Marijuana [Cannabis]

[Michael Scally MD]

Legal Weed Causing Sky-High Travel Demand To Denver
Legal Weed Causing Sky-High Travel Demand To Denver

Denver, Colo. is a well-known tourist destination -- its close proximity to some of the most beautiful mountains in the world make the Mile High City an obvious winter vacation choice. But there's a new high that appears to have captured some tourists' interest in the city: the state's newly legalized recreational marijuana.

A recent study from travel planning engine Hopper.com, suggests just that -- people from around the U.S. are searching for flights to Denver much more than they used to and the spike began just as the state's new retail marijuana laws went into effect on Jan. 1. The perceived demand in travel to Denver is represented by the number of search queries by travelers, not by actual ticket purchases.

Hopper's data shows that flight search demand for Denver as a destination has been up at least 10 percent for each of the first three weeks of January, peaking at a 14 percent increase during the first week of the new year. Last year, during the same period, flight search demand to Denver tracked at or below the national average.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Deputy drug czar reluctantly admits marijuana is less deadly than alcohol
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/04/deputy-drug-czar-reluctantly-admits-marijuana-is-less-deadly-than-alcohol/

The deputy director of the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy admitted Tuesday that marijuana was less deadly than alcohol, but insisted that pot was not a benign drug.

At a House Oversight Committee hearing, the drug czar’s second-in-command, Michael Botticelli, received a stern questioning from Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) about the harms of marijuana in light of President Barack Obama recent comments on the subject.

“How many people die from marijuana overdoses every year?” Connolly asked.

“I don’t know that I know. It is very rare,” Botticelli replied.

“Very rare. Now just contrast that with prescription drugs, unintentional deaths from prescription drugs, one American dies every 19 minutes,” Connolly said. “Nothing comparable to marijuana. Is that correct?”

Botticelli admitted that was true.

“Alcohol — hundreds of thousands of people die every year from alcohol related deaths: automobile [accidents], liver disease, esophageal cancer, blood poisoning,” Connolly continued. “Is that incorrect?”

But Botticelli refused to answer. Guessing where the line of questioning was headed, he said the “totality of harm” associated with marijuana indicated it was a dangerous drug, even though it was not associated with deaths.

“I guess I’m sticking with the president — the head of your administration — who is making a different point,” Connolly fired back. ”He is making a point that is empirically true. That isn’t a normative statement, that marijuana is good or bad, but he was contrasting it with alcohol and empirically he is correct, is he not?”

Botticelli again tried to dodge the question, but Connolly interrupted him and told him to answer.

“Is it not a scientific fact that there is nothing comparable with marijuana?” Connolly asked. ”And I’m not saying it is good or bad, but when we look at deaths and illnesses, alcohol, other hard drugs are certainly — even prescription drugs — are a threat to public health in a way that just isolated marijuana is not. Isn’t that a scientific fact? Or do you dispute that fact?”

“I don’t dispute that fact,” Botticelli said.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Big_paul]

Makes me think the witch hunt may end at some point in time, and this county will act with reason.
Willie Nelson is a national treasure. may live to 100 or longer.

 

[Bluehead]

hey Bill a couple of my friends from work have gotten me in the habit of smoking a j a couple times a week to unwind. i havent smoked since highschool but i figured its better than drinking

lately iv been noticing im falling short of breath at the gym alot faster than normal could this be a side effect?

if so what other bodybuilding related side effects are attributed to marijuana use?

I think the shortness of breath is Nocebo effect if you are truely only smoking few times a week (twice for example). At my college we're doing submax Vo2 tests and what not, if you'd like i can tell you how you can do an easy treadmill vo2 max test (you might need a heart monitor).

Cheers

 

[Jruiz]

Wonder if anyone has come up with putting T.H.C into a transdermal spray. That would be sweet!!!

 

[Jruiz]

Ive heard of people making depository's of it to risk out health factors!! But man, that's a little too extreme for me

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Colorado Expects to Reap Tax Bonanza From Legal Marijuana Sales
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/21/u...nanza-from-legal-marijuana-sales.html?hp&_r=0

For Colorado’s new flock of recreational marijuana growers and sellers, Thursday was Tax Day — their first deadline to hand over the taxes they had collected during their inaugural month of sales. And as store owners stuffed cash into lockboxes and made the nervous trek to government offices, new budget numbers predicted that those marijuana taxes could add more than $100 million a year to state coffers, far more than earlier estimates.

 

[Big_paul]

Big_paul 1 state police 0. got down to the station and let the pig mouth off. I didn't say a word because i knew if i let him brag and beat his chest like a mountain gorilla he would hang himself and he did ,on tape no less. stupid mother fucker. i will be back in the sierra nevadas ensuring that the fine folks of nor cal have the very best weed available and thats my weed. better than any shit thats ever come out of colorado or washington.
WINNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Liquid Gold Delights Mint [Marijuana] Meltaways from G Pharma Labs
http://www.gfarmalabs.com/index.html

[Must be 21 to Enter Site!!! Check Box. LMAO]

The Mint Meltaway Truffles come in a case of eight at 25mg's each for a total of 200mg's in the box.

