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Feds close to granting medical marijuana patent to NY-based research company?

admin — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 03:27:39 +0000

LA KUSH Caught Wind That The U.S Department of Health and Human Services is about to give exclusive rights to the government-owned patent on marijuana to a single pharmaceutical company based in New York — a state that doesn’t even recognize medical marijuana as a valid therapy.Think that’s unfair, fellow Colorado medical marijuana patient? Well, you’ve still got a few hours left to write in and tell the government your thoughts.

Since October 2003, the U.S. government has owned the patent on marijuana when used medically as an antioxidant and neuroprotectant. Currently, the NHS is planning to grant exclusive rights for US patent 6,630,507 to KannaLife Sciences, Inc.

Michael Elliot, director of Colorado’s Medical Marijuana Industry Group, say it’s insulting to patients and growers living in medical marijuana states currently being prosecuted under a federal system that doesn’t recognize any medical value to the cannabis plant.

“This contemplated grant of an exclusive license to develop and sell cannabinoid based medicines under a patent owned by the federal government shows the incoherence in the federal government’s position toward the medicinal value of cannabis,” Elliot said. “It’s unfortunate that this incoherence has to be determined on the backs of Colorado patients and compliant Colorado businesses.”

According to the LinkedIn profile of KannaLife Science’s CEO Dean Petkanas, the company’s “plan for generating revenue” is to use the patent to create anti-oxidant skin care lotions and “biopharmaceutical” products to treat neuro-degenerative disorders. They also plan on developing a proprietary, automated packaging system for their products.

Others are concerned that the government is ignoring research and treatments currently going on legally in states that do allow medical marijuana. While most in the medical cannabis community would argue that further research into medical cannabis is needed, few would agree that a single company should have exclusive rights to do so. Not only does that put profits back into the $500 billion pharmaceutical industry, but as our friend Steve Elliot over at our sister blog, Toke of the Town, points out in his excellent post on the subject, this could be a way for the federal government to “bulldoze the cottage medical marijuana industry.

Public comment on the possible licensing ends today. Comments need to be submitted in writing and will be accepted through Dec. 19 (today). We take that to mean email as well, so send your thoughts on the matter to:

Betty B. Tong, Ph.D.
Senior Licensing and Patenting Manager
Office of Technology Transfer
National Institutes of Health
6011 Executive Boulevard, Suite 325
Rockville, MD 20852-3804
Email tongb@mail.nih.gov

Telephone (301) 594-6565 (note that NIH will only accept written comments for consideration)
Fax (301) 402-0220
Website http://www.ott.nih.gov/contactus/licensing_and_patenting.aspx

Medical Marijuana and Cancer Treatment

admin — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 03:07:53 +0000

Medical marijuana is a very effective method of cancer treatment. If you think it might help, you should see a marijuana doctor. If medical marijuana is the best cancer treatment for you, your marijuana doctor can prescribe it. A cancer treatment like chemo-therapy can have wide-ranging, unpleasant side-effects that your marijuana doctor will diagnose and treat with marijuana.

A harsh cancer treatment might affect you in two main ways. Your marijuana doctor will confirm that either chemo-therapy or radiation may cause a physical ailment like upset stomach, which medical marijuana can relieve. A cancer treatment might also cause depression, which can be more effectively treated by medical marijuana than an anti-depressant. These are effects that your marijuana doctor can treat effectively and inexpensively.

It’s very important to keep a positive frame of mind during your battle against cancer. Depression slows recovery from the disease. Your doctor knows that marijuana can often put the will to live back in a cancer patient. Harsh chemicals will remain in your body longer than natural marijuana. Some chemicals can remain in your system for weeks. Marijuana leaves the system after a few days.

To get marijuana, you’ll first need to try other methods of relief. If they have no effect or seem too harsh, your physician can prescribe medical marijuana for your cancer treatments. Marijuana can be smoked, eaten in baked goods, or even added to a spaghetti sauce. There are marijuana recipes online for marijuana butter for baking and marijuana oil for cooking. LA KUSH Hemporium Dispense brownies and cookies. Eating it lasts longer than smoking marijuana, but the effect is not as intense. Try the different ways of taking your marijuana. It doesn’t matter how you take your treatment. Medical marijuana is effective in any form. It will not lose its potency when cooked, nor is it stronger when smoked.

A little medical marijuana goes a long way when dealing with the side effects of cancer treatment. Your doctor can keep you in the loop as far as new developments and methods of delivery. Marijuana will take the edge off your treatment. Find a good physician to get the right prescription for your treatment.

Medical marijuana center gets Oregon City business license, then decides not to open

admin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:54:56 +0000

An Oregon City community center for medical marijuana patients won’t open as planned.

