UK Doctor Claims Cannabis Clear Cause of Death
July 2nd, 2009 by Rick
The drug warriors must be salivating at the mouths from the following story run by the UK site The Daily Mail. Cheshire deputy coroner Geoff Roberts is apparently attempting to become the first person in history to successfully link smoking marijuana to a death.
Adie Gardner, a 17-year old former pot smoker, had a seizure last year in October which led to a heart attack. Despite past drug use with amphetamines and cocaine and having a heart attack a year before the one that killed him, the coroner believes that his cannabis use caused his death.
Dr. Roberts said:
Very sadly this young man died as a result of the direct toxic effects on the heart that the use of cannabis had, as such it was an avoidable death. [...] The post mortem showed no findings of recent drug use. But his body was left with a legacy of using cannabis in the past which directly led to his death.
Really? It’s curious to note that he had a history of drug use, including meth and coke, yet the doctor attributes smoking herb as the cause of his death. It would be more credible that he was nervous on his second day of his new job and he had a heart attack, the direct result being stress combined with a weakened heart from past drug abuse and already having suffered a heart attack once before.
The really crazy part of this story is the fact that there are other doctors that agree with the coroner.
Dr. Mark Nicol, the doctor that treated him before said:
Drug problems were acknowledged at that time. This case highlights that Cannabis is potentially life threatening.
At least he said potentially. Many things in life can be potentially life threatening. Mere case of wordplay.
Dr. Sally Hales, the doctor that conducted the post-mortem, said:
A history of using cannabis, amphetamines and cocaine would appear to be the most likely cause’ of the teenager’s death.
At least she included the other drugs… maybe the fact that he had a heart attack before and this time around he had myocarditis (inflammation of the heart) factored into his death. Once someone has a heart attack they are susceptible to future heart attacks.
There are simply too many factors that could have led to the teenage Gardner’s death to come out and say that marijuana was ultimately the cause of his persistent condition. Unfortunately, this is how the drug warriors operate… keeping the truth from the news and obscuring it with anything and everything that will justify their prohibition against marijuana and inane scientific claims.
Doctor Gets Floaty Sensation @ Work
July 1st, 2009 by Rick
A doctor, Jonathan Chahal, was up before the General Medical Council, a group that registers and regulates doctors in the UK. The counsel to GMC, Craig Sephton QC, told the board that Chahal had told him that while at work, he would inhale a mixture of air and the anesthetic Entonox, because it left him with a “floaty” sensation.
Four female nurses were also said to have participated in the Benny Hill-like shenanigans. As a result the Council is under the conclusion that Chahal is not going to be able to practice because of his “mental health”.
Maniacal British Bobbies Waterboard Pot Smugglers
June 26th, 2009 by Russ
In the “Countries That Shouldn’t Emulate America” category, comes the tale of six of London’s finest metro police. After apprehending a couple suspects who were carrying a large weed shipment, the officers decided to seize the property of the suspects, and give them the old Dick Cheney workover for good measure.
According to Britain’s Telegraph UK this is one of the most egregious police corruption scandals in the city department’s history. Apparently the officers, who included a detective sergeant, seized several flat-screen TVs, computers, and other electronics from the drug suspects. They then proceeded to repeatedly dunk the men’s respective heads in buckets of water, presumably to find out where they were hiding their Xbox 360.
Few of the specifics are being released due to an extensive corruption investigation. Obviously the city dropped the charges against the torturees, as it tries to smooth over this embarrassment. Though the details released were unusually grizzly for this sort of case, the corruption of law enforcement by drug money is an old and reliable standard.
Perhaps this is why President Obama declined to release bonus photos of the Abu Gharib victims. He didn’t want to give our War on Terror partner nations any bright ideas.
UK Unveils New Hemp-Built Housing
June 3rd, 2009 by Rick
In an effort for the UK government to “build more housing with a smaller carbon footprint,” a three-bedroom prototype dubbed a “renewable house” has been designed thanks to a grant for €200,000 from the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) in Britain.
The National Non-Food Crops Centre (NNFCC), who built the home, say that the walls are made from Hempcrete — a mixture of hemp and lime and that home owners will see a reduction of their energy bills to a cost of about €150 annually.
