use cannabis

1. Tossed SALAD: Stoners Against Legalization Article of the Day

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• Electric Tuesday: Digital Motion – “108_B2 (Dope Mix)”

• Joe Pep Harris, lead singer of “The Undisputed Truth” claims cannabis use cured his prostate cancer

• The stories of Matthew Zugsberger, challenging states to recognize his right to medical marijuana through the Constitution’s Full Faith & Credit clause

The video from my appearance at the Marijuana Policy and Politics at Netroots Nation in Las Vegas is now online.  Click the link to view… and don’t blame me that they didn’t focus on my awesome slideshow.  ;-)

It just doesn’t get more Roots than this with today’s toker-tune, a piece of musical history. Legendary Jazz musicians, Charlie “Bird” Parker and Dizzy Gillespie team up in one of the most influential jazz standards written. Dizzy Gillespie wrote the song, “Groovin’ High” and this performance features Charlie Parker playing with Gillespie’s band, Rebop Six. It also features well known bassist, Ray Brown and vibraphonist, Milt Jackson. This song is one of the best examples of Bebop, with the classic bebop combo of saxophone, trumpet, bass, drums and piano. “Groovin High” was one of Gillispie’s best know hits, and between them, Parker and Gillispie have at least 16 different albums or compilations named “Groovin’ High” after this iconic jazz standard. There are hundreds and hundreds of recordings of this song by other artists over the last  65 years. Another note; today’s toker tune was recorded in 1946 when both Parker and Gillispie were less than 30 years old.

Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie’s Rebop Six
“Groovin’ High” (mp3)
from “Bird in Time 1940 – 1947″
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The New York Times Freakonomics blog had a great question and answer post comparing marijuana prohibition and lessons that could be learned from alcohol prohibition.  It’s worth reading the whole post (Henry ford conspiracy theorists, I’m lookin’ at you), but this one part underscores something I’ve been preaching for years: Women are critical to ending prohibition.

Q: It has been said that Prohibition in the U.S. would not have come about but for the efforts of the women’s movement, but how critical were women to the repeal of prohibition? — Seano

A: Absolutely essential. When the prominent socialite and Republican Party figure Pauline Morton Sabin came out against Prohibition in 1929, the repeal movement began to pick up support. Traveling to various cities with other socially prominent, wealthy women with whom she had formed the Women’s Organization for National Prohibition Reform, Sabin drew huge female crowds. Her example established that it was respectable for women to oppose Prohibition.

Sabin was an extraordinary woman and probably my favorite character among all the people I write about in Last Call. She was honest, forthright, fearless and willing to change her mind – qualities all too absent in our public life today.

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There is evidence that some severe and debilitating conditions respond well to marijuana, including the nausea that accompanies chemotherapy for cancer, or the loss of appetite and inability to keep food down that plagues HIV sufferers. Thats why Oregon voters — correctly, in our view — agreed to allow limited medical use of marijuana.

There is also evidence that some people licensed to grow marijuana for patients are making money on the side by selling it to those without medical marijuana cards. And, as The Oregonian pointed out, of the 36,380 Oregonians with cards, 32,614 checked “severe pain” as their reason for needing the drug.

Are the protesters who picketed us last week willing to swear that not one of those people was using the law as a way to use marijuana recreationally without fear of prosecution? We suspect not.

We note, however, that a news release announcing the protest carried the endorsement of the local chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. NORMLs mission, according to its website, is “to move public opinion sufficiently to achieve the repeal of marijuana prohibition so that the responsible use of cannabis by adults is no longer subject to penalty.”

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Well, allow me to retort:

Your defense of the Oregonian editorial turns out to be as moralistic and incorrect as the original.

“There is evidence that some severe and debilitating conditions respond well to marijuana,” true enough, but there is as much evidence that general health responds well to cannabis. For example, those who smoke cannabis-only have lower incidence of head, neck, and lung cancers, and no greater risk of emphysema or COPD.

“36,380 Oregonians with cards, 32,614 checked “severe pain”". Indeed, but patients can choose more than one condition. When you have cancer, you have pain. HIV/AIDS, pain. MS, epilepsy, glaucoma… pain. Over 17,000 patients have registered for conditions other than pain.

