Medical marijuana milestone: Zip ties sold

"Medical marijuana milestone: Zip ties sold"

These Zip Ties guaranty that

1, the grower of the pot has a PhD. in Pharmacology,

2, any excess pot is immediately destroyed.

3, dosage in every joint is the same.

4, Each joint lives up to FDA Medical purity

5, Zip Tied marijuana is "Child Approved"

And while your at the Sheriffs office picking up your Zip Ties make sure you also get a couple of packs of ALLMAN brand ZIP-ZAGs

ALLMAN's, Zip Tie marijuana is drug fun for all ages.

Is this really the kind of Sheriff we all voted for?

Herbert D. Kleber, M.D., a professor of psychiatry and the director of the Division on Substance Abuse at Columbia University, believes rigorous FDA testing is necessary before the smoked form of marijuana is made available to patients.


Marijuana is a mixture of the dried leaves, stems and seeds from the cannabis sativa plant. While delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the main psychoactive cannabinol and the one that causes intoxication, there are more then 400 other chemicals, 60 of which are referred to as cannabinoids. The potency of any given batch is a function of the genetic strain and the growing conditions (sunlight, moisture, temperature, etc.). Potency in the U.S. today ranges from as low as 1-3 percent (common in the 1970s) to 8-10 percent with potencies higher than 20 percent reported. Approximately 9 percent of individuals who try marijuana end up addicted to it and a withdrawal syndrome has been clearly described. The younger one starts use and the more one smokes during adolescence, the greater the likelihood of harmful effects. There are hundreds of thousands of individuals applying annually for substance abuse treatment where marijuana is the primary drug.

During intoxication, marijuana disrupts short-term memory, attention and judgment as well as impairing coordination and balance. The withdrawal syndrome is similar to nicotine withdrawal (increased anxiety, trouble sleeping, irritability, etc.) except that appetite is decreased. The withdrawal symptoms last a few days to a week or more and can be so difficult for some individuals that relapse is high even after abstinence has been reached. THC is fat soluble and can be stored in various organs for weeks after last use and can persist in the urine for up to a month. There are a number of very serious side-effects including increased likelihood of cancer, impaired immune system and increased chance of other drug problems such as addiction to opiates. Recently, substantial evidence has been published linking marijuana use to earlier onset of schizophrenia and other psychoses.

New findings on marijuana's damaging effect on the brain show the drug triggers temporary psychotic symptoms in some people, including hallucinations and paranoid delusions, doctors say.

British doctors took brain scans of 15 healthy volunteers given small doses of two of the active ingredients of cannabis, as well as a placebo.

One compound, cannabidiol, or CBD, made people more relaxed. But even small doses of another component, tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, produced temporary psychotic symptoms in people, including hallucinations and paranoid delusions, doctors said.

The results, to be presented at an international mental health conference in London on Tuesday and Wednesday, provides physical evidence of the drug's damaging influence on the human brain.

"We've long suspected that cannabis is linked to psychoses, but we have never before had scans to show how the mechanism works," said Dr. Philip McGuire, a professor of psychiatry at King's College, London.

In analyzing MRI scans of the study's subjects, McGuire and his colleagues found that THC interfered with activity in the inferior frontal cortex, a region of the brain associated with paranoia.

"THC is switching off that regulator," McGuire said, effectively unleashing the paranoia usually kept under control by the frontal cortex.

In another study being presented at the conference, a two-day gathering of mental health experts discussing the connections between cannabis and mental health, scientists found that marijuana worsens psychotic symptoms of schizophrenics.

Doctors at Yale University in the U.S. tested the impact of THC on 150 healthy volunteers and 13 people with stable schizophrenia. Nearly half of the healthy subjects experienced psychotic symptoms when given the drug.

While the doctors expected to see marijuana improve the conditions of their schizophrenic subjects — since their patients reported that the drug calmed them — they found that the reverse was true.

"I was surprised by the results," said Dr. Deepak Cyril D'Souza, an associate professor of psychiatry at Yale University's School of Medicine. "In practice, we found that cannabis is very bad for people with schizophrenia," he said.

While D'Souza had intended to study marijuana's impact on schizophrenics in more patients, the study was stopped prematurely because the impact was so pronounced that it would have been unethical to test it on more people with schizophrenia.

"One of the great puzzles is why people with schizophrenia keep taking the stuff when it makes the paranoia worse," said Dr. Robin Murray, a professor of psychiatry at King's College.

Having friends who use marijuana or other substances, such as alcohol and cigarettes, is the No. 1 warning sign that a teenager is likely to smoke marijuana as well, a new study shows.

Researchers looked at what risk factors influence teenagers to start experimenting with marijuana or move from experimental to regular use and found three major risk factors consistently had the biggest impact at all phases of marijuana use among both boys and girls.

