Ideas, just ideas......

Medicinal Marijuana 2.

 

The  support for the use of  Medicinal Marijuana  is getting momentum by the everyday american, here in Miami the support is more than eighty percent.¹ 

Colorado² and Washington³ now allow its residents to use Marijuana for recreational purposes, getting the attention of the nation and the world for this social experiment. 

In the second instalment of Dr Sanjay Gupta's⁴ : WEED 2 Cannabis Madness; deepens in the therapeutic use of Medicinal Marijuana, its social and legal implications and the ordeals that many families go through  just to have access to the medication, that in many cases, is their last resort. 

 

 

 

1. http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/11/21/3769092/poll-82-percent-favor-medical.html 

2. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/19/marijuana-legalization-colorado_n_4989191.html

3.http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/07/07/colorado-washington-recreational-marijuana/12270261/

4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjay_Gupta

 

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Green is good. ( Verde es Vida!)

var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-22736364-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); There is a saying that " Everything in green is life, and life is good"  and I cannot agreed more than that. 

Lets start with a very gracious and delectable vegetable. Broccoli. 

This mother nature product has been studied in so many different researches and has been probed to help in preventing cancer and a new study, may also help the immune system  to clean harmful bacteria  from the lungs. The compound now has been isolated and is under further research.

Interested? ( you should) you can click right here.

For the people that want to have a little more of technical detail: The compound is sulphoraphane, that stimulates the macrophage activation by the chemical pathway known as NRF2, which is defective with people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease ( COPD)

 

Algae genes allow blind mice to see.

 

BLIND people could one day have their sight restored thanks to a treatment that borrows a gene from an unlikely source - algae - and inserts it into the retina. The technique has succeeded in restoring the ability to sense light and dark to blind mice, and clinical trials in humans could begin in as little as two years.

"The idea is to develop a treatment for blindness," says Alan Horsager, a neuroscientist at the Institute of Genetic Medicine at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, who leads the research. "We introduce a gene that encodes a light-sensitive protein, and we target the expression of that gene to a subset of retinal cells."

Some 15 million people worldwide have some form of blindness, such as retinitis pigmentosa (RP) or age-related macular degeneration (AMD). In people with these conditions the photoreceptors, which transform light hitting the eye into electrical impulses, are damaged, preventing the brain from receiving image information.

As the global population ages, it is thought that the number of people affected will increase. There are experimental attempts to develop electronic implants and to use stem cells to grow new retinal tissues to restore sight, but there is currently no commercial treatment available.

From  NewScientist.com

 

Marijuana to promote brain cells growth, helps to relieve anxiety and depression. ( so far probed in rats) 

Marijuana, such a misunderstood plant, used since the beginning of times for medical uses and as well for recreation purposes. Here in America, in order to do a research involving you, the scientist has to do so much paperwork in order to have access to you. Because, some people say, you can be so dangerous like cocaine or heroine. But no in Canada, that polite, seal free frozen sea, is impulsing the research, use and why not?, maybe the marketing of this promising plant. Or this is at least the results on the study and the co-author says Dr. Xia Zhang, of the neuropsychiatry research unit in the department of psychiatry at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada.

Looks like this plant helps to promote the growth of the brain cells, in mice, and in theory can help in humans too. 

If you are interested in this article, please click here. 

 

Have a great day. 

Just chilling weekend.

Legalizing Marijuana. 

 

 

Why drinking bottle water actually f@cks the environment.

 

 

Holy Shit !

  

and there is a purple one !!!!!

 

New Toilette paper. 

 

 

Think Periodically.

 

and the Real Periodic Table.

 

Rich people kicking balls. 

 

Do you want to be a weed farmer, click here ( disclaimer: this info is just for recreational purpose, any legal issue related with this post is solely between the user and his/her own actions)   

 

Quantum physics. 

There must be a God, because he is the only one that truly understands quantum physics. 

 

And a new technology creates  liquid wood! 

German inventors have developed a new material which holds the promise of replacing everything plastic with something as natural as wood. The material in question is called the Arboform. It is produced after combining lignin, a discarded element of regular wood with natural resins, flax and fiber, check the info here. 

Have a great weekend!!!! 

Why parents don't vaccinate their kids (and thus some kids die)

In 2001 there was a reduction of 99.99% in measles compared with the pre-vaccination era as well of 96% in whooping cough and 99% meningitis. Polio is eradicated and everything was thanks of the vaccines that has been used since late 1700 by Edward Jenner.

