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be careful harvesting chaga.... which side of the tree....the temp of the day and more they all have an effect on this medicine.

Trump administration’s dubious claims about pot and opioids are dead wrong The Trump administration hinted yesterday of a forthcoming federal crackdown in the eight states that have elected to regulate their marijuana markets. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer alleges that such federal intrusion is necessary in order to try and stem the rising tide of prescription opioid abuse sweeping across various parts of the nation. Spicer stated , “I think that when you see something like the opioid addiction crisis blossoming in so many states around this country, the last thing we should be doing is encouraging people (by regulating the adult use of marijuana).” Yet even a cursory look at the available evidence finds Spicer’s concerns to be misplaced and his allegations to be dead wrong. In reality, permitting legal access to cannabis is consistently associated with reduced rates of opioid use, abuse, and mortality. For example, a widely publicized study in the esteemed Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine reported that the enactment of medical marijuana legalization laws is associated with year-over-year reductions in opioid analgesic overdose mortality. Overall, researchers determined, “States with medical cannabis laws had a 24.8 percent lower mean annual opioid overdose mortality rate compared with states without medical cannabis laws.” The JAMA study is hardly unique. A 2015 examination by investigators at the RAND Corporation similarly determined, “tates permitting medical marijuana dispensaries experience a relative decrease in both opioid addictions and opioid overdose deaths compared to states that do not.” A 2016 assessment by Castlight Health, an employee health benefits platform provider, reported that adults are more than twice as likely to engage in doctor shopping for opioids in states without cannabis access as compared to states that permit it. Allowing adults legal access to marijuana is also associated with the reduced use of other, potentially more dangerous prescription drugs. For example, investigators at the University of Georgia assessed the relationship between medical marijuana legalization laws and physicians' prescribing patterns in 17 states over a three-year period. Specifically, researchers assessed patients' consumption of and spending on prescription drugs approved under Medicare Part D in nine domains: anxiety, depression, glaucoma, nausea, pain, psychosis, seizures, sleep disorders, and spasticity. Authors reported that prescription drug use fell significantly in seven of the nine domains assessed. "Ultimately, we estimated that nationally the Medicare program and its enrollees spent around $165.2 million less in 2013 as a result of changed prescribing behaviors induced by ... jurisdictions that had legalized medical marijuana,” they concluded. Similar results appeared earlier this month in a new study published in The International Journal of Drug Policy. Investigators reported that patients’ prescription use of opioids, benzodiazepines, and antidepressants fell significantly when they had legal access to marijuana. Studies of chronic pain patients similarly find that cannabis’ analgesic properties are sufficiently effective to motivate patients to reduce their opioid intake or to give the drugs up all together. For instance, a recent assessment of chronic pain patients by University of Michigan researchers reports “a 64 percent decrease in opioid use, decreased number and side effects of medications, and an improved quality of life” following cannabis intervention. Another trial, conducted last year in conjunction with the Israeli government, similarly reported a 44 percent reduction in opioid use among pain patients who had access to legal pot. Separate clinical trials also indicate that marijuana may play a role in assisting some subjects kick their opioid dependence. In fact, several studies now show that the moderate use of cannabis is associated with greater treatment attention among this struggling population. Proponents of marijuana prohibition have long alleged that experimentation with pot acts as a ‘gateway’ to the use and eventual abuse of other illicit substances. But the evidence does not support this claim. In reality, permitting marijuana sales to be regulated by licensed, state-authorized distributors rather than by criminal entrepreneurs and pushers of various other illicit drugs results in fewer, not more, Americans abusing other, potentially more dangerous substances. Paul Armentano is the deputy director of NORML (the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) and an adviser for Freedom Leaf. He is the co-author of the book "Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink?" (Cheslea Green, 2013) and author of the book "The Citizen's Guide to State-By-State Marijuana Laws" (Whitman Press, 2015).

I ingest oil every night, From 250 to 750 mgs. I switch strains often as one strain may have more beneficial things to it. strains are composed of over 300 Cannabinoids, but some more than others! Everyone of them does something as well..Only a few get you high... If there were actual studies being done it would be huge! At least, they're starting. There are many possibilities with this little green plant, each one becoming more prevalent every day! The investments to be made with the new businesses at hand are endless!!!

in the mean time and until your papers come in the mail in plus 11 weeks time? Not sure why a sick person has to wait for their meds but ... you should start doing what any court in cannada will agree with and has ruled for, that is to see you practice your rights as they are now!

