http://buds4life.com/ My Dragonfly Site en-us Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:38:38 GMT 1440 CPG-Nuke Dragonfly Buds 4 Life News http://backend.userland.com/rss http://buds4life.com/images/buds4lifebanner4.png http://buds4life.com/ http://buds4life.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=42 The Marijuana Conspiracy - The Real Reason Hemp is Illegal by Doug Yurchey, June 15, 2005 Various addictions plague us all. Learn more about drug rehab and other substance abuse treatment that may be available. Don't let your addiction ruin your life and the lives of those around you. Get the help you deserve today and educate yourself on what you can do to start living a better life. And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land.-- Ezekiel 34/29 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:38:38 GMT http://buds4life.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=41 Posted at 05:58 PM on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010 By COLLEEN SLEVIN - Associated Press Writer DENVER A lab that tests medical marijuana for dispensaries and patients said Thursday it was raided by federal drug agents and ordered to turn over patient records. Full Spectrum Laboratories president Bob Winnicki said Drug Enforcement Administration agents showed up at his facility in Denver on Wednesday when he was at the Capitol for a hearing on proposed medical marijuana regulations. Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:17:29 GMT http://buds4life.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=40 COMPASSIONATE USE ACT OF 1996 HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE SECTION 11362.5 Sec. 1. b (1) The people of the State of California hereby find and declare that the purposes of the Compassionate Use Act of 1996 are as follows: (A) To ensure that seriously ill Californians have the right to obtain and use marijuana for medical purposes where the medical use is deemed appropriate and has been recommended by a physician who has determined that the person’s health would benefit from the use of marijuana in the treatment of cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, spasticity, glaucoma, arthritis, migraine, or any other illness for which marijuana provides relief. (B) To ensure that patients and their primary caregivers who obtain and use marijuana for medical purposes upon the recommendation of a physician are not subject to criminal prosecution or sanction. (C) To encourage the federal and state governments to implement a plan to provide for the safe and affordable distribution of marijuana to all patients in medical need of marijuana. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:41:10 GMT http://buds4life.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=39 Medical Marijuana: The Replacement for Very Dangerous Drugs Dr. Phillip Leveque for Salem-News.com Cannabis / marijuana medicines were at one time the "drugs of choice" in the United States, until they were declared illegal. They had been used for 100 specific medical problems through the use of about 30 prescription medicines. (MOLALLA, Ore.) - When I was ordered before the Oregon Board of Medical Examiners, the first question I was asked by Dr. Spokas, the chairman, from Ontario, Oregon, was "Dr. Leveque don't you know that marijuana is very addicting and very dangerous?" Tue, 22 May 2007 12:12:57 GMT http://buds4life.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=38 Corporate Cannabis Will a new marijuana mist become the Aspirin of the twenty-first century? by Brian Preston Portraits by Kourosh Keshiri Philippe Lucas is apologizing for the quality of his cannabis. He is director of the Vancouver Island Compassion Society, which dispenses medicinal marijuana from behind an old storefront in Victoria. “This used to be a school of Chinese medicine,” he says. “Can you feel the healing vibe?” Not at first. Apart from a comfy, well-worn couch in the waiting area, and a batik with yin-yang dolphins that you brush aside to enter the dispensing office, the place feels like a regular medical clinic. It reflects Lucas’s personality: lean, clean-cut, and intense—there’s nothing of the spacey stoner about him. If there’s a “healing vibe,” it emanates from the staff: the receptionist dressed in a fuzzy old sweater welcomes clients with “Hello, beautiful!” and “Can you use a hug?” Then she hugs. In the dispensing office the cannabis is kept under lock and key. Today’s strains for sale—among them Sweet Tooth, Jack’s Mix, and Other God according to a list handwritten in felt pen on a whiteboard—are grown primarily for recreational use, not medical. As he shows off a sample, Lucas apologizes again, because normally the Society grows and tests for purity the organic pot it supplies to its 400 members. But a recent rcmp bust destroyed their growing facility, forcing them onto the black market. There’s no shortage for patients in need—in BC alone, the rcmp estimates 15,000 grow-ops contribute to a harvest that nationally is worth about $7 billion. The problem is that illegal growers don’t hand out guarantees. Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:22:46 GMT http://buds4life.