Archive for month: December, 2016

Marijuana plants for sale are displayed at the
medical-marijuana farmers market in Los
Angeles.
Thomson
Reuters

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) — Mexican advocates for drug reform are
voicing alarm about the country’s widening gap with the United
States on marijuana legislation, as criminal violence surges again south of the
border.

Tens of thousands have been killed over the years in Mexico, on
the front line of a U.S.-led war on drugs. The country’s
prohibitionist approach…

I started growing weed two years ago but I’m not an expert marijuana grower yet.

I still encounter grow room problems I can’t figure out.

I used General Hydroponics 3-part in rockwool when I first started growing.

When my marijuana leaves had problems (such as shown in the photo for this article), I called up General Hydroponics tech support and told them I was a medical cannabis grower.

They said they can’t talk about marijuana growing.

That pissed me off so I threw away their shit and bought Canna.

Using Canna, my plants had less…

Jamie Howe has been disabled for years after complications from a gastric bypass surgery, and was diagnosed with exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, which she said causes debilitating pain.

After opiates put her in the hospital and then into rehab, she looked to marijuana to alleviate the pain.

“I do get it on the black market. But it’s not something I like to do,” Howe said. “You know, I don’t want to get busted. I don’t want to go to jail, especially for healing myself. This should be treated as a health issue, not a criminal one.”

Now…

A special donation has been made to Thomas Jefferson University that will help the school become the first medical cannabis research center in the United States. With the new funding, TJU will be able to elevate and expand on the known conditions helped my medical cannabis, as well as study the long-term effects cannabis use can have on a patient. The exciting new comes at a time when more than half the country has legalized medical cannabis.

Angel donors

Australian philanthropists Barry and Joy Lambert made a gracious…

Editor:

There is validity for the usage of medical marijuana but there is something wrong with the approval of recreational marijuana. There is nothing healthy or recreational about smoking pot.

Plain and simple, smoking pot is an escape from reality. What a pot smoker would call relaxation is simply a temporary departure from life’s challenges and circumstances. When the “high” runs its course, the problem resurfaces because it hasn’t been addressed.

Joseph Wardy

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Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Rancher Bruce Strange, left, from Kimberly listens as Gordon Larson speaks out against the refuge occupation at a public meeting at the senior center Jan. 26 in John Day.

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• Ronald Roy Horsman, 68, of Long Creek died in a fire that destroyed his residence.

• Rod Carpenter killed a trophy buffalo on a hunt in the Henry Mountains of Utah. The Boone and Crocket trophy club rated…

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How do you convince hard-core medical marijuana opponents to look at the science first? Add these 10 medical marijuana infographics to your arsenal …

aNewDomain — No one knows for sure whether Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, Jeff Sessions (R-AL), will attempt to kill off recreational legal weed sales in the eight U.S. states that now allow it.

But what of medical marijuana? Isn’t science in its favor?

That may not matter to Sessions or the other appointees who are headed for Capitol Hill. Most of these…

Voters may have spoken on marijuana legalization, but the forecast for when Mainers could legally enjoy the drug remains hazy, at best.

Carrying out the will of the voters – albeit a slim majority of them – on legalization will be one of the most arduous tasks facing lawmakers returning in January for a legislative session overflowing with major issues.

Absent a legal curveball from Gov. Paul LePage, a foe of legalization, Mainers 21 and over might be able to possess and grow their own pot by late January or early February even if…

The town is poised to adopt a law banning medical marijuana centers or, should the state not allow the prohibition, tightly regulating them.

Two ordinances putting strict regulations in place are scheduled to go before the Town Council in January for a final vote.

Earlier this month, the council unanimously approved the ordinances in the first of two required votes.

Florida voters on Nov. 8 allowed expanded availability of medical marijuana, but local governments are at the mercy of state lawmakers, who are expected to craft…

It was an expensive 2016 for Gov. Rick Snyder and lawmakers who spent hundreds of millions of dollars to address Flint’s water emergency and to rescue Detroit’s school district from massive debt.

Legislators also tackled higher speed limits, driverless cars, medical marijuana regulations and other issues. Snyder signed 340 laws through mid-December, with many more awaiting his signature after a final flurry of voting at the end of the two-year legislative term.

The top 10 laws or soon-to-be-signed laws of 2016:

1. FLINT AID

About $287 million,…

The nation’s oldest hospice announced this week that it would be studying ways in which medical cannabis may be used to help dying patients, particularly those who have suffered from either intense pain or from opioid addiction.

The program

The Connecticut Hospice Inc. in Branford announced on Monday that they would institute the federally-approved study, with the approval and input of the hospice’s 66 patients.

The hospice announced the study at a press conference that was also attended by Conn. Governor Dan…

Most states that award medical cannabis licenses do so using a merit system, but Arizona employs a random lottery to award some licenses. On October 6th, the Arizona Department of Health Services awarded 9 non-profit dispensary licenses using a random selection process overseen by two associates from a CPA firm, Henry & Horne, LLP. It had received 750…