Thanks to CD from Toronto, Canada for sending in some good food for thought… Have a great weekend fellow tokers!

Sometimes, in order to embrace your destiny, you have to be willing to make some changes in your life, be willing to examine where you are and what you need to move forward. Maybe you need to change some friends that you’re spending time with. Maybe they were fine for a season in your life, but you’ve outgrown them. This is a new season, and in order for you to rise higher, you have to break away from relationships that are limiting you; Develop new friendships with people who are going to pull you up and inspire you to rise higher.

If you are the smartest one in your group, your group is too small. Find people who are smarter than you are, people who will challenge you to stretch to the next level and become everything you were created to be. Those who walk with the wise becomes wise. Choose your friends wisely so that you can walk and live in the destiny that’s in store for you.

There were 3 men and they all died in a car crash and went to hell. When they got there the devil asked them all in turn a question.
To he first he said “what was your biggest sin on earth?” and the man replied “Oh man I just love alchol and being drunk man” so the devil showed the man to a room full of alchol of every type and description and he put the man inside and said “see you in 100 years” and locked the door.

To the second man he asked the same question and the man replied “oh man I just love to have sex with the ladies, I was really unfaithful to my wife man”. So the devil took the man and showed him to a room full of hundreds upon thousands of georgeous and beautiful naked women. The man ran inside and the devil said “see you in 100 years” and locked the door.

The third man’s answer to the question was “oh man I just LOVE weed! Im high all the time man and I can’t live without it!”. The devil showed the man to a room packed with the most amazing grade-A bud you’ve ever seen, stacked to the roof! The man went inside and the devil locked the door after saying “see you in 100 years”.

100 years later the devil came by to let the three men out. He opened the door to the first man’s room and found the man collapsed on the ground, passed out with empty bottles laying around him and puke all over him. He was a mess.
The devil opened the 2nd man’s door and the man came running out of the room and cried “IM GAY! IM GAY!”. Finally the devil came to the third man’s room and opened the door. Sitting in the middle of all the bud, in the exact same position the devil had left him in was the man. He looked up at the devil and with a single tear rolling down his cheek he asked ; “hey man, got a light?

If you’re reading this, you probably know the benefits about the green and how it gets you drunk with a delicious pint of funniness that only few will understand. Recently I’ve met alot of people who have never ever ever smoked the green (good for them) but almost every single one of them viewed the green as a drug and those that partook in the holy circle of puff puff and pass as ‘druggies’. For the first time, I felt hurt and sad; but not for myself, for their poor unedumacated souls who have got the wrong idea about something so natural but still seen as taboo thanks to how it’s portrayed in the media but certain conservative channels. People need to start looking at green as ‘A BETTER ALTERNATIVE TO CIGARETTES’ because it really is. Good on Cali for leading the way like our Dutch brothers by making the green legal. Good on Cali for introducing Weed-Cream (Marijuana IceCream), and Good on Cali for finally looking straight in the face of the US government and saying – FUCK YOU, WE WANNA GET HIGH NOT GET DOWN (in the Arnold Voice)… Thats my thought for this wednesday morning!

When U.S. District Court Judge Ricardo Martinez sentenced Emery in Seattle on Friday, he told him there was no question his actions were criminal and that Emery ensured others broke the law by selling them the seeds. umm yea …. dont you think that the U.S government should be prosecuting people who break the law in their own country rather than marc emery …

Emery was indicted in 2005, but it wasn’t until May of this year that he was extradited from Canada and left for Washington State after a plea agreement. She said right after court adjourned on Friday, his lawyer went to the Canadian consulate in Seattle to submit the paperwork to have Emery transferred back to Canada to serve his sentence here. hopefully he’ll be allowed to carry out his sentence in canada ….

The court noted that Emery claimed on his website to have made about $3 million a year for selling about four million seeds over the years from his Vancouver headquarters. that’s a lotta dough for sellin dope ….

*marc emery an his wife jodie pictured above

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As featured on Yahoo News – By Anne-Marie Tobin, The Canadian Press

TORONTO – Smoking pot can make some of the pain go away, without the patient getting high.

The finding comes from what researchers in Montreal believe to be the first outpatient clinical trial of smoked cannabis, involving 21 people with chronic neuropathic pain.

