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Dana Point, CAMedical Marijuana - New Uses - PTSD - Cannabis MMJ
Posted 11:35 PM July 09, 2010
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Earlier this week, they submitted a petition to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to add PTSD, a potentially debilitating condition characterized by fear and flashbacks, to the list of conditions eligible for medical marijuana use in the state.
As more states legalize the use of marijuana for medical purposes, they also have to decide which conditions qualify for its use. So far, only New Mexico specifically allows for marijuana to treat PTSD.
California, the first state to legalize the use of marijuana for medical purposes, put out aresearch report earlier this year about what conditions appear to benefit from its use. The one PTSD-related study cited in the report was in mice, and found no apparent benefit in using cannabis-like compounds to decrease fear behaviors. But other studies, like this one published in the Archives of General Psychiatry in 2009, have shown that some of the active components of cannabis appear to decrease anxiety.
The state public health department has 120 days to decide whether or not to hold a public hearing on the matter, according to Sensible Colorado's Brian Vicente.
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Medicinal Marijuana | OC Delivery | Medical Cannabis Collective
Posted 12:13 AM June 14, 2010
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Ellen Lenox Smith tends her indoor marijuana garden. Rhode Island patients currently must grow their own or obtain it from "caregivers" licensed by the state to cultivate a limited number of plants for up to five patients.
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Fourteen states and the District of Columbia have launched a medical experiment that doesn't follow any of the rules of science.
By approving the use of marijuana as a medicine — with varying kinds of restrictions — these jurisdictions are bypassing the federal government's elaborate processes for approving medicines.
That's highly unusual. In fact, it's only happened once in recent memory: In the late 1970s, about half the states legalized the use of laetrile, an extract of apricot pits, as a cancer treatment. At least 50,000 cancer patients took it before it was exposed as totally useless.
Nobody argues that marijuana is the new laetrile. For one thing, nobody's claiming it cures any fatal diseases. But it is a departure from the usual rules of evidence for drugs.
Struggling With Chronic Illness
If you want to understand why it's happening, you should spend some time with Ellen Lenox Smith of suburban Rhode Island: a lively, petite, 60-year-old grandmother, former schoolteacher and one-time master swimmer.
When you meet Smith, you don't suspect anything's seriously wrong with her health. But in fact, she has two incurable diseases: One, called sarcoidosis, is ravaging her lungs. The other makes her tendons and ligaments loose and fragile.
"My knee tore, and two weeks later the other knee tore," Smith says. "And the same thing with my shoulder. It was one shoulder and then the other shoulder. So I was tearing like tissue paper, and no one knew why."
After years of misdiagnosis and surgical repairs, Smith learned she has a rare genetic disease of connective tissue called Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
"My condition causes pain throughout the entire body," Smith says. Most people with Ehlors-Danlos "live on morphine and OxyContin," she says, but she has bad reactions to these and nearly all other painkillers. "I can't tolerate them."
An Unlikely Prescription
Feeling desperate with pain and suffering sleepless nights, Smith consulted pain specialist Dr. Pradeep Chopra. This was about four years ago, just after Rhode Island became the 11th state to legalize medical marijuana. Chopra had never recommended marijuana to a patient, and he never imagined he would.
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Medical Marijuana Orange County Delivery | Lou Gehrig's Disease
Posted 12:00 AM June 06, 2010
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Cannabis therapy may reduce symptoms and prolong survival in patients diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS aka Lou Gehrig's disease), according to a scientific review published online last week by the American Journal of Hospice&Palliative; Medicine.
Investigators at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle and Temple University in Pennsylvania reviewed preclinical and anecdotal data indicating that marijuana appears to treat symptoms of ALS as well as moderate the course of the disease.
Authors wrote: "Preclinical data indicate that cannabis has powerful antioxidative, anti-inflammatory, and neuroprotective effects. … Cannabis also has properties applicable to symptom management of ALS, including analgesia, muscle relaxation, bronchodilation, saliva reduction, appetite stimulation, and sleep induction. … From a pharmacological perspective, cannabis is remarkably safe with realistically no possibility of overdose or frank physical addiction. There is a valid, logical, scientifically grounded rationale to support the use of cannabis in the pharmacological management of ALS."
They added, "Based on the currently available scientific data, it is reasonable to think that cannabis might significantly slow the progression of ALS, potentially extending life expectancy and substantially reducing the overall burden of the disease."
Investigators concluded, "There is an overwhelming amount of preclinical and clinical evidence to warrant initiating a multicenter randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of cannabis as a disease-modifying compound in ALS."
Writing in the March 2004 issue of the journal Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis&Other Motor Neuron Disorders, investigators at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco reported that the administration of THC both before and after the onset of ALS symptoms staved disease progression and prolonged survival in animals compared to untreated controls. To date, however, no clinical trials have assessed the use of marijuana or any of the plant's cannabinoids on patients diagnosed with ALS.
Lou Gehrig's Disease is a fatal, progressive neurodegenerative disorder that is characterized by the selective loss of motor neurons in the spinal cord, brain stem, and motor cortex. An estimated 30,000 Americans are living with ALS, which often arises spontaneously and afflicts otherwise healthy adults. An estimated 70 to 80 percent of patients with ALS die within three to five years following the onset of disease symptoms.