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39045703

may be anecdotal but. What if Cannabis Oil Cured Cancer? As more stories like Alysa Erwin's become known, maybe medicinal marijuana will finally become formal protocol.By Larry Gabriel click to enlargeThe Erwin family after Alysa's diognosis IN JANUARY 2011, then-14-year-old Alysa Erwin began having intense, debilitating headaches. By that spring she was diagnosed with Grade 3 Anaplastic Astrocytoma — brain cancer — at University of Michigan Medical Center. According to information at mdguidelines.com, “Individuals with grade 3 astrocytoma have a median survival time of 18 months with treatment (radiation and chemotherapy). … Even with aggressive treatment, astrocytomas of all types tend to recur, making the prognosis generally poor.” Alysa’s tumors were spread throughout her brain like ivy or a spider web. There was no local tumor that could be targeted for radiation. The Erwins, including Alysa’s parents Carly and David, returned to their northern Lower Peninsula home with five days worth of Temedor, an oral chemotherapy pill, to begin treatment. “We were told she could live 18 months to two years on chemo,” says Carly. “We thought that was a death sentence to her.” Still, seemingly without options, the Erwins figured they would give the chemotherapy a try. “She was deathly sick,” says Carly of her daughter after taking the Temedor. Carly was bedridden with terrible headaches and couldn’t keep food down. The Erwins were devastated. A few days later they got a call from Carly’s father, who lives in southeastern Michigan, saying he’d recently gone to a meeting with the group now known as Michigan Compassion and heard about Rick Simpson Hemp Oil, a cannabis extract that some people are using to treat cancer. The Erwins then watched the videos “What If Cannabis Cured Cancer” and “Run from the Cure,” both available on YouTube. “This is the end, we thought,” says Carly. “If this is all that chemo can do, at least we can make her comfortable for the months that she had left with us.” At first, the Erwins couldn’t find cannabis oil. Eventually they met Gersh Avery in the Ann Arbor area, who facilitated the Erwins in finding what they needed. In early August 2011, Alysa had her first dose of oil. Carly mixed about eight milliliters of cannabis oil with about a half-cup of peanut butter. She gave her daughter about a half-teaspoon, once in the morning and again in the evening. After the very first dose there was a miraculous transformation in the sick girl. “About 30 minutes after taking cannabis oil she was out of her room eating and smiling,” says Carly. “We knew what we wanted after seeing her, but we wanted to see what she wanted because it was her body. The light was back in her eyes again. She was back to herself. She said she wasn’t doing chemo anymore; she was only doing cannabis oil.” Starting out, Alysa slept a lot as her body became accustomed to the high levels of cannabinoids in her body. And, as she was able to tolerate it, her mother upped the dosage until Alysa was getting about one-and-a-half milliliters a day for a year, then upped it to three milliliters each day. At first they didn’t tell Alysa’s doctor. They were afraid and unsure of the legal implications. At her first three-month checkup, the MRI showed that the cancer was not growing. The Erwins told her doctor that Alysa was doing the chemo. The subsequent exam showed the same result, but the doctor had questions because Alysa’s blood work was not showing the indications expected of someone on chemotherapy. The Erwins admitted then that they had stopped the chemo in favor of cannabis oil. The doctor’s response was cautious because cannabis oil is not a condoned treatment. But she said, “Whatever you are doing, keep doing it.” After a year, the cancer had evolved into five identifiable tumors at the back of Alyssa’s head. One of the tumors was near her brain stem and threatened her ability to breathe and walk. The Erwins agreed to have radiation treatment. “After six weeks, I wished we’d never done it,” says Carly. “Her brain started swelling.” They continued the cannabis oil treatments. In January 2013, two years after the onset of her headaches, Alyssa’s MRI showed no cancer. Subsequent MRIs, the most recent in October, have shown no cancer. Her next scheduled test is in April. “The doctor looked at the MRI and she just smiled,” says Carly. There were a lot of smiles going around. During this time it was usually a scramble to get cannabis oil. According to information available on the Internet from Rick Simpson, one pound of high-grade marijuana produces about 60 milliliters of oil; at one-and-a-half milliliters each day, a pound would last only 40 days. And with the cost of a pound of good quality marijuana somewhere north of $3,000, you can see the problems. With help from Carly’s father, the Erwins have spent about $17,000 on cannabis oil medicine. Some of what they got was donated to them. Avery, from Ann Arbor, helped the Erwins find a good strain and advice on how to produce oil. Today, Alysa lives a pretty much typical teenage life, except she takes cannabis oil. She took driver’s training and passed her licensing test during this period with no problems. “I didn’t really know anything about it,” says Alysa. “I started watching videos and seeing other people’s stories. I thought I should try it. I was excited to try it. I didn’t want to do that chemo anymore because of the way it was making me feel. I think I would have gave up if I had to keep doing that chemo.” In the past year, she has started speaking publicly in support of the therapy that saved her life. “I’m trying to spread the word around what this medicine can do; what it can help,” says Alysa. “The last time I spoke, it was trying to fight for the oil. I’m trying to help people out to get a second chance like I got. I know my family was really scared. I was too. Once I found out about this oil it just gave me hope. That’s what gave me hope for this cancer being gone. I like to let other families know that so they can have that kind of hope.” In a few weeks, Alysa Erwin will have been officially cancer-free for one year. It will have been more than 36 months since her 18-month death sentence. She continues her cannabis oil treatments. Need I say more? Note: A previous version of this article said that Alysa was 4. She was 14. Heres is another with the same. good info imagine what 60 years of research instead of prohibition, would have seen

