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FLORIDA looking into MJ
NBC Miami NBC Miami 74
Two very different attempts to legalize marijuana in Florida are pushing forward despite Tuesday night's defeat of expanded pot laws including California, where medical marijuana is already legal.
One of the Florida efforts is getting a boost from a controversial music video produced by Miami’s Steve Berke, who is already working on his next music video endorsing legalized marijuana.
His first video urging legalization of recreational pot smoking gathered, in just the last few days, more than a quarter million viewers on YouTube.
The music video is a high-quality take off of Eminem’s new video “I Love the Way You Lie.” Berke’s video shows a sizzling couple enjoying what appears to be marijuana. No one was actually smoking pot. It was only tobacco. See it at www.steveberkecomedy.com.
Nevertheless, YouTube has slapped restrictions on the video forcing the viewership to dramatically drop nearly to zero, Berke says. Berke calls it censorship and says the irony is that Eminem’s video, widely available on YouTube, depicts scenes of violence, rape, arson, even murder and includes curse words.
Berke, who is a Miami singer, songwriter and comedian, always wanted to write a song about pot that would rally supporters. Berke and his team completed and posted the music video in time for the November 2nd national elections which included several pot legalization votes, most notably California’s Proposition 19, to move beyond existing medical marijuana laws to allow recreational use of marijuana under strict regulation and state taxation.
Berke says his team "knew the timing of Prop 19 and all the elections going on around the country is Nov. 2. So we tried to get it out in time for the vote."
Even though California's vote lost by a small margin, Berke sees it as success.
"I think it's a big victory, actually, that it got so close," he says, “because, if you look at it, 46 percent of the people in the biggest state in the union voted to legalize it, recreationally. And for the first time to ever be on the ballot for the recreational use of marijuana for it to get that close, is a landmark. I think in 2012 it has a good chance.”
Now Berke is supporting an attempt underway in Miami Beach to decriminalize marijuana possession.
"And so right now we're only about 400-500 signatures short of getting it on the ballot."
But Phillip Stoddard, the mayor of South Miami is fighting a much different effort regarding marijuana.
His city commissioners are urging state lawmakers to legalize medical marijuana in Florida.
"There's a difference between recreation-grade marijuana and medicinal marijuana,” says Stoddard.
Mayor Stoddard, who is a scientist at FIU, read the scientific literature on true medical marijuana and is convinced there is a real need for it: it relieves pain without causing much of a high or significantly hindering motor skills – but only when cultivated properly.
Stoddard is aware some may misunderstand the city's endorsement.
"Oh, I'm very concerned about that,” he concedes. “I don't want people to think that I'm in any way supporting, you know, drug legalization for recreational purposes."
FLORIDA looking into MJ
NBC Miami NBC Miami 74
Two very different attempts to legalize marijuana in Florida are pushing forward despite Tuesday night's defeat of expanded pot laws including California, where medical marijuana is already legal.
One of the Florida efforts is getting a boost from a controversial music video produced by Miami’s Steve Berke, who is already working on his next music video endorsing legalized marijuana.
His first video urging legalization of recreational pot smoking gathered, in just the last few days, more than a quarter million viewers on YouTube.
The music video is a high-quality take off of Eminem’s new video “I Love the Way You Lie.” Berke’s video shows a sizzling couple enjoying what appears to be marijuana. No one was actually smoking pot. It was only tobacco. See it at www.steveberkecomedy.com.
Nevertheless, YouTube has slapped restrictions on the video forcing the viewership to dramatically drop nearly to zero, Berke says. Berke calls it censorship and says the irony is that Eminem’s video, widely available on YouTube, depicts scenes of violence, rape, arson, even murder and includes curse words.
Berke, who is a Miami singer, songwriter and comedian, always wanted to write a song about pot that would rally supporters. Berke and his team completed and posted the music video in time for the November 2nd national elections which included several pot legalization votes, most notably California’s Proposition 19, to move beyond existing medical marijuana laws to allow recreational use of marijuana under strict regulation and state taxation.
Berke says his team "knew the timing of Prop 19 and all the elections going on around the country is Nov. 2. So we tried to get it out in time for the vote."
Even though California's vote lost by a small margin, Berke sees it as success.
"I think it's a big victory, actually, that it got so close," he says, “because, if you look at it, 46 percent of the people in the biggest state in the union voted to legalize it, recreationally. And for the first time to ever be on the ballot for the recreational use of marijuana for it to get that close, is a landmark. I think in 2012 it has a good chance.”
Now Berke is supporting an attempt underway in Miami Beach to decriminalize marijuana possession.
"And so right now we're only about 400-500 signatures short of getting it on the ballot."
