Farmers Sue DEA For Right To Grow Industrial Hemp

Read below for some articles I’ve found recently after thoroughly perusing the internet, these are good finds:

If Pot Prevented Cancer You Would Have Read About It, Right?

Two just published studies assessing adults’ risk of cancer have reported wildly divergent, and fairly extraordinary, outcomes. One study you may have read about. The other has been ignored entirely by the mainstream media. But no doubt the results of both will surprise you.

First, the study you may have heard of. Writing August 3 in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, investigators at McGill University in Montreal reported that moderate alcohol consumption–defined as six drinks or less per week–by adults is positively associated with an elevated risk of various cancers ­ including stomach cancer, rectal cancer, and bladder cancer.

And now for the study you haven’t heard of. Writing in the August issue of the journal Cancer Prevention Research, investigators from Rhode Island’s Brown University ­ along with researchers at Boston University, Louisiana State University, and the University of Minnesota ­ reported that that lifetime marijuana use is associated with a “significantly reduced risk” of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

Authors reported, “after adjusting for potential confounders (including smoking and alcohol drinking), 10 to 20 years of marijuana use was associated with a significantly reduced risk of head and neck squamous cell
carcinoma…. (to read the full article, please click here.)

With Arrests Declining, Police Chase Cannabis Users

Arrests are down across Canada this year and have been declining steadily for the past five years. However, a large chunk of Canadian society is actually being arrested at record levels. Thieves? Nope. Violent predators? Not them either. The group being targeted by police and arrested at all-time highs are those nefarious cannabis users. You know, the guy that smokes a joint instead of cracking a beer at the end of a hard day of work. The mother of three that has a few puffs to relax after a day of chasing young ones around the house. The cancer survivor that uses cannabis to relieve pain and allow her to eat.

These “criminals” are the ones that police seem bent on busting for simple possession – an offence that reached a 30-year record levels of arrests in 2007 and, amazingly, increased by 5% more in 2008…. (to read the full article and check out Kirk Tousaw’s, Executive Director of the Beyond Prohibition Foundation, blog, click here.)

Farmers Sue DEA For Right To Grow Industrial Hemp

The feds call industrial hemp a controlled substance — the same as pot, heroin, LSD — but advocates say a sober analysis reveals a harmless, renewable cash crop with thousands of applications that are good for the environment.

Two North Dakota farmers are taking that argument to federal court, where a November 14 hearing is scheduled in a lawsuit to determine if the Drug Enforcement Administration is stifling the farmers’ efforts to grow industrial hemp. The DEA says it’s merely enforcing the law. Marijuana and industrial hemp are members of the Cannabis sativa L. species and have similar characteristics.

One major difference: Hemp won’t get you high. Hemp contains only traces of delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the compound that gets pot smokers stoned. However, the Controlled Substances Act makes little distinction, banning the species almost outright… (to read the full article on CNN, click here.)

On that note, about hemp, please check out this video (below) titled “Hemp for Victory”. It was released by the US Department of Agriculture in 1942 to promote the farming of hemp in the United States. (found via Enzo on High Times’ website)

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