Press Release of We Smoke April 10, 2012
TIME FOR OBAMA TO JOIN THE DEBATE ON THE FAILED WAR ON DRUGS
Source: The Guardian / Observer (UK) Sunday 8 April 2012 Editorial
MARIJUANA USERS ARE SAFER DRIVERS THAN NON-MARIJUANA USERS
Source: PR.Web.com 6 April 2012 A new study released by United States auto insurance quote provider 4AutoInsuranceQuote.com shows that statistically speaking, marijuana users are safer drivers than non-marijuana users.
THE RETURN OF THE UNDERGROUND RETAIL CANNABIS MARKET IN THE NETHERLANDS
Source: Rozebergquarterly.com 28 March 2012 By: Dirk J. Korf, Marije Wouters and Annemieke Benschop Attitudes of Dutch coffeeshop owners and cannabis users to the proposed ‘cannabis ID’ and the consequences they expect.
Marijuana-Like Chemicals Inhibit Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in Late-State AIDS
Mount Sinai School of Medicine researchers have discovered that marijuana-like chemicals trigger receptors on human immune cells that can directly inhibit a type of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) found in late-stage AIDS, according to new findings published online in the journal PLoS ONE.
TIME FOR A TRUCE IN THE WAR AGAINST DRUGS?
Source: Swissinfo 19 March 2012 Marc-Andre Miserez (Translated from French by Clare O’Dea)
CND Statement by UNAIDS: The time for pilot projects is over.
By: Alison Crocket, Senior Advisor, UNAIDS Date: 15 March 2012 Place: Vienna, Austria Occasion: Fifty-fifth session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs Statement to the Fifty-fifth session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs Thank you madam chair, For giving me the floor to address this plenary session on preventing HIV transmission amongst injecting drug users. […]
CANNABIS MADE IN THE UK
A report by the BBC on the elaboration of pharmaceutical products based on the cannabis plants grown legally by GW Pharmaceuticals somewhere in the south of England, the same country where patients growing for their own consumption are being prosecuted.
THE HEALING LEAF
New film about the healing capacities of the cannabis plant
VERSUS WAR ON DRUGS DEBATE
On 13 March 2012, a widely broadcasted debate took place on the war on drugs. Experts, orators and celebrities who’ve made this their cause participated in a new Intelligence²/Google+ debate format.