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Baron23

Baron23

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A big thing marijuana opponents warned you about is definitely not happening

A state-run survey of 37,000 middle and high school students in Washington state finds that marijuana legalization there has had no effect on youngsters' propensity to use the drug.

The Washington State Healthy Youth Survey found that the 2016 rate of marijuana use was basically unchanged since 2012, when the state voted to legalize marijuana for recreational use. In the survey, researchers used the measure of “monthly use,” asking students across all grade levels whether they'd used the drug within the past month.

The survey's numbers show that neither the vote for legalization nor the opening of pot shops in 2014 have had any measurable effect on the rate of marijuana use among teenagers in the state. (cont)
 
Baron23

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Australian Lawmaker Rips Medical Cannabis Law: ‘Reality Doesn’t Match the Rhetoric’
More than a year after the Australian government legalized medical cannabis, patients in South Australia are still waiting for a scheme to effectively access medicine.

One lawmaker, Greens MP Tammy Franks, has criticized the government’s handling of the access issue as “offensive” and “a joke”—and she’s now leading the charge for reform.

Franks, one of two Greens members in South Australia’s Legislative Council, has been involved in the campaign for access to medical cannabis for the past three years. For the past two, she’s been conducting forums for other members of Parliament and their staff in order to educate them about medical cannabis. Earlier this month, she held a special forum on the extreme difficulties South Australian patients face trying to access medical cannabis.

The problem is that the reality doesn’t match the rhetoric, and the federal piece of legislation is not progressing the way it should,” Franks said. “Well over a year since that bill passed, we still don’t actually have people able to go to their doctor and get a prescription for medical cannabis in South Australia.”

To some, it almost feels like they’re losing ground. Earlier this year, a police raid and the arrest of a medical cannabis oil producer in South Australia were met with a public outcry. (cont)

Dramatic Changes to New Mexico’s MMJ Program Need One Signature
Passed by the New Mexico legislature last Friday, a new bill could make dramatic changes to the state’s medical marijuana law. Allowing for the inclusion of opioid addiction as a qualifying condition for NM’s MMJ program, Gov. Susan Martinez might soon make history with one simple signature.

In addition to adding reciprocity and opioid addiction to the list of qualifying conditions, HB 527 would protect New Mexico’s lawful MMJ participants from interference by Child Protective Services. Also high on the list of positive changes, the bill would mandate “employer or insurer payment for the reasonable use of medical marijuana pursuant to the Worker’s Compensation Act.”

If signed into law by Gov. Martinez, HB 527 would position New Mexico on the frontline of America’s ongoing struggle with opioid addiction. Becoming the first state in the country to allow qualifying individuals to legally treat their opioid dependency with medical marijuana, the bill would also add a number of other qualifying conditions and safeguards.

Authored by Rep. Nate Gentry (R) and passed by the House and Senate, HB 527 would include Huntington’s disease, PTSD, Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy and Crohn’s disease to New Mexico’s growing list of qualifying conditions.

Administered by New Mexico’s Department of Health, the new legislation also would mandate regulators establish reciprocity guidelines for patients from other medical marijuana states.

Historically, an outspoken opponent of legalization and the marijuana reform movement, Gov. Martinez recently vetoed a pair of measures that sought to establish a hemp research program through New Mexico’s Department of Agriculture
 
cybrguy

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Baron23 said:
Historically, an outspoken opponent of legalization and the marijuana reform movement, Gov. Martinez recently vetoed a pair of measures that sought to establish a hemp research program through New Mexico’s Department of Agriculture
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Given this bit of insanity, does anyone really think her signature on HB 527 is at all likely? Is someone who vetoes hemp research really gonna liberalize access to and cooperate with MMJ expansion? I'm thinking probably not, but I will watch and hope for a surprise...
 
Baron23

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cybrguy said:
Given this bit of insanity, does anyone really think her signature on HB 527 is at all likely? Is someone who vetoes hemp research really gonna liberalize access to and cooperate with MMJ expansion? I'm thinking probably not, but I will watch and hope for a surprise...
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Yeah, perhaps a remote possibility that she would sign. More likely, a veto override or something to help show her the door out in the next election. We will see.

While Martinez and McCamley have introduced a bill, New Mexico Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino, D-NM, has proposed a constitutional amendment, due to opposition by Gov. Susana Martinez.

If a majority of members of both legislative houses in New Mexico vote in favor of the proposed amendment, the proposal will automatically be placed on a statewide election ballot, bypassing the Governor’s office.

Ortiz y Pino noted that all states that have legalized marijuana have done so through a general election vote, which may be partially caused by strict federal regulations on the substance.

California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada will join Colorado, Washington and Oregon as states which have legalized recreational marijuana after Election Day, according to Business Insider, and New Mexico legislators are hoping to join that list in the coming years.

