Forwarding an announcement from the ASA list about US House Judiciary Committee Chairman Conyers letter to Acting DEA Administrator Leonhart sent this afternoon!
The letter demands that she answer questions about the agency’s ongoing interference and intimidation in California before July 1. This letter brings us one step closer to Congressional hearings on DEA activity in California, and represents a tremendous success for medical cannabis providers on the federal level. It is our hope that these hearings will make further DEA interference politically unpalatable for the Justice Department, while putting more fuel on the fire for Congressional action on medical cannabis.

Chairman Conyers’ letter is not likely to make national news, but it is an important turning point in this broadest and most protracted DEA attack on patients’ access. What happens next depends on how effective we can be. Please have a look at the action alert in the “May Action Alert” folder in the files section of the yahoo Group to find out if you live or work in one of the six strategic districts represented by a California Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee. Chairman Conyers needs there support, and they need to hear from us!

Hello Strain Review subscribers, we have been a little busy with personal business; we will have a big surprise for everyone soon. We’re back and will continue to post! Sorry for the down time people!

Lets keep the Medical marijuana strain reviews coming, and all the great stories!

Thanks again!
Strain Review team.

This is a petition that makes sense, but as we all know, most of these don’t make it. Its just great facts and sources for everyone. Check it out! To read the full petition go here

To: U.S. Congress
Just The Facts is an organization that I started to provide a factual insight to the general public on this most controversial subject. I will provide nothing but the facts, so that we the people can make intelligent decisions about a subject the government clouds up with untruthfulness. Please read my petition and even though you might not smoke Cannabis, please observe with an open mind about all the beneficial qualities that have nothing to do with smoking, but are currently still as illegal.

FACT

· Deaths per year resulting from alcohol: 100,000
· Deaths per year resulting from tobacco: 430,000
· Deaths per year resulting from aspirin: 180- 1000
· Deaths per year resulting from legal drugs: 106,000
· Deaths that have ever occurred in direct result of Cannabis: 0 (that’s right zero) (more…)

Timothy Garon who was a 56 year old musician, was denied a organ transplant because of his medical marijuana use to treat the symptoms of advanced hepatitis C, nausea, abdominal pain and to stimulate his appetite. Garon died Thursday, one week after he got the news from his doctor that a University of Washington Medical Center committee had again denied him a spot on the liver-transplant list.

“He said I’m going to die, with such conviction,” Garon said then. “I’m not angry, I’m not mad, I’m just confused.”

Should pot use with a doctor’s authorization be held against a dying patient who needs an organ transplant? Read More

Alabama’s medical marijuana bill, known as the Michael Phillips Compassionate Care Act has finally been assigned a number for this legislative session.HB679 has been assigned to the judiciary committee again this year and is currently pending committee action in the house of origin.

House Bill 679 will help to ensure that medical marijuana patients in Alabama will no longer have to fear arrest or prosecution from state law enforcement. As introduced, this act would allow qualified patients under a physician’s supervision to possess up to 12 cannabis plants and/or 2.5 ounces of medical marijuana for therapeutic purposes.  However, this proposal will only receive serious consideration if your elected officials hear an unmistakable message of support from their constituents.

The legislature is in recess next week for spring break so this bill won’t come up until at least week after next.

Currently, twelve states — Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington — have enacted laws protecting medical marijuana patients from state prosecution. Patients in these twelve states enjoy legal protections to use medicinal marijuana under a doctor’s supervision; seriously ill citizens in Alabama deserve this same protection.

Support medical marijauana for this state. Take a few minutes of your time and  contact your state House member and tell him or her to support medical marijuana. Click Here

 In South Australia, The government has thought of a way to stop the cannabis smokers and all other drug users. This method that was accepted and made law to ban all bongs will actually do more harm then good. The Rann Government’s ban on bongs will not stop drug use and could have dangerous flow-on effects on the health of pot smokers, according to users and experts.  It’s just sad to see more restrictions on the Marijuana community. 

