Over 1,600 attendees from 33 countries are gathering in downtown Oakland to demonstrate the successes, the strength, and the spirit of the new wave of psychedelic science and medicine. By Brad Burge | Communications Director, MAPS Psychedelic Science 2013 starts tomorrow. It is a genuinely historic moment. At Psychedelic Science 2013, over 100 of the [...]
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Order a copy of the DVD Today! By Steph Sherer | Executive Director, Americans for Safe Access Americans for Safe Access first ever National Medical Cannabis Unity Conference was a huge success! More than 250 patients, advocates, and others from thirty-four states met in Washington, DC, for three days of education, strategy, and skills building, [...]
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By Phillip Smith | Published in StopTheDrugWar.Org Medical marijuana became legal Monday in the Czech Republic and is now available for sale in pharmacies. Monday was part of the Easter holiday there, so it didn’t actually go on sale until Tuesday. Medical marijuana is available by prescription only and has been approved for people suffering [...]
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By Sunil Aggarwal | Published by Americans for Safe Access I am honored and delighted to be able to publish here a new comprehensive piece written by Dr. Lester Grinspoon, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, entitled “Cannabinopathic Medicine”. Dr. Grinspoon started writing this piece in 2012, when I was privileged to read [...]
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By Lauren E. Bohn | Published in The Huffington Post Moshe Rute survived the Holocaust by hiding in a barn full of chickens. He nearly lost the use of his hands after a stroke two years ago. He became debilitated by recurring nightmares of his childhood following his wife’s death last year. “But after I [...]
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By Ryan Jaslow | Published in CBSNews.com Israeli scientists have reportedly created a new strain of marijuana with a catch: You won’t get high from smoking it. Reuters reports that Galilee-based company Tikun Olam has developed a marijuana strain called Avidekel that can be used medicinally to alleviate nausea, pain and other symptoms doctors may prescribe [...]
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Softer drug laws don’t lead to more users By Tom Edwards | Published in The Sun The study – which looks at countries that have already softened drug laws – comes in the same week Justice Secretary Ken Clarke warned Britain is “plainly losing” the war on narcotic use. In it, places like Portugal and the [...]
Naturopathic Doctor, Michelle Sexton, writes about the IACM 6th Conference on Cannabinoids in Medicine and 5th European Workshop on Cannabinoid Research that took place this September 8-10 at the University of Bonn, Germany. By Dr. Michelle Sexton, ND | September 17, 2011 Inflammation and neuro-excitation flared and were then calmed by the endogenous cannabinoid signaling system (eCBss) recently [...]
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By Phillip Smith | Published in Hawai’i News Daily The Israeli cabinet Sunday gave its approval to medical marijuana guidelines that will govern the supply of marijuana for medical and research purposes. In so doing, it explicitly agreed that marijuana does indeed have medical uses. “The cabinet today approved arrangements and supervision regarding the supply [...]
In the current patchwork of Medical Marijuana laws and regulations across the country, clinical cannabis use is not decided by the military patients’ need for medicine, but rather where they live. This practice is, of course, totally illogical. Realizing that Veterans are not being treated for their injuries properly, is not surprising to me. I [...]
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