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Cannabis biz spams thousands of children’s emails seeking investors

By Jack Daniel on July 2, 2014 CBD, News, Opinion

As the cannabis movement goes more main stream, the hucksters, frauds, snake oil salesmen, and get-rich-quick types are coming out of the woodwork. Nowhere does such a low-level life form thrive better than on the world wide web.
But while information becomes more readily available online, reliable information becomes more of a rare and valued commodity – particularly when it comes to pot. The charlatans trying to profit on the cannabis boom know this, and they are quite literally in a race to cash in as large as possible before the capitalistic opportunity of a lifetime dries up.
This haste – and its consequences – has been demonstrated time and again in the grey-collar world of trading weed-related stocks. As despicable as this practice of pumping and dumping pot stocks is, at least they are targeting adults.

Ohio medical marijuana measure not going to make the 2014 ballot

By William Breathes on July 2, 2014 Medical, News

Keith Bacongo-Flickr edited by Toke of the Town.

Ohioans looking to legally use medical cannabis will have to wait at least another year (or move) as activists collecting signatures for the November ballot failed to reach their goal.
While Ohio Rights Group managed to collect around 100,000 signatures – a commendable figure – they failed to get the necessary 385,000 signatures.
The biggest obstacle: money. The reality of today’s political landscape is that you need paid signature gatherers or it is hard to get anything on the ballot today. John Pardee, ORG President said their campaign never had the funding to accomplish that.

University of Arizona marijuana-PTSD researcher says she was fired over cannabis advocacy, study likely dead

By William Breathes on July 2, 2014 Medical, News, Say what?

Sue Sisley.

The lead researcher for a study looking at medical marijuana for post-traumatic stress disorder at the University of Arizona has been fired, and she is now claiming it is because of her cannabis lobbying.
Sue Sisley, formerly the assistant director of the Arizona Telemedicine Program at UA, was informed this week that her contract will not be renewed next year but was not given any reason in a letter from the interim dean of the College of Medicine.
But Sisley says the reasons are pretty clear. She says it is because of her advocacy at the state capitol for medical cannabis research – particularly in PTSD treatments for returning military veterans.
That included speaking at the state capitol to provide some sense to the argument when people like State Sen. Kimbery Yee blocked research funding based on her own political agenda. Keep in mind, the $6 million she blocked from being used was all excess from medical marijuana patient and dispensary fees. But Yee didn’t want it to go back to the benefit of medical marijuana patients.

Medical cannabis farmer’s market this weekend in LA

By William Breathes on July 1, 2014 Medical, News

An Eastside dispensary is planning on hosting a marijuana farmers market during this upcoming 4th of July weekend. What could be more patriotic?
The West Coast Collective dispensary plans to hold the California Heritage Market outdoors on its property, says the organizer of the farmers market, Paizley Bradbury, who’s also director of the medical retailer. Bradbury told LA Weekly that “growers, edible bakers, concentrate companies” and even competing dispensaries have been invited to sell their wares on-site.

Bill Clinton on why states should be able to opt for medical marijuana

By William Breathes on July 1, 2014 News, Say what?

Bill Clinton in Denver. Additional photos and a video below.

The Clinton Global Initiative, which took place in Denver last week, received a showy national platform yesterday via an extended Meet the Press segment featuring former President Bill Clinton. Among the questions posed by host/interviewer David Gregory was one about medical marijuana, and Clinton’s expressed support for state’s rights strikes one cannabis advocate as another step in the political mainstreaming of pot.

Bill to regulate California medical marijuana shops gets key Democrat support

By William Breathes on July 1, 2014 Dispensaries, Medical, News

A proposed law to provide statewide regulations for marijuana dispensaries was once firmly opposed by the cannabis community.
It sought to outlaw concentrates like wax, and it would have limited what kind of doctors could recommend weed as well as what form of pot they could prescribe. No longer. The bill by Southern California Sen. Lou Correa has been worked over so much that a key liberal Democrat, Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, has jumped aboard as a “principal co-author,” his office announced.
Dennis Romero at the LA Weekly has more.

How one toddler’s high CBD-oil treatments in Colorado could change Missouri law

By William Breathes on July 1, 2014 News

The Jessee family.

Aside from being unusually cute, two-year-old June Jessee could be any of the smiley toddlers at the South Pearl Street Farmers Market today. It’s so hot our cheeks are red, but June sleeps easily in her stroller, cool in her pink and green jumper, head heavy to one side as she sucks her pacifier and the symphony of yipping dachshunds and noisy vendors and kids waiting in line for balloon animals becomes her personal white noise machine.
In short, she gives no indication of suffering from seizures so severe that her parents moved from Missouri to Colorado in order to treat them (very successfully) with high-CBD oil.

Woman finds small bag of pot in Sonic meal, freaks the ‘eff out

By William Breathes on July 1, 2014 News, Say what?

Carla McFarland/Facebook.

Dear fast food workers: please stop losing your weed stash in the food you serve.
A Maryland Sonic worker found that out this week after allegedly dropping what looks like a little twenty bag of pot into the paper sack along with a customer’s order.

Latest propaganda from The Man: Twitter influences kids to get high

By Mike Adams on July 1, 2014 News

Stoners using Twitter to spread the good word of the ganja may be influencing the youth of America to get high on marijuana. At least this appears to be the consensus of a recent study from the Washington University School of Medicine, which finds that social media messages pertaining to marijuana are reaching hundreds of thousands children in the United States every day.

Utah CBD bill laws start today, hospital to begin distributing CBD oil to as many as 25 children soon

By William Breathes on July 1, 2014 CBD, News

The Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah say they are days away from getting federal approval to conduct a CBD oil trial study on 25 children with severe epilepsy. In the meantime, however, they have been granted permission to study a CBD-oil pharmaceutical drug, Epidiolex, from British GW Pharmaceuticals.

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