 In the United States it was brought up to ban the sale of bongs as well. Hopfully this law doesn’t influence the federal government to Ban bongs over here as well. It will be hard as some people really do need it as a way to take their medication.

One local drug expert, pharmacology associate professor Rodney Irvine, said users will seek other ways to inhale smoke and that could be more dangerous.

“When you close one loophole (more…)

Here is a great video by Kirk Tousaw about the true suppliers of Marijuana to the US. Many great facts about how much marijuana is actually being smuggled into the US by both Canada and Mexico. Also many controversial documents that the usdog.gov (Drug traffic operations & seized drugs) has published.

Legal Ease with Kirk Tousaw is his program and this is his newst episode.

With the initiative known as the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act, being sponsored by the Michigan Coalition for compassionate Care (MCCC), the act was passed to legislature, if the legislature does not act upon it, it will go to the voters in November. With more then a 2 to 1 ratio in which the people voted YES for medical use of marijuana, the act will surely pass in November. Michigan will be the first mid-west state to approve of medical marijuana, and the second largest state with 10 million residents. The act will:

-Allow Seriously ill patients to use medical marijuana with their Doctors approval.
-Protect those seriously ill patients from being arrested for their medicine.
-Allow Patients, and caregivers to cultivate marijuana for medical use with a limit on how much can grow.
-Create medical marijuana cards, so that patients can easily be identified by law enforcement.
-Allow those who are arrested for marijuana to discuss their medical use for it.
-Continuing certain prohibitions for medical use of marijuana as, public use of marijuana and driving under the influence of marijuana.

Even though this act will only allow those with serious illness’s to have medical marijuana for medicine, I still agree that this bill is a big step not only for the marijuana community, but also for the future economic status of the US. Having many uses and applications, if marijuana is legalized, it can then be taxed, even though the progress might be very small, it is still progress towards a debt free America.

People are much stronger today, the media doesn’t dominate like it did years back. People today are now coming out and speaking the truth, without fear. Nothing can overpower freewill. This past decade has been the biggest movement for anti-drug prohibition ever recorded in the united states. The public is now realizing the truth. Tax payer’s money is not going to what the public really needs. This war is not on drugs anymore, its on the people. Government trust is fading, as nothing the government has done today has helped the public of the serious issues, Our health care, economic downfall due to wasteful spending, gas prices; this list can go on.

People now seek for the truth and now they don’t go for the government. Today, information can be found easily which was not available years ago. The Internet is a powerful tool. This allows a person to believe what they want to believe instead of being fed the facts by the media. This Drug war has been the biggest waste of the United States with the most failure ever documented. Now we all are realizing; the brainwashing and false advertising of Marijuana to be “dangerous and deadly” in America is fading.  

Soon, there will be commercials of Marijuana Healing, instead of bashing. The “War On Drugs” is a failure. How many news articles, internet blogs, speeches, events, rallys and anything speaking the truth of this does it take to convince the federal government of the truth?  Norm Stamper former cheif of the Seatle Police Department, at Western Washing University he speaks in an event at the school’s Drug Information center: (more…)

Here is a great helpful article that can help the community of growers. Aeroponics!

So far, from a lot of research and personal experience, Aeroponics has proved its worth! Aeroponics is quite different, It uses the same aspects as DWC ( Deep Water Culture). This is actually so much more easier to take care of, No more soil and slow growth! Get prepared for amazing results when using Aeroponics.

Aeroponcis is the process of growing plants in air or mist environment without the use of soil or an aggregate medium. Aeroponic culture differs from both hydroponics and in-vitro (Plant tissue culture) growing. Unlike hydroponics, which uses water as a growing medium and essential minerals to sustain plant growth, aeroponics is conducted without a growing medium, but just an anchor medium such as Hydrotons(clay pebbles) This allows a lot of root growth and FAST plant growth. The speed compared to soil growing is amazing. (more…)