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Seattle company develops 'pot patch' for dogs

Medical marijuana for man's best friend: Seattle company develops 'pot patch' for dogs

By Jennifer Madison

Last updated at 7:51 AM on 1st August 2011

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A Seattle company is developing a medical marijuana patch for man's best friend.
Medical Marijuana Delivery Systems LLC has licensed a patent for Tetracan, a 'pot patch' intended as a pain relief alternative to pharmaceuticals.
Company president Jim Alekson says could it used on dogs, cats and horses - and he expects it will be ready for market by the end of this year.

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Man's best friend: Medical Marijuana Delivery Systems president Jim Alekson says animals suffer from maladies and chronic pain similar to humans

Mr Alekson, who owns three Papillons, said marijuana is safer for pets who suffer from arthritis, cancer or chronic pain caused by other maladies.
He called the pot patch a 'mellow' alternative to traditional pharmaceutical painkillers, which 'have proven harmful, sometimes fatal in animals.'

 

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'Dogs suffer from the same maladies that humans do. It's a question of quality of life.
'I’d much rather they were on something holistic as opposed to something chemical that I know is breaking down some of the organs in their body,' he said.

For the dogs? Medical marijuana was legalised in Washington state - for humans - in 1998

Fifteen states, including Washington, would have to pass legislation first before owners with medical marijuana prescriptions could legally give their pooches the patch.
However, the company intends to press for changes in state law that would allow veterinarians to prescribe the patch to pets.
Medical marijuana was legalised in Washington state in 1998.
Mr Alekson told Seattle Weekly: 'It is our intention, once the patch delivery system is perfected, to approach states for approval to use the patch for veterinary use.'

Mellow: The animal pot patch is an alternative to traditional pharmaceutical painkillers, which 'have proven harmful, sometimes fatal in animals,' Alekson said

The patch would be available for use by humans as well; developers hope to have it ready for market by the end of this year.
The patch was developed and patented back in 2000 by Walter Cristobal, a member of the Santa Ana Pueblo Tribe of New Mexico, as a solution to help alleviate his mother's arthritis pain.
TokeofTheTown.com reports Cristobal didn't have the time or organization to bring his product to market, so when Mr Alekson and his business partner Chester Soliz learned of his patent, the three men formed Medical Marijuana Delivery Systems last year.
The company, 'devoted to the advancement, research and development of marijuana delivery modalities,' is also developing creams, gels and oils 'to people and animals in need of chronic pain management.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2020855/Medical-marijuana-mans-best-friend-Seattle-company-develops-pot-patch-dogs.html#ixzz1fML2f7Tn

Pentagon successfully tests hypersonic flying bomb

Pentagon successfully tests hypersonic flying bomb

(AFP) – 12 hours ago 

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Thursday held a successful test flight of a flying bomb that travels faster than the speed of sound and will give military planners the ability to strike targets anywhere in the world in less than a hour.
Launched by rocket from Hawaii at 1130 GMT, the "Advanced Hypersonic Weapon," or AHW, glided through the upper atmosphere over the Pacific "at hypersonic speed" before hitting its target on the Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands, a Pentagon statement said.
Kwajalein is about 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers) southwest of Hawaii. The Pentagon did not say what top speeds were reached by the vehicle, which unlike a ballistic missile is maneuverable.
Scientists classify hypersonic speeds as those that exceed Mach 5 -- or five times the speed of sound -- 3,728 miles (6,000 kilometers) an hour.
The test aimed to gather data on "aerodynamics, navigation, guidance and control, and thermal protection technologies," said Lieutenant Colonel Melinda Morgan, a Pentagon spokeswoman.
The US Army's AHW project is part of the "Prompt Global Strike" program which seeks to give the US military the means to deliver conventional weapons anywhere in the world within an hour.
On August 11, the Pentagon test flew another hypersonic glider dubbed HTV-2, which is capable of flying 27,000 kilometers per hour, but it was a failure.
The AHW's range is less than that of the HTV-2, the Congressional Research Service said in a report, without providing specifics.
The Pentagon has invested 239.9 million dollars in the Global Strike program this year, including 69 million for the flying bomb tested Thursday, CRS said.

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been playing catch up on some games i missed when they first came out. i love any games that deal with hell, demons, afterlife, god and angels and what not. so i just beat dantes inferno twice and got 920 out of a 1000 of the points not too bad, need a guide to get all of  the judus coins. so first a bit shout out of fuck you goes out to EA. really does madden make that fucking much that you can  put out unfinished shit like this and not go broke? i mean the def jam rap fight game did so shitty they shut done that branch of the company. this should probley follow suite. now there are some good things in this game. if you like devil may cry and god of war this is right up your alley. as all fucking ideas where stolen from  those games anyway and this was made just to cash in on that market and destroy some poor souls good idea for a game in the process of cashing in. hell it even has the foutians. and if you play it above classic on the first play thru it wil crush your soul also. def made for after you have leveled up. now i love a good challenge esp if you have to think about it and look for unique ways to do things. but on the higher hard levels it isnt that kind of challenge. i have dante leveled up as full as i can on both holy and unholy and if you put it on inferno, like it says you truly are dammed. two hits from any of the sword carrying demons wil pretty much wipe you out. now thats was the fun part. now on to the shit. once again for the love of god (or lucifer) why do they keep putting jumping bullshit in a 3d game where you have no control of the camera? that 3 strikes right there but i will continue. and ledges are so inconsistant. some you can fall off, some you cant. and some you just fucking fall thru for no reason whats so ever. i actully had to reset the game a few times when i  got wedged in a cornor and fell thru the level on woods of suicide and the adomable sands. i fell thru many platforms when trying to jump. and if you cant see the floor and you jump you will most always die. unless there is lava or molten gold then you will fall into that and die fun woooo weeee.hope you saved. you can tell what the best ideas were for the game as there are some really cool wow moments. such as on charons boat, fighting cleopatra in the tower of lust and fighting thru to the city of dis rideing on Phlegyas. but then there is the shit layers you can tell they had to use to tie it all togather. such as ther seems to be just place holder staues everywhere like they were going to add cool scenes of peeople being tormented and then ran out of time. and the level where you had to backtrack really felt out of place like they couldn't think of a cool boss to put there and had to progress the story line with out adding too much cost and time in develoment. and the last level is pure shit. spolier. all you have to do is climb down fight a few demons cross a ice bridge that is breaking awasy and then you are at either satan or lucifer. i am not sure which and i dont think EA was either. as all thru the game lucifer was a shadow being then all of a sudden he was trapped in a giant deamon prison., and then when he escapes, its not even the same being as ealier. so i have to say the end was satan, and lucifer was the one flying around at the start of the game. any way game sucks ass but in a loveable controller smashing kind of way. play it on classic enjoy it and get you same achivement points but dont even think of turning the level up unless you like pain and, i guess in that way, it lives up to its name of going to hell.

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