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according to msnbc Obama wins
not being a card bearer, licking my chops, I'm headed to the streets to get Well back there. Easy
Big Sur, I was there 48 years ago, back in the time when Long Hair got you pulled over and searched, sure would be nice to smoke a fatty while not looking over my shoulder.
MJNA will be one of the leading ground floor co's. that will lead freedom and health to a needed country.
It's to bad 50+ years have been wasted to get back to Nature.
MJNA has sercumvented to bring relief to people of pain without side effects.
This is not only a victory for MJNA but the World.
America's verson anyway, better late than never....
said they will be watching tomorrow night, she was suprized to be talking about it, national now ~~~~~~~~~~~~Go MJNA
cnn talking about mmj legaization now
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My pleasure money in the bank MJNA
Sorry Magic meant public
Slapped that ask for 10k more, take it to green guys
Anybody voting on pres. election on mmj issues better vote for Obama.
rommney with his conservative right will never allow you personal choice.
Obama has a open mind, Mormans can't even dance.
Exclusive: In His Second Term, Obama Will Pivot to the Drug War
BY MARC AMBINDER
http://www.gq.com/news-politics/blogs/death-race/2012/07/exclusive-in-his-second-term-obama-will-pivot-to-the-drug-war.html
According to ongoing discussions with Obama aides and associates, if the president wins a second term, he plans to tackle another American war that has so far been successful only in perpetuating more misery: the four decades of The Drug War.
Don't expect miracles. There is very little the president can do by himself. And pot-smokers shouldn't expect the president to come out in favor of legalizing marijuana. But from his days as a state senator in Illinois, Obama has considered the Drug War to be a failure, a conflict that has exacerbated the problem of drug abuse, devastated entire communities, changed policing practices for the worse, and has led to a generation of young children, disproportionately black and minority, to grow up in dislocated homes, or in none at all.
It is hard to write about the Drug War without getting preachy, in part because it remains so polarizing. This ought not be so. As a new documentary, The House I Live In, from filmmaker Eugene Jarecki, makes clear, a consensus is emerging among academics, police officers, lawyers, and even some politicians about what not to do.
The film debuted in Los Angeles the last night of the festival, right next to the theatre were the male striptease tentpole Magic Mike was premiering, and so it won't get the attention from the press that it deserves. It did, however, win the Grand Jury citation at Sundance.
The House I Live In doesn't break new ground. But it puts together 40 years of history, politics and sociology in a concise and compelling way. If you're prepared to believe that the cycle of drug abuse that plagued the black community in the 1980s and is currently sweeping across poor white America now is the fault of the low-level dealers and the users themselves, then you won't like Jarecki's point of view. For him, the decision to sell drugs is a starting point.
He wants to know why it has become so common, so uncontroversial, so startlingly consequence-free. His answer is that everyone profits from it. The Drug War is ongoing because it has been successful for everyone but those most affected by it. Politicians have a useful and cyclic scapegoat to prove their crime bona fides. ("If you are a causal drug user, you are an accomplice to murder," Ronald Reagan once said.)
The corrections industry has become a billion dollar business. Through asset forfeiture laws, police departments large and small can buy expensive new toys and keep cops on the street. And Americans have a vehicle to control their exposure to those elements of society that seem to threaten their economic interests the most.
The historian Richard Miller, who usually writes about Abraham Lincoln, describes for viewers how drug laws in American history were created almost nakedly to marginalize disfavored groups. When Chinese immigrants began to crowd out jobs for white people in California, opium consumption suddenly became a crime. Hemp was legal and consumed in a variety of forms until it became a way to reduce economic competition from Mexicans. Cocaine, notoriously, was consumed in polite society throughout the century, but was not the subject of police attention until blacks migrated North to escape the Jim Crowified South. The 100-to-1 disparity in sentencing between crack cocaine was the most obvious manifestation of how different blacks and whites were treated.
When President Obama recently signed a law reducing the disparity to 18 to 1, it was considered a reform, even though the two forms of cocaine are still pretty much the same goddamned thing.
Jarecki wanted to know why black people have had the roughest go of it, and how drugs and the drug war seem to feed off each other in a sort of deadly symbiosis. David Simon, the creator of The Wire, is happy to provide his answer. There's nothing else there. The prejudicial paternalism of the New Deal ensured that blacks migrating North moved into ghettos that were subsequently redlined, making home ownership a near impossibility. Businesses moved out; the American industrial base collapsed. From door to door, from the stoop of his home to the threshold of his school, a young black man sees only the dealer, who offers him a job. Some kids can escape this reality, and a majority don't become drug dealers, but virtually everyone who lives in an urban black neighborhood is affected by it.
