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There is no pharmacological free lunch in cannabis or any drug. Negative reactions can result. A small percentage of people have negative or allergic reactions to marijuana. Heart patients could have problems, even though cannabis generally relieves stress, dilates the arteries, and in general lowers the diastolic pressure. A small percentage of people get especially high heart rates and anxieties with cannabis. These persons should not use it. Some bronchial asthma sufferers benefit from cannabis; however, for others it may serve as an additional irritant.

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  1. Cannabis Spray Use May Be Made Legal

    Cannabis Spray Use May Be Made Legal Posted on: Monday, 6 October 2008, 15:05 CDT By CHALMERS, Anna redOrbit.com http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/157979..._be_made_legal/ CANNABIS products could soon be used legally for medical purposes, after an application by a leading drug company to market a liquid version for pain relief. Medsafe is considering whether to allow the marketing and sale of cannabis spray, Sativex, after an application from its British maker. It comes as the Government faces increasing pressure from some patients and scientists to legalise cannabis use to alleviate chronic pain for accident victims and some sufferers of multiple sclerosis an…

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  2. Medical Marijuana Application Forms - Canada

    Health Canada How To Apply for Medical Marijuna - Applicants http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/marihuana/h...r/index-eng.php We recommend that you read the Quick Guide and Information for Patients documents first and then download the forms that are pertinent to the type of access that you are requesting. You will need to fill out the appropriate applications for Authorization to Possess, Licences to Produce and for supply. Health Canada's examination of the current available information suggests most individuals use an average daily amount of 1 gram to 3 grams of dried marihuana for medical purposes, whether it is taken orally, or inhaled or a combination of both. …

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  3. T.G.A. Application for Medical Cannabis

    Special Access Scheme Summary: The Special Access Scheme refers to arrangements which provide for the import and/or supply of an unapproved therapeutic good for a single patient, on a case by case basis. T.G.A. Form http://www.tga.gov.au/docs/pdf/unapproved/sascatb.pdf I have already written to the State and Federal Health Ministers and asked for the list of approved doctors and suppliers as guarinteed under - First Schedule—Single Convention On Narcotic Drugs, 1961 Section 4 PREAMBLE The Parties, Concerned with the health and welfare of mankind, Recognizing that the medical use of narcotic drugs continues to be indispensable for the relief o…

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  4. More positive data for GW Pharma's Sativex

    More positive data for GW Pharma's Sativex 08 September 2008 Pharma Times http://www.pharmatimes.com/WorldNews/article.aspx?id=14287 Shares in GW Pharmaceuticals have shot up almost 7% this morning after the firm presented data from a late study of its cannabis-based product Sativex which confirm the long-term efficacy of the drug in patients with neuropathic pain due to multiple sclerosis. The study evaluated 42 MS patients with central neuropathic pain who had previously been in a Sativex (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol)) Phase III MS neuropathic pain study and who continued to take the product for 12 weeks. They were then randomised to receive Sativ…

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  5. Cannabis Effective at Relieving Chronic Post-Operative Pain

    Cannabis Effective at Relieving Chronic Post-Operative Pain PR Cannazine 28 August 2008 http://pr.cannazine.co.uk/content/view/569/27/ Long before the great Sativex debate started a cannabis plant extract was providing pain relief for patients after major surgery such as knee replacements, according to a study carried out by Imperial College London and the Medical Research Council. Details of a trial published 1996 in "Anesthesiology" shows how effective Cannador, a cannabis plant extract, was at managing post-operative pain. Dr Anita Holdcroft, from Imperial College London, and lead researcher said: "Pain after surgery continues to be a problem because many of t…

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  6. Marijuana Eases Nerve Pain Due to HIV

    Study Shows Smoking Pot Provides Pain Relief From HIV-Related Neuropathy By Kelli Miller Stacy WebMD Health NewsReviewed by Louise Chang, MDAug. 6, 2008 -- Smoking pot may help relieve pain in patients with HIV-related neuropathy, a form of nerve damage that leads to burning and tingling sensations, which can be hard to treat with traditional medications. "Neuropathy is a chronic and significant problem in HIV patients as there are few existing treatments that offer adequate pain management," researcher Ronald J. Ellis, MD, PhD, associate professor of neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, says in a news release. Ellis and colleag…

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  7. Future Doctors Support Medical Marijuana

    Medical Student Section (MSS) of the American Medical Association (AMA) Drug War Chronicle, Issue #541, 6/27/08 27/6/2008 http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/541/am...dical_marijuana The Medical Student Section (MSS) of the American Medical Association (AMA) overwhelmingly 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. After a lengthy series of whereases detailing scientific support for therapeutic uses of cannabis, the MSS resolved that: R…

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  8. Painkiller tolerance?