At the top of that list is the use of other substances, including alcohol and cigarettes, by the teen or his or her friends. Teens in this category were nearly three times as likely to become regular marijuana users than others.

Two other factors that strongly predicted marijuana use at all stages were delinquency or trouble with the law and school-related problems.

Religious involvement reduced the risk of starting to experiment with marijuana among girls and slightly reduced the risk of transitioning from experimental use to becoming a regular marijuana user.

Risk Factors For Marijuana Use In Teens

In the study, researchers looked at factors associated with marijuana use among a group of more than 13,700 high school students in the U.S. The students ranged in age from 11 to 21 and were surveyed as part of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health in the USA in 1995 and 1996.

The study showed that more than half of the students who had experimented with marijuana in the first survey continued to use the drug either experimentally or regularly a year later.

Researchers examined the impact of 21 well-established risk factors for adolescent substance use and abuse on five different stages of marijuana use. Three risk factors were the strongest predictors at all stages: the adolescent's own involvement and peer involvement with substances, delinquency, and school problems.

When all three of these risk factors were present, they increased the risk of a student starting to experiment with marijuana by a factor of 20 over the next year.

Researchers say marijuana use during adolescence is associated with a variety of psychological and health problems.

For example, short-term risks associated with marijuana use among teens include traffic accidents and unprotected sex. Long-term use of marijuana can also reduce their chances of graduating from high school and increases the risk of using other substances and psychiatric problems such as depression, anxiety, and suicide.

How To Know If Your Child Is Using Marijuana

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, children using marijuana might exhibit the following signs:
Seem dizzy and have trouble walking

Seem silly and giggly for no reason

Have very red, bloodshot eyes

Have a hard time remembering things that just happened
When the effects of the drug fade away they may seem very tired. Parents should also look for other symptoms such as withdrawal, depression, fatigue, carelessness with grooming, hostility, and deteriorating relationships with family members and friends.

Sources: van den Bree, M. Archives of General Psychiatry, March 2005; vol 62: pp 311-319. News release, Cardiff University. National Institute on Drug Abuse Web site.

In a major setback for the medical marijuana movement, the U.S. Supreme Court has indicated emphatically that there is no medical necessity exception for marijuana in federal drug laws, reports CBS News Correspondent Barry Bagnato.

Monday's 8-0 decision was a disappointment to many sufferers of AIDS, cancer, multiple sclerosis and other illnesses. They have said the drug helped enormously in combatting the devastating effects of their diseases.

Justice Stephen Breyer did not participate because his brother, a federal judge, initially presided over the case.

"In the case of the Controlled Substances Act, the statute reflects a determination that marijuana has no medical benefits worthy of an exception (outside the confines of a government-approved research project)," Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the unanimous court.

Thomas noted the act states marijuana has "no currently accepted medical use."

The federal government triggered the case in 1998, seeking an injunction against the Oakland Cannabis Buyers Cooperative and five other marijuana distributors.

U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer, brother of the justice, sided with the government. All the clubs except the Oakland group eventually closed down, and the Oakland club turned to registering potential marijuana recipients while it awaited a final ruling.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the lower court, ruling that medical necessity is a legal defense. Charles Breyer followed up by issuing strict guidelines for making that claim.

New research from Canada shows that some toxins may be more abundant in marijuana cigarettes than tobacco cigarettes.

The researchers burned 30 marijuana cigarettes and 30 tobacco cigarettes on a machine in their lab, measuring levels of chemicals in the smoke.

Ammonia levels were up to 20 times higher in marijuana smoke than in tobacco smoke. Levels of hydrogen cyanide and nitrogen-related chemicals were three to five times higher in marijuana smoke than in tobacco smoke.

Here we are Vetrans get a break,now what is the reason for the
Medical people? Why are they included?
Originally,Vetrans and Disabled were on the list.NOW it's Medi-cal!
Forget the Disabled..........
It's no wonder Our State of California is going under.Give more to
Medi-cal users.Whoever is making the Rules,must be NUTS.
Besides,where does the Tax Payers voice be heard.You sure don't see
Medi-cal people paying.Now the State gives them the right to buy
anything with their Welfare Checks and Food Stamps.Take your Card to
WalMart,you can buy anything. This State sucks! No wonder the State
of California is closing the State Parks and Beaches,taking away our
fundings for our Childrens Education. Support Medi-Cal folks.To bad
the President and Govenor Arnold ..,, don't have to give up their
Paychecks to Medi-Cal. It is beyond time for we the Tax payers need
to Voice our Opinion's. And don't forget, Our Great Sheriff of
Mendocino County Tom Allman,he may decide the Rules on Zip Ties but
he had to have been sitting on his Brains when he gave a half price
off for Medi-Cal users and forgot the Disabled and Old Folks who get
very little Social Security.Bad decision on his part.I say he's not
so smart.