Simon, who speaks in paragraphs in the film, notes that the sentencing guidelines passed by Congress and the pressure on local police departments to get rid of the scourge of drugs created an incentive for officers to make as many arrests as possible. The officers who get promoted quickly are those who make arrests. And it's easy to make a drug arrest—just go to a drug infested neighborhood and "jack someone up," as he puts it. The result was a plethora of amped up police officers in constant confrontation with the black community—and "makes a police department where nobody can solve a fucking crime."
Homicide detectives don't get the stats that narcotics cops do. Pull a father from his daughter and put him in jail for life, and you all but guarantee that she won't make it out the ghetto. Break apart a family over a few ounces of cocaine, and the victims multiply. And everyone admits (from the beat cop to the prosecutor) that nothing really is getting better. Ground zero for violence in the drug war is now Mexico. Gangs there fight with each other and with the Mexican and American governments with such fervor precisely because the demand from Middle America for drugs is so high. (This is something that Hillary Clinton admitted recently, to her credit. The U.S. is a functional cause of Mexico's drug violence.)
Race, however is not the primary soldering force of the Drug War. Class is. Poor whites are now (if you can believe the rhetoric) being devastated by the meth epidemic, breaking up previously intact families throughout Appalachia and the Midwest. The same language was used to describe the dangers of the marijuana culture during the 40s and the cocaine culture during the '80s is now used to cast meth users as social deviants, and slowly, the incarnation rate of white people is inching up.
So what to do: Jarecki has no answers, other than to stop doing what we're doing now.
But here are some points of departure. Watch out for returning veterans. They are uniquely vulnerable to drug abuse of all types, and narcotics traffickers have set up camp around military bases, particularly those housing infantry and special operations forces, for a reason. That generation cannot be lost to drugs.
Second, recognize what Mike Carpenter, a jowly Oklahoman who runs a prison there, is comfortable telling Jarecki: Non-violent drug offenders really don't belong in prisons. Where they go is a political question, because drug abuse is something that does require a governmental response. But prison just basically ends their lives.
They can't vote when they're released; thanks to President Clinton, most can't move back into public housing; they're stigmatized, in many ways, like child molesters. Reintegrating drug users back into society is as important (if not more important) than punishing them in the first place.
And the next time a celebrity makes it seem like legalizing marijuana is the be all and end all of drug law reform, slap him in the face. (Metaphorically, unless you want to get your time on TMZ). Legalizing pot is the least of it. Getting politicians to understand how their actions contributed to the problem is a lot harder and requires more effort, but will ultimately pay off. If mandatory minimum sentences are reduced, for example, judges will be in a much better position to consider family structure when pronouncing a sentence. This local discretion could mean the difference between an intact family and a broken one.
Beyond that, since the United States isn't about to legalize or regulate the illegal narcotics markets, the best thing a president can do may be what Obama winds up doing if he gets re-elected: using the bully pulpit to draw attention to the issue.
But he won't do so before November.
Marc Ambinder is a contributing editor at GQ.
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As head of the Executive Branch, Obama could with one Presidential Order compel the DEA to reclassify marijuana or eliminate it's classification entirely. The former would make prescribing marijuana legal in ALL States. The latter would force Congress to act on the issue.
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Let the people decide it should be an election issue.
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It's nice that we are told not to expect much from him.
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States is spelled wrong in the last paragraph, sloppy.
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Exclusive: In His Second Term, Obama Will Pivot to the Drug War
BY MARC AMBINDER
According to ongoing discussions with Obama aides and associates, if the president wins a second term, he plans to tackle another American war that has so far been successful only in perpetuating more misery: the four decades of The Drug War.
Don't expect miracles. There is very little the president can do by himself. And pot-smokers shouldn't expect the president to come out in favor of legalizing marijuana. But from his days as a state senator in Illinois, Obama has considered the Drug War to be a failure, a conflict that has exacerbated the problem of drug abuse, devastated entire communities, changed policing practices for the worse, and has led to a generation of young children, disproportionately black and minority, to grow up in dislocated homes, or in none at all.