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Medical Marijuana | South Orange County Marijuana Legalization
Posted 03:30 PM May 31, 2010
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Majorities Supporting CA's Marijuana Legalization
Less than six months from election day, the CA initiative to legalize marijuana has the support of half the voters, according to two polls.
According to two different polls released last Wednesday, the Tax Cannabis California marijuana legalization initiative is ahead but not by much, making the path to victory in November a rough one. Both polls show the initiative winning, but just barely, and both polls show the initiative hovering around 50% support. On the other hand, polling also shows remarkably high support for the concept of marijuana legalization in some form -- especially when the word legalization is not used.
In an internal campaign poll, when voters read either the ballot measure's title or the attorney general's summary of it -- all voters will see when they cast their votes -- the initiative garners 51% and 52%, respectively, with opposition at 40%. In a Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) poll, 49% approved of the initiative, while 48% opposed it.
The standard wisdom among initiative veterans is that campaigns should begin with support around 60%. They argue that once a campaign begins, opponents will find ways to shave off percentage points, and if you are starting with only half the voters on your side, losing any support means you lose.
With such a tight margin, expect both proponents and opponents to be energized in the six months between now and the November vote. Initiative organizers have to be concerned with the narrowness of their lead, especially given that attacks on the whole notion of pot legalization in general and on specific provisions of the initiative will only mount between now and then.
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Clinical Applications For Medical Cannabis & Cannabinoids
Posted 07:46 PM March 14, 2010
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Emerging Clinical Applications For Cannabis&Cannabinoids
A Review of the Recent Scientific Literature, 2000 — 2010
Despite the ongoing political debate regarding the legality of medicinal marijuana, clinical investigations of the therapeutic use of cannabinoids are now more prevalent than at any time in history. A search of the National Library of Medicine's PubMed website quantifies this fact. A keyword search using the terms "cannabis, 1996" (the year California voters became the first of 14 states to allow for the drug's medical use under state law) reveals just 258 scientific journal articles published on the subject during that year. Perform this same search for the year 2008, and one will find over 2,100 published scientific studies.
While much of the renewed interest in cannabinoid therapeutics is a result of the discovery of the endocannabinoid regulatory system, some of this increased attention is also due to the growing body of testimonials from medicinal cannabis patients and their physicians. Nevertheless, despite this influx of anecdotal reports, much of the modern investigation of medicinal cannabis remains limited to preclinical (animal) studies of individual cannabinoids (e.g. THC or cannabidiol) and/or synthetic cannabinoid agonists (e.g., dronabinol or WIN 55,212-2) rather than clinical trial investigations involving whole plant material. Predictably, because of the US government's strong public policy stance against any use of cannabis, the bulk of this modern cannabinoid research is taking place outside the United States.
As clinical research into the therapeutic value of cannabinoids has proliferated – there are now more than 17,000 published papers in the scientific literature analyzing marijuana and its constituents — so too has investigators' understanding of cannabis' remarkable capability to combat disease. Whereas researchers in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s primarily assessed cannabis' ability to temporarily alleviate various disease symptoms — such as the nausea associated with cancer chemotherapy — scientists today are exploring the potential role of cannabinoids to modify disease.
Of particular interest, scientists are investigating cannabinoids' capacity to moderate autoimmune disorders such as multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and inflammatory bowel disease, as well as their role in the treatment of neurological disorders such asAlzheimer's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (a.k.a. Lou Gehrig's disease.)
Investigators are also studying the anti-cancer activities of cannabis, as a growing body of preclinical and clinical data concludes that cannabinoids can reduce the spread of specific cancer cells via apoptosis (programmed cell death) and by the inhibition of angiogenesis (the formation of new blood vessels). Arguably, these latter trends represent far broader and more significant applications for cannabinoid therapeutics than researchers could have imagined some thirty or even twenty years ago.
THE SAFETY PROFILE OF MEDICAL CANNABIS
Cannabinoids have a remarkable safety record, particularly when compared to other therapeutically active substances. Most significantly, the consumption of marijuana – regardless of quantity or potency -- cannot induce a fatal overdose. According to a 1995review prepared for the World Health Organization, "There are no recorded cases of overdose fatalities attributed to cannabis, and the estimated lethal dose for humans extrapolated from animal studies is so high that it cannot be achieved by … users."
In 2008, investigators at McGill University Health Centre and McGill University in Montreal and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver reviewed 23 clinical investigations of medicinal cannabinoid drugs (typically oral THC or liquid cannabis extracts) and eight observational studies conducted between 1966 and 2007. Investigators "did not find a higher incidence rate of serious adverse events associated with medical cannabinoid use" compared to non-using controls over these three decades.
That said, cannabis should not necessarily be viewed as a ‘harmless' substance. Its active constituents may produce a variety of physiological and euphoric effects. As a result, there may be some populations that are susceptible to increased risks from the use of cannabis, such as adolescents, pregnant or nursing mothers, and patients who have a family history of mental illness. Patients with Hepatitis C, decreased lung function (such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), or who have a history of heart disease or stroke may also be at a greater risk of experiencing adverse side effects from marijuana. As with any medication, patients should consult thoroughly with their physician before deciding whether the medicinal use of cannabis is safe and appropriate.