the way the laws have changed regarding drones.....I wouldn't be worried about the theft charge ..

the guy flying the drone did more wrong the guy fishing, its a wonder the guy poaching doesnt turn him in!

people usually start at 25 mgs( a 1/4 of a grain of white rice in size)Not even what you would smoke in a joint. ,,,,,,just to see how they react. You go from there. It is different for everyone. That would make you second guess any pharmaceutical seeing as the same thing for everyone is how it is supposed to go, It may take you five weeks taking it each night until you get there. You may find you can do this after a week. Its NOTHING like smoking. There is suppository form as well if you do not want any high and you can take the 500 mgs right off the hop sorta say.. good luck with it... its not a wonder drug but,,,,, I've personally seen it do some really amazing things for people from kids to adults alike! I have also seen it not work... but have seen people fair far better than using other treatments to help them

how painless was that? go figure trying something new that others say does not work...actually works!!

We have to be politically correct now to stay put. Here is a list for people. https://www.leafly.com/finder/toronto-on Rec starts 2017?

I can only wish you the best in what you decide for yourself in regards to treatment. No one should be told or forced into something they don't fully understand I only know that no one should deters you from doing what you want! Keep strong. ps... if it was not for SlyATV I would be dead.

One kills and destroys. The other saves lives and can't kill! Both are fact! Give you one guess who the hypocrites are with their victim less crimes! This post should not offend anyone but only draw fact to the truth!

No words Mr. very saddened by your loss.

Well Sir. .its that or you can buy poison off of the new Government set up Large producers who ALL spray their medications? with poison. Because they are allowed because they think it is safe..In order for them to produce a crop. Sick people can grow their own for themselves and they certainly do not need anything sprayed on their meds. This is the point of the post. Recreational is different? That's where these Large Produces are going. They plan on poisoning people for profit. Soon ANYONE will be able to grow their own with our new laws coming. LP's knowingly poison people.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in spite of what you may have seen in a shop that probably caters to 1000's of different of people a day because they feel actually safer buying like they have for the last ...60 years? Rather than buying from government appointed poison producer ( ) like they TRIED to force the sick people into doing but they won in court thankfully and can do for themselves. now Soon Recreational will be able to grow as well in their back yard. Sorry for the smell but some people don't like the small of fish...but hey... try and not let it bother you any . As much as you think and feel that it is about getting high..its about staying alive for some. Your attitude won't let you see that no matter how much it really helps others.

