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Marijuana Dispensary Will Be Featured On Charity Telethon

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The Med Joint Community Compassion Center
This is the kind of arrest the medical marijuana community needs more of. Med Joint Director Kevin Spitler, above, raised $2,578 after being “arrested” by a county sheriff, taken into “custody” at a local restaurant so that he could call friends to “make bail,” and then was briefly “jailed for good.”

Michigan Medical Marijuana Compassion Center Featured on Annual Labor Day Telethon/Show of Strength
 
Med Joint Director raised the most money in Kalamazoo to fight Muscular Dystrophy
 
The Med Joint, Kalamazoo’s Community Compassion Center, will be featured Sunday, September 2, as the top contributor of donations to the Labor Day Muscular Dystrophy Telethon in their area. The yearly telethon is now known as the MDA Show of Strength.
This is the first time a medical marijuana dispensing compassion club has been featured on the yearly telethon.
 
Med Joint Director Kevin Spitler raised $2,578 after being “arrested” by a county sheriff, taken into “custody” at a local restaurant so that he could call friends to “make bail,” and then was briefly “jailed for good.”
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Medical Marijuana Access Point Has Drive-Thru Window

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Steve Elliott ~alapoet~
This collective, in Olympia, Washington, is a real innovator among medical marijuana access points

Washington’s Sonshine Organics Also Features A Marijuana Farmer’s Market Twice A Month

A medical marijuana access point in Olympia, Washington, has taken convenience to the next level, opening a drive-through window for patients.

Having visited about 70 collectives now in my capacity as “Toke Signals” marijuana/dispensaries reviewer for the Seattle Weekly, the drive-through window at Sonshine Organics is a feature I’ve never seen before. To my knowledge, this is the first one in the Pacific Northwest.
According to Sonshine’s Sarena Haskins, the drive-through window is open on Fridays and Saturdays for the convenience of patients. “For example, busy mothers who don’t want to leave their kids in the car,” she told me.
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Activist Claims Marijuana Prohibition To End November 5

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Time 4 Hemp
Richard Brumfield claims cannabis prohibition will end November 5, and that he’ll be in charge of all legal production in America. Dude has a healthy sense of self, at least; not so sure about his grip on reality, though.

​Richard Brumfield, a medical marijuana activist from California, is in a unique position — that is, if you believe him. Brumfield claims not only that he is in direct communication with the White House and the National Institute on Drug Abuse, but also that — oh yeah by the way — marijuana prohibition ends on November 5. Did I mention he’d be in charge of all production?

One might rightly ask why the mercurial Brumfield, who vehemently opposed California’s marijuana legalization measure Prop 19 in 2010, would be anointed to be in possession of such important information, rather than, say, letting President Obama or maybe Drug Czar Kerlikowske announce it.
But Brumfield, who if nothing else seems to have quite a healthy ego, insists on his Facebook page and elsewhere that he is the “newly appointed Chief Clinical Director of the IAMB/TbT group” (whatever that is), and further, that clinical trials of medicinal cannabis will begin on November 5, according to a press release from pot podcast Time 4 Hemp.

If Brumfield is to be believed, he has the blessings of both the White House and Vice President Joe Biden (yeah, he even included ol’ Joe in his claims), “along with the support of many organizations such as the National Institute of Health, R.E.A.D.[Editor’s note: ??], and NIDA.”
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Worth Repeating: Medical Marijuana Is The Best Kept Secret

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Photo: Geoff Pugh/The Telegraph
Ben Whalley, middle, with Dr Gary Stephens and Dr Claire Williams of Reading University at a secret cannabis farm in the south of England in the hope of producing a new treatment for epilepsy

​Welcome to Room 420, where your instructor is Mr. Ron Marczyk and your subjects are wellness, disease prevention, self actualization, and chillin’.

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Worth Repeating

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By Ron Marczyk, R.N.

An overwhelming amount of very promising research has been gathered supporting the use of medical cannabis for many illnesses and diseases… and the evidence is now impossible to ignore.

Examples:
“The endogenous cannabinoid system has revealed potential avenues to treat many disease states … Medicinal indications of cannabinoid drugs including compounds that result in enhance endocannabinoid responses (EER) have expanded markedly in recent years.”
“The wide range of indications covers … chemotherapy complications, tumor growth, addiction, pain, multiple sclerosis, glaucoma, inflammation, eating disorders, age-related neurodegenerative disorders, as well as epileptic seizures, traumatic brain injury, cerebral ischemia, and other excitotoxic insults.”
Source: “Cannabinoid drugs and enhancement of endocannabinoid responses: strategies for a wide array of disease states,” Current Molecular Medicine, September 2006
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5 Tips For Choosing A Medical Marijuana Dispensary

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Photo: Steve Elliott ~alapoet~
The “medicine wheel” at Ben Reagan’s dispensary, The C.P.C., is used to demonstrate for patients the continuum between sativa and indica varieties of medicinal cannabis.

