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Town Backs Medicinal Pot 
Posted by CN Staff on June 14, 2006 at 06:52:52 PT
By Alexis DeLaCruz
Source: Steamboat Pilot & Today
Steamboat Springs -- Oak Creek's decision Monday to pass a resolution supporting medicinal marijuana has some residents questioning the Town Board's interest in issues not related to official town business.The resolution -- which originally was scheduled for a vote during the Town Board's May 8 meeting -- was tabled after some residents expressed concern and anger about it.
The lengthy resolution calls for the town to urge U.S. Rep. John Salazar, a Democrat, to support an amendment preventing the federal government from interfering with state medicinal marijuana laws. If passed, the amendment, which was introduced in May by U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-N.Y., would prevent the U.S. Department of Justice from spending any funds to prosecute patients, doctors and others who are associated with the use of medical marijuana in states that allow the drug for medical purposes. Salazar is scheduled to vote on the amendment at the end of June. In 2005, Salazar voted against the amendment. During the June 8 Oak Creek Town Board meeting, several community members and town employees chastised Town Board members for considering the resolution. The critics argued that Town Board members were not representing the town by voting on such a resolution. Town Board members agreed that they shouldn't vote on the resolution without community support, so they decided to check the town's 2000 election results to see how Oak Creek residents voted on a state referendum about legalizing medicinal marijuana. Oak Creek Mayor Kathy "Cargo" Rodeman said Tuesday that after learning that 263 residents voted in favor of legalizing medicinal marijuana and 175 voted against it, she felt comfortable signing the resolution and sending it to Salazar. Rodeman said Town Board members agreed they would pass the resolution if they found that more than half the voters supported the issue in 2000. "We didn't want to move forward with this if we found that more people in Oak Creek were against it. We were willing to keep our mouths shut and let them fight it out in the Senate if we didn't have the support," Rodeman said. Public Works Director Jim Photos was one of the residents who opposed the town voting on the issue Thursday. "It doesn't matter if I'm for the issue (of medicinal marijuana) or against it," Photos said. "As a Town Board, their function is to govern the town. The way I look at is they're there for our water and sewer and electric issues, not this. I wanted to express my opinion that these were not issues the town should be handling."Rodeman said she wanted to be clear that the town is supporting a resolution that only encourages Salazar to vote in favor of the amendment. "I truly believe that the federal government should not be telling doctors what to do or prosecuting terminally ill patients for using the medicine their doctor prescribed them," she said. David Bonfiglio, an Oak Creek resident and owner of Bonfiglio Drug, said he was pleased town officials considered the 2000 election results before passing the resolution. But he doesn't think the town should have passed the resolution because of the image it gives Oak Creek."Passing a resolution like that labels the community as ‘pro-marijuana.' I'm not sure there are a lot of people in this community that want that label," he said.Instead of tackling the issue without community input, Bonfiglio thinks Town Board members should have got in touch with community members -- especially those with opposing viewpoints -- to discuss the issue before they passed it. "If you think you're representing the town but you never get out there to see what people think, how can you be sure?" he said. "I don't think any governmental body should make a judgment that affects their people without talking to them."Note: Not all Oak Creek residents agree with town resolution.Newshawk: Global_warming Source: Steamboat Pilot & Today, The (CO)Author: Alexis DeLaCruz Published: Wednesday, June 14, 2006Copyright: 2006 The Steamboat Pilot & TodayContact: editor steamboatpilot.comWebsite: http://www.steamboatpilot.com/CannabisNews Medical Marijuana Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/medical.shtml
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Comment #34 posted by The GCW on June 15, 2006 at 15:36:04 PT
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Comment #33 posted by global_warming on June 15, 2006 at 15:08:22 PT
re: volcano