HOW TO USE THIS REPORT
As states continue to approve legislation enabling the physician-supervised use of medicinal marijuana, more patients with varying disease types are exploring the use of therapeutic cannabis. Many of these patients and their physicians are now discussing this issue for the first time, and are seeking guidance on whether the therapeutic use of cannabis may or may not be advisable. This report seeks to provide this guidance by summarizing the most recently published scientific research (2000-2010) on the therapeutic use of cannabis and cannabinoids for 19 clinical indications:
* Alzheimer's disease
* Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
* Chronic Pain
* Diabetes mellitus
* Dystonia
* Fibromyalgia
* Gastrointestinal disorders
* Gliomas
* Hepatitis C
* Human Immunodeficiency Virus
* Hypertension
* Incontinence
* Methicillin-resistant Staphyloccus aureus (MRSA)
* Multiple sclerosis
* Osteoporosis
* Pruritus
* Rheumatoid arthritis
* Sleep apnea
* Tourette's syndrome
In some of these cases, modern science is now affirming longtime anecdotal reports of medicinal cannabis users (e.g., the use of cannabis to alleviate GI disorders). In other cases, this research is highlighting entirely new potential clinical utilities for cannabinoids (e.g., the use of cannabinoids to modify the progression of diabetes.)
The conditions profiled in this report were chosen because patients frequently inquire about the therapeutic use of cannabis to treat these disorders. In addition, many of the indications included in this report may be moderated by cannabis therapy. In several cases, preclinical data and clinical indicates that cannabinoids may halt the progression of these diseases in a more efficacious manner than available pharmaceuticals. In virtually all cases, this report is the most thorough and comprehensive review of the recent scientific literature regarding the therapeutic use of cannabis and cannabinoids.
For patients and their physicians, let this report serve as a primer for those who are considering using or recommending medicinal cannabis. For others, let this report serve as an introduction to the broad range of emerging clinical applications for cannabis and its various compounds.
Paul Armentano
Deputy Director
NORML | NORML Foundation
Washington, DC
January 27, 2010
* The author would like to acknowledge Drs. Dale Gieringer, Gregory Carter, Steven Karch, and Mitch Earleywine, as well as Bernard Ellis, MPH, NORML interns John Lucy, Christopher Rasmussen, and Rita Bowles, for providing research assistance for this report. The NORML Foundation would also like to acknowledge Dale Gieringer, Paul Kuhn, and Richard Wolfefor their financial contributions toward the publication of this report.
** Important and timely publications such as this are only made possible when concerned citizens become involved with NORML. For more information on joining NORML or making a donation, please visit: http://www.norml.org/join. Tax-deductible donations in support of NORML's public education campaigns should be made payable to the NORML Foundation.
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Medical Marijuana Essays | Holistic Health Prop 215 | South OC
Posted 07:11 PM March 14, 2010
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Medical Marijuana Essays
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Not only medicine, but science, philosophy, anthropology and much more. Enjoy! GW
Linber MarksA Cannabis Odyssey
Lester GrinspoonA Life Cycle Perspective on Cannabis
AnonymousA Little Dab Will Do You: Marijuana and Literary Composition
Tim BrownA Mental Journey Into Creativity
Brandon ThomasA School Teacher's Confession
Bob SmithA Single Episode
A Gentle PersonA Way of Life
EmancipatedAllen Ginsberg and Mary Jane
Lester GrinspoonAmateur's Notes
"John Shade"Basements
"Dear 23"Can A Ne'er-do-well Do Well?
AnonymousCannabis and Music
AnonymousCannabis and Planetary Surfaces
AnonymousCannabis and PTSD
Michael McKennaCannabis and the Legend of the Sand Dollar
Airie HicksCannabis as a Philosophic Sacrament
DavidCannabis, Depression, and the Auditory Experience
AnonymousChronic Pain From Hell
Jana ChristianCross-Cultural Discovery
Tucker ClarkDear Dr. Grinspoon
Richard PisanoDear Honey
TimothyDear Mom and Dad
RobDeep Spirit and Great Heart
Louis SilversteinDiscovering a Bridge
Florence SiegelDiscovery
Sherry HallEgo Trips
Del Cogswell BrebnerThe Emerald City of Oz
"Prarie Dog"Fat Angel
JatayuFour Leaf Clovers
Jeremy WellsFreeing Time
"Ferrell Beck"Ganja the Musicmaker
"Herb Garden"George's Rainbow
Jeff SyropGrass, the Exponent
Harry BaileyHow I Learned I Didn't Have a Head for Ganja
Jamie GaffneyHow I Use Pot
Paul DeFeliceHow Marijuana Ruined My Life
Stephen KesslerI Am An Addict
Chris FergusonLady Chatterly Stoned
Robert Burruss(Some Experiences With) Language and Learning
T.D.Living Better with Cannabis
B.W.Living Life as a Human Being
Mr. OMarijuana and Its Meaning for Me
AnonymousMarijuana and Music
Peter WebsterMarijuana and My Fear of Death
AnonymousMarijuana and Spirituality
Kevin NelsonMarijuana as an Enhancer of Music Therapy
Pete BradyMarijuana as Family Medicine and Sacrament
SynonymousMarijuana, My Wonder Drug
