Arcata, California. An independent scientist, Jaymes Dogheim, has developed a new strain of medical cannabis taking the name “Poison Ivy”. Dogheim, an Amsterdam NL native has over 20 years of experience breeding cannabis plants; and has been doing so exclusively at his lab in Humboldt County, CA for the past 8 years. This spring, Dogheim finalized a strain to which he has given the name poison ivy due to unique characteristics it displays both while the plant is growing, and the effects it has on it’s medical patients. Poison Ivy cannabis, unlike traditional strains, grows in a vine-ing, ivy like…
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The Life and Crimes of Citizen Ming is a documentary following Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan documenting various election bids and tangles with the law. Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan is an Irish politician and social campaigner. He began his political career running unsuccessfully as an independent candidate in the Galway West constituency in 1997, and went on to contest the Connaught Ulster constituency in the European elections of 1999 and the Longford-Roscommon constituency in the 2002 Dáil election. On none of these occasions did he reach two per cent of the vote. He was not portrayed by the media as a serious candidate,…
Derry, the owner of Barney’s Farm set about collecting seeds from landrace marijuana genetics whilst travelling around Asia and the Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Tibet, Thailand, Burma, Vietnam and China in the early 1980s. He based himself high in the Himalayas for three years and along with other talented and similar minded breeders he began the cultivation and cross-breeding of these strains. They chose phenotypes for the obvious THC content, taste and aroma and back crossed them. The results were exciting and they delighted in having harvests of various sativa and indica hybrid cultivars to see them through…
LONDON, June 18 (Reuters) – GW Pharmaceuticals Plc’s (GWP.L) cannabis-derived medicine Sativex has been approved in Britain for treating spasticity in patients with multiple sclerosis, in a landmark decision for the small drugmaker.The much-delayed product was finally granted a British licence on Thursday, an official from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) told Reuters on Friday. The company later issued a statement confirming the move.Clinical trials have shown GW’s Sativex, which is sprayed under the tongue, reduces spasticity in multiple sclerosis (MS) in patients who do not respond adequately to existing therapies.It became the world’s first cannabis medicine…
The big practical problem prohibition faces is that it’s built on the assumption people will do what they’re told – even in private or in the company of consenting adults – which is perhaps the sort of assumption only politicians could make about the real world. Because of this naive assumption at the heart of prohibition it was always going to be an uphill struggle to make the drugs laws work. This is, of course, made much worse when people get a very real benefit from using a prohibited drug – not just enjoyment but, for example, relief from pain.…
The mainstream media loves to spill ink hyping the allegation that cannabis causes mental illness, particularly schizophrenia. In fact, it was in March when international media outlets declared that cannabis use ‘doubled’ one’s risk of developing the disease. Yet when research appears in scientific journals rebuking just this sort of ‘reefer madness,’ it generally goes unreported. Such is the case with a pair of just-published studies slated to appear in the journal Schizophrenia Research. The first study, conducted by a team of researchers at various New York state hospitals, the Yale University School of Medicine, and the National Institutes of…
In science’s struggle to keep up with life on the streets, smoking cannabis for medical purposes stands as Exhibit A. Medical use of cannabis has taken on momentum of its own, surging ahead of scientists’ ability to measure the drug’s benefits. The pace has been a little too quick for some, who see medicinal joints as a punch line, a ruse to free up access to a recreational drug. But while the medical marijuana movement has been generating political news, some researchers have been quietly moving in new directions — testing cannabis and its derivatives against a host of diseases.…
The Hemp Revolution documentary covers a whole lot of ground. It deals with every historical and contemporary aspect of hemp usage and cultivation (mainly in the U.S.), which turns out to be a lot. From describing the production of a fibre much more durable and economic than wood, the documentary discusses hemps multilateral uses as e.g. food products, as a non-polluting fuel and as a pharmaceutical product with much less griveous sideeffects than chemical pharmaceutical products. The film also investigates why America went from a country which produced vast quantities of the non-narcotic industrial hemp, to the complete ban on…
Pot connoisseur and acclaimed photographer Jason King is back with another phenomenal exploration of the world of pot. In his most comprehensive tribute to marijuana yet, King introduces the newest crop of incredibly potent and deliciously brain-warping bud from diverse projects worldwide, and shares new nugs of knowledge about perennial favourites. The Cannabible III brings cannaficionados more than two hundred all new stunningly photographed marijuana strains accompanied by tantalizing reviews of their flavours, aromas, and effect. King conveys the experience of each bud through his consistently meticulous tasting notes, extraordinary microphotographs, and always entertaining quality assessments of the high. He…
Jason King, world-renowned cannabis connoisseur and acclaimed photographer continues his quest to share yet another outstanding collection of marijuana strains in The Cannabible II. King has been travelling the globe non-stop since his acclaimed first book was published, to bring us more of the choicest kind — aficionados will not be disappointed. Featuring more than 200 carefully chosen cannabis strains, as well as his signature microphotography, The Cannabible II is gloriously visual and entertaining and takes the experience of referencing buds and plants to a whole new level. Find out which strain King considers to be the ‘Holy Grail’, which…