Good read for the Layman. Yesterday, the largest ever coordinated attack on business owners was carried out by the Toronto Police Service. In an action reminiscent of Operation Soap – the violent invasion and shutdown of several LGBTQ businesses in 1981 – Project Claudia involved police laying siege to dozens of cannabis dispensaries in the GTA and stealing millions of dollars’ worth of inventory, crippling their ability to serve patients. Why did this happen? Who is to blame? I, and others, have covered the ‘why’ in articles on this site but, in this post, I’d like to focus on ‘whom.’ Ever since 2012, when the new MMPR was proposed, our industry has been in a fight for its very existence against a criminal organization that has managed to convince our government that they, despite having zero experience, know what’s best for patients, and the businesses that have been safely and successfully serving them for decades. The Shills Ljubica KostovicIn a post appearing in the Globe & Mail, a day after the assaults and robberies, Ms. Kostovic called the actions “long-awaited” and “welcome news for patients everywhere.” She claimed that risking liberty and property to faithfully serve patients with cannabis of far higher quality than LPs is “giving compassion a bad name” and that she, as a supposed patient herself, can’t possibly risk buying product from a dispensary. The real story here though is that Ms. Kostovic is the Director of Communications of GrowWise Health, a clinic designed to shovel patients in to the money-starved maw of LPs. These clinics will typically accept kickbacks from the ones they write medical documents for, or charge patients for one. A practice that physicians like Dr. Rob Kamermans are hypocritically being sued for. Ronan LevyMr. Levy is more prolific than Ms. Kostovic, but no different. He’s the co-founder of Canadian Cannabis Clinics, another medical document mill for the LPs. In an absolutely off-the-rails opinion piece in the Toronto Star, Levy cooks up as much fear pornography as he possibly can in order to cast doubt on dispensaries. Equating dispensary owners to drug pushers, he lauds LP’s for being “cleaner (tested for mould, viruses and pesticides), safer and cheaper than anything you can buy at a dispensary.” This is a common theme in LP-speak; their product is clean and tested, while you may as well be playing Russian roulette going to a dispensary. You’d think he’d be able to cite some actual evidence to prove his case. After all, Ronan is a lawyer and he ostensibly understands what the burden of proof is. He expects us to forget that LPs Tilray, Peace Naturals, and Whistler have all faced product recalls due to contamination and unsafe growing practices. Another early LP, Greenleaf Medicinals, shut down because growing a plant was too much for them to handle safely. LP product is also incapable of meeting the requirements for organic product certification due to the allowable pesticides under the MMPR, while most of what is sold in dispensaries does. These shills rely on lies and misinformation in order to disparage businesses that have been operating safely for over a decade. But it’s no accident that “BC Bud” is known all over the world. Dispensaries sell amazing, safe, high quality cannabis that LPs can’t match. Get over it. The Front Groups LeaflyA popular software application across North America for finding local cannabis strains. The Canadian experience has been somewhat different though than our US counterparts. Leafly’s Canadian customers have repeatedly complained about the rates they charge, as well as the poor results they get in terms of their brand exposure. Dispensaries are consistently buried under a mountain of illegal LP advertising. Owned by Privateer Holdings, Leafly is but one of a portfolio of companies that chiefly includes the LP Tilray, and Tilray has been no friend to the dispensaries. If you’re using Leafly, then not only are you handing your data over to companies seeking to destroy and monopolize our industry, you’re also helping fund your own oppression. Don’t be a pawn in their game. Cannabis Canada (formerly CMCIA)This is the primary trade association and lobby group employed by the LPs. In a January 2016 press release, the group encouraged violence against dispensary owners and parroted the fear porn that so many of the LP shills are known for. Executive director Colette Rivet, spent her career up to this point working for organizations like the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse. These same organizations have spent decades marginalizing the medical utility of cannabis, contributing to the hysteria fueling violence, and stonewalling efforts to improve patient access to this important medicine. Their unscientific approach to cannabis, and repeated inflammatory and unsupported assertions about it, have only caused confusion and prevented evidence-based legislation from emerging. Cam Battley, chair of their advocacy committee said the assaults on Toronto dispensary owners were “a long time coming,” and that “we warned the municipal government last fall that things were getting out of hand.” Cannabis Trade Alliance of Canada (CTAC)With all the bad press surrounding LPs and their front groups it’s no surprise to see that new or rebranded front groups are constantly emerging. Launched in early 2016, this new group is proposing bringing back all the worst elements of the MMAR in order to satisfy Justice Phelan’s order from the Allard trial. In a document published on their website they recommend bringing back the PUPL and DPPL licenses (albeit under different names) under substantially the same rules. Caregivers would be able to produce for only four patients at a time and only 12 plants per