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  How the Mormon church unlocked medical pot for deep red states “They did everything that they could to fight this until the people had spoken," a former state lawmaker said of the church. POLITICO -  SALT LAKE CITY — On a Thursday in October 2018, a handful of Utah’s top lawmakers, representatives from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and medical marijuana advocates filed into the   Gold Room , an ornate space in the state Capitol. They were joined by the Utah Medical Association and law enforcement groups to announce a deal to legalize medical marijuana across the state. Everyone was there in large part because the church had decided they would be. “You could just almost hear the teeth grinding of the law enforcement — and some of the other people that were sitting there — having to play nice and say 'Oh yeah … this is all kumbaya.' Because, it wasn't,” said former Republican Utah state Sen. Mark Madsen, who worked to pass medical marijuana legislati

  Harry Kelso is guilty of smoking weed. For which he received a 10 year sentence. A non violent activity that hurts no one got him ten years. Weall know why.  Yet when a president of the USA, donald j. trump, incites an armed insurection at the Capitol on 01/06/2021 he receives NOTHING .  We've got one F'ed up justice system in America. On to the article. Harry Kelso, of Virginia, spent nearly nine years in prison for marijuana-related offenses. He's pushing for restorative justice for others who were imprisoned for marijuana after the state legalized the drug for recreational use. ABC NEWS -  In 2001, Harry Kelso left his hometown of Roanoke, Virginia, for the big city of Richmond and the promise of an education at Virginia Union University. “I was gonna go to school and get my degree and get out and find a technology job and have a family. … I just had dreams … [of] just having a normal life,” he told “Nightline.” But Kelso, like many college students, smoked weed. He sa

  America's reason the the will of the voters are suppressed, ignored, and or rejected. Conservative Republicans and little if anything else is the reason . They simply hate democracy and the will of the people. Even when it is good for the people, the nation, and the overall health, serenity, and peace of the people. It ain't gonna get better or change any time soon. Unless the people vote the conservative republican authoritarians out of office. Which as we know would be a spectacularly good thing! On to the article. Forbes - . ..  Recent polling suggests more than two-thirds of Americans want adult-use cannabis legalized. And though polling isn’t the most reliable indicator of voter behavior, legal cannabis’s undefeated record at the ballot box last November is a strong signal that with weed, citizens’ choices in the voting booth reflect the desires voiced to opinion-takers. Elected officials and the courts are a different matter. In five states where voters have either pas

  Study: For Some Symptoms, Medical Marijuana With THC Is Better Than CBD A recent study conducted at the Unversity of New Mexico showed that    tetrahydrocannbinol   (THC) is more effective and produces relief faster than   cannabidiol  (CBD). So, while CBD offers many healthful benefits partaking of THC in flower form offers increased benefits and faster relief. If CBD is the Chevy of cannabis then THC is the Cadillac. On to the article. Forbes -  The cannabis plant has hundreds of “active ingredients,” but the two most prominent—and the only two most people have heard of— are THC and CBD . Despite “medical marijuana” laws specifically allowing people to access cannabis products containing THC, over the past few years, one line of conventional wisdom goes something like this: THC is the molecule that gets you high; CBD is non-psychoactive and promotes healing. Since federal law allows CBD but still bans more than a minute amount of THC, in some circles, the dichotomy has devolved fu

Interesting article but certainly not a surprise . Older folks often experience muscle skeletal discomfort at elevated levels due to the wear and tear of aging. Cannibis can and does give relief without the dangers of addiction. In short cannabis beats opiods or booze all day long. Every day. All year long. Of course there are a myriad of ailments older people have to deal with and cannabis often is the best and most effective way to treat them. I know as I've used cannabis medicinally for going on four years. Cannabis is very good for improving mindfullness and acheiving a better and fuller understanding of just who YOU really are. In other words cannabis helps you see yourself as you reakky are. Just like Bob Marley said it does. If you do not resist its ability to help you grow and become a better person. When the feds finally decriminalizing cannabis extensive research into the vast benefits of cannabis will explode and we will finally be able to unlock much that has been kept