Not a great idea to give that info to the police.
Even the people at American for Safe Access say not to tell police anything about your garden.

Willits watcher has severe mental illness. Ignore him .

wow. it almost looks like watcher ate some hawaiian spam...

The pressure is really high for those Willits folk...SWAT took all there money away, and now they just have time to cry about it on the internet! I think Allman is a stud! His family owned the grocery store/ convienent store in Garberville for years, taking all the Dope growers tax free money/ Now he's doing it for a living! Mendocino and Humbolt Counties have been good to the Allmans......Maybe Willits " Cry baby " is on the wrong side of the Dope Fence!

reality checker wrote:

wow. it almost looks like watcher ate some hawaiian spam...

I wish someone besides me would keep up with the SCIENCE.

Study Debunks Claim That Pot Smoking Causes Mental Illness
Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:19:24 By: Paul Armentano

Much has made — by the mainstream media and others — of the claim that cannabis use causes certain types of mental illness, specifically schizophrenia and psychosis.

Most notably perhaps, a team of researchers writing in the July 28, 2007 edition of the prestigious scientific journal The Lancet, boldly proclaimed that smoking cannabis could boost one’s risk of a psychotic episode by 40 percent or more.

Naturally, this alarmist rhetoric received wall-to-wall coverage by the mainstream press. Even more troubling, the supposed ‘pot-and-schizophrenia’ link was one of the primary reasons cited by British PM Gordon Brown, ex-Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and others as the impetus for reclassifying cannabis (from a verbal warning to a criminal offense punishable by up to five years in jail) in the United Kingdom.

Of course, there was a fatal flaw with The Lancet’s argument — one that, oddly enough, every single MSM outlet failed to mention. Empirical data did not support the investigators’ hypothesis that smoking marijuana was associated with increased rates of schizophrenia or other mental illnesses among the general public — a fact that even the authors begrudgingly admitted when they declared,“Projected trends for schizophrenia incidence have not paralleled trends in cannabis use over time.”

Which brings us to 2009.

Two years after The Lancet’s dire predictions, a team of researchers at the Keele University Medical School have once and for all put the ‘pot-and-mental illness’ claims to the test. Writing in a forthcoming edition of the scientific journal Schizophrenia Research, they compare long-term trends in marijuana use and incidences of schizophrenia and/or psychoses in the United Kingdom. And what do they find?

“[T]he expected rise in diagnoses of schizophrenia and psychoses did not occur over a 10 year period. This study does not therefore support the specific causal link between cannabis use and incidence of psychotic disorders.… This concurs with other reports indicating that increases in population cannabis use have not been followed by increases in psychotic incidence.”

Should we expect an apology — or even better, a change in policy — from the Gordon Brown regime any time soon? Or at the very least, will some sort of ‘correction’ be forthcoming from the mainstream news media?

I wouldn’t hold my breath.

“[T]he expected rise in diagnoses of schizophrenia and psychoses did not occur over a 10 year period. This study does not therefore support the specific causal link between cannabis use and incidence of psychotic disorders.… This concurs with other reports indicating that increases in population cannabis use have not been followed by increases in psychotic incidence.”

So, just to be clear here, Cannabis DOES NOT cause mental illness, nor does it increase the chances of having a psychotic break. It is a myth used by the anti cannabis crowd as a scare tactic. Lucky for us we have REAL scientists behind us, where you anti cannabis folks only have myths and pure fabrications. Sounds like scientists vs creationists to me.

PS
We only need to follow state law, as the county ordinance that limits you to 25 plants per parcel is illegal. Grow what you need, make sure your doctor has given you a signed embossed recommendation that clearly states how many plants you need and how much FINISHED usable medicine you need. Remember the police may only count USABLE medicine, not stems, leaves , roots or dirt.

Be sure to be ready to fight them in court, be ready to file for a return of property, have it ruled on by a judge and when they tell you that they have destroyed you LEGALLY POSSESSED property, make sure the judge finds the police in contempt of court, then file a civil tort for ALL of your property, pain and suffering , AND you lawyers fees.

For Immediate Release: July 1st, 2009

Landmark Ruling Issued on Collective Cultivation of Medical Marijuana
Appellate court protects collective cultivation and affirms civil actions by patients

Sacramento, CA -- The California Third District Court of Appeal issued a landmark ruling today on the right under state law of patients to collectively cultivate. The 2-1 appellate court decision stems from the case County of Butte v. Superior Court involving a private medical marijuana collective of 7 patients in Paradise, California. The nationwide advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) filed a lawsuit in May 2006 on behalf of 56-year-old David Williams and six other collective members after a 2005 warrantless search of his home. Williams was forced by the Butte County Sheriff to uproot more than two-dozen plants or face arrest and prosecution. Contrary to state law, which allows for collective cultivation, Williams was told by the Sheriff that it was not lawful to grow collectively for multiple patients.

