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Landmark Federal Medical Marijuana Hearing Begins In D.C.

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 16, 2012 Legislation, Medical, News

Advocates challenge marijuana’s classification, present scientific evidence for first time in nearly 20 years

For the first time in nearly 20 years, advocates will use scientific evidence of marijuana’s medical efficacy to try to force a change in the federal government’s classification of marijuana as a dangerous drug with no medical value.

Medical marijuana advocates will participate in oral arguments Tuesday before the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in the landmark case Americans for Safe Access v. Drug Enforcement Administration. Advocates contend that the government has arbitrarily and capriciously kept marijuana classified as a Schedule I substance and out of reach for millions of Americans by ignoring overwhelming research on the therapeutic value of marijuana

Advocates: Protect Medical Marijuana Access For PTSD Patients

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 15, 2012 Legislation, Medical, News

Soldiers For The Cause

Continued access to medicine threatened by a request to withdraw PTSD as a qualifying condition for the New Mexico Medical Cannabis Program

Military veterans and other patients to petition the Governor and the Secretary of Health: Don’t Take Away Our Medicine

More than 3,000 New Mexican residents with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are actively enrolled in the state’s Medical Cannabis Program. Many of them are military veterans, patients living with disabilities, and victims of serious trauma and violent crime. Unfortunately, their continued access to medicine is being threatened by a request to withdraw PTSD as a qualifying condition for the New Mexico Medical Cannabis Program.

Marijuana Advocates Mount Challenge To Schedule I Designation

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 15, 2012 Legislation, Medical, News

ProCon.org

U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Will Hear Oral Arguments Tuesday

DPA Statement: Feds’ Claim of “No Medical Use” Ignores Science

For the first time in 20 years, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will hear oral arguments on Tuesday, October 16, in a case challenging the Drug Enforcement Administration’s decision to designate marijuana as a Schedule I substance. Schedule I is the most restrictive category for controlled substances, including those drugs defined as having a high potential for abuse, no currently accepted medical use, and a lack of accepted safety for use under medical supervision.

Can Marijuana Legalization Save The Lives Of Police Officers?

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 12, 2012 Culture, Medical

The Stoner Blog

Worth Repeating

By Ron Marczyk, RN

Toke of the Town Columnist

“Nationally, twice as many cops – about 300 annually – commit suicide as are killed in the line of duty, according to a study by the National Association of Police Chiefs”

Alcoholism and suicide kill more police officers than on the job violence!

Could substituting marijuana for alcohol use greatly decrease rates of burnout, alcoholism, suicide, depression and divorce, domestic violence and PTSD among the nation’s police officers? Police have on average life expectancies 10 years less than the average person; they also kill themselves at higher rates than the average American.

Marijuana is an exit drug for alcohol abuse and is also “an anti-suicide medicine.”

So why not allow police officers to use the safest recreational drug known to science?

Montel Schedules Arkansas Medical Marijuana Press Conference

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 11, 2012 Legislation, Medical, News

Arkansans for Compassionate Care

Montel Williams is scheduled to appear at an October 18 press conference backing medical marijuana in Arkansas

Daytime Emmy Award-winner Montel Williams, a legend among TV talk show hosts, will speak in Little Rock on behalf of the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Act on Thursday, October 18.

Williams will back the efforts of Arkansans for Compassionate Care, a coalition of concerned physicians, patients and allies who agree that sick and dying patients should have access to medical marijuana with a doctor’s recommendation.

ACC is sponsoring the ballot initiative that would allow seriously ill Arkansans to use marijuana to treat certain conditions with the recommendation of their doctors. The initiative will appear on the November state general election ballot as Issue 5.

Medical Marijuana Suit Reaches Federal Court: 1st Time In 20 Years

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 5, 2012 Legislation, Medical, News

The Daily Chronic

Audiotape of October 4 teleconference briefing with researchers, legal counsel and lawsuit plaintiff now available

For the first time in nearly 20 years, a United States Court of Appeals is set to hear oral arguments in a lawsuit challenging the federal government’s classification of marijuana as a dangerous drug with no medicinal value: Americans for Safe Access v. Drug Enforcement Administration.