  Conservative republicans are now beginning a new front in its War On Democracy.  Their new attack front? Overturning the will of the people through activist conservative courts . IOW the damn authoritarian republicans are giving the stiff middle one to democracy and the will of the people when the will of the people does not fit the conserfative narrative and agenda. Which as we are seeing is always less freedom and individual liberty. It is what conservative republicans so. On to the article. Conservative lawmakers are asking the courts to block the will of the people on pro-legalization ballot initiatives Rolling Stone -   Ken Newburger felt like he’d been blindsided. He knew a legal challenge had been mounted against the medical  cannabis  ballot initiative he’d worked on last year in  Mississippi . He knew the state’s Supreme Court had taken up the case. But the argument against Initiative 65 was so nonsensical that Newburger had zero doubt the court would rule to uphold the meas

  If you're one who suffers from anxiety and insomnia as I do you know it is both unhealthy and maddening. No question about it! My prior massage therapist Dion turned me on to Michael Seeley and his guided meditations for sleep. A mind, body, and spiritual approach to restful and fulling sleep experience, I've found the recordings to be helpful, however they fell short of consistently giving me the kind of deep restful and prolonged rest I so desperately desired and needed. This got me thinking. Could cannabis, combined with sleep meditation enhance and actually guide me into a deep and healthful 7-8 hours of uninterested blissful sleep? As I hoped for the combination of vaping a favorite Indica at 10:00 PM and then listening to the guided sleep meditation did the trick. I am now sleeping better, and awake more refreshed, than I have in 30 years! Give it a try! Enjoy the bliss!

We are a nation founded on the principal of self rule . In many ways and in many states that principal is honored and the will of the people is heard and it becomes law. But certainly not in all states and not in every case and every state. Such is the state in Mississippi. Story below. Cannabis Business Executive - Mississippi was supposed to join dozens of other states with medical marijuana programs. People looking to grow and dispense marijuana for medical purposes were making plans, some spending millions on land and buildings. Those eligible under the list of 22 debilitating conditions were counting on it come August. On Friday, the Mississippi Supreme Court flipped that reality upside down. Its  decision to overrule a voter-approved medical marijuana initiative  has sparked outrage from several organizations. Some have started petitions, one coalition called for a boycott of the city of Madison — its mayor filed the lawsuit that was before the court — and another is planning a r

  Taking photos in front of a sign welcoming visitors to Weed, Calif. Credit... Max Whittaker for The New York Times No Longer the ‘Devil’s Lettuce’: How the Town of Weed Embraced Weed . For decades, a rural California city winced at the puns. Now it’s cashing in WEED, Calif. — When they see the signs for Weed, carloads of curious travelers veer off the freeway to stop and gawk. They file into gift shops that sell “Weed Is So Dope” refrigerator magnets and sweatshirts advertising a fictional University of Weed: “A Place of Higher Learning.” For decades, the residents of Weed, a California lumber town an hour from the Oregon border, have felt like the butt of jokes, exasperated from the repetition of the Daily Explanation: No, the town is not named for marijuana but a local 19th-century timber baron, Abner Weed. For years, the town rejected proposals to leverage the name and allow the sale of marijuana. “I did not want a bunch of potheads sitting out in front of the store smoking doob

The American people are growing more and more suppprtive of cannabis use in America. Especially medical cannabis. Although an overwhelming majority of Americans support recreational cannabis use as well. Americans in majority understand the many benefits that nature's wonddrous gift to humankind has to offer. Sooner or later the natsayers will all fall away and America will decriminalize cannabis at the federal level and l;egalize it fir all to use. It's only a matter of time. America’s most conservative states are embracing medical pot Despite struggles in Kentucky and Tennessee, the year looks up for medical marijuana supporters. POLITICO -   Many of the nation’s medical marijuana holdouts are giving in as pot activists make inroads this year with conservative strongholds — and are poised to notch more wins in the coming weeks. Medical marijuana bills are advancing in the Republican-controlled legislatures of North Carolina, Alabama and Kansas   for the first time. Efforts