it happens around 140 degrees F, some simple experimentation, a thermocouple reading thermometer, maybe a simple 40 watt light bulb and a plate above it can simply reproduce similar results..This is so indecent, "Look What They've Done To My Song, Ma"(As recorded by Melanie)
MELANIE SAFKALook what they've done to my song, ma
Look what they've done to my song
Well it's the only thing that I could do half right
And it's turning out all wrong, ma
Look what they've done to my song.Look what they've done to my brain, ma
Look what they've done to my brain
Well they picked it like a chicken bone
And I think I'm half insane, ma
Look what they've done to my song.I wish I could find a good book to live in
Wish I could find a good book
Will if I cold find a real good book
I'd never have to come out and look
Look what they've done to my song.It'll be all right ma, maybe it'll be okay
Well if the people are buying tears I'll be rich someday, ma
Look what they've done to my song.Ils ont change ma chanson ma
Ils ont change ma chanson
C'est la seule chose que je peuz faire
Et ce n'est pas bon ma
Ils ont change ma chanson.Look what they've done to my song, ma
Look what they've done to my song
Well they tied it up in a plastic bag and they turned it upside down
Look what they've done to my song, ma.Look what they've done to my song, ma
Look what they've done to my song
It's the only thing I could do all right and they turned it upside down
Look what they've done to my song, ma.(c) Copyright 1970 by Kama Rippa Music, Inc. and Amerlanie Music, Inc. All rights
administered by Kama Rippa Music, Inc., 1650 Broadway, New York, New York 10019. - SONG HITS, Summer 1974.We all have Hope, and may we all find Grace.
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Comment #32 posted by Max Flowers on June 15, 2006 at 09:52:27 PT
Regarding the Volcano
and how expensive it is... two words: German engineering.A Mercedes is just a car, but look how expensive it is. Same thing with the Volcano.
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Comment #31 posted by Max Flowers on June 15, 2006 at 09:51:02 PT
lombar (#15)
I just ordered and received a Cannabrex kit. I'll let you and everyone here know how it works out.
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Comment #30 posted by The GCW on June 15, 2006 at 05:37:17 PT
Passing statewide innitiative 110 fixes it. 
SAFER's efforts to pass a statewide resolution similar to innitiative 100 in Denver will fix the problem.Is that correct?I believe the petition process is in progress but I Am not hearing a thing about it.It would be in the best interest of cannabists to organize well and get this done in Colorado; get it on the ballot for November and get it passed.State politicians have already stated they will honor the law and must honor the law if it passes statewide.http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/21/thread21641.shtml
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Comment #29 posted by afterburner on June 14, 2006 at 20:25:58 PT
Dankhank - Hawking feedback
Voices: Colonizing space.
Jun. 14, 2006
http://tinyurl.com/m4wbs
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Comment #28 posted by whig on June 14, 2006 at 18:58:52 PT
Sam Adams
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/06/14/bush-reporter-shades/
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Comment #27 posted by Sam Adams on June 14, 2006 at 18:11:01 PT
video
Where's the video of Bush? Anyone have a link?
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Comment #26 posted by mayan on June 14, 2006 at 17:33:11 PT
PRO-MARIJUANA 
"Passing a resolution like that labels the community as ‘pro-marijuana.' I'm not sure there are a lot of people in this community that want that label," he said.Obviously,well over half of them don't mind!Remember when Bush waved at Stevie Wonder? I can't believe this idiot is our president.
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Comment #25 posted by Dankhank on June 14, 2006 at 17:26:14 PT
more ...
http://www.sylviaengdahl.com/space/quotes.htmmany great minds agree, and so do I
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Comment #24 posted by Dankhank on June 14, 2006 at 17:21:55 PT
Hawking ...
 is a great mind and he knows a good concept when he hears one. Robert Heinlein said much the same decades ago."The human race is much too precious to keep all of it's eggs in one basket."
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Comment #23 posted by billos on June 14, 2006 at 17:13:18 PT
      SaM
Yes...I did see the video of Bush making fun of a blind reporter. I also saw him swear that the RePugs would maintain power in the House this fall. Very scary. 
