Cannabis News

[Fat Freddy]

From what I've read the fat lady ain't sang yet in Michigan; legalization advocates will be bringing lawsuits, say some "pundits"!


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[blackstone]

It seemed like a horrible stunt to pull, and terrible timing for the petition.

By the way, I saw that the proposed law change in Illinois was for a type of meds that you could vaporize only, and not smoke.
Now I've given this some thought, but do any of you know what that would be?
First I thought it would suit vaporists like us, but maybe it's no herbs and just those oil type pens? Sorry if it's the wrong place to ask this?

 

[TeeJay1952]

Isn't there some sort of legal precedent about no Ip Post Facto (no law after the fact)?

 

[thisperson]

Section 9.

No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.

That's what Article 1 says. Not sure about the specifics of it.

 

[psychonaut]

Medical marijuana is helping, MN patients say, but it's unaffordable

http://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/0...cal-marijuana-helps-patients-but-unaffordable

 

[MinnBobber]

Medical marijuana is helping, MN patients say, but it's unaffordable

http://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/0...cal-marijuana-helps-patients-but-unaffordable

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Yes, our MMJ program here in MN is bad, restrictive, expensive etc.
The problem is now the legislators basically say "shut the fuck up, you've got your MedMJ program so go away".
Very tough to change it

- $200 reg fee per year
- only two companies produce/sell so no competition/ duopoly/ expensive
- law mandated extracts only. One report I saw showed extracts cost 4X or 5X the price of basic cannabis buds
- only about 1000 patients so companies have no economies of scale, like if they had 10,000 patients.

We continue to fight for better Med MJ / legalize MJ here in MN

 

[Fat Freddy]

 

[u bwade wunner]

Coming Soon

A Documentary Produced & Directed by Helen Kapalos

 

[macbill]

This 20-Year Marijuana Study Could Blaze a Trail That Supporters Have Been Waiting For

[E]arlier this month a team of 10 researchers from New Zealand, the University of California, Davis, Duke University, Arizona State University, and King's College London, published a 20-year study in JAMA Psychiatry that examined the effect of cannabis on about a dozen common health measures, including lung function, blood pressure, body mass index, and waist circumference.

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Marijuana News 2016: Scientists, Frustrated By Funding Shortfalls, Launch Institute For Research On Cannabinoids

“With any other drug, the research comes before it reaches a patient,” said Bonn-Miller. “With cannabis, it’s completely the opposite. It’s in the hands of everybody, but nobody knows about dosing, nobody knows the best methods of delivery, nobody knows what strains are best for different uses. The cart is so far before the horse in terms of the gap between research and policy.”

 

[TeeJay1952]

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/long-term-marijuana-use-disrupts-brains-reward-system/

If you smoke for 12 years you get more excited looking at paraphernalia than favorite fruits.

Makes me think I fucked up not becoming "scientist"

 

[Daily]

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Yes, our MMJ program here in MN is bad, restrictive, expensive etc.
The problem is now the legislators basically say "shut the fuck up, you've got your MedMJ program so go away".
Very tough to change it

- $200 reg fee per year
- only two companies produce/sell so no competition/ duopoly/ expensive
- law mandated extracts only. One report I saw showed extracts cost 4X or 5X the price of basic cannabis buds
- only about 1000 patients so companies have no economies of scale, like if they had 10,000 patients.

We continue to fight for better Med MJ / legalize MJ here in MN

Sounds very frustrating . In my country it's the same situation, but here they legalized sativax...
So when people complain about mmj, they say: well we have sativax now.....

 

[BD9]

Mendocino County divided into cannabis appellations

Story

The word “Mendocino” on a cannabis product label may soon carry as much weight as the word “Napa” does on a bottle of wine.

“You have a product coming out of prohibition, essentially. Marijuana growers are caught in a very difficult situation. It’s a bit of a ‘catch-22’. Even though it’s legal at the state level, it’s not legal at the federal level. They can’t operate in the normal way by creating bank accounts and the like. Appellations will help show the legitimacy of what they are doing,” Mendelson said.

