http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/07/05/petition-countdown Comments On: Petition countdown — marijuana group filing today UPDATE by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Sat, 25 May 2013 22:45:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by B Rock Sucks]]> Fri, 06 Jul 2012 08:42:52 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by RLK]]> Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:38:12 -0500 Arkansas Times
Before you consider whether or not to allow your kids to have access to marijuana from these dispensaries I hope you will take the time to read these articles from around the world and share them with your family, friends, neighbors, and fellow Citizens.....this information will not be provided by the Pro_Pot forces and you need to be aware of the truth about marijuana and the harms that it does to the human, especially kids:

UK: The Independent – Cannabis An Opology

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/he…

UK: The Independent – were we out of our minds-no-but then came skunk (Marijuana)

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/he…

Aus: The Australian – Cannabis takes Toll on Aborigines

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/natio…

British Lung Foundation: The Impact of Cannabis on your lungs

http://www.lunguk.org/Resources/British%20…

New report reveals dangerous lack of public understanding of the health risks of cannabis

http://www.lunguk.org/campaigns/media-cent…

Health risks of cannabis 'underestimated', experts warn

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18283689

Cannabis: One joint equivalent to 'smoking 20 cigarettes'

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/health/…

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MEDPOTLIE – Dr Darryl Inaba – Haight Ashbury Clinic – San Francisco
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darryl_S._Ina…
Quotes from Darryl Inaba
Pharm.D. Director of the Haight-Ashbury Detoxification, Rehabilitation, and Aftercare Clinic / CNS / 20040115

"Marijuana is a substance that contains up to 360 active brain chemicals in every variety a person smokes. We found that just one of those chemicals, Delta-9 THC, thought to be the most potent and causing the greatest amount of brain effects, is altered by the liver.

The liver tries to destroy this drug and get rid of it but in the process, it actually creates 60 or more new drugs that are active in the brain. So marijuana is a multitude of drugs."
"There is marijuana growing everywhere with a very high potency of 14-20% THC. To fully understand importance of this, we must realize that people who smoked in the 1960s thought marijuana was a benign drug.

Smoking one joint today is the equivalent of smoking about 14 of those joints from the '60s. Thus, we have a much greater concern about the health consequences of today's marijuana."

"The big problem we see at the Haight-Ashbury Clinic is that the potent form of marijuana today is causing a lot more problems than we saw in the 1960s. I never treated a single self-admitted marijuana addict in the Clinic from the early '60s through the mid-'80s.

However, by the late-1980s we started seeing people coming in saying, "Help me. I want to stop smoking pot. It is causing me to have memory problems. Causing me to be too spaced out. Not to function in my work. I can't complete tasks. It's causing me to be sick in the morning and cough. I have withdrawal symptoms. I want to stop and I can't stop."

We now have at our program in San Francisco about 100 new patients every month who are in treatment specifically for marijuana addiction."

Posted by RLK]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 23:31:07 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by MysteryShopper]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 23:11:16 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Doc]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:39:14 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Hackett]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:53:45 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by MarcKyle1964]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:23:34 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by plainjim]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 19:54:47 -0500 Arkansas Times
There are tons of results of well done studies (you may just not like some of the results, LOL). Look at NIH or OIH databases.

One derivative, Marinol, was released in the mid 1980's and was later re-classified by the FDA to Class III to make it easier to prescribe. You can ask your doctor to prescribe it tomorrow (but it doesn't retain a lot of pyschoactive effects)

The FDA still struggles with the inherent safety issues related to it's most common form of administration. A drug that is intended to be burned and inhaled faces an uphill battle.

Don't get me wrong. Legalizing all recreational drugs has a certain merit. Marijuana isn't likely to kill you.

I will share my West Coast experience, the majority (don't tell me about your Aunt Hanna) of folks who use marijuana for nausea, MS, weight control, depression, TMJ, PMS, CFS, etc were frequent recreational users before they gained access via legal channels.


Posted by olddoc]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 19:20:12 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Sound Policy]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 19:19:40 -0500 Arkansas Times
Geez, how many trillions of $$$$$$$$ have been spent on this "War on Drugs," "WAR ON TERRA," War on whatever.

Besides, forty years of research should have yielded results already. No?
Posted by wannabee conservative]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:53:51 -0500 Arkansas Times
Yes, it is clear that marijuana has medicinal benefits. The question is whether it is "better" than other modalities. And at some point those studies include whether more restrictions would be needed with marijuana than drugs such as phenergan, Reglan, or Zofran. And yes, it is hard to get NHI grants to study marijuana and industry support is non existent.




Posted by olddoc]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:29:36 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by wannabee conservative]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:54:40 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by I_AM_THE_NRA]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:38:29 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by radical centrist]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:37:44 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by OldArkie]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:26:06 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by OldArkie]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:26:06 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Sound Policy]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:14:27 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by olefishbait]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:09:06 -0500 Arkansas Times
My vote-Yes on Ethics (now that would be a positive change for the AR elected officials), yes on MJ, no on casinos, yes on the severance tax (if you vote "no" on this, than shut up about the conditions of your county roads), and right now, no on the road tax because of the sneaky way that the truckers got out of their diesel tax increase. The truckers do far more damage than all of the cars on the road today.

The proposed oad tax doesn't come close to paying for the identified work presently known but I have watched them screw up the 107/36 intersection over the past 6 months or so, solving a problem that only existed in their small minds. They have now put a stop sign and sharp right turn on the main traffic road between two county seats while giving priority to a small local road. If this is how they work out priorities (over the protests of the local residents), they have way too many people, too many vehicles, and too much money already.


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