Amigula Incorporated -- The World's First Publicly Traded Medical Marijuana Company

Business Wire ^ | March 15, 2004

[Wolfie]

Amigula Incorporated -- The World's First Publicly Traded Medical Marijuana Company

Beverly Hills, Calif. -- Amigula Incorporated (OTC:AMJL), the world's first publicly traded medical marijuana company, today announced that several Hollywood agents and management groups have been working with their clients at the bequest of Amigula Inc., negotiating contracts with "Super Stars" willing to endorse medical marijuana as a viable medicinal therapy for a variety of extreme illnesses, including multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, arthritis, glaucoma, AIDS, nausea - chemotherapy, anxiety and stress, as well as for several other dysfunctions.

"We approached several well-known talent agents and managers to request that they approach their talent and present our cause and opportunity to them. Some of the stars wished us well and declined at first, then called their agents back after thinking things over and said 'Let's talk,'" said Warren Eugene, president, Amigula Inc.

"We require a star who is well known and trusted by a geriatric and maturing population. We require someone to educate people with us. There is so much by way of misconception and myth surrounding marijuana; it needs a star to assist us in getting the message right. That message is a simple one -- that marijuana is an excellent alternative homeopic therapy for those truly suffering and requiring medications. We are an agricultural pharmaceutical company on a mission to do good for others.

"So that's when it hit me, what about stars who have excelled at fighting for others with illness. These stars are heroes to millions of people the world over.

"One star actually did a TV episode where she smoked marijuana. She is of the right age and high quality to endorse our company and products. We are pursuing her. There are several stars who would be naturals for us.

"Some have had to personally battle major illness; they had to go through treatment for illness and could empathize with millions of other people requiring therapeutic relief.

"There will be many stars, before too long, who will come to our side and join us in this important quest, of that I'm certain. It's still early; we just got started a few months ago. I'm confident that things will work out well for us. This is history in the making," said Eugene.

About Amigula Inc.

Amigula Inc. -- has recently completed the purchase of 51% of Medical Cannabis Inc. and has announced their plans to file as a reporting issuer. The company plans to list on a major exchange beginning with an application for a listing on the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) or Nasdaq, as well as several European exchanges. The company views the current prohibition of marijuana as similar to that of alcohol, beer and tobacco. Canada's marijuana crop alone is estimated at $4 billion to $7 billion. If a single company controlled it, it would be larger than Canada's oil and gas business and agricultural industries.

On October 7, 2003, the Ontario Superior Court ruled that business and individuals be allowed to grow and supply medical marijuana, effectively relieving the Canadian government of its often criticized and fairly unsuccessful attempts. Health Canada "permitted persons" (exemptees) can now pay Amigula to grow marijuana for them. The ruling makes it easier for sick people to get marijuana by allowing them easier access -- more choice and fair prices. The company has a mandate to develop and improve the medical marijuana business worldwide and is on the acquisition and consolidation trail of other legal licensed marijuana operations with notable international brands.

[onedoug]

What makes you think that these two properties are mutually exclusive?

The medical marijuana argument seems to me a disingenuous argument to make society sense it benefits by letting potheads get high.

...Unless one subscribes to global warming, as the science determining the value of medical pot is about as viable.

[robertpaulsen]

"Like you do care?"

Sure. I don't believe in recommending a carcinogen-loaded, bacteria-laden drug to a cancer patient. Or a drug shown to compromise the immune system to a patient with AIDS. Or a drug shown to reduce blood supply to the optic nerve to a glaucoma patient. Or a drug with objectionable side effects to a MS patient.

Or a drug that no major medical organization supports.

[onedoug]

Um...I think it's the job of scientists to bear out their conclusions. Not that I'm sinking in the literature, though nothing I've yet seen to that end is convincing.

[William Terrell]

The medical marijuana argument seems to me a disingenuous argument to make society sense it benefits by letting potheads get high.

For those in pain and unable to keep food down as a result of medical therapies, or for those with glaucoma, cannabis is not for the high, even though that may be a pleasant side effect. For others, they want to get high.

I see no danger, either personal or societal, in either motivation. The real danger is the police power levied against cannabis that results in the corruption of the agencies we charge with our protection, destruction of families and the effects of that on children, injury and death in sloppy drug raids and the diluting of our constitutional liberties both nation and state.