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Comment #22 posted by OverwhelmSam on June 14, 2006 at 16:00:00 PT
This Is Interesting
The town collectively called on their US Representative to vote FOR restricting the Federal Government from being cruel to the sick. I'm ashamed that our government enjoys arresting drug addicts."The resolution -- which originally was scheduled for a vote during the Town Board's May 8 meeting -- was tabled after some residents expressed concern and anger about it."Hate Mongers. Gotta Luv them. Someone needs to pull them aside and tell them that it's okay, most cannabis consumers just smoke a little to relax and unwind after work.Did anyone see Bush making fun of a blind reporter at a press conference on the White House lawn? What a jackass.
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Comment #21 posted by global_warming on June 14, 2006 at 14:48:13 PT
Touchy Area
"A spokeswoman for Salazar said the congressman hadn't received the request and could not comment."You can bet that the Salazar team is mulling this turn of events into the evening.How will Salazar vote? Yay or Nay?Will Salazar shaft the majority?Will Salazar vote Nay and take his chances?Does Ex-Congressman Salazar consider Life as an ex-congressman?Welcome to the "MIX", oh, and please "Don't Bogart That Joint My Friend".
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Comment #20 posted by Toker00 on June 14, 2006 at 14:43:49 PT
I wonder.
Would those road side drug tests work on someone who vaporized vs. smoked? You could inhale and exhale through your nose and not get any inside your mouth where they take swab tests, maybe? Toke.
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Comment #19 posted by Toker00 on June 14, 2006 at 14:34:30 PT
Thanks, guys.
Maybe I'll make a Christmas present of one to my wife and myself. The extra yield and the absence of burned material HAS to be worth it. Good explanations. And, thought it is inhaled, it is not SMOKED CANNABIS, so technically, when it is rescheduled, there should be no arguments about SMOKED CANNABIS. Vaporization. Sounds like good clean fun!Toke. 
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Comment #18 posted by billos on June 14, 2006 at 14:33:36 PT
           Home made Vaporizor
I saw a video on, and tried, a homemade vaporizor that seems to work very well. It consists of a small stainless plate, 3x6 or so, a 1 lb. propane cyl., and a thin putty knife. You lay the cannabis on the plate, about as much as in a joint, heat the putty knife to dull red (does not take long) and press the knife onto the cannabis while holding an open bottom plastic bottle over the whole thing. The cannabis vaporizes and is sucked through the top of the bottle. Works very well, just like a vaporizor. I know it's vaporized and not burned because I work out and could tell the difference in my lungs. It was as if I hadn't smoked for a week or so and hasn't impeded my breathing since at all. Has anyone else tried this????
I also figured that if a cop saw you with a 1 lb. propane cylinder, a putty knife, and a small SS plate there would be no way he could prove it to be paraphinalia.
Works for me!
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Comment #17 posted by Sam Adams on June 14, 2006 at 13:45:39 PT
volcano
Althought the volcano seems simple, it has a couple innovations that make it work extremely well. One is the valve system that controls air going into the balloon. But the most important thing they invented was the heating system, it does an excellent job of heating all the herb evenly and thoroughly, an area where other vapes don't measure up.Why is it so expensive? The innovation and machining of the above parts. BUT, the biggest reason for the price is that fact that it's made by German professionals who have to live in Germany, not poor 3rd-world people that live on a dollar a day, like most other manufactured items in the US these days. I'm sure when they reach a certain volume of production, they'll be able to invest in a bigger factory and benefit from economy of scale.Also, the dollar is weak compared to the Euro, that adds another 20 or 30% to the cost. It seems that most investors worldwide believe the EU's economic model is a better bet than ours.The Volcano price has already dropped quite a bit in the last few years, I expect that will continue. 
