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Highs and Lows of the Marijuana Trade

11/30/2009

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Adam’s job at Purdue may have made him thousands of dollars, but it also cost him his freedom. Adam, a former student, sold marijuana on campus until his arrest and expulsion from Purdue in 2008. Although Adam no longer deals, he knows the circle of buying and selling on campus continues. According to a spring 2009 Student Wellness Office survey, 13 percent of undergraduate students who responded said they had tried marijuana within the past year. The number is down from 13.1 percent in 2008 and 17.4 percent in 2007. Russel, a current Purdue student and marijuana vendor, said he thinks the percentage of students who smoke marijuana regularly is much higher. He estimates that more than “30 percent of the students (at Purdue) smoke regularly, and that doesn’t count the people who just smoke on Sundays.”Lt. Troy Harris is an investigations commander for the West Lafayette Police Department and commander of the WLPD’s Narcotics Unit, a group of officers Harris handpicks from across all shifts to combat drug activity in the West Lafayette area. Harris feels 30 percent is closer to the truth but said the numbers he’s used to dealing with include Tippecanoe County and not just the University. “Police officers have a different vantage point than citizens and we believe it more prevalent than what most people think,” Harris said. “We are lucky to live in such a nice community where drugs have not taken their toll on certain parts of the city.”Harris’ unit conducts five investigations a month, but Harris was vague on the details of those investigations in order to avoid giving away information that might compromise how the unit operates. “We know we cannot eradicate it completely,” Harris said. “We work diligently every day in the fight against drugs and it’s a battle we have accepted and continue to fight.”Adam, like most of his fellow dealers, knew the business was a battle with the law, but he didn’t know until it was too late that he was on the losing end.

THE PROCESS

Adam and Russel began selling during their sophomore years at Purdue. The process for them was simple: They were fronted marijuana on a buy now, pay later basis. Russel said that when things went well, he would be fronted a half pound of marijuana with an $800 payment due at the end of the week. “But I could turn that money into $2,000 and that is $1,200 a week for a sophomore that didn’t have a job,” he said. They would send out text messages to their clients when product came in, advertising for movies and CDs that were code for marijuana. Both Adam and Russel built up clientele over the following year, and with each addition to their client base the money continued to pour in. For Adam, however, there was a darker side to his sudden success. “It’s a huge gamble when you have the opportunity to make some money, and then it happens so easily and quickly, it’s really hard to turn down,” Adam said. “You keep making more and more, but in your mind you know that your winning can end suddenly and the ride will be over.” Adam would soon learn how right he was.

THE CONSEQUENCES

It was October 2008 when Adam was arrested and charged with four drug-related counts: dealing and possession of marijuana, both Class D felonies; possession of paraphernalia, a Class A misdemeanor; and maintaining a common nuisance. Adam was home studying for an exam late at night when he heard a knock at the door. His roommate answered, cracking the door open to find a uniformed police officer. He unintentionally cracked the door just enough to give the officer a glimpse of the marijuana paraphernalia sitting on the table. The officer now had probable cause to search the entire house. Soon after entering, police discovered several pounds of marijuana and several thousand dollars in cash stacked in neat piles on top of Adam’s dresser. Currently, Adam is serving 5 or more months of home detention, 6 months of supervised probation, 6 months of unsupervised probation, 5 days on a work crew, and rehabilitation for his prior offenses. “The good times were extremely good,” Adam said. “I paid for everything on my own and even funded a Spring Break trip. But that can’t compare to what I’m doing now; the bad times have been toward the other extreme.” Adam is confined to his apartment except for going to work, attending class or taking three hours of weekly free time. He also submits to weekly alcohol and drug screens. Adam said he has left selling in his past and mostly focuses on school now. He still hopes to get a degree from Purdue.  For those like Russel, who are still in the business, Adam offered a bit of advice. “Stop before you get to the top,” Adam said. “Because odds are you’ll eventually come down, and the come-down sucks.”
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Medical Marijuana; Not Just for Adults