But Phillip Stoddard, the mayor of South Miami is fighting a much different effort regarding marijuana.
His city commissioners are urging state lawmakers to legalize medical marijuana in Florida.
"There's a difference between recreation-grade marijuana and medicinal marijuana,” says Stoddard.
Mayor Stoddard, who is a scientist at FIU, read the scientific literature on true medical marijuana and is convinced there is a real need for it: it relieves pain without causing much of a high or significantly hindering motor skills – but only when cultivated properly.
Stoddard is aware some may misunderstand the city's endorsement.
"Oh, I'm very concerned about that,” he concedes. “I don't want people to think that I'm in any way supporting, you know, drug legalization for recreational purposes."
Florida looking into MJ
NBC Miami NBC Miami 74
Two very different attempts to legalize marijuana in Florida are pushing forward despite Tuesday night's defeat of expanded pot laws including California, where medical marijuana is already legal.
One of the Florida efforts is getting a boost from a controversial music video produced by Miami’s Steve Berke, who is already working on his next music video endorsing legalized marijuana.
His first video urging legalization of recreational pot smoking gathered, in just the last few days, more than a quarter million viewers on YouTube.
The music video is a high-quality take off of Eminem’s new video “I Love the Way You Lie.” Berke’s video shows a sizzling couple enjoying what appears to be marijuana. No one was actually smoking pot. It was only tobacco. See it at www.steveberkecomedy.com.
Nevertheless, YouTube has slapped restrictions on the video forcing the viewership to dramatically drop nearly to zero, Berke says. Berke calls it censorship and says the irony is that Eminem’s video, widely available on YouTube, depicts scenes of violence, rape, arson, even murder and includes curse words.
Berke, who is a Miami singer, songwriter and comedian, always wanted to write a song about pot that would rally supporters. Berke and his team completed and posted the music video in time for the November 2nd national elections which included several pot legalization votes, most notably California’s Proposition 19, to move beyond existing medical marijuana laws to allow recreational use of marijuana under strict regulation and state taxation.
Berke says his team "knew the timing of Prop 19 and all the elections going on around the country is Nov. 2. So we tried to get it out in time for the vote."
Even though California's vote lost by a small margin, Berke sees it as success.
"I think it's a big victory, actually, that it got so close," he says, “because, if you look at it, 46 percent of the people in the biggest state in the union voted to legalize it, recreationally. And for the first time to ever be on the ballot for the recreational use of marijuana for it to get that close, is a landmark. I think in 2012 it has a good chance.”
Now Berke is supporting an attempt underway in Miami Beach to decriminalize marijuana possession.
"And so right now we're only about 400-500 signatures short of getting it on the ballot."
But Phillip Stoddard, the mayor of South Miami is fighting a much different effort regarding marijuana.
His city commissioners are urging state lawmakers to legalize medical marijuana in Florida.
"There's a difference between recreation-grade marijuana and medicinal marijuana,” says Stoddard.
Mayor Stoddard, who is a scientist at FIU, read the scientific literature on true medical marijuana and is convinced there is a real need for it: it relieves pain without causing much of a high or significantly hindering motor skills – but only when cultivated properly.
Stoddard is aware some may misunderstand the city's endorsement.
"Oh, I'm very concerned about that,” he concedes. “I don't want people to think that I'm in any way supporting, you know, drug legalization for recreational purposes."
Florida looking into MJ
NBC Miami NBC Miami 74
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Two very different attempts to legalize marijuana in Florida are pushing forward despite Tuesday night's defeat of expanded pot laws including California, where medical marijuana is already legal.
One of the Florida efforts is getting a boost from a controversial music video produced by Miami’s Steve Berke, who is already working on his next music video endorsing legalized marijuana.
His first video urging legalization of recreational pot smoking gathered, in just the last few days, more than a quarter million viewers on YouTube.
The music video is a high-quality take off of Eminem’s new video “I Love the Way You Lie.” Berke’s video shows a sizzling couple enjoying what appears to be marijuana. No one was actually smoking pot. It was only tobacco. See it at www.steveberkecomedy.com.
Nevertheless, YouTube has slapped restrictions on the video forcing the viewership to dramatically drop nearly to zero, Berke says. Berke calls it censorship and says the irony is that Eminem’s video, widely available on YouTube, depicts scenes of violence, rape, arson, even murder and includes curse words.
Berke, who is a Miami singer, songwriter and comedian, always wanted to write a song about pot that would rally supporters. Berke and his team completed and posted the music video in time for the November 2nd national elections which included several pot legalization votes, most notably California’s Proposition 19, to move beyond existing medical marijuana laws to allow recreational use of marijuana under strict regulation and state taxation.