The chocolatier producing the amazing edible line for G FarmaLabs is one of the ten best chocolatiers in the country.

Others who top and share that list include names like Godiva and Ghirardelli.

The combination of this great collaboration of renowned chocolatier in the world of chocolate and G FarmaLabs in the cannabis world, did not disappoint.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Prohibition In America: A Brief History
http://thedea.org/prohibhistory.html

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Dayton City Paper
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Is it time for Ohio to legalize marijuana?

That was the question posed by the Dayton City Paper, an independent alternative weekly in Dayton, Ohio, to its readers last week.

As part of its coverage of the legalization issue, the paper set aside a page for a "debate forum," with one DCP staffer arguing for marijuana legalization on the left side of the page, and another staffer arguing the anti-legalization case on the right side.

That was the plan, anyway. Just one problem: Dayton City Paper's editors were unable to find anyone on their staff to argue against legalization.

Instead, they went ahead and published half a blank page, the image of which quickly went viral:

"On behalf of the Dayton City Paper staff, we apologize, but we were unable to locate a debate writer who was able to submit a view opposed to the legalization of marijuana in Ohio at this time," reads an editor's note in the blank column.

 

[Mike Oxbig]

I'm generally not one for thinking in terms of absolutes, but at this point the only people that can possibly support marijuana prohibition are those that either have a financial interest in incarcerating users or individuals that are too inept to differentiate propaganda from reality.

 

[TheGuy85]

Ditto.....cops, lawyers, judges, prison guards, and probation officers. Pharmaceutical companies. I suppose there are investors that invest in state bonds, and have an interest in building prisons and keeping people incarcerated, but it is a huge burden on taxpayers. Kind of like how politicians invest in private intelligence and private contractors right before we go into wars.

 

[Y2JVD]

Pharmaceutical companies have already utilized marijuana in the form of antiemetic dronabinol. They make millions if not billions off of it already.

 

[BigSha]

Sometimes it really hurts when people that are close to you think that you are just another junkie cause you smoke weed .... And when steroids chime in also .... You are already a criminal ...

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Jouanjus E, Lapeyre-Mestre M, Micallef J, The French Association of the Regional Abuse and Dependence Monitoring Centres Working Group on Cannabis C. Cannabis Use: Signal of Increasing Risk of Serious Cardiovascular Disorders. Journal of the American Heart Association 2014;3(2). Cannabis Use: Signal of Increasing Risk of Serious Cardiovascular Disorders

Background Cannabis is known to be associated with neuropsychiatric problems, but less is known about complications affecting other specified body systems. We report and analyze 35 recent remarkable cardiovascular complications following cannabis use.

Methods and Results In France, serious cases of abuse and dependence in response to the use of psychoactive substances must be reported to the national system of the French Addictovigilance Network. We identified all spontaneous reports of cardiovascular complications related to cannabis use collected by the French Addictovigilance Network from 2006 to 2010.

We described the clinical characteristics of these cases and their evolution: 1.8% of all cannabis?related reports (35/1979) were cardiovascular complications, with patients being mostly men (85.7%) and of an average age of 34.3 years. There were 22 cardiac complications (20 acute coronary syndromes), 10 peripheral complications (lower limb or juvenile arteriopathies and Buerger?like diseases), and 3 cerebral complications (acute cerebral angiopathy, transient cortical blindness, and spasm of cerebral artery). In 9 cases, the event led to patient death.

Conclusions Increased reporting of cardiovascular complications related to cannabis and their extreme seriousness (with a death rate of 25.6%) indicate cannabis as a possible risk factor for cardiovascular disease in young adults, in line with previous findings.

Given that cannabis is perceived to be harmless by the general public and that legalization of its use is debated, data concerning its danger must be widely disseminated. Practitioners should be aware that cannabis may be a potential triggering factor for cardiovascular complications in young people.


Asked to comment, Harlan Krumholz, editor-in-chief of NEJM Journal Watch Cardiology, said the study "should be considered highly preliminary," given its inability to evaluate causality. Study Details Cardiovascular Events in Cannabis Users — Physician’s First Watch

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Rezkalla S, Kloner RA. Recreational Marijuana Use: Is it Safe for Your Patient? Journal of the American Heart Association 2014;3(2). Recreational Marijuana Use: Is it Safe for Your Patient?

 

[Jruiz]

Smoke a doob. Then run for 2 miles!!!oh yeaaah. Pomegranate drank daily and coq10 daily plus a banging healthy diet. I'm sure the people with cardiovascular problems are the fattys eating nothing but munchies all day from the herb. I have plenty of friends that are slobs, smoke all day and don't take care of them selves at all.

 

[Jruiz]

Now the question I ask about that study is how many of those young males were phyically fit and how many were slobs???