11/28/2009

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At the Peace in Medicine Healing Center in Sebastopol, the wares on display include dried marijuana; featuring brands like Kryptonite, Voodoo Daddy and Train Wreck; and medicinal cookies arrayed below a sign saying, “Keep out of reach of your mother.”Skip to next paragraphThe warning tells a story of its own: some of the center’s clients are too young to buy themselves a beer.Several Bay Area doctors who recommend medical marijuana for their patients said in recent interviews that their client base had expanded to include teenagers with psychiatric conditions including ADHD. “It’s not everybody’s medicine, but for some, it can make a profound difference,” said Valerie Corral, a founder of the Wo/Men’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana, a patients’ collective in Santa Cruz that has two dozen minors as registered clients. Because California does not require doctors to report cases involving medical marijuana, no reliable data exist for how many minors have been authorized to receive it. But Dr. Jean Talleyrand, who founded MediCann, a network in Oakland of 20 clinics who authorize patients to use the drug, said, “His staff members had treated as many as 50 patients between the ages of 14 to 18 who had ADHD.” Bay Area doctors have been at the forefront of the fierce debate about medical marijuana, winning tolerance for people with grave illnesses like terminal cancer and AIDS. Yet as these doctors use their discretion more liberally, such support, even here, may be harder to muster, especially when it comes to using marijuana to treat adolescents with ADHD “How many ways can one say ‘one of the worst ideas of all time?’ ” asked Stephen Hinshaw, the chairman of the psychology department at the University of California, Berkeley. He cited studies showing that tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the active ingredient in cannabis, disrupts attention, memory and concentration — functions already compromised in people with the attention-deficit disorder. Advocates are just as adamant, though they are in a distinct minority. “It’s safer than aspirin,” Dr. Talleyrand said. He and other marijuana advocates maintain that it is also safer than methylphenidate (Ritalin), the stimulant prescription drug most often used to treat ADHD. That drug has documented potential side effects including insomnia, depression, facial tics, and stunted growth. In 1996, voters approved a ballot proposition making California the first state to legalize medical marijuana. Twelve other states have followed suit allowing cannabis for several specified, serious conditions including cancer and AIDS. Only California adds the grab-bag phrase “for any other illness for which marijuana provides relief.”This has left those doctors willing to “recommend” cannabis with leeway that some use to a daring degree. “You can get it for a backache,” said Keith Stroup, the founder of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML). Nonetheless, expanding its use among young people is controversial even among doctors who authorize medical marijuana. Gene Schoenfeld, a doctor in Sausalito, said, “I wouldn’t do it for anyone under 21, unless they have a life-threatening problem such as cancer or AIDS.” Dr. Schoenfeld added, “It’s detrimental to adolescents who chronically use it, and if it’s being used medically, that implies chronic use.” Dr. Nora D. Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, said she was particularly worried about the risk of dependency; a risk she said was already high among adolescents and people with ADD. Counterintuitive as it may seem, however, patients and doctors have been reporting that marijuana helps alleviate some of the symptoms, particularly the anxiety and anger that so often accompany ADHD. The disorder has been diagnosed in more than 4.5 million children in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Researchers have linked the use of marijuana by adolescents to increased risk of psychosis and schizophrenia for people genetically predisposed to those illnesses. However, one 2008 report in the journal Schizophrenia Research suggested that the incidence of mental health problems among adolescents with the disorder who used marijuana was lower than that of nonusers. Marijuana is “a godsend” for some people with ADHD, said Dr. Edward M. Hallowell, a psychiatrist who has written several books on the disorder. However, Dr. Hallowell said he discourages his patients from using it, both because it is, mostly illegal, and because his observations show that “it can lead to a syndrome in which all the person wants to do all day is get stoned, and they do nothing else.”Until the age of 18, patients requesting medical marijuana must be accompanied to the doctor’s appointment and to the dispensaries by a parent or authorized caregiver. Some doctors interviewed said they suspected that in at least some cases, parents were accompanying their children primarily with the hope that medical authorization would allow the adolescents to avoid buying drugs on the street. A recent University of Michigan study found that more than 40 percent of high school students had tried marijuana. “I don’t have a problem with that, as long as we can have our medical conversation,” Dr. Talleyrand said, adding that patients must have medical records to be seen by his doctors. The Medical Board of California began investigating Dr. Talleyrand in the spring, said a board spokeswoman, Candis Cohen, after a KGO-TV report detailed questionable practices at MediCann clinics, which, the report said, had grossed at least $10 million in five years. Dr. Talleyrand and his staff members are not alone in being willing to recommend marijuana for minors. In Berkeley, Dr. Frank Lucido said he was questioned by the medical board but ultimately not disciplined after he authorized marijuana for a 16-year-old boy with ADHD who had tried Ritalin unsuccessfully and was racking up a record of minor arrests. Within a year of the new treatment, he said, the boy was getting better grades and was even elected president of his special-education class. “He was telling his mother: ‘My brain works. I can think,’ ” Dr. Lucido said. “With any medication, you weigh the benefits against the risks,” he added. Even so, MediCann patients who receive the authorization must sign a form listing possible downsides of marijuana use, including “mental slowness,” memory problems, nervousness, confusion, “increased talkativeness,” rapid heartbeat, difficulty in completing complex tasks and hunger. “Some patients can become dependent on marijuana,” the form also warns. The White House’s recent signals of more federal tolerance for state medical marijuana laws, which pointedly excluded sales to minors, reignited the debate over medical marijuana. Some advocates, like Dr. Lester Grinspoon, an associate professor emeritus of psychiatry at Harvard University, suggest that medical marijuana’s stigma has less to do with questions of clinical efficacy and more to do with its association, in popular culture, with illicit pleasure and addiction. Others, like Alberto Torrico of Fremont, the majority leader of the California Assembly, argue for more oversight in general. “The marijuana is a lot more powerful these days than when we were growing up and too much is being dispensed for nonmedical reasons,” he said in an interview last week, bluntly adding, “Any child being given medical marijuana is unacceptable.”As advocates of increased acceptance try to win support, they may find their serious arguments compromised by the dispensaries’ playful atmosphere. OrganiCann, a dispensary in Santa Rosa, has a Web site advertisement listing the “medible of the week.” OrganiCann also offers a 10 percent discount, every Friday, for customers with a valid student ID.
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Drug Smugglers Thrive on Program to Help Truckers

