Michaelangelica Posted April 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2008 Minnesota Senate approves, House to hear bill to allow medical marijuanaNina Petersen-Perlman Duluth News TribunePublished Friday, April 18, 2008K.K. Forss lives every day with pain so excruciating that a cocktail of a dozen or so medications fails to relieve it, pain so unrelenting he rarely sleeps and can hardly bear to move, pain so agonizing that at the best of times he registers a “6” on doctors’ one-to-10 scale. The 41-year-old Ely man has tried every treatment doctors have prescribed him in the four years since he woke up with a ruptured disc in his neck: surgery, spinal cord injections, acupuncture, chiropractics and counseling, but nothing has given him relief. The one thing he has tried that has made the pain more manageable, allowed him to sleep and controlled the nausea brought on by his medications, Forss said, is marijuana.Duluth News Tribune Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moontanman Posted April 23, 2008 Report Share Posted April 23, 2008 Check this out! Marijuana, Genes, Medicines And Brain Scans Help Scientists Find Better Anxiety Treatments Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moontanman Posted May 16, 2008 Report Share Posted May 16, 2008 New MJ study says MJ users no worse than tobacco or alcohol users. Middle Class Relaxing With Marijuana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted May 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2008 Very interesting researchWill the valium makers ever give up their market stranglehold[?QUOTE]Specifically, Phan and his colleagues will look for variations ("functional polymorphisms") among several genes in individual subjects. Key among them is the gene (5-HTTLPR) that encodes the serotonin transporter protein that transports the neurotransmitter serotonin in and out of brain cells. Serotonin has long been known to be involved in depression and anxiety, and indeed most modern antidepressant and anti-anxiety drugs (such as SSRIs) work on this transporter. This seems sane"The Canadian government has never provided a valid reason for the criminalization of marijuana," said Osborne. "This study indicates that people who use marijuana are no more a criminal threat to society than are alcohol and cigarette users. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted May 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2008 Very interesting researchWill the valium makers ever give up their market stranglehold? Specifically, Phan and his colleagues will look for variations ("functional polymorphisms") among several genes in individual subjects. Key among them is the gene (5-HTTLPR) that encodes the serotonin transporter protein that transports the neurotransmitter serotonin in and out of brain cells. Serotonin has long been known to be involved in depression and anxiety, and indeed most modern antidepressant and anti-anxiety drugs (such as SSRIs) work on this transporter.This seems sane"The Canadian government has never provided a valid reason for the criminalization of marijuana," said Osborne. "This study indicates that people who use marijuana are no more a criminal threat to society than are alcohol and cigarette users. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougF Posted May 19, 2008 Report Share Posted May 19, 2008 our governments seam to be running around with blinders on, we don't have enough monies to feed the poor but they will send you to prison for years for a joint. I think they should wake up and spend this money where it is needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moontanman Posted May 19, 2008 Report Share Posted May 19, 2008 Fear of drugs is just one more way the government uses fear and the religious right to both control and justify that control over the masses. The idea behind both government and religion is that regular people cannot have control and have to be made to fear either pain after death or imprisonment now. Fear has always been a tool of the powerful over the powerless. Things like MJ are too easy to grow for the powers that be to control so they are illegal while the drug companies try to duplicate the effect of MJ in a patentable form so they can make money. To quote UncleAl, Crap Crap Crap, it's all crap! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted June 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2008 arijuana Haven Feels Heat in Backlash Against Medical PotPosted by Ron Winslow If there is such thing as a safe haven for marijuana farmers it is Mendocino County, Calif., home to a flourishing green-leaf economy that emerged in the past decade to supply patients who are legally prescribed the weed for medical uses.potshot_art_200v_20080609153005.jpgA marijuana bud on a plant grown by George and Jean Hanamoto in Mendocino County, Calif. Hanamoto, 74, uses marijuana to relieve glaucoma and back pain.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) But now, amid concerns the local marijuana culture is cultivating big business in illegal markets and otherwise disrupting the region’s commerce, residents are pushing back, the New York Times reports. They voted on a proposition last week to restrict how much marijuana patients may keep in their possession. The move reflects action in other communities across the state, where voters have banned or put restrictions on the marijuana clubs that have sprouted up to fill pot prescriptions. Health Blog : Marijuana Haven Feels Heat in Backlash Against Medical Pot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted June 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 New YorkNew York Patients Announce Medical Marijuana TV Ad Campaign June 3, 2008 ALBANY, NEW YORK — Hoping to build support in Albany for legislation to protect seriously ill New Yorkers from arrest for using doctor-recommended medical marijuana, patients at a press conference today unveiled a new TV ad that begins airing today across the state. The bill has passed the Assembly, but has not been acted on in the state Senate. The ad – available at mpp.org/NYads and – features Kingston resident Burton Aldrich, a quadriplegic who relies on medical marijuana to control the excruciating pain and violent spasms related to his condition. In the ad, Aldrich says, "I don't know if I would be around if it wasn't for marijuana." "I use medical marijuana with my doctors' support because I can't find anything that works as well with as few side effects," Aldrich said. "I have