Co-Founder, The C.P.C.

Choosing alternative medicine such as medical cannabis is a big decision, and one you probably took a long time to make.  Now that you’re here, and whether or not you were previously a cannabis user, there are a few things you should know about dispensaries (also known as collectives) to ensure that you get the quality of life improvement and medical benefits you’re looking for.
Here are five tips to help get you started on your new journey.

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Pot For Spot? Medical Marijuana Patch Developed For Pets

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Photo: Cafe Press

​Cannabinated canines, anyone? A Seattle company is developing a medical marijuana patch for pets, calling it a “question of quality of life.”

Jim Alekson’s Medical Marijuana Delivery Systems LLC has patented the patch, called Tetracan, and says it could be used on dogs, cats, and even horses, reports Eric Wilkinson at KING 5 News.
Of course, to buy the patches you’d need to be a medical marijuana patient yourself, since Rover can’t get an authorization from the veterinarian — at least, not yet.
The company intends to press for changes in state law that would allow vets to prescribe medical cannabis for pets, something that currently isn’t allowed, reports Jonathan Walczak at Seattle Weekly.
“It is our intention, once the patch delivery system is perfected, to approach states for approval to use the patch for veterinary use,” Alekson said.
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Interview: Legendary Marijuana Activist Pebbles Trippet

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Photo: Fred Sternkof
Pebbles Trippet is a quiet hero in Mendo. She’s over 70 and works every day for the cause.

When Mendocino Medical Marijuana Advisory Board member Pebbles Trippet’s car breaks down on the way to an activist meeting, she hitchhikes — and she never says anything to anyone about needing a ride home. She goes way back in the scene and has been there, according to locals, for almost every cannabis event “since the whole thing started.” Toke of the Town‘s own Jack Rikess recently had the honor of chatting with Pebbles on our behalf. ~ Editor
By Jack Rikess

Toke of the Town

Northern California Correspondent

Even when she’s preachy and almost bullying and dogmatic in her principles, there is something so exquisitely human about Pebbles Trippet, that you’ve just got to love her.
For many outside the Mendocino area Ms. Pebbles Trippet, the consummate steady-Eddy patients’ rights activist, may be an unknown commodity, but I’m sure you’re familiar with the laws that she’s impacted and personally changed. 
California Senate Bill 420 expanded and redefined Proposition 215 and gave another face to medical marijuana by allowing collective associations of patients to grow for their own memberships. Prop. 215 allowed for the right to grow, possess, obtain and use cannabis for medicinal purposes.
What you couldn’t do with cannabis was transport it. Yeah, go figure.
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N.J. Medical Marijuana Rules Doom Patients To Weak Weed

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Graphic: Cafe Press

​The New Jersey Health Department on Wednesday night released 97 pages of rules for what patients, advocates and lawmakers are describing as one of the most restrictive medical marijuana programs in the country.

In an extreme bonehead move, the state limited the potency of cannabis to just 10 percent THC, according to the rules. This means that New Jersey medical marijuana patients must deal with marijuana that is only half the potency of top-shelf medical cannabis in other states.

Patients must have one of nine diseases or conditions, and their authorizing doctors must have been treating them for at least a year or have seen them four times, and be willing to certify that traditional forms of relief have failed, reports Susan K. Livio of NJ.com.

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First Marijuana Farmer’s Market Held In Washington

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Photo: Lui Kit Wong/Tacoma News-Tribune
A medical marijuana patient exchanges a plant for a donation at what was billed as Washington’s first cannabis farmer’s market at the Conquering Lion in Tacoma on Sunday

​​Farmer’s markets usually don’t require bouncers. But this wasn’t your usual farmer’s market.

A smiling guy in a skull and crossbones sweatshirt guarded the door Sunday to a rented room where the sweet smell of marijuana was heavy in the air, with the pulsing rhythms of reggae providing a soundtrack, reports Stacia Glenn of the Tacoma News-Tribune.
Only authorized medical marijuana patients were allowed inside the event, billed as Washington state’s first cannabis farmer’s market.
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