All this because of a plant that grows wild all over the Earth.

[cinFLA]

"I suppose you agree with the guy that posted the supporting information that smoked marijuana cures tetanus and uterine hemmorrhaging."

I haven't seen that information so I can't comment.

Gotten behind on reading the Soros' drug propaganda websites?

[cinFLA]

The Institute of Medicine report I quoted says that smoked maarijuna will never be a medicine.

[TKDietz]

Medical marijuana is not my beef, but I will say that Marinol has THC in it, not any of the other "agents" in marijuana that might be medically useful. Sativex® is actually made from marijuana though. I think there are at least two versions of it. One has more of the "other cannabinoids" and less THC, and they are looking at how various cannabinoids might be used for treating various ailments.

[onedoug]

Re your #46, I know a woman who smokes marijuana for her nausea, virtually all day long. Despite what you've quoted from the IOM report, I don't think it's helping her with anything but staying stoned all day.

And she's nauseous anyway.

[Ophiucus]

"I suppose you agree with the guy that posted the supporting information that smoked marijuana cures tetanus and uterine hemmorrhaging."

I haven't seen that information so I can't comment. If you want my opinion, post a link.

That is because cinFLA is lying as usual.

The thread is on Rimonabant, a cannabinoid derivative. The post is #16 concerning the historical use of marijuana as a medicine.

cinFLA can't understand two things - 1) his false statement that marijuana can never be a medicine is false because it has been a medicine for centuries and is used currently as one, Canada is one place. See post #37 in the linked thread for how his reasoning denies that Charlton Heston will ever be a movie star.

2) As cinFLA is obviously not a medical professional, he can not differentiate between a treatment and a cure. Those of us in medicine know that the medical usage of treatment is to address symptoms to stabilize and alleviate them - like giving percocet to someone with a kidney stone to treat the pain. In the 1800's marijuana was used as a treatment which he deliberately misconstrues as a cure - like marijuana is claimed as a miracle panacea. He then refutes his own lying exaggeration so as to impress himself with a 'winning' argument.

The fact that he uses his lie in another thread and post without the decency to include the 'other guy' as the source of his lie gives you an indication of his basic behavioral reliability.

[cinFLA]

(As Ophicus tries to wriggle out of his self-dug hole ...)

"In his reports of the late 1830's and early 1840's, O'Shaughnessy (1842: 431) stated that tetanus could be arrested and cured when treated with extra large doses of cannabis."

[cinFLA]

Those of us in medicine know that the medical usage of treatment is to address symptoms to stabilize and alleviate them

I can just see someone visiting Ophicus with a case of tetanus. He says 'just go home and smoke some dope'. All your problems will go up in smoke.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Why don't they hire John "Tokin'" Kerry?

[cinFLA]

A real panacea! Wow!

"In Argentina: Cannabis is considered a real panacea for tetanus, colic, gastralgia, swelling of the liver, gonorrhea, sterility, impotency, abortion, tuberculosis of the lungs and asthma, even the root-bark has been collected in spring, and employed as a febrifuge, tonic, for treatment of dysentery and gastralgia, either pulverized or in form of decoctions"

[cinFLA]

- like marijuana is claimed as a miracle panacea.

hmmm

"In Argentina: Cannabis is considered a real panacea for tetanus, colic, gastralgia, swelling of the liver, gonorrhea, sterility, impotency, abortion, tuberculosis of the lungs and asthma, even the root-bark has been collected in spring, and employed as a febrifuge, tonic, for treatment of dysentery and gastralgia, either pulverized or in form of decoctions"

[cinFLA]

Appendicitis and snake bite cures! Gives another meaning to "snake oil" remedy.

Murphy (1963: 20) refers to an article by Lang, Treatment of Acute Appendicitis with a Mixture of Ma Jen, which says the drug has apparently been used in China for the treatment of appendicitis.

The Xosa tribe in South Africa employs it for treatment of inflammation of the feet (Kabelik et al., 1960: 7), while the Mfengu and Hottentot use the plant as a snake-bite remedy (Watt, 1962: 13).

[cinFLA]

I thought marijuana made you hungry????

"Cannabis is used in Hindu and Sikh temples and at Mohammedan shrines. Besides using the drug as an aid to meditation, it is also used to overcome hunger and thirst by the religious mendicants. "