Medicated Chef

Last Monday we launched a new channel with a program called Medicated Chef. We will be recording every Monday to bring all of you the newest delicious edible treats and 15-20min meals right at your home. Also please be sure to contact us our information is available at www.M2jMedia.com if you are interested in reserving a spot to watch our chef live! You can visit www.livesream.com/medicatedchef to view the raw footage caught on our fist shoot. Let us know what you think by becoming a fan of Medicated Chef on Facebook. You must be a patient with records on hand to taste the food created by our Medicated Chef.

If you have watched the show you will see how our chef made a triple medicated delight. Alex the Great helped out by creating the homemade tortilla's which were medicated. Using the old scaling of a palm of this a pinch of that. Medicated Chef then begin the process to medicate the re fried beans, (and do keep in mind that everything is made from scratch). Of course to make it a TRIPLE medicated meal he also made green chili! Add it all together and throw some fresh cut lettuce, tomatoes and cheese on top and you treat yourself to a hearty, healthy meal.

To top it all off he created a dessert that is to die for. It is a triple medicated Peach Cobbler. Now if you know what Peach Cobbler tastes like then you can imagine it with triple the medicine. Well if you are a patient, now you can actually try some of his created recipe's. We would like to hear from you feel free to comment or contact us in the way most convenient for you.

Shantel Lo

Mile-Hi Medicinal Bash!

There is a huge event going on 7-11pm Febuary 7th, 2010 called The Healing Of The Nations, Mile-Hi Medicinal Bash. There are going to be quite a few different dispenary's sponsering which is going to make this event off the wall! With dispensary's like Relief, Chronic Well, Mr. Nice Guys, Bio Care and many more! There will be an open bar available to all of age. Do be advised it is for medical marijuana patients only, and boy, that couldn't be stressed enough by Big D in an interview held by M2j Media. Along with his presence we were also lucky to have Sweet Jones, Bushy Bush, Papa Doc, Reign, Mikie, Bubba Fly Jedi, and Spell Binder. Which can be viewed on our Marijuana Music TV channel at M2jMedia.com. Now most of you may be aware of who these fine gentleman are and if not, than we are here to give you the inside scoop on these musicians.

Sweet Jones was born and raised here in Colorado, as well as Big D. Unlike Bushy Bush who came to the U.S after living in Jamaca for 15yrs. He has been a Colorado resident for 2 1/2yrs now. You can also visit the channel to get more information on his upcoming event being held on Febuary 12th. Papa Doc came to Trinidade when he was 16yrs old and that started his spark on creating music, but has always been into Reggea. Over time he learned to appretiate the art of making music, becoming ever so much wiser.
Reign was born in Brookyn but has been in Denver for about 5yrs now. Giving Denver our kodo's for how much more laid back we are. Mikie has been into breaking since he was a little boy growing up in Seattle. He set out to travel when he was going on 19yrs of age. Meeting Jedi in Denver, Co.

Jedi was born in Little Rock, AR. And also has a CD's out which can be checked out at Bubbafly.com. He found inspiration in DMC as a kid. When he was first learning he used to think that you moved the needle to scratch but soon found out that it's not as he thought. Spell Binder came to Colorado in 1982 and moved to Montbello. Sharing his meaning of WAR which to us as Wisdon And Rightousness. You can also learn more about him and his music at Spellbindermusic.com.

Please feel free to visit any one of these websites if you want to learn more and deffinitly check out the interviews and other channels on M2jMedia.com.