"This ruling by the California Courts sends yet another strong message to state law enforcement that they must abide by the medical marijuana laws of the state and not the competing federal laws," said Joe Elford, ASA Chief Counsel and the attorney that litigated the case on behalf of Williams. Today's appellate court ruling affirmed this position by concluding that, "the deputy was acting under color of California law, not federal law. Accordingly, the propriety of his conduct is measured by California law."

The appellate court also stated that to deny patients protection from warrantless intrusions and seizures by law enforcement "would surely shock the sensibilities of the voters who approved [Proposition 215]." Especially worthy of note is the appellate court's assertion that the Compassionate Use Act of 1996 is not simply an affirmative defense to criminal sanctions, but "...we see an opportunity for an individual to request the same constitutional guarantee of due process available to all individuals, no matter what their status, under the state Constitution. The fact that this case involves medical marijuana and a qualified medical marijuana patient does not change these fundamental constitutional rights or an individual's right to assert them."

Today's appellate court decision upholds Butte County Superior Court Judge Barbara Roberts' ruling from September 2007, in which she states that seriously ill patients cultivating collectively "should not be required to risk criminal penalties and the stress and expense of a criminal trial in order to assert their rights." Judge Roberts' ruling also rejected Butte County's policy of requiring all members to physically participate in the cultivation, thereby allowing collective members to "contribute financially."

Even in his dissenting opinion, Court of Appeal Judge James Morrison stated that, "the United States Congress should reconsider its refusal to amend the federal drug laws to make reasonable accommodation for the 13 states that have enacted some form of compassionate use exception to their penal codes."

ASA was compelled to file the Williams lawsuit after receiving repeated reports of unlawful behavior by Butte County law enforcement, as well as by other police agencies throughout the state. After uncovering Butte County's de facto ban on medical marijuana patient collectives, ASA decided to pursue the case to show that collectives and cooperatives are protected under state law. "In addition to protecting patients' right to collectively cultivate, the Court has reaffirmed that medical marijuana patients enjoy the same constitutional rights as everyone else, including the ability to file civil rights actions when those rights are violated," continued Elford.

willits watcher needs to go see Reefer Madness.....
You can find any amount of info to back up your paranoia. Bottom line = freedom of choice.

Medical marijuana is not a cure all. It has some value in limited studies for aids and cancer patients. However its over all medcial value is not there. To many people have these medical marijuana cards just so they can get high legally. Marijuana should be legalized. Then greedy doctors like the ones at MediCann cannot profit from it. I mean when they are giving cards to children ages 6-11 for minor things like ADD then the system is totally flawed. I saw a news story on MediCann in may titled pot doc. They give it to anyone who comes in without doing a proper exam. They are currently being ivestigated by the Med board and this will probably lead to legalization. Why should someone have to pay to use a plant??

Now Sheriff Allman will have to have the Zip Tie Police go out and inspect the grows. Good move Tommy Boy.

Willits Watcher wrote:

Marijuana is a mixture of the dried leaves, stems and seeds from the cannabis sativa plant.

Well that statement right there proves at least that THIS article is a bunch of poop. While technically yes leaves, stems and seeds ARE part of a cannabis plant, it's NOT the part used by patients or recreational users. OK maybe you can make butter out of that stuff but in reality that's all the crap that get trimmed out and thrown away! And seeds? Man if you have those you're screwed anyway.

Legalize it at the federal level so we can all move on and have a new topic to bitch about!

Greany wrote:

Medical marijuana is not a cure all. It has some value in limited studies for aids and cancer patients. However its over all medcial value is not there. To many people have these medical marijuana cards just so they can get high legally. Marijuana should be legalized. Then greedy doctors like the ones at MediCann cannot profit from it. I mean when they are giving cards to children ages 6-11 for minor things like ADD then the system is totally flawed. I saw a news story on MediCann in may titled pot doc. They give it to anyone who comes in without doing a proper exam. They are currently being ivestigated by the Med board and this will probably lead to legalization. Why should someone have to pay to use a plant??

So in your warped opinion medical cannabis is somehow more dangerous that Amphetamines, which are the common treatment for ADD. Wow, you are truly diluted. Medicann is not under any investigation. They are a legitimate doctors office, no matter if you like it or not.
Read the law, a doctor is exempt from ANY retaliation for his/ her recommendation of medical cannabis. The USA supre court upheld the first amendment right of doctors to recommend medical cannabis.

Keep up or shut up !