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[420RedHead]

In 2006, the Scripps Research Institute in California discovered that delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the active ingredient in marijuana, can prevent an enzyme called acetylcholinesterase from accelerating the formation of Alzheimer\'s plaques in the brain, as well as protein clumps that can inhibit cognition and memory, more effectively than commercially marketed drugs.

 

[420RedHead]

There are a lot of women running these weed businesses, whether it's retail pot shops, manufacturing edible products infused with cannabis or running testing labs. At the first ever Colorado Cannabis Summit in May 2014, the entire panel of local experts on safety and technology was made up of women. Genifer Murray, founder and CEO of CannLabs say so many women have come into the industry that even though they often compete against each other, they're starting a group called Women Grow to mentor the next generation of female cannabis entrepreneurs. Why are women attracted to the cannabis industry? Could it be that they do well here because customers feel more comfortable with a woman behind the counter or running a business as marijuana tries to shake its shady image? - Karma Jello

 

[420RedHead]

If the poll numbers aren't convincing enough, here's more evidence that the movement to legalize marijuana is utterly mainstream. An event featuring pot proponents was held this weekend in conference rooms at the Embassy Suites in Piscataway, New Jersey. Holding a convention is about as conventional as it gets. This weekend's event, officially dubbed the Joys of Hemp Show, featured the typical euphemisms that skirt around some of the legal niceties. "Herbs." "Flowers." Or, simply, "it." Mostly, what they were talking about was pot, and it's a growing conversation in New Jersey, where a majority of residents, including the people who enforce the laws, support legalizing it or lessening penalties. - nj.com

 

[420RedHead]

It's not your typical everyday farmers market. Instead of tomatoes and cabbage and cucumbers, customers purchase medical cannabis. The NW Cannabis Market hosts a variety of vendors who sell their products wholesale and direct to anyone with a recommendation for medical marijuana. Located in Washington state, the market fosters a conversation between farmers and patients about the process, ingredients, and specific health effects of the product. Giving the patient more control over their medication and price, the farmer's market model offers insight into consumer demands for growers' knowledge, while applying the simple basics of supply and demand to set the cost just as any marketplace does. Though not completely unique (similar markets-exist in Washington) the unique farm to consumer model has enormous potential to benefit the medical marijuana community, advocates and consumers alike insist. - The Humboldt Sentinel

 

[420RedHead]

 

[420RedHead]

Marijuana is one of the safest drugs available today. It is not possible to consume a lethal amount of marijuana. Alcohol is more addictive, more toxic to the brain and liver, and more closely associated with violence (domestic abuse, sexual assault, homicide, suicide). Acetaldehyde, the major byproduct of alcohol metabolism, is toxic and carcinogenic. Thirty-five thousand Americans die yearly as a direct result of alcohol use. Cigarettes kill 1,200 Americans every day, and 5.4 million a year worldwide. (Ethan Nadelmann, JD, PhD). There has never been a death directly associated with marijuana. Marijuana has many medicinal uses. Patients with multiple sclerosis, gliomas, brain injury, Tourettes Syndrome, HIV/AIDS, and many other ailments, have found that marijuana helped them with their symptoms, or slowed the progression of the disease. There is also strong evidence that marijuana kills cancer cells with no harm to healthy surrounding cells. So, why are we enforcing such harsh penalties for growing a plant that has so many medicinal uses, and so little (if any) side effects? - THC Finder

 

[420RedHead]

Both proposals, the California Cannabis Hemp Initiative and the Marijuana Control, Legalization and Revenue Act, would regulate and tax marijuana similar to alcohol. And both face an uphill battle in gathering enough funds and volunteers to collect the 504,000 signatures in 100 days needed to make it onto the ballot. The organizers behind the California Cannabis Hemp Initiative are collecting signatures, and backers of the Marijuana Control, Legalization and Revenue Act are awaiting approval from the state to begin collecting signatures.

 

[420RedHead]

Medical marijuana advocates on Tuesday called on officials to re-open LA's first medical marijuana farmers market that was closed when the City Attorney cracked down, citing public safety and access concerns in July. A group of about 20 people, including some medical marijuana patients, spoke during a press conference at the site of the closed market in Boyle Heights weeks before a judge could rule whether the California Heritage Market will reopen. "It's time situations like this end," said Norton Arbelaez, medical marijuana activist and attorney. "There's a human cost to what the city is trying to do. The people around us access their medicine through the market." - NBC Los Angeles

 

[420RedHead]

 

[420RedHead]

Marijuana proves useful for many types of chronic pain conditions, but patients with rheumatoid arthritis report less pain, reduced inflammation and more sleep. However, this is not to say that arthritis patients should exchange their medication with pot, marijuana eases the pain, but it does nothing to ameliorate or curb the disease.

