Luxuries Limited (Pink Sheets: LLUX) (the "Company") today announced that through its subsidiary, U.S. Cannabis, Inc., it has entered into a Letter of Intent with Synergistic Resources, LLC dba Marijuana Medicine Evaluation Centers, to assume all marketing and advertising responsibilities for 10 medical marijuana offices located in California. Synergistic Resources, LLC specializes in providing management expertise to the medical marijuana industry including, but not limited to, site location, staffing, administration and human resources.

Brent Inzer, President of Synergistic Resources, states: "LC Luxuries has exceptional SEO talent and we truly believe they're the best in the internet industry to drive traffic to the clinics. In addition, their seasoned management team truly understands the medical marijuana industry. We could not have found a better partner."

benzinga.com

At a press conference in New York on Tuesday 26 October, at the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly, one of the UN’s key human rights experts will call for a fundamental rethink of international drug policy.

Anand Grover, from India, is the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right of Everyone to the Highest Attainable Standard of Physical and Mental Health, whose mandate is derived from the UN Human Rights Council. Mr Grover’s annual thematic report, to be presented on October 25/26, sets out the range of human rights abuses that have resulted from international drug control efforts, and calls on Governments to:

* Ensure that all harm-reduction measures (as itemized by UNAIDS) and drug-dependence treatment services, particularly opioid substitution therapy, are available to people who use drugs, in particular those among incarcerated populations.

* Decriminalize or de-penalize possession and use of drugs.

* Repeal or substantially reform laws and policies inhibiting the delivery of essential health services to drug users, and review law enforcement initiatives around drug control to ensure compliance with human rights obligations.

* Amend laws, regulations and policies to increase access to controlled essential medicines

* To the UN drug control agencies, Mr Grover recommends the creation of an alternative drug regulatory framework based on a model such as the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

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Proposition 19, the California initiative that would legalize marijuana, got a boost Thursday from several Hollywood celebrities who announced they were throwing their support behind the measure.

Rock singer Melissa Etheridge joined actors Danny Glover and Hal Sparks, former LAPD Deputy Chief Steve Downing, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson and activist Sarah Lovering at a news conference at Cafe Was in Hollywood to announce their support for Proposition 19.

latimes.com

Miami based comedian, Steve Berke, dubbed the Weird Al Yankovic of this generation, has released a new parody video based on Eminem’s LOVE THE WAY YOU LIE which features Rihanna and stars actress Megan Fox. However, instead of a dark and angry video centered around an abusive alcoholic relationship, the video portrays a similar couple happily smoking marijuana while the lyrics of the song convey a strong political message by naming a laundry list of politicians and A-list celebrities that have admitted to smoking marijuana.

The video, entitled, SHOULD BE LEGALIZED stars Steve Berke as Eminem and Charlotte Bruyn, a 19-year-old model and pop star from Amsterdam. The video is also the debut for model Valerie White, a spitting image of Megan Fox, and was released nationwide on Tuesday, October 20th, 2010, approximately two weeks before the historic Proposition 19 vote in California.

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Rock singer Melissa Etheridge says she used medicinal marijuana while recovering from breast cancer and supports California’s Proposition 19, the November ballot initiative that would legalize pot.

Etheridge said as she underwent chemotherapy she was given a choice of using 10 drugs with various side effects or a "natural solution."

latimes.com

Prince of Pot Marc Emery’s ex-business partner and blond bombshell medical marijuana advocate, Michelle Rainey, has died from cancer.

She had lived with Crohn’s disease since she was a teenager and in the last years of her life struggled against melanoma and lymphatic cancer.

Her husband, Jef Tek, and mother, Emilie, were at her side, each holding a hand, when she succumbed Wednesday night at her home in Maple Ridge in spite of last-ditch, high-dosage experimental cannabis treatment.

vancouversun.com
michellerainey.com

Memories of Michelle Rainey

Aus Versehen hat eine 74-Jährige in Weiden Marihuana gezüchtet. Die Polizei fand im Garten der überraschten Seniorin eine drei Meter hohe Cannabispflanze. Die Frau habe offenbar keine Ahnung gehabt, worum es sich bei dem stattlichen Gewächs gehandelt habe, sagte ein Sprecher der Polizei. Die Beamten waren demnach rein zufällig auf die Pflanze gestoßen.

derstandard.at

Beim Thema Drogenpolitik hat sich der Freistaat anscheinend endgültig von rechtsstaatlichen Prinzipien verabschiedet:
In Neuhaus wurde ein 21-Jähriger zu Freizeitarresten
verurteilt, weil er zusammen mit einem Freund zwei Gramm einens legalen Aufputschmittels erworben hatte, das dieser für Speed hielt.
'Schon die Absicht zum illegalen Drogenerwerb reiche aus', begründete der Richter sein Urteil.

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