Cannabis is Medicine

 
 
2010-03-10 
www.cannabisasmedicine.com
A systematic review conducted by The Global Neuroscience Initiative Foundation found that five of six controlled trials reported a reduction in spasticity and an improvement in mobility amongst multiple sclerosis patients using cannabis extracts.
 
 
 

2010-03-02 Donna Lambert TAX IT LIKE TOMATOES! That is my new slogan. How about it?

Grow as much as you want in your own house or yard. If you want to sell it commercially, then

you pay taxes. That way, marijuana will become what it should be and that is FREE!

 

  

 Proven medical remedy must be more accessible

 Honolulu Star-Bulletin - ‎Feb 20, 2010‎
 More than 5700 patients in Hawaii have registered with the state to use medical marijuana.
 However, while California has been trying to cope with nearly ...
   

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2010-02-11 HerbFolks.org A young man sent in this link today, which made our hearts glad. And Sad.

The young fella has grown up in a world of lies. 22 years old, If we all don't come together and wage

peace (the other way doesn't work, don't you get it?), then he will have to wage war, for what? He

will have to be a virtual slave to the governments and armies of the world bent on domination, driven

by corporate interests. The herb folks here in New Berlin (the county formerly known as San Diego),

offer two solutions. First, you must own this problem. Its not someone else's, you inherited it, you

fix it. Second, watch this video, and ask yourself if you have a better solution than the Thousand Chairs

Rolling movement. Then get down on your knees and pray god give us the strength to do what we must

do. After that, get up off your knees and make it happen, herb lovers, peace lovers.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9077214414651731007&ei=36xzS-6vPKPgrQLMh6XuBw&q=cannabis+truth&hl=en&view=3&dur=3# 

 * the brother said this is the best video on how we got here, how we lost access to the magic plant cannabis. The youth of this country are wiser than you think!

2010-02-03 Laguna Woods committee wants ban on medical marijuana

OCRegister - Claire Webb - 
The Garden Center Advisory Group voted to recommend that GRF, which oversees common areas in the community, ban medical marijuana growth in Laguna Woods
 
 
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Do you need a license to buy alcohol or cigarettes? Drunk driving & cigarettes kill people, not pot. Nobody has ever died from cannabis. 1500 people in America die from tobacco daily.

It's all about politics. Legal or not people are going to do it so they might as well tax and control it. it's the hard drugs and prescription drugs they have to go after. Drug companies run the media just count the TV commercials that ends with "ask your doctor"

Wake up, if you are really free, why do the drug and tobacco companies run our society? Because you let them. The doctor's union (otherwise known as the AMA) makes money from

the stuff they sling at liquor stores, indeed in your supermarkets, but you can't see the connection? Wake up your friends and family if indeed you 'get it'.

WAGE PEACE NOW! 

 
Dying to get high?

Dying to Get High: Marijuana as Medicine is an important and accessible book -- not heavy on academic jargon, but rather lively and engaging, like a true detective novel --

with a broad appeal to those interested in the medical potential of cannabis, an end to the drug war and grass roots activism. I asked the co-authors, Wendy Chapkis and Richard Webb, 

how working on the book changed them. WENDY CHAPKIS: "I certainly was one of those people who thought that 'medical marijuana' was probably mostly a way for Americans to get around

ridiculously punitive drug laws. It seemed like a reasonable strategy to me. But the very first time I walked into a WAMM [WoMen's Alliance for Medical Marijuana] membership meeting, looked 

around the room and saw people who were ghostly white and frail, people in wheelchairs, people huddled in small groups talking about a WAMM member who needed round the clock care,

I realized that medical marijuana was no 'ruse.' These were very ill people. And, as I started doing interviews, the stories of the medicinal properties of pot blew me away.

"I wasn't the only one surprised to discover that marijuana did in fact have therapeutic effects. Many patients were equally astonished. Like me, they had been recreational 

users who appreciated the pleasurable effects of marijuana and were suspicious of the claim that the herb was medicine. Then they started chemotherapy, for example,

found themselves fighting off non-stop nausea, took a hit and the nausea disappeared. Or they had intolerable nerve pain from multiple sclerosis, AIDS or post-

polio syndrome, used some cannabis tincture and the pain quieted down. It was funny how surprised we all were that it really worked.

"I think this shows how effective drug-war propaganda really is. Even (or maybe especially) people who are very familiar with marijuana are prepared to believe 

that it doesn't really work as a medicine.  Of course, since the discovery of the cannabinoid receptor system in the body (and the production of endogenous cannabinoids),

scientists haven't been at all surprised at the medical properties of the plant -- which I guess helps explain why the feds have been so reluctant to allow any scientific research.


"In any case, this research really transformed my understanding of the effects of cannabis -- including enriching my understanding of the therapeutic effects of the so-

called 'high.' The chapter on the high is one of my favorites because I think even the medical marijuana movement tends to downplay the psychoactive properties of the drug.

They talk a lot about relief of ocular pressure, anti-nausea properties and the effect of cannabis on AIDS-wasting and relief of neuropathic pain, but there is very little

discussion of the ways in which the psychoactive effects contribute to a sense of wellness for those who

are seriously ill. And that is no small thing. "RICHARD WEBB: "Working with the WAMM has, indeed, been a transformative experience. I have learned a great deal,

and formed some of the most cherished and important relationships of my lifetime, but perhaps the most profound change for me has been the development of a 

new awareness of the importance of compassion and forgiveness. Two events epitomize the many experiences that led to this change.


"The Gay Pride festival in San Francisco has been one of WAMM's most successful annual fundraising events. One year, I was working T-

shirt sales, and when I turned my back for a moment, someone in the crowd stole a pile of shirts. Angry at the perpetrators and embarrassed about my carelessness, 

I told Valerie Corral, WAMM's executive director, about it, and all she said was, 'Well, let's hope they get a good price for them, because they must need the money 

very badly." Val's forgiveness was like an epiphany, a moment I will never forget. It was as if a lifetime of blame and resentment had been lifted from my heart, and 

I became suddenly aware of the deep suffering that drives some people to behave badly.

"When I began my research on WAMM, one of the first people I got close to was an HIV patient named John Taylor. As a result of his illness, John was desperately poor 

and physically debilitated, but he retained a sense of humor and joie de vivre that made him a pleasure to be around. We eventually became best friends, and when at last

 John's struggle against the disease became futile, I turned my living room into a hospice facility and, with the assistance of many WAMM members -- most of whom were

 trying to manage their own devastating ailments -- I was able to provide John with a safe and comfortable place to live out his final ten weeks.

"These experiences, and many others of a similar nature, have almost completely altered my view of the world, my sense of who I am, and my beliefs about what 

is most important in life. "Meanwhile, Barack Obama promises he would curb federal enforcement on state medical marijuana suppliers. John McCain has actually

ridiculed patients who pleaded for more compassionate policies.

God Bless Eddy Lepp

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