More than 300 years of safe use the reputation of the vaccines was overthrown by Andrew Wakefield a British doctor announced that measles-mumps-rubella vaccine created autism.  Even with the fact that further research never recreated the same results that the Dr. acclaimed, now the damage was done, many parents began to refusing to get their kids shot because of the anti-vaccination movement supported by prominent people, doctors, and actors ( like Jim Carrey) and media leaders. No one got the time to digg into the doctors work, and Mr. Wakefield had his secrets. He performed some very risky invasive experiments on children without the hospitals and parents approval, he accepted nearly $1m dollars from legal firms suing vaccine manufactures and he applied for the patent for a vaccine replacement that he claimed caused autism that had made him rich. In 2004 the truth start to come out, but was to late.

2008 in San Diego California, kids where exposed to measles instead get vaccinated.

2009 in rural Minnesota a kid died from meningitis, his parents refused to vaccinate him against the disease, four kids where hospitalized from the same disease two of those their parents refused the vaccines.

The fourth kid was way to young to be fully immunized ( five months old) and the fifth kid has an immune deficiency.

2010 nine hundred cases of whooping cough have being recorded so far up from two hundred in 2009, five kids have died.

In march 2010, the journal that published Dr. Wakefield work finally retracted his original research. Now he is banned from practicing medicine in the UK.

 

Marijuana School in Colorado set to open soon !!! ( really, am not joking).....

 

Maybe is like talking about fantasy, as Hogwarts is for candidates to study magic, Green Way University is for serious people who want to know "How to grow, sell and distribute Medical Marijuana" but the second school is real, sorry Potter fans, this might not have a curriculum which includes " Defense against Black Magic" but surely hash will be study over there and most likely is educative and very interesting, at least. 

SInce legislation in states like California, New Jersey and now Colorado passed Medical Marijuana Bill and thus allow the creation of Medical Marijuana Dispensaries, Green Way University has created an unique courses that will allow the attendance the legal and commercial issues related with this business, with Education Courses like BUD CERTIFICATION, MASTER GROWERS CERTIFICATION and MARIJUANA BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, this University gives the tools necessary to start a Medical Marijuana Dispensary, LEGIT !!!.

Now, Colorado's Board of Higher Education has approved this School and it will be the first state licensed marijuana school in the country.

One thousand students have attended Green Way University when started satellite classes in downtown in Colorado last year and this is expanding so fast that now needs a permanent campus and eight full-time instructors. 

" We have got an extra botanist, geneticist, we really have some skilled and talented master growers and all of our growers have a minimum of five years experience and grow thousand of patients" Gus Escamilla, CEO of Green Way University said. 

as well that " What we do is we teach people not only how to remain in compliance but remain in compliance while using all the applications as it relates to a fundamental business"

As for hand-on experience, Marijuana will not be available in the classrooms yet, as well the graduate alumni will not score grades instead will be certificates. ( amazing !!) but you got to study,there will be some books ( looking forward to read them) and pass tests. 

In the near future will be some financial aid and student loans. 

Courses take from three to five months and the cost go from Three hundred to two thousand dollars ( how much will be for out-of-state tuition) 

Are you interested, maybe as I am, please find more info in the Green Way University site @ http://www.greenwayuniversity.com/  

Who's Down to move over Colorado? I am ......

Seth Berkley: HIV and flu -- the vaccine strategy

Really interesting talk....  

 About this talk

Seth Berkley explains how smart advances in vaccine design, production and distribution are bringing us closer than ever to eliminating a host of global threats -- from AIDS to malaria to flu pandemics. 

About Seth Berkley 

Epidemiologist Seth Berkley is leading the charge to develop a vaccine against HIV -- and to make sure vaccines are available for those living in the developing world.

"Tattoo" sensor to help diabetics to check sugar levels.

A researcher at MIT under a postdoctoral thesis, Michael Strano, is developing a new technology that would help people with diabetes ( focused on Type 1) to keep on track their sugar levels.   

The main idea is a "tattoo" will based in this special ink crated by nanotechnology, this sensor is based on a carbon nanotubes wrapped in a polymer that is sensitive to glucose concentration, creating a fluoresce that can be read by a monitor ( a wristband perhaps), without need to get blood samples. Every six months the tattoo must be " re-touched"

Hope this technology gets available soon.  

If you want to know more about this, please click right here......