Nick Adams (Smoking) In America: February 2018

Wednesday 28 February 2018

Pre-Filled Vape Cartridges – The Game Just Changed

By Ken D.

Pre-Filled Vape Cartridges – The Game Just Changed

Pre-Filled Vape Cartridges have brought huge advantages in enjoying cannabis. This easy on the go innovation allows you to get lifted in a discreet manner. These benefits are highlighted by:

The ease of use
The discreet nature of the vape pen
The almost indiscernible scent of vaping cannabis with a pre-filled cartridge

With all these advantages there have been serious drawbacks

1. The Cost of Pre-Filled Cartridges
2. The lack of choice in flavors
3. The Lack of Choice in Strains

The Game Has Changed!

You can have All the Benefits of pre-filled cartridges with None of the Drawbacks.

Check out this video and see how you can make your own pre-filled cartridge in 10 seconds and save a ton of money!

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Not only can you turn $100 of concentrate into $800 worth of pre-filled cartridges. You can use wax, shatter, distillate, RSO, and most concentrates to make your own cannabis infused vape cartridges. Concentrates that have raw plant matter such as hash, kief and bubble hash are not recommended.

The freedom to use your favorite strain and create your own cartridge is something pre-filled cartridges just can’ match. Think about mixing a nice Sour Diesel Wax with some Pineapple to create your own tasty blend of vape juice that you can keep in your pen and carry with you.

You may wonder how can I make $800 of cartridges with $100 of concentrate? This is how easy it is.

One Gram of Concentrate + Two milliliters of liquidizer = 3ml
Pre-filled Cartridges hold .5 ml
Three milliliters of cannabis vape juice = 6 cartridges

I buy 4 grams of concentrate for $100

I turn that into 12 milliliters of cannabis infused vape juice.

That makes 24 pre-filled cartridges I have been buying for $35 each

24 cartridges x $35 = $840

The cost of concentrates and pre-filled cartridges vary from state to state and dispensary to dispensary however there is no denying the savings you gain by spending 10 seconds to make your own cannabis infused pre-filled vape cartridges.

For more information on how to make your own cartridges check out https://www.waxliquidizer.com

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Tuesday 27 February 2018

Oklahoma Committee Approves Medical Marijuana Legalization Bill

A fairly restrictive bill that would legalize the medical use of marijuana has been given approval by a key Senate committee in Oklahoma.

Oklahoma’s Senate Health and Human Services Committee voted 6 to 5 today to pass Senate Bill 1120, which was filed by Senator Ervin Yen (R). The proposal is far more restrictive than a medical marijuana initiative (State Question 788) which is up for a public vote this November.

Senate Bill 1120 would allow those with certain medical conditions (such as neuropathic pain, persistent muscle spasms due to multiple sclerosis or paraplegia and intractable nausea or vomiting due to chemotherapy) to possess and use marijuana and marijuana products for medical purposes. Unfortunately the measure doesn’t allow marijuana to be smoked, requiring patients to consume the medicine through other means such as tinctures, edibles and vaping.

Senator Kay Floyd (D) expressed concerns about the measure, saying she believes the proposal is far too restrictive in terms of the medical conditions that qualify an individual to use medical marijuana. State Question 788 is much more progressive, allowing those with other conditions such as PTSD and anxiety to become medical marijuana patients. Still, supports of Senate Bill 1120 say it’s still a step in the right direction, and would be better than nothing if State Question 788 was to fail.

Senate Bill 1120 must be approved by the full Senate and House of Representatives before it can go to Governor Mary Fallin for consideration.

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Review: Maria McFarland’s ‘There Are No Dead Here’

Drug Policy Alliance executive director Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno, a veteran Latin America specialist with Human Rights Watch, tells a grim but also inspiring story in There Are No Dead Here: A Story of Murder and Denial in Colombia (Nation Books). It details the efforts of three courageous Colombians to bring to light official complicity in the reign of paramilitary terror in the country over the past generation.

