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Medicinal Marijuana, a product having the properties of a medicine made from the dried flower clusters and leaves of the cannabis plant usually smoked or eaten to induce euphoria or to relieve pain. The effects of Medicinal Marijuana vary with its strength and dosage and with the state of mind of the user. Typically, small doses result in a feeling of well-being. The intoxication lasts two to three hours, but accompanying effects on motor control last much longer.

 

'I accept you have a medical condition, however'
Sheffield Star
August 31st 2005:

A man known as Joshua Ja High Priest has been jailed for growing dozens of cannabis plants to treat a painful medical condition. Priest, who has 34 previous drug convictions dating back to the early
1980s, put the leaves in everything from soup to tea in a bid to treat the symptoms of his sickle cell anaemia. Police found 37 plants along with lighting, watering and heating equipment at his flat in Exeter Drive, Broomhall, Sheffield Crown Court heard. Priest, aged 47, who changed his name from Robert Wilson several years ago, later told police he put the drug in tea and soup and even chewed the leave to relieve pain. Sickle cell anaemia causes small blood clots which cause painful episodes called sickle cell pain crises. Jailing Priest for 15 months, Judge Peter Jones said: "I accept you have a
medical condition and you use your yield as medical relief."But you knew what you were doing was wrong and in the past it has led to prison sentences."You are a mature man and you continue to ignore the law and it seems you won't change your ways."

 

'CHP have got their marching orders'
LosAngelestimes.com
August 29th 2005:

The California Highway Patrol has stopped confiscating all medical marijuana during traffic stops, following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June that left intact a state law allowing the drug to be used for medicinal purposes. The policy change was a victory for medical marijuana advocates, namely the Oakland-based Americans for Safe Access, which sued the CHP and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger earlier this year to have the practice stopped. The group's executive director, Steph Sherer, said it would send a "clear message" that patients' rights need to be protected. "Our hope is this will ripple around the state," she said. CHP officers were told in an Aug. 22 bulletin of the new policy, which now allows patients traveling on state highways to have as much as 8 ounces of marijuana if they had a certified user identification card or written approval from a physician. CHP spokesman Lt. Joe Whiteford, who said patrol officers now "have got their marching orders," noted that law enforcement officials were initially confused about how to interpret a U.S. Supreme Court ruling.


'permit for medical marijuana'
Kgw.Oregon.com
August 28th 2005:

Firefighters on Friday found about 100 marijuana plants growing at an evacuated home on Crooks Creek, said Josephine County Undersheriff Brian Anderson. Deputies cut the plants down, but left some on the property after finding a permit for medical marijuana. That was nice of them....

'refuse to acknowledge Proposition 215'
Metroactive.com
Chip McAuley
August 26th 2005:

Beginning in October, when medical marijuana smokers get carded by state and local law enforcement, they won't be arrested. It's all part of a new state-sanctioned pot card program through the Sonoma County Health Department. However, dope smokers can still expect to get thrown away by federal officials who refuse to acknowledge California's Proposition 215, the Compassionate Use Act of 1996, that allows folks to put it in their pipe and smoke it--for medical reasons. The card program seems apt to fuel the flames of the ongoing controversy that has plagued the medicinal marijuana movement. Full Movement............



'contrary to popular belief, and according to'
Theaustralian.com
Adam Cresswell
August 24, 2005

Cannabis has no role in the treatment of acute pain, contrary to popular belief, according to Australian guidelines designed to improve doctors' and patients' "abysmal" knowledge of pain relief options. Although many experts believe cannabis may help relieve chronic (or long-term) pain, the guidelines launched in Sydney yesterday by federal Health Minister Tony Abbott say solid evidence now shows it has little efficacy with acute pain. Acute pain is defined as pain lasting up to two to three weeks after surgery, trauma or a medical condition such as kidney stones. The previous edition of the guidelines by the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and Faculty of Pain Medicine, published in 1999, had no position on the role of cannabis in acute pain. College president Michael Cousins said relief from pain was "a universal human right", but doctors had "abysmal knowledge" of pain treatment and were taught "virtually nothing" about it in medical school. In the entire four-year postgraduate medical course run by Sydney University, just two lectures were devoted to pain management, he said, Full Pain..............

