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Situação inusitada.... Ontem fui parar no hospital, setor de ortopedia... Conversei com o medico e ele me mandou pro raio x, chegando lá eu aguardo ser chamado..cheio de dor eu abaixo a cabeça e quando okho pro chão encontro um baseado!!! kkkkkkkk Ja sai de la com a medicação pra dor na mão e uma receita de antiinflamatório...rsrsrs Melhor hora impossivel!!!

Marcha da Maconha pede legalização para uso medicinal e recreativo Uso do canabidiol para portadores de epilepsia foi uma das pautas do ato. Mesmo com a chuva na capital, ato reuniu grande número de participantes. Mesmo com muita chuva a Marcha da Maconha no Recife não perdeu fôlego na tarde deste domingo (26). Programado para as 16h20, cerca de duas mil pessoas – segundo organizadores – só iniciaram a caminhada pelas ruas do centro da capital pernambucana uma hora depois do previsto. A marcha deste ano tem como bandeiras principais a defesa da legalização para uso médico, recreativo e do plantio da erva para consumo. Para a integrante do coletivo Livres, Karla Falcão, a marcha é a culminância do que se luta e se discute ao longo de todo ano. “No Brasil, 60% das pessoas vão presas por tráfico de drogas. Desses, 67% portavam menos de 100 gramas. Ou seja, usuários estão sendo criminalizados. A gente sabe que não existe uma guerra contra o tráfico de drogas, mas sim uma guerra contra pessoas, que, geralmente, são as pessoas mais pobres”, acredita. Karla vai mais além e defende que a legalização abrirá um mercado, uma nova e legal fonte de renda para agricultores. “A gente vê que a maioria das pessoas que moram no Sertão vivem de programas sociais, mas se a gente legalizar o plantio e a comercialização além do uso a gente abre espaço para que essas pessoas possam trabalhar com algo que já trabalham, mas legalmente”. Em meio a gritos de “legalize já”, era possível ouvir pedidos de “Fora Temer”, em menção ao presidente interino da República, Michel Temer. “Pessoalmente, não acho isso certo porque falar isso é dar a entender que o governo do PT apoia a legalização, mas não apoia. Isso é uma pauta que não cabe nessa marcha”, reclama Karla. Nem só de sérios discursos era composto o ato. Há quem resolveu extravasar e se fantasiar. Na Praça do Derby, área central do Recife, onde se concentrou o movimento, “Capitão Maconha” e um homem vestido de bárbaro com um enorme cigarro no lugar do porrete alegravam quem enfrentava a chuva. Manifestantes ainda customizavam camisas durante o ato. A marcha seguiu pela Avenida Boa Vista até o Pátio de Santa Cruz, na Boa Vista. O filho de Elaine da Silva, presidente da Liga Canábica de Pernambuco, faz uso medicinal do canabidiol há dois meses. O menino de 5 anos com problemas neurológicos não sofre mais de ataques epiléticos desde que começou a comer uma pasta da maconha misturada com iogurte. É o que garante a mãe ao dizer que mais quatro crianças fazem uso da alternativa no estado. “As pessoas têm muito preconceito, nos olham com outros olhos. Pensam que a maconha é uma droga com os mesmos efeitos do álcool ou cigarro. Eu estou aqui enfrentando muito preconceito para defender o uso e o plantio, mas vale a pena ser olhada com outros olhos quando é a saúde dos nossos filhos em questão”, completa. Todo molhado de chuva, o carioca Fernando Bezerra, 32 anos, resistia bravamente ao temporal que não cessava. Ele veio ao Recife para participar do primeiro Encontro Nacional de Coletivos e Ativistas Antiproibicionistas (ENCAA), realizado na Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE) e que durou três dias. “Vários estados participaram, tinha gente de todo Brasil. Não vou deixar essa chuva acabar com o que estamos vendo como o resultado de tudo que conversamos e defendemos nesses dias”. http://g1.globo.com/pernambuco/noticia/2016/06/marcha-da-maconha-pede-legalizacao-para-uso-medicinal-e-recreativo.html

Muita!!! Muita maconha!!!

