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Weed Wars TV series Sparks Interest in the rights of the patient and medical-social justice – for the final episode airs tonight on Discovery Channel
Oakland, CA (PRWeb) December 22, 2011
Weed wars led to the world of medical marijuana in South America, living rooms, so the viewers to witness how the issues they hear in the news sound bites itself in the real life and affect real people. Tonights final episode of the four-part mini-series on the port Health Center, the nations premier holistic health center and pharmacy medical marijuana, will air on Discovery Channel tonight at 22:00 in most areas.
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centers on Deep Green, an event that unites Earth Day, which inspire awareness and appreciation of the earth’s natural environment every 22 April, with 4 / 20, the counter 20 April holiday historically focused on cannabis use, a production day inspire awareness and appreciation of the holistic ecological and human health.
deep green was created by the port director Steve DeAngelo and Earth / Green Institute founder Michael Gosney. Deep Green is another DeAngelos efforts around the world to inform about the benefits of marijuana. The event reflects the philosophy behind the port, the gold standard for medical marijuana pharmacies. Beyond the establishment of the following standards and regulations, the model pharmacy job as a service-oriented holistic health center that also natural medicines that work provides, according to DeAngelo.
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Deep Green tonights episode shows the Oakland cannabis club a senior patient, Larry, his first dose of cannabis. Larry came to California from the state to learn if cannabis can relieve his crippling pain. His journey into a quest for more than the answer to his physical pain.
patients like Larry is the inspiration for the medical and social justice movement that port and across the country helped create the problem of rising costs for health care (both physical and financial) in an aging population to speak. The movement is an ongoing conversation to catch people with their health care choices, and the older population and a more limited options.
weed Wars series has led to great interest and debate. As now the government has moved to crack down on businesses that enable patients to get their medication safely and in a professional manner, the port to work hard to negative public perceptions about the medical marijuana industry to change.
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port is optimistic that the weed Wars appreciation of the benefits of marijuana on health is increasing as a safe alternative to the highly addictive and increasingly fatal opiates such as Oxycodone. The show can the general public to see cannabis as a drug spa improve the lives of patients as a component of holistic medicine and health.
public concern for the patients on the show, especially a small child, is great. In Episode 2, a young father whose son, Jayden, was diagnosed with Dravets Syndromea rare and debilitating form of epilepsy that began in infancyfound by expert recommendations and research that medicinal cannabis can be an effective treatment for the management of dangerous attacks caused the crippling disorder
Jaydens father reports that his son since the first dose of cannabis-based medicines in front of the camera earlier this year Jayden 70% fewer attacks, the length of time that was only 2 hours and 15 minutes decreased and he even five consecutive days without a seizure
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listening and following directions better than before the start of cannabis therapy. He no longer deals with serious side effects, which included disturbing visual hallucinations, chronic constipation, lack of sleep and intense periods of pain lasting 10-12 hours, during which he would cry.
Jayden is much happier, according to his father. He was just the latest in the pool for a few minutes in the past, but now he is playing for hours and the amount of time he can last in a boarding house has increased from 2-5 minutes to a hours.
Episode 3 also touched Americas heart as a conservative paraplegic muscular dystrophy patient of faith who never thought she would be an illegal drug such as cannabis use has come to port to receive cannabis as an alternative medication the unbearable pain relieve her prescription drugs were not able to a reasonable level to reduce
Discovery has tentatively planned the following broadcasts and reruns of weed wars. Check local listings for local broadcast dates and times
Thursday, December 22, 2011
9:00? Rebroadcasting episodes 1-3
10 pm New Episode 4
Friday, December 23, 2011
12 pm Repeats OS Episodes 1-4
Saturday, December 31, 2011 (New Years Eve Day)
11 am Episodes 1-3
2 pm Episodes 1-4 (weed sowing period from 14:00 to midnight)
Discovery channels weed Wars focuses on port Oaklands Health Centerwhich the gold standard for medicinal cannabis in pharmacies nationand the leadership behind the port, activist, founder and Executive Director Steve DeAngelo. DeAngelos lifelong mission to the truth about the cannabis plant to the American public.
display follows the DeAngelo family Harborsides staff if they grapple fearlessly with the complex issues they daily face. The series accurately captures the real life drama and high stakes of the California voter-approved business and federal agencies are increasingly harder to make threats and IRS audits attempt to exit the Oakland holistic healing center
addition to focusing on Steve DeAngelo, his family and staff, weed Wars follows the journey of the plant itself from germination to harvest. Audiences will meet the patient growers and farmers whose job it is to get the medicine eventually purchased and used by thousands of customers to provide, many of whom feel their lives forever by the plant.
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Port Health Center:
founded in 2005 by national cannabis leader Steve DeAngelo, Port Health Center is the non-profit model medical cannabis pharmacy in the country. The Oakland medical cannabis collective offers 94,000 registered patients free holistic health services, laboratory testing and medication education.
from the shadows and the light touch DeAngelos mission to the public to inform about the many medicinal and therapeutic benefits of the plant. DeAngelo is recognized as a national leader and strategist of the cannabis reform movement. He speaks and writes a lot about the subject. Ports and DeAngelo is to monitor weed wars, now on the Discovery Channel broadcast.
For more information about the Port Health Center, call (510) 533-0146 or visit harborsidehealthcenter.com.
For more information on the weed wars or the information in this release, contact Gaynell Rogers at (415) 298-1114 or Linda Stokely at (707) 981-4407
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