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MEDICAL MARIJUANA
Medicinal and Psychotherapeutic Uses of Cannabis Sativa |
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This page presents current news and information on the medical use of marijuana, legislation governing its use, the psychophysical effects of
the medication, and resources for further reading.
We firmly believe that the decision to work with this medicine rests with the individual, notwithstanding legislation to the contrary.
This research page has been prepared in an effort to consolidate authoritative sources of information for current and prospective users.
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Medical Marijuana Application Forms & Info, CANADA
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Selected Reports and Academic Presentations
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FINAL REPORT: CANNABIS: OUR POSITION FOR A CANADIAN PUBLIC POLICY
The Special [Senate] Committee on Illegal Drugs
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RxMarijuana
Lester Grinspoon, M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School and James Bakalar, J.D., Lecturer in Law in the Department of
Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School
Cannabis Studies
Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research (CMCR), University of California
The therapeutic potential of cannabis
Baker, D., Pryce, G., Giovannoni, G., Thompson, A.J.
Lancet Neurology 2003; 2: pp.291-98
The classification of cannabis under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971
Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, Home Office, UK (March 2002)
Medical Marijuana Briefing Paper
Marijuana Policy Project (Revised 01/08)
Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base (1999)
Institute of Medicine
House of Lords (UK) Report on Cannabis for Medical Purposes
(4 Nov 1998)
Exposing Marijuana Myths: A review of the scientific evidence
Lynn Zimmer, Associate Professor of Sociology at Queens College, and John P. Morgan, Professor of Pharmacology at City University Medical School (1995/6/7)
REVIEW OF HUMAN STUDIES ON MEDICAL USE OF MARIJUANA
Dale H. Gieringer, Ph.D. (August 1996) California NORML |
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Medical Marijuana Briefing Paper - 2010
For thousands of years, marijuana has been used to treat a wide variety of ailments. Until 1937, marijuana (Cannabis sativa L.) was
legal in the United States for all purposes. Presently, federal law allows only four Americans to use marijuana as a medicine.

On March 17, 1999, the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine (IOM) concluded that "there are some limited circumstances
in which we recommend smoking marijuana for medical uses. "The IOM report, the result of two years of research that was funded by the White House drug policy
office, analyzed all existing data on marijuana's therapeutic uses. Please see http://www.mpp.org/SCIENCE.

MEDICAL VALUE

Marijuana is one of the safest therapeutically
active substances known. No one has ever died from an overdose, and it has a
wide variety of therapeutic applications, including:
- Relief from nausea and appetite loss;
- Reduction of intraocular (within the eye) pressure;
- Reduction of muscle spasms; and
- Relief from chronic pain.
Marijuana is frequently beneficial in the treatment of the following conditions:

AIDS. Marijuana can reduce the nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite caused by the ailment itself and by various AIDS
medications. Observational research has found that by relieving these side effects, medical marijuana increases the ability of patients to stay on
life-extending treatment. (See also CHRONIC PAIN below.)

HEPATITIS C. As with AIDS, marijuana can relieve the nausea and vomiting caused by treatments for hepatitis C. In a study published
in the September 2006 European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, patients using marijuana were better able to complete their medication regimens,
leading to a 300% improvement in treatment success.

GLAUCOMA. Marijuana can reduce intraocular pressure,
alleviating the pain and slowing—and sometimes stopping — damage to the eyes.
(Glaucoma is the leading cause of blindness in the United States. It damages
vision by increasing eye pressure over time.)

CANCER. Marijuana can stimulate the appetite and
alleviate nausea and vomiting, which are common side effects of chemotherapy
treatment.

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS. Marijuana can limit the muscle
pain and spasticity caused by the disease, as well as relieving tremor and
unsteadiness of gait. (Multiple sclerosis is the leading cause of neurological
disability among young and middle-aged adults in the United States.)

EPILEPSY. Marijuana can prevent epileptic seizures in some patients.

CHRONIC PAIN. Marijuana can alleviate chronic, often debilitating pain caused by myriad disorders and injuries. Since 2007, three
published clinical trials have found that marijuana effectively relieves neuropathic pain (pain cause by nerve injury), a particularly hard to treat type
of pain that afflicts millions suffering from diabetes, HIV/AIDS, multiple sclerosis, and other illnesses.

Each of these applications has been deemed legitimate by at least one court, legislature, and/or government agency in the United States.

Many patients also report that marijuana is useful for treating arthritis, migraine, menstrual cramps, alcohol and opiate addiction, and depression and other debilitating mood disorders.