It is hard to write about the Drug War without getting preachy, in part because it remains so polarizing. This ought not be so. As a new documentary, The House I Live In, from filmmaker Eugene Jarecki, makes clear, a consensus is emerging among academics, police officers, lawyers, and even some politicians about what not to do.
The film debuted in Los Angeles the last night of the festival, right next to the theatre were the male striptease tentpole Magic Mike was premiering, and so it won't get the attention from the press that it deserves. It did, however, win the Grand Jury citation at Sundance.
The House I Live In doesn't break new ground. But it puts together 40 years of history, politics and sociology in a concise and compelling way. If you're prepared to believe that the cycle of drug abuse that plagued the black community in the 1980s and is currently sweeping across poor white America now is the fault of the low-level dealers and the users themselves, then you won't like Jarecki's point of view. For him, the decision to sell drugs is a starting point.
He wants to know why it has become so common, so uncontroversial, so startlingly consequence-free. His answer is that everyone profits from it. The Drug War is ongoing because it has been successful for everyone but those most affected by it. Politicians have a useful and cyclic scapegoat to prove their crime bona fides. ("If you are a causal drug user, you are an accomplice to murder," Ronald Reagan once said.)
The corrections industry has become a billion dollar business. Through asset forfeiture laws, police departments large and small can buy expensive new toys and keep cops on the street. And Americans have a vehicle to control their exposure to those elements of society that seem to threaten their economic interests the most.
The historian Richard Miller, who usually writes about Abraham Lincoln, describes for viewers how drug laws in American history were created almost nakedly to marginalize disfavored groups. When Chinese immigrants began to crowd out jobs for white people in California, opium consumption suddenly became a crime. Hemp was legal and consumed in a variety of forms until it became a way to reduce economic competition from Mexicans. Cocaine, notoriously, was consumed in polite society throughout the century, but was not the subject of police attention until blacks migrated North to escape the Jim Crowified South. The 100-to-1 disparity in sentencing between crack cocaine was the most obvious manifestation of how different blacks and whites were treated.
When President Obama recently signed a law reducing the disparity to 18 to 1, it was considered a reform, even though the two forms of cocaine are still pretty much the same goddamned thing.
Jarecki wanted to know why black people have had the roughest go of it, and how drugs and the drug war seem to feed off each other in a sort of deadly symbiosis. David Simon, the creator of The Wire, is happy to provide his answer. There's nothing else there. The prejudicial paternalism of the New Deal ensured that blacks migrating North moved into ghettos that were subsequently redlined, making home ownership a near impossibility. Businesses moved out; the American industrial base collapsed. From door to door, from the stoop of his home to the threshold of his school, a young black man sees only the dealer, who offers him a job. Some kids can escape this reality, and a majority don't become drug dealers, but virtually everyone who lives in an urban black neighborhood is affected by it.
Simon, who speaks in paragraphs in the film, notes that the sentencing guidelines passed by Congress and the pressure on local police departments to get rid of the scourge of drugs created an incentive for officers to make as many arrests as possible. The officers who get promoted quickly are those who make arrests. And it's easy to make a drug arrest—just go to a drug infested neighborhood and "jack someone up," as he puts it. The result was a plethora of amped up police officers in constant confrontation with the black community—and "makes a police department where nobody can solve a fucking crime."
Homicide detectives don't get the stats that narcotics cops do. Pull a father from his daughter and put him in jail for life, and you all but guarantee that she won't make it out the ghetto. Break apart a family over a few ounces of cocaine, and the victims multiply. And everyone admits (from the beat cop to the prosecutor) that nothing really is getting better. Ground zero for violence in the drug war is now Mexico. Gangs there fight with each other and with the Mexican and American governments with such fervor precisely because the demand from Middle America for drugs is so high. (This is something that Hillary Clinton admitted recently, to her credit. The U.S. is a functional cause of Mexico's drug violence.)
Race, however is not the primary soldering force of the Drug War. Class is. Poor whites are now (if you can believe the rhetoric) being devastated by the meth epidemic, breaking up previously intact families throughout Appalachia and the Midwest. The same language was used to describe the dangers of the marijuana culture during the 40s and the cocaine culture during the '80s is now used to cast meth users as social deviants, and slowly, the incarnation rate of white people is inching up.
So what to do: Jarecki has no answers, other than to stop doing what we're doing now.
