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Charity Says No Thanks To Food Donations From Dispensary

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on March 23, 2011 Dispensaries, News

Dave Crook and Amy DiIullo of Urban Cannabis with donated food items

’Cans For Cones’ Turns To Controversy

A Denver medical marijuana dispensary says it is literally trading a ton of joints for a ton of food. But one local charity turned down the food donation offered by Urban Cannabis because of its connection to marijuana.

Urban Cannabis said it is giving out free pre-rolled marijuana cigarettes to qualified medical marijuana patients who bring in four or more (8-ounce) canned food items. Monday marked a high point for the food drive, according to the dispensary, which said it collected 250 pounds of food in eight hours.

“Other” Compound In Marijuana Shows Promise Fighting Cancer

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on March 21, 2011 Medical

Photo: Medical Marijuana Oil

Dr. Sean McAllister’s research has shown that CBD, a compound from cannabis, shows great promise in fighting cancer

Two of the major compounds in marijuana — THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) and CBD (cannabidiol) have cancer-fighting properties, according to scientists researching them. But while the biological mechanisms THC uses are well documented, there are still mysteries surrounding the lesser-known CBD.

Clinical trials prove that CBD eases pain and inflammation, reports Dana M. Nichols at the Stockton Record. Sean McAllister, a scientist at California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute in San Francisco, has, along with his research associates, used CBD to shrink cancerous tumors.

Worth Repeating: 1974 Govt. Study Showed THC Shrinks Tumors

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 11, 2011 Medical

Photo: We Must Know

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

Worth Repeating

By Ron Marczyk, R.N.

Health Education Teacher (Retired)

In 1974 researchers learned that THC, an active chemical in marijuana, shrank or destroyed brain tumors in test mice.

But the Drug Enforcement Administration quickly shut down the study and destroyed its results, which were never replicated — until now.

Here is the study the DEA funded, then tried to destroy and remove from universities across the United States — and the first redo study that proved it correct.

Toking In 2010: Biggest Cannabis Stories of the Year

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on December 23, 2010 Culture, News

Graphic: Naming And Treating

By Jack Rikess

Toke of the Town

Northern California Correspondent

Here are the stories, tidbits and bong-thoughts of 2010 that caught my attention.

Veterans and Weed

In July, the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs changed its stance from “attention” to “at ease” by allowing the use of medical marijuana for GI’s in the states where medicinal cannabis is legal.

Maybe one of the biggest underreported stories of the year was the acceptance by the U.S. federal government to allow marijuana as a possible medical treatment.

‘New’ No-High Pot Strain? Dude, They Should Try Midwestern Ditch Weed

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on April 8, 2010 Dispensaries, Medical

Photo: Jodi Hernandez/NBC Bay Area

It’s cool, it’s useful, it’s CBD-rich… but folks, it ain’t “new,” and it grows for free all over the Midwestern U.S.

The supposed “news” from California is that a “new strain of marijuana” has been discovered, one which “strips away the buzz” from pot. Anybody who thinks there’s anything “new” about this development has never tried getting high on Midwestern ditch weed (feral hemp), or any strain of cannabis bred for fiber content.

The good news is, the medicinal properties of cannabidiol (CBD) are finally getting recognition. CBD helps to provide many of the medicinal effects of marijuana, and is a separate cannabinoid from THC, which also provides medical benefits but is chiefly known for being a major component of the pot “high.”

Cannabis Spray Helps Cancer Pain: BBC News

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on December 14, 2009 Global, Medical

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Sativex, which contains cannabinoids THC and CBD, is effective in reducing cancer pain.

Cancer patients who used a cannabis mouth spray had their level of pain reduced by 30 percent, a study has shown, according to BBC.

The cannabis based spray, administered like a breath freshener, was tried on 177 patients by researchers from Edinburgh University in Scotland.

Patients in the study had not been helped by morphine or other conventional medications.

The spray was developed so that it did not affect the mental state of the patients in the way that using cannabis would, BBC reports.

The researchers were quick to hedge on their findings, reported in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, saying that the study didn’t justify smoking marijuana “as this could increase the risk of cancer.”

They evidently had spent so much time conducting their own study, they didn’t read the available literature. Multiple studies have shown that cannabis in fact contains anti-cancer agents.

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