By Quentin Fottrell
Mark Twain is said to have remarked that a gold rush is a good time to be in the pick and shovel business. Investors may be able to apply that same bit of wisdom to the growing number of U.S. states that have legalized pot.
Although federal law prohibits the sale or possession of marijuana, Massachusetts last week joined the ranks of states — 18 plus Washington, D.C. — that allow its use for people suffering from chronic illnesses like cancer, HIV/AIDS, multiple sclerosis and epilepsy. In Washington and Colorado, meanwhile, voters passed an initiative to Read more.....
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SAN DIEGO, July 25, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Medical Marijuana, Inc. MJNA 0.00% a leading hemp industry innovator, is pleased to announce that PhytoSPHERE Systems, a portfolio company of MJNA that develops pharmaceutical grade medicinal hemp production facilities, is expanding its production facilities to Europe. This expansion will be done through MJNA’s newly formed portfolio company Canipa Holdings, which has established an office and team in the city of Bucharest, Romania, to handle its European product launch and Read more.....
By KIM CAROLLO (@kimcarollo) An Israeli company says it is growing medical marijuana with a special twist — it offers some of the same therapeutic benefits without the high.
According to Reuters, the company, Tikun Olam, is cultivating a type of cannabis plant that has high levels of a substance Read more.....
By MAIA SZALAVITZ TIME: Commonly used baby soaps and shampoos, including products from Johnson & Johnson, Aveeno and CVS, can trigger a positive result on newborns’ marijuana screening tests, according to a recent study. A minute amount of the cleansing products in a urine sample — just 0.1 milliliters or less — was found to cause a positive result.
Researchers at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, began studying the issue after an unusually high number of Read more.....
By BRIAN DOWLING bdowling@courant.comThe Hartford Courant HARTFORD — A marijuana dispensing machine, not loaded with goods, is on display Tuesday in a Pratt Street storefront as its developer hopes to spark state rules allowing the automated distribution system for medical use of the plant.
If the system were to come to Connecticut for regular operations, customers with a prescription would be able to walk up, swipe a credit or debit card, have their fingerprints scanned, and get their prescribed leafy drug — a system that’s in place in six western states and Canada.
“The Read more.....
The Huffington Post | By Katherine Bindley Marijuana use among teens has been on the rise for some time–it’s become more popular than smoking cigarettes in recent years–but a provocative new study shows that legalizing pot for Read more.....
Press Release: Medical Marijuana, Inc. – Fri, Jun 1, 2012 10:39 AM EDT
SAN DIEGO, June 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Medical Marijuana, Inc. (Pink Sheets: MJNA)
From excerpts of an article written by the Medical Marijuana Business Daily; (click here to download full article)
Several prominent medical marijuana companies are focusing on what they see as the wave of the future in the MMJ industry: Read more.....
Courtesy of Fox News
A Harvard instructor who was caught with a small amount of marijuana hidden in her underwear at this British territory’s airport was released Monday by a judge.
Mey Akashah, an environmental health instructor at the Harvard School of Public Health, admitted bringing 6 grams (0.21 ounce) of pot into Bermuda for a weekend trip with her husband, but said a doctor prescribed it for medical reasons.
Prosecutors said a small plastic bag Read more.....
by Colleen Curry, ABC 20/20
A California teen who was allegedly trying to steal pot from an illegal marijuana farm is missing after armed men fired at him while his friends drove away.
Police believe that Sammy Mercado, 16, of Sanger, Calif., was shot or wounded when he and friends drove to an illegal marijuana “grow” in rural Fresno Read more.....
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In a recent study, 4AutoinsuranceQuote.org, a national quote provider for online car insurance quotes, cites a strong correlation between traffic-related accidents and marijuana use. The study, which looks at statistics regarding accidents, traffic violations, and insurance prices, seeks to dispel the thought that “driving while stoned” is dangerous.
Jake Sternberger, Keystone Politics
APRIL 1, 2012 –Late yesterday evening, Governor Tom Corbett stunned both liberals and conservatives alike when he drafted and signed an executive order that legal experts believe legalizes the possession, cultivation, and distribution of marijuana, commonly referred to as “weed.”
Corbett, who served as Attorney General before he was elected Governor, had generally been Read more.....
by The Associated Press, USA Today
Police Lt. Alan Henley told the San Gabriel Valley Tribune the victim had just made a delivery to a patient on South Sunset Avenue and was headed to his car when the pair confronted him and chased him with batons.
Henley says the attack took place just before 10 p.m. Read more.....
Courtesy of the Huffington Post
Marijuana-like drugs can do more for AIDS patients than simply help them with their nausea or loss of appetite, according to a new study.
Doctor Tipster found Read more.....
Just what is a “Growgirl?” How about a “Potwife?” The covert underworld of growing Cannabis, even in a “legal” state, is rife with questions. Much has been written on the politics of the plant, but what of the day to day work of actually tending to good medicine? While no one wants to spill the beans or go to prison, knowledge is power and the more we know about the inner workings of the industry, the better chance we have at dispelling the myths, weeding out the bad apples, and making it, well, normal.
The young girl with snot running down her nose, seemingly Read more.....
by Raid Cherner, USA Today
Not every product that carries your name needs to be endorsed.
Neither the NBA nor Knicks guard Jeremy Linis expected to acknowledge that there is a marijuana product named Lin Sanity OG.
The proof seems to come from an Instagram photo that was linked on the Read more.....
by R. Nolin, The Sun-Sentinel
Advocates for medical marijuana reform are targeting what may seem an unlikely demographic: senior South Floridians.
