Sorry North Carolina. Apparently residents in your state were so in favor of a bill that would have allowed access to medical marijuana that state legislators had no choice but to table discussions and kill the bill before it could even get out of committee. Make sense to you? No? Good. That means you aren’t a North Carolina congressperson.
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| Vince Borinski. |
Hepatitis C and Cancer patient Vince Borinski says that he was unfairly evicted from the Country Park Villas apartments in Mesa Arizona due to his choice of medication, according to AZFamily TV3 Mesa. View the video after the break.
A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released this week says there is a link between smoking synthetic cannabis (Spice, K2) and acute kidney injury and even kidney failure. But as for how much of a link there is, scientists aren’t exactly sure.
| Addy, one of the participants in the study. |
CNN compiled a report on stoned driving this week focusing Washington state’s passage of Initiative 502 that set the THC blood limit for a driver at five nanograms per milliliter of blood.
While the report no doubt scared a few people into thinking high drivers are a menace, it also shows that impairment doesn’t necessarily happen at five nanograms and that stoned drivers may be safer than people think.
| A High Times Cannabis Cup trophy. |
Update (1:30 p.m. Feb. 15): According to the Medical Cannabis Cup website, the event is still happening and has been moved about an hour East to San Bernardino, California at the National Orange Show Event Center, 689 South E St. Tickets are still on sale at the event website.
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Last October, Aldwin Rendardo Gooden stepped off a flight from Kingston, Jamaica in Gatwick Airport in the UK where he lives and was immediately detained for the two boxes containing about 44 pounds of marijuana he was packing in his luggage. Sadly, that’s not all that uncommon around the world (even I’ve been stopped coming back for Jamaica for simply smelling like ganja).
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One of Hawaii’s potential legalization bills died in committee yesterday. Hawaii House Judiciary Chairman Karl Rhoads said that he killed House Bill 699 after finding that there was not enough support to get the bill through.
Scientists with Neuroscience Research Australia are finding that increased amounts of CBD may dramatically heal and protect the memory of people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.
Michigan medical marijuana patients have to grow their own or get it from someone else. The Michigan Supreme Court ruled this week against Compassionate Apothecary in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, deciding that medical marijuana dispensaries are not legal under state laws.
| Adam and Erin. |
The other day we were sent a video of cannabis dramatically helping a patient with epilepsy from a reader who asked that we share it to help others in the same position hopefully find relief. The video itself is somewhat low-quality and shaky, but in it you can clearly see Adam’s convulsions and the muscle-tightening that balls his hands into fists. After just a few puffs, you can see his body instantly relax as his shaking and convulsions get under control.