patient. It’s no surprise that they would recommend a heavily restrictive, doomed-to-fail set of regulations in response to the ruling. For decades, patients have been suing the government for repeatedly violating their Charter rights, and with every success the government (deliberately?) botches their revisions. Why would they break tradition when it comes to the Allard ruling? In the Sfetkopoulous trial of 2008, the court ruled that the one-to-one producer/patient ratio imposed by the MMAR was unjustifiable. In response, the government raised it to two-to-one… gee, thanks. Now we’re supposed to accept a limit of four caregivers? Do these people really expect to be taken seriously? Apparently so because in early May, CTAC sent lobbyist Kate Dalgleish, who is also lobbying for CTAC federally, to the City of Toronto to lobby on their behalf on the issue of dispensaries. The CTAC website reveals very little about who they are and where they come from but the lobbyist registry identifies their head office as being in the HSBC building in downtown Vancouver. Take from that what you may. CTAC’s Executive Director, Rosy Mondin, is another lawyer and also the owner of Soma Labs, which performs extractions on organic compounds and provides R&D services for vitamins and nutritional supplements. The Licenced Producers (LPs) Tweed (Canopy Growth Corporation)What began as one of Canada’s first LPs (thanks primarily to their deep connections to the Liberal Party) has since grown in to a multi-headed hydra of industrial destruction and consumer disappointment. After renaming themselves to Canopy Growth Corporation, they acquired another LP by the name of Bedrocan who proudly produces gamma-irradiated product. Tweed’s CEO, Bruce Linton, has a long history of anti-dispensary statements and one doesn’t have to do much digging to find them. More interestingly though is the financial story behind this firm. As one of the first publicly-traded LPs, they have to consistently make their financial statements available to the public. To an educated eye, the company is an unmitigated disaster. The company’s cash flow statement is completely upside down with investor money coming in, then going out on operations. Somewhere along the line I think Canopy’s executives forgot that the whole point of a company was to have the money moving in the other direction. At their current cash burn rate, they only have enough funds in the bank to last another year or so, two at most. Canopy is definitely feeling the heat, and their failure will be a spectacular one if they can’t find a way to a positive operational cash flow. How much more dilution will their owners be willing to take before the stock completely crashes? Over $137 million has been sunk in to the company thus far and still no signs of positive returns. Tilray (a.k.a. Lafitte Ventures)Another of the first LPs to receive a license, Tilray has long attracted the ire of the cannabis community due to their deeply troubling actions and statements against dispensaries. Even Kirk Tousaw has remarked that their marketing strategy hinges on liberally insulting home-growers and casting aspersions upon dispensaries. They retained Ginny Movat, of Crestview Strategy, to lobby the City of Toronto on their behalf. A seasoned political operative, who has worked for both the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as well as the Ontario PC Party, Ginny has had extensive communications with Toronto council members, staff and City employees beginning Feb. 24 of this year. Most notably with councillor Joe Cressy, advocating for a “strong, well-regulated medical cannabis system.” For LPs, a well-regulated system is one that ensures their cartel can operate unchallenged and continue to extract monopoly profits from distressed patients. As mentioned before, they’re also using their cannabis app Leafly so that the industry hands them not only the rope, but the money to hang dispensary owners with. ConclusionWhen animals are backed in to a corner, they become violent and unpredictable. We’re witnessing the same behaviour from the licensed producers, their front organizations and shills. As the failure of LPs becomes more and more evident, expect these cries of frustration to only get louder. We aren’t dealing with respectable businesspeople who face their competition honourably, and with deference to their ultimate authority, consumers. We’re dealing with a criminal organization that has co-opted our government because it’s easier (and legal) to have police be your hired thugs. They think that it’s not only possible, but preferable, for governments to strip away the rights of their citizens in order to guarantee their profit margins. They think that spreading fear, hate and violence is the way to win market share. Don’t let them. If you care about this industry, and the patients who depend on it, then you must take action. Medical or recreational, we all have something at stake and it’s no longer acceptable to be sitting on the sidelines. When those four bath houses were raided in 1981, thousands took to the streets and it was not pretty. There were riots, hunger strikes, and repeated action until the affected people got what they wanted. It’s time for us to do the same and, when we’re done, politicians should be quaking in their boots at the prospect of the cannabis vote coming down on their heads like a guillotine. Boycott all LPs, their associates and front organizations. Encourage people to do the same. Join the Cannabis Growers of Canada, the only national group representing the true interests of the cannabis industry. As the great US statesman Frederik Douglass once said; “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” It’s time our demands were heard.

