[Michaelangelica]

Minnesota Senate approves, House to hear bill to allow medical marijuana
Nina Petersen-Perlman Duluth News Tribune
Published Friday, April 18, 2008
K.K. Forss lives every day with pain so excruciating that a cocktail of a dozen or so medications fails to relieve it, pain so unrelenting he rarely sleeps and can hardly bear to move, pain so agonizing that at the best of times he registers a “6” on doctors’ one-to-10 scale.

The 41-year-old Ely man has tried every treatment doctors have prescribed him in the four years since he woke up with a ruptured disc in his neck: surgery, spinal cord injections, acupuncture, chiropractics and counseling, but nothing has given him relief.

The one thing he has tried that has made the pain more manageable, allowed him to sleep and controlled the nausea brought on by his medications, Forss said, is marijuana.

Duluth News Tribune

[Moontanman]

Check this out!

Marijuana, Genes, Medicines And Brain Scans Help Scientists Find Better Anxiety Treatments

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New MJ study says MJ users no worse than tobacco or alcohol users.

Middle Class Relaxing With Marijuana

[Michaelangelica]

Very interesting research
Will the valium makers ever give up their market stranglehold[?QUOTE]Specifically, Phan and his colleagues will look for variations ("functional polymorphisms") among several genes in individual subjects. Key among them is the gene (5-HTTLPR) that encodes the serotonin transporter protein that transports the neurotransmitter serotonin in and out of brain cells. Serotonin has long been known to be involved in depression and anxiety, and indeed most modern antidepressant and anti-anxiety drugs (such as SSRIs) work on this transporter.[/quote]

This seems sane

"The Canadian government has never provided a valid reason for the criminalization of marijuana," said Osborne. "This study indicates that people who use marijuana are no more a criminal threat to society than are alcohol and cigarette users.

[Michaelangelica]

Very interesting research
Will the valium makers ever give up their market stranglehold?

Specifically, Phan and his colleagues will look for variations ("functional polymorphisms") among several genes in individual subjects. Key among them is the gene (5-HTTLPR) that encodes the serotonin transporter protein that transports the neurotransmitter serotonin in and out of brain cells. Serotonin has long been known to be involved in depression and anxiety, and indeed most modern antidepressant and anti-anxiety drugs (such as SSRIs) work on this transporter.

This seems sane

"The Canadian government has never provided a valid reason for the criminalization of marijuana," said Osborne. "This study indicates that people who use marijuana are no more a criminal threat to society than are alcohol and cigarette users.

[DougF]

our governments seam to be running around with blinders on, we don't have enough monies to feed the poor but they will send you to prison for years for a joint. I think they should wake up and spend this money where it is needed.

[Moontanman]

Fear of drugs is just one more way the government uses fear and the religious right to both control and justify that control over the masses. The idea behind both government and religion is that regular people cannot have control and have to be made to fear either pain after death or imprisonment now. Fear has always been a tool of the powerful over the powerless. Things like MJ are too easy to grow for the powers that be to control so they are illegal while the drug companies try to duplicate the effect of MJ in a patentable form so they can make money. To quote UncleAl, Crap Crap Crap, it's all crap!

[Michaelangelica]

arijuana Haven Feels Heat in Backlash Against Medical Pot
Posted by Ron Winslow

If there is such thing as a safe haven for marijuana farmers it is Mendocino County, Calif., home to a flourishing green-leaf economy that emerged in the past decade to supply patients who are legally prescribed the weed for medical uses.
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A marijuana bud on a plant grown by George and Jean Hanamoto in Mendocino County, Calif. Hanamoto, 74, uses marijuana to relieve glaucoma and back pain.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

But now, amid concerns the local marijuana culture is cultivating big business in illegal markets and otherwise disrupting the region’s commerce, residents are pushing back, the New York Times reports. They voted on a proposition last week to restrict how much marijuana patients may keep in their possession. The move reflects action in other communities across the state, where voters have banned or put restrictions on the marijuana clubs that have sprouted up to fill pot prescriptions.

Health Blog : Marijuana Haven Feels Heat in Backlash Against Medical Pot

[Michaelangelica]

New York
New York Patients Announce Medical Marijuana TV Ad Campaign

June 3, 2008

ALBANY, NEW YORK — Hoping to build support in Albany for legislation to protect seriously ill New Yorkers from arrest for using doctor-recommended medical marijuana, patients at a press conference today unveiled a new TV ad that begins airing today across the state. The bill has passed the Assembly, but has not been acted on in the state Senate.

The ad – available at mpp.org/NYads and YouTube - New York medical marijuana ad – features Kingston resident Burton Aldrich, a quadriplegic who relies on medical marijuana to control the excruciating pain and violent spasms related to his condition. In the ad, Aldrich says, "I don't know if I would be around if it wasn't for marijuana."

"I use medical marijuana with my doctors' support because I can't find anything that works as well with as few side effects," Aldrich said. "I have no choice but to break the law in order to find relief. That's wrong. I'm counting on the Senate to do the sensible, compassionate thing and make it right."

New York Patients Announce Medical Marijuana TV Ad Campaign

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Originally Posted by Michaelangelica

New York Patients Announce Medical Marijuana TV Ad Campaign

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