But you strike the moralist tone that some people in pain are faking it, or that pain isn’t “severe and terminal” enough. “Unresponsive to conventional medication,” casting cannabis as “unconventional” when the law states it “shall be treated like other medicines”. As if cannabis (whose worst side effects are giggling, red eyes, dry mouth, and munchies) should be the medicine of last resort only if the pills that destroy your liver, stop up your bowels, get you hooked, put you in a stupor, and can potentially kill you aren’t effective.

That we have ONLY 36,000 registered patients shows how effective the prohibition of cannabis is in demonizing what should be the medicine of first resort for so many people.

“Using the law as a way to use marijuana recreationally without fear of prosecution?” Well, if so, that “recreational pot smoker” just gave the state $100, all his identification and the address where he will be storing and growing marijuana. This after fooling a doctor through multiple examinations and then a medical records review staff and another doctor at a medical marijuana clinic, injecting money into the economy and creating jobs along the way in one of the few growth businesses in Oregon. I can understand how the rare fraud in benefits programs hurts society; I can’t understand how the rare fraud in medical marijuana is any worse for the state than that “pot smoker” and his money remaining underground, or if caught, costing taxpayers to arrest, prosecute, and incarcerate him.

Which leads me to my biggest complaint: the idea that “endorsement of the local chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws” invalidates the protest against mis-characterization of medical marijuana. At NORML, we believe all adults 21 and over should be able to responsibly use cannabis for any reason… so how could we possibly NOT support sick and disabled adults legally using cannabis for medical reasons? It is possible for both realities of cannabis to be true: cannabis is an amazing medicine that can help sick people AND cannabis is a wonderful relaxant that can help healthy people. Believing in the latter does not make the former untrue.

RUSS BELVILLE
NORML OUTREACH COORDINATOR

For Rockin’ Friday this week, I’ve got I remix of a toker tune favorite. “Smoke a Little Pot” by Hannah’s Field.  It was originally featured on the Stash Blog back in 2008, and has been getting regular play in our Toker Tunes rotation ever since.  What you may not have known is that they had also done an awesome funk remix of the song.  It even won a 2008 Marijuana Music Award.  Yet somehow though it slipped the cracks and was never on the Stash, until now that is.

This “Gypsy Reggae” duo started their music career in Portland, Oregon, but recently they moved clear across the country to Collinsville, Connecticut to, as they like to call it, “spread the seed” and help get cannabis legal on the east coast of America.  They are currently on tour, in support of the latest album “Warriors of Love”, that is described on their website as “a 13 song tapestry that takes you on a trip. It breaks through pop and surface to what lies deep within us all.”

If you want to find tour dates and more about Hannah’s Field go to hannahsgroove.com.

To find more Hannah’s Field and thousands more toker tunes checkout the recently upgraded MarijuanaMusic.net.

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1. Montana’s bid to restrict medical marijuana cardholders to residents only backfires, Montana now accepts applications from anywhere
2. Hawaiian judge denies man his use of medical marijuana unless a new doctor will testify he needs cannabis and no other remedy will work
3. Washington DC turns over control of medical marijuana dispensaries to the Alcohol Control Board.

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• Roots Monday: Charlie “Bird” Parker – “Groovin’ High”

• John Kelly, drug testing expert and author of the report “False Positives Equal False Justice”

• John Doe Radio reports on tonight’s first reading of new Denver zoning ordinance that would severely curtail medical marijuana caregivers’ rights

Huge new Oregon NORML sign greets 16,000+ drivers per day (click for full size version of photo)

It’s been a hectic first week at the Oregon NORML World Famous Cannabis Café. Last Saturday, the grand re-opening featured a barbecue out in the sun in the parking lot.  Dozens turned out over the afternoon and evening to consume cannabis and socialize out on the shielded outdoor patio and downstairs in the 4,000 square foot café / lounge.

As word spread throughout the week about our new location, we saw the return of many of our old friends, customers from our previous location. They are agog at the magnificent new setting. The clean, classy, and huge interior was the main comment of praise I heard, followed by those folks excited to play free pool, shuffleboard, and air hockey. We haven’t even finished outfitting the back game room with the two big screens for simultaneous Xbox and Wii play.

