[Michaelangelica]

"First do no harm"- the hippocratic Oath have doctors become such pawns to the drug companies that they have forgotten this???

Disabled man fights for his marijuana
Charles Monson, a quadriplegic, had his home raided and his medicinal marijuana seized at gunpoint. TAKE OUR POLL.
By EUGENE W. FIELDS
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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ORANGE – A swimming accident three decades ago at Newport Beach left Charles Monson paralyzed.

A drug raid at his home about a year ago left Monson without the marijuana he says he needs. The raid has left him depending on a medical marijuana dispensary in Orange that was also raided. Fighting to stay in business, the small store-front dispensary has helped Monson deal with his pain.

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Monson, 45, was paralyzed in 1979 when he and a friend decided to go for a swim. "I dove under a wave, hit a shallow spot and broke my neck," Monson recalls. "I was paralyzed instantly and was floating face-down."

News: Disabled man fights for his marijuana | monson, says, marijuana, police, adams - OCRegister.com
PS
I just looked at the poll results on above site
Should marijuana be legal?

Yes, but only for medicinal purposes.
19%
No, it should be illegal in all instances.
10%
It should be legal, like alcohol.
71%

Total Votes: 2735

[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by Michaelangelica

YOUR DOCTOR HAS NO RIGHT TO DO THIS
This is breaking patient/doctor confidentiality
Surely opiates are more problematical than MJ especially with the new delivery devices so you don't have to smoke it (better still make MJ Chocolate!)?

"First do no harm"- the hippocratic Oath have doctors become such pawns to the drug companies that they have forgotten this???

Find a new doctor.
Is there a specialised Pain Clinic anywhere near?
There are a least two within 1 1/ 2 hs drive from me.

I have some little knowledge of herbal pain relief if you email me privately I will try and help.


News: Disabled man fights for his marijuana | monson, says, marijuana, police, adams - OCRegister.com
PS
I just looked at the poll results on above site
Should marijuana be legal?

edited due to contents being used as ridicule

[Michaelangelica]

Do you live in a democracy?

[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by Michaelangelica

Do you live in a democracy?

Technically I think It's a Republic

[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by C1ay

Wow, you get parcels via email? Where do they come out of the computer at? .

You don't have one of those little doors on the side that things come out of?

[Michaelangelica]

Feature: Future Doctors Support Medical Marijuana

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from Drug War Chronicle, Issue #541, 6/27/08

The Medical Student Section (MSS) of the American Medical Association (AMA) unanimously 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.
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With some 50,000 members, the MSS is the largest and most influential organization of medical students in the US. The other major medical student group in the county, the American Medical Student Association (AMSA), which split from the AMA in the heady days of the 1960s to pursue a more socially activist agenda, endorsed rescheduling marijuana in 1993 and assed its own resolution endorsing clinical research on medical marijuana in 1999. (AMSA claims 68,000 members, but also includes pre-med students.)

Those two organizations join a growing list of medical groupings supporting medical marijuana, including the AIDS Action Council, the Alaska Nurses Association, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Nurses Association, the American Preventive Medical Association, the American Public Health Association, the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, the California Academy of Family Physicians, the California Medical Association, the California Pharmacists Association, the Connecticut Nurses Association, Cure AIDS Now, the Florida Medical Association, the Los Angeles County AIDS Commission, the Lymphoma Foundation of America, the Medical Society of the State of New York, the National Association for Public Health Policy, the National Association of People with AIDS, the National Nurses Society on Addictions, the New England Journal of Medicine, the New Mexico Medical Society, Physicians for Social Responsiblity, the San Francisco Medical Society, the Virginia Nurses Society on Addictions, the Wisconsin Public Health Association, and state nurses associations in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin, according to the medical marijuana education and advocacy group Patients Out of Time.

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[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by Moontanman

You don't have one of those little doors on the side that things come out of?

Everone has one on the newest machines.
It is just below the coffee cup holder.

From a more enlightened age


Are the active ingredients of cannabis dissolved in alcohol? - or only oil/fats?

[Moontanman]

Here is a new link on pain relief.

Marijuana May Be Effective For Neuropathic Pain

[Michaelangelica]

Great Article well written and worth a read.

For healthy folk who think of marijuana as getting stoned, "medical marijuana" may sound like a doper's deception. Hiatt shakes his head. His clients are in their 40s, 50s and 60s. Typically, they are on disability. Many have cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's disease or Crohn's disease.

AIDS patients are using marijuana to control nausea, so they don't vomit up the 40-odd pills they have to take every day. In 2000, when a judge forbade writer and AIDS patient Peter McWilliams from using marijuana, he threw up his "AIDS cocktail," choked on his vomit and died.

The word "cocktail," makes Hiatt bristle. "It's not a damned cocktail. This is chemotherapy for life."

McWilliams had been ordered to use Marinol, a drug with one of marijuana's active ingredients. Hiatt says he has a client right now ordered by a judge to use Marinol.

"It makes my client really stoned, and he doesn't want that," Hiatt says. "It's expensive. It costs $10 to $20 a pill. Why use it when you can grow a house plant?"

Hiatt's typical client is one, like Martinez, with chronic pain. Says Hiatt, "Their doctor puts them on OxyContin, morphine, one of the opiates. Their brain is in a fog because of the opiates. They're constipated. They're miserable. They say, 'I lost my life.' Then they try marijuana. It allows them to cut their opiate dose in half. Some of them eliminate it. They feel better. Their mind is clearer. They're not constipated anymore."

"I've heard that story five hundred times," Hiatt says. "Because it works."

Hiatt estimates there are 25,000 medical-marijuana patients in Washington. The state law says they can have a 60-day supply, but since 1998 it has been up to local officials to say what that is.

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[Michaelangelica]

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