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Waiting to Inhale – Marijuana, Medicine And the Law (Full)
Waiting to Inhale – Marijuana, Medicine and the Law (Full)
Waiting to Inhale examines the heated debate over marijuana and its use as medicine in the United States. Sixteen states plus DC have passed legislation to protect patients who use medical m…
Cannabinoid Administration Halts Disease Progression, Decreases Mortality In Primate Version of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
The long-term administration of delta-9-THC, the primary psychoactive compound in marijuana, is associated with decreased mortality in monkeys infected with the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), a primate model of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) disease, according to in vivo experimental trial data published in the June issue of the journal AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses.
Investigators at [...]
Phil Ting Is a Buzz Kill, Talks About Extra Tax on Medical Marijuana – SF Weekly (blog)
Phil Ting Is a Buzz Kill, Talks About Extra Tax on Medical MarijuanaSF Weekly (blog)But when Ting recently took stock of the Bay Area tax scene on medical marijuana, he realized that San Francisco could be bringing in more cash. Every other major Bay A…
US Surgeon General Gives Okay for Needle Exchange Funding
[image:1 align:left caption:true]In a notice dated last Friday, but posted in the Federal Register Wednesday, US Surgeon General Regina Benjamin has determined that needle exchange programs constitute a form of dr…
Rep. Smith Proposes End to State’s Medical Marijuana Program
Rep. Smith proposes end to state's medical marijuana program
awmaker is working to end the state's medical marijuana program. republican representative james smith says medical marijuana sends the wrong messagto children. and as you can gues…
N.J. Senate Passes Bill Allowing Over-the-counter Sale of Syringes
Susan Livio
Both intravenous drug users and diabetics would benefit from a bill the state Senate approved today that would allow pharmacies to sell syringes without a doctor’s prescription.
Public health and drug policy reform advocates ha…
Updated NORML Report Reviews Nearly 200 Studies On The Therapeutic Use Of Cannabis
NORML has recently posted online the fourth edition of its popular and comprehensive booklet, “Emerging Clinical Applications for Cannabis & Cannabinoids: A Review of the Recent Scientific Literature.”
Updated and revised for 2011, this report reviews approximately 200 newly published scientific studies assessing the safety and efficacy of marijuana and its compounds in the treatment [...]
The Real Story On Medical Marijuana
Arizona will vote on medical marijuana this November, and while backers of the initiative insist it’s only for serious illnesses, a look at states with similar laws tells us otherwise.
According to the Billings Gazette, only 3 percent of Montana&…
Israel Eases Medical Marijuana Bottleneck
The Israeli Health Ministry Sunday moved to broaden access to medical marijuana by approving five more doctors to prescribe it, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported. Until now, the ministry had authorized only o…
Doctors Rack Brains Over Pot
Some AIDS patients in Portland hoping to have legal access soon to medical marijuana may be disappointed.
A medical team at the city’s India Street Public Health Center, Maine’s largest HIV practice, notified most of its 170 patients last w…
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