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CMCR STUDIES

Studies Under Review

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Barth Wilsey, M.D.UCSDThe Analgesic Effect of Vaporized Cannabis on Neuropathic Pain in Spinal Cord Injury 

Active Studies

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Mark Wallace, M.D.UCSDEfficacy of Inhaled Cannabis in Diabetic Painful Peripheral Neuropathy 

Completed Studies

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Donald Abrams, M.D.UCSFCannabis for Treatment of HIV-Related Peripheral Neuropathy
Donald Abrams, M.D.UCSFVaporization as a Smokeless Cannabis Delivery System
Jody Corey-Bloom, M.D., Ph.D.UCSDShort-Term Effects of Cannabis Therapy on Spasticity in MS 
Sean Drummond, Ph.D.UCSDSleep and Medicinal Cannabis
Ronald Ellis, M.D., Ph.D.UCSDPlacebo-controlled, Double Blind Trial of Medicinal Cannabis in Painful HIV Neuropathy
Thomas Marcotte, Ph.D.UCSDImpact of Repeated Cannabis Treatments on Driving Abilities
Ian Meng, Ph.D.UCSFMechanisms of Cannabinoid Analgesia
Daniele Piomelli, Ph.D.UCIEffects of Cannabis Therapy on Endogenous Cannabinoids
Rachel Schrier, Ph.D.UCSDEffects of Medicinal Cannabis on CD4 immunity in AIDS
Mark Wallace, M.D.UCSDAnalgesic Efficacy of Smoked Cannabis
Barth Wilsey, M.D.UCDDouble Blind, Placebo Controlled Trial of Smoked Marijuana on Neuropathic Pain

Discontinued Studies

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Donald Abrams, M.D.UCSFCannabis in Combination with Opioids for Cancer Pain: A Pilot Study 
Mark Agius, M.D.UCDCannabis for Spasticity/Tremor in MS: Placebo Controlled Study 
Mark Barad, M.D., Ph.D.UCLACannabinoids in Fear Extinction 
Suzanne Dibble, DNSc, R.N.UCSFTreating Chemotherapy-Induced Delayed Nausea with Cannabinoids 
Dennis Israelski, M.D.San Mateo CountyMMJ for HIV-Associated DSPN: Adherence and Compliance Sub-Study 
Mark Wallace, M.D.UCSD

Analgesic Efficacy of Smoked Cannabis in Refractory Cancer Pain

 

 

http://www.cmcr.ucsd.edu/geninfo/research.htm 

2009-12-02 

Multiple medical marijuana clubs bud in Silicon Valley

The Spartan Daily - Samantha Rivera - 
Montgomery, a patient at the dispensary, said patients previously had to travel to San Francisco, Oakland or Santa Cruz to purchase
their medical marijuana ...
 

San Diego Medical Cannabis activist, and local hero, found not quilty of all herb charges yesterday.

For complete, accurate reporting, on this, his first trial, stay tuned to Herb Folks Dot Org. See our San Diego News, and the

Jovan Jackson Innocent pages for background and breaking news about Answerdam. There may be another trial, if the DA is stupid

enough to pursue him on other charges. 
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2009-11-30 breaking news....

Ruling: Pot allowance should be jury's call

A state appeals court in San Diego has ruled that exactly how much marijuana a medical-marijuana user can legally possess is a question that

jurors should decide, and using limits defined in state law is improper.

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2009-11-27 

From ASA Media Specialist Kris heremes on the ASA Blog – Medical Cannabis: Voices from the Frontlines

“This story would be amusing if it wasn’t so tragic. The Answerdam Alternative Care Collective (AACC) was a medical marijuana dispensary in San Diego.
It was doing the best it could to comply with the law: it was collectively run, it did not make a profit, it verified its member patients, and it paid sales
tax to the State Board of Equalization. So, what was the problem? San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis and the lack of a local ordinance with
which to regulate dispensaries like AACC...”