Shantel Lo

Wars on Drugs

Right now there is a world wide war going on about the legalization of Medical Marijuana. As you may know I am pro medical. Patients have the right to recieve the medicine that fits their needs. Marijuana is a lot safer than many other drugs, which are man made. Now some may want you to believe that only prescription is in pill form, but these people have been trained to believe one thing and one thing only, and that is that marijuana is illegal. But if this is so, than why do so many doctors prescribe this natural herb to countless Americans?
Fun fact: In 1996 California became 1st of the 13 states to legalize marijuana to medical patients. This was owed to the thousands of different studies done by scientists. Around 258published studies. The same study was preformed in 2008 (keep in mind that our technology has advanced heavily since then), which lead to over 2,100 published scientific studies. And these are just the studies that have been published! Since then, the numbers have been multiplying, ranging around 17,000 in late 2009. Thanks to the World Health Organization in 1995, scientists proved that no matter what dose of marijuana that goes through your bloodstream, it is impossible to overdose or die off of this drug. "There are no recorded cases of overdose fatalities attributed to cannabis, and the estimated lethal dose for humans (extrapolated from animal studies), is so high that it cannot be achieved by...users."
There are millions of studies about marijuana being medicine to many diseases such as:
Gilomas, Cancer, Autism, Alzheimer's, Multiple Sclerosis, AI disease, Chronic pain, Fibromyalgia, Tourettes Syndrome, Dystonia, HIV, Hepatitis C, Hypertension, Sleep Apnea, Diabetes, GI Disorders, Incontinence, Rheumatoid, Arthritis, Pruitis, Osteoporosis, MRSA. As well as helping with nausea, depression or suicidal thoughts. This takes better effect over time, as proven by over 3 decades of over some 50,000 Swedish military recruits.
As with any drug there are its risks and should be assessed before use. Always be sure to speak with your physician. You should not use if you have an allergy to cannabis. If you're pregnant or nursing, this could effect the way the baby interacts in the future. The time length of these effects are undetermined. Patients with a family history of severe mental illness, because their brain may not be able to process the medicine quite as well and if prescribed would have to be given in a more controlled dosage. Patients who have a mix of Hepatitis C and decreased lung function (such as pulmonary disease), and history of heart disease or stroke.
Now what can this do for the community? Well, there is a charity some of the dispensaries are holding for funding schools. We do have many non-profit organizations such as this. We also noticed that with giving it legally and allowing dispensaries to be open, there have been reports of less crime in the cities. A number of people think that dispensaries attract crime. Well this is wrong! More banks get robbed in a year than dispensaries do.Dispensaries prevent crimes everyday, simply by opening their doors.
So what can be learned with the facts that have been presented to us? That marijuana will have its positive outcome even when presented as a negative effect in our society.
Shantel Lo

When Seperated They Became Stronger Than Ever:Riah's Story

Recently we have been working on stories about children being taken from their parents just because they are employed in the medical marijuana industry. Well we have another story. And this, as is every other, is unique in its own way. The story I am about to tell you is about the various counts of people abusing their position as a higher rank, acting more childish than the very children they’re trying to deceive. Using children against their own parents because they have found that its method hits a vulnerable spot for most everybody.

Riah was born in San Diego, Ca but moved here twelve years later to find himself with three wonderful children. Overtime Riah has learned about his culture being Native American and has become a very strong believer of the ways. Since he has been here, he has also become a patient to medical marijuana and has began growing as well. While being a caregiver he treats every patient that comes in with respect. He is very sympathetic to other’s and does not use this experience as just a” quick buck”. The money that he does get from this goes to making sure his children are taken care of first and foremost. Riah also shares the home with the mother of his children. Even though they may not be together, they can respect each other enough for their kids.

Before you know it, the cops are profiling Riah as an addicted drug dealer who neglects his children. The police (acting like rats) found a small crack they can get into and showed up due to an anonymous call by a worried citizen who witnessed the mother allegedly pulling their son’s hair in a grocery store parking lot. The first thing they did was retrieve the two girls of 6, 10yrs from school for questioning. As the law is stated the police are not allowed to speak to children under the age of 18 without parents consent. The principal of the school, who is supposed to act solely on what is best for the children, introduced the cops, who are to only act lawfully, as “friends, there to ask fun questions about the school and community”. When really, they asked about drug use within the home, or any sign of abuse to any of the children. Of course the kids were raised in an open, loving environment which means they had nothing to say that the police/social services wanted to hear. So they dug deeper.