Brian C. BennettMarijuana Stimulates Creativity and Enhances Experience
Jon Byrne, MDMe and Mary Jane: Marijuana's Influence on My Fiction
Theodore PeltonMedicinal...Recreational...and Beyond
Joel LindauMemories of the Moment
Beth AmbergMiraculous Marijuana
Paul HandshyMr. X
Carl SaganMother Marijuana
DawnhumanMy Father Within
CandaceMy Friend Cannabis
Adam MeadowsMy Marijuana Experiences
John IrwinMy Religious Experience
"Rich Goss"On Marijuana, Musical Creativity, and the Collective Unconscious
Russell AmbrosePot: My Drug of Choice
"Simona Place"Pot: Not Just a Phase
D.S.Pot and Poetry
Floyd SalasPot in Prison
AnonymousPot to Alleviate Alcoholism
A Working MotherPuffy World
Bootsy B.Re-Opening the Doors: Evaluating Cannabis, Perception and Self
"Oliver Smyth"Reefer Sanity
AnonymousRestoration of the Body
AnonymousStress Control
Doug DusalleTHC and the Topical Gag
AnonymousThe Alcoholic Fights for His Herb
AnonymousThe Case of the Conscious Connoisseur
AnonymousThe Composition of Music
AnonymousThe Great Marijuana Hoax
Allen GinsbergThe Healthy Effects of Marijuana
"Mark James"The Laidback Meerkat
"Carla"The Old Pothead Poems
Sam AbramsThe Screening Room
Doug MageeThe Senses
AnonymousThe Spice of Life
Martin MartinezTwinkly
TwinklyUp From Illegitimacy
AnonymousWe're Not Bluffing Anymore
E. CleavesWhat Marijuana has Done for Me
StevenWhat I Like About Marijuana
"Mackenzie Cross"A Closer Look at Mary Jane
SallyA Musician Describes His Use of Marijuana for Creative Purposes
AnonymousA Scientist Reports on the Contribution of Cannabis to His Work
AnonymousAfter Two Decades of Just Saying No, I Finally Said Yes!
Sergio ReyesCannabis Through the Years
KNLElevating Consciousness
MCLH86Experiencing Highs to Deepen Understanding
Wendy from AustraliaFather's Little Helper?
George De La CruzMarijuana and College
AnonymousMarijuana and Religion
NimsuNature's Remedy
AndreParenting
Tim KRecipe for a Low-dose, Olive Oil Cannabis High
"Bewell"Spacing Out
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Medical Marijuana, The Forbidden Cannabis Medicine
Posted 07:04 PM March 14, 2010
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Marihuana: The Forbidden Medicine
Lester Grinspoon&James; B. Bakalar write a fascinating combination of medical history and survey on the medical uses of marijuana. The descriptions by patients, especially cancer and glaucoma patients, of what happens when they lose access to marijuana are heart-breaking.
"When I began to study marihuana in 1967, I had no doubt that it was a very harmful drug that was unfortunately being used by more and more foolish young people who would not listen to or could not understand the warnings about its dangers. My purpose was to define scientifically the nature and degree of those dangers. In the next three years, as I reviewed the scientific, medical, and lay literature, my views began to change. I came to understand that I, like so many other people in this country, had been brainwashed. My beliefs about the dangers of marihuana had little empirical foundation. By the time I completed the research that formed the basis for a book, I had become convinced that cannabis was considerably less harmful than tobacco and alcohol, the most commonly used legal drugs."
"At that time I naively believed that once people understood that marihuana was much less harmful than drugs that were already legal, they would come to favor legalization. In 1971 I confidently predicted that cannabis would be legalized for adults within the decade. I had not yet learned that there is something very special about illicit drugs. If they don't always make the drug user behave irrationally, they certainly cause many non-users to behave that way."
"I have come to conclude that if any other drug had revealed similar therapeutic promise combined with a similar record of safety, professionals and the public would have shown far more interest in it."
History Of Cannabis
When Congress debated marijuana legislation, the AMA opposed it, and was told to "get out of the way of the Federal Government". That's been pretty much the history of marijuana legislation and regulation ever since. Need it to maintain your sight? Go blind. Need it to stay alive? Then die. Get out of the way of the federal government.
Botannically classifed as a member of the family Cannabaceae and the genus Cannabis. "Most botanists agree that there are three species: Cannabis sativa, the most widespread of the three, is tall, gangly, and loosely branched, growing as high as twenty feet; Cannabis indica is shorter, about three or four feet in height, pyramidal in shape and densely branched; Cannabis ruderalis is about two feet high with few or no branches."
The seeds are "strictly speaking" akenes: small, hard fruits. The oil was once used for lighting and soap, and is now sometimes used for varnish, linoleum, and artists' paints.
Bhang is made from the dried and crushed leaves, seeds, and stems. Ganja is made from the flowering tops of the female plants, and is two or three times as strong as bhang. Charas is the pure resin, also known as hashish. "The marihuana used in the United States is equivalent to bhang or, increasingly in recent years, to ganja."
