Monthly Archives for March 2010

Marijuana Industry Divided on California Legalization

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Source: Spark Report

After gathering enough signatures, California voters are almost guaranteed a historical vote on whether to legalize marijuana in their state this November. While the majority of voters, activists and consumers are celebrating the real chance of marijuana legalization, there is strong opposition coming from more than just anti-marijuana lobbying groups.
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Not Feeling Well? Perhaps You’re ‘Marijuana Deficient’

Scientists have begun speculating that the root cause of disease conditions such as migraines and irritable bowel syndrome may be endocannabinoid deficiency.

Source: Alternet, 3.24.10 -

For several years I have postulated that marijuana is not, in the strict sense of the word, an intoxicant.

As I wrote in the book Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink? (Chelsea Green, 2009), the word ‘intoxicant’ is derived from the Latin noun toxicum (poison). It’s an appropriate term for alcohol, as ethanol (the psychoactive ingredient in booze) in moderate to high doses is toxic (read: poisonous) to healthy cells and organs.
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California poised to vote on fully legalizing pot

Source: Seattle Times 3.24.10 – Fourteen years after California decided marijuana could be used as medicine and ignited a national movement, the state is likely to vote on whether to take a decisive step into the vanguard of drug liberalization: legalizing the weed for fun and profit.

On Wednesday, Los Angeles elections officials must turn in their count of valid signatures collected in the county on a statewide legalization initiative. The number is virtually certain to be enough to qualify the initiative for the November ballot, according to a tally kept by state election officials.

That again will make California the focal point of the long-stewing argument over marijuana legalization, a debate likely to be a high-dollar brawl between adversaries.
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Waiting to Inhale – medical marijuana documentary

Waiting to Inhale takes viewers inside the lives of patients who have been forever changed by illness—and parents who lost their children to addiction. Is marijuana really a gateway drug? What evidence is there to support the claim that marijuana can alleviate some of the devastating symptoms of AIDS, cancer and multiple sclerosis? Waiting to Inhale sheds new light on this controversy and presents shocking new evidence that marijuana could hold a big stake in the future of medicine.


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Wal-Mart Won’t Rehire Employee Fired for Medical Marijuana Use

To learn how to e-mail Wal-Mart’s CEO to say you stand in solidarity with Casias and want Wal-Mart’s policy to change, click here.

(via High Times) After spraining his knee at work, former Wal-Mart employee Joseph Casias was given a drug test – standard operating procedure following a workplace injury. However, when the results came back positive for marijuana use, Casias was fired despite the fact that he is a legal medical marijuana patient in Michigan and uses cannabis to manage pain resulting from sinus cancer and an inoperable brain tumor.

Despite this, Wal-Mart decided to fire Casias – a former Associate of the Year – setting off a protests and plans for a nationwide boycott of the store.

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Call For Wal-Mart Boycott Yields Small Victory

Yet another reason to boycott Walmart – this time we have a great opportunity to show the nation we stand united for sensible Cannabis laws, and against unjust treatment of Cannabis users.

Source One day after MPP called for a nationwide boycott of Wal-Mart stores in order to protest the company’s contemptible and baseless firing of Michigan medical marijuana patient Joe Casias, the world’s largest public corporation is already changing its position — albeit not to the extent we all desire.
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