In September, city officials denied a business license to Oregon Sky Foundation, the nonprofit behind the pot project. City Manager David Frasher concluded that the center would violate federal law, which classifies marijuana as an illegal substance.

Oregon Sky successfully appealed and the city promptly proposed changing city code to ban businesses involved in distributing medical marijuana.

Oregon Sky received its license last week. Under the revised ordinance, the city could yank the license early next year.

So the nonprofit called it quits and is considering trying again — this time in Multnomah County, where dispensing medical marijuana is less controversial.

“We’re going to leave Oregon City,” said Sara Hershey, an Oregon Sky representative.

“We’re not interested in a legal battle with Oregon City,” Hershey said. “The intent was to help people in the medical marijauna community that need it.”

The nonprofit envisioned a community center for people with medical marijuana prescriptions. The center would assist patients in obtaining pot and testing plants to detect pesticides or chemicals and would provide information on nutrition and alternative medicine.

There is one other marijuana club in Clackamas County.

Here’s the short version of how Oregon Sky got a license in the first place.

Hearings officer Daniel Kearns said the city could deny the license if it determined the marijuana center was “dangerous to public health, safety, welfare or is likely to become … a menace or public nuisance.” But Kearns said city officials had not shown Oregon Sky was a real or potential nuisance.

So last week, city commissioners decided to close the loophole.

Commissioners voted Dec. 7 on a proposal that would have put the new rules into effect immediately. The change requires unanimous approval.
Commissioner Kathy Roth opposed the revision.

“I certainly do not want Oregon Sky or any other medical marijuana facility to move into Oregon City,” Roth said. “This is changing the rules in the middle of the game. I am not comfortable writing ordinances for one business. I know at times this is necessary, but I feel it walks a very fine edge of violating constitutional rights.”

Under the new rules, the city could yank Oregon Sky’s license early next year.

The commission now must hold a second hearing and pass the ordinance a second time. The hearing will be held in January.

The city’s actions are short-sighted, said Ben Watson, who founded Oregon Sky.

“The city wants to eliminate the black market (for marijuana); so do we,” Watson said. “It’s there whether you like it or not.”

Upper Freehold moves to block medical marijuana growing facility

admin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:55:03 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/v/d8fAMZc4aPo?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata In New Jersey’s long road to becoming a medical marijuana state, it turns out that passing the Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act was just the beginning. Two years later, the controversy has moved from the Statehouse in Trenton into the halls of municipal complexes, where approved medical marijuana treatment centers have encountered local resistance. On Thursday, the five-person township committee for the small, rural town of Upper Freehold, in Monmouth County, gathered at Stonebridge Middle School, in Allentown, to enact a local law that would effectively ban a proposed medical marijuana growing center in their town.

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Weed Wars: Medical Marijuana Hits Reality TV

admin — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:42:10 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/v/XW0NicmDq7c?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata “Most of our patients and our staff were really skeptical about doing a reality TV show because they were watching Jersey Shore and The Kardashians,” says Andrew DeAngelo, general manager of Oakland, California’s Harborside Health Center, the largest medical marijuana dispensary in the world. Andrew and his brother, Harborside’s Executive Director Steve DeAngleo, are co-stars of Weed Wars, a new show by the Discovery Channel that looks into lives of those who run Harborside, the patients that seek out their services, and the politicians looking to shut them down.

Montreal’s Cannabis Access Society, Part One

admin — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:49:10 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/v/vzXpaKN5R9k?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata Adam Greenblatt is the executive director of the medical Cannabis Access Society. Mr

Premature Finisher, Medical Marijuana, and Getting Girls

admin — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:28:30 +0000

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HIGH TIMES Medical Marijuana – Winter 2011 – 2012

admin — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:18:03 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/v/QEe4UBjWNrA?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata With state and local medical cannabis laws under attack by the federal government, the latest issue of HIGH TIMES Medical Marijuana investigates the various ways dispensaries, growers and patients can fight back to protect their rights, while securing their own supply of the highest grade marijuana in the world.

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HIGH TIMES Medical Marijuana – Winter 2011 – 2012

NEWS NUG: Medical Marijuana States Have Fewer Traffic Accident Deaths, Less Booze Sales

admin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:40:50 +0000

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CannabisCureTV: Amsterdam Pink Kush & Being a Medical Marijuana Grower In Norway (Cannabis Cup 2011)

admin — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:12:21 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/v/3RjN-mLcpP4?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata Got to spend a nice time with a fellow YouTuber @ygli69 who grows in Norway. We get to hear about the way the system works up there a little bit and take a look at some of this Pink Kush from Popeyes in Amsterdam that cost 17 euro a gram…not great price for uncured buds. youtube.com

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