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Comment #16 posted by FoM on June 14, 2006 at 13:09:25 PT
Related Article from The Rocky Mountain News
Rep. Salazar Asked To Support Medical Marijuana*** By Deborah Frazier, Rocky Mountain News June 14, 2006The rural northwestern Colorado town of Oak Creek has asked Rep. John Salazar to support a federal bill to bar the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration from arresting, raiding or prosecuting patients who have a doctor's prescription to use marijuana for medical purposes. 
Last week the town council passed a resolution proposed by Mayor Kathy Rodeman in support of the Hinchey-Rohrabacher Amendment which would stop the U.S. Justice Department from going after patients in the 11 states where medical marijuana is legal. The amendment failed last year, but is scheduled for a vote in the House this summer. "There are a lot more serious problems plaguing this country than going after terminal patients," said Rodeman. On Monday, the Oak Creek Town Board voted to ask Salazar to support the bill. He voted against the measure last year. Reps. Diana DeGette and Mark Udall, both D-Colo., voted in favor of the amendment along with Reps. Bob Beauprez and Tom Tancredo, both R-Colo. A spokeswoman for Salazar said the congressman hadn't received the request and could not comment.Copyright: 2006 Rocky Mountain Newshttp://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/elections/article/0,2808,DRMN_24736_4774165,00.html
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Comment #15 posted by lombar on June 14, 2006 at 12:41:03 PT
Cannabis eating
There is a company that sells kits for making tabs, specifically cannabis. They claim that the extra stuff they supply makes the cannabis way more effective. I cannot say whether their claims are true or not, the price was a bit much. For those who absolutely cannot smoke or vaporize, that stuff might be the answer.
Cannabrex
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Comment #14 posted by lombar on June 14, 2006 at 12:37:39 PT
Volcano
Storz-Bickel only uses good quality stuff in their product, it is built to last. That is why it costs $500. There was one in the BC Marijuana Party Headquarters that got used A LOT and it has not broken (to the best of my knowledge). Also there is a 3 year warratee (which you wont need most likely). IT may seem like a lot but what price do you put on just inhaling the active ingredients without all the extra by-products of combustion(whether or not smoke is bad). It is also 3-4 times more efficient makig your herb yield more active ingredients. No smoke, very light smell, great for stealth(older ones have louder fans) The drawback is that smoked herb does not taste as good. If you have a house, every fall you gather up the leaves and some people burn them...smoking tastes like the pile of burning leaves smells.What is in it that costs so much? Quality workmanship that is built to last. I have not heard of one breaking so maybe you might only ever have to buy one.I would like to see a study on the effects of long term use of the vapor? Does it cause any damage? I bet researchers in the USA would not even get permission to do the study. So the prohibs claim there is no future in smoked cannabis as medicine, fine. That is not the only way to ingest it. Those people who stand in opposition have no compassion whatsoever.Maybe there is a correlation between empathy and compassion and cannabis users. There is certainly a lack of compassion associated with the denial of meds because 'it might send the wrong message'.
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Comment #13 posted by whig on June 14, 2006 at 10:53:39 PT
Hope
My experience of eaten cannabis is that it is different in effect from smoked or vaporized.
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Comment #12 posted by Hope on June 14, 2006 at 10:20:36 PT
Volcano or Joint or.........
An occasional joint...if you like them...and pipe hits, Volcanoes, whatever...but probably the most intriguing delivery system, to me, is, cooked ground cannabis in vegetable gelatin capsules with cannabis oil or other fat.Popping a few of those babies a few times a day would likely be so beneficial to the body, the mind, and it's health...not to mention making life, perhaps, and everything about it, a bit sweeter than it already is for those who benefit from the consumption, whatever form, of cannabis.Cannabis tinctures also sound fascinating and useful.How bout a refreshing cannabis skin toner or body spray?Mmmmmmm.
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Comment #11 posted by Hope on June 14, 2006 at 10:11:37 PT
Volcano
That's been something of a wonder to me, too. Titanium? Platinum? Gold screen?Maybe it's a one man operation and he can make only one or two a week.It is rather mysterious. When they can be a big company and make lots of them more easily...they will likely be sold extremely much cheaper.Turkey basting bag connectors? 