But here are some points of departure. Watch out for returning veterans. They are uniquely vulnerable to drug abuse of all types, and narcotics traffickers have set up camp around military bases, particularly those housing infantry and special operations forces, for a reason. That generation cannot be lost to drugs.
Second, recognize what Mike Carpenter, a jowly Oklahoman who runs a prison there, is comfortable telling Jarecki: Non-violent drug offenders really don't belong in prisons. Where they go is a political question, because drug abuse is something that does require a governmental response. But prison just basically ends their lives.
They can't vote when they're released; thanks to President Clinton, most can't move back into public housing; they're stigmatized, in many ways, like child molesters. Reintegrating drug users back into society is as important (if not more important) than punishing them in the first place.
And the next time a celebrity makes it seem like legalizing marijuana is the be all and end all of drug law reform, slap him in the face. (Metaphorically, unless you want to get your time on TMZ). Legalizing pot is the least of it. Getting politicians to understand how their actions contributed to the problem is a lot harder and requires more effort, but will ultimately pay off. If mandatory minimum sentences are reduced, for example, judges will be in a much better position to consider family structure when pronouncing a sentence. This local discretion could mean the difference between an intact family and a broken one.
Beyond that, since the United States isn't about to legalize or regulate the illegal narcotics markets, the best thing a president can do may be what Obama winds up doing if he gets re-elected: using the bully pulpit to draw attention to the issue.
But he won't do so before November.
Marc Ambinder is a contributing editor at GQ.
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As head of the Executive Branch, Obama could with one Presidential Order compel the DEA to reclassify marijuana or eliminate it's classification entirely. The former would make prescribing marijuana legal in ALL States. The latter would force Congress to act on the issue.
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I'm in at .052, haven't sold a share
I'm talking about FSLR's rocket climb it's first year or two, but it should be subsidized and made mandatory smoking for Mental Illness.
MJNA will be the FSLR (First Solar Inc.) of the Maryjane Sector.
Thanks for the Link;http://www.kplu.org/post/legal-marijuana-and-charter-schools-pulling-away-latest-poll
[The Washington Poll also reports that 33.4 percent of voters in the survey have sent in their ballots. Here’s how they voted:
59.9 percent for Obama and 37.4 percent for Romney
51.2 percent for Inslee and 47.8 percent for McKenna
Referendum 74: 60.4 percent “yes” and 39 percent “no”
I-1240: 56.9 percent “yes” and 40.3 percent “no”
I-502: 56.3 percent “yes” and 42.7 percent “no”]
Oregon Military Veterans Urge Yes On Measure 80 Legalization
Write CommentBy Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ in Legislation, Medical, News Tuesday, October 30, 2012 at 12:47 pm
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"Denying veterans access to therapeutic cannabis is making criminals of our heroes."
National advocates, elected officials and representatives of Oregon's 300,000 military veterans on Monday joined together in Ashland and Portland to call attention to Oregon's appalling policy of denying medical cannabis to sufferers of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and to urge Oregonians to vote yes on Measure 80, which would allow adults 21 and older to purchase taxed and regulated cannabis (marijuana) at state-licensed stores.
"To say that we support our troops, and then to see them suffering from treatable conditions like PTSD is shameful and unconscionable," said Roy Kaufmann, who spoke for Measure 80. "At least 1 in 5 Iraq and Afghanistan military veterans suffers from PTSD, not to mention the tens of thousands of veterans of past conflicts who've struggled for decades.
"Denying veterans access to therapeutic cannabis is making criminals of our heroes," Kaufmann said. "Passing Measure 80 will allow our military veterans to access a medicine that has demonstrably positive impacts on PTSD's many symptoms."
Every day in America, 18 military veterans commit suicide. The United States has lost more military service-members and veterans to suicide than to combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Michael Krawitz, Veterans for Medical Cannabis Access: "It is past time to end this situation"
And, alarmingly high suicide rates are one piece of a very disturbing puzzle. Veterans are more likely than the general public to be disabled, to suffer from homelessness, and to suffer from serious brain injuries, post-traumatic stress, and other illnesses that stem from military and combat service.
All these factors increase the difficulty of re-integrating into the civilian world, which creates family stress, job and career challenges and additional barriers to a healthy life.
"Oregon's criminal statutes regarding marijuana are part of a well-worn path of misery for many of the state's disabled military veterans, a path that includes unemployment, homelessness, and chronic physical and mental illnesses," said retired-disabled Air Force Sergeant Michael Krawitz, founder and executive director of Veterans for Medical Cannabis Access, a national advocacy group. "It is past time to end this situation. Measure 80 will go a long ways to correcting this problem."
