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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. 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…

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  2. 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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  3. Medicinal-marihuana conviction sheds light on ambiguous drug law

    Medicinal-marihuana conviction sheds light on ambiguous drug law Jan Richter 11-07-2008 14:19 Radio Praha <http://www.radio.cz/en/article/106047> The Czech Republic is known for its liberal attitude towards marihuana, ranking top of the European ladder in the number of people who smoke pot. But a court in the town of Tábor, South Bohemia, recently bucked this trend when it handed a fifty-two year old woman a two month suspended sentence for growing and using marihuana as medicine. Libuše Bryndová, photo: CTKLibuše Bryndová lives in a small village in South Bohemia. A translator from French and English, she moved there from Prague in the mid 1990s and she start…

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  4. Austria allows cannabis for medical purposes

    Austria allows cannabis for medical purposes 10 July 2008 http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gMXaMn...fDVlCHd4xMcmEbg VIENNA (AFP) — Austria's parliament has adopted a new bill allowing the cultivation of cannabis for medical and scientific purposes, under the Health Ministry's control. The bill, approved by parliament during a late-night session Wednesday, will give the health and food safety agency AGES the exclusive right in Austria to grow the plant, which is otherwise categorised as a drug. Michael Bach, president of the Austrian pain studies association OeSG, welcomed the new legislation, saying: "Any initiative that makes it possible to develop and provide…

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  5. Medical Cannabis The Natural Way

    Medical Cannabis The Natural Way PR Canna Zine http://pr.cannazine.co.uk/content/view/414/1/ 22 June 2008 Cannabis sentences are set to double when the government reclassifies cannabis from a class C, back to a class B in early 2009. Bringing with it jail sentences of 5 years a real possibility just for simple possession. The change of law also makes no allowances for the tens of thousands of people who use cannabis in the treatment of one or more medical conditions ranging from depression, to terminal cancer, and on behalf of the many medical cannabis users I know in the United Kingdom, I would like to ask "Why"? I think its fair to say the known efficacy of canna…

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  6. Cannabis as Medicine - The Evidence

    Cannabis as Medicine - The Evidence 15 June 2008 http://pr.cannazine.co.uk/content/view/348/27/ Fully two decades ago, the Legalise Cannabis Alliance were presenting information to government which was quite literally, a matter of life & death for some people. And yet, the government in the UK paid absolutely no heed to what it was the LCA were saying. Today, in 2008, the arguments are exactly the same. The facts STILL as pertinent today as they were twenty years ago. The only difference? Over twenty years a lot of people have suffered , and died as a result of the legal status of cannabis in the UK, which begs the question, how much longer will politicians…

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  7. Marijuana Cannabis Use In Pregnancy Dr. Dreher

    check diss http://www.earthreggae.com/img/DrDreher.jpg http://www.medicalcannabis.com/pregnancy.htm extract from the site Dr. Dreher is the principal researcher and driector of the suppressed costa rican studdy, among others that i still havent seen any of the latest reportz in this vid she sey the kidz in the report are now adults with there own kidz and the studdy still ago so more than just no differance in fact ganga kidz are way in frount in every test hahahahaha more power to Dr. Dreher the truth will reviel to the babe and suckling free ganga for kidz and mumz forward cannabis heal the children heal the future

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  8. Cannabis shown to help repair and regrow damaged brain cells

    Cannabis shown to help repair and regrow damaged brain cells http://pr.cannazine.co.uk/content/view/356/1/ 10 June 2008 Scientists link cannabis use with a damaging "shrinking" of certain parts of the brain, which is remarkeable for a number of reasons, not least of which as recent as 2005, scientists were hailing the benefits of cannabis, and its ability to repair damaged brain cells. Quite the connundrum? A team of Canadian researchers reported that cannabis use appears to spur the development of new brain cells in rats and to have further beneficial anti-anxiety and anti-depressant effects. While it has been known for more than 100 years that cannabis does no…

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  9. Cannabis: Cancer Research's Most Surprising Story

    Cannabis: Cancer Research's Most Surprising Story Bruce Mirken, a longtime health journalist, serves as director of communications for the Marijuana Policy Project, in Washington DC www.mpp.org . http://pr.cannazine.co.uk/content/view/312/27/ Once again the cancer diagnosis of a well-known national figure -- in this case Sen. Ted Kennedy -- has sparked a flurry of interest in efforts to treat and cure this frustrating, complex and deadly illness. One of the most promising areas of research involves a group of chemicals whose origins may seem shocking. The chemicals, called cannabinoids, are the active components in marijuana. Yes, marijuana, the very same drug t…

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  10. Autism Ritalin and Cannabis

    Autism Ritalin and Cannabis Dr. Phil Leveque Salem-News.com Phillip Leveque has spent his life as a Combat Infantryman, Physician, Toxicologist and Pharmacologist. He is an expert in medical marijuana treatment. Salem-News.com - June 4, 2008 - 10:12 am http://www.salem-news.com/articles/may2320...pot_5-22-08.php (MOLALLA, Ore.) - I wrote a recent article: Autism, ADD, ADHD and Marijuana Therapy, in which I reported that California Medical Marijuana doctors had reported successful treatment of such children with marijuana cookies and even by smoking marijuana cigarettes. I received by email a mixed bag of responses from both extreme ends of the spectrum. One irat…

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  11. American College of Physician

    May 27, 2008 Nydia Swaby interviews Joe Haptas on the American College of Physician’s support of medical marijuana. http://tv.mpp.org/news/marijuana-media-minute-episode-1/ you can fool some people some time but you cant fool we the people in dis time now we see the light we will never give up we rights

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  12. Let baby boomers fade out in a cloud of smoke

    Found: Mon May 26 22:49:41 2008 PDT Source: Advertiser, The (Australia) Copyright: 2008 Advertiser Newspapers Ltd Contact: http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/opinion/sendletter Website: http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1 Webpage: http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0... Newshawk: http://drugpolicycentral.com/bot/ Out in Sydney's suburbs it looked like US Prohibition-style speakeasy raids, serried rows of marijuana plants replacing the bottles of booze at house after hydroponic house. The cannabis capers at Blair Athol netted $quillions worth of plants in a week when Dr Alex Wodak pleaded for legalisation and taxation of …

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  13. Marijuana As Medicine?:The Science Beyond the Controversy

    The National Academies Press have books on cannabis to read free online. http://www.nap.edu/ - just type in cannabis in the search engine.

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  14. CANNABIS PILL HELPED ME TO WALK AGAIN

    A Multiple sclerosis sufferer says he was able to step out of his wheelchair for the first time in seven years when he took part in a trial of a tablet containing cannabis. Tony Withers, 64, believes the tablet could be a breakthrough in helping the 85,000 Britons with the condition. The former RAF navigator, of Petersham Drive, Alvaston, who has used a wheelchair since 2000, took part in a 12-week trial of the tablets. He said his symptoms, which include pain, spasms, sleeplessness and having no control over his lower body, showed such an improvement that he was able to stand and give a speech to medical students for 10 minutes. Mr Withers said it was at his …

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  15. Hazy thinking on medical marijuana

    To those with family members who rely on medical marijuana to relieve chronic pain, the federal government's crusade against the use of the drug is an outrage. According to a 2005 Gallup poll, 78 percent of Americans support allowing doctors to prescribe medical marijuana. Yet only one of the three major presidential candidates, Sen. Barack Obama, is calling for needed change in federal policy by stopping federal raids in the 12 states that have passed laws legalizing medicinal use of marijuana. In my 20s, I had expected my generation to understand the futility of Big Government drug laws. Au contraire, now in power, my generation imposes prohibitions on people who are …

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