These three won a measure of success, but at the cost of relentless death threats and assassination attempts. One paid the proverbial ultimate price. Their interlocking tales paint a picture of Colombian officials’ staggering cynicism, especially during the 2002-2010 presidency of Álvaro Uribe, whose administration was thoroughly integrated with the ostensibly illegal right-wing paramilitary networks, even as he denied everything and portrayed himself as a centrist democrat.

Author and DPA head Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno

The book opens with the figure who became a martyr in the quest for truth—Jesús Maria Valle, an attorney and human-rights defender in the city of Medellín, who was among the first to raise the alarm about the mounting paramilitary violence in the 1990s. Uribe was then governor of the department of Antioquia, where Medellín is located. Valle initially tried to alert him about the violence in rural communities, before determining that the governor’s own anti-guerilla militia force was cooperating with the paras. In 1998, armed men invaded Valle’s office and assassinated him.

Antioquia proved to be a testing ground for the strategy Uribe would apply nationally as president. Iván Velásquez, the prosecutor and jurist who doggedly investigated the Uribe government’s collaboration with paramilitary groups, picked up Valle’s torch. Uribe road-blocked Velásquez every step of the way, launching a media smear campaign against him, while paras operated in the shadows with threats and attacks on his team.

Velásquez was greatly aided by the work of Ricardo Calderón, an investigative journalist with Bogotá’s Semana newsweekly. Calderón eventually concluded that Uribe’s intelligence agency, the Department of Administrative Security (DAS) was working closely with the paras, spying on judges, journalists and opposition politicians, and feeding the information back to the illegal and ultra-murderous right-wing militias. This became a major scandal in Colombia, and in a measure of justice, DAS was disbanded in 2011.

With Uribe out of office and the paramilitaries officially disarmed under a political deal with their leadership, some of the para leaders—now extradited to the United States and doing time on cocaine charges—started to sing. The big boss of the network, Salvatore Mancuso, came clean from his U.S. federal prison cell on Uribe’s effective collaboration with the paras during his time in power.

EXCERPT: “Starting in the late 1990s, the paramilitaries carried out a bloody expansion campaign throughout much of Colombia. Fueled by an endless stream of drug profits, they committed gruesome massacres in the name of defending the country from the brutal Marxist guerillas of FARC… Nobody, it seemed, was trying to stop them.”

But Uribe, maddeningly, is free today and continues to lead Colombia’s right-wing opposition. In 2016, when new President Juan Manuel Santos negotiated a peace deal with the left-wing guerillas of the FARC, Uribe campaigned bitterly against it. The book ends on a tentative note of hope, as the peace deal with the FARC goes ahead despite the best efforts of Uribe to sabotage it.

The story McFarland tells is an important one, but with the relentless accounts of assassinations and atrocities, it’s easy to lose the narrative thread. More serious is her cursory portrayal of what the fighting was all about, particularly the role of Colombia’s narco-economy. She writes that the government’s war on the cocaine cartels was a “parallel” conflict to that of the civil war that pitted the FARC against the security forces and their paramilitary allies. But after the cartels were crushed, the “drug war” and the civil war were really the same war. The demise of Medellín kingpin Pablo Escobar and his Cali-cartel competition in the ’90s set the stage for the paras and the guerillas to enter into a direct struggle with each other for control of the cocaine economy. It’s the key to real political power in Colombia, and McFarland little mention of this.

Finally, there’s little mention of “Plan Colombia,” the massive U.S. military aid package that backed Uribe’s armed forces through the bloodiest years of the conflict when state collaboration with the paramilitaries was at its peak. The story of Washington’s complicity in Colombia’s state terror is one that still needs to be told.

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Monday 26 February 2018

President Trump Supports the Death Penalty for Drugs

**President Trump supports the death penalty for drug dealers, according to a report by the respect news outlet Axios.**

In Singapore, drug trafficking offenses result in a mandatory death penalty, a law that has drawn the ire of international communities including the United Nations. However, apparently President Trump loves it, and he’s been telling friends for months that the country’s policy is the reason its drug consumption rates are so low.

“He says that a lot,” said a source who’s spoken to Trump at length about the subject. “He says, ‘When I ask the prime minister of Singapore do they have a drug problem [the prime minister replies,] ‘No. Death penalty’.”