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Comment #10 posted by afterburner on June 14, 2006 at 09:54:16 PT
OT Hawking: Humans Must Spread Out in Space
Hawking: Humans Must Spread Out in Space.
By SYLVIA HUI,
Associated Press Writer.
June 13, 2006, 10:38 PM EDT.
AP World News.
http://tinyurl.com/ou77t
HONG KONG"The survival of the human race depends on its ability to find new homes elsewhere in the universe because there's an increasing risk that a disaster will destroy Earth, world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking said Tuesday."Related Link:The High Frontier by Gerard K. O'Neill
http://www.space-frontier.org/HighFrontier/
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Comment #9 posted by FoM on June 14, 2006 at 09:43:50 PT
Toker00 
It's money that's what they want. It's all about the money.
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Comment #8 posted by Toker00 on June 14, 2006 at 09:40:32 PT
I have a question.
What technology is involved in a Volcano that makes it so expensive? I understand the benefits make a higher price acceptable, but $500.00? Is a lot of this charge to pay for the upstart of the company that manufactures and sells them? How long before the price would conceivably be lower? I want one, but dang, I could spend that money on something else as well. But I can't think of anything that would have MORE benefits than the Volcano. Good health is precious. I suppose I should be willing to pay the price, huh?About the article from JP, post #1 by FoM. That is so complicated. Why not just write a script for a Volcano? And, don't THC and CBD find their OWN way around in the body? Why do they need a "delivery" system? Dumb questions, but only until someone answers them. I know it's about Profit, but I want to help end the concept of HEALTH FOR PROFIT. Medical care should be FREE. No one should have to pay to feel WELL! Why do I feel that 90% of the cost for good health is BS?Wage peace on war. END CANNABIS PROHIBITION NOW!
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Comment #7 posted by ekim on June 14, 2006 at 09:28:25 PT
afterburner things that make you go hummmm
Afterburner if you google Genencor you see that Danisco has acquired Genencor which was the company that has done the research with NREL on industrial enzymes for breaking down cellulose to fermentable sugars for ethanol and plastics.
If you google Danisco you see that last year Aria Foods and Danisco got more subsidies from the EU than anyone else in their native Denmark. So Genencor International Inc had a three year 17 million contract with the US Dept of Energy Biofuels Program to develop and validate processes for improved cellulase enzymes that meet the intended objectives at one-half the cost of currently available technologies. 
http://www.ethanol-gec.org/fall2001/fall15.html Seems that sunopta is in Canada. i did not have any luck with this link. But looks like it is well underway in the cellulosic area. 
A few months ago at WMU in Kalamazoo the EX Cia Dir, James Woolsey said that Canada is doing much with cellulosic ethanol. He also said that the USA must allow the Farmer to grow Hemp for National security. Mr Woolsey said he is a member of the North American Hemp Assocation.SunOpta Announces Progress on Cellulosic Ethanol ActivitiesSunOpta Announces Progress on Cellulosic Ethanol Activities.
www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/01/30/1325835.htm - http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=35238Ethanol Facility to Use Wheat Straw Feedstock August 12, 2005 Toronto, Canada [RenewableEnergyAccess.com] While corn is primarily used to distill ethanol, a new facility in Spain will convert wheat straw as the ethanol's feedstock. 
http://www.thehia.org
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Comment #6 posted by afterburner on June 14, 2006 at 08:44:56 PT
ekim RE biofuels
US progressive democracy (initiative, referendum, and recall) has a far better chance of promoting this important future fuel source than the top-heavy Canadian federal approach. There is more local control in the US, provided that we can muzzle the prohibitionists and move the hearts and minds of Congress toward compassion and energy self-sufficiency!The Canadian Federal Government licences hemp growers, but the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police do "not condone the growing of ... hemp." Yet, in order to qualify for a federal licence "a grower must obtain a letter of 'No Objection' from the local police authority."
