Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with cannabis www.salem-news.com 2013 Time Magazine just printed its 4th or 5th article advocating marijuana for medical purposes, February 25, 2013. These were preceded by articles in Scientific American, Forbes Magazine, Fortune Magazine and probably a lot more. http://salem-news.com/articles/february262013/cannabis-media-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february262013/cannabis-media-pl.php Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:07:00 PST Marijuana therapy for autism was possibly discovered about 2002 in an article by Jay R. Cavanaugh PhD. He reported that cannabis was effective for several brain diseases... http://salem-news.com/articles/february082013/brain-disease-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february082013/brain-disease-pl.php Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:59:00 PST Gil Kerlikowske, Executive Director of the Office of National Drug Policy, and President Barack Obama's point man on this subject. Actually, he is the most destructive element as far as medical patients are concerned. He has apparently included medical users with every other kind of criminal, and calls marijuana a harmful drug with a strong potential for addiction... http://salem-news.com/articles/january182013/kerlikowske-oregonian-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january182013/kerlikowske-oregonian-pl.php Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:15:00 PST A beloved & irreplaceable treasure of the Washington Cannabis Community has passed away. Ric Smith's legend as a cannabis freedom fighting activist began in 1996, when a friend dragged him out of the "AIDS hospice" and took him to the Seattle Hempfest. http://salem-news.com/articles/december152012/ric-smithjg.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december152012/ric-smithjg.php Sat, 15 Dec 2012 01:40:00 PST I don’t know what to diagnose or think about the Oregonian’s medical marijuana problem. They seem to bounce around just like the Romney ball on the ocean --- here or there, up and down, sideways and back. I can’t really tell whether they are for marijuana or against it, or both, just like Romney and Romnesia. http://salem-news.com/articles/october222012/marijuana-romnesia_pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october222012/marijuana-romnesia_pl.php Mon, 22 Oct 2012 23:20:00 PDT Elvy Musikka is one of four patients to receive medical marijuana from the U.S. federal government. She endorses the three state initiatives to legalize marijuana which Oregon, Colorado and Washington state will be deciding in the November 6, 2012 election. Elvy receives 300 pre-rolled marijuana cigarettes each month, amounting to six pounds of marijuana each year. http://salem-news.com/articles/october192012/elvy-musikka.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october192012/elvy-musikka.php Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:07:00 PDT Oregon's premiere newspaper, The Oregonian, up till this Sunday edition, has been vilifying marijuana and all of its aspects for about twelve years. This, in spite of the fact that it has been known as a highly safe, highly effective medicine for about four thousand years- and there are currently some 55,000 medical patients in Oregon. For years, all of us advocates have been asking whoever we could ask for some sort of legislation which would take marijuana out of the grasp of the Mexican marijuana cartels. http://salem-news.com/articles/april242012/oregonian-marijuanapl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april242012/oregonian-marijuanapl.php Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:12:00 PDT The Oregon Cannabis Tax Act (OCTA 2012) has been gaining momentum as the time grows closer to the deadline for signatures to be submitted to the State, but nothing compares to the recent endorsement by the legendary country music star Willie Nelson. That’s just the thing to add fuel to their signature-gathering fire. http://salem-news.com/articles/march172012/octa-willienelson_bk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march172012/octa-willienelson_bk.php Sat, 17 Mar 2012 01:32:00 PDT Kentucky Freedom Fighter Gatewood Galbraith has died at 64 years old. Galbraith spent his lifetime learning and working within the political and legal system. He graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1974 and from the University Of Kentucky College Of Law in 1977 and became "The People's Champion". http://salem-news.com/articles/january052012/gatewood-mb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january052012/gatewood-mb.php Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:28:00 PST A lawsuit filed by the Arizona's Governor Brewer in an effort to stop medical marijuana patients from using the lawful herb was dismissed by the judge hearing the case. The ruling seems to come as a response to the motion to dismiss filed by the ACLU. The judge agreed, stating "These issues, as presented, are not appropriate for judicial review." http://salem-news.com/articles/january042012/arizona-cannabis.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january042012/arizona-cannabis.php Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:52:00 PST After Medical Marijuana was legalized in Oregon in 1998, I breathed a sigh of relief – now the Feds will quit harassing us. I knew many people were using it for legitimate medical reasons and why not. It works better and is cheaper than almost any pharmaceutical prescription. My elation was short-lived and the specter of Devil Weed and Reefer Madness reared its ugly head. http://salem-news.com/articles/september052011/ptsd-anguish.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september052011/ptsd-anguish.php Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:17:00 PDT Fees for registering with the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program will double, from $100 per year to $200 per year, due to a Budget Bill that passed out of the Joint Ways and Means Committee and into the main chambers late Wednesday. The increase in fees was included in one of the over 30 bills that the Committee “barreled through” on Wednesday. Sen. Doug Whitsett, R-Klamath Falls, objected to the lack of scrutiny over the bills, stating, “It's unacceptable to get this kind of information with no time to study it.” http://salem-news.com/articles/june092011/ommp-feehike.