Jo Jo's NO NO in NYC...Dude, How Stupid Are You?

Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons nephew Jo Jo Simmons was BUSTED for possession of marijuana...perhaps the headline should read, "How STUPID CAN YOU BE?" According to the Celebrity Stoner, Jo Jo (who's father co-founded Run DMC)was rolling a blunt in his BMW...snip...give us a break there Jo Jo, you are making all of us look bad with that kind of, "I am ABOVE THE LAW" egotistical stupidity. You think with your father and your uncle that you can just sit in your car, out in public rolling blunts and not have it catch up to you?

I am all for legalization of marijuana, both medical and casual use, but I also feel we need to be smart in how we exercise our use of marijuana as long as it remains an illegal substance that can find us on the wrong side of the long arm of the law. Then when caught YOU RAN?...maybe you need to change your name to Dork Dork.

Monday, 11 May 2009 00:44

Joseph "Run" Simmons' son Jojo was busted for marijuana possession and resisting arrest on May 7. Caught rolling a joint or blunt in his BMW at 7:30 pm on Wadsworth Ave. in New York's Washington Heights section, the 19-year-old co-star of Run's House on MTV allegedly bolted from the car and fled. When police caught up to him, he got into a altercation with them. JoJo's father co-founded Run-D.M.C.. His uncle is hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons.

Then we have this update from another article...

The teen - who was behind the wheel of a BMW on Wadsworth Avenue when cops
approached - slammed his car in reverse and smashed into vehicles parked behind
him, police said.

He then took off on foot, cops said.

But JoJo - who heads his own rap group called Team Blackout - didn't run fast enough. Police said that when they caught up with him, he started throwing punches. (Where is assault on a police officer?)

He was arrested and charged with reckless endangerment, resisting arrest, marijuana possession and criminal use of drug paraphernalia.

See what happens when you have RICH INFLUENTIAL RELATIVES? This BUTT TERD makes us all look bad, smashes up a car, makes a run for it, throws punches at officers and has the judge basically give him a free pass on the most serious charge of reckless endangerment which is a felony...this kid needs to spend some time in prison as someone's bitch...sorry, but as a Stoner I cannot condone what he did, nor can I condone the judge dropping the felony charge because he's the child of a famous person.

Medical Marijuana Inc (MJNA)...All Sizzle and No Meat, Or Worthwhile Stock Investment

Part of me wants to jump up and down excitedly at the fact Medical Marijuana Inc. (MJNA) is trading on the NASDAQ (over the counter)...the more practical side of me is a bit leery after having done a bit of snooping.

First, not sure that MJNA's touted products are all that valuable...do we really need an accounting/tax tracking method designed specifically for the Medical Marijuana industry, or instead is it more cost effective to hire a book keeper, accountant, or invest in some other basic small business accounting software program? Their other product, Certified Testing and Gradation Solutions I see as being somewhat problematic as well. How many small Medical Marijuana dispensaries, care givers or growers can afford Certified Testing, and further, Certified Testing paints a rather bleak picture of a Medical Marijuana industry owned and controlled BY BIG BUSINESS, and I am not convinced that this industry and Medical Marijuana patients are best served by a BIG BOX business model for the industry...see the CEO's comment that he wants Medical Marijuana Inc. to be the McDonalds of Medical Marijuana...can we say FRANCHISING anyone?

Should you invest...that's your call based on your own stomach for risk. The 10/1 stock split has me leery...that said, the price is right, and if you have some mad money you can afford to toss in the pot as it were, this might be a company worth picking up some shares in. Below is some information on the company...going to keep and eye on them here, but not prepared to put them into our Top Medical Marijuana stock picks over on Medical Marijuana Society investments page even with the LIMITED number of investments currently available.

Medical Marijuana Inc-They might want to find a long time blogger that is hemp friendly to do their blogging for them, but that's just my own personal opinion as a blogger.
http://medicalmarijuana-inc.blogspot.com/

Medical Marijuana Home-There is NOT a lot of information to go on here, but thought I would share the link.
http://www.medicalmarijuanainc.com/site/

http://www.marketwire.com/mw/stock.jsp?Ticker=MJNA

Medical Marijuana, Inc. ("MMI") (OTC: MJNA), an Oregon Corporation, was founded in March 2009 for the purpose of providing advanced business solutions to the rapidly expanding Medical Marijuana industry.

We provide integrated tax oversight and collection solutions to local, state and federal governments, while also providing business management solutions to the industry that will confidently ensure compliance with local, state and federal regulations.

MMI will also soon provide Certified Testing and Gradation Solutions to establish and maintain high-level quality control of potency, strain and contaminants.

MMI provides fully compliant turn-key management solutions to Independent Operators of Medical Marijuana collectives, co-ops and dispensaries, allowing investors to confidently enter this arena in full compliance from the start.

investorrelations@medicalmarijuanainc.com

MMI is in discussions to acquire an institutional level testing and grading solutions company and its products.

MMI intends to provide testing and grading products and services to the Medical Marijuana Industry, from personal test kits for safety to institutional level testing and grading to determine quality and potency, as well as to identify potential contaminants.

MMI testing equipment and services will soon be available to individuals, growers, dispensary operators and government institutions for public safety.

MARINA DEL REY, CA, Apr 27, 2009 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- Medical Marijuana, Inc., formerly Club Vivanet (PINKSHEETS: CVIV), received today from NASDAQ its new symbol MJNA which will become effective April 28, 2009 at open of market including the 10-for-1 forward split. This means that anyone holding 1 share of CVIV today will own 10 shares of MJNA tomorrow.