11/28/2009

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A U.S. program that offers trusted trucking companies speedy passage across American borders has begun attracting just the sort of customers who place a premium on avoiding inspections; Mexican drug smugglers. Most trucks enrolled in the program pause at the border for just 20 seconds before entering the United States. And nine out of 10 of them do so without anyone looking at their cargo. But among the small fraction of trucks that are inspected, authorities have found multiple loads of contraband, including nearly 13 tons of marijuana seized in a three-week period last spring. Some experts now question whether the program makes sense in an environment where drug traffickers are willing to do almost anything to smuggle their shipments into the U.S. The trusted-shipper system "just tells the bad guys who to target," said Dave McIntyre, former director of the Integrative Center for Homeland Security at Texas A&M University. The program works like this: Participating companies agree to adopt certain security measures in exchange for fast entry into the U.S. They are required to put their employees through background checks, fence in their facilities and track their trucks. They also must work with subcontractors who also have been certified under the program, which is run by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency. The government keeps the list of participants’ secret, citing national security and trade secrets. But some of the 9,500 companies who are part of the system advertise their membership to drum up business, making them targets for smugglers, who can then threaten drivers or offer them bribes. More than half of all U.S. imports now come from companies in the program, called the Customs-Trade Partnership against Terrorism, or C-TPAT. Mexican trucking companies make up only 6 percent of global membership in the system, but they account for half of its 71 security violations during the past two years. Mexican trucking companies face higher scrutiny than others. They get a full customs inspection every year, instead of every three years like other participating companies. The most common contraband is marijuana, officials say. In March, a driver from Tijuana, Mexico, offered inspectors at the U.S. border paperwork showing his truck was filled with toilet paper. But a drug-sniffing dog alerted authorities to five tons of marijuana in a hidden compartment. A week later, customs officers found three tons of marijuana in trucks carrying auto parts and racks. Five days after that, agents in El Paso, Texas, found more than four tons of marijuana in a tractor-trailer hauling another load of auto parts. Stephen Flynn, senior fellow for Counterterrorism and National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, said truckers do not feel safe rejecting bribes, no matter what agreements their companies have made with the U.S. government."The basic vulnerability for a truck driver remains the 'plata-or-plomo' dilemma," Flynn said, using Spanish shorthand for taking a bribe or a bullet. John Chaffin, a trade lawyer near San Diego, said he had worked with one Mexican trucking company that wanted to join the program, but then pulled out. He suspects participating companies feel pressure from drug gangs to help them smuggle drugs into the United States. "Some Mexican truckers have figured out, 'I don't want someone thinking I'm a better target than someone else,'" Chaffin said. Mexican authorities suspect a man who owned a participating trucking company in Aguascalientes, Mexico, was killed by drug gangs in July 2008. The slaying of Gerardo Medrano Ibarra is unsolved. In Laredo, the border's busiest crossing, nearly 700 trucks a day pass through the lane at the World Trade Bridge reserved for trucks that are certified by the trusted-carrier program, each one pausing only for a matter of seconds. Trucking companies have to electronically submit a list of each vehicle's cargo to customs officials at least 30 minutes before arriving at the bridge. Customs agents review them for risk factors that could trigger an inspection. Customs will not reveal those factors, but people familiar with the program say potential risks are judged based on the factory that is sending the goods, its location, the truck's route and other matters. Required cable locks on the trailer doors are also checked, but smugglers have been known to cut them and carefully glue them back together or take the trailer doors off at the hinges without disturbing the locks. Mexican trucking company owner Leonardo Varela Resendez joined the program because he did not want to lose clients. At first glance, Autotransportes Varela Davila, a family trucking business with 54 tractor-trailers in Reynosa, Mexico, seemed the sort of low-tech operation smugglers would target. Then Varela pointed out the security cameras surrounding the yard, the guard at the front gate who took down a visitor's license plate number and the woman who tracks his trucks' whereabouts by computer."I have learned good things from the U.S. like this, and we understand it benefits companies and the U.S. too," Varela said. Nearby Varela is building a new yard for his trucks. It is larger, modern and will include 128 mounted security cameras, as well as an infirmary for giving drug tests to drivers. Varela, the local delegate for the national trucking advocacy group, said he does not fear being targeted by drug smugglers."They dedicate themselves to their thing, and we do ours," he said. Daniel B. Hastings Jr., owner of a customs house with offices at five ports of entry on the Texas-Mexico border, thinks the customs program works. He cited cases where a Mexican trucking company tracking a truck noticed an unscheduled stop en route to the bridge and phoned to alert U.S. customs."I think they're doing as good as they can with what they have to work with," he said.
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Cannabis Brownies Helps 10 Year Olds Autism