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june092011/ommp-feehike.php Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:40:00 PDT Calling all Patients! Oregon Medical Marijuana Program (OMMP) cardholders are coming together to defend the OMMA and fight for its expansion- and advocates are asking for patients to come to the Capitol. Tomorrow, April 14th, 2011 at 8:00 a.m. proposed Senate Bill 874 will be going through what is known as a "gut and stuff" session. What's a "gut and stuff"? It's an opportunity to retain the framework of a bill and change what's within it. http://salem-news.com/articles/april132011/oregon-marijuana.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april132011/oregon-marijuana.php Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:23:00 PDT The Maryland House of Delegates Judiciary Committee approved a bill yesterday, SB 308, which would allow patients who use marijuana to treat a medical condition to use a medical necessity defense in court. The bill would also create a panel to advise the legislature on best practices for creating a medical marijuana program in 2012. The Senate passed the bill by a 41-6 vote on March 24, and will need to approve the bill again because of amendments made by the Judiciary Committee. http://salem-news.com/articles/april082011/maryland-marijuana.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april082011/maryland-marijuana.php Fri, 08 Apr 2011 20:48:00 PDT If passed, the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act of 2012 will regulate the legal sale of marijuana to adults through state-licensed stores, allow adults to grow their own, license Oregon farmers to grow marijuana for state-licensed stores and allow unlicensed Oregon farmers to grow cannabis hemp for fuel, fiber and food. OCTA 2012 organizers need to gather 90,000 registered voters' signatures. http://salem-news.com/articles/march292011/octa-approval.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march292011/octa-approval.php Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:20:00 PDT Seattle Hempfest is pleased to announce that Hempfest will take place at Myrtle Edwards Park, Aug. 19, 20, 21, 2011. After six months of ongoing negotiations, and a federal lawsuit filed by Hempfest, the City of Seattle has agreed to grant Hempfest a Special Event Permit for 2011. Hempfest organizers are encouraging the public to ignore all rumors of cancellation. http://salem-news.com/articles/march232011/hempfest-seattle.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march232011/hempfest-seattle.php Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:25:00 PDT I wasn't surprised by the Oregon legislature hearings about Medical Marijuana and the shrill, ignorant posings of those trying to restrict its legal use. Researchers, doctors and patients say cannabis works better and is safer than almost all of the FDA approved medicines. http://salem-news.com/articles/march042011/marijuana-medicine-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march042011/marijuana-medicine-pl.php Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:22:00 PST The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy director Gil Kerlikowske wanted to fly to Seattle to speak personally with the paper's full editorial board after they ran an editorial supporting a bill to tax and regulate marijuana. Bruce Ramsey, the editorial writer, says the White House called “right after our editorial ran, so I drew the obvious conclusion... he didn’t like our editorial.” http://salem-news.com/articles/february282011/seattle-pot-kerlikowske.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february282011/seattle-pot-kerlikowske.php Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:17:00 PST This story is engendered by an article in TIME Magazine Feb. 21, 2011 entitled Pot and Schizophrenia: A Dangerous Mix. To put it mildly, TIME is full of crap and so are the authors of the medical article from the University of New South Wales in Australia. It states they reviewed 83 studies and found that POT smokers who developed psychotic disorders did so 2.7 years before non-smokers. http://salem-news.com/articles/february212011/marijuana-schizophrenia-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february212011/marijuana-schizophrenia-pl.php Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:59:00 PST Way back in 1998 learned gentlemen of the Department of Human Services (DHS) when confronted with the legalization of Medical Marijuana collectively opined that about 500 patients in Oregon would qualify and be eligible for the ultra-valuable Oregon Medical Marijuana Permit. After the first year, there were about 1000 patients and they of the DHS contentedly settled back, “Well we were only half wrong”. http://salem-news.com/articles/january272011/mmj-permits-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january272011/mmj-permits-pl.php Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:20:00 PST Paul Stanford, Executive Director of the Hemp and Cannabis Foundation walked 2200 signatures in to the Oregon Secretary of State’s office on January 4th, 2011, officially sponsoring OCTA 2012. It could be a historic turning point for a state well known for its grass roots movements. If the measure is passed by voters, OCTA 2012 will legalize the sale, possession and personal private cultivation of marijuana in the state of Oregon. http://salem-news.com/articles/january142011/octa-stanford_bk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january142011/octa-stanford_bk.php Fri, 14 Jan 2011 23:20:00 PST Marijuana therapeutics, the use of marijuana as medicine, is probably the most reviled medical substance ever found, which is ironic to the extreme. It is simultaneously the safest, most useful and most used medicine ever found. The patients who use marijuana are reviled as pot heads which is about pejorative as possible. http://salem-news.com/articles/december302010/medical-marijuana_pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december302010/medical-marijuana_pl.php Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:40:00 