Measure 80 will direct 90 percent of tax revenues from the sales of cannabis at state-licensed stores to the state's general fund to pay for schools and social services. Measure 80 will also direct seven percent of tax revenues toward existing drug and alcohol treatment programs, many of which are underfunded and facing increased demand. "And lastly, Measure 80 will keep in place Oregon's existing impaired-driving laws, while funding the development of new technologies similar to those used to test for alcohol impairment," Kaufmann said.
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Also holding, if I sell now, what will the gap-up be Wednesday if vote passes? It will be hard to get back in!!!!
Nezzar, Would you elaborate what you think TEJS coming on board means for MJNA.
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Maybe a Whale or two looking MJNA over.
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Cannabis Science announces Mariel Selbovitz, MPH appointed Vice President of Research Program Development
Expansion of corporate leadership and expert assignment of program management to facilitate further acceleration of clinical investigations at CBIS on CS TATI-1 and other research programs
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cannabis Science Inc (OTCBB: CBIS) announced the appointment of Mariel Selbovitz, MPH as Vice President of Research Program Development, reflecting the maturing direction of the company with the initiation of the CS-TATI-1 Program and related pandemic drug resistant infectious diseases and co-morbidities research programs to enhance the Company’s scope of expertise on the development of novel phytocannabinoid-based therapeutics, including those for HIV oncology and SAEs of chemotherapy.
“We welcome Ms. Selbovitz’s experience and expertise in HIV and strongly believe she is a very valuable addition to the Cannabis Science management team and our endeavor to develop more effective, less expensive treatments for drug resistant HIV”
Cannabis Science has recently expanded its therapeutic indication focus to include HIV with the initiation of the CS-TATI-1 research and development program for a phytocannabinoids-based HIV-1 Tat inhibitor.
Robert Melamede PhD, President & CEO of Cannabis Science Inc., stated, “The addition of Ms. Selbovitz to our team will allow for well coordinated engagement of the preclinical development of CS-TATI-1 and other corporate research initiatives. Her insight into clinical program management and dedication to rationale drug development practice will greatly benefit the research efforts of Cannabis Science.”
Ms. Selbovitz has focused on supporting discovery and innovation in attacking HIV at many levels, working closely with biotechnology companies, federal bodies, policy makers, researchers, clinicians and patient advocates to stimulate research on innovative pharmaceutical, immunomodulator and genetic approaches to the virus.
“We welcome Ms. Selbovitz’s experience and expertise in HIV and strongly believe she is a very valuable addition to the Cannabis Science management team and our endeavor to develop more effective, less expensive treatments for drug resistant HIV,” said Dr. Roscoe Moore, Assistant U.S. Surgeon General (Retired) and member of the Company’s Senior Scientific Advisory Board.
Ms. Selbovitz is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Cornell University and serves as the Chair of the Cornell AIDS Clinical Trials Group Community Advisory Board. Mariel has authored 15 abstracts that have been presented at leading HIV/AIDS conferences around the world. Most recently, she had an oral presentation accepted for publication by Retrovirology on the effect of Probiotics on immunological presentation and preservation of viral-host restrictive factors of Th17 cells in HIV patients. She has also published a number of articles on HIV biomedical interventions and public policy issues, including on the challenges facing the HIV drug pipeline.
Along with basic wet and dry laboratory research coordination at Cannabis Science Ms. Selbovitz will assist in design of preclinical and early stage protocol development, facilitate collaborative research and development agreements, interaction with NIH Office of Technology Transfer, interface with government sponsored clinical research programs on an international scale, engage in pre-clinical CRO oversight and investigative site management. Ms. Selbovitz will also assist in regulatory affairs, abstract development and other efforts pertinent to the development of CS-TATI-1.
“I am extremely excited about this opportunity to help advance the clinical development of this promising new HIV treatment approach. The development of the first Tat inhibitor would significantly change the current course of the AIDS crisis at a time when drug resistance is beginning to erode the significant gains made in antiretroviral therapy,” concluded Ms. Selbovitz.
