Medicinal Marijuana cannabis seeds for medical users

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.

'should return 4 grams of medical marijuana'
Hollisterfreelance.com
Brett Rowland
December 17th 2005

Hollister - A legal battle erupted in the San Benito County Courthouse Thursday when the county's public

defender demanded a court hearing to determine whether the local California Highway Patrol commander broke the law by refusing to return a man's medical marijuana confiscated during an arrest last year. Public Defender Greg La Forge argued before Superior Court Judge Steven Sanders that Hollister-Gilroy CHP Commander Otto Knorr should return 4 grams of medical marijuana, or face the possibility of being held in contempt of court because a judge had already issued a court order mandating the marijuana be returned.But Knorr said that while California recognizes marijuana as a medicine under certain instances, the federal government does not. That is why he cannot return the substance CHP officers confiscated from 28-year-old Eugene Popok, a Los Angeles-area resident, during a traffic stop for speeding on Highway 156 in October of 2004, he said, Full Tale.....

Wroclaw,

Poland: Application of a cannabis-like cream greatly reduces uremic pruritus (mild to severe itching as a result of kidney disease) and xerosis (abnormal dryness of the skin) in patients with end-stage renal failure, according to clinical trial data published this month. Twenty-one hemodialysis patients participated in the trial, performed by Wroclaw, Poland's University of Medicine, Department of Dermatology. All the subjects applied the test cream, which contained endocannabinoids (marijuana-like chemicals produced naturally in humans and animals that bind to the same receptors as do plant-derived cannabinoids such as THC), twice daily for a period of three weeks, Full Itch......

A diabetic woman developed severe mental health problems and died five months after taking part in trials of a

cannabis-based treatment. Rene Anderson, 69, became "confused and intoxicated" three days after starting to take the drug Sativex, an inquest in Sheffield heard yesterday. She was admitted to hospital when her mental state deteriorated. Mrs Anderson, a retired supermarket supervisor, later suffered a series of physical problems, including pneumonia, and died in March last year from acute kidney failure, Full Story......

Nurses back medical marijuana
Jsonline.com/news
Gina Dennik-Champion
December 11th 2005

It is

difficult for nurses to remain silent when patients are denied access to an effective medical treatment. That is why the Wisconsin Nurses Association supports the medical marijuana bill authored by Rep. Gregg Underheim (R-Oshkosh), known as AB 740. In taking this position, we are squarely in the mainstream of the public health community. The American Nurses Association, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Public Health Association and the American Academy of HIV Medicine are just a few of the health care organizations that have acknowledged that marijuana can be a valuable treatment when used under medical supervision, Full Backing............

Washington, DC: "Research into the analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects of cannabis continued to bolster

the case for the medicinal use of marijuana, making the patient pot laws' that have passed in 11 states seem less like a social movement than a legitimate medical trend," states last week's issue of Time Magazine.
The magazine cited a pair of recent studies investigating the use of medicinal cannabinoids. The first, published last month in the journal Rheumatology, found that cannabis extracts reduced pain and inflammation and improved sleep in patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis, More.......

A new wonderdrug that helps people quit smoking and lose weight at the same time could be available within months.Rimonabant taps into the brain circuits which stimulate hunger in cannabis users and blocks them to reduce the appetite for food or tobacco. French firm Sanofi-Synthelabo hope to start marketing the drug early next year and believe it could also help in treating alcoholism and other addictions. Analysts are backing it to become the first blockbuster drug of the 21st century, New Scientist magazine said.

'15 years to life for four ounces of marijuana'
Qcknightnews.com
December 6th 2005

Currently

in New York as well as around the country there are laws that make possession of marijuana a crime. Recently though, there has been a movement in certain states to enact medical marijuana legislation, recognizing that marijuana has some benefits for people suffering from diseases.
Marijuana is often considered a "gateway" drug, one that can lead to using many more harmful drugs. However, there has never been a known case of someone dying from smoking marijuana. Even more, there has been a significant amount of studies that point to marijuana in limited uses being beneficial for certain diseases. These studies point out, correctly, that, Full Gateway....

'4,000 photo identification cards to marijuana'
Abclocal.go.com
December 4th 2005

Riverside County will begin offering up to 4,000 photo identification cards to marijuana users today.
It's the first Southern California County to comply with a state law intended to shield medical marijuana patients from arrests.
However, the cards are being issued at a time when state and federal laws conflict over the use of medical marijuana.
Federal authorities could seize and destroy the illegal crop and arrest growers and consumers -- even in California where medical marijuana use is allowed, Full Identification.....

Disturbing

new evidence of the possible damaging effects of cannabis on mental health have been revealed by researchers. A study in Denmark found that almost half of all patients who were treated for cannabis-induced psychosis went on to develop some form of schizophrenia. And almost a third went on to be diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, the study found. 'Half of people may get depression' The researchers, writing in the British Journal of Psychiatry, said this was in contrast to past studies describing the condition as "harmless". The team from Aarhus University Hospital set out to discover whether cannabis-induced psychotic symptoms were followed by the development of persistent psychotic symptoms. More Depression....

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