Archive for July 12th, 2007
Pharmacuticals join forces to create synthetics – K’ching!
Thursday, July 12th, 2007PipelineReview.com
09 Jul 2007
GW and Otsuka Enter Into Global Cannabinoid Research Collaboration
GW Pharmaceuticals plc and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. today announce that they have signed a global cannabinoid research collaboration in the field of Central Nervous System (CNS) and oncology in order to research, develop and commercialize a range of candidate cannabinoid products.
LONDON, UK and TOKYO, [...]
Pot, the poor man’s drug?
Thursday, July 12th, 2007Metro, BC
11 Jul 2007
Marty York
CFL HAS GONE TO POT, FORMER PLAYER CLAIMS
A lot of players in the CFL smoke a lot of marijuana.
This is the word from Sean Millington, who spent 13 seasons as a running back with the B.C. Lions, Edmonton Eskimos, Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Toronto Argonauts and who has been a member [...]
Synthetic pot pill lacks medicinal properties of cannabis
Thursday, July 12th, 2007Hartford Courant, CT
11 Jul 2007
Paul Armentano
GOOD MEDICINE
Study: Medical Marijuana Smokes ‘Legal Alternative’
When Gov. M. Jodi Rell vetoed legislation last month that would have allowed citizens with debilitating medical conditions to use medical cannabis under their doctor’s supervision, she alleged that there was no proof of pot’s therapeutic effectiveness and that legal alternatives are [...]
Westcoast pot kings living the high life
Thursday, July 12th, 2007The Coquitlam Now, BC
11 Jul 2007
WHAT’S REALLY FUELING THIS ECONOMIC BOOM?
B.C. produces 40 per cent of Canada’s pot, according to the World Drug Report 2007, released this week by the United Nations.
In 2005, most of the world’s pot was grown in the Americas ( 23 per cent in North America and 23 per cent [...]
Santa Barbara recognizes bureaucracy burden on cannabis arrests
Thursday, July 12th, 2007Los Angeles Times
11 Jul 2007
Steve Chawkins
JUDGE REJECTS LAWSUIT OVER POT
Santa Barbara Loses Its Fight Against a Statute That Makes the Private Use of Marijuana by Adults the City’s Lowest Crime-Fighting Priority.
A Santa Barbara judge has upheld a city ordinance requiring police to make enforcement of marijuana laws their lowest crime-fighting priority.
Although Measure P, which was [...]
Letter to Editor: Hypocrisy of prohibition
Thursday, July 12th, 2007Metrowest Daily News, MA
10 Jul 2007
THE MARIJUANA CARTEL
Kathleen Parker’s July 8th column was right on target. Marijuana prohibition has done little other than burden millions of otherwise law-abiding citizens with criminal records.
The University of Michigan’s Monitoring the Future Study reports that lifetime use of marijuana is higher in the U.S. than any European [...]
A time of potential political change
Thursday, July 12th, 2007Regina Leader-Post, SN
11 Jul 2007
Murray Mandryk
POLITICS HAS ITS OWN FRINGE FESTIVAL
Worried that you won’t be given enough choice on the next provincial election ballot?
Don’t be. No fewer than eight registered political parties submitted returns for 2006, according to Elections Saskatchewan.
They included: Green Party of Saskatchewan; New Democratic Party, Sask. Section; Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan; [...]
Letter to Editor: Time to take a stand
Thursday, July 12th, 2007National Post
11 Jul 2007
POT USERS, UNITE
Re: Canadian Pot Use Four Times Global Rate, July 10.
Cannabis has never killed a single human in all of our recorded history. It has been proven time and time again to have many medical and general health benefits. The “gateway drug” theory was long ago disproved by real science, and [...]