According to the report; “He often jokes about killing drug dealers… He’ll say, ‘You know the Chinese and Filipinos don’t have a drug problem. They just kill them.'”

The report notes that:

But the president doesn’t just joke about it. According to five sources who’ve spoken with Trump about the subject, he often leaps into a passionate speech about how drug dealers are as bad as serial killers and should all get the death penalty.
Trump tells confidants a softer approach to drug reform — the kind where you show sympathy to the offenders and give them more lenient sentences — will never work.
He tells friends and associates the government has got to teach children that they’ll die if they take drugs and they’ve got to make drug dealers fear for their lives.
Trump has said he would love to have a law to execute all drug dealers here in America, though he’s privately admitted it would probably be impossible to get a law this harsh passed under the American system.

Last year President Donald Trump invited Phillipines President Rodrigo Duterte to the White House despite his murderous drug war that has led to the killing of over 7,000 people without trial.

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Hemp Legalization Bill Approved by Full Kansas Senate

Kansas’ full Senate has voted overwhelmingly to approve a measure that would allow hemp to be legally cultivated.

Senate Bill 263 was given approval Thursday by the Kansas Senate in a 36 to 3 vote. The measure now moves to the House of Representatives, where passage would send it to Governor Jeff Colyer for consideration.

The proposed law – titled the Alternative Crop Research Act – would alter the definition of “marijuana” under the state’s controlled substances law to exclude “industrial hemp”. The measure would also allow the Kansas Department of Agriculture to cultivate and promote the research and development of industrial hemp. The Department would be given the choice of growing and researching the plant on their own accord, or they could coordinate with a college or university. Under supervision of the Department, individual farmers would also be allowed to grow hemp.

Senate Bill 263 would require the Department to promulgate rules and regulations for hemp cultivation by December 31 of this year.

The full text of the proposal – filed by Senator Dan Kerschen (who’s a farmer himself) – can be found by clicking here.

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 34 states have passed similar laws allowing hemp to be cultivated either for commercial or research purposes.

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Study: Topical Cannabinoids Reduce Corneal Hyperalgesia and Inflammation

According to a new study published by the journal Cannabis and Cannabinoids Research, and published online by the National Institute of Health, topically-applied cannabinoids are effective in reducing corneal hyperalgesia (defined as a state of nociceptive sensitization caused by exposure to opioids) and inflammation.

“Corneal injury can result in dysfunction of corneal nociceptive signaling and corneal sensitization”, begins the study’s abstract. “Activation of the endocannabinoid system has been reported to be analgesic and anti-inflammatory.” The purpose of this research “was to investigate the antinociceptive and anti-inflammatory effects of cannabinoids with reported actions at cannabinoid 1 (CB₁R) and cannabinoid 2 (CB₂R) receptors and/or noncannabinoid receptors in an experimental model of corneal hyperalgesia.”

Below describes the methods used for this study:

Corneal hyperalgesia (increased pain response) was generated using chemical cauterization of the corneal epithelium in wild-type (WT) and CB₂R knockout (CB₂R^-/-) mice. Cauterized eyes were treated topically with the phytocannabinoids Δ⁸-tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ⁸THC) or cannabidiol (CBD), or the CBD derivative HU-308, in the presence or absence of the CB₁R antagonist AM251 (2.0 mg/kg i.p.), or the 5-HT_1A receptor antagonist WAY100635 (1 mg/kg i.p.). Behavioral pain responses to a topical capsaicin challenge at 6 h postinjury were quantified from video recordings. Mice were euthanized at 6 and 12 h postcorneal injury for immunohistochemical analysis to quantify corneal neutrophil infiltration.

After conducting the study, researchers found that; “Topical cannabinoids reduce corneal hyperalgesia and inflammation. The antinociceptive and anti-inflammatory effects of Δ⁸THC are mediated primarily via CB₁R, whereas that of the cannabinoids CBD and HU-308, involve activation of 5-HT_1Areceptors and CB₂Rs, respectively.”

The study concludes by stating that; “Cannabinoids could be a novel clinical therapy for corneal pain and inflammation resulting from ocular surface injury.”