Berke says his team "knew the timing of Prop 19 and all the elections going on around the country is Nov. 2. So we tried to get it out in time for the vote."
Even though California's vote lost by a small margin, Berke sees it as success.
"I think it's a big victory, actually, that it got so close," he says, “because, if you look at it, 46 percent of the people in the biggest state in the union voted to legalize it, recreationally. And for the first time to ever be on the ballot for the recreational use of marijuana for it to get that close, is a landmark. I think in 2012 it has a good chance.”
Now Berke is supporting an attempt underway in Miami Beach to decriminalize marijuana possession.
"And so right now we're only about 400-500 signatures short of getting it on the ballot."
But Phillip Stoddard, the mayor of South Miami is fighting a much different effort regarding marijuana.
His city commissioners are urging state lawmakers to legalize medical marijuana in Florida.
"There's a difference between recreation-grade marijuana and medicinal marijuana,” says Stoddard.
Mayor Stoddard, who is a scientist at FIU, read the scientific literature on true medical marijuana and is convinced there is a real need for it: it relieves pain without causing much of a high or significantly hindering motor skills – but only when cultivated properly.
Stoddard is aware some may misunderstand the city's endorsement.
"Oh, I'm very concerned about that,” he concedes. “I don't want people to think that I'm in any way supporting, you know, drug legalization for recreational purposes."
ALL lost Arizona lost by 2000 votes, can you say recount?
Interesting article from CBIS Board,
That company is giving share holders a 10.1 spliT by Nov 30 , you might want to get in now JMO
newmedman Share Wednesday, November 03, 2010 1:21:38 PM
Re: pauly3 post# 12845 Post # of 12851
Funny you should mention a cancer cure. They've already got it. Now go talk to the FED, who won't let them use it. Morons
Could Legalizing Marijuana in California Help Cure Breast Cancer?
An urgent issue for Breast Cancer Awareness Month: the clock is ticking for the 207,000 women expected to be diagnosed with breast cancer this year alone.
October 26, 2010 |
For 70 years, we've been taught that marijuana has no accepted medical use and that its high potential for abuse demands absolute prohibition. Medical research has been nearly impossible since obtaining the substance for legitimate studies is restricted by the federal government.
But for a moment, forget the anti-drug ads of stoned teenagers passing the bong and click instead on the National Library of Medicine's website, “Pubmed.gov.” Look under "breast cancer and cannabinoid” and you will find studies in scientific journals like Breast Cancer Research and Treatment that should warrant immediate action: “Our data demonstrate the efficacy of CBD in pre-clinical models of breast cancer. The results have the potential to lead to the development of novel non-toxic compounds for the treatment of breast cancer metastasis…”
A study in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics says, “These results indicate that CB1 and CB2 receptors could be used to develop novel therapeutic strategies against breast cancer growth and metastasis." And this from the journal Molecular Cancer: "these results provide a strong preclinical evidence for the use of cannabinoid-based therapies for the management of ErbB2-positive breast cancer." What’s more, this basic research also extols the safety of potential cannabinoid therapies.
The science behind these studies finds that the human body contains its own internal system interrelated with molecules in the cannabis plant—AKA marijuana. A neurological signaling structure called the endocannabinoid system is now known to govern numerous bodily processes like appetite, pain, and even the birth of new brain cells. Cannabinoid receptors, called CB1 and CB2, are located in various cell membranes and activated by the body’s own cannabinoid molecules (endocannabinoids), as well as those unique to the cannabis plant (THC, CBD) and synthetically-derived cannabinoids like Marinol®.
And now, the latest research is proving that cannabinoids, as part of this bodily system, play a mitigating role in breast cancer.
Breast cancer is a frightening diagnosis that will confront about 1 in 8 American women this year. Some 40,000 will die from it. An unusual lump in a breast can grow through four increasingly incurable stages and sometimes into other tissue. Therapies involve invasive surgery, heavy radiation, and toxic chemotherapy. Current anti-cancer drugs may kill cancer cells, but they also destroy non-cancerous tissue and damage heart muscle. Intractable nausea and vomiting comprise just one side effect. The disease may be worse than the cure but the cure can also kill.
But suppose some scientist has just come out of the jungle with an unknown plant that holds this much promise. It would be featured in the nightly news and on the front page of every newspaper. Well, we now have before us scientific clues that seem to point toward a revolution in breast cancer treatment, yet the government still manages to bury this amazing discovery.
Why? Politics. The “Devil Weed” has always been a favorite target for tough-on-crime politicians. Over the decades, they have assembled a labyrinth of governmental agencies with multi-billion dollar budgets that enforce marijuana laws, ignore the science, thwart clinical research—and constantly reinforce anti-pot stereotypes.
