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1. CBS Poll shows majority believe medical marijuana isn’t being used only to alleviate suffering among the sick and dying
2. Copenhagen, Denmark, votes to legalize marijuana
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4. Washington cops organization unanimously rejects I-502
5. $3 pot bust leads to felony charges for Lake County teen

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Today I have Mary Jane from Marijuana Music Awards entry, Locobrigida.  Hailing from Denmark, Locobrigida is a genre crunching artist, combining electronic, reggae, metal, and pop in a very unique way! Featuring dance beats and ripping, almost Eddie Van Halen like guitar solos, Mary Jane will definitely take you for a ride.

Her myspace page states:

Locobrigida… loves disco, dub, electronica and 80s metal-guitar, so she decided to mix it all into a highly energetic and entertaining cocktail: danceable grooves, hooklines that stick like super-glue, furious fretboarding, craziness, and a feeling that this is familiar, yet fresh and new…

No matter how you classify her music, it’s definitely worth a listen.

You can find Locobrigida at: www.myspace.com/locobrigida and www.youtube.com/locobrigida and on iTunes!

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(Politiken.dk) A large majority of the Copenhagen City Council decided tonight to again ask the Minister of Justice for permission to introduce experiments with free hashish.

The proposal, tabled by the Socialists, got a majority of 41 yes votes to 12 no-votes.

“It is a huge majority in Copenhagen, who votes for this majority. We feel that the marijuana policy, we have had in 30-40 years, not working, “said Lars Rasmussen Aslan from the Socialists in Copenhagen to politiken.dk

City after city, state after state, country after country, we’re finally waking up to the reality that cannabis is a part of our society that will never go away and that we need to have intelligent regulation that allows adults to make adult decisions regarding the herbs they will use.

Pot-induced psychosis may signal schizophrenia

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – People who have long-lasting psychotic episodes after smoking marijuana may be exhibiting early signs of schizophrenia, researchers reported Monday in the Archives of General Psychiatry.

“Cannabis-induced psychosis,” in which a person loses touch with reality and the symptoms persist for at least 48 hours, is an established psychiatric diagnosis, but it is controversial, Dr. Mikkel Arendt of Aarhus University in Risskov, Denmark, and colleagues note in their report. 

In a previous study, Arendt and colleagues found that nearly half of people who had an episode of cannabis-induced psychosis went on to develop schizophrenia within the next six years. In the current study, the researchers looked at the genetic roots of both conditions by comparing the family histories of 609 people treated for cannabis-induced psychosis and 6,476 who had been treated for schizophrenia or a related psychiatric condition.

They found that individuals treated for post-pot smoking psychotic episodes had the same likelihood of having a mother, sister or other “first-degree” relative with schizophrenia as did the individuals who had actually been treated for schizophrenia themselves. This suggests that cannabis-induced psychosis and schizophrenia are one and the same, the researchers note. “These people would have developed schizophrenia whether or not they used cannabis,” Arendt explained in comments to Reuters Health.

Based on the findings, the researcher says, “cannabis-induced psychosis is probably not a valid diagnosis. It should be considered schizophrenia.”

Even as we’ve complained that no data show that cannabis use causes schizophrenia, we’ve been told that for those who are genetically predisposed to schizophrenia, there seems to be a correlation between cannabis use and onset of psychotic symptoms.  So while it may not be psychologically dangerous for most of us, there is that 1% minority that would be harmed, so we have to ban it for everyone.

But this report counteracts even that claim.  In the conclusion of the report, the study authors note, “The degree of hereditary predisposition in individuals who receive treatment of cannabis-induced psychosis closely mirrors that in those who develop schizophrenia with no history of cannabis induced psychosis.”  This seems to tell us that when you take a look at a group of schizophrenics, whether they smoked pot of not, they still had the same genetic chances of becoming schizophrenics – the pot use didn’t matter!

Schizophrenia is rare and it comes on slowly for some.  This “cannabis-induced psychosis” is really just people in the beginning stages of schizophrenia who happen to smoke pot, and the pot is getting blamed.  It would be as valid to say the schizophrenic having an episode in a Krispy Kreme shop was suffering from “donut-induced psychosis”.