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on September 16, 2008, 09:46:00 AM
Scientists Say Cannabis Could Outdo Conventional Antibiotics In Killing Some Bacteria
By NORA SCHULTZ
Sept. 12, 2008
Substances harvested from cannabis plants could soon outshine conventional antibiotics in the escalating battle against drug-resistant bacteria. The compounds, called cannabinoids, appear to be unaffected by the mechanism that superbugs like MRSA use to evade existing antibiotics. Scientists from Italy and the United Kingdom, who published their research in the Journal of Natural Products last month, say that cannabis-based creams could also be developed to treat persistent skin infections.
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by BC on August 08, 2008, 01:21:00 PM
Why should we use Compact Fluorescent lighting?
HID lighting has changed our awareness of light use in growing plant materials, specifically cannabis, but HID lighting, for all its great usefulness has its disadvantages, especially in the current political climate. There is increasing interest in stealth and safety,and for the home cannabis enthusiast, security is a define factor.Factor in everything thats wrong with current growing techniques, and you will be able to one by one check them off the list of your current difficulties.
Such a list might look like this:
- Reduced power usage
- Reduced heat production
- Reduced danger From electrical fire
- Reduced Visibility (power spike)
- Increased overall Security
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on June 27, 2008, 02:00:00 PM
By Foo Yun Chee Fri Jun 27, 11:36 AM ET
Reuters Photo: An unidentified man smokes a marijuana joint in a coffeeshop in Rotterdam in this June...
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - When a smoking ban comes into force in the Netherlands next Tuesday, it may kill the buzz for people who like to smoke their cannabis with tobacco. But some owners of the famous Dutch coffee shops are staying mellow.
Fittingly, in a land renowned for its relaxed attitude to drug laws, the new rules contain a few loopholes.
People will still be able to smoke pure cannabis joints in around 700 coffee shops, something some tourists -- notably from the United States -- already often do.
Also, restaurants, cafes and coffee shops will be allowed to set up a separate room or glass partition behind which people can smoke. But customers will not be served in these areas to protect staff.
This dispensation makes the Dutch law more relaxed than smoking restrictions in some other European countries where smoking is banned completely in bars, restaurants and other public spaces.
Arjam Roskam, who owns the Green House coffee shop in Amsterdam, is not worried.
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on May 29, 2008, 04:41:52 PMfrom: Bonnie GoldsteinPosted Friday, May 23, 2008
Since 1996, California laws have permitted citizens to use marijuana "for medical purposes." But the drug remains illegal under federal law, and the Drug Enforcement Agency regularly shuts down cannabis despensaries in the state. Last month John Conyers Jr., chairman of the House judiciary committee, wrote DEA Acting Administrator Michele Leonhart (see below and on the following two pages) questioning the "dramatically intensified … frequency of paramilitary-style enforcement raids" on authorized users and suppliers. Conyers asked for an accounting of the agency's costs for these measures against "individuals who suffer from severe or chronic illness" and for its rationale for threatening landlords of licensed dispensaries with "arrest and forfeiture of their property." Meanwhile, the California State Legislature is considering a measure that would allow state and local law enforcement agencies to refuse cooperation with the DEA.
Barack Obama's presidential campaign told the San Francisco Chronicle last week that if elected president, Obama would curb federal enforcement on state medical marijuana suppliers.
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on May 27, 2008, 04:35:00 PMDENVER - Court testimony reveals police think Leo Cisneros fired the shot that killed his daughter, Auralia, as he fought off armed robbers at their home.
On Tuesday, a judge ruled there is probable cause for Cisneros, 29, to stand trial on a charge of child abuse resulting in death, acknowledging that such a use of the law may be "unprecedented."
Prosecutors argued Cisneros created a dangerous environment that led to the girl's death by dealing marijuana from the home and keeping a loaded weapon under a pillow in the living room.
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on May 22, 2008, 02:08:00 PMBy Anonymous
The 29-year-old author of this essay is currently in prison. Rejecting the use of alcohol in an institutional setting as conducive to violence, he adopts marijuana use for relief of chronic stress.
I'm in prison right now; have been since 1992. I recently left the Federal Penitentiary to finish the State portion of my sentence here in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. I'm not here for drugs. I grow marijuana and smoke it but I've never been in trouble for that. I've never had any problems, personal or legal, with drugs. I am a staunch advocate for the legalization of marijuana for personal/recreational use, for medical use and for the benefit of the economy.
While I was doing time with the Feds, I learned a lot about marijuana. Prison provides a static environment that readily lends itself to the task of measuring action/reaction dichotomy. Drugs of all kinds are plentiful in prison: alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, LSD, you name it.
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on May 21, 2008, 02:42:00 PM By: Laurence Harmon P
Two recent U. S. studies—one at Harvard and another at UCLA—have concluded that marijuana smoking, even when regular and heavy, does not cause cancer, and that the active ingredient in marijuana may turn out to be an excellent treatment for lung cancer! Here's the dope:
Harvard researchers used lab and mouse studies to show that the compound, known as THC, cuts lung tumor growth in half and helps prevent the cancer from spreading. Researchers also demonstrated that THC inhibited the growth and spread of cells from two different lung cancer cell lines and from patient lung tumors.
They injected THC into mice that had been implanted with human lung cancer cells. After three weeks, tumors shrank by about 50%, compared with tumors in untreated mice, says Anju Preet, PhD, a HarvardUniversity researcher in Boston who tested the chemical. Preet notes that animals injected with THC seem to get “high,” showing signs of clumsiness and getting the munchies.
posted: 5/19/2008 12:00 AM In: Helpful, Lifestyle, Medical , Oddities
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on May 14, 2008, 02:00:00 PMReuters
Published: Tuesday May 13, 2008
Heavy marijuana use can boost blood levels of a particular protein, perhaps raising a person's risk of a heart attack or stroke, U.S. government researchers said on Tuesday.
Dr. Jean Lud Cadet of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health, said the findings point to another example of long-term harm from marijuana. But marijuana activists expressed doubt about the findings.
Cadet said a lot of previous research has focused on the effects of marijuana on the brain. His team looked elsewhere in the body, measuring blood protein levels in 18 long-term, heavy marijuana users and 24 other people who did not use the drug.
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on May 14, 2008, 01:36:00 PM By Steven Wishnia, AlterNet. Posted May 9, 2008.
New study says New York's cannabis crackdown is both racist and fraudulent -- and that more have been arrested under Bloomberg than Giuliani.
New York City has been the pot-bust capital of the world for a decade, since Rudolph Giuliani's decision to make public toking a top police priority. A new study sponsored by the New York Civil Liberties Union says the city's cannabis crackdown is both racist and fraudulent.
New York police have arrested almost 400,000 people for misdemeanor marijuana possession in the last decade. Last year, there were 39,700 such arrests. The vast majority of those seized have been black and Latino men, most under 25. And according to the NYCLU study, released last week, thousands of them are the victims of police scams, falsely charged with possession of marijuana "burning or open to public view."
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