About CS-TATI-1
Data published in March by researchers at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine found that cannabinoids inhibit Tat induced migration to macrophages via cannabinoid 2 receptors (CB2). A National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical and Translational Science Award Grant provided funding for the Mount Sinai study. Cannabis Science’s CS-TATI-1 program is targeted towards newly diagnosed patients infected with drug resistant virus, treatment experienced patients with drug-resistant strains, and those intolerant of currently available therapies. Cannabis Science will be pursuing a wide range of NIH based Federal Research Programs such as RO1s, PO1s and SBIRs, which exist to support preclinical development of target validation and proof of concept studies. Cannabis Science will be pursing implementation of these studies through collaborations with leading scientific institutions. Cannabis Science will also be pursuing other clinical research collaborations including the AIDS Clinical Trials Groups (ACTG), the Canadian AIDS Trial Network (CATN) and the European AIDS Trial Network (EATN).
About HIV
The ability of HIV to mutate and reproduce itself even in the presence of antiretroviral drugs has resulted in a rising rate of drug resistance throughout the world. Increasing drug resistance is severely limiting treatment options for people living with HIV, driving up direct and indirect health costs, furthering the transmission of drug resistant strains and creating a pressing need to develop new HIV drugs.
The U.S. government invests billions of dollars per year in HIV/AIDS research, treatment and care through a variety of domestic and international programs. The Ryan White CARE Act, which funds the treatment and care of people living with HIV in the U.S., currently totals $2.3 billion a year. Among its many other contributions to the global fight against HIV/AIDS, the U.S. HIV Military Research Program is supported by $22.8 million annually and is the largest contributor to The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria at approximately $1 billion per year.
Pharmaceutical sales to treat HIV equal $10.6 billion annually. The average cost of treating an HIV patients in the U.S., of which there are an estimated 1.1 million, for antiretroviral drugs alone is $15,000 per person per year.
About Cannabis Science, Inc.
Cannabis Science, Inc. is conducting cannabinoid research and development for unmet medical needs. The Company works with leading experts in HIV drug development, medicinal characterization, and clinical research to develop, produce, and commercialize Phytocannabinoid-based pharmaceutical products.
Cannabis Science is currently working with CBR International to develop a Pre-IND Application to the FDA that focuses on the use of CS-S/BCC-1 topical cannabis-based preparations for the treatment of basal and squamous cell carcinomas.
Forward Looking Statements
This Press Release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Act of 1934. A statement containing works such as “anticipate,” “seek,” intend,” “believe,” “plan,” “estimate,” “expect,” “project,” “plan,” or similar phrases may be deemed “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Some or all of the events or results anticipated by these forward-looking statements may not occur. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include the future U.S. and global economies, the impact of competition, and the Company’s reliance on existing regulations regarding the use and development of cannabis-based drugs. Cannabis Science, Inc. does not undertake any duty nor does it intend to update the results of these forward-looking statements.
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Picked up 40K@.071 myself, Looks like .071 was the basement catch.
Up from Here.
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News: GQ ARTICLE ON OBAMA CHANGING STANCE ON DRUGS IN SECOND TERM: http://www.gq.com/news-politics/blogs/death-race/2012/07/exclusive-in-his-second-term-obama-will-pivot-to-the-drug-war.html
News: GQ ARTICLE ON OBAMA CHANGING STANCE ON DRUGS IN SECOND TERM: http://www.gq.com/news-politics/blogs/death-race/2012/07/exclusive-in-his-second-term-obama-will-pivot-to-the-drug-war.html
News: GQ ARTICLE ON OBAMA CHANGING STANCE ON DRUGS IN SECOND TERM: http://www.gq.com/news-politics/blogs/death-race/2012/07/exclusive-in-his-second-term-obama-will-pivot-to-the-drug-war.html
Initiative 502 - As the former chief federal prosecutor I enforced our marijuana laws. I’ve come to believe they don’t work. Filling our courts and jails has failed to reduce marijuana use, and drug cartels are pocketing all the profits. It’s time for a new approach. Initiative 502 brings marijuana under tight regulatory control, generates new revenue for education and prevention, and if we pass 502, we’ll have more resources to go after violent crime instead.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/10/12/1002181/former-us-attorneys-cut-two-ads-supporting-marijuana-legalization/
Rapid Fire Marketing Announces Cheryl Shuman to Rebuild Medical Cannabis Management (MCM)
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Rapid Fire Marketing (PINKSHEETS: RFMK), a developer, producer and distributor of vapor inhalers, is proud to announce that its company representative, Cheryl Shuman, will head Rapid Fire Marketing's rebuild and rebrand of Medical Cannabis Management (MCM). Ms. Shuman, represented by the prestigious William Morris Endeavor Agency, is forming an advisory council which will be overseeing all phases of business development to integrate Rapid Fire Marketing and MCM's business into the television reality series.