Now that they have completed the illegal interview with the two girls they wanted to get their hands on the 4yr old little boy. The cops and social worker showed up to the home to have the “interview” with their son. (Now do keep in mind that the cops are only there to escort the social worker and nothing else). They were informed by the residents at the home they were not allowed in and that they would need to leave the property immediately. Being the fools that they law enforcement is refused to leave the home and used an excuse that they believed the young boy was in harm. Once Riah advised the officers on site that they would need a warrant if they wanted to come in it set the fuse for a ticking bomb.

The police being hot headed called in an immediate grow and would not allow the residents back into their own home. Getting in the home the only way they know how, they bullied Riah into allowing them to see inside, but not without him being there to supervise their every move. After all to us, that’s just a group of strangers scavenging through your house like some desperate vultures.

Once inside they spread out like a wildfire and made up some talk like they’re securing the premises. Again, over an hour later, well after they knew the young child was fine, they were asked to leave once again. Unsurprisingly they refused but now they had time to come up with a bogus story. A scary ass excuse of, “we need to make sure your friend Bob is not upstairs with a shotgun waiting to attack us when we leave.” Which is preposterous because Riah and family have been quite cooperative given the circumstances. Eventually he packed his family’s things for a night and left. After all they were not under arrest and still had no reason to be harassed the way they were.

At this point they have all three children in social services with the youngest boy away from his other two sisters. Throughout all this, the system who is to serve and protect is not giving a damn about what they do to the innocent children and to the family whose done nothing to be prosecuted for. Now Riah does confess to having one or two hallucinogenics in the home and says that it is arguable that he has the right as a Native to practice his religion. Therefore is allowed to possess a certain amount of peyote, etc. Because this is such a strong belief, Riah does not have regrets about having those in the home and knows that every one has the right to practice their own religion. Everyone was trying to prove that they were not only unfit parents but unfit for the society when they were being some of the most rational people. Knowing what kind of damage this may cause the children Riah had to make the most sincere act of signing custody over to his father-in-law. Although that was not going to get the children home. Not until the fight is over and they had Riah in prison. “I will not be persuaded to buckle!” he stated during an interview.

The parents did have visitation rights and had to keep in touch with attorneys and GAL’s (guardian at lid om). A few days after the Civil court date the principal got in contact with Riah and asked him to come down to the school. On his drive over there he had a raw feeling that he was being set up, the police were probably furious that they couldn't arrest him at the children’s court date days before. Sure enough as he pulled up as the principal was there waiting with Task Force to arrest him as soon as they could. What better way to get back at someone than set up an arrest in front of an elementary school, right? All the cops know is arrest and ask questions later. Guilty until proven innocent. Once he proved that he was a licensed medical marijuana grower they released him on bond leaving him 5 months he must serve unless charges are dismissed due to illegal search and questioning minors. After a total of 70 days without his children he was reassigned custody of all three of them.

During a rally Riah confronted Tom Slone Chief of Police and asked him why they remove children from growing homes but the only response was an invite to speak in his office. But that said was enough of an answer for all of us. Also during the same rally Riah asked his daughter why she thinks that he brings her to those events.... and the warm hearted answer we received from a 7yr old child was, "So that people know it's ok." After a long, hard fought battle, Riah agreed to a plea of two years on probation with the catch that he cannot be a grower during his probation term. Once again, Riah, thinking of his children first, agreed to the plea instead of "fighting the good fight". The children are now back in the home and although they will have permanant scaring from the trauma; children can be relentless and will grow not only as individuals but all as a family as well.


Shantel Lo

Green Pages

Crunching the Numbers on Medical Marijuana Dispensaries

Monday, December 14, 2009, by Adrian Glick Kudler

Last week the City Council decided they'd cap marijuana dispensaries in the city at 70, picking that number because it "sounded reasonable to them," according to the LA Times. Councilmember Jose Huizar, who proposed the cap, actually had a rationale for picking that particular number, according to TIME: it allows "two dispensaries for each of the city's 35 community planning areas -- because he felt that was what the cash-strapped city should adequately regulate." (Eagle Rock in Huizar's district is an especially dispensary-thick neighborhood--the public safety director of the Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council tells the magazine there are 13 dispensaries in a two and a half mile radius and says, "It's literally the wild, wild West." [Not East?]) The City Council has to make up dispensary caps because they don't know how many people are using dispensaries; patient registration is voluntary. A spokesperson for Americans for Safe Access estimates that "tens of thousands reside in Los Angeles."

