Jeremiah Vandermeer

Jeremiah Vandermeer

Activism

A federal appeals court upheld the conviction and 10-year sentence Wednesday of a medical marijuana advocate who grew 32,000 pot plants for patients and fellow Rastafarians on his land in Lake County.
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CANNABIS CULTURE - For the latest news on Marc Emery, CCHQ, and Canada's cannabis community, watch new episodes of The Jodie Emery Show each week on Cannabis Culture. In this episode: Jodie talks about the continuing medical marijuana dispensary raids in Canada and the latest news about her imprisoned husband Marc Emery.
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CANNABIS CULTURE - Watch Cannabis Culture News LIVE for the latest news and views on pot politics and the marijuana community. In this episode: Obama's War on Marijuana. Allen St. Pierre, Executive Director of NORML, joins the show to discuss the latest developments in the US government's continuing crack-down on medical marijuana.
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CANNABIS CULTURE - Listen up: Cannabis Culture editors Jodie Emery and Jeremiah Vandermeer joined radio host Casper Leitch on his syndicated show TIME 4 HEMP yesterday to discuss Marc Emery and the fight for marijuana legalization in Canada.
Medical

A decade ago, Canadians were a lot happier: Their government seemed to be on the brink of decriminalizing marijuana, and it was also instituting a nationwide program to meet the needs of med-pot patients. But that progress has become mired in bureaucracy and political grandstanding.

As journalists filmed Mexican soldiers burning a record-breaking 300-acre (120 hectare) field of marijuana earlier this month, they learned the old lesson of these public displays: You don't actually get high from all the smoke. The plants have to be more mature and fully dried out to release their active psychedelic properties, and all the fumes waft straight up to the clouds rather than into your lungs.

A new study in mice has found that activating a receptor affected by marijuana can dramatically reduce cocaine consumption. The research suggests that new anti-addiction drugs might be developed using synthetic versions of cannabidiol (CBD), the marijuana component that activates the receptor—or even by using the purified natural compound itself.
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