And Tuesday morning, they spelled out their message in sky-high letters across two billboards along Sample Road about a mile east of Powerline Road. Tinted sky blue and cloud pink, the 14-by-48-foot billboards are on the north side of the street, visible to eastbound drivers.
“Legalize Medical Read more.....
“The Silver Tour,” a road show of Medical Cannabis experts, visual presentations, Cannabis-friendly doctors, and longtime Cannabis patients, sponsored by NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) and High Times Magazine, is traveling the country now, expounding on the benefits of the plant for the aging.
Robert Platshorn is creator of the tour setting a stage for learning, as education has proven to be the key in turning popular opinion of Baby Boomers to pot for pain, and Platshorn is more than happy to provide the classroom.
The Read more.....
by Patricia Hurtado and Bob Van Doris, Bloomberg News
March 9 (Bloomberg) — Hector Xavier Monsegur, the hacker cooperating with a government probe, won’t face prosecution for several alleged offenses, including attempted drug-dealing and computer crimes dating to when he was a teenager, according Read more.....
By Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer
A dreamy diet pill that someday allows people to eat as much as they want without gaining weight seems possible, based on new research into certain brain chemicals that influence how quickly we burn fat.
Scientists used lab mice to turn down brain levels of endocannabinoids, chemicals produced by our bodies that are similar in molecular structure to the active ingredients in marijuana.
Previous Read more.....
by Joslyn Gray, Babble.com
Oklahoma parents seek to treat their autistic son with medical marijuana
After trying everything from diet changes, therapies, and various prescription psychiatric medications, an Oklahoma City Read more.....
Courtesy of MSNBC.com
According to a real shocker from the world of bona fide science, smoking marijuana is tied to less motivation at the office.
The author of the study said it can’t prove whether that’s due to the drug’s effects, the social environment in which it’s used or whether pot smokers are just more likely to be laid-back from the Read more.....
by Thomasi McDonald, The News Observer
Police have charged the general manager of a pizza franchise with storing and selling marijuana in the store where he worked.
Investigators charged Benjamin Crook of 508 Gooseberry Drive in Holly Springs with one felony count each of possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana, selling marijuana, delivering marijuana and maintaining a dwelling Read more.....
Courtesy of Orangeburg, SC Times and Democrat
SANTEE – A 31-year-old Elloree man who allegedly tossed his marijuana into a washing machine to avoid arrest didn’t get away clean.
The man was charged with simple possession of marijuana after a Santee police officer was dispatched to LS&D Laundromat on Flintlock Court just after 1 p.m. on Jan. 29 in reference to possible drug activity.
The officer Read more.....
by Lisa Leff, Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO – A quarter-century after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first prescription drugs based on the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, additional medicines derived from or inspired by the cannabis plant itself could soon be making their way to pharmacy shelves, according to drug Read more.....
by Kat Hannaford, Gizmodo
It’s the US’ first house to be made from hemp, the fiber that’s harvested from cannabis plants. Funnily enough, it’s located in Asheville, North Carolina—but don’t drop by expecting to smoke it to get high, whatever you do.
Mixing hemp with lime and water to create “hemcrete,” the house was built by eco-friendly construction company Push Design, after successful builds Read more.....
By Dr. Mercola
Marijuana was a popular botanical medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries, common in U.S. pharmacies of the time.
Yet, in 1970, the herb was declared a Schedule 1 controlled substance and labeled as a drug with a “high potential for abuse” and “no accepted medical use.”
Three years later the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) was formed to enforce the newly created drug schedules, and the fight against marijuana use began.
The Huffington Post has a concise Read more.....
SOURCE GrowOp Technology
OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — GrowOp Technology, the nation’s first medical marijuana-friendly hydroponics manufacturing company, announced today that it has officially launched its line of hi-tech digital environmental controllers for indoor and urban agriculture.
“Managing a large scale indoor cultivation effort is a time consuming and tedious process, fraught with significant opportunities for error. Automation and computerization is a core focus for GrowOp and our tools help significantly increase productivity and yields while reducing the margin for Read more.....
By Jason Kincaid Tech Crunch
Yes, really.
General Cannabis Inc. has just announced that it’s acquired Marijuana.com. The company didn’t disclose the details of the deal, but we’ve confirmed that the acquisition price was $4.20 million. Naturally.
The executives involved obviously have a sense of humor, but General Cannabis is a serious business: it’s traded on the OTCQX market, and a year ago it acquired WeedMaps, a popular ‘Yelp for Cannabis Dispensaries‘ site with a large following. WeedMaps was topping $400,000 a month in revenues at the time of the acquisition and it’s growing nicely — the site did over $1 Read more.....
By David Downs
2011 may go down as the year the federal government once again declared war on medical marijuana, but the medical marijuana movement remains rather undeterred. In fact, medical cannabis seems to be on an inexorable course toward wider adoption, as the science and technology around the plant grows up. Legalization Nation presents some examples from the 2011 Holiday Gift Season.
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Results underscore anandamide’s potential as basis of safe painkillers
Irvine, Calif., Nov. 21, 2011 — UC Irvine and Italian researchers have discovered a new means of enhancing the effects of anandamide – a natural, marijuana-like chemical in the body that provides pain relief.
Led by Daniele Piomelli, UCI’s Louise Turner Arnold Chair in the Neurosciences, the team identified an “escort” protein in brain cells that transports anandamide to sites within the cell where enzymes break it down. They found that blocking this protein – called FLAT Read more.....
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