no choice but to break the law in order to find relief. That's wrong. I'm counting on the Senate to do the sensible, compassionate thing and make it right."New York Patients Announce Medical Marijuana TV Ad Campaign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moontanman Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 New York Patients Announce Medical Marijuana TV Ad Campaign edited due contents being used as ridicule Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted June 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2008 "First do no harm"- the hippocratic Oath have doctors become such pawns to the drug companies that they have forgotten this??? Disabled man fights for his marijuanaCharles Monson, a quadriplegic, had his home raided and his medicinal marijuana seized at gunpoint. TAKE OUR POLL.By EUGENE W. FIELDSTHE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTERComments 166 | Recommend 14 ORANGE – A swimming accident three decades ago at Newport Beach left Charles Monson paralyzed. A drug raid at his home about a year ago left Monson without the marijuana he says he needs. The raid has left him depending on a medical marijuana dispensary in Orange that was also raided. Fighting to stay in business, the small store-front dispensary has helped Monson deal with his pain. Marijuana lawsShould marijuana be legal? Yes, but only for medicinal purposes. No, it should be illegal in all instances. It should be legal, like alcohol.[Vote]View ResultsPowered by PollMonkey Monson, 45, was paralyzed in 1979 when he and a friend decided to go for a swim. "I dove under a wave, hit a shallow spot and broke my neck," Monson recalls. "I was paralyzed instantly and was floating face-down." News: Disabled man fights for his marijuana | monson, says, marijuana, police, adams - OCRegister.comPSI just looked at the poll results on above siteShould marijuana be legal?Yes, but only for medicinal purposes. 19%No, it should be illegal in all instances. 10%It should be legal, like alcohol. 71% Total Votes: 2735 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moontanman Posted June 20, 2008 Report Share Posted June 20, 2008 YOUR DOCTOR HAS NO RIGHT TO DO THISThis is breaking patient/doctor confidentialitySurely opiates are more problematical than MJ especially with the new delivery devices so you don't have to smoke it (better still make MJ Chocolate!)? "First do no harm"- the hippocratic Oath have doctors become such pawns to the drug companies that they have forgotten this??? Find a new doctor.Is there a specialised Pain Clinic anywhere near?There are a least two within 1 1/ 2 hs drive from me. I have some little knowledge of herbal pain relief if you email me privately I will try and help. News: Disabled man fights for his marijuana | monson, says, marijuana, police, adams - OCRegister.comPSI just looked at the poll results on above siteShould marijuana be legal? edited due to contents being used as ridicule Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted June 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 Do you live in a democracy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moontanman Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 Do you live in a democracy? Technically I think It's a Republic:shrug: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moontanman Posted June 25, 2008 Report Share Posted June 25, 2008 Wow, you get parcels via email? Where do they come out of the computer at? :eek_big: . You don't have one of those little doors on the side that things come out of? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted June 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2008 Feature: Future Doctors Support Medical Marijuana * view * translation Printer Friendly Version Printer Friendly Version Email this Article Email this Articlefrom Drug War Chronicle, Issue #541, 6/27/08 The Medical Student Section (MSS) of the American Medical Association (AMA) unanimously endorsed a resolution urging the AMA to support the reclassification of marijuana for medical use at the AMA's annual conference in Chicago earlier this month. The resolution will now go before the AMA House of Delegates for a final vote at its interim meeting in November.. . .With some 50,000 members, the MSS is the largest and most influential organization of medical students in the US. The other major medical student group in the county, the American Medical Student Association (AMSA), which split from the AMA in the heady days of the 1960s to pursue a more socially activist agenda, endorsed rescheduling marijuana in 1993 and assed its own resolution endorsing clinical research on medical marijuana in 1999. (AMSA claims 68,000 members, but also includes pre-med students.) Those two organizations join a growing list of medical groupings supporting medical marijuana, including the AIDS Action Council, the Alaska Nurses Association, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Nurses Association, the American Preventive Medical Association, the American Public Health Association, the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, the California Academy of Family Physicians, the California Medical Association, the California Pharmacists Association, the Connecticut Nurses Association, Cure AIDS Now, the Florida Medical Association, the Los Angeles County AIDS Commission, the Lymphoma Foundation of America, the Medical Society of the State of New York, the National Association for Public Health Policy, the National Association of People with AIDS, the National Nurses Society on Addictions, the New England Journal of Medicine, the New Mexico Medical Society, Physicians for Social Responsiblity, the San Francisco Medical Society, the Virginia Nurses Society on Addictions, the Wisconsin Public Health Association, and state nurses associations in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin, according to the medical marijuana education and advocacy group Patients Out of Time.U.S. DOE puts out the call for new CCS projects | Cleantech.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted June 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2008 You don't have one of those little doors on the side that things come out of?Everone has one on the newest machines.It is just below the coffee cup holder. From a more enlightened age Are the active ingredients of cannabis dissolved in alcohol? - or only oil/fats? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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