By "Radical" Russ Belville on May 8, 2012
If your strategy to legalize the use of plant cannabis by all people for any reason is to preach “All use is medical/wellness”, cannabinoid pharmaceuticals is where you’ll end up. There exists a paradigm for the medical / wellness use of substances, and it lies in the realm of doctors and pharmacists and prescriptions and manufactured drugs. However, there also exists a paradigm for the recreational use of substances, and it lies in the realm of taverns and bartenders and DUI laws and ID checks and home brewing.
Posted in SCIENCE | Tagged All Use is Medical, Austria, belgium, Big Pharma, british, Canada, cannabidiol, CBD, Czech Republic, Denmark, Europe, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Marinol, medical marijuana, multiple sclerosis, netherlands, New Zealand, pharmaceuticals, Poland, Portugal, Sativex, Spain, sweden, synthetic THC, The Netherlands, UK, Wellness
By "Radical" Russ Belville on January 25, 2012
Once again, Discovery Channel Weed Wars star and Harborside CEO Steven DeAngelo was interviewed on a cable news channel. This time it’s not MSNBC or FOX where DeAngelo is dismissing recreational marijuana smokers, it’s CNN. DeANGELO: As for recreation, I don’t believe that very many people really, truly use cannabis for recreation — or anybody, really. [...]
Posted in ACTIVISM, ENTERTAINMENT | Tagged All Use is Medical, CNN, Steven DeAngelo, Weed Wars
By "Radical" Russ Belville on January 20, 2012
Part 1 of interview with Dr. Lester Grinspoon, Harvard Emeritus and medical marijuana pioneer; music by Melodramus.
(View the full interview with Dr. Grinspoon at http://youtu.be/9CbVxa8by8k)
Posted in NORML SHOW LIVE | Tagged All Use is Medical, Americans for Safe Access, Carl Sagan, Dr. Lester Grinspoon, Fly Away, Harvard, Melodramus, Michigan, Missouri, Parliament, Rockin' Friday, Urb Age Designs, Urb Thrasher
By "Radical" Russ Belville on December 22, 2011
Now is the time to get to the fear and self-interest that works in our favor. Until the voter fears the status quo of prohibition more than the mystery of a new legal substance, fear of medmj adding to the “drug problem” is going to keep us in a defensive posture of approving stricter and stricter medical marijuana regulations You can’t get the medmj for anxiety wellness approved outside California so long as voters think “druggies” can fake anxiety.
Posted in ACTIVISM, LAW ENFORCEMENT, LEGISLATION, SCIENCE, SOCIETY | Tagged All Use is Medical, Crossroads Debate, David Malmo-Levine, Wellness