Read the entire post with links at http://safeaccessnow.org/blog/?p=477 

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2009-11-25 

Patient Pistol-Whipped During Marijuana Robbery | NBC San Diego

A woman buying medical marijuana got between some gunman and their target Wednesday morning.
 
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2009-11-24 Sheba offering patients medical marijuana

Ha'aretz - Dan Even - ‎There, she was able to smoke her marijuana by an open window. Shamai recently finished drafting a formal protocol for administering medical marijuana...

2009-11-24 Irvin Rosenfeld Has Received Over 115000 Joints from the Federal Government

ABC News - Russell Goldman - ‎

‎Ironically, the government that supplies Rosenfeld with medical marijuana has for decades denied the drug's efficacy, penalized those states that legalized ...

2009-11-16 LA City Council panels reject ban on medical marijuana sales

Los Angeles Times - 
Duncan's organization and the Union of Medical Marijuana Patients threatened to sue the city if the council adopted the provision, arguing that the city .

Los Angeles Herb News

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C.A. Revives Prosecution of Marijuana Dispensary

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This landmark case has been in the works for four years, folks. Note the precise wording used "The ruling gives prosecutors a new opportunity to convict Stacy Robert Hochanadel, the founder of CannaHelp, and co-managers and owners James T. Campbell and John R. Bednar on charges of possession of marijuana for sale, transportation of marijuana, and maintaining a business for the purpose of selling marijuana. Hochanadel started the business in 2005.....

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The doctor's union, otherwise known as the American Medical Association, smells money! After all the victims (read patients) they've

complacently ignored these many years, this fairly tame yet important proclamation from the above-the-fray-holier-than-thou-medicos: 

KTLA: AMA Calls For Medical Pot Review, Marie Mortera Reports via video 

http://www.ktla.com/videobeta/watch/?watch=3a716d2a-25c7-471c-b332-772a6... 

* editors note: this could not have come on a better day of the year, however, with so many veteran's coming back maimed, we know

the pills the doctor's push will not suffice, nor will they be always welcomed, by the brave men and women who've given all they have for freedom! 

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2009-11-06  Local rancher goes public with quest to sell medical marijuana Amador Ledger-Dispatch - Scott Thomas Anderson

              Marijuana dispensary permit yanked due to nearby school The Daily Sound - Eric Lindberg 

                     City officials yanked the permit of a recently approved medical marijuana dispensary yesterday after learning that a previously unnoticed county ...
 
2005N-0479 International Drug Scheduling; Convention on Psychotropic Substances; Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs; Butorphanol; …

2009-11-04 Federal prosecutor: Medical marijuana raids won't stop

Raw Story - Daniel Tencer 
Operators of medical marijuana dispensaries in California are quickly learning that, contrary to recent news headlines, federal raids of ...
 
 

 A bit player in L.A.'s medical marijuana theater Los Angeles Times 

  * who the hell is Steve Lopez anyway?

   

2009-11-01
 

Marijuana laws spur small businesses in Oakland, elsewhere Oakland Tribune - Angela Woodall 

Today, medical marijuana sales in California are estimated at $700 million to $2 billion per year. Profits from "canni-businesses" as a whole are ... 
 

Medical marijuana activist Ryan Landers speaks The Sacramento Press - David Watts Barton 

Medical cannabis in California wouldn't be what it is today if it wasn't for Ryan Landers.

 

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If it’s weed, it leads

 “Storefronts selling Valium and Vicodin—some of the drugs most abused by adolescents—are springing up across San Diego County, often within the vicinity of schools and other places kids congregate. Parents tell Channel 7 the prevalence of Walgreens, Vons and Rite Aids in San Diego sends the wrong message to children…”OK, you’d never, ever see this report on television news, but why not? That’s the tack Channel 7’s Mari Payton took in her medical cannabis “investigation” on last night’s 11 p.m. newscast. The sensationalized top story, “Where’s the Weed?” was heavily promoted during commercial breaks and it’s currently splashed, with an image of a youth puffing on a joint, across the front page of the NBC affiliate’s web site.  The piece transposes images of cash and weed with images those shock! bending images of school signs and kids on campus. 

   
weed  

...read the rest of the story by CItyBeat's best!
 