    Hey guys, I don't consider myself a medicinal user, but some of you guys really know your stuff re: painkillers so I'd love to hear any comments you have. I had a really nasty soft tissue tear in my back over 3 years ago, wasn't able to move for a week and ended up on Valium when I finally got to the doctor. It was only 200mg from memory, maybe that's wrong it was so long ago. It's never really healed and I'm starting to think it never will. I'm doing all sorts of rehab and abdominal strengthening etc. but one thing I noticed over the last few months has scared the shit out of me. I've been using Ibuprofen as needed, not often and not until it becomes unbearable,…

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  9. Medical Marijuana: A Surprising Solution to Severe Morning Sickness

    Medical Marijuana: A Surprising Solution to Severe Morning Sickness Aug-05-2008 09:00 Erin Hildebrandt Salem-News.com http://www.salem-news.com/articles/august0...ness_8-4-08.php Marijuana can bring relief to the nausea and discomfort of pregnancy's most well known side effect, morning sickness. (SALEM, Ore.) - As is the case for many young women, my indulgence in recreational drugs, including alcohol and caffeine, came to an abrupt halt when my husband and I discovered we were pregnant with our first child. To say we were ecstatic is an understatement. Doctors had told me we might never conceive, yet here we were, expecting our first miracle. I closely followed …

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  10. How to obtain a medical marijuana card

    How to obtain a medical marijuana card PR Cannazine http://pr.cannazine.co.uk/content/view/544/27/ 20 August 2008 As a resident of California I have heard a lot of different things about medical marijuana such as who is eligible and how to go about obtaining medical marijuana if you are eligible. The laws that pertain to the medical use of marijuana in California were passed as part of proposition 215 and later amended as a result of state law SB-420. I’ll begin with a common misconception among people that you need a medical marijuana "license" to get medical marijuana. One thing that a medical marijuana prescription definitely is not is a license. A license…

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  11. *sigh* rotten teeth

    that's right, 19, awesome smile, 3 rotten teeth... weed or ciggarettes...or both? discuss... i brush, daily...sometimes i forget...but i mean fuck, how the hell does it happen now, i've only been smoking for 2-3 years sucks major fucking ball sack.

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  12. Fears cloud marijuana legalization

    Fears cloud marijuana legalization Lanny Swerdlow Article Created: 08/02/2008 05:36:09 PM PDT Inland Daily Bulletin http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_10080442 As a registered nurse and the person pictured in the July 20 article "High emotions: Group backs medical marijuana," I am growing increasingly weary of the insulting attacks found in Kevin Sabet's July 24 guest commentary, "Public faces medical marijuana scam," which brand me as a miscreant and criminal simply because I am part of a team of health-care professionals who make the ancient medicinal herb marijuana available to patients in need. At the THCF Medical Clinic, we treat patients with life-threatening ai…

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  13. Kidney Desease and Pain

    Hey all! Awsome site by the way! I have a cronic kidney desease called hydronephrosis which recently caused my kidney to fail..... very painfull.... I tried loadsa other perscribed pills etc. but most didn't kill the pain or if they did they had some nasty side effets... I reccomend smoking with a mix of tobacco and green, persionally I think the pain relief was much more effective as the THC was slow released into my blood streme because the mixture is much less potent, but whereas maybe one or two joints of pure green are enough to get baked having several joints of mix makes the pain relief last longer.... also don't sit at an awkward angle, make sure ur c…

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  14. Raiding California - Medical Marijuana and Minors

    Drew Carey 23 June 2008 Reason Video at <http://reason.tv/video/show/413.html> Should medical marijuana be kept from minors at all costs? Why is it that pharmacists can dispense amphetamines without getting busted, but legal operators who dispense medical marijuana face prison time? Why do armed federal agents persist in raiding California? With its sun, surf and small town atmosphere, California's San Louis Obispo County is a good place to grow up. Seventeen-year-old Owen Beck played football and soccer for a local high school, but one day his thoughts abruptly turned away from sports and school. Doctors told Owen he had bone cancer, and would have to begi…

    Asked by grace,

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  15. Cannabis pills to hit the market by 2013

    Cannabis pills to hit the market by 2013 ASia Pacific Post Wed, June 18 2008 <http://www.asianpacificpost.com/portal2/c1ee8c441a92e25c011a9e04a99601d5_Cannabis_pills_to_hit_the_market_by_2013.do.html> Drug company Echo Pharmaceuticals expects to sell the world’s first cannabis pill within five years, targeting a $7.76 billion global market, its chief executive said. The privately-held Dutch company faces competition from Canada’s Cannasat which is also developing a pill. In 2005, Canada became the first country in the world to approve a cannabis-based spray produced by Britain’s GW Pharmaceuticals Plc as a treatment for multiple sclerosis patients. U.S. re…

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