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Help Stop Government from Issuing Exclusive License for Medical Cannabis
Category: Medical Marijuana | Posted on Mon, December, 19th 2011 by THCFinder
As you well know, our federal government maintains that marijuana has “no currently accepted medical use” as a schedule I substance per the Controlled Substance Act. Although sixteen states and the District of Columbia have now passed medical marijuana legislation, the Department of Justice (DOJ) continues to enforce federal law and prosecute those who cultivate, distribute, or possess medical marijuana in compliance with state law.
 
While the DOJ intimidates and incarcerates medical marijuana patients based upon federal position that cannabis has no medical value, another cabinet-level department within the federal executive branch, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), holds the legal right to certain medical applications of cannabinoids; since October 2003, the United States of America, as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services, has been official assignee of U.S. Patent #6630507, entitled “Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants. ” The Union of Medical Marijuana Patients (UMMP) has been well aware of this outrageous hypocrisy for several years now.
 
However, recent developments beg immediate attention and action from the broader community of medical marijuana advocates, as well as from all Americans who disagree with government-driven financial exploitation and monopolization of the very plant for which hundreds of thousands of American citizens are currently incarcerated.
 
The notion that one federal bureaucracy claims ownership rights to medical marijuana while its sister department prosecutes the patients who depend upon this government patented “invention” is outrageous enough. However, the Union of Medical Marijuana Patients discovered this week that the federal government now intends to grant an exclusive license to “practice the invention embodied in U.S. Patent 6,630,507” to a single New York based pharmaceutical corporation. In accordance with regulations that dictate how exclusive licenses may be granted on Government owned inventions, 37 CFR part 404.7 (a)(1) (i), the HHS published notice of its intentions in the November 17th edition of the Federal Register.
 
With a posting entitled “Prospective Grant of Exclusive License: Development of Cannabinoid(s) and Cannabidiol(s) Based Therapeutics to Treat Hepactic Encephalopathy in Humans,” the Department of Health and Human Services announced its plan to grant KannaLife Sciences, Inc. an exclusive license to “development and sale of cannabinoid(s) and cannabidiol(s) based therapeutics as antioxidants and neuroprotectants for use and delivery in humans. ”
 
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Pipe Rock, Really?
Category: Fun | Posted on Mon, December, 19th 2011 by THCFinder

The pet rock made millions, so why the hell not =).

 

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Three Former Federal Law Enforcement Agents Want To Legalize Marijuana

Category: News | Posted on Mon, December, 19th 2011 by THCFinder
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Dec 19, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Cannabis Science, Inc. CBIS +1.02%  a pioneering US biotech company developing pharmaceutical cannabis products, is very pleased to report that two former US Attorneys, and the former head of Seattle FBI, are in favor of Washington State Initiative 502 to legalize marijuana.
 
On Seattle television King 5 News, two former US attorneys, John McKay and Kate Pflaumer and the former head of Seattle FBI, Charles Mandigo, spoke out on why they think it's time to change the federal law and to legalize of marijuana.
 
Pflaumer stated, "It's a policy position that has become obvious to me over 35 years working in criminal law enforcement and criminal law defense."
 
Even though both US attorneys agree that it's a bad policy, they said it was their job to enforce the law.
 
Former head of Seattle FBI, Charles Mandigo says he does not condone the use of marijuana, but he supports the initiative, because he feels strongly that the illegal drug trade and the resulting violence is destroying to our society.
 
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TSA gives WEED a break
Category: Culture | Posted on Fri, December, 16th 2011 by THCFinder

Some random TSA agent decided to no ruin someones day. If they were only all this cool...

 

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Medical marijuana lawyer: Health dept. can't deny cards over physician assistants
Category: News | Posted on Fri, December, 16th 2011 by THCFinder
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has announced that it may deny thousands of medical marijuana applications over questions about whether physician assistants did exams -- a policy CDPHE's Dr. Chris Urbina reiterated in a recent interview. But MMJ lawyer Rob Corry calls the action improper and argues that the department is tossing the applications too late.
 
The CDPHE put the applications on hold, some for months, after staffers noticed that certain medical marijuana recommendation forms featured signatures of both doctors and physician assistants. If the latter actually performed the examination leading to a recommendation, the department believes this action would violate state law calling for a bona fide relationship between doctors and MMJ patients. If that's proven to be the case, the CDPHE will deem such applications fraudulent and deny them. If there's ambiguity over the question of who did the exam, the applications will be rejected.
 
This distinction is important. Patients whose applications are denied will have to wait six months to reapply, even if they've already been stuck in limbo for months, due to a clause in Amendment 20, the measure that legalized medical marijuana in Colorado. In contrast, patients whose applications are rejected can reapply right away, and additional fees will be waived.
 
Why use the term "denied" in some cases and "rejected" in others? Doesn't that punish some patients more severely than others without regard to whether they bear any responsibility or blame for the recommendation form issue? When asked this question, Dr. Urbina insisted that he was following the letter of the law, even though no document we've been able to find explains the distinction between "denied" and "rejected" the CDPHE is using.
 
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Super ent HASH
Category: Fun | Posted on Fri, December, 16th 2011 by THCFinder

You either know what i'm talking about or you don't =) .

 

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