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Federal drug agents launched a wide-ranging crackdown on medical marijuana providers Wednesday, charging a husband and wife in Sacramento and raiding more than 20 San Francisco dispensaries.
Researchers have found that marijuana-like chemicals in the brain help animals and people under extreme stress suppress pain and keep going despite a severe injury.
If hard cases make bad law, as a three-hundred-year-old courthouse saying has it, then the case of Gonzales et al. v. Raich et al. ought to have been easy and good. The case is-or appears to be-about marijuana and illness. On one side is Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, whose et al. consists of the massed power of the United States government. A.G.A.G. et al. take the position that because Cannabis sativa is irredeemably wicked and has no legitimate uses, medical or otherwise, the possession of it, to say nothing of its cultivation, distribution, or sale, is quite properly forbidden by federal law. On the other side is Angel Raich, a thirty-nine-year-old mother of two from Oakland, California.
Earlier this month, the United States Supreme Court ruled that federal drug laws trump policies in ten states that permit medicinal marijuana use.
Solvay SA’s cannabis-based product Marinol should be legalized for treating symptoms of multiple sclerosis, the Swiss Multiple Sclerosis Society said.
Exploring the latest scientific research on the growing evidence of links between cannabis and psychotic illness in young people
THE UK’s only legalised cannabis grower today announced the launch of its first product - in Canada.
Lawmakers on Wednesday voted down a measure that would have barred the federal government from prosecuting patients who use marijuana under doctor’s orders in states with laws that allow the practice.
A Norfolk doctor hit out last night at health authorities for refusing to license a cannabis-based pain relief drug he developed in trials at the James Paget Hospital, Gorleston.
In its finite wisdom, the US Supreme Court upheld the Federal Government’s ban on Medical Marijuana. Screwing all ten states that legalized it and leaving a lot of folks in those ten states with superfluous Glaucoma diagnoses. Now first off, let me clarify: I don’t smoke pot. I don’t. Makes me paranoid. No, I’m serious. I am the author of the paranoid trilogy. “ What is it? Who are they? Why me?” I get the munchies, go in a restaurant, the waitress says “hi” and I go, “Yes, I am. I’m sorry. Don’t tell my Aunt Mary.” But you know what, I don’t drink Wild Turkey any more and yet harbor no desire for that vile liquid to be made illegal either.
There’s been a lot of talk about the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes since last week’s Supreme Court ruling, but can anyone actually tell me with straight face that there is a medical use for marijuana? Didn’t think so, dude.
The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) welcomes the decision of the United States Supreme Court, made on 6 June, reaffirming that the cultivation and use of cannabis, even if it is for “medical” use, should be prohibited.
Whether or not the potential medical benefits of marijuana outweigh the dangers is a long-debated issue and currently a political hot potato.
A cannabis-based medicine which had excited the hopes of many multiple sclerosis patients has been refused a licence.
The Supreme Court did what conservative court-watchers should welcome. It looked the California situation in the face and said: If Congress doesn’t like the law, let Congress change it, but don’t look to the Supreme Court to improvise on the drug laws.
GW Pharmaceuticals Plc (GWP.L: Quote, Profile, Research) has lost an appeal to be allowed to market its cannabis therapy Sativex without having to do additional clinical trials, according to a report published on Monday.
Of course she would never stop using marijuana, Angel Raich told reporters over and over again. “If I stopped,” she said, “I would die.”
To many, the Supreme Court ruling Monday against medical marijuana spelled the end of the movement for compassionate use. Federal laws against it trumped state provisions for it, the justices said, and that was that.
Federal authorities may prosecute sick people whose doctors prescribe marijuana to ease pain, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, concluding that state laws don’t protect users from a federal ban on the drug.
The Cannabis Treatment Service in the Sydney suburb of Parramatta is so successful that it now has the interest of international medical experts. Dr Jon Currie has treated over 400 cannabis-dependant patients at the clinic during a 12-month trial. Withdrawal from cannabis, says Dr Currie, can be “really very difficult - they get angry, irritated, aggressive, so they often just don’t stop”.
Severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia or bi-polar depression could be eased with cannabis, according to new research.
My dad isn’t your typical pot smoker. And while he harbors a healthy skepticism toward the Bush administration, he’s not exactly a political activist. But he is plagued by disease, which his doctors like to call Parkinson’s.
OVER THE PAST 30 or 40 years the various opinions that have been staunchly supported by the political hierarchy, and presumably the doctors who advise them, must have cost many tens of thousands of lives.