How can an Ontario citizen hope to start a hemp farm for fuel when the local police oppose it even though the federal government allows it?Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police Link: {RESOLUTION 96-4: GROWING OF LOW THC HEMP. Approved by the Board of Directors at the 45th Annual General Me. [Meeting] http://www.oacp.on.ca/content/positions/view_resolution.html?id=3{WHEREAS; the Federal Government is presently allowing the cultivation of low THC marijuana for use as raw material in the production of paper, cloth, building material and other products, WHEREAS; to grow such crop, a licence must be obtained from Health and Welfare Canada. Before such licence is issued, a grower must obtain a letter of "No Objection" from the local police authority, WHEREAS; although Health and Welfare Canada issues the licence, they do not have a regulatory body in place to ensure there is no abuse, as they perceive this to be a police issue, WHEREAS; police are not a crop assessment body and should not have to take samples and analyze them to determine THC levels. Nor should the police be required to assess security or monitor a hemp crop grown under a licence issued by Health and Welfare Canada, BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police until such time as appropriate regulations, monitoring systems, security and enforcement procedures are implemented by Health and Welfare Canada, does not condone the growing of low THC hemp.}
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Comment #5 posted by ekim on June 14, 2006 at 08:02:24 PT
national renewable energy lab in Golden Co. NREL
ot -- CO is the labatory for testing the new biofuels. The Cellulose Ethanol research shows the most promise for mass production of trans fuel. The brave board members of Oak Creek are ahead of the curve and have nothing to fear from the truth. Soon the elected lawmakers will not dare vote against moving the country toward renewable energy and regulating the Cannabis plant/Bipartisan Group of U.S. Senators Endorses 25x'25 Initiative 
June 13, 2006 
 http://www.25x25.org/Washington, DC [RenewableEnergyAccess.com] Late last week, a bipartisan group of Senators and Representatives introduced a Congressional resolution calling for a new national renewable energy goal: 25% of the nation's energy supply from renewable sources by 2025. The resolution builds on a broad and politically influential coalition including agriculture, industry, and environmental leaders, as well as several governors and state legislatures. \http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=35238Ethanol Facility to Use Wheat Straw Feedstock 
August 12, 2005 
 Toronto, Canada [RenewableEnergyAccess.com] While corn is primarily used to distill ethanol, a new facility in Spain will convert wheat straw as the ethanol's feedstock. Here is an NREL Press release about Genencor/NREL winning a Top 100 R&D
award in 2004.
http://www.nrel.gov/news/press/2004/3404_technologies_lauded.htmlwww.manisteecountychamber.com
June 16-18- Michigan Renewable Energy Fair:
To highlight energy efficiency, renewable energy, and energy technology.
Manistee County Fairgrounds, M22 in Onekama.
Contact Brendan Schauffler, 517-646-6269.
http://www.manisteecountychamber.com
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Comment #4 posted by Sam Adams on June 14, 2006 at 07:51:14 PT
My suggestion
Let's hold another referendum, one that concerns the 175 people voting against medical MJ for their neighbors. Let's hold a referendum on whether to take away their medicines. It'll be great. I'm sure the cops will cooperate, they can get their SWAT toys out & knock in some new doors. Then they can bust the pharmacist for conspiracy and distribution and seize his assets.  It will make just as much sense as banning medicinal cannabis, and just as fair.
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Comment #3 posted by Had Enough on June 14, 2006 at 07:30:58 PT
Pharmacists - Pill Rollers 
“Passing a resolution like that labels the community as ‘pro-marijuana.' I'm not sure there are a lot of people in this community that want that label," he said.Instead of tackling the issue without community input, Bonfiglio thinks Town Board members should have got in touch with community members – “”especially those with opposing viewpoints”” -- to discuss the issue before they passed it.
 "If you think you're representing the town but you never get out there to see what people think, how can you be sure?" he said. "I don't think any governmental body should make a judgment that affects their people without talking to them."”263 residents voted in favor of this in 2000. 175 against.