everyone can grow no selling in places who sell alcohol. best meds going

I guess SAIL. the other part of the famdamily, had a little to do with it.

http://www.vox.com/2016/8/18/125232/marijuana-overdose-dad-cat This is what a marijuana overdose is likeActual newspaper headline: “Omaha dad finds pot brownies, eats 4 of them, says mean things to cat.”Updated by German Lopez @germanrlopez [email protected] Aug 18, 201 Overdose on heroin? You might die. Overdose on cocaine? You also might die. Alcohol? The same. But marijuana? You won’t die. But you might say some mean things to your cat. That last bit comes from a story from the Omaha World-Herald, seriously headlined, "Omaha dad finds pot brownies, eats 4 of them, says mean things to cat." Kevin Cole reported for the Nebraska newspaper that the 53-year-old father had eaten four of his adult children’s pot brownies, which were stashed away in the backseat of a car. His wife called 911 after he said he had "bad anxiety." Then this happened: This is the typical marijuana overdose. Some strange behavior, and some anxiety, but ultimately something that can be resolved by simply laying in bed and sleeping it off. (This is also a lesson in why you should take it slowly with marijuana edibles — they take time to kick in, and can have a deceptively strong effect, so give it 30 minutes to an hour or more between treats instead of going all in.) Paramedics called to the scene who checked the man found his vital signs to be normal. But they noted he was displaying odd behavior — crawling around on the floor, randomly using profanities and calling the family cat a "whine." The man told paramedics he felt like "he’s trippin’." He declined their offer to be taken to the hospital. The paramedics helped the man to his bedroom and he got into bed. The man and his wife were told to call 911 again if his situation worsened. This isn’t to downplay some of the risks to marijuana. Some people have done really bad things on the drug — including trying to drive and getting in a deadly car crash. And some people can experience psychotic episodes, or they might overuse the drug and become dependent on it — to the detriment of their schoolwork, career, or social life. But most people who try marijuana will be fine. If they overdose, they’ll likely have an experience similar to this poor 53-year-old dad, and maybe traumatize a cat along the way. But they wouldn’t die from an overdose — it’s just not possible. Compare that to tobacco, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) links to 480,000 deaths each year. Or alcohol, which the CDC links to 88,000 deaths each year. Or opioid painkillers and heroin, which were linked to nearly 29,000 drug overdose deaths in 2014. The total number of marijuana overdose deaths, meanwhile, is zero. There are likely some deaths from pot-related accidents, but the CDC doesn’t track such deaths — althoughstudies have found marijuana is much less likely to cause a fatal car crash than other drugs, particularly alcohol. Yet marijuana is illegal at the federal level, while some of these other drugs aren’t — and one (opioid painkillers) is actually distributed by doctors. It’s a very strange place for drug policy to be at, even if there are legitimate arguments for keeping pot illegal. And it helps explain why most Americans now think that marijuana should be legal. Watch: Painkillers now kill more Americans than any illegal drug. Here’s why. Was this article helpful? Get Vox in your inbox

