Medical Marijuana - Cannabis in Australia

MDT inaccurate?

As medical cannabis inches closer to becoming available and accepted as medicine in Australia, the government and police have decided to integrate MDT (mobile drug testing) into their policing and they're advertising on various media platforms, You will be caught!
So why now? is it to coincide with the launch of medical cannabis into the Australian market?
And why target cannabis, wouldn't opiod based products be far more dangerous? Do we have an MDT unit that detects oxycontin?

The Cannabis Contamination Conundrum

Opiate related deaths have decreased by twenty-five percent in states with operational medicinal cannabis programs. No one has ever died as a direct result from cannabis use but that doesn’t mean that all cannabis is always 100% safe. Cannabis products span several markets, including agricultural/environmental, food safety (especially...

The Next Frontier: Designing Your High

Excerpted from Brave New Weed: Adventures into the Uncharted World of Cannabis by Joe Dolce

One of the problems of the current world of weed is the lack of diverse opinions within it but as we enter the post-prohibition era, new voices are emerging, and they are countering the received wisdom.

Michael Backes is one such disrupter. Rather...

The DEA Spent an Obscene Amount of Money to Eradicate ZERO Pot Plants in Utah

To underscore the absurd amount of money the DEA spends annually on eradicating pot plants, the Washington Post looked at a series of federal documents that revealed what can only be described as an obscene waste of taxpayers’ money.

The documents, obtained by journalist Drew Atkins through the Freedom of Information Act, showed for example...