In the 70 years since Congress relegated marijuana to the dungeon of dangerous drugs, several administrative petitions have been filed to reclassify the herb and numerous lawsuits have challenged the U.S. Government’s monopoly control over cannabis supply, yet even the few that made it to the Supreme Court failed to dislodge the federal government's iron grip on policy. While medicinal use of marijuana is now legal in 14 states, none except California ventures into research, even though opinion polls find rising public support that now includes organizations like the American College of Physicians.
While we dither, the clock is ticking for the 207,000 women expected to be diagnosed with breast cancer this year alone. How much longer must those facing this disease wait for the federal labyrinth to sort out this issue?
There has to be a way to accelerate the clinical trials that will develop promising cannabinoid-based breast cancer treatments. Something simultaneously immediate, attention-getting, and policy-changing. Something that brings this issue to the fore, that can't be ignored, and hasn't been tried before.
Could legalizing marijuana in California help cure breast cancer?
Over 23,500,000 adult people living in CA n only 7 million voted, so sad
Nope lost by less then 3,000 votes
This is a post from ICEQUITY from the IMAI Board
ICEQUITY Share Wednesday, November 03, 2010 12:52:29 AM
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Over 1 Million mail-in ballots are also needed to be counted.... Thats the largest amount of mail-ins ever, even more then the 2008 elections..... Reports say total votes might not be able until Friday.
In Other News.... Team Gaffney/Getz might be attending this roundtable discussion!
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Team Gaffney/Getz
Charles Kemper of CEO Central (www.ceocentral.com) would like you to participate, along with other CEO's, in a roundtable discussion for companies that work with Medical Marijuana. The tenative date for this discussion is either Wednesday or Thursday at 8:45pm.
mic@equities.com
We wouldnt see any results until around 11pm est
Don't get down yet,
remember, there are 2 other very significant votes going on today in AZ and SD. they would bring the total to 16 states with Med MJ.
Yes on 19: Control & Tax Cannabis 2010 Thelma's best bud Louise, Susan Sarandon herself, just recorded this message urging you to vote Yes on 19!
Susan Sarandon urges you to vote YES on Prop 19
We need PR , Can one of you big stock holders here have one!
fOX NEWS HAD SURVEY OF 48% OPPOSED 45% FAVORED, I LIKE YAHOO'S BETTER
All MJ Stocks up except HESG???
Who posting those results , I hope so, but I see differnt
Jungle Trader
the numbers I have are 1-727-866-8729 LEFT A MESSAGE THEN GOT A CALL BACK ON THIS NUMBER SAYING IT WAS NOT Tom Gaffney from this number 1-727-867-9332
the War on PotBy NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: October 27, 2010
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I dropped in on a marijuana shop here that proudly boasted that it sells “31 flavors.” It also offered a loyalty program. For every 10 purchases of pot — supposedly for medical uses — you get one free packet.
“There are five of these shops within a three-block radius,” explained the proprietor, Edward J. Kim. He brimmed with pride at his inventory and sounded like any small businessman as he complained about onerous government regulation. Like, well, state and federal laws.
But those burdensome regulations are already evaporating in California, where anyone who can fake a headache already can buy pot. Now there’s a significant chance that on Tuesday, California voters will choose to go further and broadly legalize marijuana.
I hope so. Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did, and California may now be pioneering a saner approach. Sure, there are risks if California legalizes pot. But our present drug policy has three catastrophic consequences.
First, it squanders billions of dollars that might be better used for education. California now spends more money on prisons than on higher education. It spends about $216,000 per year on each juvenile detainee, and just $8,000 on each child in the troubled Oakland public school system.
Each year, some 750,000 Americans are arrested for possession of small amounts of marijuana. Is that really the optimal use of our police force?
In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring in substantial sums that could be used to pay for schools, libraries or early childhood education. A Harvard economist, Jeffrey A. Miron, calculates that marijuana could generate $8.7 billion in tax revenue each year if legalized nationally, while legalization would also save the same sum annually in enforcement costs.
That’s a $17 billion swing in the nation’s finances — enough to send every 3- and 4-year-old in a poor family to a high-quality preschool. And that’s an investment that would improve education outcomes and reduce crime and drug use in the future — with enough left over to pay for an extensive nationwide campaign to discourage drug use.
The second big problem with the drug war is that it has exacerbated poverty and devastated the family structure of African-Americans. Partly that’s because drug laws are enforced inequitably. Black and Latino men are much more likely than whites to be stopped and searched and, when drugs are found, prosecuted.
