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Sativex (pharmaceutical marijuana) approved in ten more European countries
If your strategy to legalize the use of plant cannabis by all people for any reason is to preach “All use is medical/wellness”, cannabinoid pharmaceuticals is where you’ll end up. There exists a paradigm for the medical / wellness use of substances, and it lies in the realm of doctors and pharmacists and prescriptions and manufactured drugs. However, there also exists a paradigm for the recreational use of substances, and it lies in the realm of taverns and bartenders and DUI laws and ID checks and home brewing.
Progesterone profits prove need for home medical marijuana cultivation
If it isn’t painfully clear to you why home cultivation is such and important right to maintain, just come back to this story about what happens when a corporation is given monopoly control over an important medication. There’s nothing wrong with corporations and cannabis sales per se, but only when balanced by the power of the consumer to reject their markups, contaminants, modifications, and poor quality by growing their own home cannabis.
Top 10 drugs of 2010 far more dangerous than marijuana
While the drug warriors were busy sounding the alarm about the new super-potent, wildly-addictive “Pot 2.0: It’s Not Your Father’s Woodstock Weed!”, according to Martha Rosenberg at CounterPunch, drug manufacturers were making billions in 2010 selling to Americans the following ten drugs that mimic some of marijuana’s medical effects yet are far more dangerous:
Using medical marijuana to treat ADHD in teenagers
(New York Times) Dr. Jean Talleyrand, who founded MediCann, a network in Oakland of 20 clinics who authorize patients to use the drug, said his staff members had treated as many as 50 patients ages 14 to 18 who had A.D.H.D. Bay Area doctors have been at the forefront of the fierce debate about medical [...]
Fully paralyzed Canadian man’s wheelchair seized because of legal medical marijuana use
CANNABIS CULTURE – A Canadian care home resident with full body paralysis was confined to his bed against his will after his wheelchair was seized by caregivers – all because he smokes medical marijuana to relieve his Multiple Sclerosis. CHBC news reported yesterday that Nyle Nagy, a Kelowna, British Columbia man who lives at the [...]
Cannabis Lozenge Application for FDA Test Protocols
Just imagine the freedom of being able to purchase medical marijuana products freely without being worried about law enforcement shooting you, your dogs, your family, taking your house, our car, and all of your possessions “AND” also having the freedom to purchase stock in medical marijuana technology companies. Well, this might happen soon enough. Drug [...]
Teens Using Marijuana to Treat Health Problems
A new study, published in the journal Substance Abuse, Treatment, Prevention and Policy, shows that one-third of teens use marijuana to treat health problems rather than recreationally, when conventional medicine fails, or access to healthcare is limited. Researchers from University of British Columbia interviewed 63 adolescents who used marijuana. Twenty said they used marijuana to [...]
Baptist Press: Medical Marijuana is “Legalizing marijuana incrementally”
Aw, you write that like it is a bad thing… WASHINGTON (BP)–The decision by the Obama administration to surrender to bad state policies on so-called medicinal marijuana will have disastrous effects. Medicinal marijuana is the Trojan horse of the marijuana decriminalization movement. The movement sees it as the means to appeal to people’s compassion in [...]
Cluster headaches responsive to smoking cannabis… so use Marinol?
First, the good news, something the migraine/cluster headache medical marijuana patient for whom I am a caregiver could’ve told you without any scientific studies: Cluster Attacks Responsive to Recreational Cannabis and Dronabinol Pharmacological preparations of cannabinoid compounds have a variety of therapeutic uses in medicine, including different pain syndromes, but have not been previously reported [...]
Colorado officials alarmed by increasing medical marijuana registry numbers
More than eight years after Colorado voters approved the use of medical marijuana for patients like Gallegos, who suffer from debilitating medical conditions, the issue has again taken center stage. The state is seeking to crack down on caregiver/patient ratios at the same time federal officials are debating whether to continue raiding med-pot dispensaries in [...]