I volunteered there all week; it’s hard to stay away when the place is a ten-minute walk away from my studios. I hooked up a dual band wireless network, with a 2.4GHz channel dedicated to the café patrons for free wi-fi and a 5GHz channel dedicated to the Xbox and Wii for live network gaming and to the café big screen for streaming Netflix and internet video.

About the only bad situation that arose was when we tried to do our live show from the café on Friday. Our studio laptop picked that day to have issues with Flash encoder, our sound board couldn’t route the Skype interview line without an echo, and the cell reception was too poor for us to make do with our Skype Plan B. We had to abort the show midway through and were unable to save any portion of it. However, we stayed late and gave exclusive tours to the audience throughout the evening with our remote laptop, so it wasn’t a total loss.

Next mission: getting College Football Gamecast so I can watch my beloved Boise State Broncos roll to another undefeated season and a first-ever I-A FBS National Championship.

The internet age has led to a generation with no concept of the word “plagiarize”.  The frontier of blogging with its cutting-and-pasting and block quoting has led to more than one blogger (even yours truly) straying over the line of copyright and “Fair Use” law.  Generally speaking, a three-to-four paragraph excerpt is about all you can excerpt.

However, there are those who think an RSS news feed is spigot from which content flows, free to be bottled, labeled, and sold by anyone at the tap.  I’m singling out WeedTimes.com merely because I found it through trackbacks on my Prop 19 posts, not that it is the sole or most egregious offender.  I’m not upset that my written work is being plagiarized so much as someone that is not me is making ad revenue from it.

I left them this comment:

Hey, I love people getting my writing out to more readers.

I love it even more when I’m cited for it.  ”Midnight Toker” didn’t write this article, I did.

Considering you’re making ad revenue from The Attitude Seed Bank and Google Ad Words, this amounts to stealing from me and from NORML.  Good thing for you we concentrate on litigating against prohibitionists and not web sites that flagrantly plagiarize.

However, considering that your entire site’s content seems to be posts lifted directly from NORML blogs, maybe we should.  At least you could donate your ad revenue to NORML, since we’re the ones actually bringing it in.

I have been blogging recently about dispensaries in California that are hostile to Prop 19 – California’s marijuana legalization initiative.  What I suspect are sock puppet fronts for these businesses have also sprung up, the so-called “Stoners Against Legalization” blogs.  I’ve decided to feature these in a semi-regular post I’m calling “Tossed SALAD – Stoners Against Legalization Article of the Day”, because I can’t resist a catchy acronym.*

It’s a perfect storm of sorts for me.  I’m a die hard cannabis activist, so I’m excited about the possibility of the world’s eighth largest economy legalizing marijuana.  I’m a talk radio host and blogger for the cannabis community, so I’m constantly researching and discussing marijuana on the web.  Most of all, though, I’m a huge fan of irony, so ranting against fellow blogging tokers over their opposition to legalization is like an irony sundae with nuts on top.  Like the nuts who write for Stop19.com.

I already covered, in far too many words, the breadth of their website in a previous post.  Their home page at the time displayed modified Camel and Marlboro ads warning of the “600 addictive and poisonous additives in your cannabis as we put in your tobacco!”  This, of course, being the result after Big Tobacco takes over cannabis in California and mass produces toxic schwaggy joints.  Except that Richard Lee and a “politically connected” “cannabis cartel” are taking over cannabis in California with industrial mega grows.  Or maybe Big Tobacco actually hires Richard Lee.  Something like that.

The latest screed from Stop19.com warns us all that if cannabis is legalized and all adults can grow a 5′x5′ personal garden, that might not apply to renters:

FACT: Prop 19 puts you at the mercy of your landlord by forcing you to seek permission to grow cannabis. (Currently, no statewide law specifically mandates that Prop 215 patients ask permission to grow their medicine.)

While growing your own supply is fun as hell, it can also be messy, dangerous, and can easily cause damage if done improperly. (Not to mention homeowners insurance is likely to rise and homes containing cannabis could face seizure by the federal government.) Considering this, do you really think many landlords will allow it? Ask yours and find out for yourself. Then vote NO on Prop 19.

I’ve been a renter all my life and my parents were renters before me.  I’m still trying to recall even a single rental application’s fine print that read “If you want to grow a 5′x5′ garden of marijuana, that’s fine with us.”

