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MEDICINAL CANNABIS WARNING / DISCLAIMER

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. Call on cannabis medicine

    Call on cannabis medicine By Carol Nader January 24, 2006 AUSTRALIA'S drug regulator should decide whether medical use of cannabis is permitted, according to the head of the committee developing the first national cannabis strategy. In a move likely to increase pressure on federal and state governments to allow medicinal use of the drug, Richard Mattick, chairman of the national cannabis strategy, said the Therapeutic Goods Administration determined the effectiveness and safety of medication, and cannabis should be treated the same way. The TGA's role was to approve new therapeutics in Australia and it was up to it to determine whether medication was safe and effect…

    Asked by Brash,

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  2. Disability Pension Help?

    Just wondering if anyone has recently applied for the disability pension lately (in Australia) and whether the stories about their doctors being arseholes when they check you over are true, can anyone let me know about their experiences with the doctors and the Centrelink review panel?

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  3. Cannabis a Treatment for Childhood Mental Disorders

    In 1996, California legalized cannabis as a treatment for "any... condition for which marijuana brings relief." Although the law does not constrain physicians from approving the use of cannabis by children and adolescents doctors have been reluctant to approve cannabis use by patients under 16 years of age, and have done so only in cases in which prescribable pharmaceuticals had been tried unsuccessfully. The case of Alex P. suggests that the practice of employing pharmaceutical drugs as first-line treatment exposes children gratuitously to harmful side effects. Alex aged 15 years and six months, had previously been prescribed Ritalin, Prozac, Paxil, Maxalt, Immitrex, …

    Asked by Frazz,

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  4. Self Medication with Cannabis

    I have only really had problems for about two years or so, and been on olanzapine for a year in total now. Whenever I had cannabis, I didnt use olanzapine though... and I was fine. My eating was fine, my sleep was fine, my thinking was nice and relaxed and life was great I guess. But now its been 14 weeks nearly with no Cannabis (Two years ago I went without it for a year, it was ok.) and also, no cigarettes, meth (using only one and a half years, thats why im like this probably) or other drugs (pills etc)... and Im on Sodium valproate, a mood stabilizer (Which I havent taken for 3 weeks or so now, and I feel much better without) and Olanzapine, a strong antipsychotic. W…

    Asked by Nath,

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  5. Seasickness

    Hi Team, I get motion sick really easily. If I look down to read a map while in the car I get sick straight away. Even worse on a boat! Anyway, I am about to go a little boat trip! Any suggestions? Does MJ help? Thanks!

    Asked by ffc99,

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  6. Marijuana-derived drug curbs bladder pain

    Marijuana-derived drug curbs bladder pain Author: ANI Date: 28 May, 2006 Source: www.newkerala.com Copyright: 2006

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  7. Documentaries

    Thursday, January 19, 2006 SHOWTIME ANNOUNCES SIX NEW DOCUMENTARY PROGRAMS Released by Showtime SHOWTIME ANNOUNCES SIX NEW DOCUMENTARY PROGRAMS Pasadena, CA January 19th, 2006 – In Showtime's continuing quest to present a slate of relevant and meaningful documentaries, six new documentary programs were announced today by Robert Greenblatt, President of Entertainment. "Documentaries have long been an important part of our programming mix," said Greenblatt. "Last year's doc, AFTER INNOCENCE, which follows the lives of several individuals released from long prison terms after DNA evidence proved their innocence, is currently on the short list of documentaries being con…

    Asked by postman,

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  8. Rallying up & saying it !

    San Barnadino County News Patients rally for medicinal marijuana use Former trauma nurse Alcima Talbott was hit so hard by a patient that her jaw was dislocated, her teeth broken, her neck seriously injured and her brain apparently damaged. Now unable to work because of chronic pain and spasms, she was back in front of her old boss and San Bernardino County supervisors on Tuesday pleading with them to drop their plans to file a lawsuit challenging California's medical-marijuana law. "My (other) choice is to take vicodin, go to bed, get up, take vicodin, go to bed," she told the Board of Supervisors. About a dozen supporters of Proposition 215, California's medi…

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  9. Today Tonight Vs A Current Affair

