{"id":2437,"date":"2011-08-21T00:34:42","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T00:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/?p=5063"},"modified":"2011-08-21T00:34:42","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T00:34:42","slug":"medical-marijuana-industry-news-week-of-august-15th-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/medical-marijuana-industry-news-week-of-august-15th-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicinal Marijuana Industry News  Week of August 15th, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/medical-marijuana-industry-news-week-of-august-15th-2011\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"260\" height=\"120\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/MarijuanaNet-Logo-Ad-Rotator_260x120.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Marijuana.net Logo for 260x120 Ad Space\" title=\"Marijuana.net Logo for 260x120 Ad Space\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 13px font-weight: normal\">Greater than 150,000 people attended the 20<sup>th<\/sup> annual Hempfest in Dallas. \u00a0\u00a0The mission statement from the event reads:\u00a0 \u201cTo educate the general public around the numerous potential benefits provided by the Cannabis plant, such as the medicinal, industrial, farming, economic, environment, along with other benefits and programs.\u201d\u00a0 The big event featured symposiums around the many purposes of medicinal marijuana, suppliers selling paraphernalia, speeches, and live music.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) spoke towards the audience on Saturday.\u00a0 Kucinich\u2019s 8 minute speech discussed a number of his favorite subjects:\u00a0 peace, fair trade, equal privileges and also the legalisation of marijuana. <em>* * *<\/em> Medicinal Genomics lately reported it has completed the DNA sequencing of Cannabis sativa.\u00a0 The biotech firm thinks which will soon be easy to develop drugs which contain the 80 plus advantageous compounds in marijuana with no THC.\u00a0 Pharmaceutical companies have lengthy searched for medicines that will provide advantages to their stockholders, and never customers of medicinal marijuana. &#038;nbsp <em>Note for Nerds.<\/em> You will find 131 billion base pairs of genetic data within Cannabis sativa\u00a0and\u00a0Cannabis indica.\u00a0 Inside the various strains there&#8217;s greater than a 1% variation. Browse the strain library for a listing of strains available as well as their characteristics. <em> <\/em> <em> * * * <\/em> <em> <\/em> Lawyers, doctors, and patient advocates within the condition of Maryland will work introducing legislation to legalize marijuana for \u201cseriously ill patients.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 The legislation is slated for any election through the condition set up this year and could be implemented as soon as The month of january of 2013. \u00a0Medical utilization of marijuana is legal in 16 states and Washington, D.C. <em>* * *<\/em> Congress in Massachusetts are thinking about legalizing marijuana for medical reasons. \u00a0The law allows patients to posses 24 plants or four oz . of Marijuana.\u00a0 More information in regards to this can be obtained from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.masscann.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">world wide web.masscann.org<\/a>. &#038;nbsp <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"260\" height=\"120\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/MarijuanaNet-Logo-Ad-Rotator_260x120.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Marijuana.net Logo for 260x120 Ad Space\" title=\"Marijuana.net Logo for 260x120 Ad Space\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 13px font-weight: normal\">Greater than 150,000 people attended the 20<sup>th<\/sup> annual Hempfest in Dallas. \u00a0\u00a0The mission statement from the event reads:\u00a0 \u201cTo educate the general public around the numerous potential benefits provided by the Cannabis plant, such as the medicinal, industrial, farming, economic, environment, along with other benefits and programs.\u201d\u00a0 The big event featured symposiums around the many purposes of medicinal marijuana, suppliers selling paraphernalia, speeches, and live music.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) spoke towards the audience on Saturday.\u00a0 Kucinich\u2019s 8 minute speech discussed a number of his favorite subjects:\u00a0 peace, fair trade, equal privileges and also the legalisation of marijuana. <em>* * *<\/em> Medicinal Genomics lately reported it has completed the DNA sequencing of Cannabis sativa.\u00a0 The biotech firm thinks which will soon be easy to develop drugs which contain the 80 plus advantageous compounds in marijuana with no THC.\u00a0 Pharmaceutical companies have lengthy searched for medicines that will provide advantages to their stockholders, and never customers of medicinal marijuana. &#038;nbsp <em>Note for Nerds.<\/em> You will find 131 billion base pairs of genetic data within Cannabis sativa\u00a0and\u00a0Cannabis indica.\u00a0 Inside the various strains there&#8217;s greater than a 1% variation. Browse the strain library for a listing of strains available as well as their characteristics. <em> <\/em> <em> * * * <\/em> <em> <\/em> Lawyers, doctors, and patient advocates within the condition of Maryland will work introducing legislation to legalize marijuana for \u201cseriously ill patients.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 The legislation is slated for any election through the condition set up this year and could be implemented as soon as The month of january of 2013. \u00a0Medical utilization of marijuana is legal in 16 states and Washington, D.C. <em>* * *<\/em> Congress in Massachusetts are thinking about legalizing marijuana for medical reasons. \u00a0The law allows patients to posses 24 plants or four oz . of Marijuana.\u00a0 More information in regards to this can be obtained from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.masscann.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">world wide web.masscann.org<\/a>. &#038;nbsp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2287,2288,46,528,9,2289,51,399,1,3,18],"tags":[4854,4855,2629,3102,4856,2631,2977,2622],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}