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=37 Epilogue In the years that elapsed between the passage of the Marihuana Tax Act and the present, America experienced three major wars, a presidential assassination, the resignation of both a president and a vice-president in disgrace, a Communist witch-hunt, a flight to and landing on the moon, beatniks, hippies, yippies, desegregation, major riots in many of the nation's cities and campuses, domination of family life by television, the generation gap, and a longing to be perpetually young. Keeping pace with all these significant social and political events was a change in the nation's attitudes and behavior concerning marihuana. Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:38:58 GMT http://buds4life.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=36 Dear Patients, Allies and Supporters, This is the start of a brand new era for your Green Cross. Once again, we innovate in your local medical cannabis community by bringing you a medical cannabis delivery service! This means for you patients who appreciated The Green Cross' old location for its easy-to-access location can now instead have us come to you! If you have any questions you'd like to ask about our new service, without any sales pressure, judgement and the utmost respect for your personal confidentiality, please e-mail us at deliveries@thegreencross.org. You can also reach us by phone at 415-571-9620 Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:39:11 GMT http://buds4life.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=35 Take Action During Medical Marijuana Week, February 12-18, 2007 by Americans for Safe Access Sunday Feb 11th, 2007 9:14 PM Celebrate Medical Marijuana Week with us by educating your community, urging Congress to protect medical cannabis patients, writing letters to the editor, and more! Take Action During Medical Marijuana Week, February 12-18, 2007 Join the National Movement to Protect Safe Access! To celebrate ten years of safe access to medical cannabis in California and growing access throughout the country, Americans for Safe Access (ASA) has organized Medical Marijuana Week 2007 http://www.AmericansForSafeAccess.org/MMJWeek. This will be the fifth annual Medical Marijuana Week, held during the week of 2/15 to commemorate the passage of Proposition 215, California's medical cannabis law. This year, we are calling on advocates nationwide to take action every day during this week. Please read on for daily opportunities to advance safe access to medical cannabis. Celebrate Medical Marijuana Week with us by educating your community, urging Congress to protect medical cannabis patients, writing letters to the editor, and more! Also, due to a high volume of requests, we are launching ASA's online store [http://americansforsafeaccess.org/onlinestore] so you can "Gear Up" for Medical Marijuana Week and beyond! We have made it easier for you to get ASA's brand new line of products and literature. Check out ASA's new T-shirts, hats, stickers, bags and more! CLICK READ MORE FOR DATES AND LOCATIONS Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:33:17 GMT http://buds4life.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=34 A License to Chill SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: SMOKING MARIJUANA CAN BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH, UNLESS YOU LIVE IN CALIFORNIA AND SUFFER FROM ANOREXIA, ARTHRITIS, CANCER, CHRONIC PAIN OR ANY OTHER ILLNESSES By Michael Goldstein, Michael Goldstein has written for the New York Daily News, Sunset and other publications. His 2004 Los Angeles Times Magazine story, "Sheer Lunacy," won a feature writing award from the Los Angeles Pr February 11, 2007 Do you medicate? I do. Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:13:41 GMT http://buds4life.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=33 The total cost of purchasing a medical cannabis patient card has gone from $150 to $300 dollars a year. Lay that on Gavin Newsom who cancelled the CCSF pot card program and passed it on to the state and to Ross Mirkarimi who didn't complain when he did so. This is a friggin' disaster. Now, I told everyone involved that this would happen from the start and none of the dipshits listened to me. I told Ross Mirkarimi that the best procedure for licensing pot outlets was to give them a certificate (limited edition) allowing them to move their businesses under the roof of any pharmacy or liquor store. I ranted about how insane it was to set up an entirely new industry that had to go through Planning department and the Board of Appeals and whatever. I told him that people would take payoffs at every juncture and that only the rich would be able to afford a license to distribute pot. Well, I was right. Thus far, there are 2 pot clubs certified to do business in San Francisco and all of the remaining clubs are required to have approved certificates within the next 6 months. That means that 38 clubs will either go out of business or pump a whole lot of money into bribing planners or politicians or members of the Board of Appeals in order to stay in business. Only the lawyers are happy. Mirkarimi and Newsom are idiots on so many levels in this matter that it is hard to calculate which move was the dumbest. Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:37:10 GMT