    I just emailed both Today Tonight and A Current Affair with the hope one of them will run a story on medicinal marijuana... I basically said what brash said about the trial being long over due and a few things like that + i went on to say not only do i smoke for medicinal purposes, im also forced to grow my medicine because there is no government outlet for me to buy it and stuff bought from dealers can be laced with god knows what :thumbsup Shortly after saying that, i said that not only am i willing to appear on national tv to debate a member of the government over the issue, im also willing to admit to growing for my personal medicinal use and all kinds of stuff …

    Asked by WantDaChronic,

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  10. "Pot helped me cope with chemo"

    ETHERIDGE: 'POT HELPED ME COPE WITH CHEMOTHERAPY' Rocker MELISSA ETHERIDGE snorted marijuana fumes as she coped with the side effects of chemotherapy because it was the only thing that comforted her. The singer/songwriter, who is now cancer free after her brush with death, used marijuana to help her cope with the worst of radiation therapy on the advice of doctors - but when smoking the drug made her feel sick, she took to inhaling it. She recalls, "I bought a vaporiser to heat up the herb, which I'd inhale four or five times a day. "Using the pot was the best advice anybody gave me. It relieved most of my symptoms and I got a great deal of comfort from it." Eth…

    Asked by Brash,

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  11. Cannabis for ADD/ADHD

    This is pretty old, but I thought it was interesting. Friends of mine with "ADD" use ganja to keep cool, and they are some of the coolest people I know :smoke Posted by CN Staff on April 23, 2004 at 13:34:28 PT Countdown with Keith Olbermann Source: MSNBC COUNTDOWN is in the home stretch now. Your preview of our No. 1 story, the war on drugs meets the war to get your kids‘ attention. Just say no to ADD and give your kid pot? A doctor explains next. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) OLBERMANN: They are a diagnoses at near epidemic proportions for kids in this country, ADD and ADHD, attention deficit disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Fair or not, they are so…

    Asked by Gush,

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  12. Where to from here?

    As a sufferer of chronic pain and arthritis I've been smoking for a number years and was quite happy with the relief I was getting. Up until early August things were going OK. Had a small personal hydro grow going, new strain of seeds from Xpat to try - then it all turned to shit I got busted! Have never figured out if it was arsehole neighbours or whatever gave it away but Queensland police came knocking on the door with a search warrant and knew exactly what they were looking for. I had one plant going under a 400 HPS and six seedlings about 5cm outside. Arrested my ass and put me through the works -finger printing, DNA swab - treated me like a fucking criminal. Wen…

    Asked by SmokinJarhead,

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  13. Survey of Australians using medical cannabis

    Authors: Wendy Swift, Peter Gates and Paul Dillon Date: October 2005 Source: Centre Lines - A bi-monthly newsletter from the National Centres for Drug and Alcohol Research Copyright: the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre Link: article link - PDF (Abstract - Harm Reduction Journal 2, 18) Survey of Australians using cannabis for medical purposes Wendy Swift, Peter Gates and Paul Dillon Background: The New South Wales State Government recently proposed a trial of the medical use of cannabis. Australians who currently use cannabis medicinally do so illegally and without assurances of quality control. Given the dearth of local information on this issue, this s…

    Asked by Brash,

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  14. Quote on the lethal nature of cannabis

    Here is a little quote from someone on a listserv I'm on - just tickled my fancy "Cannabis, so far as I am aware, will only kill if a heavy weight of cannabis is dropped on my unsuspecting head from a great height."

    Asked by Brash,

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  15. Therapeutic uses of cannabis

    just came across this article and wasn't sure if it had already been posted - it seems to have been posted just two days ago even tho it refers to a 1997 report, so here's the article and the link to it MM http://www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/Content/Thera...nabis+-+%28m%29 BMA - Therapeutic uses of cannabis This 1997 report looks at the scientific evidence for the wider medicinal use of cannabinoids - derivatives of cannabis - for a range of medical problems: nausea and vomiting associated with cancer chemotherapy; muscle spasticity; pain; anorexia; epilepsy; glaucoma; bronchial asthma; mood disorders and psychiatric conditions; hypertension. The report underpins the pol…

    Asked by Mushaman,

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