11/28/2009

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 As more and more children are diagnosed with autism, there's a growing need for alternative treatments. Recently, a mother in California stated that medical marijuana has resulted in vast improvements in her autistic son. Mieko Perez told Kauffman, "Everyone who came to my home was watching me watch Joey die. He was deteriorating hourly." Kaufmann explained that Joey is severely autistic; causing him to be so uninterested in food that he was wasting away. At ten years old, he weighed just 48 pounds. Even bulky Halloween costumes couldn't disguise his frightening look of starvation. He mostly ate peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for four years, Mieko recalls. However, it all changed with marijuana brownies. She says not only is Joey eating more, he's communicating. "We're seeing Joey come out!" Mieko exclaims. "He's never made noises. ... We didn't even know he could make noise until the first batch of brownies." Kauffman notes, medical marijuana is often prescribed for cancer and AIDS patients who need to gain weight, but a prescription for a child is unusual. The American Academy of Pediatrics opposes legalization of marijuana, but supports more research. Kauffman stresses, though there's absolutely no evidence marijuana helps with autism symptoms. Mieko insists it has improved her child's life.
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Cannabis Cafe in Portland

11/20/2009

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The Cannabis Cafe in Portland, OR, is the first to give people who have been prescribed marijuana by a physician, a place to get and smoke it, although they have to remain out of public view. Patients who have been prescribed marijuana usually have to buy it from a licensed dispensary and then take it elsewhere. The owner of the cafe, Eric Solomon, said he is looking forward to holding marijuana-themed weddings, film festivals, and dances. "I still run a coffee shop and events venue, just like I did before we converted it to the Cannabis Cafe, but now it will be cannabis-themed," he said. Madeline Martinez, the executive director of Oregon NORML said: "This club represents personal freedom, finally. Our plans go beyond serving food and marijuana. We hope to have classes, seminars, even a cannabis community college, based here to help people learn about growing and other uses for cannabis." The cafe is in a two-story building which formerly housed a speak-easy and adult erotic club called Rumpspankers. It is technically a private club, but is open to any Oregon residents who hold an official medical marijuana card. There are about 21,000 patients registered to use marijuana in the state. Doctors have prescribed marijuana for a host of illnesses, including Alzheimer's, diabetes, multiple sclerosis and Tourette's syndrome. The creation of the cafe comes almost a month after the Obama administration told federal lawyers not to prosecute patients who use marijuana for medical reasons, or dispensaries in states which have legalized them. About a dozen states, including Oregon, followed California's 1996 move to adopt medical marijuana laws, and allowing the drug to be cultivated and sold for medical use. Growing, possessing, distributing, and smoking marijuana are still illegal under US federal law, which makes no distinction between medical and recreational use.
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LAPD Catches a Whiff!