I’m still trying to wrap my head around the Möbius strip of logic that makes this objection a reason to vote no.  If my landlord catches me right now with a marijuana plant in the closet and an ounce of marijuana, I will be evicted and arrested.  If Prop 19 passes, but my landlord denies me permission to grow marijuana on his property, at least I can have my ounce of weed without his permission or any intercession by the police.  So I should vote… no?

At least when Stop19.com is arguing that we should vote no on legalization because it infringes on the joy of toking up with teenagers and puffing in front of pre-schoolers, I can understand the motivation.  If you’re an adult over the age of 21 and you’re fond of smoking joints with high school kids, you would have to vote in your best interest, I suppose.  (We’re looking at you, David Wooderson.)  Here they seem to be arguing that since your landlord might not (but might) let you grow cannabis, you should vote to keep that activity a felony for everyone, even people who own their own property.

As usual, this is more “I Gots Mine” grumbling; the parenthetical reference to Prop 215 gives it away.  Never mind that home-renting Prop 215 patients are evicted for growing medical marijuana now or that most California adults who are tokers aren’t Prop 215 patients.

I couldn’t leave the site without a comment, but reports from some of my other activists buddies tell me that Stop19.com is not posting any opposing comments.  So I left the following in my nom de provacateur, hoping the editors are sarcasm-impaired enough to let it through:

If we let landlords control the properties they own, the cannabis cartel wins.  Who do these property owners think they are, trying to take renter’s rights to doing fun, messy, dangerous, federally-illegal activities in the properties they own?

We’re better off now, keeping our gardens secret from our landlords so the cops don’t find out. How would we ever keep our grows secret if Prop 19 passes?  We wouldn’t, because Philip Morris will control all the marijuana grown in California and we’ll be forced to drive to millionaire Richard Lee’s cannabis cartels to buy schwaggy mass-produced joints with 600 addictive and poisonous additives in them.

Keep up the good fight!  Don’t let stoners be taken in by these fascist socialists!

Wilhelm Scream
Rancho Cucamonga

I don’t think it will get past moderation, but since these are people who think “space” in the context of smoking around a minor could be interpreted as “apartment building”, maybe their language processing deficiencies will turn in my favor.

* Or maybe because tricking stoners into voting no on Prop 19 means they’re voting yes on the chance to room with this guy. Don’t worry, it’s not some graphic photo or video.  It’s just a man in a prison documentary discussing fresh young inmates and tossed salad.  How bad could it be?

Screenshot from CBS News website

A loyal NORML reader notes the unintended irony in the AP photo accompanying CBS News’ coverage of the 28,000 Mexicans who’ve been killed in the drug war south of our border.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has remarked that “Clearly what we’ve been doing has not worked,” and “Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade.” Sec’y Clinton notes that “Neither interdiction [of drugs] nor reducing demand have been successful.”

Yet Americans have a far more insatiable demand for beer than they do cannabis and drugs.  Some of those beers, like Corona, even provide an export market for Mexico and jobs for poor Mexicans.

And nobody turns up tortured and dead under a Budweiser banner, either.

If what we’ve done for thirty years hasn’t worked, if our demand is insatiable, if interdiction is not successful, what other possible way could we deal with marijuana – a product more than half of all Americans under age 50 have tried and 10% of American adults enjoy annually?

The solution to the problem in that photograph isn’t found by going after the murderous criminals who put that banner on the ground.  It’s found in the lessons we learned seventy-seven years ago that led to a beer company putting its banner on the wall.

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1. Two men shot and killed in similiar story – supposedly aiming a rifle at armed police investigating outdoor grow operations
2. Democrats of North Carolina pass resolution to support medical marijuana in their state
3. Mexican President Filipe Calderon says he will now consider a debate on legalization after 28,000 people have died in Mexico’s war against drugs

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• Groovin’ Thursday: Potluck ft. Tech N9ne – “What We Are”

• Justin Alsman from LA Talk Radio on public support for Prop 19

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1. Tourette’s syndrome to be added to Colorado’s qualifying conditions for medical marijuana
2. NJ Gov. Chris Christie is furious that Rutgers University denied his request to produce the state’s medical marijuana
3. New “pressure vaporizers” hitting the market

