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R.I. Governor Slams Obama’s Medical Marijuana Crackdown

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 21, 2012 Dispensaries, Medical, News

Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee said the results of the Obama Administrations crackdown on medical marijuana were “Utter chaos”

Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee, under political fire for blocking three medical marijuana dispensaries authorized back in 2009 and selected in 2011, says the real problem is the inconsistent policy of the President he endorsed in 2008.

When asked by Rolling Stone magazine what the result has been of the Obama Administration’s effort to prevent states from implementing laws allowing the distribution of medicinal cannabis, Gov. Chafee replied, “Utter chaos,” reports Ted Nesi at WPRI.com.

The governor has faced protests and legal threats from medical marijuana patients and advocates since suspending Rhode Island’s dispensary program in May 2011.

Kentucky Marijuana Bill Named In Honor Of Gatewood Galbraith

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 21, 2012 Legislation, Medical, News

Goliath’s GAW News Bureau

Kentucky’s new medical marijuana bill bears the name of the great Gatewood Galbraith

By Michael Bachara

Hemp News

Legislation that would make cannabis a Schedule II drug — and thus legal for doctors to prescribe — was introduced on January 31 in the Kentucky State Senate. Senate Bill 129, sponsored by Senator Perry B. Clark (D-Louisville), is being titled the “Gatewood Galbraith Memorial Medical Marijuana Act.”

Galbraith was a prominent lawyer from Kentucky and an avid supporter of cannabis legalization. He dedicated more than 40 years to the restoration of the cannabis plant. He died last month from complications of pneumonia.

“Marijuana has positive medical benefits for patients dealing with illnesses like cancer, multiple sclerosis, and AIDS, to name a few,” Sen. Clark said. “I want to allow this as another treatment option for those individuals.”

CannCast Now Includes Marijuana Concentrates And Infusibles

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 20, 2012 Dispensaries, Medical, Products

CannCast.com

CannCast.com, which provides medical marijuana provider-to-dispensary connections, has now added cannabis concentrates and infused products to their website. By expanding their service, CannCast said it “aims to streamline getting these important medicines to the patients that need them.”

The service allows medical marijuana providers to list what they have available, dispensaries to list what their patients are requesting, and both parties to search by strain. By easily connecting providers with dispensaries which actually need their medicine, CannCast says it greatly decreases wasted time and effort on both sides.

Previously, the site had focused only on cannabis flowers. Now, it can be used by providers of concentrates and infused products, too.

Oregon Issues Medical Marijuana Cards To Out-Of-Staters

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 20, 2012 Legislation, Medical

Joe Koshollek/Oregon Live

Gary Storck of Madison, Wisconsin, has twice come to Oregon to get a medical marijuana card. He’s one of about 600 out-of-states who have gotten the Oregon card.

You don’t have to be a resident of Oregon to get an Oregon medical marijuana card.

Hundreds of out-of-staters make an annual trip to the Beaver State to fill out an application, see a doctor and get a state-issued medicinal cannabis ID. Oregon is the only remaining state in the U.S. to issue medical marijuana cards to non-residents, according to Noelle Crombie of The Oregonian.

“It’s not a bad place to visit,” said Gary Storck, 56, who takes a 40-hour, $1,000 Amtrak ride out west from Wisconsin every year to renew his medical marijuana card. “It lifts my spirits to be in a place where medical cannabis is legal and life goes on.”

Drive Launched To Inform Voters Of Obama’s Hostility To Marijuana

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 16, 2012 Medical, News

Marijuana Policy Project

The Patient Voter Project is distributing postcard flyers to dispensaries around the state (front of the flyer is reproduced above)

Leaders of a broad coalition of national and Colorado-based marijuana advocacy organizations held a press conference in Denver on Thursday to announce the launch of the Patient Voter Project. Its mission is to shine a light on the Obama Administration’s behavior in the state and to keep medical cannabis patients, their families, and their supporters in the state up-to-date about the latest hostile actions being carried out by the feds.