Marihuana contains more than 460 known compounds, "of which more than 60 have the 21-carbon structure typical of cannabinoids." D9-THC is the only one that is both highly psychoactive and present in large amounts (usually 1-5% by weight).
Some synthetic congeners (chemical relatives) of THC are synhexyl, nabilone, and levonatradol.
The nerve receptors in the brain that are stimulated by THC are "found mainly in the cerebral cortex, which governs higher thinking, and in the hippocampus, which is a locus of memory."
"It was certainly cultivated in China by 4000 B.C. and in Turkestan by 3000 B.C."
Its heyday was 1840 to 1900, when more than one hundred papers were published in the Western literature recommending it. The first Western physician to look at it as a medicine was W. B. O'Shaugnessey, at the Medical College of Calcutta. "In a report published in 1839, he wrote that he had found tincture of hemp (a solution of cannabis in alcohol, taken orally) to be an effective analgesic. He was also impressed with its muscle relaxant properties and called it "an anticonvulsive remedy of the greatest value.""
The biggest uses were for migraines and stimulating appetite.
Dr. J. B. Mattison wrote a report on his uses of marijuana, and concluded:
Dr. Suckling wrote me: "The young men rarely prescribe it." To them I specially commend it. With a wish for speedy effect, it is so easy to use that modern mischief maker, hypodermic morphia, that they [young physicians] are prone to forget remote results of incautious opiate giving. Would that the wisdom which has come to their professional fathers through, it may be, a hapless experience might serve them to steer clear of narcotic shoals on which many a patient has gone awreck. Indian hemp is not here lauded as a specific. It will, at times, fail. So do other drugs. But the many cases in which it acts well entitle it to a large and lasting confidence.
J. B. Mattison, "Cannabis indica as an Anodyne and Hypnotic," St. Louis Medical Surgical Journal 61 (1891): 266.
Cannabis as medicine was already in decline (as noted above) by 1890. "The potency of cannabis preparations was too variable, and individual responses to orally ingested cannabis seemed erratic and unpredictable." Also, hemp products are insoluble in water, and so not easily injected. Opiates were easier to use for that.
"Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the development of such synthetic drugs as aspirin, chloral hydrate, and barbiturates, which are chemically more stable than Cannabis indica and therefore more reliable, hastened the decline of cannabis as a medicine. But the new drugs had striking disadvantages. Five hundred to a thousand people die from aspirin-induced bleeding each year in the United States, and barbiturates are, of course, far more dangerous yet. One might have expected physicians looking for better analgesics and hypnotics to have turned to cannabinoid substances, especially after 1940, when it became possible to study congeners (chemical relatives) of THC that might have more stable and specific effects."
"But the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 undermined any such experimentation."
More from W.C. Woodward, physician-lawyer, in congress:
The newspapers have called attention to it so prominently that there must be grounds for their statements. It has surprised me, however, that the facts on which these statements have been based have not been brought before this committee by competent primary evidence. We are referred to newspaper publications concerning the prevalence of marihuana addiction. We are told that the use of marihuana causes crime."
In 1972, NORML petitioned the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (formerly the FBN) to transfer marihuana to Schedule II so that it could be legally prescribed by physicians. Other parties to later join include the Drug Policy Foundation and the Physicians Association for AIDS Care. In the hearings before the BNDD, Lester Grinspoon waited to testify on the medical uses of cannabis, and "witnessed the effort to place pentazocine (Talwin), a synthetic opioid analgesic made by Winthrop Pharmaceuticals, on the schedule of dangerous drugs. The testimony indicated several hundred cases of addiction, a number of deaths from overdose, and considerable evidence of abuse. Six lawyers from the drug company, briefcases in hand, came forward to prevent the classification of pentazocine or at least to ensure that it was placed in one of the less restrictive schedules. They succeeded in part; it became a Schedule IV drug. In the testimony on cannabis, the next drug to be considered, there was no evidence of overdose deaths or addiction—simply many witnesses, both patients and physicians, who testified to its medical utility. The government refused to transfer it to Schedule II."
The BNDD failed to call for the public hearings that were required by law, before rejecting the NORML petition. "The reason it gave was that reclassification would violate U.S. treaty obligations under the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Substances. NORML responded in January 1974 by filing a suit against the BNDD. The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the bureau's dismissal of the petition, remanding the case for reconsideration and criticizing both the bureau and the Department of Justice.
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Orange County Dispensary | Medical Marijuana Timeline
Posted 06:41 PM March 14, 2010
Orange County CA Oceanside CA Escondido CA Ladera Ranch CA Laguna Niguel CA Mission Viejo CA Vista CA Orange County CA - We feature Prop 215 Medical Marijuana, cannabis, hash concentrates, keif concentrates, THC tincture oils, marijuana edibles. All medication is Lab Tested for purity and THC levels --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Medical Marijuana Historical Timeline From Garrison Williams | Holistic Health Dana Point 2737 B.C. - 1799
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Over 4,700 years of the History of Cannabis (Marijuana) as Medicine (2737 B.C. - 2008) is presented below. Each event is classified asPro, Neutral, or Con on events for medical marijuana. Neutral items include those events offered as General Reference (not clearly pro or con).