 
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John StosselBill O'Reilly exchange "potshots on Fox News

Oct 23, 2009 ... Anyone who believes that libertarianism is just a far right faction of conservatism would have learned otherwise if they had watched Bill 

Not all happy with Obama medical marijuana policy

October 22, 2:22 PMLibertarian News Examiner
 

obama lied before why listen now?

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2009-10-17 Got pot? Fly from Oakland- SJ Mercury News
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The Wild West of Weed Newsweek 

 
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2009-10-15 

Stephanie Landa: The Yiddisha Maidala 

Nearly three years ago, I drove veteran medical ... To make matters worse, they'd taken an extra hour to release her, ...

 

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Inside The Cannabis Clubs

by Brian Frank newsblaze.com

They can be garish or discrete, spooky converted motels or friendly neighborhood stores. We went behind the one-way glass and got a taste of the underground.

 Comment on this story, by email comment@newsblaze.com or to us at HerbFolks.Info@gmail.com

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Eugene Davidovich sent this email 
As the patients of physicians who recommend the use of marijuana to alleviate symptoms of conditions from which we suffer, who should we believe? Should we be listening to the staggering amount of medical research, our doctors, and trained scientists? Or should we believe the narcotics officers and District Attorneys like Bonnie Dumanis who mindlessly spout “Marijuana has no medical value because I read it in my CNOA handout.”

Will there ever come a time when patient’s rights are respected and health issues are actually resolved by our health officials, rather than overzealous bias driven prosecutors and misguided narcotics officers?
 
Read More and Please Leave your comments!
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October 10, 2009 Most worthless person in LA 

The Los Angeles District Attorney, having solved every other crime problem in the county, has decided to start going after medical marijuana dispensaries. 

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San Diego News
what IS legal ?

This past month has been full of medical herb news. This was a big week, as well. Friday Oktober 8th was a HUGE day in the medical cannabis world, as the state/federal machine chewed up more citizens, and spit them out without regard for basic human compassion

Some, who were raided in San Diego on September 9, 2009, were just robbed of their money and medicine, (like the December 12, 2005 raids), others were jailed, while still others were charged and jailed. A couple caregivers caught the fed's eyes for some reason.

Just know this: these monsters will not stop, more RAIDS are coming, until you decide YOU WILL NOT TAKE IT anymore. All of us together, it starts with you. There were only twenty people or so protesting out in front of the state and federal courthouses in San Diego this week. This is not enough.  

Euphoria is not a crime. No matter what your hopes and dreams are, reality is Herr Dumanis and her SS troops dressed in black. Coming for you! This is not fear-mongering, this is just the way it is. Never bow to the thought police. Resist. Try to remember peace. 

Politicians: We don't need more poorly worded laws, we need justice and compassion!

Respect state laws now!

Another Video of the 9 9 2009 New Berlin Raids courtesy of the network, and MIA

SD District Attorney accountable to nobody

The war on patients has risen to a new level of violence. So we must create new tactics of peace!

We need volunteers to bring as many wheelchair bound patients, seriously ill cannabis patients, and their supporters to the upcoming trials of caregivers in San Diego County.  Who is ready to help 'roll a thousand chairs' onto the scene and STOP THE MADNESS NOW?

Donna Lamberts trial isn't until December, but others  are going on right now in New Berlin.....do you care! Show it, please 

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September 172009; 9:04 a.m.; ... Most people agree the laws governing medical marijuana are vague and confusing. ...

Debating San Diego's 'Hard Line' on Medical Marijuana | KPBS.org

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The picture of the menu is a tribute to a FINE herb spot shut down on 9 9 09 by nazi storm troopers armed to the teeth. A snarling pack of wild dogs sent by Bonnie Demonic to disrupt the peace. God bless the brothers at THC.


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                                           Medical marijuana ban extended

San Diego Union Tribune - Tanya Sierra - ‎Sep 3, 2009

‎OVERVIEW

Background: In July, city officials enacted a 45-day ban on medical marijuana businesses to give them time to figure out how to regulate them.