This historic case will force a federal court to finally review the scientific evidence regarding the therapeutic efficacy of marijuana.

Sentencing of Legal Marijuana Providers Highlights Harmful Obama Policy

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on September 28, 2012 Medical, News

Michael Short/San Francisco Chronicle

Protesters of President Obama’s medical marijuana crackdown march down Broadway in downtown Oakland

Justice Department uses prosecutorial discretion to seek decades in prison for legal Michigan cultivators

Five medical marijuana patients and caregivers will be sentenced in federal court next week, highlighting the human cost of the federal government’s intolerance for state medical marijuana laws.

Two medical marijuana caregivers from Monroe County who were convicted earlier this year in federal court will be sentenced at 3 p.m. Monday, October 1, before U.S. District Court Judge David M. Lawson (231 W. Lafayette Blvd, Detroit). Gerald Lee Duval Jr., 52, and his son, Jeremy Duval, 30, were raided by Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents in 2011 and charged with felony cultivation, maintaining a place to cultivate marijuana, and conspiracy to distribute.

In April, the Duvals were convicted at trial, the expected result of federal laws that prohibit any medical defense or reference to state law in front of juries.

Medical Marijuana Provider Found Guilty; Faces Up To 90 Years

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on September 27, 2012 Dispensaries, Medical, News

Medical marijuana provider Chris Williams on Thursday was convicted of all eight charges, and faces up to 90 years in federal prison

Montana medical marijuana provider Chris Williams on Thursday was found guilty on all eight counts related to his work at a state-licensed medicinal cannabis caregiver organization, which was the subject of a federal raid in March of 2011.

The case was seen as a big test of the federal raids of state-compliant medical marijuana in the Big Sky State. Williams ran the Helena greenhouse of Montana Cannabis, where federal agents seized 950 plants in March 2011.

The operation was the biggest of the 26 medical marijuana providers raided that day across Montana.

Arkansas Medical Marijuana Initiative Approved For Ballot

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on September 27, 2012 Legislation, Medical, News

Arkansans For Compassionate Care

State Supreme Court Allows Ballot Language, Arkansas Now First In South to Vote on Medical Marijuana

Great news from Dixie! The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a suit challenging the language of the ballot initiative that would allow seriously ill Arkansans to use marijuana to treat certain conditions with the recommendation of their doctors. The initiative will now appear on the November state ballot as Issue 5.

Justices rejected a challenge by a coalition of anti-marijuana “conservative” groups who had asked the court to block the initiative from November’s general election ballot, or to order the state not to count any votes cast on the issue. Gotta love those wingnuts, trying to deny voters the right to choose!

With the court’s decision, Arkansas is now the first state in the Southern U.S. whose residents will have a chance to determine if their friends and neighbors will be able to use the medicine that works best for them without the fear of arrest.

Medical Marijuana: What’s Wrong With Euphoria, Anyway?

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on September 24, 2012 Culture, Medical

realmagick.com

By Maggie Slighte

Gma Maggic 420

Euphoria

Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary entry for “euphoria” is thus:

eu·pho·ria noun yü-ˈfȯr-ē-ə

: a feeling of well-being or elation

Synonyms: cloud nine, elatedness, elation, ecstasy, exhilaration, heaven, high, intoxication, paradise, rapture, rhapsody, seventh heaven, swoon, transport

Antonyms: depression

Stedman’s Medical Dictionary defines euphoria as:

1. A feeling of well-being, commonly exaggerated and not necessarily well founded.

2. The pleasure state induced by a drug or substance of abuse.

The definition I perhaps like the most, comes from the Merriam-Webster’s student dictionary.

Main Entry: eu·pho·ria

Function: noun

: a strong feeling of happiness

Happiness.

I seem to recall a document that was required reading in school with that term in it… it said something like “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. “

Happiness. Euphoria.

Is it only to be pursued, never achieved?

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