Cannabis News 2.0

http://pr.cannazine.co.uk (http://pr.cannazine.co.uk) : A cannabis campaigning group from the United States has announced cannabis can 'significantly' reduce the instance of head and neck cancers. And whilst the scientific evidence has been 'in' for decades, today, Deputy Director of NORML Paul Armantano is wondering when the press are going to tell the people who buy their newspapers about it. Indeed, will the mainstream media even care?Afghani#1 from Sensi SeedsFor some 35 years the United States federal government has been well aware that cannabis possesses potent anti-cancer and anti-tumor properties. And for the past three years, government-funded researchers have speculated that these qualities may offer “protective” effects against the onset of various types of cancer in humans, including lung cancer.Yet to date, virtually no investigators have taken the time to assess marijuana’s potential anti-cancer effects in humans — until now.

http://pr.cannazine.co.uk (http://pr.cannazine.co.uk) : Cannon Hill Park is one of the premier parks in the city of Birmingham as well as the West Midlands and has been awarded Green Flag status as a result of its beautiful flowerbeds, lakes, pools and a wonderful selection of tree species. But on August 9th 2009 the park will play host to a group of people who are advocating an entirely different type of plant. The much maligned cannabis plant.The stunning Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham - viewed from the tea roomsAccording to Legalise Cannabis Alliance (http://lca-uk.org) member and event organiser Colin Preece who resides in the city, the event will be little more than A peaceful gathering of people committed to the healing of all nations. But in reality the event holds a far deeper significance in todays turbulent political climate. Especially so when you take into account the recent revelations in the news which go on to explain even at the very top of law enforcement in the UK, there now exists grave doubts as to the effectiveness of operating a nations drug policies based around prohibition and law enforcement.

http://pr.cannazine.co.uk (http://pr.cannazine.co.uk) : The man behind the 'Cannabis CannaBus' concept is a man who is clearly at the very end of his tether.Neil Morgan is a Swansea man who was recently tried and convicted (for the 5th time), on a charge related to the cultivation of cannabis.Home grown is safest in terms of real harm reduction. FACT!

http://pr.cannazine.co.uk (http://pr.cannazine.co.uk) : The U.S. House today passed legislation that removes a decade-old provision that has prevented Washington, D.C., from implementing the medical marijuana law passed by 69 percent of capital voters in 1998.Known as the Barr amendment, the provision has forbidden the city from extending legal protection to qualified medical marijuana patients and has been derided by advocates for years as an unconscionable intrusion by the federal government into the District's affairs.

http://pr.cannazine.co.uk (http://pr.cannazine.co.uk) : A Facebook group which is aimed at answering questions regarding Cephalon's Provigil/Modafinil anti-narcolepsy drug is proving popular with consumers who have been prescribed other stimulants such as Ritalin, but who would prefer to use Provigil/Modafinil. A drug which has a far more benign effect on the human dopamine receptors.Provigil is thought to be the safer optionRitalin is a heavily prescribed (and even more heavily abused) amphetamine based drug normally prescribed in the treatment of ADD/ADHD amongst a great many others. And whilst I'm no doctor or pharmacist, I have read a great deal into the workings of how it affects the human body, and how it works has no resemblence at all, to how Provigil works.

http://pr.cannazine.co.uk (http://pr.cannazine.co.uk) : GW Pharmaceuticals plc (GWP:AIM) today announces that it has passed a Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) inspection by the UK regulatory authority of its new in-house commercial manufacturing facility for Sativex®, enabling the facility to act as the primary manufacturing site for the anticipated European commercial launch of Sativex.SativexPrior to now, GW has sub-contracted the final step in the bulk GMP manufacture of Sativex to a contract manufacturing partner. GW has previously announced that it had decided to upgrade its in-house facility with a view to taking over responsibility for GMP commercial finished product manufacture from its sub-contracting partner in time for European commercial launch.

Scientists are hopeful that plants grown for biomass production, may play a key role in cleaning up some of the contamination left behind when Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant, caught fire. The resultant blaze would de-humanise a region 100km (60 miles) in all directions.http://pr.cannazine.co.uk (http://pr.cannazine.co.uk) : On the morning of April 26, 1986, a small town in the former Soviet Union was the site of a nuclear explosion which quite literally, shook the earth. The historic accident at Chernobyl Nuclear Plant Reactor 4 in the Ukraine caused severe radioactive contamination. Families within a 30-km zone of the power plant were evacuated, and in the months that followed, extensive contamination was discovered in areas up to 100 km from the site.

http://pr.cannazine.co.uk (http://pr.cannazine.co.uk) : According to news sources in South Wales a campaign is being waged against the proposed bio-fuel plant which has been provisionally planned for Newport.Organisations invloved in the campaign include Biofuelwatch and Food Not Fuel, both of which cite deforestation and world food shortages as reasons not to go ahead with the 25 megawatt biofuels plant, which would consume upwards of 40,000 tonnes of vegetable oil a year, in creating 75% of the electricity power needs for Newport householders.Widescale hemp cultivation would bring much needed jobs as well as new revenue channels to Wales and the Vogen Energy plant provides the perfect springboard for the birth of an entirely new welsh industry.