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Marijuana Makes You Crazy, Says New Study (Yeah, Tell us Something we Don’t Know)
Marijuana might be medicine of sorts in California, but a growing body of research suggests that it ultimately might make you crazy. (Not that other prescriptions drugs can’t do their own voodoo on your head).blogs.laweekly.com
Smoked Marijuana IS Medicine: Feds Still Distributing Rolled Joints
Posted by admin in World News on December 30, 2011
Marijuana has currently accepted medical use, even in smoked form. The United States federal government actually prescribes and dispenses smoked medical marijuana — supposedly a dangerous, addictive Schedule I substance — to its own citizens!www.toke…
Czech Republic Moves To Legalize Medical Marijuana
Posted by admin in World News on September 27, 2011
The Czech Ministry of Health has said it will take marijuana off the list of banned substances and for the first time allow it to be prescribed as medicine by doctors. The promised policy change comes after increasing evidence of marijuana’s beneficial…
Sheriff To Marijuana Patients: You Won’t Be Getting Your Pot Back
People who are arrested by Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff’s deputies for any criminal violation and who are card-carrying medical marijuana patients will not be allowed to retrieve their medicine upon release from jail, according to a policy decision…
Germany Approves Marijuana Drug "Sativex" for Sale
Posted by admin in World News on July 12, 2011
Sativex contains active ingredients called ‘cannabinoids’ that are extracted from cannabis plants. It took GW around 10 years to develop the medicine, using genetically unique cannabis plants that are grown at a top-secret farm.hailmaryjane.com
Pot is Not Medicine, Obama Administration Says
The federal government officially declared that marijuana has no accepted medical use and should remain classified as a dangerous drug like heroin.www.care2.com
A brief history of medical marijuana (INFOGRAPHIC)
The potent mix of politics, business and medicine is a recipe for a short memory, which is why we’ve put together, just in time for April 20, this brief history of medical marijuana usage in information-graphic form.blogs.westword.com
Society of Addiction Medicine Blasts Medical Marijuana
If you enjoy bullshit, you can certainly have a hell of a time with the American Society of Addiction Medicine’s white paper on medicinal cannabis. That becomes clear from the moment you see those quote marks on the cover: The Role of the Physician in …
Japanese Medical Marijuana Patient Seeks Political/Medical Asylum To Stay In U.S.
Posted by admin in World News on January 13, 2011
A Japanese medical marijuana patient battling Crohn’s disease, in what he describes as a fight for his life, is desperately trying to gain political/medical asylum in the United States, because his homeland’s government says cannabis is not a medicine….
Iowa Board Of Pharmacy Reclassifies Marijuana As Medicine
The Iowa Board of Pharmacy on Tuesday morning reclassified marijuana as a drug with medicinal purposes. The Board agreed to change cannabis from a Schedule One to a Schedule Two drug. The new classification by the Board means that marijuana is now cons…
Oregon Reclassifies Marijuana As Medicine
Oregon on Wednesday became the latest state — and the first in many years — to officially reclassify marijuana from its Schedule I status as a dangerous drug with no medical value.
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Marijuana Use Seldom Associated With Emergency Room Visits,
Lifetime use of marijuana is rarely associated with emergency room visits, according to an analysis of epidemiologic survey data published online by the American Journal of Emergency Medicine.blogs.alternet.org
Decriminalize Marijuana: It’s Far Less Harmful than Alcohol
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on July 16, 2010
By Larry A. Bedard, MD, past president of the American College of Emergency Medicine. “In my 35-plus years as an emergency physician in busy ERs in Northern California, I have never needed to admit a patient due to an adverse reaction or medical proble…
Medical Marijuana Proponents Don’t Want Medicine Burned
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on June 24, 2010
The Medical Marijuana Magazine of Southern California. Find a dispensary or collective and a physician. Maps of local dispensaries, collectives and caregivers.the420times.com
Plan To Burn 5,525 Pounds Of Marijuana Ignites Activists
Medical marijuana activists are hotly protesting plans by Cook County, Illinois, officials to burn more than 5,500 pounds of cannabis seized last week in a big pot bust. “Depending on its purity, that represents a lot of medicine that could have helped…
Oregon Reclassifies Marijuana As Medicine
Oregon on Wednesday became the latest state — and the first in many years — to officially reclassify marijuana from its Schedule I status as a dangerous drug with no medical value. The Oregon Board of Pharmacy voted 4-1 on June 16 to move cannabis to…
Medicinal Marijuana: A Patient-Driven Phenomenon
Posted by admin in World News on June 14, 2010
Some patients swear by it, but science has yet to catch up with their claims. Even so, 14 state legislatures and the District of Columbia have carved out a big exception to the usual definition of “medicine”.
Cannabis ‘could stop dementia in its tracks’
Cannabis may help keep Alzheimer’s disease at bay. In experiments, a marijuana-based medicine triggered the formation of new brain cells and cut inflammation linked to dementia.
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