Dr John Williams, head of materials at the NNFCC said:
The forecasts are that we could roll this out very quickly if someone places an order for 25,000 homes. [...] Increasing numbers of farmers are growing hemp because it fits in with their current growing cycles between April and September and it is a good break crop for wheat. [...] If just 1 per cent of the UK’s agricultural land was used to grow hemp, it would be enough to build 180,000 homes per year.
The new hemp house would offer a cheaper and greener solution to the homes built with the usual brick and mortar — projected to cost around €75,000, excluding outside work to the grounds. The NNFCC also figures that 110kg (242.5lb) of carbon dioxide would be absorbed from the atmosphere due to the hemp crops being grown.
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Cocaine Market in a Shift; Prices Climb
May 13th, 2009 by Rick
According to the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), the cocaine market has been shifting and bulk prices have risen on an international scale, due to successful operations and undercover work. Although prices on the street have relatively remained the same, the price per kilo of cocaine has gone up several thousand Euros in the past year.
New data collected by the Forensic Science Service, reveals that the purity level of the cocaine that has been seized is less than 9% pure. Drug rings are diluting the cocaine powder with chemical cutting agents like; phenacetin (which causes cancer), cockroach insecticide and pet worming powder in order to compensate for the price increase.
SOCA has been testing every seizure of cocaine for the impurities as part of Project Endorse. With this technology, SOCA was able to link 170 different seizures together that would have otherwise been left undetected. Although the chemicals used to cut the cocaine are legal, SOCA has put a bullseye on the importers and have even sent some warning letters to ones that are suspected in supplying drug rings.
Smoke Alarm Reveals Cannabis Factory
April 30th, 2009 by Erin
This is what we call an epic fail.
If you’re going to run a grow-op out of your home, make sure you have enough power to keep your UV lights running without your outlet bursting into flames, causing your neighbors to call the fire department while your stoned ass is chowin’ down at Denny’s after-hours.
According to police, an inaptly named “cannabis factory” attracted investigation on Liverpool Old Road in Walmer Bridge after too many plugs in a socket caused the smoke alarm to go off. Steve Brown, watch manager at Penwortham fire station, said that the hallways were full of smoke and firefighters had to break down the front door.
The owners were not home at the time but the two bedrooms full of cannabis plants have given the police enough to start a deeper investigation. The fire was contained and extinguished, and the growers are currently being hunted down.
Put your head down and run.
UK Police Mistakes Private Workshop for Weed Farm
March 3rd, 2009 by Silvio
A police helicopter of the West Yorkshire, UK Police picked up a heat pattern from a house, and the authorities assumed they discovered a so-called “cannabis factory.” British officers didn’t waste any time, and after the necessary search warrant was obtained, they sent a team to the house in question to further investigate.
And further investigate they did. The fact that the door was locked and the bars on the windows must have aroused suspicions. After all, who keeps his doors locked if he has nothing to hide, right?
So they kicked down the door, and turned the place upside down. And what looked like the heat signature of a high profile marijuana grow OP from 1000 feet, turned out to be a stove in the workshop of Rowe, 41, a college technician and model citizen with no former convictions whatsoever.
When Rowe returned home, he didn’t find any officers explaining anything to him, just a kicked down door, and a mess in his workshop. The police did however state later, they left the door in a “secure state” when they left, probably to prevent a break-in. They also agreed to pay £200 for repairs.
Ecstasy: Not a Big Health Risk? Word?
February 25th, 2009 by Perry
Word.
After years of apocryphal horror stories, a recent large-scale study showed long-term, the effects of MDMA aren’t really that bad for you.
The UK Advisory Panel on the Misuse of Drugs found the results showed that mild memory loss is a common occurrence but the most harmful effect seems to be how someone’s system will react to the drug, with some cases even a small MDMA dosage leading to death from exhaustion or poisoning.
The study argues this is an extremely small minority, as millions of people take the drug every year in the UK and there were 30 deaths linked to the drug last year. The review also called for a rescheduling of the drug by class into a lesser category with cannabis.
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