11/20/2009

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Despite a sophisticated filtration system, it was the smell that smoked out a marijuana-growing operation located just 25 feet from the LAPD’s Topanga station in Canoga Park. LAPD officials said officers began noticing the smell of marijuana Tuesday morning. They investigated, got warrants and closed down the indoor farm within eight hours. Three men were taken into custody earlier Wednesday after officers served a search warrant on the warehouse in the 8400 block of Canoga Avenue. “The growers had built three rooms in the building; one for seedlings, another for medium-sized plants, and one where harvesting was apparently conducted,” police said. The lights were controlled so they wouldn't overheat, watering systems were automated, and oxygen levels were supplemented by carbon dioxide tanks. "It was very sophisticated," said LAPD Officer Karen Raynor. She said growers used insulation material to seal cracks in the building. But about a week ago, officers in the station's parking lot noticed something out of the ordinary."They happened to catch a whiff of it," Raynor said. A surveillance operation was launched, and officers obtained the warrant. The names of the three men, appearing to be in their 30s, were not released because they had not been booked.
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An Opinion From The Other Side!

11/19/2009

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No not that other side, form the anti-marijuana side. Now as you know I do not agree with what is said in the following message. Well I also don’t believe in biased opinions. This college student has his right to freedom of speech and because we agree on that I am posting his message. It’s about peace and love not hate and discontent. That’s what marijuana brings and that’s why every voice needs to be heard. If the writer of this article ever comes across this post, I wish you the best of luck in your career, and hope that we can agree to disagree…my final opinion is that as an American, in what is supposed to be the land of the free, don’t I have the right to ingest what I may. Marijuana is far safer than any other drug or medication, and is less harmful than most of our food today (due to pesticides, fertilizers, and genetic modifications. Also I’ve met some doctors and lawyers that smoke marijuana and I’ve felt safer around them then doctors I knew that didn’t…not in all cases but in a significant number.

