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against ignorance and prohibition extends the information * The proposal is led by Congressman Barney Frank, a Democrat representing Massachusetts
in the House of Washington. Frank says U.S. should stop arresting responsible marijuana users. "The current laws against marijuana put unnecessary burdens on the resources of the defense of the law, punish ill Americans whose doctors have prescribed them and also susbtancia unfairly affect African Americans," said Congressman . Several NGOs also support the proposal, saying that laws against marijuana should resemble those of alcohol. This new bill, HR 5843, would not affect existing laws that criminalize the planting and importation of the substance. Caracol Radio Source
Mexico City
.- The fraction of Alternative in the House of Representatives presented a Bill for consumers of cannabis , which among other objectives change poses imprisonment for information and educational. also allow consumers to grow up to three marijuana plants in their homes and hold up to three grams of the drug. The proposed reform is not unusual for the decriminalization of marijuana, but regulate it, which would eliminate the so-called "drug dealers, ‿ the black market and give consumers different penalties on producers and distributors.
At a press conference, Deputy Elsa Conde
, Alternative,
on Tuesday announced that the full Legislature will be presented this initiative which proposes that the war on drugs focuses on organized crime and not the persecution of those who consume it, sometimes even for medicinal or curative. He said backed party of the Democratic Revolution and Work in the presentation of this bill, which intends to launch a debate to replace prison sentences for consumption by others for information, guidance and educational Milenio.com
Source
* What if the vice president of a major world powers decided to plant cannabis sativa in cold blood? What if I chose a priest gardening expert to ensure the success of plantations? How many would the outcry?
At the beginning of the seventeenth century, grow and do business with the cannabis was a normal currency. And in a realm likevisionary
Portugal, which expanded its ocean networks across continents as a colonial power. A book, colonial conflicts, the Brazilian historian Nireu Cavalcanti (still unpublished-dito in Spain), reveals the intense romance of the Portuguese crown with marijuana. Not only brings out the first maritime power of the story had an intense relationship with this plant and its fiber. The author even claims that the Portuguese naval power owes much to the fiber obtained from this plant, which was used in the construction of sails, ropes and other parts of the vessel. The already controversial book reveals that the Viceroy Luis de Vasconcelos
(1779-1790) was commissioned to provide the final push to the real cannabis plantations. De Vasconcelos encouraged to do the creation of an institution of the monarchy in Cangussú, inside the state Rio Grande do Sul. A plantation of marijuana, also managed directly by the Crown. Father Francisco Rodrigues Prates Xavier - "naturalist and connoisseur of culture and extraction of flax and hemp fiber, as described in the book, was appointed head of the extraction of this plant, Mr.Cannabis, by direct appointment viceroy. Cavalcantti recently told the newspaper O Globo that in 1789 the seeds of cannabis sativa was used as a medicinal plant. addition, to remove iron pot-participation of the crown, the historian says there are few references to drug use of the substance.
Other historians, says the newspaper O Globo, argue instead that the marijuana came to Brazil before the government initiative, aboard slave ships. Some even note that was used as a drug in such vessels. And from there to the rites of Candomblé of African heritage. The novelty of the book
colonial conflicts lies in the enhanced support of the Crown to cannabis sativa. "Only from the time when the State solves production assume things are going," he told O Globo historian. In fact, the divine planting Prates Xavier was a resounding success. The cargo ship arrived in Lisbon Ulises April 4, 1789 with 472 pounds of flax and hemp. More information on
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* Use of Cannabis Sativa plant goes back thousands of years old and today its therapeutic potential is clear. Contains over 60 active ingredients not psychotropic, whose biological activity is shown for any of them. This is the case with the research group Eduardo Muñoz, based on the psychoactive effects of cannabis on intestinal inflammation and carcinogenesis. These cultivars are more similar to hemp to marijuana.
Many of the therapeutic activities of cannabis are associated with the same active ingredient that induces the psychotropic effects of this plant, 9Δ-tetrahydrocannabinol (9Δ-THC), a chemical that affects the central nervous system, causing changes in behavior, mood or percepeción, so its medical application is very limited. Cannabis psychoactive (mood changes, inhibits pain and / or alter the perception and can lead to dependence) is being used to alleviate the symptoms associated with chemotherapy (antiemetic), to improve appetite in AIDS patients, in some types of neuropathies and multiple sclerosis. For this last disease, the company GW Pharmaceuticals (UK) has developed the drug Sativex approved in Canada and as a drug for compassionate use.
The group University of Córdoba
Eduardo Muñoz directing the company is working with VivaCell Biotechnology Spain in the development of a variety of Cannabis Sativa 9Δ free-THC (range CARMA), which contains other bioactive psychotropic cannabinoids. "In most cases, when we are asked by our research emphasizes the psychotropic effects of cannabis and our investigation has nothing to do with these effects," stresses Muñoz. This plant has produced a well-standardized extract of phyto-positive health effects, "which has already been patented in Europe. Scientists began Cordoba work in the Sixth Framework Programme, a European project called CANNABIS-between 2005 and 2007 - where he worked several pubic schools (universities of Cordoba, Novara and Giessen), and European companies (VivaCell Biotechnology GmbH, Cerebricon Ltd and William Ransom & ; Son plc), coordinated by Professor Michael Heinrich (School of Pharmacy, University of London). Its objective was to identify different crops of Cannabis sativa to develop herbal drugs against diseases such as migraine and rheumatoid arthritis. The strategy was to develop crop plants with 9Δ-THC (psychoactive) for migraine, and plants without 9Δ-THC (non-psychoactive) for arthritis. Following Project, the UCO group has shown that certain crops genetically Cannabis sativa can be selected by VivaCell phytopharmaceutical to develop an anti-inflammatory activity prevents the development of colon tumors in animals associated with inflammation. These results were presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the English Society for Research on Cannabinoids, research that was awarded. More information on
Andalucia Research *
marijuana production in the U.S.
reaches 20 percent of the total planted worldwide and exceeds the corn grown in that country, says a report the World Drug Report 2008, published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC, for its acronym in English). The document, which had access to the Bolivian Information Agency
cites United States has only 4.5 percent of the world's population owns 45 percent of all cocaine users in the world. words, U.S. consumers are ten times more (these consume ten times more) than any other country in the world. Not only cocaine consumed in the United States actually ranks second among illicit drugs preferred by the Americans (31.6 percent of consumers).
First is marijuana, with 35.3 percent of all illicit drug users. While in the third and fourth with a 12.4 amphetamines and opiates percent to 9.8 percent, respectively.
In this context, the "black list" prepared by the United States government calling the effort made by countries on drugs does not correspond to any similar efforts made by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and has no correspondence with its own fight against drug trafficking.
Despite all the talk about "the war on drugs", the number of consumers and demand drug did not significantly lower in the north country. ABI
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Beckley Foundation took his research to the British Parliament to be taken into account in the Assembly, 2009
"Cannabis is harmful, but unless the alcohol or snuff." This conclusion was reached by a study from the prestigious English Beckley Foundation, a nonprofit organization that promotes research on states of consciousness in the use of psychoactive substances. The transcendence of this is not only the results of the study, but where were presented: in the House of Lords of Parliament Britain, as part of a symposium with a view to the debate on the substance that next year will be held in the special session of the UN General Assembly and will be advised of the Beckley Foundation. addition, the report argues that governments should "seriously reconsider" its current policy of prohibition of cannabis
. Events like this serve to trigger again the eternal debate on the legalization of marijuana in Argentina. Source Criticadigital.com
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