“If we get this on the ballot, it’s going to pass,” Ortiz y Pino said. Polls support his optimistic claim.

In an Albuquerque Journal poll conducted in October, 61 percent of likely voters said they would support a measure to legalize recreational marijuana for adults age 21 and older.

Despite voter support, previous attempts to pass similar legislation were met with resistance.
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http://www.dailylobo.com/article/2016/12/5-pot-legalization-possibility
 
Baron23

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A pharma company that spent $500,000 trying to keep pot illegal just got DEA approval for synthetic marijuana

Insys Therapeutics, a pharmaceutical company that was one of the chief financial backers of the opposition to marijuana legalization in Arizona last year, received preliminary approval from the Drug Enforcement Administration this week for Syndros, a synthetic marijuana drug.

Insys gave $500,000 last summer to Arizonans for Responsible Drug Policy, the group opposing marijuana legalization in Arizona. The donation amounted to roughly 10 percent of all money raised by the group in an ultimately successful campaign against legalization. Insys was the only pharmaceutical company known to be giving money to oppose legalization last year, according to a Washington Post analysis of campaign finance records.

Syndros is a synthetic formulation of THC, the main psychoactive component in the cannabis plant. It was approved by the FDA last summer to treat nausea, vomiting and weight loss in cancer and AIDS patients. The DEA approval places Syndros and its generic formulations in Schedule II of the Controlled Substances Act, indicating a “high potential for abuse.” Other Schedule II drugs include cocaine, morphine and many prescription painkillers.

Whole-plant marijuana remains in Schedule I of the CSA, an even stricter regulatory category that designates a lack of medically accepted use in addition to a high abuse potential.

Insys has been active in marijuana policy for several years. In 2011 it wrote to the DEA to express opposition to loosening restrictions on naturally derived THC, citing “the abuse potential in terms of the need to grow and cultivate substantial crops of marijuana in the United States.” (cont).

These c*ck suckers will all burn in hell (well....don't really believe in hell but you get my meaning, right? LOL). They truly are scum.
 
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CarolKing

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Can you imagine all the folks in public office that are getting money to keep cannabis on the list with heroin? It happens all the time. Also $500,000.00 is a drop in the bucket for a pharmaceutical company, chump change.

Hopefully this administration will be embroiled in turmoil and won't have time to destroy the legal cannabis in the states that voted for it. Seems like the Trump Administration has a lot on their plates right now - ha ha ha.:leaf::2c:
 
C No Ego

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CarolKing said:
Can you imagine all the folks in public office that are getting money to keep cannabis on the list with heroin? It happens all the time. Also $500,000.00 is a drop in the bucket for a pharmaceutical company, chump change.

Hopefully this administration will be embroiled in turmoil and won't have time to destroy the legal cannabis in the states that voted for it. Seems like the Trump Administration has a lot on their plates right now - ha ha ha.:leaf::2c:
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people seeing the similarities of thc made in a lab and thc grown in perfect conditions= evolved nature is a start to wake the F up... it will be ok to pay one thousand $ a drop for pharma synth thc while nature keeps pumping billions of drops for free!
 
CuckFumbustion

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Cannabis works best as Chinese medicine. Getting ALL of the essence. To get the Ying and Yang of the plant. The Entourage effect" Whenever thc is isolated and administered, it often produces a negative experience.

One mainstream piece on the topic.->Medical marijuana and 'the entourage effect' - CNN.com

INTERVIEW: The Asian American Parents Leading the Cannabis Revolution (Part 1/3) featuring Floyd Huen, Doctor - Resonate

Nevil Schoenmakers Joins Plant Extract Company StemCell United | Marijuana

King of Cannabis Nevil Schoenmakers sends new pot Stemcell United stock up 8300% in less than 48 hours
 
CuckFumbustion

CuckFumbustion

Lo and Behold! The transformative power of Vapor.
More Than a Quarter of Americans Would Substitute Marijuana for Beer, New Survey Shows -- The Motley Fool
Are Americans actually getting smarter?

Eight of 16 people indicted in Colorado marijuana trafficking operation listed as having state pot licenses – The Denver Post

Colorado Marijuana: State Tries to Avoid Trump Crackdown | Time.com

Colorado Solons: Reclassify Marijuana Before Trump Pot Embargo : HEALTH : Tech Times
Watch this topic, because this might be where a battle line is drawn for the next set of legal FED<->STATE challenges.

these-states-will-consider-changes-to-their-cannabis-laws-in-2017 :cool:
 
CarolKing

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As Americans fail drug tests, employers hire refugees - CNN.com
CNN.com › us › refugees-jobs-drug-testing
3 days ago - The percentage of American workers testing positive for illegal drugs is at its highest level in a decade. Some employers are turning to refugees.

i hate that cannabis is lumped in with all the drug testing. It's too bad that it's tested so often even in office jobs. I understand if you are operating a huge machine and making sure folks haven't used that day but as we know cannabis stays in some bodies for a couple months.