Here goes another one of these Pharmacists. Looks like David Bonfiglio, an Oak Creek resident and owner of Bonfiglio Drug, is concerned with more than a town image.“especially those with opposing viewpoints”So you would like the deck stacked in your favor. I wonder if that is how you got your Pharmacists License.
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Comment #2 posted by mai_bong_city on June 14, 2006 at 07:09:44 PT
drug store cowboy
"Passing a resolution like that labels the community as ‘pro-marijuana.' I'm not sure there are a lot of people in this community that want that label," he said.
AND he OWNS a DRUG STORE - surprise, surprise.
it would 'label' them as 'pro-patient', 'pro-active', 'pro-gressive', and NOT 'pro-hibitionists'
but so much for sanity, eh?
i'm sorry but i don't believe any town council or any political body has the right to deny the sick the medicine they need - they don't belong in our bodies if they are not doctors, not the citizens, not the governors, none....
this is not a political issue, it's a medical one. 
but on a positive note, bully for them telling the feds where they stand on it, at least.
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Comment #1 posted by FoM on June 14, 2006 at 07:02:20 PT
News Article from The Jerusalem Post 
Israeli Researcher Lowers Blood Pressure with Cannabis Component***By Judy Siegel  June 14, 2006
  
  A new method for lowering blood pressure with a compound that synthesizes a cannabis (hashish or marijuana) plant component has been developed by a Hebrew University doctoral student in pharmacology. For his work on the cardiovascular activity of cannabinoids (chemical compounds derived from cannabis), Yehoshua Maor has been named one of the winners of this year's Kaye Innovation Awards, to be presented on Tuesday during the university's 69th annual board of governors meetings. The Kaye Innovation Awards, established by British pharmaceutical industrialist Isaac Kaye, have been given annually since 1994 to encourage HU faculty, staff and students to develop innovative methods and inventions with good commercial potential to benefit the university and society. Not all patients respond well to conventional hypertension drugs. But the cannabis plant, through its chemical compounds, has been shown to have a beneficial, hypotensive effect. But a drawback in the therapeutic use of cannabinoids has been the undesirable psychotropic properties such as hallucinatory effects. Attempts to separate the hypotensive action from their psychotropic properties have been only partially successful until now. Working under the supervision of Prof. Raphael Mechoulam at the HU School of Pharmacy, Maor - a native of Brazil who immigrated to Israel in 1998 - has created a synthetic version of a minor cannabis constituent named cannabigerol, which is devoid of psychotropic activity. In laboratory experiments with rats, in collaboration with Prof. Michal Horowitz, it was found that this novel compound reduced blood pressure when administered in relatively low doses. Additional testing also showed that the compound also brought about another beneficial effect - relaxation of the blood vessels. A further beneficial property observed in work carried out with Prof. Ruth Gallily was that the compounds produced an anti-inflammatory response. Maor says these qualities could be combined to create a valuable new clinical drug with major market potential, especially for diabetic patients suffering from hypertension, since reductions in blood pressure can decrease the risk of diabetes complications and in others with metabolic irregularities. Meanwhile, former Russian immigrant Elena Khazanov, 34, will also receive a Kaye Prize for developing a novel method for combining two anti-cancer drugs into a single delivery system, thereby dramatically improving treatment efficacy. Khazanov, who arrived here 12 years ago, developed her drug delivery system as a PhD student under the tutelage of Prof. Yechezkel Barenholz of the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School's biochemistry department. Khazanov used an approach called combination therapy, in which two or more agents are introduced within a single delivery unit, with the result that the combination has a better beneficial chemotherapeutic effect than otherwise would be possible. Her work was based on the previous success of HU scientists with the delivery system for an anti-cancer drug, doxorubicin (DXR), which resulted in development of DXR delivery through sterically stabilized liposomes (SSL), which are ball-like fatty molecules. A highly successful medication based on that research has been manufactured by SEQUUS Pharmaceuticals and is marketed as Doxil. Khazanov aimed to combine DXR with ceramides, a family of fatty molecules found in high concentrations within cell membranes. These act as signaling molecules, triggering programmed cell death in many types of cancer cells. However, the physical and chemical properties of ceramides make them unusable by themselves for therapeutic application in vivo. Her efforts ultimately proved successful in formulating a novel drug delivery system consisting of SSL that contained both DXR and ceramides. In laboratory tests on mice, the synergism between the two drugs resulted in an improved therapeutic benefit over Doxil alone. The fact that both were delivered by one tiny SSL liposome enables long plasma circulation time and liposome-selective delivery to the tumor site by their introduction into the tumor through pores present in the tumor blood vessels. Additional trials, including therapeutic efficacy studies in mice bearing different tumors, plus toxicology studies of this new liposome formulation, are continuing to ultimately enable human clinical trials. Patents have been secured through Yissum, HU's technology transfer company, to enable further development of the delivery system. 
