Middle-Aged Woman With FND Swaps Wheelchair For Roller-Skates Using Marijuana, Drones Delivering Drugs To Prisons & More In Weed Chronicles

From Wheelchair To Rollerskating Thanks To Medical Marijuana

Jane Hinchcliffe, a 44-year-old woman from Yorkshire, England, had struggled with chronic pain from when she was very young. At the age of 15, she was prescribed codeine, but none of the drugs she received over the years helped her manage the pain successfully. What’s worse, they caused negative side effects including doubling her weight in one year.

In 2021, she was finally accurately diagnosed, revealing she has a functional neurological disorder (FND), which is the main cause of her severe pain and muscle spasms.

FND is a neurological condition affecting how the brain receives and sends information to the rest of the brain. According to NHS inform, if we think of our brain as a computer, having FND would mean that the hardware (structure of the brain) is healthy, but the software (program running in the computer) is not functioning properly. The main symptoms include arm and leg weakness and seizures, often accompanied by fatigue and pain that are not directly caused by FND.

Despite having this condition, Hinchcliffe led an active life, but after a bike accident in 2014, she was tied to a cough and a wheelchair, writes Yorkshire Post.

While looking for alternative treatment options, Hinchcliffe decided to try a medical marijuana cake, which made her feel better right away. Quickly after she sought to get a medical marijuana prescription and she discovered Lyphe Clinic, where she got one.

“It's brilliant that I don't need the wheelchair anymore, people just ignored me before,” Hinchcliffe said. “Thanks to cannabis I’m able to manage my pain effectively. But it's taken years to totally remove the pain. Beforehand, I had to keep going back to the doctors for more pain relief but ultimately it was all damaging my body.”

"These days, I’ve taken up rollerskating, something I thought would never be possible, and my wheelchair lives in the shed."

The UK welcomed legal medical marijuana in 2018. The need for cannabis as medicine was highlighted by two cases involving children with severe epilepsy. Billy Caldwell and Alfie Dingley both used cannabis oil with low THC to treat their diseases.

Despite legalization, medical marijuana usage is low. About 17,000 registered medical marijuana patients usually use private clinics, not the NHS, because the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) does not recommend NHS physicians prescribe medical cannabis because of a lack of research proving its medicinal benefits.

Hinchcliffe said that trying the cake was a “real wake-up call” for her on the positive effects of medical marijuana when taken in the right doses.

Lyphe Clinic medical director Dr. Luisa Searle commented: "In cases such as Jane’s medical cannabis can be used to treat a variety of conditions related to chronic pain and mental health — especially when other medications and treatments have failed. My team and I see day in day out what a difference medical cannabis is making to patients’ lives – Jane being a prime example.

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Cannabis Recalls In Colorado Over Mold, Yeast, And Aspergillus Levels

Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division reported Wednesday that several different cannabis cultivators manufactured marijuana products that failed mold and yeast testing, or ran inadequate testing procedures, reported Westword.

These separate recalls included both medical and adult-use cannabis products, with one health and safety order naming hundreds of affected strains.

"Consumers who have this affected marijuana in their possession should destroy it or return it to the Medical Marijuana Store from which it was purchased for proper disposal," three recalls read. "Consumers who experience adverse health effects from consuming the Medical Marijuana should seek medical attention immediately and report the event to the Marijuana Enforcement Division by submitting the MED Reporting Form."

The first recall announced by the MED was for flower share, trim, and pre-rolls from BBM Enterprises, LLC, (doing business as Helping Hands Cannabis) which runs two dispensaries — Helping Hands Cannabis in Boulder and the Bud Depot in Lyons. “The CDPHE and DOR deem it a threat to public health and safety when marijuana is found to have aspergillus, total yeast and mold, and elemental impurities above the acceptable limits established in Colorado Marijuana Rule 4‐115,” the press release reads. All marijuana from BBM Enterprise growing operations has the following license numbers printed on dispensary packaging: 403-00790 (medical), 403R-00312 (recreational), and 403R-01399 (recreational). The affected products were sold at 19 regulated cannabis shops across the state, with the majority being available in the above-mentioned two dispensaries.

Another recall because of high aspergillus levels were made for medical marijuana flower sold at High Hopes dispensaries and Bobby Brown Best Buds dispensary. Per the report, all packaging must be marked with the High Hopes medical cultivation license number, 403-01526.

The third recall affected 13 medical or recreational dispensaries across the Centennial State, all of which sold cannabis from Trinidad Cultivation Services Inc (doing business as Blue Sand Consulting) that failed aspergillus, mold, and yeast testing. All affected flower was sold in packaging marked with the cultivation license number, 403R-00753.

The fourth health and safety advisory was made to warn about the high levels of yeast and mold in medical marijuana flower produced by Long Gone Farms (doing business as Steel City Meds Medical Dispensary). “Patients who have these affected products in their possession should destroy them or return them to the store from which they were purchased for proper disposal,” the report reads. Affected products should be packaged with the cultivation license number 403-01096, and were sold across 10 medical marijuana dispensaries.

Drones Delivering Weed In Prison

Delivering weed in prison is apparently a new thing. Over the last few weeks, a minimum of two large drugs delivery to prison operations were busted by federal agents, reports High Times. Drones were delivering not only marijuana but spice/K2 drugs and a plethora of contraband items and other substances.

According to the press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office, Easter District of California, four defendants have been indicted in these illegal operations of delivering drugs into state prisons using drones — Michael Ray Acosta, Jose Enrique Oropeza, Rosendo Rene Ramirez, and David Ramirez Jr.

“According to court documents, between Jan. 1, and Dec. 10, 2021, Acosta used a contraband cellphone to coordinate multiple drone deliveries of contraband into Pleasant Valley State Prison and other prisons across the state,” the press release reads. “Oropeza, Rosendo Ramirez, and David Ramirez Jr. flew drones over the prisons and dropped packages of contraband into the prisons. Acosta and his associates would then recover the contraband for further distribution throughout the prison population. The packages that Acosta helped to smuggle into the prisons included methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, marijuana, cellphones, cellphone accessories, butane oil, and various other items.”

The drones delivered contrabands and substances into the following facilities: Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison, Corcoran; Salinas Valley State Prison, High Desert State Prison, Pleasant Valley State Prison, California State Prison, Sacramento; and California State Prison, Corcoran.

This case is the product of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and the Federal Aviation Administration. 

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