The results, which included improvements in mood and sleep, were published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Dr. Mark Ware and colleagues at McGill University and McGill University Health Centre got the ball rolling for the study almost a decade ago, but found it was a long road to get all the necessary approvals and import a convincing marijuana placebo from the United States. But they plowed ahead, supported by a grant from the Canadian Institute for Health Research, because they felt it was important to generate some scientific data.

Marijuana is illegal in Canada but can be used medicinally in some circumstances. In 2001, Health Canada brought in marijuana medical access regulations outlining conditions for possessing, producing and using the herb for medical purposes. Despite the years that have passed, “the debate rages on about medical marijuana,” Ware said. ”We hear this a lot from policy makers and from regulatory colleges, especially here in Canada … there is very little evidence, and many of them aren’t aware of any evidence that smoked cannabis has any medical value.”

Marijuana with potencies of 2.5 per cent, six per cent and 9.4 per cent of the active ingredient THC were obtained from Prairie Plant Systems, the company that was given a government contract 10 years ago to produce a safe, standardized supply of marijuana.

A placebo came from the U.S., where an alcohol extraction process was used to remove the active ingredient, and the herb was reconstituted so it looked like a green leafy material, Ware said. There was a lot of paperwork and back-and-forth. ”Importing cannabis from the United States is not a trivial issue in this environment,” Ware noted. Patients were given a special pipe bought on the Internet and 25-milligram capsules of a substance to put in the pipe and light. The smoke was to be inhaled once — three times a day for five days — and patients didn’t know whether they were getting a placebo or one of three different potencies of active drug.

Participants used each strength of marijuana product for five days, separated by nine days of washout without cannabis. ”They would inhale that in a slow, smooth, single inhalation, hold their breath for 10 seconds,” then exhale slowly, Ware said. The first dose was in the hospital, under observation. ”Even with this kind of fixed dosing and limited exposure, we were able to show in a blinded fashion that the patients did obtain some analgesia, improvements in sleep quality and on one of the subscales of the quality-of-life measure, we found that the anxiety was mildly improved as well,” Ware said.

“This may help in developing policy, or improving policy, or improving doctors’ willingness to consider this as an approach when all else has failed.” Side-effects — the euphoria associated with smoking pot — were “very, very rare,” Ware said. ”I think because the doses we used were very low,” he explained. ”The plasma levels which we found, and which are reported in the trial, show levels of THC in the blood of around … 40 to 50 nanograms per millilitre in the plasma. And we know that recreational users hit blood levels of around 100 and 150 nanograms per millilitre.”

Prairie Plant Systems now offers medical marijuana that is 12 per cent THC, Ware observed.

“So would we get better results if we had slightly higher THC levels, would we get better results if the patients could use it for longer periods, or if they could use it more frequently during the day?” he asked. “I think these are questions that we can’t answer.” Prof. Henry McQuay, who works at a pain relief unit in Oxford, U.K., wrote a commentary in the journal, saying that the researchers should be congratulated for tackling the project given that the regulatory hurdles “must have been a nightmare.”

“The big picture here is a political one in a way, where Canada has decided to legalize medicinal use of cannabis in this arena, but many other countries have not,” he said in an interview. ”It’s another brick in that wall, that says here’s evidence that some people do indeed show some pain-relieving benefit from smoking cannabis.”

Dr. Igor Grant, director of the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research at the University of California in San Diego, said the finding is consistent with data reported from his centre, “and basically shows that there is a beneficial effect of smoked cannabis on neuropathic pain.”

“The potencies we have typically used have been around four per cent and as high as seven per cent, so that (9.4 per cent) is a higher potency than we’re experienced with,” he said. ”But in reading the article, it seems like the patients tolerated it reasonably well.” Neuropathic pain is a bit different than the pain of a broken leg, for instance, and is a more chronic, burning, unpleasant sensation, he explained.

“Many patients don’t respond completely to existing treatments, and so it’s useful to have another agent … available, and I think there’s good evidence now cannabis may represent one of those additional agents.” The researchers say more studies are needed using higher potencies of marijuana, longer duration and flexible dosing to see if pain levels can be reduced even further.

Grant remarked that smoke inhalation raises several issues, and his centre is completing two studies on pain using a vaporization form of cannabis. ”People who are non-smokers may have difficulty tolerating it (smoke),” he said. “Secondly, there’s the issue of second-hand smoke, which people may not like.” There are also the side-effects of smoking, and practical issues, such as concerns about lighting up in a hospital where there are oxygen tanks, he added.