While using, selling or growing marijuana is illegal in Germany, chronically ill patients will now be able to grow their own medicine without the threat of criminal punishment. A recent ruling from the administrative court in Cologne declared that certain pain sufferers may cultivate cannabis after five patients filed suits …
Although there have been major milestones in the political realm of cannabis legislation, there are still many patients throughout the country that are routinely denied access to non-pharmaceutical medication to help relieve their symptoms. Less than half of the states in the U.S. have approved the use of medical marijuana …
By Michael S. Rothman Cannabis has long been considered less harmful and less addictive than other legal substances like alcohol or tobacco. The plant offers a host of valuable medical benefits such as help in treating cancer, HIV, seizures and more. Science Daily has reported that marijuana’s active ingredient (THC) is less toxic …
How Cannabis Acts as a Substitute for Alcohol and a Cure for Alcoholism 0 By O’Shaughnessy’s Online on June 19, 2014 Features, Health & Medicine The name of Tod Mikuriya, MD (1935-2007), may be unfamiliar to many people who have recently gotten interested medical marijuana —joined the movement, in a sense. Tod …
Pain Clinics Test Patients for Marijuana Use By Dale Gieringer, California NORML From O’Shaughnessy’s, Reprint Summer 2009 Like many medical marijuana users, Kristin Redeen needed additional prescription medications for her severe chronic pain. For seven years she had been treated at a private pain clinic in the Central Valley, where …
2014 UPDATE- FINAL SUBMITTED WORDING BELOW Revisions between 2012 and 2014
by Erik Altieri, NORML Communications Director April 5, 2013 –