Fishy times ahead for dispensaries?>>>
The council hasn't voted on the full dispensary ordinance yet because they can't agree on a proposed addition that would prohibit dispensaries near private residences (prohibitions around schools, public parks, and places of worship were already included), and doubling the distance dispensaries need to be from these "sensitive-use areas," from 500 ft to 1,000 ft. Blogdowntown mapped out how that would look for downtown. Medical marijuana users might need to start familiarizing themselves with the Seafood District. [Image via blogdowntown]
· Trouble Ahead for Medical Marijuana in California [TIME]
· Visualizing the Debate Over Marijuana Dispensary Locations [blogdowntown]
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Colorado's Green Rush: Medical Marijuana

By Jim Spellman, CNN
December 14, 2009 9:31 a.m. EST

Denver, Colorado (CNN) -- Driving down Broadway, it's easy to forget you are in the United States. Amid the antique stores, bars and fast-food joints occupying nearly every block are some of Denver's newest businesses: medical marijuana dispensaries.
The locals call this thoroughfare "Broadsterdam." As in Amsterdam, Netherlands, these businesses openly advertise their wares, often with signs depicting large green marijuana leaves.
"The American capitalist system is working," said attorney and medical marijuana advocate Rob Corry.
It's a matter of supply and demand.
"The demand has always been there," he said, "and the demand is growing daily because more doctors are willing to do this, and now businesses, entrepreneurs, mom-and-pop shops are cropping up to create a supply."
Colorado voters legalized medical marijuana in 2000. For years, patients could get small amounts from "caregivers," the term for growers and dispensers who could each supply only five patients. In 2007, a court lifted that limit and business boomed.
Between 2000 and 2008, the state issued about 2,000 medical marijuana cards to patients. That number has grown to more than 60,000 in the last year.
State Sen. Chris Romer, a Democrat whose south Denver district includes Broadsterdam, said the state receives more than 900 applications a day.
"It's growing so fast, it's like the old Wild West," Romer said. "This reminds me of 1899 in Cripple Creek, Colorado, when somebody struck gold. Every 49er in the country is making it for Denver to open a medical marijuana dispensary."
They're calling it the Green Rush.
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Corry, who has represented defendants in medical marijuana cases for years, is taking a different role: He has formed the Colorado Wellness Association, a trade group representing medical marijuana growers and providers.
"We want to be the Better Business Bureau of marijuana," he said.
On the 28th floor of a downtown building with a great view of the Rocky Mountains, Corry's office is adorned with vintage posters. One reads "Marihuana: Assassin of Youth!"
In the corner sits a plastic 6-foot marijuana plant. It's a prop from the TV show "Weeds," about a suburbanite mother who begins selling marijuana to make extra cash, Corry said.
The lagging economy has created an opening for medical marijuana, Corry said. As governments struggle for new sources of revenue, the prospect of taxing medical marijuana can be enticing.
The dispensaries are "paying taxes, hiring employees, renting out space, purchasing supplies and moving this economy along," he said. "Local governments need to get on the bandwagon and start realizing this is a major source of revenue and it can help us cure our bankrupt governments."
The association aims to get a larger supply of marijuana into the dispensaries and make sure it is safe, Corry said.
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"What we're looking at is quality control," he said. "We have the technology to make sure there's no harmful toxins, pesticides."
Bob Winnicki is a 35-year-old analyst and co-owner of Full Spectrum Laboratories, which the wellness association uses for testing.
"We're trying to get away from smelling, texture, color" as a measure of quality cannabis, he said, adding that he prefers "hard analytical data."
Wearing a dress shirt and tie under a white lab coat, Winnicki opens envelopes with samples of marijuana dropped off by growers and dispensers. He puts the marijuana into test tubes and mixes it with a solution to create a greenish liquid. The test tube goes into a machine that performs a chemical analysis.
The active ingredient in marijuana is tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC. But Winnicki said it's other, less understood components that may provide much of the claimed medicinal benefits.
Winnicki is not a marijuana user, he said. In July, he took a break from medical school to start the lab because he loves "the science" behind medical marijuana and thinks the market is wide open, he said.
