By Jonathan Walczak | Published in Seattle Weekly It’s intended to help animals manage chronic pain, but you may be tempted to slip it on Fido when he gets a little too rambunctious. A Seattle company is developing a medical marijuana patch for humans and animals, and intends to press for a change in state [...]
Dr. Frankel gets his license back By Fred Gardner | Published in CounterPunch On July 25, 2011, after an imposed hiatus of 15 months, Allan Frankel, MD, resumed seeing patients and authorizing Cannabis use. The Medical Board of California had suspended Frankel’s license for reasons unrelated to Cannabis —and then sought to revoke it permanently [...]
By Dennis Romero | Pubished in LA Weekly In Los Angeles, the cannabis club capital of the nation, we know that medical marijuana is good for, well, whatever you write down on the clipboard in the pot doc’s office. Bad backs, migraines, sore muscles, break-ups, raves, Snoop Dogg concerts. But, ever the clever marketing [...]
By Sam Sabzehzar | July 27, 2011 With the stroke of a pen Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn signed a bill regulating medical cannabis like any other business into law this month. “Prohibition does not work,” said McGinn Wednesday morning, voicing what most politicians are scared to admit but most believe non-the-less. “We have seen the [...]
By Stephen C. Webster | Published in The Raw Story A new technology that analyzes the sweat from a person’s fingertips looks to revolutionize the drug testing market, providing on-site results in minutes with a test so advanced it can even detect marijuana intoxication. Using gold nanoparticles and special antibodies, the tech produced by British firm [...]
By East Bay Express | July 26, 2011 When a Winnebago pulls up in front of the Cow Palace in San Francisco on a sunny Saturday and unfurls a sign advertising “$45 medical marijuana recommendations or your money back,” it’s easy to see why some call the state’s medical marijuana laws farcical. Sure, pot’s less [...]
By Flavia Browne | Published in Portable.TV From the duo who brought us the stunning Uppercut earlier this year, comes Aquadettes: a short documentary about Margo Bouer, whose struggle with Multiple Sclerosis is eased by synchronised swimming (and some illicit drugs on the side). Bouer’s outlook on the world is alarming clear-headed and positive given her situation, but she [...]
By NORML | July 23, 2011 Only fourteen researchers in the United States are legally permitted to conduct research assessing the effect of inhaled cannabis in human subjects, according to data included in the White House’s 2011 National Drug Control Strategy, released last week. In a section of the report entitled ‘Medical Marijuana,’ the administration states, “In the [...]
By Chris Roberts | Published in SF Weekly A Californian with a job, an education, and every opportunity this society can afford him (minus perfect health). Meet your typical medical marijuana patient. A study conducted by a sociology professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz has some interesting revelations about the state’s medical cannabis [...]
By Dale Gieringer | For CAL NORML In an unprecedented ruling, a Los Angeles court denied a motion by plaintiff & DPFCA member Susan Soares to return her medical marijuana on the grounds that her doctor had not specified a dosage amount or frequency in her recommendation. Soares, who was growing for a local collective, [...]
