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Last week I was riding in the truck with the radio on and listening to CBC news and heard how a 11 yr.old first Nations girl with leukemia is waiting on a judge to decide on Nov. 14/2014, whether she should be forced back into chemotherapy. The Brantford family has chosen indigenous medicine instead, and say Canadian courts have no authority over them. McMaster Children's Hospital went to court to try to force Childrens Aid to action to protect the child whom they say, requires urgent, life-savi...

It’s almost too taboo to discuss: pregnant women & marijuana. It’s a dirty little secret for women, particularly during the harrowing first trimester, who turn to cannabis for relief from nausea and stress.Pregnant women in Jamaica use marijuana regularly to relieve nausea, as well as to relieve stress and depression, often in the form of a tea or tonic. In the late 1960s, grad student Melanie Dreher was chosen by her professors to perform an ethnographic study on marijuana use in Jamaica to ob...

“What has the War on Drugs done in the world?” This is a big issue because it’s good people losing their jobs, their homes, even their children. It’s not because they hurt anyone but because they chose to use one drug (marijuana) instead of another (oxy, etc.). It’s clear that war on drugs has not been successful. Not only has it failed but its been counterproductive in that it has generated a criminal culture much like alcohol prohibition did in 1930s. Dr. Sanja Gupta, the chief medical co...

On Ontario Today they talk about High on the job... This program is worth listening too ...David Whitten is speaking on the behalf of medical marijuana in the work place and job loss. David is a highly sought after employment law expert and a founding partner of Whitten & Lublin, a Toronto-based employment law firm specializing in the strategic resolution of complex workplace issues and challenges for both employers and employees. Listen to the radio broadcast on my page https://www.facebook.co...

I met Tamie Lee Warner on facebook. Tammy has rare bone cancer and before she dies she would to start a group of hoopers etc here in Canada. Tamie wants to bring awareness for sick children's hospital (kids with cancer) be able to perform for these children n also integrate an anti-bully program in schools. She would like this dream to come true before she dies if you live in Canada and would love to help Tamie fulfill her dreams and are interested in hooping, please PM her you can find her one...

Anyone who suffers from springtime allergies knows the misery of battling it out with pollen, grasses and ragweed, but there is one other culprit the sneezing and wheezing stoners of the world may have failed to consider: marijuana. Now, while we believe having an allergic reaction to weed is nothing less than a cruel joke played by the master of the universe, the reality is more people suffer from cannabis allergies today than ever before. A recent study written by a team allergy researchers ...

Multiple Sclerosis is a disease that occurs when there is damage to the nerves in the brain and the spinal cord. Medical marijuana has shown great benefits in relieving symptoms and thus we will discuss which marijuana strain is best for MS. People who have smoked marijuana to treat this horrific disease can almost return back to normality as marijuana actually helps repair damage nerve cells. What marijuana strain works for MS? – Having asked plenty of patients with MS which strains work best f...

Ingredients 1/4 oz marijuana 1 Pitcher of your favorite tea Ice Water 4-6 oz Honey of your favorite honey Filter/Strainer Instructions In saucepan, combine water and honey and simmer while stirring, until the honey becomes very liquefied. Once the honey reaches a watery consistency, add marijuana Our goal is to let the oils dissolve into the honey Allow to simmer on med-low while constantly stirring for about 15 minutes. When the majority of the active ingredient is absorbed into the honey, it...

The drug nearly half a million Canadians are expected to be legally using by 2024 According to a recent Health Canada projection, there are approximately 40,000 medical marijuana users in the country; a number that is expected to rise in the coming years as the move to legalizing recreational weed is still being debated. There aren’t any official numbers on how many of the 40,000 are professional drivers, but do you know many puffs of a joint or marijuana pills you can take before an officer c...

This isn’t a great time for small Canadian mining businesses. For the past couple of years, people have worried that China’s economic problems will keep it from buying metals and minerals in big quantities, as it once did, which has lowered prices for some of those commodities. Plus, mine workers are aging and retiring, and there may not be enough younger people to replace them. The combined value of the hundred largest “junior” mining companies—the small ones focussed on exploring deposits, in ...