The full study, conducted by researchers at Dalhousie University in Canada, can be found by clicking here.

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Netanyahu Shuts Down Israel’s Cannabis Export Plan

Israel has halted its plan to export medical cannabis. Following a call from U.S. President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu ordered it to be frozen.

“I spoke with Trump and he told me about his general opposition to the legalization of cannabis,” Netanyahu explained on Feb. 8. “I’m not sure Israel should be the export pioneer.”

Israel’s Health and Finance ministries endorsed the export plan in 2017, with the goal of attaining revenues of more than $1 billion a year. The marijuana would be sold to European countries such as Germany, Canada, and perhaps the U.S. Canada is currently the only country in the world that has so far approved medical-marijuana exports.

Knesset member Tamar Zandberg, who chairs the committee on drug abuse, called Netanyahu’s decision “a destructive one stemming from ignorance and fear.”

She added: “Israel merited being an agricultural power, and, yes, in the marijuana field, too. It’s good for the economy, it’s good for agriculture and it’s good for the sick. We will live to regret the decision to stop such important progress that Israel has already started making, which will erase the competitive advantage that Israel has developed in the marijuana market that is breaking ground now worldwide.”

Before the freeze on cannabis exports was announced, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked tweeted: “Israel can become an exporter of medical cannabis with an income worth four billion shekels [$1.14 billion] a year. We must not miss the train. Today, we are the locomotive; if we hesitate, we will become the trailers.”

Packaged cannabis available from Breath of Life Pharma in Israel (photo by Jack Guez/AFP)

Israel is world-renowned for its cannabis research. THC, the main psychoactive compound in cannabis, was discovered in the early ’60s by chemist Raphael Mechoulam, now 87, a professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Other Israeli scientists have gone on to make groundbreaking discoveries about the cannabis plant and its potential as a medicine.

Consumption, sale, research and cultivation of medical marijuana in Israel are completely legal and supported by the government and academia. In a country that’s slightly smaller than New Jersey in both area and population, there are an estimated 50 companies that either cultivate medical cannabis or are developing delivery systems for it.

Despite the decision by Netanyahu, Shaked is confident that she and others will be able to change his mind. “I’m sure that when we sit with the prime minister and we lay out for him all the details,” she commented, “the correct decision will be taken.”

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Pro-Pot Congressman Received Campaign Donations from Manafort

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) may be a friend to marijuana legalization, but that’s where his liberal leanings stop. The Congressman is a major backer of Donald Trump and has been implicated in Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign.

Though his name has not been mentioned so far in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the election, it’s now known that Rohrabacher attended a 2013 meeting with former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who’s been indicted by the special counsel.

Rohrabacher, Manafort and former Rep. Vin Weber, a Minnesota Republican who’s now a lobbyist with Mercury, were at the meeting on Mar. 19, 2013, which was disclosed in retroactive filings with the Justice Department last year that detailed Manafort and Rick Gates’ work for the European Center for a Modern Ukraine. Gates, a former Trump campaign aide, pled guilty on Feb. 23 to felony charges of conspiracy and making false statements in a plea bargain with Mueller.

Gates lied about the 2013 meeting and his Ukraine-related work with Manafort. He’s charged with “admitting to take part in a conspiracy to hide tens of millions of dollars that he and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort obtained from their consulting work related to Ukraine.” Gates later helped Manafort prepare “a report that memorialized for Ukrainian leadership the pertinent Ukraine discussions that Manafort represented had taken place at the meeting.”

Rohrabacher said the meeting had taken place at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington. “In retrospect, I don’t remember [Manafort] talking about specifically who it was who had given him a contact,” he said. “Frankly, I don’t remember if it was the Russians or the Ukraines… He certainly wasn’t trying to twist my arm on any policy issue.”

Described as “one of Russia’s most reliable defenders in Congress,” Rohrabacher told Politico on June 28, 2017 that Manafort was “an old friend” of his. “After the dinner I think he gave me a very modest campaign contribution,” the Congressman recalled. Manafort subsequently donated $1,000 to Rohrabacher’s 2014 re-election campaign, according to campaign finance records. Rohrabacher said they talked about Manafort’s work in Ukraine, “but it wasn’t the main focus of the dinner.”

