You know you're in a different kind of college when a teaching assistant sets five marijuana plants down in the middle of a lab and no one blinks a bloodshot eye. Welcome to Oaksterdam University, a new trade school where "higher education" takes on a whole new meaning.
The school prepares people for jobs in California's thriving medical marijuana industry.
For $200 and the cost of two required textbooks, students learn how to cultivate and cook with cannabis, study which strains of pot are best for certain ailments, and are instructed in the legalities of a business that is against the law in the eyes of the federal government.
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Medical Marijuana Endorsed by US Doctors Group
The second-largest group of doctors in the United States has approved Friday the use of marijuana for medical purposes, issuing a policy statement on medical marijuana this week.
The American College of Physicians, with 124,000 members, asked the U.S. government to cancel the ban on using marijuana for treating some patients or for medical experiments, stating that the research found that the non-smoked forms of THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), (the main psychoactive element in marijuana), have been efficient in treating weight loss caused by AIDS, and nausea and vomiting pursuant to chemotherapy in cancer patients.
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The American College of Physicians, with 124,000 members, asked the U.S. government to cancel the ban on using marijuana for treating some patients or for medical experiments, stating that the research found that the non-smoked forms of THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), (the main psychoactive element in marijuana), have been efficient in treating weight loss caused by AIDS, and nausea and vomiting pursuant to chemotherapy in cancer patients.
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Medical marijuana group blasts Dillon drug bust
Associated Press
DILLON, Mont. (AP) - A pro-medical-marijuana group says a large-scale marijuana bust this month, that law officers in Dillon touted as a major success, was instead the persecution of a terminally ill man, who needed the drug to help ease his suffering.
Patients and Families United, based in Helena says the police action won't stand up in court, thanks to Montana's 3-year-old Medical Marijuana Law.
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DILLON, Mont. (AP) - A pro-medical-marijuana group says a large-scale marijuana bust this month, that law officers in Dillon touted as a major success, was instead the persecution of a terminally ill man, who needed the drug to help ease his suffering.
Patients and Families United, based in Helena says the police action won't stand up in court, thanks to Montana's 3-year-old Medical Marijuana Law.
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ACLU of Wash. launches marijuana campaign - with Rick Steves
SEATTLE (AP) - The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington state is launching a new campaign to get people talking about changing marijuana laws, and it's enlisted travel writer Rick Steves in the effort.
Steves filmed a 30-minute video for the ACLU, in which he says he has traveled all over Europe, and he's learned that it makes more sense to treat marijuana use as a public health issue than it does to arrest people for using it.
The ACLU says it is trying to start a national conversation about whether American drug laws are working with regard to marijuana.
The organization says nearly 830,000 people are arrested on marijuana charges every year - 90 percent of them for possession - and that the U.S. spends far more money arresting, prosecuting and jailing people than it's worth.
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
Steves filmed a 30-minute video for the ACLU, in which he says he has traveled all over Europe, and he's learned that it makes more sense to treat marijuana use as a public health issue than it does to arrest people for using it.
The ACLU says it is trying to start a national conversation about whether American drug laws are working with regard to marijuana.
The organization says nearly 830,000 people are arrested on marijuana charges every year - 90 percent of them for possession - and that the U.S. spends far more money arresting, prosecuting and jailing people than it's worth.
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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