1800 - 19341935 - 19951996 - 20002001 - 2008DATES EVENTS - 2737 B.C. to 1799 POSITION 2737 BC "Emperor Shen-Nung in China prescribes cannabis for beri-beri, constipation, 'female weakness,' gout, malaria, rheumatism and absentmindedness."
1972 National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse - Appendix, Chapter One, Part I. 
Pro 2737 BC "Actually, the emperor [Emperor Shen-Nung] turns out to be mythological; Shen is a component of Chinese folk religion, creator of agriculture, and one of the gods most widely worshipped in pre-Revolutionary China. The Treatise on Medicine attributed to Shen was compiled by an early Han dynasty writer, whose sources go back only as far as the fourth century B.C."
1970 Eric Goode, PhDThe Marijuana Smokers , Page 13.Con 2000 BC In Egypt, cannabis is used to treat sore eyes.
1972 National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse - Appendix, Chapter One, Part I Pro 1400 BC "A thriving Bronze Age drug trade supplied hashish (cannabis) and opium to ancient cultures throughout the eastern Mediterranean as balm for the pain of childbirth and disease, proving a sophisticated knowledge of medicines dating back thousands of years."
Aug. 8, 2002 Associated Press report of conference on DNA and archaeology in Israel.Pro Pre
1000 BCCannabis use begins in India to overcome hunger and thirst by the religious mendicants.
1972 National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse - Appendix, Chapter One, Part I Pro 1000 BC Bhang, a cannabis preparation (a drink, generally mixed with milk) is used as an anesthetic and anti-phlegmatic in India...
Cannabis begins to be used in India to treat a wide variety of human maladies. The drug is still highly regarded and used by some medical practitioners in India.
1972 National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse - Appendix, Chapter One, Part IPro 500 BC Gautama Buddha is said to have survived by eating only cannabis seeds.
2002 UK Cannabis Campaigners' GuidePro 200 BC In ancient Greece, cannabis is used as a remedy for earache, edema, and inflammation.
1972 National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse - Appendix, Chapter One, Part IPro 70 BC Roman Emperor Nero's surgeon, Dioscorides, praises cannabis for making the stoutest cords and for its medicinal properties.
2002 UK Cannabis Campaigners' GuidePro 200 AD A Chinese physician, Hoa-Tho, prescribes cannabis as an analgesic in surgical procedures.
1972 National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse - Appendix, Chapter One, Part IPro 1619 America's first marijuana law is enacted at Jamestown Colony, Virginia, "ordering" all farmers to "make tryal of" (grow) Indian hemp seed. More mandatory (must-grow) hemp cultivation laws are enacted in Massachusetts in 1631, in Connecticut in 1632 and in the Chesapeake Colonies into the mid-1700s. Cannabis is used primarily for fibers, and it's medical use is not widely known by the population at large.
Nov. 2000 Jack Herer, The Emperor Wears No Clothes Neutral 1621 The medical book The Anatomy of Melancholy by English clergyman Robert Burton claims cannabis is a treatment for depression.
2002 UK Cannabis Campaigners' GuidePro pre-1700 Cannabis is used in Africa to restore appetite and to relieve pain of hemorrhoids. Its antiseptic uses are also known to certain African tribes. Various other uses, in a number of African countries, include the treatment of tetanus, hydrophobia, delirium tremens, infantile convulsions, neuralgia, cholera, menorrhagia, rheumatism, hay fever, asthma, skin diseases, and protracted labor during childbirth.
1972 National Commission on Marihuana and Drug AbusePro 1763 The 'New English Dictionary' says cannabis root applied to skin eases inflammation.
2002 UK Cannabis Campaigners' GuidePro 1799 Napoleon's army returns from Egypt with knowledge (and samples) of cannabis. The scientific members of Napoleon's forces are interested in the drug's pain relieving and sedative effects.
1972 National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse - Appendix, Chapter One, Part IPro
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OC Medical Marijuana | MMJ Cannabis on Trial | Orange County
Posted 11:31 PM February 20, 2010
Orange County CA Oceanside CA Escondido CA Ladera Ranch CA Laguna Niguel CA Mission Viejo CA Vista CA
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Orange County CA - We feature Prop 215 Medical Marijuana, cannabis, hash concentrates, keif concentrates, THC tincture oils, marijuana edibles. All medication is Lab Tested for purity and THC levels
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Medical Marijuana On Trial
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Let me say this at the outset: 1. I do not condone drug use; 2. Society should not be held financially responsible if persons who indulge fail to earn enough to support themselves over their lifetime; 3. I believe it is a states rights issue; 4. I think the federal government should be using all of its law enforcement manpower to put murderers and thieves behind bars. Not waste time with stoners.
Other states, like California, provide only statutory protection for medical marijuana. Colorado, however, added medicinal marijuana specifically as a right to its state Constitution. Add to that the fact that Bartkowicz is one of the only people nationwide to face federal charges since an Obama Administration memo in October telling federal agents to respect medicinal-marijuana laws, and you have the ingredients for the perfect storm.
