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Using Medical Marijuana to Treat Autism

NBC - Plenty of parents give their kids chocolate. But this is not your typical chocolate bar. Meiko Hester-Perez is giving her severely autistic 12-year-old son, Joey, chocolate laced with medical marijuana. "It happened to be cannabis for our family," she said....

Use Marijuana Kills Breast Cancer and Reduces Cancer Tumor Growth

Are your prescription medications making you sick? The side-effects from prescription medicine can sometime be worse than the symptoms they are treating. Are receiving chemo-therapy? Is your treatment leaving you nauseous and without appetite? Even the National Cancer...

Smoking Pot Doesn't Harm Brain Function – UCSD Study

Los Angeles -- Smoking marijuana will certainly affect perception, but it does not cause permanent brain damage, researchers from the University of California at San Diego said on Friday in a study. "The findings were kind of a surprise. One might have expected to see...

ADHD And Medicinal Cannabis

Hello, my name is Tommy.  I am a 33 year old man from Norway.  I have ADHD and struggle with chronic panic attacks and generalized anxiety disorder. I am also a front-fighter here in Norway to get cannabis legalized as medication on prescription from your doctor, and...

National Cancer Institute: Effects of Marijuana

Cannabinoids Cannabinoids have a favorable drug safety profile.[1-4] Unlike opioid receptors, cannabinoid receptors are not located in the brainstem areas controlling respiration; therefore, lethal overdoses due to respiratory suppression do not occur. Because...

Marijuana Myths

Marijuana Health Mythology June 1994 by Dale Gieringer, Ph.D. Coordinator, California NORML Myth: Marijuana is a Dangerous Drug Any discussion of marijuana should begin with the fact that there have been numerous official reports and studies, every one of which has...

Medical Marijuana For Rheumatoid Arthritis?

Published June 8, 2011 Steve is a horticulturist of sorts. He raises orchids, Japanese maples, and other plants at his southern Rhode Island home. Tending the plants helps ease his rheumatoid arthritis (RA) pain, he says. But the garden offers more than Zen; he grows...

HEMP vs. MARIJUANA: What's the difference?

Industrial hemp is a variety of cannabis sativa that has a long history of use in the United States. However, since the 1950s it has been lumped into the same category of marijuana, and thus the extremely versatile  crop was doomed in the United States. Industrial...

Grow your own Food, Flowers, and Medicine

Hydroponics is an indoor gardening method using a grow box or grow tent system that produces organic plants, herbs, and vegetables using only grow lights, water, and nutrients. Growing with a hydroponic system is much faster than traditional gardening. Using...

Vermont: Marijuana Laws

SUMMARY: Senate Bill 76 became law without Gov. James Douglas' signature on May 26, 2004. The law takes effect on July 1, 2004. The law removes state-level criminal penalties on the use, possession and cultivation of marijuana by patients diagnosed with a...

Montana: Marijuana Laws

SUMMARY: Sixty-two percent of voters approved Initiative 148 on November 2, 2004. The law took effect that same day. It removes state-level criminal penalties on the use, possession and cultivation of marijuana by patients who possess written documentation from their...

Hawaii: Medical Marijuana Laws

SUMMARY: Governor Ben Cayetano signed Senate Bill 862 into law on June 14, 2000. The law took effect on December 28, 2000. The law removes state-level criminal penalties on the use, possession and cultivation of marijuana by patients who possess a signed statement...

Colorado: Medical Marijuana Laws

SUMMARY: Fifty-four percent of voters approved Amendment 20 on November 7, 2000, which amends the state’s constitution to recognize the medical use of marijuana. The law took effect on June 1, 2001. It removes state-level criminal penalties on the use, possession and...

California: Medical Marijuana Laws

SUMMARY: Fifty-six percent of voters approved Proposition 215 on November 5, 1996. The law took effect the following day. It removes state-level criminal penalties on the use, possession and cultivation of marijuana by patients who possess a "written or oral...

Alaska: Medical Marijuana Laws

SUMMARY: Fifty-eight percent of voters approved Ballot Measure #8 on November 3, 1998. The law took effect on March 4, 1999. It removes state-level criminal penalties on the use, possession and cultivation of marijuana by patients who possess written documentation...

Marinol vs. Marijuana: Politics, Science, and Popular Culture

INTRODUCTION Marijuana has been used as a medicine for millennia by cultures spanning the globe. Ever since 1937, that medical necessity has fallen in America to political pressure, and the cannabis plant remains illegal regardless of intended use. Since then,...