Record of Paul Manafort’s $1,000 donation to Rep. Dan Rohrabacher’s re-election in 2013.

While the 2013 contribution has been reported, a second one in the same amount from Manafort to the Committee to ReElect Dana Rohrabacher in 1997 has not. According to campaign finance records researched by Freedom Leaf, “Paul J. Manafort Jr. of Alexandria, Va.” gave $1,000 to the similarly named Committee to Re-Elect Congressman Rohrabacher on July 28, 1997. Manafort was listed as a partner at Davis, Manafort & Freedman.

Record of Paul Manafort’s $1,000 donation to Rep. Dan Rohrabacher’s re-election in 1997.

That makes a total of two contributions of $1,000 each from Manafort to Rohrabacher between 1997 and 2013.

Rohrabacher’s Meetings with Michael Flynn and Julian Assange

On Sept. 20, 2016, Rohrabacher met with another now disgraced Trump associate, former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, who’s been indicted by the special counsel. “All I remember about that meeting is that they were promoting some kind of idea about having Gulf State countries invest in building nuclear power plants of some kind, I think,” Rohrabacher stated.

According to The Daily Caller, “The special counsel is also reviewing emails traded between Flynn associates and the Congressman’s staff.”

On Aug. 16, 2017, Rohrabacher met Julian Assange (along with conservative journalist Charles C. Johnson) at the Ecuadorean embassy in London for three hours. Assange released the hacked Democratic Party emails via WikiLeaks, which bolstered Trump’s campaign against Hillary Clinton. Assange was granted asylum by Ecuador in 2012. Sweden had hoped to extradite him over rape and sexual assault allegations dating back to 2010.

Rohrabacher believes Assange is a hero and should be released. “If he is going to give us a big favor, he would obviously have to be pardoned to leave the Ecuadorean embassy,” the Congressman told TheDC the next day. “He has information that will be of dramatic importance to the United States and the people of our country as well as the government. Thus, if he comes up with that, you know he’s going to expect something in return. He can’t even leave the embassy to get out to Washington to talk to anybody if he doesn’t have a pardon. Obviously, there’s an issue that needs to be dealt with, but we haven’t come to any conclusion yet.

“I can’t remember if I have spoken to anyone in the White House about this. If I had to bet on it, I would bet that we are going to get the information that will be mind-boggling and of major historical significance. And there already has been some indications that the president will be very anxious to hear what I have to say if that’s the determination that I make.”

Rohrabacher added: “They can’t fool the American people all the time, especially if there’s some monstrous fraud that’s been perpetuated on the American people and thus undermining an elected president and his ability to take responsibility given to him by the voters.”

Assange denies the contention by U.S. intelligence agencies that he acted on behalf of Russian operatives seeking to release the hacked Democratic emails.

President Reagan faking a punch to Dana Rohrabacher aboard Air Force One during a trip to California on Nov. 26, 1986.

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Rohrabacher was born on June 21, 1947 in Coronado, Calif. After campaigning for Ronald Reagan in 1980, he worked as a White House speechwriter and special assistant to Reagan from 1981-1988. He was elected to Congress in 1989. He chairs the Foreign Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.

In marijuana circles, Rohrabacher is known for his sponsorship of the Hinchey-Rohrabacher amendment, which prohibits the federal government from using funds to target cannabis patients and business in legal medical-marijuana states. It passed in 2014. (The amendment is now named for Rohrabacher and Rep. Earl Blumenauer.) Last year, he, Blumenauer (D-Ore.) and Reps. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) and Don Young (R-Alaska) formed the Congressional Cannabis Caucus.

In 2016, Rohrabacher said that he used cannabis to treat arthritis. After applying a topical product to the area, he explained, it was “the first time in a year and a half that I had a decent night’s sleep because the arthritis pains was gone.”

He’s spoken at a number of marijuana events, including Seattle Hempfest and the International Cannabis Business Conference.

But when it comes to most issues, Rohrabacher follows the Republican party line. He calls concerns about global warming and climate change “liberal claptrap,” voted to repeal Obamacare and opposes same-sex marriage. “The attacks on my conservative positions are unrelenting, nefarious and underhanded,” he said.

