Marijuana clubs

National Institute on Drug Abuse. 2002 Monitoring The Future Survey Shows Decrease in Use of Marijuana, Club Drugs, Cigarettes, and Tobacco. Accessed at http //www.nida.nih.giv/Newsroom/02/NR12-16.html. 

Medical marijuana activist and writer Ed Rosenthal had been authorized to distribute marijuana to persons claiming medical need for the drug. He operated one of several marijuana clubs that provided marijuana to patients. California voters had earlier passed a ballot proposition authorizing the distribution of marijuana to persons suffering from glaucoma, AIDS, cancer, and other diseases whose doctors documented their need for the drug. The city of Oakland, California, had also authorized Rosenthal to distribute marijuana. 

Federal authorities close several medical marijuana clubs, mainly in California. Operators such as Ed Rosenthal in Oakland, California, are arrested and charged under federal laws, which do not recognize the smoked form of marijuana as a medical drug. 

The club moss Lyeopodium gnidiodes (known as somarona to the natives of Madagascar) is said to produce effects similar to those of marijuana when smoked. Other species of this genus are found in the USA, and the pictures are given in any botany text. Some members of the genus Myrothamnus are also active. 

In a defeat for medical marijuana advocates, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the federal Controlled Substances Act precludes a medical necessity defense on the part of the Oakland, California, Cannabis Buyers Club. February Officials at the popular drug education program DARE admit that some of the techniques they have been using may be ineffective. They begin a process of reviewing research and revising the curriculum. 

Koch, Kathy. Medical Marijuana. CQ Researcher, August 20, 1999, pp. 705-728. Covers the medical marijuana movement, state initiatives, and the question of legality of cannabis buyers clubs. 

People who take PCP often combine it with other drugs, including cocaine, LSD, MDMA (ecstasy), methamphetamine, amphetamine, marijuana, and crack. Another common practice is to take a type of tranquilizer called a benzodiazepine to come down off PCP when the party is over. These practices of combining PCP with other drugs is particularly common among young people who attend dance clubs and raves. 

Marijuana can make kids mess up in school, in sports or clubs, and with friends. According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services Monitoring the Future survey, marijuana has been shown to damage motivation and interest in one s goals and activities. 

In some areas there are medical Marijuana Buyers Clubs, where people who are seriously ill join together to buy the drug even though they know they are breaking the law. 

In February 2002, agents of the DEA raided a medical pot club in San Francisco. Some 630 marijuana plants were seized and four arrests were made. If convicted, the sentences can range from 40 years to life in prison. An outspoken group in favor of changing marijuana laws is the National Organization for the Reform of Marihuana Laws (NORML). 

Cannabis saliva (marijuana, hemp) (Cannabaceae) [cannabis leaf resin (hashish), marijuana leaf extract (bhang), smoked leaf (ganja)] [incorrectly reputed intoxicant of assassins of Hasan-i-Sabbah (story according to Marco Polo) Arthur Rimbaud Pierre Gautier Charles Baudelaire, members of Club des Hachischins ... 

Alcohol is just one of many drugs used to facilitate rape. Others include marijuana, cocaine, benzodiazepines, barbiturates, chloral hydrate, methaqualone ( quaaludes ), heroin, morphine, and LSD. Three of the more commonly used drugs today—and the ones that are the focus of this book—are Rohypnol, gamma hydroxybutyrate ( GHB ), and ketamine. Though Rohypnol and GHB were initially used as recreational drugs at clubs and raves, word soon spread among American youth that these drugs could be used quite effectively to commit rape. 

The Cannabis Buyers Club was founded by Dennis Peron following the 1990 death of a friend from AIDS. Peron was instrumental in collecting petition signatures to have a proposition to make marijuana available to sick people placed on the San Francisco citywide ballot in 1991... 

The club membership at one point exceeded 8,000. In order to join, one needed to present a doctor s note to certify that one has AIDS, cancer, or another condition with symptoms marijuana may alleviate. The club was selling more than 40 pounds of marijuana per week. 

The Cannabis Buyers Club was the best known of such establishments, but it is not alone. Similar clubs exist overtly or covertly in cities and towns throughout the United States. The extent to which these clubs remain open is uncertain. The Cannabis Buyers Club was afforded a bit more security by the 1996 passage of California Proposition 215, which permitted use of marijuana for medicinal purposes. But more recently, in 2002, a federal injunction issued in California halted—at least temporarily—distribution of marijuana at this and other such clubs. Stay tuned for future developments on the state and national levels. 

Cannabis buyers clubs, such as this one in San Francisco, have been established in a number of locations to provide cannabis to individuals who have medical conditions such as AIDS, cancer, or other conditions with symptoms that marijuana may alleviate. Here a buyer looks over some of the products available for sale. 

I will not advocate that anyone buy marijuana as it could be unsafe from the street. Buyers clubs offer patients quality control. States that run their own liquor stores could replace buyers clubs. Cannabis could be regulated by the government, fatty acids amides such as anandamide type molecules (CBl agonists) can not be controlled as they can be made from grocery store oils. 

Known as special K, jet, green, and other names on the street, ketamine is sometimes injected, but can be evaporated to solid crystals, powdered, and smoked, snorted, or swallowed. Marijuana cigarettes are sometimes soaked in the ketamine solution, allowed to dry, and then smoked. Ketamine has become popular as a rave club drug. Side effects include signiflcant transient increases in blood pressure and heart rate, respiratory depression, airway obstruction, apnea, muscular hypertonia, psychomotor and psychotomimetic effects, and acute dystonic reactions. Following overdose, seizures, polyneuropathy, increased intracranial pressure, respiratory arrest, and cardiac arrest may occur. 

The powdered form of ketamine is produced when the liquid form evaporates, leaving behind a white or off-white powder. The powder can be put into drinks, smoked, pressed into tablets, or even sprinkled on tobacco or marijuana and then smoked. When it is made into tablets, ketamine is often taken with other club drugs, including Ecstasy. 

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