New, non-invasive therapies for treating diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, viral and microbial deep skin infections and erectile dysfunction are being developed by Prof. Elka Touitou, another Kaye Prize recipient from the pharmacy school. The new approach uses a specially designed, patented topical delivery system known as Ethosome for targeting drugs directly to the disease site. Touitou invented the system with a group of her students and postdoctoral fellows. Ethosome provides a dermal delivery system that overcomes the natural skin barrier that has prevented anti-cancer drugs applied on the skin from reaching their targets. Drugs encased in Ethosome are able to penetrate even into the deep skin layers where basal carcinoma cells occur, thereby providing a non-invasive alternative to surgical intervention. A number of clinical studies, including a recent one on the use of Ethosomalprostaglandin for treatment of impotence, have shown their efficiency, and the delivery system can be used in cosmetic compounds. New and safer compounds for treatment of epilepsy patients and those suffering from other neural disorders have been developed by Prof. Meir Bialer and Prof. Boris Yagen. Their work at the pharmaceutics, medicinal chemistry and natural products department at the pharmacy school is also being recognized by a Kaye Prize they will share. They developed a potential alternative for valproic acid (VPA), one of the leading anti-epileptic drugs, which has been used as a central nervous system treatment since 1967, but which also has serious safety drawbacks. Its side effects can cause damage especially to children or women of child-bearing age. Patents have been obtained by Yissum. The Barenholz Prize for Creativity and Originality in Applied Research will be presented to a 29-year-old HU doctoral student at the pharmacy school, for her work in discovering a way to prevent restenosis - recurrent blocking of coronary arteries after angioplasty (balloon therapy). The award, named for its donor, cancer researcher Prof. Yehezkel Barenholz, will be presented during the board meetings to Hila Epstein-Barash. In her research, she and her colleagues hypothesized that if the macrophages that accumulate in the area of the angioplastic treatment could be inactivated, the problem could be solved. The problem was how to deliver a cell-specific drug that could achieve this. 
In their research they found that this could be accomplished through the use of bisphosphonates - bone-seeking agents used clinically to treat osteoporosis - which have high affinity to calcium and are assimilated into bone tissue by osteoclasts - which are closely related to macrophages. The problem before them was how to reach the targeted area of macrophages in the blood vessels, since the drug alone, due to its chemical makeup, is not able to cross cell membranes. The researchers subsequently found that by encapsulating the bisphosphonates in liposomes, the drug could be delivered to the macrophages in the blood vessels that had been opened by angioplasty. The scientists found that a single injection of liposomes containing bisphosphonates, soon after angioplasty, significantly prevented restenosis in rat and rabbit models, markedly reducing the thickness of the inner wall of the affected arteries and leaving enough room for the blood to circulate. Pre-clinical trials are now proceeding in Australia, using this procedure which is non-toxic and presents no side effects.  
   
 
   
 
     
 
  
   
   
 
 
  
 
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