Too many Americans addicted to hard drugs.
 
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yogoshio

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The only accurate test for THC would be the same as alcohol, on the spot for active components in the bloodstream. I would be willing to get behind that as a requirement, but looking for traces is absurd and has no bearing on the individual's performance.

If said individual has the inability to be sober while working, I can see from a business perspective why they wouldn't want an employee who can't be sober at the workplace. Medical issues aside, obviously.
 
damm

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Saw this over on drugwarrant figured ii'd share it.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03...problem-and-chris-christie-isnt-the-solution/

Throughout the session, various assertions were made, including that people become “immediately hooked” and that narcotics are “cheaper than candy,” the latter an assertion Trump has made in the past, without evidence.

But ultimately, as feel-good as the listening session may have been, the dominant narratives about the so-called opioid epidemic on display at listening session, and throughout the mainstream media, do more to obscure reality than to accurately describe it.
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But there’s a missing element to these numbers. Opioid overdoses usually involve more than just opioids – and often entail the mixing of multiple drugs, like alcohol, benzodiazepines, cocaine and fentanyl, either by choice (as is typically true of the first three substances) or due to unscrupulous black market dealers tainting their product (with fentanyl). This occurs so often, “opioid overdose” is virtually a misnomer – and many, if not most opioid overdoses are better described as “polydrug toxicity,” as suggested by a 2003 paper in the Journal of Urban Health.
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Unfortunately that is the punch line. We don't describe overdoses as polydrug overdoses; we label them an Heroin overdose instead. Hyperinflating the number of affected people by using a broad stroke of applying it to all Heroin addicts; instead of looking (or trying to see) that maybe there are people using heroin (in congress in the past) who have led successful lives.

http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/joe_mccarthy.htm

Trump is only listening to the horror stories and listen to the 1% and applying that to the other 99%

Ignorant is the only word I have for it.
 
C No Ego

C No Ego

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yogoshio said:
The only accurate test for THC would be the same as alcohol, on the spot for active components in the bloodstream. I would be willing to get behind that as a requirement, but looking for traces is absurd and has no bearing on the individual's performance.

If said individual has the inability to be sober while working, I can see from a business perspective why they wouldn't want an employee who can't be sober at the workplace. Medical issues aside, obviously.
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until we understand the endocannabinoid system no test will suffice to show how that system is operating in you Live... it is either up regulating or down regulating... only way to know is more science
 
cybrguy

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CarolKing

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DOVER, DE--(NewMediaWire - Apr 3, 2017) - Metatron (OTC PINK: MRNJ), a pioneer of releasing Marijuana & CBD related apps on iTunes and Google Play, is thrilled to announce the process of acquiring a new electrifying cannabis and e-commerce portal, Buzzlink.com, has begun. Metatron will provide app and mobile development to connect the cannabis community to Buzzlink as well as provide e-commerce and business management solutions to dispensaries. Buzzlink is expected to launch this spring, just in time for 4/20 (April 20th, 2017) and will be an exciting place for people to find products, hangout, and share experiences. "As the legal cannabis industry grows in the U.S., competition for customers is heating up. Now, a startup called Baker Technologies has raised $3.5 million to become a "Salesforce for pot." The company's software helps marijuana dispensaries bring in new customers and inspire customer loyalty, without running afoul of ever-shifting regulations that govern precisely how these shops can market and sell their goods." techcrunch.com

As of today, Metatron's $1,000,000 capital Raise has started and will be using its Series B preferred shares, converting at a ratio of 1 preferred share to 50,000 common shares, and will not be affected by a reserve split. The minimum investment amount will be $1,000, while the maximum amount shall be $25,000. As an incentive, current qualified shareholders and investors will receive a significant discount on the purchase price, as defined in the investor packet, when purchasing their Series B shares. The fund will provide non-toxic funding to assist in the development and maintenance of Cannaboids and Buzzlink as well as assist in the consolidation of past legacy debt to provide for a more stable market. For an investor packet and more details, please email: ir@metatroninc.com.

Joe Riehl, CEO of Metatron, says, "The cannabis industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the U.S., but is very competitive, legally complicated, and currently underserved by smart mobile and web technologies. It is our goal to address these issues with proprietary software by showcasing the Buzzlink brand, that is being developed by Metatron."

As of Mar 21, 2017, the company had 75,371,558 issued and 8,846,557 restricted shares.

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This info could have gone in the Cannabis Stocks section of the forum. The chatting and talking about products kinda sounds like here.
 
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