Posts Tagged cancer

San Diego DA : Medical Marijuana Authorization is Hearsay

She struggles with a number of serious illnesses, including hepatitis C, cirrhosis, cancer and Sjoegrens Disease. She joined a collective with about ten other patients only after federal agents, with support from county law enforcement, raided and closed San Diego’s medical marijuana dispensaries in 2006.

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More Evidence That Marijuana Prevents Cancer

New study finds that marijuana smokers have a lower risk of head and neck cancers.

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Yawn… Marijuana Cures Cancer and Stuff

You know what would be really funny? If they took something with such proven benefits as marijuana and told people they couldn’t use it, even though it could mean that some people might die. Can you imagine how pissed off people would get? There’d be riots at town hall meetings and stuff.
Boy, that could get pretty nasty.

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Pot Prevents Cancer, University Studies Suggests

The debate rages on in our nation over the impacts of marijuana on the human body and how legalization of the drug would affect our society. However, if the government and the media continue to shield the public from scientific studies that expose the true effects of the plant, misinformation about marijuana continues to propagate in our country.

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Paul Armentano: If Pot Prevented Cancer You Would Have Read

Investigators from Brown University reported that lifetime marijuana use is associated with a "significantly reduced risk" of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

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RI lawmaker who backed medical marijuana dies

The state lawmaker in Rhode Island who backed making marijuana legal to ease the pain of chronically ill patients has died of cancer at age 68.

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Marijuana Use Associated With a “Significantly Reduced

For some 35 years the United States federal government has been well aware that cannabis possesses potent anti-cancer and anti-tumor properties.

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Marijuana Restores Grammy Award Winner’s Health

Melissa Etheridge speaks out on cancer and how medicinal marijuana restored her life.

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As Attitudes change, Marijuana dispensaries multiply

With a hard-line stance against marijuana crumbling at almost every level of government, advocates of the drug are pushing beyond legality for societal acceptance. There are about 30 medical marijuana dispensaries in Sacramento that distribute cannabis to patients with conditions ranging from cancer to anorexia who have a letter from their doctor

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California Warns of Pot’s Cancer Capability, Maybe?

Evil Weed? It might take Californians a puff or two to get their heads around an apparent contradiction recently enshrined in state law. Even so, the existing evidence is merely “suggestive” of a link between marijuana and cancer in humans. Only in tests that subjected animals to ultrahigh doses of marijuana was the connection between the drug…

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