"There's a lot of money to be had in it, and there's a lot of jobs and growth that can come out of it," he said.
Across the city, entrepreneurs are trying to get in on the Green Rush. In a northwest Denver neighborhood, Aaron Randle is tending to his new shop, Sunnyside Alternative Medicine.
He opened in September and said he has about 100 customers so far.
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"I've been an electrician for eight years and before that I had a cable contracting company. It's always been a dream to work for myself," he said. "I'm very passionate about marijuana."
I personally haven't tried it yet, but I'm not saying someday before I'm done I won't.
--State Sen. Chris Romer on medical marijuana
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Customers drop by his modest storefront operation and take a seat in a small waiting room. It's no different than a dentist's office except the magazine rack is stuffed with High Times, a publication for marijuana buffs, instead of Sports Illustrated and parenting magazines.
One at a time, customers survey a display case full of marijuana strains as well as marijuana-infused brownies, taffy and lollipops. Maui Waui and Purple Kush are popular strains. It costs $50 for an eighth of an ounce, $54 with tax. Purchases go into a plastic prescription bottle and then into a white bag that reads, "Prescriptions. Thank You!"
Randle proudly displays his business license on the wall.
"There's a lot of jobs created because of medical marijuana," he said. "You have employees that work at the dispensaries, then you have vendors that are getting paid. ... Real estate is booming right now. Warehouses are getting rented out for grow operations."
What Randle calls "vendors" are marijuana growers, a mix of people who operate "grow houses," where the plants are cultivated using elaborate lighting systems, or small-scale farmers who operate in rural areas.
Zack Moore is a grower with a small greenhouse operation in southern Colorado. He also is a medical marijuana patient. A snowboarding accident knocked out his two front teeth, and he smokes marijuana for relief from various aches and pains, he said.
He rolls a joint and lights up before having a seat in a rocking chair in the afternoon sun. With a basket of marijuana in front of him, he uses toenail scissors to trim the dried plants. When he's done, he will have made about $6,000 for six months work, he said.
Though he hopes to do better next season, he's happy to be working.
"I build houses for a living. There's not many houses to be built right now."
Not everyone is happy with the changes the legalization of medical marijuana has brought to the state.
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers said the amendment to the state constitution that allowed the new businesses is flawed.
"Colorado has seen a rapid proliferation of medical marijuana dispensaries and patients since the Justice Department earlier this year announced it would not actively prosecute medical marijuana businesses -- despite the fact that marijuana remains an illegal drug under federal law," he said in an October statement.
"Amendment 20, written by marijuana-legalization proponents, is very vague. Our state lawmakers must give clarification to Amendment 20 and create a regulatory scheme for the growing medical marijuana industry."
State Sen. Romer concurs. "Right now it's easier to get a medical marijuana license than it is to get a liquor license," he said.
Currently, patients need to see a doctor only one time to get a recommendation that enables them to buy medical marijuana. Patients can choose to pay $90 to file with the state and receive a card identifying them as medical marijuana patients. The cards do not expire.
To become a provider or grower of medical marijuana, entrepreneurs need to have a patient name them as a caregiver when they file for a medical marijuana card.
Romer said he doesn't want to limit legitimately sick people's access to medical marijuana, but he doesn't want to see the state law turned into de facto legalization of marijuana.
"Amendment 20 never dealt with where you got the medical marijuana," he said. "We're going to license the growers and we're going to license the caregivers."
Romer wants to keep marijuana out of the hands of teenagers and hopes to channel some of the revenues into programs to treat substance abuse.
One of the most difficult aspects for lawmakers is how to define true medical need. Romer is keeping an open mind.
"I think you're having a lot of baby boomers who, all of us, are feeling a lot of aches and pains [and] are going to decide to try medical marijuana," he said. "I personally haven't tried it yet, but I'm not saying someday before I'm done I won't."