It’s as if they plucked this straight out of people’s fondest dreams and turned it into a reality. From Canada’s CBC News: A Vancouver pizzeria is serving up slices with an extra special ingredient — if you’re over 18 and have been prescribed marijuana by a doctor. Anthony Risling explains that at Mega iLL, on […]
Category: Medical Marijuana
Study Suggests Marijuana Could Prevent The Spread Of HIV
Should weed be part of AIDS prevention? Daily marijuana use by the HIV-positive could block them from infecting others, the Daily Beast reports: The study itself was fairly simple. For 17 months, Dr. Molina and her team at Louisiana State University administered a high concentration of THC to 4-to-6-year-old male rhesus monkeys who were RIV-positive […]
Study Says Suicide Rate Will Fall Significantly In States With Legalized Marijuana
Apparently legalizing weed saves lives, the New Republic reports: The American Journal of Public Health has just published a study suggesting that states that legalize medical marijuana can expect a reduction in suicide rates. A team of economists looked at state-by-state statistics on suicide rates over a 17-year period, from 1990 to 2007, comparing data […]
Medical Marijuana Becoming Legal In New York
Those New Yorkers who remember the Rockefeller drug laws may be amazed to learn that Governor Andrew Cuomo is about to sign an executive order that will permit medical marijuana in New York State. The New York Times has the details: Joining a growing group of states that have loosened restrictions on marijuana, Gov. Andrew […]
Canadian Mountie Fights For Right To Smoke Marijuana While In Uniform
Just another instance in which the U.S. police need to a page from Canada’s royal mounties. The BBC reports: A Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer has been told he can’t smoke marijuana while in uniform. Cpl Ronald Francis, an officer with more than 20 years’ service in the eastern province of New Brunswick, has a […]
Canadians Can Grow Tobacco for Personal Use; We Should Be Able to Do the Same with Cannabis
via chycho Knowing full well the devastating consequences of America’s War on Drugs, the very same day that Washington State and Colorado legalized the recreational use of Cannabis, the Harper Government introduced “tough new mandatory minimum sentences for marijuana” – a change in the law that even the judiciary is resisting. The government followed-up this […]
How Weed Works
K.M. Cholewa explains the chemistry behind medical marijuana that got Sanjay Gupta and others to finally believe, for Salon: Last week, CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta grabbed headlines for coming out in support of the validity of the medical use of marijuana, something he had opposed in the past. What changed his mind? Science. Here’s what […]
The Federal Medical Marijuana Patent
Now, I have read extensively about the War on Drugs, the history of drugs, the science, the legal policy–and even the government weed grown at the University of Mississippi!–but this is the first I have read about a patent on medical marijuana as a neuroprotectant, which is held by the United States Department of Health […]
Dr. Sanjay Gupta Endorses Marijuana Use*
The TV doctor has very publicly changed his tune on the benefits of weed (the asterisk in the title is of course because he’s only advocating medical use of marijuana, not recreational). From CNN: Over the last year, I have been working on a new documentary called “Weed.” The title “Weed” may sound cavalier, but the […]
Illinois Governor Signs Medical Marijuana Bill Into Law
Illinois governor Pat Quinn signed a medical marijuana bill into law. That’s twenty states down, thirty more to go. Via Think Progress: Once the law goes into effect January 1, it will permit marijuana use with a doctor’s prescription for more than 30 specified ailments; require users, growers, and dispensaries to undergo fingerprinting and criminal […]