The company also announced that the payment for spin-off of two of its subsidiaries, (Florida) and MyNewPedia Corp (Colorado), share for share is today, April 27, 2009 based on a record date of April 13, 2009.

About the Company

Medical Marijuana, Inc. is positioned to take advantage of opportunities as they appear in the emerging legal medical marijuana industry through an enhanced payment gateway introducing verifiable levels of enhanced security. A trend is in place that clearly indicates medical marijuana is quickly becoming a legal enterprise in need of various solutions in numerous areas.

http://clubvivanet.net/cms1/

Medical Marijuana Business Workshop in Los Angeles May 23-24, 2009

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Cannabis Career Institute Workshop May 23-24

The Cannabis Career Insitute is going to be hosting a workshop on May 23 and 24, 2009 on how to safely own and operate a Medical Marijuana Dispensary. As the Charles Lynch case has shown us, the DEA seems intent on ignoring State's Rights, and the laws passed by states who have legalized Medical Marijuana. With 14 states having legalized Medical Marijuana, and with several others (including my own state of New York), it is imperiative that Medical Marijuana growers, suppliers, caregivers and patients have reliable sources of information so that they can take every step possible to be safe against the DEA's war on Medical Marijuana, which amounts to a war on innocent American Citizens. The Cannabis Career Institute is helping to fill a void that needs to be filled.

If you cannot make this workshop, they have a online course available through their Cannabis Career Institute web site.

Medical Marijuana Dispensary/Business Work Shop

Time: May 23, 2009 at 11am to May 24, 2009 at 11am
Location: Los Angeles, Ca
Organized By: George Grimes


Event Description:

Learn what it takes to safely own and operate a medical marijuana dispensary business and enjoy all the benefits of the medical cannabis industry.

For Additional Information Join the Weedworks Network.

Cannabis Career Institute

Twitpic as Online Photo Storage? Could Be.

This is not really a Medical Marijuana story, but in some ways it is as I look for new ways to use various resources to activate and build a grassroots army. I have uploaded some pictures today through Twitpic to Twitter. In doing that, I found out I can post those pictures to my own blogs by pasting and cutting some HTML which Twitpic provides with the photograph...which got me to thinking...what if I were to create a Twitter/Twitpic Account that all my Budding Bloggers had access to that we all used to upload and create a 420 Photo/Clip Art file that we could all share and use in our blogs. I would love to hear what some of our bloggers think of this or a similiar idea...I like Twitpic, as it is fully and completely FREE with no limits that I have found so far.

Stand By Me Begging For Change...This IS WHAT WE NEED For Medical Marijuana

Have Anderson Cooper to thank for bringing this video to my attention...Stand By Me Me...Begging for change is a must see video, and you should watch the whole thing. That said, think of the message, "Stand by me begging for change!" That is the Medical Marijuana movement, this video in some strange way IS OUR MOVEMENT...Stand By Me!

A Medical Marijuana Legal Question For The Experts

OK...here is a question...

Marijuana is a Class One drug which by my simple understanding means it has NO REDEEMING VALUE, and more importantly, has no medical use/benefit whatsoever. The DEA, the enforcement arm of the FDA has waged a JIHAD against Marijuana (thus a defacto war against human beings that use/smoke it)for over 70 years now based on the FDA's ascertion that Marijuana has no Medical use.

Enter Nabilone a synthetic form of marijuana, significantly reduced pain and anxiety in fibromyalgia patients, according to a first-of-its-kind study published in the Journal of Pain. This statement got me to thinking...and researching. Nabilone, sold under the brand name Cesamet, is one of two oral marijuana-based compounds, known as cannabinoids, and was approved by the FDA back in 1985.

Synthetic form of marijuana...cannaboids...FDA approval...OK, my question. With this information, doesn't this mean that the FDA has through their licensing of Nabilone, proven their own statements and decisions aboutMarijuana as a Class One Drug are false? Further, do these facts thus mean that the DEA, DOJ and the FDA have lied to the Federal Courts, and that the courts are thus WRONG in denying defendents the right to RAISE A MEDICAL MARIJUANA DEFENSE?

Friday Night Ramblings...

Greetings readers...sorry for my absense, but in the process here of trying to get camp open for the summer...a task made more difficult by the fact I have decided to move our site, which means a lot of extra work that I had not planned on. Further complicating things...our camp Internet it turns out is NOT turned on until opening day which is tomorrow. So, I have bee missing in action here.

I am volunteering at a 10K Run tomorrow morning, which means I have to be up in five hours, so this post is going to be short. I know...I wanted to pop on briefly to encourage everyone to really work hard, as we are SO CLOSE (I think) to tipping the scales and seeing our best hope at getting Medical Marijuana legalized nationally, and perhaps even seeing decriminalization of pot. That said, I caution those living in states that have already approved Medical Marijuana to be VERY CAREFUL...there are too many horror stories of innocent citizens being persecuted by the Federal Government which so far seems intent on ignoring state's rights, and state law that contradicts the Federal War on drugs. Even worse, governors in these 14 states refuse to TAKE A STAND, refuse too order the DEA out of their states until they can respect state laws and state's rights.

As example, look at Michigan...just as the state was taking its first steps as a Legal Marijuana state the DEA stepped in and busted a couple even though they (he) were legally entitled to grow medical marijuana for personal medical use.