Pot activists took part in the "Global Marijuana March: on May 3 demanded the decriminalization of Marijuana. They might also have asked why was it illegal in the first place? Well that happen in 1923, and if there was any parliamentary debate, historians have been unable to find a record of it. In 1923, then Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal government introduced an Act of Prohibit the improper us of Opium and other Drugs. The federal health minister at that time, Henri B...

he developer of a special strain of marijuana marketed to children hopes to convince Health Canadato allow the product in the country, as some Canadian families head south of the border to receive the drug that's been shown to significantly reduce seizures. Colorado cannabis producer Josh Stanley and his brothers developed Charlotte's Web -- a special strain of marijuana oil with very little THC and very high cannabidiol (C-B-D), the component believed to reduce seizures. The marijuana extract i...

AIRDRIE, Alta. ─ Potato chip producers and Grateful Dead fans have always believed, but a desperate mother in Airdrie, Alta., never thought she'd be calling marijuana a miracle. The cries of "mama, mama" from Sarah Wilkinson's living room just north of Calgary are all she needs to believe ─ that, and seeing her disabled eight-year-old daughter Mia going from 100 seizures a day to seven in the past eight months. "Her first seizure was 29 minutes after birth ─ it was absolutely terrifying," said...

Cancer Care Ontario says drinking linked to liver, colorectal, breast and oral cancers Alcohol consumption is linked to an estimated 1,000 to 3,000 new cases of cancer in Ontario a year, the province’s cancer agency says. Cancer Care Ontario released a report Tuesday – titled "Cancer Risk Factors in Ontario: Alcohol" – which suggests a third of Canadians are aware of the link between drinking alcohol and cancer. Drinking alcohol has been shown to cause oral cancers as well as esophageal, lary...

TORONTO -- A B.C. producer of medical marijuana has voluntarily recalled a batch of its "purple kush" strain and is advising consumers not to smoke the weed after a Health Canada inspection of the grower's operations turned up "issues" with its production practices. In what is believed to be the first recall of medical cannabis in Canada, Greenleaf Medicinals of Nanaimo, B.C., is advising clients to immediately stop using any marijuana they still possess from batch number PK-10-20-13. "The recal...

There’s a reason patients call it “Hellth Canada,” and it’s not because they’re doing a hell of a job. Health Canada has been running Canada’s medical marijuana program from the beginning, and they’re really bad at it! Here’s the top 6 ways they’ve been screwing up. #6 They can’t decide how to spell marijuana Cannabis is a plant with many names, but most people call it marijuana and they spell it with a J. They use this word because back in the 20′s, when White Supremacists where writing Can...

WHO GREW YOUR MEDICINE? You won’t believe where Canada’s legal marijuana supply is really coming from! Last week, both Tweed and Mettrum had loads of marijuana seized from the same Kelowna airport. Media reports described Tweed’s shipment as 55 varieties of “plants, seeds and in-production plant materials” from multiple growers across BC. Licensed Producers are desperate for product, since Health Canada has been so slow in processing their applications that most of them haven’t had time to gr...

In the wake of a court decision that allows medical marijuana users to continue to grow their own pot, Manitoba will become the first Canadian jurisdiction to follow in the footsteps of Colorado and Washington, the Sun has learned. Policy-makers have been closely watching events in Colorado and the income the state is harvesting due to the legalization of marijuana. Manitoba, long known to be a test market for many distributors and products, will soon be used to test legalization of marijuana ...

Patients with prescriptions for medicinal marijuana face jump from 50 cents to $5 or more per gram They might have a temporary reprieve, but pain-stricken Canadians who grow their own medical marijuana say they could soon face a difficult choice: go without the weed they need or break the law to get it. A Federal Court judge recently granted an injunction that allows thousands of patients to continue cultivating their own marijuana at home, or designate someone to grow it for them — at least u...

Capitalizing on a reluctance by doctors to prescribe cannabis as a medication, referral and walk-in cannabis clinics are expected to open to fulfill the demand for medical marijuana. A Georgian Bay area family physician is opening a clinic in north Toronto that will specialize in writing patients’ prescriptions for medical marijuana. Capitalizing on a reluctance by doctors to prescribe cannabis as a medication, Dr. Danial Schecter will open Cannabinoid Medical Clinic, at the corner of Yonge St...