Topic: DRUGS - on June 13, 2013 at 9:15:00 PM CEST
Medical marijuana dispensaries are now legal in Nevada
Nevada medical marijuana patients in need of cannabis will soon have legal storefronts to go to for safe access to their meds, though the tradeoff means the elimination of home growing.
Gov. Brian Sandoval signed Senate Bill 374 into law last night, creating a state-regulated system of growers, processers and dispensaries. The move also allows home growing only until 2016, when the dispensary program is expected to be fully functional.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 11, 2013 at 4:04:00 PM CEST
Recreational marijuana timeline released
The Washington State Liquor Control Board announced dates for their recreational marijuana draft rules. According to their timeline, they will begin to accept license applications in September.
Timeline June 19, 2013 – Board work session on proposed rules; July 3, 2013 - Board files official draft rules with the state Code Reviser; August 7, 2013 - Public hearing on draft rules; August 14, 2013 - Board adopts rules; September 14, 2013 - Effective date for rules; and September 14, 2013 - WSLCB begins accepting applications for all license types.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 11, 2013 at 1:17:00 PM CEST
High Country: A Mind-Melting Journey Through the Silicon Valley of Weed (Part 2)
motherboard.vice.com High Country: A Mind-Melting Journey Through the Silicon Valley of Weed (Part 1)
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 9, 2013 at 10:17:00 PM CEST
New Study: Cannabinoids Protect the Brain and Heart From Injury
Cannabis is in the news again for its purported medicinal benefits, with researchers in Israel last week indicating it may help prevent trauma to the brain in certain circumstances and may also help with cardiac problems. A few months ago an English pharmaceutical company that manufactures cannabinoids announced it was developing a new treatment for epilepsy using them.
Prof. Yosef Sarne in the Adelson Center for the Biology of Addictive Diseases in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at Tel Aviv University says that cannabis has neuro-protective qualities. He has found that extremely low doses of tetrahydrocannabinol or THC- the psychoactive component of marijuana- can protect the brain from long-term cognitive damage in the wake of injury from hypoxia (lack of oxygen), seizures, or toxic drugs.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 7, 2013 at 1:00:00 PM CEST
DoseNation 22: R.U. Sirius
The legendary R.U. Sirius joins us to talk about his latest book, "Timothy Leary's Trip Through Time", and many amazing details about Leary's life.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 5, 2013 at 5:59:00 PM CEST
Dutch cannabis coffee shop owners win partial victory
Coffee shop owners promised payout over crackdown on cannabis, but were warned other drug moves would remain
A Dutch court has ordered the government to compensate owners of cannabis-selling cafes who say they are losing money because of measures to stamp out drug tourism.
But in a setback for owners of so-called coffee shops, The Hague district court ruling also said other moves to prevent foreigners from buying soft drugs in the Netherlands were legitimate.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 5, 2013 at 4:45:00 PM CEST
High Country: A Mind-Melting Journey Through the Silicon Valley of Weed (Part 1)
Matt Ellis doesn’t smoke weed. He simply doesn’t enjoy being stoned. The all-too-familiar itch of paranoia that follows a few deep rips of cannabis is enough to keep him from using. But that’s not to say he doesn’t enjoy—or maybe even need—weed. It’s in the one green that he sees gobs of the other.
“At the end of the day, it’s about making money,” says Ellis, whose Denver-based biomass extraction company is one of countless others riding a wave of high tech innovation in the wake of recent measures in Colorado and Washington state legalizing small amounts of weed for recreational use. “I mean, I want to help people, don’t get me wrong," Ellis tells me, referring to a medicinal pot industry brimming with new and diffuse cannabis-concentrate highs that his company, ExtractionTek Solutions, is poised to capitalize on. “But we gotta make a living.”
motherboard.vice.com High Country: A Mind-Melting Journey Through the Silicon Valley of Weed (Part 2)
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 31, 2013 at 3:32:00 PM CEST
Joint Venture: Ex-Microsoft-Manager plant Cannabis-Imperium
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 30, 2013 at 8:06:00 PM CEST
How will Feds deal with marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington?
A potential showdown will probably not target individual users of the drug, instead focusing on new regulations that will make marijuana sales permissible, a violation of federal law.
Now that voters in Colorado and Washington have approved legalized sales of marijuana in those two states, the federal government is expected to aggressively confront the new laws through lawsuits saying they are invalidated under US law.
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 30, 2013 at 7:56:00 PM CEST
Catch Motherboard's coverage of the recent HIGH TIMES U.S. Cannabis Cup in Denver
Denver, Colorado. The Mile High City. Call it America's Amsterdam. Ground zero for cannabis legalization, and home to a budding tech sector in what could be called the Silicon Valley of Weed.
In High Country, Motherboard heads west to see about the new green rush. We'll visit some of the key players working to scale up tomorrow's smart, low-footprint grow and extraction technologies, inadvertently crash a harvest of cartoonishly dank medicinal AK-47, check the pulse on a fast-growing dab scene, and crack open the promising, if scant science of weed–a knowledge base that's expanding amid ongoing federal prohibition as casual citizen botanists/stoners crowdsource what they know about what they're picking up. Which is all to say there's simply no arguing that America's No. 1 cash crop--to say nothing of a budding weed-support industry, or the millions of people who use herb today as medicine or for recreation (or both)--is being taken to sophisticated and dizzying new heights.
..... Catch the full piece on Motherboard beginning June 3 to find out.
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Topic: DRUGS - on February 24, 2013 at 7:01:00 PM CET
US-Show Silver Tour: Marihuana für Oma
Fast 30 Jahre lang saß Robert Platshorn wegen Marihuana-Schmuggels im Gefängnis. Den Glauben an die Kraft der Pflanze hat er nicht verloren: Heute zieht der 70-Jährige durch Florida und lockt Senioren mit Gratis-Buffets in seine Shows - und wirbt für die Legalisierung der Hanfpflanze.
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Topic: DRUGS - on February 16, 2013 at 9:59:00 PM CET
"Auch Weihnachten löst Psychosen aus"
Die Gefahren von Haschisch und Marihuana sind unter Experten umstritten
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