Marijuana could be helpful for millions of patients in the United States. Nevertheless, other than for the four people with special permission from the federal government, medical marijuana
remains illegal under federal law!

People currently suffering from any of the conditions mentioned above, for whom the legal medical options have proven unsafe or ineffective, have two options:
- Continue to suffer without effective treatment; or
- Illegally obtain marijuana — and risk suffering consequences directly related to its illegality, such as:
- an insufficient supply due to the prohibition-inflated price or scarcity; impure, contaminated, or chemically adulterated marijuana;
- arrests, fines, court costs, property forfeiture, incarceration, probation, and criminal records.
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Warning:
This writer, responsible scientists and doctors advise:
There is no pharmacological free lunch in cannabis or any drug. Negative reactions can result. A small percentage of people
have negative or allergic reactions to marijuana. Heart patients could have problems, even though cannabis generally relieves
stress, dilates the arteries, and in general lowers the diastolic pressure. A small percentage of people get especially high
heart rates and anxieties with cannabis. These persons should not use it. Some bronchial asthma sufferers benefit from
cannabis; however, for others it may serve as an additional irritant.
For the overwhelming majority of people, cannabis has demonstrated literally hundreds of
therapeutic uses... [Read more]
Jack Herer, The Emperor Wears No Clothes, Chapter 7, Therapeutic Use of Cannabis | | |
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This Web site is an excellent resource on the medical use of marijuana, presenting, in an unbiased, primarily pro/con format, responses to the related and core question; "Should marijuana be a medical option now?" Here you can find information on
the medical value and use of marijuana, the medical risks of use, diseases and conditions in which marijuana is used, U.S. government policies and medical marijuana, legal issues, and non-smoked marijuana. There's
also a fascinating section that provides a three-part overview of the history of marijuana as medicine, from 2737 B.C. to the present. |
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Marijuana Vaporizer
Source: MarijuanaVaporizer.com
 Benefits
Vaporizer Study...
Vaporization is a technique for avoiding irritating respiratory toxins in marijuana smoke by heating cannabis to a
temperature where the psychoactive ingredients evaporate without causing combustion.
Laboratory studies by California NORML and MAPS
have found that vaporizers can efficiently deliver cannabinoids while eliminating or drastically reducing other smoke toxins.
Like tobacco, marijuana smoke contains toxins that are known to be hazardous to the respiratory system. Among them are the
highly carcinogenic polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, a prime suspect in cigarette-related cancers. These toxins are
essentially a byproduct of combustion, separate from the pharmaceutically active components of marijuana, known as cannabinoids,
which include THC. Although there is no proof that marijuana smoking causes cancer, chronic pot smokers have been shown to suffer
an elevated risk of bronchitis and respiratory infections. Respiratory disease due to smoking may therefore rightly be regarded
as the primary physiological hazard of marijuana.
Cannabis vaporizers are designed to let users inhale active cannabinoids while avoiding harmful smoke toxins. They do so by
heating cannabis to a temperature of 180 - 200º° C (356º° - 392º° F), just below the point of combustion where smoke is produced.
At this point, THC and other medically active cannabinoids are emitted with little or none of the carcinogenic tars and
noxious gases found in smoke. Many medical marijuana patients who find smoked marijuana highly irritating report effective
relief inhaling through vaporizers. Users who are concerned about the respiratory hazards of smoking are strongly
advised to use vaporizers. Alternative devices, such as waterpipes, have been shown to be ineffective at reducing the
tars in marijuana smoke (Report).
Did you know: ...In Canadian studies it has been shown that marijuana produces 50%
more tar than strong tobacco of the same weight and that marijuana smoke contains 70% more benzopyrene than cigarette smoke.
Smoking two or three marijuana cigarettes a day is estimated to have the same effect on the risk of cancers and on the prevalence
of acute and chronic respiratory symptoms as smoking 20 or more tobacco cigarettes a day. Using a vaporizer negates all of
these effects — besides the ease of use and the innumerable health benefits. (Wu et al 1988; Fehr 1983; Tashkin 1980).
Go to MarijuanaVaporizer.com
In the News: Medical marijuana user opens 'inhalation room'
A Regina man has opened an inhalation room in his hemp store for people who can legally use medical marijuana, but questions
are swirling about its legality... As of Monday, anyone with a stash of legal pot has been able to take it to Foster's Field
of Dreams hemp store east of the downtown. The service is free. Instead of lighting up, Foster's customers will be shown into
a back room where they use an inhaler. The marijuana is inserted into a capsule, a machine blows through heated air and the
vapours are gathered in a plastic bag...
CBC News, 5 March 2007
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