Research looks at effects of irradiation on cannabis The first study of its kind to look at the overall effects of gamma irradiation on cannabis New research looking at the effect of gamma irradiation on dried cannabis ispublished in the Journal: Frontiers in Ethnopharmacology. “Evaluating the effects of gamma-irradiation for decontamination of medicinal cannabis” looked at 4 separate strains of cannabis produced by Bedrocan BV in the Netherlands and tested samples before and after the irradiation process to test for changes in cannabinoids, terpenes and moisture content. The results of the peer reviewed research showed no change in THC, CBD or moisture content, and minimal damage to a few terpenes present on the cannabis. While only a few terpenes were diminished, the exact ratio of terpenes in a strain is moderately changed. The overall profile is still clearly recognizable between the different varieties tested. The samples were compared before and immediately after standard gamma-irradiation treatment, and then evaluated visually and with GC and HPLC analysis methods. Upon analysis, the main terpenes affected were the monoterpenes myrcene, cis-ocimene and terpinolene, and the sesquiterpenes gamma-selinene, eudesma-3,7(11)-diene and gamma-selinene. The study speculates this may be because these more volatile terpenes are more likely to evaporate when their molecules are ‘sped-up’ by the gamma irradiation. Interestingly, the degradation was not the same for each strain. Myrcene, for example, was noticeably reduced in two varieties, but not in a third. The author of the research paper, Arno Hazekamp, speculates that this “indicates a protective effect that cannabis components may have on each other when present in specific proportions.” “Some terpenes are reduced, but no new compounds are formed. This means terpenes are evaporated to some extent, but not degraded into new compounds. Gamma irradiation somehow accelerates the evaporation just a little bit, but does not kill or destroy your cannabis.” -Arno Hazekamp This paper confirms similar research on other herbs like cilantro that has shown similar terpene damage from irradiation, while noting that the damage to/loss of terpenes was consistent with normal oxidation or evaporation after harvesting and storage. In an interview with Lift, Hazekamp noted that while a handful of terpenes were diminished, it would be comparable to the amount lost by simply leaving a bud sitting out for a week. “Everyone knows that terpenes can rapidly evaporate,” says Hazekamp, “because we can smell them. That means they are in the air, and therefore not in our cannabis anymore! Already in 1996 a study was done to quantify this effect (PDF) and it was found that after one week storage of cannabis a significant amount of terpenes were lost by evaporation.” “In the case of gamma-irradiation we see the same pattern: some terpenes are reduced, but no new compounds are formed. This means terpenes are evaporated to some extent, but not degraded into new compounds. Gamma-irradiation somehow accelerates the evaporation just a little bit, but does not kill or destroy your cannabis.” “Some terpenes are somewhat reduced in content,” he continues “because they somehow evaporate during the irradiation procedure. However, no new compounds, or degradation products, are seen. That means that the exact ratio of terpenes is somewhat changed, but the overall profile is still very recognizable between the different varieties tested. In other words: the difference between varieties is much larger than the smaller changes induced by irradiation, or keeping your cannabis stored for a week. Who would claim that a Purple Haze becomes a Northern Lights simply by leaving it in a paper bag for a week?” ”Beyond looking at terpenes and cannabinoids, we also looked at water content and microscopic appearance. That is because we wanted to have a most complete picture of possible changes. It has been often claimed that gamma irradiation destroys cannabis, and this is the first time it is actually measured. I think there are many more topics regarding cannabis that should be measured instead of speculated. The laboratory tools to do so are currently there, so labs: get to work.” Terpenes are major components of volatile oils that exist in plants, from pine trees to oranges, lemons, lavender and more. Terpenes are known to have therapeutic effects: some acting as anti inflammatory, antibiotic and antimutagenic, among other applications. Terpenes are also believed to work in concert with cannabinoids to create what’s known as the ‘entourage effect’. Many terpenes present in cannabis are also destroyed through processes such as smoking, vaporizing at a high temperature, or cooking, etc. “Whole plant” extraction processes like CO2 focus on preserving as many of these terpenes as possible, but any heating applied to such an extract (e.g. while ‘activating’ cannabinoids by decarboxylation) will inevitably also lead to loss of terpenes. The study concluded that as long as medical-grade cannabis is required to adhere to strict pharmaceutical standards, as it is in places like Canada and the Netherlands, gamma irradiation remains the safest and most efficient method of ensuring a safe product, especially for the immunocompromised. The use of gamma irradiation on food and herbal products has long been controversial. While dozens of countries allow the process to be used on foodstuffs to help prevent foodborne illness and preserve food, many activist groups have remained skeptical of the safety and efficacy of the process. The medical cannabis market is no different. The irradiation process is used by several licensed producers under Health Canada’s Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations to ensure adherence to strict standards surrounding biological impurities in medical cannabis. However, some patients and activists have expressed concern with the process and its effect on cannabis and its medically-active components: cannabinoids and terpenes. Unfortunately, no other sterilization technique (e.g. UV light, steam or harsh chemicals) have been shown to sterilize cannabis, while leaving the active components intact. The company who provided the cannabis for the study, Bedrocan BV, based in the Netherlands, is required to irradiate their cannabis as per the Dutch Ministry of Health. The author of the research paper, Arno Hazekamp, was a full time employee of Bedrocan BV, the company that provided the medicinal grade cannabis used in the research, during the time of the study. Recently he has become an independent consultant on cannabis research. Bedrocan Canada, a partner company of Bedrocan BV, also irradiates the cannabis they sell on the Canadian market, although Bedrocan Canada produces their own cannabis here in Canada. The study used 4 different strains: Bedrocan, Bediol, Bedica and Bedrolite, covering the spectrum of sativa as well as indica type strains, and THC as well as CBD containing cannabis. “It’s also important to remember that gamma-irradiation is not just done without good reason,” says Hazekamp. “It is meant to prevent the potential greater harm of infecting a patient with harmful microbes, In my paper several sources are cited where this actually happened. It is weighing two ‘bad’ choices (risk of infection vs. irradiation) and picking the most sensible one. “We should all hope for the development of new sterilization techniques for cannabis in the near future.” https://news.liftcannabis.ca/2016/04/08/effects-of-irradiation-on-cannabis/