PST I recently posted an article “Medical Marijuana and Dr. Oz”, responding to his article “You Docs: Risks in Taking Medical marijuana”. I took him to task because he was writing about the medical risks which are minimal and glossing over the great, therapeutic benefits which are many and in fact, drugs of choice for about 100 disparate medical problems. http://salem-news.com/articles/december292010/medical-marijuana_pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december292010/medical-marijuana_pl.php Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:57:00 PST The National Cannabis Industry Association, the first national organization dedicated to advancing the interests of cannabis-related businesses, will formally launch its operations this week in Denver. On December 16th, the leaders of association, hailing from states across the country, will gather for NCIA’s first board meeting and will set the organization’s agenda for the coming year. “This is an historic time for the cannabis industry and we are excited to have the opportunity to help so many small businesses advance their interests,” said Aaron Smith, NCIA’s executive director. http://salem-news.com/articles/december152010/cannabis-industry.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december152010/cannabis-industry.php Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:41:00 PST The New Jersey state legislature passed a law yesterday allowing seriously ill patients with certain qualifying conditions to use medical marijuana with their doctor's recommendation. Gov. Corzine has said he will sign the bill. This historic vote will make New Jersey the 14th state in the nation to protect from arrest sick and dying patients who are trying to relieve their symptoms with marijuana. http://salem-news.com/articles/january122010/newjersey_mmj.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january122010/newjersey_mmj.php Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:22:00 PST If any non-military persons ever deserved the Combat Infantry Badge (CIB) it is policemen. Three examples of the inherent danger of being a policeman showed up in stark horror in December in Woodburn, Oregon with two policemen blown to bits and another with a leg blown off. I am drawn to say that a Police Badge is almost the equivalent of The CIB. If you watch TV of the urban warfare in Iraq you get the notion of a police chase through a town and recently three policemen trying to disarm the bomb which killed two of them. http://salem-news.com/articles/january062009/brothers_blue_1-6-09.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january062009/brothers_blue_1-6-09.php Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:17:00 PST I thank the Oregonian Newspaper for reports about dangerous drugs and more dangerous combinations in their story of December 24th, 2008. The story points out that 50 million Americans are at risk. This is true because about 100 thousand patients die each year from medical misadventures which strangely enough are caused by their doctors. Doctors aren’t supposed to know everything and Pharmacology or the science of the action of drugs usually doesn’t have a concurrent course of Therapeutics which is specific for which drug for THE specific disease. http://salem-news.com/articles/january052009/doc_safest_2_1-5-09.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january052009/doc_safest_2_1-5-09.php Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:35:00 PST The Oregonian newspaper seemingly has NOT been able to print even a neutral article about medical marijuana users or the whole shebang even though they know that over 22 thousand Oregon patients have permits approved by 3 thousand doctors. I have been their target of abuse even though I was completely cooperative with them for a dozen or more stories. The final straw was when The Oregonian printed that “(Dr. Leveque) is a danger to all of his patients and the public in general”. If they had an ounce of veracity claimed by journalists they knew this was totally false. They can’t find one person of my 4 thousand patients whom I have harmed. There wasn't one. http://salem-news.com/articles/december292008/leveque_oregonian_1_12-29-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december292008/leveque_oregonian_1_12-29-08.php Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:06:00 PST After going through almost ten years of medical marijuana patients I’m beginning to think that the movie Reefer Madness was correct in its title - but it wasn’t the lousy actors who were acting crazy but the people who had it made. I’m sure Harry Aslinger had a lot to do with it. He was like the vicious drug czars anti-marijuana fakers of this day - all hat and nothing under the hat in the way of brains and knowledge that marijuana had been used safely as medicine for at least 4 thousand years without any deaths and was the most popular medicine in the U.S. from 1850 till at least 1900. http://salem-news.com/articles/september132008/marijuana_schizophrenia.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september132008/marijuana_schizophrenia.php Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:14:00 PDT I knew when I started helping severely disabled patients get medical marijuana permits that I was entering a cesspool of resistance and below-the-belt savagery not only against me but also my disabled sick patients. I’m accused of being a drug peddler and quack and my patients are just a bunch of lying, faking potheads who just want to get “high”. These are some of the sickest most disabled patients I have ever seen and worst they have been rejected and abandoned by most doctors who still believe this Reefer Madness crap and the garbage coming from Walters, McCafferty and a another bunch of numbskulls even in the face of thousands of supporting medical articles and prestigious medical associations. http://salem-news.com/articles/august052008/ms_med_mj_leveque_8-5-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august052008/ms_med_mj_leveque_8-5-08.php Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:13:00 PDT