 

'allow a business that is illegal'
San Jose Mercury News
August 23rd 2005:

The city is poised to become the first in the state to shut down a medicinal marijuana clinic, after June's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that authorities may prosecute sick people whose doctors prescribe marijuana to ease pain.The California Healthcare Collective was licensed by the city in October. But earlier this month, a three-member safety committee recommended closing the dispensary through zoning laws.''Do taxpayers really want to allow a business that is illegal

'I'll be speaking out'
Daily Tribune
Michael P. McConnell
August 22nd 2005:

Ferndale> Police Chief Michael Kitchen is against a proposed city ballot issue to legalize marijuana use for medical use and says he will campaign against it."I'll be speaking out," Kitchen said. "There is no such thing as medical marijuana. It's a myth and the American Medical Association and other groups say cannibus is a dangerous drug and a public health concern." However, other medical organizations such as the New England Journal of Medicine and the American Nurses Association support legalizing marijuana for medical use.The city clerk has certified petitions submitted by 19-year-old resident Donal O'Leary III, seeking to put the question on the November ballot. O'Leary, a University of Michigan student, has worked. Full Speak.....

 

'the robbers forced the employees inside'
Sanluisobispo.com
August 21st 2005:

San Leandro> Calif. - Police searched Saturday for three suspects involved in a robbery that erupted in gunfire at a medical marijuana dispensary, leaving one of the gunmen fatally injured.
The shootout occurred shortly after 11:30 a.m. Friday as employees and the store owner were preparing to open Natural Source and were met by five gunmen armed with semi-automatic rifles. The robbers forced the employees inside, then began taking marijuana and cash, said Lt. Dale Amaral of the Alameda County Sheriff's Department. Authorities said the suspects forced the store owner to open the safe, More.........

Cities follow pot ban trend
Insidebayarea.com
Matt Carter
August 19th 2005:


Pleasanton and Dublin jumped on the bandwagon Tuesday, joining other cities that have passed temporary bans on medical marijuana dispensaries. The 45-day moratoriums unanimously approved by the Dublin and Pleasanton city councils can be extended twice, for an additional 22 months total.
The moratoriums give the cities legal standing to deny pot clubs permission to set up shop, while officials draft rules either prohibiting the establishments or governing their siting and operation.
Some medical marijuana advocates have complained that cities have used such moratoriums to put off deciding whether dispensaries will be allowed. Full Trend.....


Medical Marijuana and the Supreme Court
Susan Okie, M.D.
August 18th 2005:

Angel McClary Raich, a California woman at the center of the recent Supreme Court case on medical marijuana, hasn't changed her treatment regimen since the Court ruled in June that patients who take the drug in states where its medicinal use is legal are not shielded from federal prosecution. A thin woman with long, dark hair and an intense gaze, Raich takes marijuana, or cannabis as she prefers to call it, about every two waking hours — by smoking it, by inhaling it as a vapor, by eating it in foods, or by applying it topically as a balm. She says that it relieves her chronic pain and boosts her appetite, preventing her from becoming emaciated because of a mysterious wasting syndrome. Raich and her doctor maintain that without access to the eight or nine pounds of privately grown cannabis that she consumes each year, she would die. Full Death....