• Last week you said that smoking too much can make pain more severe. As a spinal patient I have been smoking over an ounce of flowers and 2 g of oil daily. I have never had a single hit cause more pain. Were you talking about the results of a skin/cayanne pepper study, and if so, isn’t that pain different than neuropathic pain?
• How can one grow medicine that is high in CBDs and low in THC? What would be the reason to have a medicine like that?
• If mixing tramadol and cannabis, are there any possible interactions or negative side effects?
• What do you think about the mom and her child on 20/20 with the son with ADHD?
• My wife takes Lexapro, but she doesnt like to. Can she use cannabis instead?
• I have recently decided to stop using butane lighters, bee line is 100% organic hemp and beeswax and is used to toke the herb without inhaling butane, have you head of this product?
• Is there a way to make cannibus butter without the overwhelming smell when heating the marijuana?
• What is in exhaled vapor? If vapor is mostly THC, and THC absorbs quickly, what is being exhaled? And how long IS vape good for?
• Does cannabis effect blood? Like with a protine S and C deficency?

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Some of Humboldt County’s finest with a mix of flavor from Missouri.  Potluck and Tech N9ne join us this week to throw down.  Tech, many of you know has been around for a while and is one of the most successful, if not the most successful underground rap artist ever.  His raps with blinding speed send some peoples heads into a spin, but to others its the perfect mix of smooth and hardcore all in one.  Southern swang is also something else that comes through with Techa Nina added to this song.  Then, add one of the best toke session acts to the party and you have a truly popn song.  Potluck is signed on The Kottonmouth Kings label, Subnoize Records and as their name hints to, they are all about the greens.  Potluck just released their Greatest Hits CD called Greatest Hits with My Buds.  It contains a ton of collaborations on songs including The Kottonmouth Kings, E-40, Hed PE, and even D12.  Pick it up on i-Tunes or any other way really.  No matter where yah get it, yah got it.

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Well, the Tea Partiers do seem to like a bunch of colonial hemp farmers a lot...

(The Atlantic) The issues at play happen to mesh perfectly with the Tea Party’s extant ideological divides. Beneath the movement’s strict focus on fiscal matters, libertarianism and social conservatism are the two dominant leanings that most readily oppose each other. The Tea Party is an amalgam of Ron Paul supporters and libertarians, mixed in with disaffected Bush voters whose personal views are grounded firmly in social conservatism.

Marijuana seems like as good an issue as any to bring these ideological poles into conflict. Libertarians support looser drug laws as an expression of their most basic principle–less government involvement in private lives; social conservatives and traditionalists react viscerally to drug legalization as a descent into societal depravity. In broad terms, libertarians and social conservatives couldn’t see marijuana more differently.

On top of that, marijuana is becoming a states’ rights issue. The Obama administration has enacted a policy of deference to state policies on medical marijuana, and if California’s Prop. 19 passes in 2010, or if a similar measure passes in California or elsewhere in 2012, the subsequent Obama/Holder decision over what to do about it will inevitably call into question whether the federal government should (constitutionally, it certainly can) supersede the decision of state voters.

Ron Paul Libertarians have always been staunch supporters of ending the (federal) drug war.  The question is how much of the Tea Party is made up of these ideological allies and how much is just visceral reaction by those who hate Obama.

It’s another reason why I doubt that marijuana initiatives can be for Democrats what gay marriage was for Republicans.  Marijuana may drive some otherwise reluctant women, minorities, and “surge” (Obama) voters to the polls, but these Tea Party types were already motivated to get to the polls for these midterm elections to repudiate (or, in Sarah Palin’s case, “refudiate“) Obama and the Democrats.  Between Tea Partiers voting YES on 19 but Republican the rest of the ticket and tokers voting YES on 19 but ignoring the rest of the ballot, I think that will blunt any bump Democrats might see from younger/female/surge voters coming out to vote YES on 19.

Plus with yesterday’s federal court decision nullifying the anti-gay marriage equality Prop 8 in California, social conservatives will once again be railing about the votes of the majority (to discriminate against gay people) being overturned by “activist judges”.  They may come out in great numbers once again to rebuke the government.  But if Prop 19 passes, how can they demand states rights to decide whether two guys or two gals get married, but not whether they can share a joint on the honeymoon?