Rohrabacher is being challenged for his House seat in November. One of his Democratic opponents, Hans Keirstead, says about the incumbent: “We’ve got a Russian-tainted congressman. Why should the constituents of the 48th district vote for an individual whose interests are elsewhere?”

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said about Rohrabacher in 2017, ‘“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump. Swear to God.” Expect Rohrabacher to continue to play a tangential role in Mueller’s investigation.

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Friday 23 February 2018

The 10 Marijuana Strains Everyone is Smoking

Here are the 10 marijuana strains everyone is smoking.

Blue Dream.

Marijuana is now legal for recreational use in nine states. It’s legal for medical in over 30. Clearly, marijuana has become, or at the very least is quickly becoming, completely mainstream. Because of this, the market for marijuana has exploded. Hundreds of various strains are being offered throughout the country. Despite the vast number of strains, there are 10 strains that are the clear favorites among cannabis consumers. Using data compiled by Leafly, below is a list of the 10 most popular strains at this moment.

Blue Dream

Blue Dream is a sativa-dominant strain has retained its popularity for years. A dispensary or cannabis store that doesn’t have Blue Dream is a rarity. This cross between the indica-dominant Blueberry and the sativa-dominant Haze has a smooth, uplifting high. It’s known forits delicious blueberry-tinged taste and smell.

Sour Diesel

Sour Diesel is another mainstay of the cannabis world. A cross betweem Super Skunk and Chemdawg. It has unique and strong diesel-like smell, and an energetic yet potent high.

Girl Scout Cookies

This hybrid is a cross between OG Kush and Durban Poison. It brings with it a powerful high, and a sweet, immediately recognizable taste.

Green Crack

Despite an unfortunate name Green Crack is a growingly popular and respected strain. It has an extremely energetic high and powerful body buzz, and its sweet, ofttimes citrusy flavor and smell make it stand out from the crowd.

OG Kush

OG Kush has been one of the most popular marijuana strains for years. The classic combo of Hindu Kush and Chemdawg has an earthy and piney flavor.

Granddaddy Purple

Granddaddy Purple is a powerful, well-loved indica. An excellent mix of Big Bud and Purple Urkle, this strain has a sweet, often berry-like flavor. Most people know this strain for its dense, kiefy nuggets.

Jack Herer

Jack Herer – named after the legendary activist and author – is a sativa-dominant cross between Northern Lights and Shiva Skunk. It has a piney smell and flavor with a backdrop of citrus, and a smooth, even high.

White Widow

White Widow’s popularity is due to its energetic, uplifting and powerful high; its uniquely earthy flavor and smell also help it stand out. This strain is a mix between South American Sativa and South Indian Indica.

Gorilla Glue #4

Gorilla Glue #4 has shot into prominence over the past few years; it’s quickly become one of the most popular marijuana strains. It won the 2014 Los Angeles and Michigan Cannabis Cups, as well as the High Times Jamaican Cannabis World Cup. Given its status as a balanced and tasty hybrid, it’s likely to remain popular for years to come.

Bubba Kush

Bubba Kush is a powerful indica-dominant strain, known for its heavy relaxation-inducing effects.

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New Hampshire Bill to Allow Patients and Caregivers to Grow Marijuana Approved by Committee

A New Hampshire House committee has voted in favor of legislation to allow patients or their caregiver to cultivate marijuana.

The House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs Committee voted 13 to 8 this week to pass House Bill 1476, which was filed by Representative Robert Cushing along with over a dozen bipartisan cosponsors.

The proposal states that; “A qualifying patient shall not be subject to arrest by state or local law enforcement, prosecution or penalty under state or municipal law, or be denied any right or privilege for the therapeutic use of cannabis in accordance with this chapter, if the qualifying patient possesses or cultivates an amount of cannabis that does not exceed the following:

(a) If the qualifying patient does not have a designated caregiver who is authorized to cultivate cannabis for him or her, for the possession or cultivation, or both, of cannabis that occurs at the cultivation location under the control of the patient reported to the department, or while transporting cannabis and cannabis plants and seedlings to a new cultivation location that has been reported to the department within the prior 21 days:

(1) Six ounces of usable cannabis;

(2) Any amount of unusable cannabis; and

(3) Two mature cannabis plants and 12 seedlings, where the plants are subject to public view, including to view from another private property, without the use of optical aids, with a total canopy of no more than 50 square feet.