 

'as for the matter of medical marijuana'
Vancouver Sun
Ward Perrin
August17th 2005:

Marc Emery, arrested July 29 in Halifax, faces the possibility of life imprisonment in the U.S. for selling marijuana seeds over the Internet. Federal Justice Minister Irwin Cotler played the Artful Dodger with me Monday on marijuana law reform and whether it was right to allow the Americans to begin extradition proceedings against Marc Emery for selling pot seeds. After he skirted questions from the audience on the issues at the Canadian Bar Association's meeting at the Trade and Convention Centre, I tried to pin him down on why the Yanks were allowed to grab Emery when the health ministry of his own government was quietly referring licensed medical patients to him. I came away with the feeling that Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Anne McLellan, an American hawk and rabid anti-pot crusader, is writing his responses. Cotler all but disavowed the bill soon to be debated in the Commons that will change the range of sentences judges can impose for marijuana offences -- giving them a kind of ticketing option for simple possession charges and lifetime prison terms for distribution and production offences. He fobbed responsibility onto the parliamentary committee that produced it, as if it were a bad smell. "As for the matter of medical marijuana, that's the jurisdiction of the health minister."
Anyone who thought this former law professor was going to usher in an era of reform in the criminal prohibition against pot should read the writing on the wall. Cotler repeated the mantra of the U.S. anti-drug warriors that marijuana is far from harmless and he mentioned it in the same breath as crystal meth> twice.

"Cannabinoids, which we make ourselves'
Dr. Karen Wright
August 13th 2005:

New York (AHN) - Cannabis based drugs have the potential to treat inflammatory bowel diseases like Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, UK researchers report. "The system that responds to cannabis in the brain is present and functioning in the lining of the gut," lead researcher Dr. Karen Wright, of the University of Bath, explained to Reuters Health. "There is an increased presence of one component of this system during inflammatory bowel diseases," she explained.
Dr. Wright and her staff report their findings in the journal, Gastroenterology. "Cannabinoids, which we make ourselves, as well as synthetic cannabinoids, can promote wound healing in the gut, which is extremely interesting given that inflammatory bowel disease involves damaged gut linings," Wright said. Although results are available yet, she added, relevant studies of the use of cannabinoids are taking place in the UK and a clinical trial is being conducted in Germany.

'marijuana health policy still a puzzle'
Sacbee.com
M.S. Enkoji
August 10th 2005:

In Hayward, city leaders and a medical pot dispensary craft a formula that works. On the main drag, storefronts lining the sidewalk proffer dining and nail polishing, but the one with the Holstein cow knickknacks perched in the window, with locked doors and no sign or advertising is drawing a steady lunchtime stream. Curtained from the view of passers-by, the Hayward Patient Resource Center is not broadcasting its primary business of selling medical marijuana. Men and women, young and old, stride up purposefully to press the doorbell, waiting with papers in hand for the curtain to draw back, the locks to click open, Full Puzzle.....

'threaten residents welfare and safety'
themilpitaspost.com
Ian Bauer
August 5th 2005:

Anyone looking to open and operate a medical marijuana dispensary in Milpitas should look elsewhere. Milpitas City Council voted 4-1 Tuesday to adopt a 45-day "urgency ordinance" moratorium to stop such businesses from locating in Milpitas. Councilwoman Althea Polanski dissented. Other council members, however, agreed establishment of medical marijuana clinics here would likely increase crime and threaten residents' welfare and safety. Mayor Jose Esteves said "the negative secondary impact" of medical marijuana clubs was something the city "cannot afford."Esteves cited social ills like "increased street dealing," intoxicated drivers and "impacts to neighboring businesses" that would likely occur if medical marijuana clubs materialized here. The mayor also suggested the city's diminished police services would not handle any increase in crime. Full Threat..........


Cannabis medicine tests pot's potential
Sptimes.com
Susan Taylor Martin
August 3rd 2005:

Canada's approval of a cannabis-based medicine has people wondering what would be possible if a stigma could be removed. Burlington Ontario> Since she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis 13 years ago, Alison Myrden has suffered from pain so intense it feels like "lightning going off in my face." To reduce her agony, Myrden, 41, has long taken dozens of prescription pills a day, including the powerful Dilaudin. Now, though, she has a new weapon in her arsenal: Sativex, billed as the world's first cannabis-based drug. "I think it has good potential," says Myrden, squirting Sativex into her mouth from a small sprayer. "It's really fabulous that the government has taken marijuana seriously and is making a medicine of it." Full Potential.........

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