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Students rally for legal marijuana
Category: News | Posted on Mon, November, 7th 2011 by THCFinder

Fed up with the Governments idiocracy, local students have had enough and want to see some changes being made.

The Obama administration has denied an online petition with more than 70,000 supporters calling for the legalization of marijuana.
 
Jordan Shepherd, a 19-year-old psychology junior, said the White House's response hasn't hurt the movement toward legalization. Rather, it has done the opposite.
 
"I think by actually completely ignoring the movement, he's made it stronger," said Shepherd, president of the UF chapter of NORML, a national organization that aims to repeal marijuana prohibition.
 
The petition, "Legalize and Regulate Marijuana in a Manner Similar to Alcohol," has 74,169 signatures. It is one of eight marijuana-related petitions the White House responded to on its "We the People" website.
 
Online petitions need 25,000 signatures within 30 days to elicit a response from the administration.
 
Gil Kerlikowske, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, wrote the response to the marijuana petitions.
 
Shepherd said he was surprised the administration chose Kerlikowske to respond.
 
"It's legally written in his job description that he is forced to oppose legalization," he said.
 
According to the Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 1998, Kerlikowske's responsibilities as director include taking any actions necessary to oppose the legalization of certain controlled substances, including marijuana.
 
He wrote that, according to the National Institutes of Health, marijuana use is associated with cognitive impairment, addiction and respiratory disease.
 
Kerlikowske also wrote the administration is interested in researching the drug's potential medical uses, but that the Food and Drug Administration and the Institute of Medicine have not found that smoked marijuana meets standards for safe and effective medicine.
 
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Who's ready for the Weedend?
Category: Fun | Posted on Fri, November, 4th 2011 by THCFinder

Looks like these guys are prepared!

 

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Eating Disorders Tied to Absence of Brain Cannabinoids
Category: News | Posted on Fri, November, 4th 2011 by THCFinder
New research suggests that a brain malfunction that leads to deficits in endocannabinoids may contribute to anorexia nervosa and bulimia.
 
Endocannabinoids are substances made by the brain that affect brain function and chemistry in ways that resemble the effects of cannabis derivatives, including marijuana and hashish.
 
These drugs are often used recreationally and are well known to influence appetite, i.e. causing hunger or the “munchies.”
 
Accordingly, deficits in this brain system would logically be associated with reduced appetite.
 
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Sober Vs High
Category: Culture | Posted on Fri, November, 4th 2011 by THCFinder

Think about it.

 

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Study: Legal Medical Marijuana Doesn't Encourage Kids to Smoke More Pot
Category: Medical Marijuana | Posted on Fri, November, 4th 2011 by THCFinder
Despite warnings from opponents of medical marijuana, legalizing the drug for medical purposes does not encourage teens to smoke more pot, according to new research that compared rates of marijuana use in Massachusetts and Rhode Island after the latter state changed its laws.
 
Rhode Island legalized medical marijuana in 2006, but Massachusetts did not. "We wanted to pair these two states because they have so much in common culturally and geographically," says Dr. Esther Choo, assistant professor of emergency medicine at Brown University's Warren Alpert Medical School and emergency medicine physician at Rhode Island Hospital.
 
Choo's analysis used data collected from 1997 to 2009 for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's annual Youth Risk Behavior Survey. The analysis involved nearly 13,000 youth in Rhode Island and about 25,000 in Massachusetts. In each state in any given year, the study found, about 30% of youth reported using marijuana at least once in the previous month.
 
In other words, while marijuana use was common, there was no significant difference in rates of pot use between the years before and after legalization in Rhode Island. "We found no effect of the policy change," says Choo.
 
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Marijuana shop shut down after sheriff serves warrant
Category: Dispensaries | Posted on Fri, November, 4th 2011 by THCFinder
Santa Ana Superior Care, a marijuana dispensary at 321 W. Seventeenth St. in Santa Ana, has been closed since sheriff's deputies served a search warrant last month.
 
According to an affidavit by sheriff's investigator Howard J. McCulloch, the dispensary on two occasions sold marijuana to an undercover officer who had a doctor's recommendation, without the telling the officer to perform any duties or to participate in cooperatively or collectively cultivating marijuana.
 
Distribution of marijuana to an individual who has a recommendation but no other relationship with the distributor amounts to an illegal sale of marijuana, which is not permitted under California law, McCulloch wrote.
 
Sheriff's Capt. Adam Powell said deputies are continuing their investigation and will forward their findings to the District Attorney's Office for possible prosecution.
 
Residents have complained about a  proliferation of  marijuana dispensaries along Seventeenth Street. Such dispensaries are prohibited in Santa Ana by a city land-use ordinance. However, there are dozens of dispensaries operating in the city. Enforcement of the ordinance is handled by the city's code enforcement staff. Persistent violators are referred for possible civil or criminal litigation.
 
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