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patients cards…….Salley estimates that if there was no backlog, numbers would show that around 63,000 Coloradans have medical marijuana licenses. That's up from September of last year
<br />when there were about 17,500 people registered. If a patient is waiting for their application to be processed by the Colorado Department of Public Health Environment they can still get
<br />medical marijuana. The patient just needs a notarized copy of the application they sent in and a copy of authorization from their caregiver. Severe pain and muscles spasms are the most
<br />common reasons patients are applying for the cards. http://www.nbc11news.com/localnews/headlines/89184357.html Kid swipes dad's medical marijuana, sells it at middle school By Michael
<br />Roberts, Friday, Mar. 26 2010 American kids are born capitalists --capable of understanding that they can make some folding green from another kind of green just lying around the house.
<br />Example? A teen in Carbondale was busted for bringing some of his dad's medical marijuana to middle school and selling it to students……As medical marijuana becomes more prevalent in
<br />Colorado, so do incidents involving MMJ and children. Earlier this month, we told you about two happenings that occurred within days of each other: an eleven-yearold who shot himself
<br />in the foot while guarding his parents' grow and a baby who had to be hospitalized after ingesting some of his folks' marijuana edibles….. http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2010/03/kid_swipes_dads
<br />_medical_mariju.php Postal Service pot seizures up over 400 pct. since 2007: report Stephen C. Webster /Wednesday, March 17, 2010 The United States Postal Inspection Service has been
<br />pretty busy lately. That’s because shipments of marijuana being seized in the mail have dramatically escalated in recent years, up over 400 percent since
<br />45 2007, according to a new report. There is no better way to ship drugs right now,” said San Diego Police Chief William Lansdowne, speaking to ABC News. ABC’s report blames an “increase
<br />in demand” for marijuana for the spike, along with better detection methods. The network also carried a photo essay detailing various smuggling techniques. The announcement would seem
<br />to evoke a quote by reporter Peter Guither, who runs Drug War Rant: Those massive drug seizures you read about in the paper affect traffickers much the same way a DVD shoplifter affects
<br />WalMart — an annoyance, but part of the normal cost of doing business. Some states pushing back against ‘legal’ pot: Even as the marijuana-bycourier trade appears to be escalating, another
<br />trend is developing in communities nation-wide: the consumption of legal herbs with a synthetic cannabinoid additive, essentially as a marijuana replacement that is undetectable by drug
<br />tests and, for now, completely permitted by law. One mixture causing particular ire, known known as “K2″, was recently banned in two Missouri counties and the entire state of Kansas,
<br />according to The Marshfield Mail. It is still largely available in smoke shops. The Mail noted that Missouri politicians were told the herbal blend can cause “seizures, vomiting, agitation
<br />and other dangers.” A bill has been introduced that would ban “K2″ across all of Missouri. A similar effort is underway in Nebraska, but legislators are unlikely to vote on the “K2″
<br />ban until their next session, according to Omaha.com. Amid Missouri’s debate over “K2″, an amendment that would have legalized medical marijuana was introduced and immediately voted
<br />down, The Missourian noted. A similar blend of legal herbs called “Spice Gold” has been riling European politicians for its unlisted chemical content: a compound called JWH-018, which
<br />is said to have a stronger but shorter-lived psychoactive effect than THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. Thus far, Germany, Austria and France have banned it, and the U.K. was
<br />beginning to take up the issue. “Spice Gold” is also distributed in the U.S. Without the chemical additive, “Spice Gold” is simply chopped up baybean, blue lotus, dwarf skullcap, Indian
<br />warrior, lions tail, maconha brava, marshmallow, pink lotus, red clover, rose, Siberian motherwort, vanilla and honey. Other shipments of “Spice Gold” that have been seized by U.S. authorities
<br />were found to contain HU-210, a Schedule 1 controlled substance with a significantly more powerful psychoactive effect than THC, even more so than JWH-018. Unlike every other drug of
<br />abuse except marijuana, HU-210 has been found to promote “neurogenesis” — regrowth of brain cells — in the embryonic and adult hippocampus, according to the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
<br />Its potential medical properties are currently being studied. The so-called “Trojan Horse” properties of the “legal” marijuana were first uncovered in Dec. 2008 by THC Pharma, a German
<br />laboratory, according to The Guardian. http://www.prisonplanet.com/postal-service-pot-seizures-up-over-400-pct-since-2007-report.html
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