Lucy Haslam, the mother of the late-medical marijuana campaigner, Dan, has criticised the state government for moving too slowly to provide access to the drug to the ill. Ms Haslam, whose son died in February, five years after being diagnosed with cancer, testified before a federal Senate inquiry held at the NSW parliament on Tuesday. "We cannot afford to wait for the results of clinical trials," Ms Haslam said. "Don't dismiss the urgent need of people now. "If someone with a terminal illness says that their pain is less [. . .] what are we worried about? [continues 233 words]
In a Russian Hill apartment, 17 women passed around cannabis-infused gluten-free vegan blueberry almond granola and rubbed marijuana-based topical cream into their shoulders. The attendees - lawyers and chefs and nurses and tech executives among them - inhaled from vaporizers and erupted in laughter when a woman lauded the aphrodisiac wonders of "Sexx-pot," a new strain of Humboldt County -grown herb that she recently smoked with her husband. For Amanda Conley, the host, it was "a Tupperware party for cannabis." [continues 972 words]
MONTREAL - A teen girl who was strip-searched at a Quebec City high school in a highly publicized case has lost her bid to return to the same institution. The family's lawyer had sought an injunction, challenging the suspension and allowing her to return to the Neufchatel High School, which had suspended her last month. Family lawyer Francois-David Bernier said Quebec Superior Court Justice Bernard Godbout rejected the request Monday. Bernier had argued an urgent need for the 15-year-old girl to return to her old school to save her school year. The school had countered with a spot in a school for students with learning difficulties. [continues 279 words]
10-Year-Old Suffers Rare Kind of Epilepsy Family Says Extract Could Ease Her Seizures BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Ten-year-old Alexis Carey has a rare but intractable form of epilepsy, Dravet Syndrome. The genetic disease causes severe and multiple seizures, which often leave parents guessing if the terror of watching their child seize up will pass or turn fatal. Her Boise, Idaho, family learned that oil extracted from marijuana had helped other children and wanted to see if it would help Alexis, too. [continues 564 words]
Joyce Shanks doesn't want to contemplate what she'd do if her child were strip-searched at school. "I would lose it and so would my husband," said Shanks, whose daughter attends Grade 7 at a school in a Montreal suburb. The debate over the strip search of a 15- year-old girl at a Quebec City high school on Feb. 12 forced Education Minister Yves Bolduc to backtrack on comments made Tuesday that condoned the search of the girl, who was suspected of carrying marijuana. [continues 471 words]
But education minister defends high school principal's actions MONTREAL - Quebec's education minister is under fire for defending high school officials who strip-searched a 15-year-old female student they suspected of selling drugs - an incident that has shocked some but appears to be well within the bounds of Canadian law. Yves Bolduc said the province's schools have guidelines setting out how and when education officials can bypass police and order students to submit their clothing to a rigorous search. [continues 669 words]
DUBAI - A four-year jail sentence given to a 25-year-old British woman for consuming hashish was overturned on Sunday. The woman's lawyer, Saeed Al Ghilani, told the Dubai Court of Appeal that his client was prescribed medicinal marijuana because she has bipolar disorder. "She had been referred by the criminal court to the Rashid Hospital. This hospital is not specialised in evaluating one's mental health. In less than half an hour, they concluded that she was fine and suffers from nothing," said Mr Al Ghilani. [continues 229 words]
LAKE PARK, Iowa - Over a year ago on New Year's Day, Jeri Goodell was caring for her grandson, Garrett, when the toddler started gagging. Soon his face turned blue. Goodell, a registered nurse, was terrified. She called 911. Garrett, now 3, was born with a congenital heart defect and a genetic condition that causes bones in his skull to fuse together. It took nearly a year for doctors at three different hospitals to also diagnose Garrett with intractable epilepsy, seizures that can't be controlled well or at all with medication. [continues 916 words]
Video Campaign Created to Help End the Bloodshed Two Metro Vancouver mothers who lost their children to gang violence six years ago say they hope a new anti-gang video campaign will help steer youth away from the deadly lifestyle. Brianna Kinnear's mother Carol is featured in a video campaign aimed at steering youth away from gang violence. In the videos, she talks about Brianna, who was shot dead at 22 in 2009. Carol Kinnear, who's featured in six videos created by the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit and Odd Squad Productions, says she wants to spare other parents from the devastating pain that has rocked her family. [continues 439 words]
DENVER a=C2=80" A new pot spray promising to help women have better sex will hit the shelves in Colorado next week. Foria, which contains marijuana extract, claims the relaxing properties of cannabis will help women have better and more satisfying sex. It's been available for a few months in California, but only to people with a medical marijuana card and doctor's recommendation. The edible coconut oil-based spray a=C2=80" users spritz it on their genitals [continues 513 words]