 

[Fat Freddy]

Mendocino County divided into cannabis appellations

Story

The word “Mendocino” on a cannabis product label may soon carry as much weight as the word “Napa” does on a bottle of wine.

“You have a product coming out of prohibition, essentially. Marijuana growers are caught in a very difficult situation. It’s a bit of a ‘catch-22’. Even though it’s legal at the state level, it’s not legal at the federal level. They can’t operate in the normal way by creating bank accounts and the like. Appellations will help show the legitimacy of what they are doing,” Mendelson said.

KEWL!

"I'll have a couple of eighths of the Russisn River, please."



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[His_Highness]

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/long-term-marijuana-use-disrupts-brains-reward-system/

If you smoke for 12 years you get more excited looking at paraphernalia than favorite fruits.

Makes me think I fucked up not becoming "scientist"

Makes me think I should open a vape shop once it's been legal on a national basis for 12 years and forget all about that fruit stand

 

[His_Highness]

Microsoft and Pot. This almost makes up for Windows 8!

This one just came out a few minutes ago.
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/16/microsoft-scores-its-first-ever-pot-partnership.html

This one is from March 30th 2016:
https://news.vice.com/article/micro...d-weed-in-front-of-the-cops-and-then-spun-out

 

[macbill]

What's Worse Than Pot Staying Illegal? Pot As An FDA-Regulated Drug

The real concern among those in the industry is what happens if the FDA and DEA reschedule marijuana as a Schedule II drug. FDA regulation experts say if pot is placed in the same category as legal pharmaceutical formulations of opioids like oxycodone and stimulants like amphetamine the burden of keeping up with regulatory compliance might be too costly for many of today's small marijuana companies.

 

[FlyingLow]

I always kinda assume if FDA fucks this up and limits potency, it only breathes more life into the black market industries.

 

[hd_rider]

DEA to Reschedule Cannabis to Schedule 2 on August 1st

According to the Santa Monica Observer, on August 1st the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will reschedule cannabis from a schedule 1 controlled substance, to a schedule 2 controlled substance, allowing it to be used and researched for medical purposes.

According to the Observer, a DEA attorney who wishes to remain anonymous made it clear that the agency, on August 1st, plans to remove cannabis as a schedule 1 drug – which indicates that it has no known medical value – and place it as a schedule 2 drug, allowing it to be used for medical purposes (other schedule 2 drugs include cocaine and Oxycontin).

“Whatever the law may be in California, Arizona or Utah or any other State, because of Federal preemption this will have the effect of making THC products legal with a prescription, in all 50 states,” the attorney told the Observer.

According to the attorney, the change has a lot to due with the fact that cannabis prohibition has become a “big drain on DEA resources”, noting that a majority of Americans now support legalizing cannabis for all uses, not just medical.

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I, myself, would have rather seen Cannabis moved to Schedule 3 or de-scheduled altogether, but this is a big step in the right direction.

 

[SSVUN~YAH]

DEA to Reschedule Cannabis to Schedule 2 on August 1st

According to the Santa Monica Observer, on August 1st the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will reschedule cannabis from a schedule 1 controlled substance, to a schedule 2 controlled substance, allowing it to be used and researched for medical purposes.

According to the Observer, a DEA attorney who wishes to remain anonymous made it clear that the agency, on August 1st, plans to remove cannabis as a schedule 1 drug – which indicates that it has no known medical value – and place it as a schedule 2 drug, allowing it to be used for medical purposes (other schedule 2 drugs include cocaine and Oxycontin).

“Whatever the law may be in California, Arizona or Utah or any other State, because of Federal preemption this will have the effect of making THC products legal with a prescription, in all 50 states,” the attorney told the Observer.

According to the attorney, the change has a lot to due with the fact that cannabis prohibition has become a “big drain on DEA resources”, noting that a majority of Americans now support legalizing cannabis for all uses, not just medical.