The project is a joint effort of the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), Americans for Safe Access (ASA), the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), Sensible Colorado, Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER), Medical Marijuana Assistance Program of America (MMAPA), Just Say Now, and others with a combined reach in Colorado of more than 40,000 online supporters.

100 Die From Tylenol Overdose Each Year. Marijuana = Zero

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 15, 2012 Medical

FreakingNews.com

Take too much Tylenol at once and you will die an agonizing death (it may take three or four days), because the acetaminophen overdose will kill your liver.

Take it at the recommended dosages for months or years, and you may still slowly destroy your liver.

At around four grams of Tylenol (4,000 mg, just eight extra strength tablets), liver toxicity sets in. This may or may not be fatal at that level, but at around 10 to 12 grams at once, death is almost a guarantee.

One hundred people die from acetaminophen overdoses every year in the United States. About half of those are intentional (suicides), and the other half are accidents, often by people who don’t realize acetaminophen is added to almost every prescription pain pill.

Prescription Drug Abuse: A National Epidemic [Infographic]

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 15, 2012 Culture, Medical

Via Recovery Connection
View More Addiction Related Infographics

The United States leads the world in the number of people taking addictive prescription drugs. The financial cost to the nation from prescription drug abuse and dependence is in the billions.

The infographic above gives you a brief look at the seriousness of this epidemic. Indeed, according to federal government reports, an estimated 20 percent of U.S. citizens have used prescription drugs for non-medical reasons.

Marijuana Activists To Protest Obama’s Crackdown Thursday

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 15, 2012 Culture, Medical, News

Americans for Safe Access [PDF]

Protest Will Take Place In 9 Cities, 6 States

Coordinated day of action calls attention to unprecedented attack on medical marijuana community

Medical marijuana activists are planning to protest the Obama Administration’s attack on medical marijuana states this Thursday, February 16, by staging protests in nine cities and six states.

Rallies are planned to take place at an Obama fundraiser in San Francisco, as well as at the president’s campaign headquarters in Sacramento (CA) and San Diego (CA), and at federal buildings in several cities, including Trenton (NJ), Phoenix (AZ), Seattle (WA), Eugene (OR), and Portland (ME).

The rallies are an attempt to draw attention to Obama’s failure at keeping his promise not to “circumvent” state medical marijuana laws and to highlight the unprecedented attack on patients and their providers across the country. During Obama’s tenure in office, his Justice Department has conducted nearly 200 SWAT-style raids on legitimate dispensaries and growers, resulting in more than 60 federal indictments, costing the taxpayers tens of millions of dollars at a time of fiscal crisis.

When All Else Fails, Blame The Medical Marijuana Patients

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 14, 2012 Culture, Medical

KNDU

You did a really shitty job of reporting this story, Chloe.

”More crimes are linked to people with medical marijuana cards.” That’s the lead and the headline that bubble-headed bleached blond Kennewick, Washington TV news reporter Chloe Beardsley went with, just because a small-town police sergeant told her so — of course, without any proof. No numbers, no statistics, just the word of a pot-hating local lawman.

Sadly, the depressingly shoddy, almost entirely fact-free work by “NBC Right Now” reporter Beardsley — and, by extension, her employer, TV station KNDU — often seems more the norm than the exception when we’re counting on mainstream media to report on the medical marijuana question.

Incredibly, no patients or patient advocates were interviewed for this story, despite the fact that medical marijuana patients are apparently to blame for a huge crime wave. Wouldn’t it have been interesting, newsworthy, or at least balanced and professional to maybe interview one of the group who is being accused of being responsible for all these terrible things? You’d think.

Sweden Approves Liquid Cannabis Prescription Drug Sativex

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 14, 2012 Global, Medical, News

GW Pharmaceuticals

Medicinal cannabis — or at least a liquid pharmaceutical extract made from it — is available as a prescription in Sweden after the Medical Products Agency approved Sativex, a cannabis-based mouth spray, for the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS).

“This is great news for those who can’t get any relief from the most common drugs,” Jan Hillert, an MS researcher at Karolinska Institute, told the Dagens Nyheter daily newspaper, reports The Local.

The agency said that it plans to closely monitor prescriptions for Sativex to ensure against abuse.

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