Medical marijuana is still legal in Montana. Governor Brian Schweitzer has vetoed a Republican bill that would have repealed the state’s medical marijuana law, approved by an overwhelming 62 percent of state voters in 2004.
Schweitzer vetoed the bill on Wednesday, along with several others he called “frivolous, unconstitutional or in direct contradiction to the expressed will of the people of Montana, “reports The Associated Press.
Top government officials in Jamaica have said they will review recommendations to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal and religious use in the Caribbean island nation. Six Cabinet ministers in Prime Minister Bruce Golding’s administration will evaluate a 2001 report by the National Commission for Ganja, reports David McFadden of Bloomberg Businessweek.
The commission, which included academics and doctors and was appointed by a government led by the current opposition party, argued that cannabis was “culturally entrenched” in Jamaica and that moderate use had no negative health effects on most users.
Why now? That’s what observers of the scene are asking themselves. The report in question came out 10 years ago, after all. Why is the Jamaican government is choosing to review the 10-year-old report now, especially since it was sponsored by the opposition party??Rev. Webster Edwards, who served on the commission a decade ago, voiced relief that the report would be reviewed by government officials, and expressed hope that legislators might eventually loosen the laws against marijuana.
The Arizona Department of Health received 110 electronic applications — almost 60 percent of them for chronic pain — and authorized at least 44 people to use medical marijuana on Wednesday, the first day the program was active.
Their cards were mailed on Thursday, reports Mary K. Reinhart at AZCentral, allowing them to buy and possess up to 2.5 ounces of marijuana every two weeks, and grow up to 12 plants.
Those who live closer than 25 miles to the nearest dispensary eventually won’t be allowed to grow their own, but until the dispensaries are up and running, all patients are allowed to grow.
Did you know that in 2011 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will redesign tobacco health warnings so that they cover 50 percent of the front and rear of each pack of cigarettes? Tobacco companies will begin including these updated warnings on their cigarette packaging and advertisements in 2012. The fact is, smoking is injurious to health – not the tobacco itself but the burning of it. The same applies to marijuana. The plant is known to contain many health-enhancing compounds and to be helpful for a number of medical conditions, but burning it, particularly alongside tobacco, produces health-harming toxins. This is why using a vaporizer for your weed is such a sound alternative.
When you use a vaporizer you are heating the cannabis to the temperature needed for the plant to release its essential oils – and no further. No combustion takes place and you inhale a vapour, or mist, instead of smoke. Plants release their active ingredients at a variety of temperatures, for cannabis the optimum temperature is 180°C to 200°C. However there are at least 250 herbs and plants that release heath-enhancing compounds when heated, so vaporizers can be used for more than marijuana!
Okay, we’re not in the business of promoting medical marijuana dispensaries that we don’t know, however, an advertisement for medical marijuana broadcast on network television was, we thought, such a ground breaking moment, we felt it should be commemorated!