"There are complex legal issues that haven't been addressed in this state," said Bartkowicz' attorney. The U.S. Supreme Court, however, has ruled in a prior case that the federal government can regulate marijuana, even if it is grown, sold and used entirely in a medical-marijuana state. Read more
Medicinal marijuana is becoming a hot topic business. My neighbor rents out bedrooms in his home and he told me he is renting two rooms to young men from California. One is from LA County, the other from north of Sacramento. Both are out to see what Colorado is doing right about its medicinal dispensaries.
Ever since National Geographics celebrated broadcast on the Emerald Triangle the gold rush for marijuana cultivation has taken the west by storm. Bills are moving through state legislatures to move marijuana into the mainstream. Will we see taxing and legalization before the year is out?
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Orange County Medical Marijuana Week 2010 - Announcement
Posted 01:04 AM February 17, 2010
Orange County CA Oceanside CA Escondido CA Ladera Ranch CA Laguna Niguel CA Mission Viejo CA Vista CA Orange County CA - We feature Prop 215 Medical Marijuana, cannabis, hash concentrates, keif concentrates, THC tincture oils, marijuana edibles. All medication is Lab Tested for purity and THC levels --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Medical Marijuana Week 2010 From Garrison Williams | Holistic Health Dana Point Medical Marijuana Week 2010 Saturday, February 13th, through Sunday, February 21st. Every year, Medical Marijuana Week focuses public attention on the need for safe access to medical marijuana. Activists and organizations across the country use Medical Marijuana Week to educate the community and get active. ASA allies, chapters, affiliates, ambassadors, and activists hold events and activities that help with their local goals. 2010 Medical Marijuana Events: ASA is happy to provide the information below on behalf of the many activists who are organizing these events in their communities. For questions or follow up, please contact the specific event organizers. How can you use Medical Marijuana Week in your community? Possible goals: Background: Medical Marijuana Week originally came out of California's Proposition 215 -- thus the annual date February 15th. Now on its eighth year, Medical Marijuana Week is a national phenomenon, and we encourage you to join us. We'd also like you to consider donating a portion of any Medical Marijuana Week proceeds you fundraise to ASA. Email us at action@safeaccessnow.org ----------------------
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Saturday, February 13, 2010
Birmingam, Alabama
"On Feb. 13, 2010 beginning at 1 p.m., members of Alabamians for Compassionate Care/Alabama NORML will kick off Medical Marijuana Awareness Week with a celebration in Birmingham, Alabama that includes a pot luck dinner, fellowship, speakers, and a short demonstration.
If you plan to attend please bring a dish to share with other attendees; drinks will be provided. Later on we plan to have individual patients tell their stories about why they use medical marijuana, what they have to endure to get their medicine and how such obstacles have negatively impacted their lives. We will conclude our event by marching from 2330 Highland Ave. down to the fountain at 5 Points South and the back to the Hwy 280 overpass. Please make and bring signs about medical marijuana.
Possible slogans include:
I am a PATIENT not a criminal
My other medicine is addictive
STOP ARRESTING PATIENTS
MAKE MEDICAL MARIJUANA LEGAL
Please feel free to make up your own sign slogans so long as they have to do with medical marijuana.
The address of our celebration is:
2330 Highland Ave. South (on Southside), Birmingham, AL 35205
This location is right next to Caldwell Park. Should our group become too large for the location we have selected we can and will spill over into the park, weather permitting.
Load your cars and trucks up with as many people as you can find and we look forward to seeing you there.
If you have questions or need further information please feel free to email me at lorettanall@gmail.com. You can also contact our Outreach coordinator Christie O'Brien at 205-907-6131 / alabamacompcare@yahoo.com or by contacting our Web Coordinator Penny Vaughan at 256-276-0083/ luvlavndr@yahoo.com."
Christie O'Brien
Outreach Coordinator
Alabamians for Compassionate Care
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Olympia, WA
Olympia Patient Resource Center, Cannabis College, Learn to Grow Medical Marijuana, 11am - 3:30pm. You must be pre-registered, $75 donation. 2747 Pacific Ave SE, Ste B-23. For more information and registration: http://www.olympiapatientresourcecenter.com
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Napa, CA
Napa: Understanding the Legal and Safety Aspects of Responsibly Using Medical Cannabis.
An awareness seminar for the city of Napa. 10:30 to 12pm
Napa city public library, 580 Coombs Street in the community room.
Come learn about the history of cannabis, legal information, safety standards of clean medicine, and edibles.
Free Event, for more info: edonval@yahoo.com
Monday, February 15, 2010
San Francisco, CA
San Francisco: Annual Seed Planting.
Meet in front of San Francisco City Hall at high noon, snacks, and seeds will be freely distributed. Singing, and shouting out loud will be encouraged. This has always been an interesting time of sharing among patients. 2:15pm Symbolic seed planting. All are welcome. For info: Just show up
Monday, February 15, 2010
Richmond, CA
Medical Marijuana Week 215 Patient Appreciation Party!
Hosted by Seven Stars, celebrating their first year serving patients!
6pm At the Seven Stars Monday Night Vapor Lounge
3288 Pierce St. Suite # M108 (Inside Pacific East Mall)
$10, all proceeds will be donated to Americans for Safe Access
Raffle, pool table, movies, vapor lounge, DJ, dance floor, food,&patient; grab bags!