Penny Ashley knew her son had a heroin addiction problem and did everything in her power to get help for him, but it still proved to be not enough. She along with other family members and friends are grieving the loss of Jacob Charles Ashley of Southgate, who died Sunday, Jan. 4, 2015, at the age of 21. Born in St. Marys, Ohio, on Oct. 26, 1993, he moved to Wyandotte in 2004. He graduated from Roosevelt High School and then went on to Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn where he participated in Ford Automotive Student Service Educational Training. The ASSET program is a 24-month, six-semester associate's degree training program that provides students with skills to succeed in the automotive industry. He graduated from the program and was working in the body shop at Southgate Ford. [continues 480 words]
Trim bitches. Grow hos. Potstitutes. If you know what those terms mean, you know that our county's most prominent industry has what politicians call "a woman problem." But it's probably not the problem you think. There's something that raises our collective hackles about a woman gaining the favor of a rich man by dint of her beauty and youth. Gold diggers, we call them: scorned bearers of an unearned status, threats to the basic building block of social harmony that is marriage, debasers of true affection. [continues 978 words]
BESSEMER - An autopsy has found that an 18-year-old Brighton woman died in the Bessemer City Jail after a drug overdose. Sheneque Proctor was found dead Nov. 2, less than 24 hours after being arrested on disorderly conduct and other charges after a disturbance at a Bessemer motel. Authorities have said that Proctor struggled with police during the arrest, and that officers used pepper spray on her. Al.com reports that the Jefferson County Coroner's Office found that the cause of her death was complications of overdosing on a combination of drugs. The autopsy states that tests found cocaine, methadone and alprazolam in her system. Alprazolam is used to treat anxiety disorders, panic disorders, and anxiety caused by depression. The coroner's report lists the manner of death as accidental. [end]
Top court denies appeal of verdict in grow-op case The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear an appeal of a lower court decision that returned a home used as a marijuana grow op to its owner after it was seized by the Crown. The nation's top court announced the decision to deny leave of appeal to Alberta Justice and Solicitor General on its website Thursday and awarded legal costs to Heng Kiet Kouch, whose home was seized under the province's civil forfeiture legislation. [continues 499 words]
She Provided 70 Clean Urine Samples, Yet Her Girls Were Taken From Her at Birth Because of Controversial Hair Test The last time Christine Rupert saw her daughters was in a dingy church basement in Kitchener, surrounded by awkward and emotional reunions between other parents and their kids. It was September 2008. Molly, an 18month-old with fine brown hair and wide eyes, sat as if glued to her mom's lap. Emily, 6 months, mainly snoozed in her car seat. [continues 2905 words]
Ontario's Child Advocate Lauds Review Of Five Years' Worth Of Lab Tests At Sick Kids Ontario's child advocate is praising Queen's Park's decision to probe the reliability of hair drug tests performed at the Hospital for Sick Children, used in child protection and criminal cases. "I welcome the move," Irwin Elman, provincial advocate for children and youth, told reporters Friday. "The move to be more transparent, to look into it, is important. I couldn't presuppose what the inquiry will find, but it's a positive step." [continues 285 words]
Medical Marijuana in US Is Giving 7- Year- Old Kiwi Better Seizure Control and Motor Skills, Says Her Mother Hannah Norton For the first time in seven years, Jessika Guest feels like she is getting to know her daughter Jade. Since trialling medical marijuana in Colorado, seven-year-old Jade's seizures have dropped from 30 to 40 a day to five or less, and from 30 seconds each time to three or five seconds. "[ It] has been a big success," Mrs Guest said. [continues 437 words]
NEW YORK (AP) - A woman who was in custody on a drug-related arrest died after suffering an apparent seizure while she was being processed, according to the New York Police Department. Authorities say 22-yearold Jasmine Lawrence of the Bronx had been arrested around 8 p.m. Saturday on Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn on charges of criminal sale of marijuana and unlawful possession of marijuana. She was put into a holding cell at the 79th precinct around 10 p.m. as her arrest was processed. Police said shortly before midnight she had an apparent seizure in the cell area. Emergency medical personnel arrived minutes later. She was taken to the hospital at 12:44 a.m. Sunday, and pronounced dead a short time later. The medical examiner will determine cause of death. [end]
In response to Dr. Mike's Jordan's guest column opposing legalizing medical grade marijuana: How naive, as a medical practitioner, to downplay serious medical ailments such as "back pain, headaches, and anxiety." Are you not obligated to patients to find the best, most authentic cure for any of their conditions? Yes, cancer and seizures are devastatingly painful for millions of Americans. These diseases must be treated with optimal attention and care. We must keep fighting for cures, and in the meantime, afflicted individuals should receive appropriate pain treatment. [continues 233 words]
Regarding 'Science wins:' Al Byrne uses the work of Melanie Dreher to support his view that marijuana is harmless, indeed even helpful, to pregnant women and their babies. Unfortunately, this work is only one work carried out on a very small sample of 33 users and 27 non-users in the early 1980s. Although this work is important, subsequent studies have disproved much of her work. In addition, today's marijuana is not your mother's marijuana. It is a much more potent form. [continues 257 words]
