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1. 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…

   Asked by grace, August 28, 2008

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2. 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…

   Asked by brick, August 21, 2008

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3. 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…

   Asked by grace, July 1, 2008

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4. 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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5. 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 …

   Asked by grace, August 23, 2008

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6. 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…

   Asked by grace, August 20, 2008

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7. *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.

   Asked by dev0, November 19, 2006

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8. 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…

   Asked by grace, August 3, 2008

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9. 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…

   Asked by Mothball, August 1, 2008

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10. 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, June 24, 2008

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11. 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…

    Asked by grace, June 19, 2008

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12. 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…

    Asked by grace, July 12, 2008

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13. 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…

    Asked by grace, July 10, 2008

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14. 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…

    Asked by grace, June 22, 2008

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15. 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…

    Asked by grace, June 16, 2008

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