Georgia
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I'm going to take a controversial stance and assert that marijuana shouldn't be legalized.  As a college student, that puts me in a much detested minority and sets me up for perhaps four years of campus castigation.  Sure, I may have ruffled a few feathers with my articles on abortion and gun control, but decrying the ganja in a public forum? That's heresy that will critically tarnish my collegiate stature, maybe indefinitely.  I might as well be standing outside the Social Science building shouting "Coffee sucks!" over a megaphone; this is a popularity-killing target if there ever was one. 
Alas, I vaunt my innate principles over such vanities, regardless.  Sure, I may miss out on a few dates and get my tires slashed by a guy in a Phish tee-shirt, but that's the price of so-called "free" speech, I suppose.  Fundamentally, this is the rub I have with the sticky green; its advocates claim that the drug is, for all intents and purposes, harmless and should be legalized, as the health and public safety concerns the plant produces are no more severe than those created by tobacco and alcohol. 
Now, I am no teetotaler, and I have been around the proverbial block a time or two.  Generally, when people encounter anti-pot pundits, the talking heads opposed to weed-legalization are fairly nebbish, socially subdued types, seen as the sorts that have never tasted a drop of liquor nor held hands with a member of the opposite gender.  Contrary to popular belief, most marijuana advocates do indeed do their homework on the subject matter (or about as much as one can accomplish while brandishing fingers coated in an inch-thick carapace of Cheeto-dust, anyway).  Thusly, the typical end results in these sorts of debates are one-sided drubbings on behalf of the amateur, closet-foiled horticulturist. 
That being said, a battle-scarred gent such as myself is assuredly capable of putting up a better fight. 
To the "Really Green" Party out there, I proclaim the following: in your rhetoric, you claim that the illegalization of marijuana is due to corporate finagling and government paranoia.  Essentially, pot is outlawed because the suits can't regulate it, anybody can grow it and that billions of dollars that would've been taxed end up squandered as a result. 
As much as I hate to say this, the government isn't always preoccupied with devouring your wallet.  If I may use some second grade logic; dead people can't possess money.  Therefore, it benefits the government to instigate measures to prolong the existence of its citizens to insure that fiscal funds are later usurped.  Hey, it's a necessary evil, that taking care of citizens' well-being, you know. 
The authentic rationale for marijuana's illegalization is that it kills people, plain and simple.  Sure, one joint isn't going to give you a brain tumor, but a good forty years of exposure? Yeah, there's going to be some negative implications on the smoker's health.  A granule of asbestos won't give you lymphoma, but a lifelong courtship with the product very much will.  Thusly, if a known carcinogen is introduced to the general populace, it is the government's job to help curb the miasmic Diaspora. 
Now, I hear the clamor of several Dave Matthews fans in the background: "Well, what about cigarettes?"
Hey, I agree with you.  If I were despot of the nation, I would have those outlawed as well.  The difference betwixt that mass killer and marijuana, however, is the psychotropic properties of the latter.  I promulgate, why is drunken driving illegal? Yes, one may contort the question to uncover a fiscal retort, but at heart, it's a simple restrictive measure to ensure the life of potential voters, I mean, citizens. 
Marijuana inhibits one's cognitive capabilities, which ensures deterioration of one's physical capabilities, which in turn, provides a risk to public safety.  How efficient is a half-baked construction worker, huh? You want to undergo a filling while under the care of Cheech Marin, D.D.S.? For those of you who really believe that the drug is "harmless," maybe you should try talking to the neglected child of a marijuana-user.  Yeah, it's a victimless crime, all right. 
Those factors considered my prime reasoning for maintaining the ban on marijuana stems not from a health or sociological standpoint, but a philosophical one.  Marijuana is an agent that distances the user from the world, from the totality of reality as it exists.  For a soul to desire such absconding there is clearly a pre-existing disenchantment, a sense of insecurity and ineffectiveness.  These are real problems, with real consequences, that marijuana simply masks and keeps the individual from exploring and resolving. 
Decriminalizing pot doesn't solve anything; it simply fosters the growth of individualistic disillusionment, and in that, real sociocultural plight is sure to blossom.
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Sativex Update

11/17/2009

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In February 2007, GW and Otsuka Pharmaceutical announced an exclusive agreement for Otsuka to develop and market Sativex in the United States. Sativex has received permission from the US regulatory authority, the FDA, to enter directly into late stage Phase III trials in the US. The first large scale US trial, Spray Trial, for cancer patients is underway and due to complete at the end of 2009.

         The 336-patient, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study is evaluating the effect of Sativex in relieving average daily pain, reducing the use of breakthrough opioid medications, improving the quality of sleep and relevant aspects of quality of life among other outcome measures.

 
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Idaho Man Caught With 55 Pounds In Nebraska

11/17/2009

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64-year old Kenneth Bull of Emmet was arrested in Nebrask for possession with intent to deliver.
Bull was pulled onver on interstate 80 for a traffic violation around 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday in Lincoln, when Nebraska State Patrol found 55 pounds in a camper trailer the man had hooked up behind his pickup.
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The thought of new marijuana policy

11/16/2009

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Over the past couple weeks; the thought of new marijuana policy seems far more likely than ever before. The southern borders of California are perfect examples of the cartels trying to prevent marijuana reform. Yes things are going to get worse before they get better, however, by waging war against the cartels through re-legalization we will prevail. The cartels most profitable industry is the production, transport, and sell of marijuana. Eliminating the places they have to sell it has shown an increase in violence by the cartels. This is the cartels acting out against reform. We must not let the cartels attempt to hold us back like a brick wall. It is absolutely necessary to continue the push and tear them apart. The longer it takes us to get reform finished though, the more violence we are going to receive. We need to pick up pace and form marijuana re-legalization now. Save the innocent lives and freedoms, of patients, responsible users, law enforcement, and other casualties that are received due to the war on drugs, from the cartels and the laws. With the taxes from marijuana reform we could pay for medical reform, roadwork, schools education, our national deficit, etc…wherever we want the money to go.

The time for change isn’t tomorrow the time for change is now!!! Get out, make noise, and recruit every user and non-user from every race, nationality, religion, profession, etc…that we possibly can!!!

 
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