What's changing: The City Council extended the moratorium for 10 more months, saying the city needs more time to figure out how to proceed.

The future: More community outreach sessions will take place, and the city will monitor an appellate court case in Orange County on the same matter.

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Laguna Woods

June 9th, 2009 | by Don Duncan |

Tonight, I was the guest of Concerned Citizens of Laguna Woods for a community meeting to discuss medical cannabis. Laguna Woods is the only city in Orange County to adopt an ordinance regulating medical cannabis collectives. The city's decision to authorize a storefront patients' association is remarkable because it is the result of a grassroots movement in a city wherethe average resident is 78 years old.


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We don't do traditional politics, but some Herb Folks do, and we respect that. Steve Kubby, for example, is involved with The Shadow Cabinet

Envisioning a Libertarian America

 

vEts cOrner

Future hazy as council considers marijuana ordinance

Gilroy Dispatch - Chris Bone - ‎Oct 8, 2009 ‎Vietnam veteran Richard Diehl recently obtained his medical marijuana card and said nothing compares to cannabis.

"I can get any prescription painkillers ...

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"The California Narcotic Officers Association (CNOA) is hosting a training luncheon on October 8 so that Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley, Los Angeles City Attorney Carmen Trutanich, and local law enforcement can school their colleagues how to close down medical cannabis collectives in the county. Documents obtained by Americans for safe Access (ASA) indicate this is at least the second time the CNOA, a notoriously anti-medical cannabis lobby group, has hosted a training for law enforcement with an ominous goal - "The Eradication of Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in the City of Los Angeles and Los Angeles County."


Read the entire post with links at http://safeaccessnow.org/blog/?p=316


Download the CNOA invitation at http://safeaccessnow.org/downloads/CNOA_flyer_ 9_2009.pdf


Are You going to keep quiet and take this?
    

State OKs petition drive for pot legalization

San Francisco Chronicle - Bob Egelko - ‎Sep 22, 2009

‎Richard Lee, executive director of the medical marijuana dispensary known as Oaksterdam, and Jeff Jones, former director of the Oakland Cannabis Buyers' ...

 

Group still plans to to smoke pot in park during medical marijuana ...

San Jose Mercury News - Genevieve Bookwalter - ‎Sep 24, 2009

‎SANTA CRUZ - City police officers could be in the uncomfortable position of ticketing ill medical marijuana patients on Saturday if ...

9 17 2998 James Stacy and Joe Nunez are in the cage FOR YOU! 

One of two charged under OBAMA's FEDERAL REGIME, in New Berlin, during the 9 9 2009 Assault on Medical Cannabis patients and their caregivers, Movement in Action's James Stacy has been under federal custody with no communication and at one point he could not even be located for two days. Many more are caged in state jails. 

While we are talking FEDS, Joseph Nunez from The Green Kross in Pacific Beach, is also being charged in (San Diego) federal court for three counts, two for distributing controlled substances, and one for "manufacturing" cannabis plants. 

Stay tuned for news and actions related to these herb heroes.

 

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The 2009 911 Reign of Terror

published 9 13 2009 by Examiner.com 

‎Reports continue to come in of federal raids of medical marijuana dispensaries up and down the West Coast.

San Diego has been hardest hit.    

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Sep-13-2009 01:30printcomments Video

Marijuana Author Jack Herer Collapses After Stage Appearance at Portland Hempstalk (VIDEO)

Tim King Salem-News.com
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Archives from May 18 'til Sept 2, 2009 (spring/summer)

State of Herb by State

Medical Pot Dispensary Approved, But Ordinance Still in Limbo

Noozhawk - Giana Magnoli - ‎Sep 3, 2009‎

The Santa Barbara Planning Commission last week approved plans for a medical marijuana ...

Pot Shrinks Tumors; Government Knew in 1974

The term medical marijuana took on dramatic new meaning in February, 2000

when researchers in Madrid announced they had destroyed incurable brain tumors

in rats by injecting them with THC, the active ingredient in cannabis

 
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