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I, myself, would have rather seen Cannabis moved to Schedule 3 or de-scheduled altogether, but this is a big step in the right direction.

Seems to me it's just like Obama's speech about cannabis. A step forward with a slap in the face. When is just a little herion ok? Stfu! Why doesn't Herion stay in your system so long, why does your body dispose of it so quickly, yet wants thc and cbd to stay around? Same goes with all the schedules, so either make a class of itself or declassify it! You make it as a taxable pharmaceutical only, then you're going to still have your war on cannabis. They will point at the oxy epidemic and claim people are just as bad for using cannabis. Just because they would be in the same class. It's hypocrisy, it's stupidity, let's stop the bullshit already.

 

[Fat Freddy]

 

[C No Ego]

DEA to Reschedule Cannabis to Schedule 2 on August 1st

According to the Santa Monica Observer, on August 1st the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will reschedule cannabis from a schedule 1 controlled substance, to a schedule 2 controlled substance, allowing it to be used and researched for medical purposes.

According to the Observer, a DEA attorney who wishes to remain anonymous made it clear that the agency, on August 1st, plans to remove cannabis as a schedule 1 drug – which indicates that it has no known medical value – and place it as a schedule 2 drug, allowing it to be used for medical purposes (other schedule 2 drugs include cocaine and Oxycontin).

“Whatever the law may be in California, Arizona or Utah or any other State, because of Federal preemption this will have the effect of making THC products legal with a prescription, in all 50 states,” the attorney told the Observer.

According to the attorney, the change has a lot to due with the fact that cannabis prohibition has become a “big drain on DEA resources”, noting that a majority of Americans now support legalizing cannabis for all uses, not just medical.

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I, myself, would have rather seen Cannabis moved to Schedule 3 or de-scheduled altogether, but this is a big step in the right direction.

sched 2 is synthetic lab ( man) made only right? no growing period or go to jail right? confusing as S#!T

 

[C No Ego]

in temrs of "everybody" what type of preventive medicine is even considered as a doctors recommendation and can they prescribe it LOL?? in walks cannabis with its cannabinoids to prevent and protect from brain trauma but the prblem- you haver to have brain trauma to qualify at schedule two. schedule 5 more like it and then off completely. how far do they think they can freaking take this with a plant LOL!!!

 

[grokit]

I thought schedule two "narcotics" were supposed to be harmful; if cannabis is schedule two what should we schedule the deadly, and infinitely more harmful/costly to society, neurotoxin called ethanol/alcohol?

 

[MinnBobber]

@grokit ,

You don't understand as there are big differences between alcohol and cannabis:

- alcohol kills 88,000 every year in US and 3,300,000 worldwide.
- cannabis has never caused a single person to die

- alcohol in moderate doses has possible small medical benefits
- cannabis research is getting stronger and stronger indications that cannabis and its impact on the endocannabinoid system seems to play a HUGE role in helping/curing/preventing dozens (hundreds?) of physical, mental, emotional diseases.

So (say the Feds), based on best science, let's reluctantly move cannnabis to Schedule 2 status and then expect to be treated like JC himself for showing this great stride in helping humanity......
And, let's leave alcohol as a freely sold item, if you are of age --as it seems harmless AKA brings in a lot of tax revenue

Schedule 2 is:
Combination products with less than 15 milligrams of hydrocodone per dosage unit (Vicodin), cocaine, methamphetamine, methadone, hydromorphone (Dilaudid), meperidine (Demerol), oxycodone (OxyContin), fentanyl, Dexedrine, Adderall, and Ritalin

Cannabis fits right in there eh.......not.

A small move to Sched 2 might be bad in it takes the pressure off to re-schedule as Feds say we did re-schedule
Hope is that it can act as a small first step.

 

[Gunky]

The fact that there is movement on the scheduling is encouraging but schedule II is just as big a lie as schedule I for cannabis. Take heart, the feds are telling whoppers less wild than before. (scratches head)