This event is for VERIFIED patients only. Please bring verifiable recommendation and ID card or pre register by calling 510-527-STARS.
Questions: 7starsholistichealingcenter@gmail.com
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
San Francisco, CA
Oakland: Medical Cannabis Safety Council
East Bay General Meeting
12 pm - 2 pm Oaksterdam Student Union, 1915 Broadway
Snacks will be provided. contact@cannabissafety.org.
San Francisco: Open house at the Greenway SOMA 5 pm -- 7 pm
One of SF's newest medical marijuana physician's clinics Dr. Melissa Soriano will be the featured speaker, and special guests will include medical marijuana attorney Brendan Hallinan, former SF DA Terence Hallinan, and other medical marijuana specialists. Refreshments will be served.
393 Tehama Street, off 5th, between Howard&Folsom Streets (415) 777-0157 penny@greenway420.com.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
San Jose, CA
Silicon Valley Chapter meeting
6:00-7:30pm
Location TBA, SiliconValleyAsa@gmail.com 805-217-6116
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Compassionate Care Campaign:
"Feb. 17th, Oklahoma's Medical Marijuana Day at the State Capitol"
"To help with the Oklahoma Compassionate Care Campaign go to http://dpfok.org - http://OKmedicalmarijuana.org - call (405)714-1236 - Send a contribution to DPFOK, P.O. Box 10641, Midwest City, OK 73140
Please attempt to arrange a meeting with your state senator and representative by calling their office. Arrange the meeting between 1:00-3:00 p.m. To find out who your state senator and representative are, call your local Board of Election/Election Board, or the State Election Board (405) 521-2391.
It isn't a problem if you can't arrange a meeting with your elected official. We are going to visit their office anyway. If we can't speak directly to our elected officials, we will leave the information with their staff.
No one will have to visit their legislators alone. Our volunteers will gladly go along to support you. We will stick together to demonstrate that many good people support medical marijuana in Oklahoma.
If you can't make it to the Capitol that day, please contact your legislators anyway. Please call, email, fax and/or write letters today! Ask them to please introduce and endorse The Oklahoma Compassionate Care Medical Marijuana Legislation. Let them know we are sending the legislation to their office and that they can meet actual medical marijuana patients on Feb. 17."
Thursday, February 18, 2010
San Jose, CA
San Jose: Silicon Valley Chapter Fundraiser
Sweet Tomatoes Restaurant 5:00-8:00pm
Bring a flyer, buy food and a drink
15% of sales go to Silicon Valley ASA
For more details: SiliconValleyAsa@gmail.com
Thursday, February 18, 2010
San Francisco, CA
Open house at the Greenway
5 pm - 7 pm. One of SF's newest medical marijuana physician's clinics Dr. Melissa Soriano will be the featured speaker, and special guests will include medical marijuana attorney Brendan Hallinan, former SF DA Terence Hallinan, and other medical marijuana specialists. Refreshments will be served. Bring your recommendation if you are currently a patient. Greenway Haight is located at 776 Haight Street, near Pierce Street. Contact: penny@greenway420.com.
Sacramento: Sacramento ASA will be hosting a mixer for patients only, bring your recommendation at 7:30pm at 1236 "C" St. Join us for door prizes, music, raffles, refreshments and fun!
Friday, February 19, 2010
Oakland, CA
Volunteer Day at the ASA office, come join ASA staff from 12pm-4pm to help us work on projects in the office. Get to know other volunteers in the Bay Area. ASA Headquarters 1322 Webster Suite 402. Info: 510-251-1856 or email sarah@safeaccessnow.org
Oakland: An afternoon of Fun and Games Hosted at Oaksterdam Student Union 4:00pm -- 6:00pm, 1915 Broadway at 19th
Ticket Price: $20 General Admission/$10 Student&Alumni, Half of the proceeds will be donated to ASA, the other half toward a California Ballot initiative.
Activities include Shuffle Board, Pool, Dart Board, and so much more! Tickets can be purchased day of at Oaksterdam University 1600 Broadway or at the Student Union. For more information: alexi@skseymour.com or 510-832-3746
Saturday, February 20, 2010
San Francisco, CA
San Francisco ASA Chapter Party 2:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. at Dennis Peron's home, 3745 17th Street (between Sanchez and Church Streets). In celebration of Medical Marijuana Week, SF-ASA is having a party at the home of Dennis Peron, one of the activists responsible for getting Proposition 215 passed in 1996. A $10 donation suggested, no one turned away. For more info: dcgoldman@yahoo.com
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Sunrise, FL
People United For Medical Marijuana is hosting a Rally 11:00 am - 12:30 pm in Markum Park, 16001 State Road 84.
"This is the time to meet like-minded individuals, share ideas, and plan a strategy to get our goals accomplished. It is time to strengthen our ties not only to the community, but with other organizations that support our cause as well. The exact location within the park will be posted within the next few days. For details visit: http://www.pufmm.org
PUFMM will go throughout the park after the meeting and collect signatures as well. Please plan to bring something to eat [just in case you get hungry]. Water and drinking cups will be provided. If you care for anything else to drink, please bring your favorite refreshment with you."
A candlelight vigil in support of patients
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