If more than one qualifying patient, designated caregiver, or both, share a cultivation location, the total canopy of all marijuana plants may not exceed 100 square feet at one dwelling.

The full text of House Bill 1476 can be found by clicking here.

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The Other Sessions Rants About Pot at Opioid Summit

Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Tex.) took a page out of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ handbook when he made derisive comments about marijuana at an opioid summit at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas on Feb. 20. He focused on extreme cannabis potency and the debunked gateway theory, two common targets of drug warriors.

“I refer to marijuana as merchants, this is a merchants of addiction. They are making it more powerful and more powerful and more powerful,” Sessions stressed. “I graduated high school in 1973. Marijuana, on average, is 300 times more powerful [than it was then]. That becomes an addictive element for a child to then go to the next thing.”

He related a story about “a dear friend of mine, David Siegel, a wealthy man, one of the wealthiest men in America. He had an 18-year-old daughter who was in treatment, I believe for marijuana and maybe cocaine. She met a boy there and within three weeks after being out she was dead. She came back and did what she had been doing after being off it.”

Victoria Siegel died in 2015 from an overdose of methadone and sertraline; she reportedly used the drugs to control her seizures.

In another personal account, Sessions mentioned a Boy Scout who went to Texas A&M, where he became a drug user. Of course, it started with marijuana. “At the end of the first year, he was well into it,” the Congressman spun his yarn. “By the second year, he was into heroin. The drive for addictions with some of our children is insatiable. You just never know when you’re looking at a kid what drives them.”

Sessions, who chairs the House Rules Committee, was the only speaker at the event to claim marijuana use leads to opioid addiction. “Where do they start?” he asked at one point. “If it’s marijuana, we ought to stand up and be brave in the medical community to say this political direction is not right. If addiction is the problem and we have marketers of addiction that include marijuana—because all you have to do is go to any of the stores in Colorado and they can give you high to low to medium to chocolate—we ought to call for it what it is. If it were nicotine, it would have been handled differently. But this is a political issue.”

Exactly. Rep. Sessions, whose district is an oddly shaped chunk of north Dallas and its northeastern suburbs, is up for re-election in 2018. NORML has given him an F grade for voting against the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment, among other things. Hopefully, groups like Dallas Fort Worth NORML will lead the charge to unseat Texas’ Reefer Madness spouting representative.

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Thursday 22 February 2018

Exclusive Book Excerpt: ‘A Brief History of Edibles’

Our ancient ancestors had a far more intimate relationship with food as medicine than most of us do today. Many plants familiar to us—basil, cinnamon, cumin, fennel, mint, oregano, thyme, and cannabis—were intertwined in both kitchen and apothecary throughout history.

Our earliest written references to cannabis appear around the 15th century BCE in China, where it was consumed as a tea. However, scholars agree that surviving ancient medical texts speak of cannabis use in the past tense, giving the impression that it had been a common medical staple long before written texts confirmed the fact.

By 1000 BCE, cannabis (or bhang) was being cultivated in India, where the Vedas, collections of Hindu religious texts, considered it one of five sacred plants. Bhang is also the name of what is arguably the world’s oldest marijuana recipe, an ancient cannabis-laced drink that remains popular in India today.

During the Middle Ages, soldiers customarily consumed bhang for fortification before going into battle. Even though cannabis is technically illegal in India today, bhang is still sold, especially during the Hindu Holi festival. It’s such an essential, traditional part of the celebration that the government has found it easier to turn a blind eye than fight it.

Around 1474, the Italian writer and gastronomist Bartolomeo Platina put the first cannabis recipe into print, in what is considered the world’s oldest known cookbook. Platina advised his readers on making cannabis-infused oil, not unlike what we do today.