Ms. Schuman said, "The business plan and vision in rebuilding MCM is simple. We are going to merge 25 years of celebrity and media connections with more than 1,000 cannabis business clients that I've worked with over the past five years with KUSH Magazine, Beverly Hills Cannabis Club and Beverly Hills NORML. Using a proven successful formula, and by combining those resources with hundreds of investors eagerly awaiting their chance to cash in on the green rush with the upcoming election, we have the perfect opportunity to build the first 'Super Brand' in the cannabis sector."
Schuman continued, "The beauty of MCM is that every single thing we do represents a promotional opportunity, including film, music, television, red carpet events, celebrity award shows, film festivals etc. The possibilities are endless and they are all part of my day to day life documented in the reality series."
Cheryl Shuman brings 25 years of experience working with such stars as Tom Cruise, Madonna, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Demi Moore, Michael Jackson, Steven Tyler, Black Eyed Peas and hundreds of other celebrities with her first company, Starry Eyes. Referred to as the "Martha Stewart of Marijuana" by international media, Shuman found her passion in the cannabis movement since 1996 working as an activist and legal cannabis patient. Since using cannabis therapy, she has survived cancer and injuries from two car collisions.
Tom Allinder, CEO of Rapid Fire Marketing, added, "Timing is everything in business. We are rebuilding the MCM website right now. We are, in effect, building this business in reverse. We already have clients and we will work with them while we are building MCM's online presence. This week, MCM will be formed officially as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Rapid Fire Marketing. Hundreds of medical marijuana dispensary clients are watching our progress as our relationship grows with Cheryl on board. They are eager to work with us to provide all of their marketing and public relations needs. This is a big project with many moving parts. As stated in our last investors update, the time to execute additional revenue streams and build value in the company is now."
Allinder concluded, "Cheryl and I have been strategizing for 6 weeks to create a business model that can instantly build revenue into Rapid Fire Marketing. We are currently negotiating our first big contract for MCM with a well known cannabis related company. This is a perfect fit for our shared vision to build the industry's leading Super Brand. There are a number of other businesses that are anxious to get started with us as well. We have other, established businesses that want to joint venture with us to sell their products. It is exciting times at Rapid Fire and MCM."
Cheryl Shuman will continue maintain a video journal on the development of these alliances on YouTube. Stay tuned for updates.
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Oscar nomination date jumps ahead to Jan. 10; announcement to come ahead of Golden Globes
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/oscar-nomination-date-jumps-ahead-to-jan-10-announcement-to-come-ahead-of-golden-globes/2012/09/19/d32bbc1e-0272-11e2-9132-f2750cd65f97_story.html
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By Associated Press,
LOS ANGELES — Academy Awards organizers have moved up a key date in the upcoming season of Hollywood film honors.
Nominations for the 85th Oscars will be announced Jan. 10 — five days earlier than the academy previously announced.
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Oscar overseers say the switch will give the academy’s nearly 6,000 members more time to see nominated films before the Feb. 24 awards ceremony.
The date change puts the Oscar nominations three days before Hollywood’s second-biggest film awards — the Golden Globes, whose ceremony takes place Jan. 13.
Oscar nominations typically come out after the Globes. The earlier date for Oscar nominations could steal a bit of the thunder from the Globes, which are presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
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Bring us something nice Ed... tweet; Sept. 6 Ed Sylvan ?@sycamorefilms
Goodbye #NYC, great #TEOTS activities. Now off to #TIFF to review new crop of projects and meet with the industry #Indies
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Movies for Grownups - AARP
Movies For Grownups previews upcoming movies, reviews current theatrical and home video releases, and interviews filmmakers whose work reflects the hopes, dreams, and experience of older moviegoers.Feed onPostsCommentsCharlotte Rampling’s Stormy New Drama
Sep 4th, 2012 by aarp
As a manipulative matriarch who summons her estranged children to her deathbed, Charlotte Rampling gives a startling performance. But as she tells Bill Newcott, it's not always easy to play a "beautiful monster."
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Kim Kordasian and a friend were walking across a bridge.
