The Conservative Party of Canada faces more challenges scoring political points with its base over drug laws now that a court has ruled patients have a constitutional right to consume medical marijuana derivatives. The Supreme Court of Canada unanimously ruled that medical marijuana users can consume edible medical marijuana products such as cannabis oils, teas and brownies. That means six-year-old Liam McKnight of West Carleton does not have to smoke joints to help ease the frequent and severe seizures he experiences as a side effect of his rare form of epilepsy. [continues 485 words]
Family of Summerland toddler 'thrilled' with Supreme Court decision that makes treating her with cannabis oil legal Overjoyed only begins to describe the reaction of Kyla Williams's family to the Supreme Court of Canada's ruling that expands the definition of medical marijuana to include extracts and derivatives. The quality of life of the three-year-old Summerland girl diagnosed with intractable seizure disorder has dramatically improved since she began treatment with cannabis oil early last year. On Thursday, the high court ruled that medical marijuana patients can use cannabis-infused cookies, tea and oils without breaking the law. [continues 546 words]
Lisa Smith is outspoken about the good effect that medical marijuana has on the symptoms of her son Noah's autism. She's so passionate about it that she spoke at a public hearing before the state committee charged with making recommendations on adding qualifying conditions under the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act. Actually, there may not have been hearings had it not been for Smith. A couple of years ago the committee voted against autism as a qualifying condition, and once they do that the issue is usually not revisited. But after seeing the effect that marijuana had on her son's autism after she used it to treat his epilepsy, Smith sued the state Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA), which oversees medical marijuana certifications, to force the office to take another look at it. [continues 831 words]
Young Girl's Epilepsy Has Left Her Developmentally Delayed; Oil Combats Seizures THORNHILL, Ont. - Gwenevere Repetski turns three next month and she is finally able to crawl, a milestone her parents thought they would never see. She was just an infant when she was diagnosed with epilepsy, a debilitating neurological disorder that has left her developmentally delayed. "She was kind of like a bag of Jell-O," says her mother, Reagan Repetski. When she was two years old, she could hardly roll over when she was placed on her back, adds her father, Alex. [continues 1231 words]
Gwenevere Repetski turns three next month and she is finally able to crawl, a milestone her parents thought they would never see. She was just an infant when she was diagnosed with epilepsy, a debilitating neurological disorder that has left her developmentally delayed. "She was kind of like a bag of Jell-O," says her mother, Reagan Repetski. When she was two years old, she could hardly roll over when she was placed on her back, adds her father, Alex. Sitting in the living room of their Thornhill, Ont., home, the Repetskis recall their stressful and emotional journey in search of a treatment for Gwen. [continues 338 words]
Gwenevere Repetski turns three next month and she is finally able to crawl, a milestone her parents thought they would never see.. She was just an infant when she was diagnosed with epilepsy, a debilitating neurological disorder that has left her developmentally delayed. "She was kind of like a bag of Jell-O," says her mother, Reagan Repetski. When she was two, she could hardly roll over when she was placed on her back, adds her father, Alex. Disappointed at the lack of treatment options, Alex dove down the research rabbit hole. That's when he first read articles about the success some people said they were having in reducing epileptic seizures with cannabidiol, one of several active cannabinoids found in the marijuana plant. [continues 304 words]
Lawyer suggests Sick Kids may 'have discovered more problems' The "stakes are too high" to allow the Hospital for Sick Children's Motherisk laboratory to perform hair drug and alcohol tests for use in court, the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted (AIDWYC) says. In a letter to retired Appeal Court Justice Susan Lang, who is probing the reliability of five years' worth of drug tests on hair conducted by Motherisk, AIDWYC's James Lockyer argues that such analysis should only be done in a forensic lab, which has more rigorous standards than a hospital setting. [continues 860 words]
Marc and Jodie's online magazine claims pregnant women smoking pot helps with nausea and emotions - but studies say otherwise Marc Emery's online magazine, Cannabis Culture, encourages marijuana use during pregnancy for relief of nausea, loss of appetite and to help get emotions under control. "Most studies say cannabis is perfectly safe during pregnancy, but it's controversial, of course!" said Jodie Emery, Marc's wife and well-known marijuana activist. In one online article, Dr. Kathy Galbraith, known as "Dr. Kate," writes, "Pot can be safely used during pregnancy, and can help with several of the discomforts/problems associated therewith." [continues 343 words]
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]