Here in Los Angeles, blacks are arrested for marijuana possession at seven times the rate whites are, according to a study by the Drug Policy Alliance, which favors legalization. Yet surveys consistently find that young whites use marijuana at higher rates than young blacks.
Partly because of drug laws, a black man now has a one-in-three chance of serving time in prison at some point in his life, according to the Sentencing Project, a group that seeks reform in the criminal justice system. This makes it more difficult for black men to find jobs, more difficult for black women to find suitable husbands, and less common for black children to grow up in stable families with black male role models. So, sure, drugs have devastated black communities — but the remedy of criminal sentencing has made the situation worse.
The third problem with our drug policy is that it creates crime and empowers gangs. “The only groups that benefit from continuing to keep marijuana illegal are the violent gangs and cartels that control its distribution and reap immense profits from it through the black market,” a group of current and former police officers, judges and prosecutors wrote last month in an open letter to voters in California.
I have no illusions about drugs. One of my childhood friends in Yamhill, Ore., pretty much squandered his life by dabbling with marijuana in ninth grade and then moving on to stronger stuff. And yes, there’s some risk that legalization would make such dabbling more common. But that hasn’t been a significant problem in Portugal, which decriminalized drug use in 2001.
Likewise, medical marijuana laws approved in 1996 have in effect made pot accessible to any adult in California, without any large increase in usage. Special medical clinics abound where for about $45 you can see a doctor who is certain to give you the medical recommendation that you need to buy marijuana. Then you can visit Mr. Kim and choose one of his 31 varieties, topping out at a private “OG” brand that costs $75 for one-eighth of an ounce. “It’s like a fine wine, cured, aged, dried,” he boasted.
Or browse the online offerings. One store advertises: “refer a friend, get free joint.” And the world hasn’t ended.
One advantage of our federal system is that when we have a failed policy, we can grope for improvements by experimenting at the state level. I hope California will lead the way on Tuesday by legalizing marijuana.
I invite you to visit my blog, On the Ground. Please also join me on Facebook, watch my YouTube videos and follow me on Twitter.
As of October 25, 2010:
Total donations opposing Proposition 19:
$256,099 (Calif. Donations) + $50,000 (out of state) = $306,099
Total donations in support of Proposition 19:
$2,079,815.83 (Calif. donations) + $528,135.41 (out of state) = $2,607,951.24
As of October 25, 2010:
Total donations opposing Proposition 19:
$256,099 (Calif. Donations) + $50,000 (out of state) = $306,099
Total donations in support of Proposition 19:
$2,079,815.83 (Calif. donations) + $528,135.41 (out of state) = $2,607,951.24
As of October 25, 2010:
Total donations opposing Proposition 19:
$256,099 (Calif. Donations) + $50,000 (out of state) = $306,099
Total donations in support of Proposition 19:
$2,079,815.83 (Calif. donations) + $528,135.41 (out of state) = $2,607,951.24
As of October 25, 2010:
Total donations opposing Proposition 19:
$256,099 (Calif. Donations) + $50,000 (out of state) = $306,099
Total donations in support of Proposition 19:
$2,079,815.83 (Calif. donations) + $528,135.41 (out of state) = $2,607,951.24
It's not just CA Prop 19 it the other 5 states that want medical MJ
http://theweek.com/article/index/208591/marijuana-on-the-ballot-6-states-moving-toward-legalization
It's only losing a few percentage points as of now, Fox news said people are worried about people getting caught with it while they are driving and there is no legislation with Prob 19 on that, has be done with each and every city, but still to close to panic yet.
6 STATES TRYING TO PASS LAW FOR MJ
http://theweek.com/article/index/208591/marijuana-on-the-ballot-6-states-moving-toward-legalization
3'SSSSSSSSSSSS PLEASE
Remember there just not CA trying to pass law, there 6 states that have MJ on ballot
Very good Weebs, let's not forget about the other states
I posted this on my Facebook maybe we can get more buyers
He probally doesnt want to talk about this company and is playing dumb, maybe someone else can call him with the other number, he might of called as I am in Florida he other number is 1-727-867-9332
That was correct number, I got a answering machine in morning then I just got a call back from him saying he was not that Tom Gaffney
This was from post 76143, I called that number and got a call back he swears it's not him he called me back from this number 1-727-867-9332 , the number I called was 1-727-866-9729????? Maybe someone want to call this guy back
I got a call from Tom Gaffney I called the number that was posted in earlier email, he said he is not that person???
To close to call
We all need to flood calls to Tom if these are the correct numbers voice mail 1-727-866-8729 and the Anderson Group 1-248-645-8000 and ask him to comment
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