Moroccan ancients consumed their cannabis in the form of hashish, as referred to in the original One Thousand and One Nights collection of folk tales (also known as The Arabian Nights). An ancient Middle Eastern marijuana recipe still popular today is majoun. This uncooked jam features dates, nuts, honey, spices and hashish rolled into bite-sized balls—and provides a healthier sweet than most of today’s infused edibles.

In the 1840s, France’s intellectual, literary and artistic elite gathered in Paris’ Club des Hachischins (Club of the Hashish-Eaters) to consume hash in their coffees and teas and via candy and infused tinctures.

Before cannabis was prohibited in the U.S. in 1937, many American medicine cabinets contained it, usually in the form of tinctures, but edible candies and other foods had been common in the late 19th century. An 1862 issue of Vanity Fair carried an ad touting the Gunjah Wallah Company’s “Hasheesh Candy” as a “medicinal agent for the cure of nervousness, weakness, [and] melancholy.”

Alice B. Toklas, life partner of author Gertrude Stein, ushered in the era of modern edibles while simultaneously resurrecting majoun’s popularity for modern generations when she published her recipe for Haschisch Fudge in The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook (1954). Toklas’ recipe uses ground bud and contains no hash. It resembles neither fudge nor brownies, despite it entering the popular lexicon as “Alice B. Toklas Brownies,” thanks to the 1968 Peter Sellers film I Love You, Alice B. Toklas. In the movie, Sellers’ uptight attorney character consumes a pot brownie that forever alters his world. The movie permanently changed the public’s perception of marijuana edibles, and from that point on the “pot brownie” became embedded in the mainstream consciousness as the most popular way to consume edible cannabis.

EDIBLE CANNABIS TIMELINE

15^th Century BCE: The Chinese consume cannabis tea.

Circa 2000 to 1400 BCE: The India Vedas consider cannabis, or bhang, one of the sacred plants.

Circa 1474 CE: The world’s first cookbook, by Bartolomeo Platina, is released and includes a marijuana recipe.

16^th Century CE: Cannabis is cultivated throughout Morocco.

1839: Researcher William O’Shaughnessy brings quantities of hemp and cannabis from India to Britain, a

nd introduces modern medical cannabis to the Western world.

Circa 1845: France’s intellectual elite indulges in hash eating.

1880-1900: Cannabis edibles and tinctures are common in the United States,

1937: Federal marijuana prohibition begins in the United States.

1954: The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook is published, including a recipe for Haschisch Fudge.

Circa 1990: Mary Jane Rathbun, a.k.a. “Brownie Mary,” illegally bakes and serves brownies to San Francisco AIDS patients.

1996: California becomes the first state to legalize medical marijuana, ushering the era of store-bought, commercially made edibles.

2014: Colorado, the first state to legalize recreational marijuana, imposes a limit of 10 milligrams of THC per serving for edibles.

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Exclusive Book Excerpt: ‘A Brief History of Edibles’

EDIBLE CANNABIS TIMELINE

15^th Century BCE: The Chinese consume cannabis tea.

Circa 2000 to 1400 BCE: The India Vedas consider cannabis, or bhang, one of the sacred plants.

Circa 1474 CE: The world’s first cookbook, by Bartolomeo Platina, is released and includes a marijuana recipe.

16^th Century CE: Cannabis is cultivated throughout Morocco.

1839: Researcher William O’Shaughnessy brings quantities of hemp and cannabis from India to Britain, a

nd introduces modern medical cannabis to the Western world.

Circa 1845: France’s intellectual elite indulges in hash eating.

1880-1900: Cannabis edibles and tinctures are common in the United States,

1937: Federal marijuana prohibition begins in the United States.

1954: The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook is published, including a recipe for Haschisch Fudge.

Circa 1990: Mary Jane Rathbun, a.k.a. “Brownie Mary,” illegally bakes and serves brownies to San Francisco AIDS patients.

1996: California becomes the first state to legalize medical marijuana, ushering the era of store-bought, commercially made edibles.

2014: Colorado, the first state to legalize recreational marijuana, imposes a limit of 10 milligrams of THC per serving for edibles.

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