Northern Irish cannabis campaigner and member of CISTA NI, Martin Kelly has been raided yet again by the PSNI Martin has released the following statement. “Today I had my house raided, again (Nov 4th). The police confiscated cannabis oil which I use to keep seizures at bay. I was spending my last few days with my daughter before I get sentenced for the accumulated charges gathered in my recent stance against the current system. I’m likely to be jailed already on Monday (07/11/16). Stupid and dangerous legislation that is now going to harm my life, contracts, bills, my business, my…
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Bio-Kinetic Europe, a Belfast based medical research company want to inject you with marijuanas, then give you money Anyone from Belfast who’s been short of a few quid has contemplated signing up to one of Bio-Kinetics’s drug trials, am I right? One time I even got to the induction day but made my excuses and left after they mentioned testing for drugs! Now the well known medical research company are recruiting guinea pigs to inject them with marijuanas, Cannabidiol (CBD) to be precise. For more information about these trials and to enter the draw visit their website. The mate and…
Urgent need for a reasonable regulation of cannabidiol (CBD) in food, cosmetics, as herbal natural medicine and as medicinal product The European Industrial Hemp Association (EIHA) published a position paper to overcome the patchwork of CBD-regulation in the European Union. Cannabidiol (CBD) is one of the non-psychotropic cannabinoids in industrial hemp. In 2016, 30,000 ha were cultivated in the European Union. The last couple of years have seen growing interest in CBD. Cannabidiol not only has a plethora of beneficial health effects, but it also has no relevant side-effects, even when it is administered at high doses. CBD is increasingly…
A major new study into the anti-imflamatory benefits of cannabis-based medication is set to be carried out in Northern Ireland. The £250,000 project by Ulster University (UU) and pharmaceutical start-up GreenLight Medicines will examine the effects on people suffering with forms of arthritis. The bossman of Greenlight Medicines Dr James Linden (originally from Saintfield, Co Down) says: “We are studying several components of the cannabis plant which have been shown to possess anti-inflammatory properties. “Specifically, we’re investigating the use of cannabis-based extracts that have been proven to reduce inflammation, and we wish to explore the full therapeutic potential of these…
At ground zero of the green rush, The Denver Post became the first major media outlet to appoint a marijuana editor https://youtu.be/HRCf5Izy1Ck In today’s media, the status quo can flip so abruptly that news outlets are forced to reshape themselves. On January 1, 2014 as recreational marijuana explodes off the shelves of Colorado dispensaries, The Denver Post is telling the story. The Cannabist is the first pot section of a major newspaper and Ricardo Baca, the world’s first marijuana editor sets out to report history in the making with a team of straight-laced staff writers and offbeat freelancers. Policy news,…
BERKELEY, Calif., Oct. 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Steep Hill, the global leader in cannabis testing and analytics, today published an early report on the prevalence of pesticide contamination in the medical cannabis supply chain in California. According to the lab’s new technology and recently launched “quantified pesticide analysis,” 84.3% of cannabis samples submitted in Steep Hill’s Berkeley lab tested positive for pesticide residues. These results were significantly higher than expected and are cause for concern for California cannabis consumers. Myclobutanil, typically sprayed on California grapes, almonds and strawberries, is legally listed as a “general use pesticide,” but heating up the…
Drug testing in the workplace can be a sensitive matter for some employees. Certainly, there are advantages and disadvantages of workplace drug testing. However, if you really want to ensure the overall health and safety of your workers, then implementing a drug testing policy could be the way. How do you implement one without garnering resentment from employees who fear for an invasion of privacy? How can you make it more effective? Below are some steps you can follow: 1. Create a written anti-drug abuse policy and distribute it It is important to let employees know that a company will…
In 2012 Home Office Circular 15/12 quietly entered circulation. This guideline detailed the circumstances in which police officers could examine, test and identify controlled drugs without the need for them to be sent for forensic analysis from a qualified Forensic Scientist. The financial implications were significant but what about the implications for justice? In cannabis cultivation cases police officers now routinely quote estimates of plant yield. It is on the basis of yield that a value is calculated and consideration of whether the quantity of cannabis produced is ‘too much’ for one person to consume or whether it was intended…
Ian Frizell suffers from early onset Parkinsons disease which he says cannabis helps control the symptoms of https://youtu.be/rAdDdTZuNA8 ‘What you are seeing here is my Parkinson’s tremor with absolutely no medication whatsoever,’ he says. ‘I cannot tolerate the prescription medication for Parkinson’s disease. They make me feel extremely unwell.’ ‘It’s now 20 minutes since I self-medicated with approximately 30mg of marijuana, which is just a small pinch, taken using a vaporiser’ ‘And you can see that my tremor has calmed down significantly. In fact, it’s almost completely under control.’ If you’ve got a friend or family member suffering from Parkinsons…
After hearing that twice as many people are dying from suicide in Northern Ireland than in the rest of the UK, 21-year-old James Connolly from Cookstown wants to get people talking about what he considers to be the ignored toll of suicide in the province. He has created this film to raise awareness. https://youtu.be/y2SWVylVzp8 A Fixers campaign led by James Connolly
