October 08, 2011 News Corp MOXNews.com

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Medical marijuana can be a helpful product for many people who live with chronic conditions. Though there are many political debates as to its legality, medical marijuana laws have been passed in a number of countries and states. As with any medication you might take, it can help to learn more about how this drug is grown. Whether you’re curious or you just want to know where your pharmaceutical comes from, the more you know, the more you will be able to appreciate your prescription.

Hydroponics

Some growers favor growing medical marijuana by using hydroponics techniques. This requires the use of any growing medium that’s not soil. This might include water, vermiculite, and other soil-free mediums. When these techniques are used, growers are able to ensure the growing nutrients hit the roots of the marijuana plant directly. According to some growers, this allows the plants to grow more quickly and to be easier to control during the growing process. The roots will sit in the growing nutrients for longer periods of time and then can be removed when the growing process is done. This type of medium also allows the plants to be easier to monitor at all stages of growing.

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The voters of California have come together to say that they feel that the great benefits that marijuana offers to patients with many conditions means that it should be legally available to those patients. The process of actually getting certain authorities to affect this fact has sadly been somewhat slower than expected. Local police, elected officials, and community groups are fighting to limit the availability of the drug by passing ordinances that restrict the ability to open dispensaries in a community. This puts the patients who badly need this plant for their health in the unfortunate position of having to struggle to get it.

Some of the people who need marijuana and either don’t want to go to a dispensary or do not have one available in their area are engaging a cannabis delivery service to meet their needs. A cannabis delivery service basically functions as a mobile dispensary. It still follows the same rule about who can be given the drug, but they bring it to you rather than opening a storefront. The legality of this practice is somewhat unclear, because some officials are attempting to argue that it is in violation of local ordinances, but in reality there isn’t any clear specific legal guidance on the matter.

If you are in one of the 129 cities or the 9 counties in the state of California that have banned marijuana dispensaries, you still have the option of getting what you need from a cannabis delivery service. This is an industry that is growing quickly and is expected to soon be able to support most people who are in areas where they are otherwise prevented from meeting their medical needs.

Seniors at a retirement community in Orange County, California have set up their own medical marijuana collective. The participants say using the legal cannabis helps them cope with their ailments. (June

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Even if you have obtained benefit from the use of medical marijuana and are a complete devotee, you’ll probably have to admit that sometimes you’re annoyed by the hostile and stereotypical perceptions you have to put up with from some quarters.Much of this is due to ill-informed prejudice but before blaming others, perhaps it is necessary to look a little more inwardly. Please remember when reading this, that this article does not advise you of the legal position in your state or country and nor does it advocate breaking your local laws.

Conflicting messages

It’s not unusual to see articles that are actually strongly in favor of the use of medical marijuana unwittingly using photos and images that perpetuate some of these questionable views. A typical example might be the otherwise excellent and factual article that contains an image of a typical ‘user’ who is dressed as if they’ve just time-travelled from a late 1960s commune. Another web site containing great information, which made a good job of de-bunking many myths, unfortunately shot itself in the foot by using an appalling photograph of a group of furtive-looking folk sitting around a table in a darkened smoke-filled room, smoking their medical marijuana. It was closer to a scene from Macbeth or a 19th century novel’s depiction of an opium den than modern reality. Yet another article strongly in favor of US de-criminalization of cannabis for medical use, used a photograph of someone who had all the appearances of being in real-time mental communication with the beings of ‘Planet Zarg’ at the time the photo was taken. This careless and self-destructive use of wildly unrepresentative imagery harms the cause of trying to get medical marijuana taken seriously, and also dents the efforts of many responsible people to legitimately differentiate between their medical use and that of recreational users.

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Best kept secrets in New Mexico. who are the medical marijuana growers for the state and what do they have inside their facilities. kob eyewitness news 4 is the only station to ever take a camera inside a dispensary. and our kayla anderson was able to see how the non profit group takes the controversial drug from a seedling to medicine for patients. “southwest organic producers is one of 11 licensed medical marijuana producers in new mexico. we can’t tell you where their facility is. but you’ll be surprised to learn what kind of effort goes into growing safe and effective, high grade medical cannabis.” it’s marijuana like we’ve never seen it before. there are minute thumbnail 10:21 pm multiple, potent strains in this room … som- eight feet tall. and all of them with bulky, fragrant buds. “what you’re looking at is flowers, plants putting out flowers to attract pollen. by denying them pollen, we make them a more potent product, so much higher quality.” jacob white took us inside swop’s flowering room. from the ph balance to the nutrient levels… everything here is closely measured and monitored. the plants get a strict 12 hours of light and 12 hours of complete darkness. “they are essentially getting a whole summer’s and late fall’s worth of growth, in just a few short months, by the manipulation of the light cycles and the light spectrum.” clients of swop are licensed to receive medical cannabis. many of them have weakened immune systems… so swop works non-stop to …

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