 

[420RedHead]

A 2006 study performed by researchers at the University of California in San Francisco found that marijuana helps improve the effectiveness of drug therapy for hepatitis C, an infection that roughly 3 million Americans contract each year. Hepatitis C medications often have severe side effects like loss of appetite, depression, nausea, muscle aches and extreme fatigue. Patients that smoked marijuana every day or two found that not only did they complete the therapy, but that the marijuana even made it more effective in achieving a "sustained virological response," which is the gold standard in therapy, meaning there was no sign of the virus left in their bodies. - Spannabis 2012 Barcelona weed expo

 

[420RedHead]

In a peer reviewed study, researchers at the British Columbia Compassion Club Society found that 92% of women found marijuana's effect on morning sickness symptoms as either very effective or at the least, effective.

 

[420RedHead]

A study on addictive behaviors published by USC and SUNY Albany in 2005, whose 4,400 participants made it the largest investigation of marijuana and depression to date, found that "those who consume marijuana occasionally or even daily have lower levels of depressive symptoms than those who have never tried marijuana." The study added that "weekly users had less depressed mood, more positive affect, and fewer somatic complaints than non-users." Glass water pipes, or bongs, are displayed at the HempCon in Orange County, California.

 

[420RedHead]

A student uses a water pipe to smoke marijuana outside the police barrier on the Norlin Quad at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado, on Friday, April 20, 2012. Police blocked off the quad to prevent a 420 marijuana smoke out. Stinky fish fertilizer and two dozen law enforcement officers kept pot smokers away from a grassy quad at the University of Colorado on Friday, but a few hundred protesters defied the crackdown and rallied on another field, where some lit up at 4:20 p.m. It was a far cry from last year's April 20 pot celebration, when more than 10,000 people gathered on the university's Norlin Quadrangle for the annual ritual of enjoying a smoke and demonstrating for legalizing marijuana. That made the university the scene of one of the largest campus celebrations of cannabis in the nation, a reputation that prompted university administrators to take extraordinary steps to stamp out this year's rally. They banned unauthorized visitors from campus, and spread smelly fertilizer on the Norlin Quad and declared it off limits. They even booked Haitian born hip-hop star Wyclef Jean for a free concert timed to coincide with the traditional 4:20 p.m. pot gathering. - U-T San Diego

 

[420RedHead]

Though the drug is illegal in the U.S., the FDA and American Cancer Society agree that the active ingredients in marijuana, or cannabinoids, have been approved by officials to "relieve nausea and vomiting and increase appetite in people with cancer and AIDS." The American Cancer Society says that "marijuana has anti-bacterial properties, inhibits tumor growth, and enlarges the airways", which they believe can ease the severity of asthma attacks.

 

[420RedHead]

While medical cannabis is used for all kinds of cancer from liver cancer to leukemia, specifically bladder cancer is avoided by it's use. An 11 year study of 83,000 people who smoked either pot or cigarettes or both revealed that marijuana decreased a person's risk of bladder cancer. The more they smoke, the lower the risk goes, according to the findings, although researchers could not explain the link.

 

[420RedHead]

The US House voted to back off and allow individual states to make their own rules on medical marijuana. Pro-marijuana legislators are particularly pleased now that the bill has finally cleared the Republican dominated House with a 218-189 vote. The proposed bill would specifically prevent the federal government from hindering state medical marijuana laws. It would specifically apply to Colorado and Washington where recreational marijuana is presently legalized. According to a Pew Research study, this will also be welcome news to the 73% of Americans who favor medical marijuana use. In fact, the vote not only reflects public opinion but also a joint party point of view about the federal government and state marijuana laws. No one is blazing up yet though as the bill has not yet hit the Senate floor.

 

[420RedHead]

The use of medical cannabis for appetite stimulation is one of the most common. A small 2011 study published in the Annals of Oncology found that THC, the active ingredient in cannabis, appears to help trigger the appetite of patients with advanced cancer, though it's been widely used since the early days of AIDS, Backes says, and is recognized as an appetite stimulant in ancient Chinese and Indian medicine traditions (which won't sound shocking to anyone who's ever had the munchies).

 

[420RedHead]

The Israeli government has approved some of the only clinical trials involving cannabis in the world, including an exciting look at the response of PTSD patients to cannabis high in THC. However, these trials have only just touched the tip of the iceberg. And while some pharmaceutical companies have taken cautious interest in prefabricating the elements of marijuana and running their own trials, they still seem generally unsure of how to brand and patent such a complex product of Mother Nature.

 

[420RedHead]

Neuropathic pain or burning sensations in the nerves and chronic pain are two of the classic symptoms of Rheumatoid Arthritis. Marijuana alleviates them more effectively than almost all other types of drug treatments, according to the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research at the University of California.