Kim says; I've always wanted to pee off a bridge, like the guys.
Her friend says; sure go ahead there's nobody around.
kim says; (after dropping her drawers) hey come here, I'm pissing on this Canoe.
friend; (leaning over) That's not a Canoe, that's your reflection.
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There's always time for a Laugh,
Kim Kordasian and a friend were walking across a bridge.
Kim says; I've always wanted to pee off a bridge, like the guys.
Her friend says; sure go ahead there's nobody around.
kim says; (after dropping her drawers) hey come here, I'm pissing on this Canoe.
friend; (leaning over) That's not a Canoe, that's your reflection.
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There's always time for a Laugh,
Ken, Please read;
I think you've carried the weight with a straight-back and I have full respect for any of your decisions.
I'm remembering "Family First"
If this Board morphs, I concur with your choice, Chris carries truth plus He is the 'Light House' of the board and watched for.
Hey the MOD SQUAD speaks for it self.
Enjoy your vacation and turn the tech world off.
if i may, God Bless You and your Family.
Thanks, Duke
That Guy must of read my Post;)LOL
Let the Spirit of the material Reach All
Thanks for posting these reviews.
After reading this review I have a better insight to the "EYE~~" and think it might do very well in the senior audience.
There is a lot of rich elderly thinking about 'the passing time' and 'life's past do's' and a lot of 'Old Money' worrying how it will be handled.
With a respected cast, as this, it just might draw a crowd.
That said, with Ed's bio. it amazes me he can be this ignorant as to not PR anything (at the least it would be cheap advertising for EOTS). I remember reading that he offered reading IHUB for insight, well Ed read this, Despite your silence we shareholders still have a chance through the Box-office for you have given no support at all.
Lastly how many of the Elderly follow Tweeter. LOL
Hope you have a safe flight and if you do pick something up you'll do more than TWEET, thank you. Duke
Review: ‘The Eye of the Storm’
Geoffrey Rush, Charlotte Ramping & Judy Greer make splendid spectacle of a not-very-lovable mom's final days
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
PUBLISHED: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2012, 3:14 PM
UPDATED: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2012, 3:09 PM
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From left: Charlotte Rampling, Geoffrey Rush and Judy Davis in 'The Eye of the Storm'
Title: 'The Eye of the Storm'
Trailer: A family convenes around their rich dying mother. Director: Fred Schepisi (1:59).
Film Info: Not rated: Sexuality, language. Lincoln Plaza, Cinema Village.
Unlovable, emotionally stunted Australian aristrocrats feast on a deep dish of greed in “The Eye of the Storm,” Fred Schepisi’s sly, stately comedy-drama that will please fans of BBC melodramas. But even on its own merits, its mild manner has sneaky stings.
Geoffrey Rush and Judy Davis are Basil and Dorothy, who return to their mother Elizabeth’s (Charlotte Rampling) deathbed with about as much delicacy as a wine-stained doily. Elizabeth was a horrific parent, so her grown children are eager to return the favor and coldly scoop up her money.
But Elizabeth — whose betrayals of Dorothy years before could hardly be forgotten — is fading in and out. And she’s giving her earthly treasures to her nurses and staff, which is driving the distracted actor Basil and forever single Dorothy mad.
Schepisi, a Down Under filmmaker seemingly everywhere between 1982 and 1990 (“Barbarosa,” “Iceman,” “Plenty,” “Roxanne,” “The Russia House”), brings his old pro’s hand to this adaptation of Australian Nobel laureate Patrick White’s novel. And Rush and Davis — pros themselves at delectable deviousness — can make the unfurling of a napkin into a tour de force.
In a sumptuous setting, this creamy-vowelled pair — along with Rampling, satirically dotty in the present-day scenes and tragically heartless in flashbacks — keep all elements of “The Eye of the Storm” firmly in sight.
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Anybody know the status of "ISLE OF DOGS"
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Just sent one.
How much money is EOTS going to make if Australia has population of 22 million and made just under 1 million.
The United States has 325 million.
My thoughts exactly, Thank You!!!
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The sad thing is that if APS had followed thru with emails/banners today then we would all be cheering about how bloddy brillant they are, etc. There were plenty of people waiting for confirmation and plenty of accounts that did not go all in on day 1 just because of all of the uncertainty around the Premium membership and the dip at the end of yesterday. This could have turned out so much better for everyone involved, including APS.