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Synthetic Pot as a Military Weapon? Meet the Man Who Ran the Secret Program
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The U.S. Army Chemical Corp’s marijuana research began several years before [Dr. James] Ketchum joined the team at Edgewood. In 1952, the Shell Development Corporation was contracted by the Army to examine “synthetic cannabis derivatives” for their incapacitating properties. Additional studies into possible military uses of marijuana began two years later at the University of Michigan medical school, where a group of scientists led by Dr. Edward F. Domino, professor of pharmacology, tested a drug called “EA 1476” — otherwise known as “Red Oil” — on dogs and monkeys at the behest of the U.S. Army. Made through a process of chemical extraction and distillation, Red Oil, akin to hash oil, packed a mightier punch than the natural plant.
America's never-ending prohibition
06.08.08America's marijuana prohibition drew into its 72nd year this month. It has created a huge underground industry catering to users, helped the U.S. prison population balloon into the world's largest, and diverted the resources of American law enforcement. What it has not done is keep Americans from using marijuana ...
Science of recreational drugs
26.07.08The morphine in heroin? The DMT, psilocybin and harmala alkaloids in hallucinogens? The THC in marijuana? Different scientific studies suggest that all of these controlled substances have correlatives in your own 98.6-degree somatic drug lab (Andrew Weil’s book “From Chocolate to Morphine” offers a layman’s overview to this idea). “For almost every recreational drug that people abuse, there’s a natural ...
Phytoremediation: Using Plants to Clean Soil
15.07.08In 1998, Phytotech, along with Consolidated Growers and Processors (CGP) and the Ukraine's Institute of Bast Crops, planted industrial hemp, Cannabis sp., for the purpose of removing contaminants near the Chernobyl site. Cannabis is in the Cannabidaceae family and is valuable for its fiber, which is used in ropes and other products. This industrial variety of hemp, incidentally, has only ...
What Your Government Knows About Cannabis And Cancer -- And Isn't Telling You
24.06.08Senator Ted Kennedy is putting forward a brave face following his recent surgery but the sad reality remains. Even with successful surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy treatment, gliomas -- a highly aggressive form of brain cancer that strikes approximately 10,000 Americans annually -- tragically claim the lives of 75 percent of its victims within two years and virtually all within five years. But what if there was an alternative treatment for gliomas that could selectively target the cancer while leaving healthy cells intact? And what if federal bureaucrats were aware of this treatment, but deliberately withheld this information from the public?...
THC Kills Glioma Cancer Cells - Medical Miracles from Europe (Video)
25.06.08Before speaking to the 5th Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics in Pacific Grove, CA, Deputy Director of NORML Paul Armentano talks about new science on Cannabis (marijuana) and the Endo-Cannabinoid system being done in Europe, while American cancer patients, many with tragic cases of Glioma brain tumors, seek any news of an alternative therapy. Paul references the work of Dr. Manuel ...
EU study promises straight dope on marijuana
25.06.08PARIS -- Dutch dope-selling coffee shops, hash smoking in 1960s London, and Moroccan marijuana production all come under the spotlight in a mammoth new study Thursday on the use and abuse of cannabis in Europe. "Over 13 million Europeans have consumed it in the past month," said the 700-page report by the EU drugs agency European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA). "An estimated one in five European adults have tried it at some time in their lives."...
Drew Carey Tackles DEA Raids on Medical Marijuana Clinics (VIDEO)
15.06.08This one will make you angry. I can’t imagine having a dying kid, knowing there’s a drug out there that can help him, and not being able to get it because of idiot, zealot drug warriors. The residents of San Luis Obispo County need a mass lesson in jury nullification right quick...
Legal Drugs Kill Far More Than Illegal, Florida Says
14.06.08MIAMI -- From "Scarface" to "Miami Vice," Florida's drug problem has been portrayed as the story of a single narcotic: cocaine. But for Floridians, prescription drugs are increasingly a far more lethal habit. An analysis of autopsies in 2007 released this week by the Florida Medical Examiners Commission found that the rate of deaths caused by prescription drugs was three times the rate of deaths caused by all illicit drugs combined...
Prime Time Investigates: War Without End (VIDEO)
03.06.2008Michael Heney follows the drugs trail and asks if there is an alternative to this war without end (Due to footage restrictions, some sections of this programme have been blacked out) You need Realplayer to watch...
Mike Jackson on Dublin Government Payroll?
17.05.2008éirígí chairperson Brian Leeson has denounced the decision by the Twenty-Six County Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs to award the tender for the ‘Review of the National Drugs Strategy’ to a firm with close links to Britain’s military and intelligence establishment...
Legalise Cannabis Ireland March 2008 Video Pictures and Report
14.05.2008Over 1,500 people marched last Saturday demanding that cannabis be legalised in Ireland immediately and that the hypocrisy of cannabis prohibition end in all countries where it is still in place...
Contamination - now its lead
10.04.08UKCIA has been warning about contaminated cannabis for over a year now. Back in December 2006 we were a alerted to the “Grit weed” problem - herbal cannabis containing microscopic glass beads. Things, it seems, have just taken a turn for the worse - much worse...
Run From The Cure: How Cannabis Cures Cancer And Why No One Knows
07.03.2008My name is Rick Simpson. I have been providing people with Hemp Oil medicines, at no cost, for about three years. The results have been nothing short of amazing. Throughout man's history hemp has always been known as the most medicinal plant in the world. Even with this knowledge, hemp has always been used as a political and religious football. I want this knowledge ...
In a state of surveillance
28.02.2008We are about to enter into a state where every digital step you take is recorded. At the end of March, the Government will introduce the most draconian law in the history of personal privacy in Ireland: 24-hour internet monitoring. A log will be made of everyone’s internet activity and every email sent and received. Greetings from the State of surveillance...
FOX News: Marijuana Appears to Slow Cancer Growth in Laboratory Setting
27.12.2007In laboratory tests, cannabinoids, the active components in marijuana, were found to slow the spread of lung and cervical cancer tumors, according to researchers Robert Ramer and Burkhard Hinz of the University of Rostock in Germany...
32CSM uncover huge drugs haul in East Tyrone
12.12.2007On Tuesday 29th January a number of members of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement in East Tyrone uncovered a huge cannabis factory in the Kildress area. The members were alerted to the drug factory when they recieved a number of complaints of anti social behaviour in this house and the surrounding area...
CBC: Cannabis Compound Stops Spread of Breast Cancer
19.11.07A compound of the marijuana plant may prevent aggressive breast cancers from spreading throughout the body, new research from the United States suggests. A team of researchers at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute say cannabis compound CBD (cannabidiol) could provide a non-toxic alternative to chemotherapy for cancer treatments. Previous research has shown the compound can block human brain cancers, and recent lab experiments have shown it may be able to do the same for breast cancer...
