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Brea and marijuana dispensaries at stalemate
Category: Dispensaries | Posted on Thu, March, 8th 2012 by THCFinder
"Moore said. "We're continuing to fight. We've been spending a lot of money, and it kills me because it's public funds." If they gave a shit about the public funds at all then they would be working with dispensary owners to help and create a group of legitimate marijuana dispensaries where medical marijuana patients who need their medication to get by day to day can still have a safe and realiable location to obtain those meds. Instead they are more than happy to spend any amount of tax payers hard earned money on shutting these places down.
BREA – City officials are claiming victory against medicinal-marijuana dispensaries attempting to set up shop within city limits – but the lawyer for one dispensary said the fight is not over.
At a City Council meeting, City Attorney Jim Markman told the panel that the half-dozen businesses attempting to open a dispensary have been whittled down to one, thanks to a combination of laws prohibiting the dispensaries in Brea, and legal action.
Physis, a Brea medical marijuana dispensary, has closed and withdrawn its court appeal against an injunction won by the city. It was photographed here in July.
"Brea has managed to very effectively, with the support of the council, arrest any proliferation of these establishments in the city," Markman told the council at the Feb. 25 meeting.
In the city officials' eyes, the most-recent victory was a decision by Physis Patients Association to drop its appeal of a court-ordered injunction to close its doors; the court ruling that the dispensaries were in violation of city law. Councilman Roy Moore said it was imperative that the city take action to prevent more dispensaries from opening in Brea.
"Instead of two or three or four, we'd have 20, so where does it stop?" Moore said. "We're continuing to fight. We've been spending a lot of money, and it kills me because it's public funds."
Spark one for the morning
Category: Tokers | Posted on Thu, March, 8th 2012 by THCFinder
Medicate in the morning.
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Category: Fun | Posted on Wed, March, 7th 2012 by THCFinder
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Obama was baked
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'Marijuana' Diet Pill May Be Possible, Endocannabinoid Study Suggests
Category: News | Posted on Wed, March, 7th 2012 by THCFinder
Is the skinny pill right around the cornor? Would this be a game changer for society if our entire planet was filled with modelesque looking people without anyone looking larger than life? Would this change the game for models, actors, and other industries that hire people based on looks? If everyone was naturally skinny, would society stop working out, would gyms cease to exist becuase only the few would continue to work hard for muscle mass? This would be an interesting leap in the medical world if we could pop a pill and stop gaining wait!
A dreamy diet pill that someday allows people to eat as much as they want without gaining weight seems possible, based on new research into certain brain chemicals that influence how quickly we burn fat.
Scientists used lab mice to turn down brain levels of endocannabinoids, chemicals produced by our bodies that are similar in molecular structure to the active ingredients in marijuana.
Previous research has found that endocannabinoids play an important role in regulating energy metabolism. In the new study, blocking the activity of endocannabinoids in the brain enabled mice to stay skinny without exercise or dieting. The researchers explained that the mice were in a "hypermetabolic state," in which their bodies were using up energy (that is, calories) at a much higher rate than normal.
"We discovered that these mice were resistant to obesity because they burned fat calories much more efficiently than normal mice do," study researcher Daniele Piomelli, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, said in a statement. "We had known that endocannabinoids play a critical role in cell energy regulation, but this is the first time we found a target where this occurs."
This target is a compound called 2-AG, found in high levels in mammalian brains, and researchers think it plays a role in the brain circuits controlling how the body uses energy, which we get from food.
A previous study by Piomelli found these compounds make us crave fat. To see if lowering the levels of these compounds had the opposite effect, Piomelli engineered the brain cells of mice to express only low levels of this compound, then compared the animals' behavior and health with that of normal mice.
The modified mice ate more and moved less than their normal counterparts, but stayed skinny even on a high-fat diet. Not only did they look healthy, they had normal blood pressure, and no increased risk of heart disease and diabetes that usually come with a high-fat diet.
The researchers determined that the modified mice's brown fat was overactive — it was being turned into heat much quicker than in the normal mice. Brown fat is a type of fat that keeps mammals warm, and this heat creation burns off excess energy.
Jumping from lab studies in mice to actual health benefits for humans is still a ways away, though, since it is difficult to make a drug that acts only in one brain area.
"To produce the desired effects, we would need to create a drug that blocks 2-AG production in the brain, something we're not yet able to do," Piomelli said. "So don't cancel that gym membership just yet."
The study was published today (March 6) in the journal Cell Metabolism.
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