Marijuana Advocates to DEA: Talk to the Hand The Drug Enforcement Administration says marijuana lacks medical value. So why did the U.S. government file a patent for cannabis — specifying that the plant has multiple therapeutic benefits — as far back as 1999? GOOGLE - GOOGLE.COM That's what some medical marijuana advocates are asking after the DEA declined to loosen federal restrictions on cannabis last week. To highlight the seeming contradiction, they're sharing photos of their hands featuring the patent number: 6,630,507. FACEBOOK - FACEBOOK.COM The patent "proved there was ample evidence to support the medicinal aspects of cannabis — decades of research," Amy Hilterbran, a medical marijuana advocate who started the trend, told ATTN:. "It proved that cannabis — cannabinoids — were medicinal and effective for numerous ailments, conditions, and that the plant was nontoxic, nonlethal." "This one patent disqualified cannabis from even being on the Controlled Substances Act — on several levels," Hilterban added.The patent was filed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 1999. It was published four years later, and information included in the patent description shows that the federal agency has been aware of marijuana's antioxidant and neuroprotective properties for some time. Researchers found that ingredients in marijuana could be used to treat and prevent age-related, inflammatory, and autoimmune diseases. STOCKSY/HEIM - STOCKSY.COM "The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and HIV dementia," an abstract of the patent states. CNN chief medical corespondent Sanjay Gupta says the issue bothers him, too: "How can the government deny the benefits of medical marijuana even as it holds a patent for those very same benefits?" he asked in a 2014 editorial.The question is all the more relevant today, after the DEA announced that it would not change marijuana's classification under federal law. It is to remain Schedule 1 — the strictest category of the Controlled Substances Act, designated for dangerous and addictive drugs with no medical value — in spite of growing evidence that marijuana is relatively safe and medically useful. Though the DEA acknowledges that cannabis is less dangerous than heroin and other Schedule 1 drugs, it justified its decision by arguing that the plant has no accepted medical Marijuana Advocates to DEA: Talk to the Hand The Drug Enforcement Administration says marijuana lacks medical value. So why did the U.S. government file a patent for cannabis — specifying that the plant has multiple therapeutic benefits — as far back as 1999? GOOGLE - GOOGLE.COM That's what some medical marijuana advocates are asking after the DEA declined to loosen federal restrictions on cannabis last week. To highlight the seeming contradiction, they're sharing photos of their hands featuring the patent number: 6,630,507. FACEBOOK - FACEBOOK.COM The patent "proved there was ample evidence to support the medicinal aspects of cannabis — decades of research," Amy Hilterbran, a medical marijuana advocate who started the trend, told ATTN:. "It proved that cannabis — cannabinoids — were medicinal and effective for numerous ailments, conditions, and that the plant was nontoxic, nonlethal." "This one patent disqualified cannabis from even being on the Controlled Substances Act — on several levels," Hilterban added.The patent was filed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 1999. It was published four years later, and information included in the patent description shows that the federal agency has been aware of marijuana's antioxidant and neuroprotective properties for some time. Researchers found that ingredients in marijuana could be used to treat and prevent age-related, inflammatory, and autoimmune diseases. STOCKSY/HEIM - STOCKSY.COM "The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and HIV dementia," an abstract of the patent states. CNN chief medical corespondent Sanjay Gupta says the issue bothers him, too: "How can the government deny the benefits of medical marijuana even as it holds a patent for those very same benefits?" he asked in a 2014 editorial.The question is all the more relevant today, after the DEA announced that it would not change marijuana's classification under federal law. It is to remain Schedule 1 — the strictest category of the Controlled Substances Act, designated for dangerous and addictive drugs with no medical value — in spite of growing evidence that marijuana is relatively safe and medically useful. Though the DEA acknowledges that cannabis is less dangerous than heroin and other Schedule 1 drugs, it justified its decision by arguing that the plant has no accepted medical use. RELATED: Why We Should Demand That Congress Reschedule Marijuana

They never had a choice in the matter. MMAR are able to change their scripts. It's now easier for kids with epilepsy and other illnesses to get life saving medicine they need, or legally grow it!!!!!

Health Canada - Notice to the media - Government of Canada to make an announcement regarding Marijuana OTTAWA, Aug. 11, 2016 /CNW/ - A statement will be issued today regarding marijuana regulations. Following the statement, Health Canada officials will hold a media briefing via teleconference to provide further detail and respond to questions. Date August 11, 2016 Time 2:00 PM (EDT) Location Teleconference Only Local / toll-free (Canada/US) dial-in number(s): 613-960-7526 / 877-413-4814 Pass code: 9862308 SOURC