
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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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 Drug Policy Alliance Staff | Published in TruthOut.org New Jersey’s first Alternative Treatment Center is scheduled to open today in Montclair. Greenleaf Compassion Center will see patients by appointment only, beginning at 10:00 a.m. At the moment, the center has scheduled about 20 patients in the order of their initial registration for the program. [...]
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Medical marijuana is now legal in 18 states, but it’s clear we’ve discovered a fraction of its potential for health By Allan Badiner | Published in AlterNet.org There are now legal medical cannabis programs in 18 states plus Washington, DC, with pot fully legal for adults in two other states. Ironically, however, the actual healing [...]
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Published in The Liberty Crier | November 7, 2012 The end of marijuana prohibition planted it’s seeds a long time ago, and sprouted through the ground during the 2012 election season. We still have to reschedule the plant at the federal level but these studies they funded don’t help their case and victory is at hand, [...]
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Audiotape of teleconference briefing with researchers, legal counsel and lawsuit plaintiff now available By Americans For Safe Access | Published in SafeAccessNow.org For the first time in nearly 20 years, a United States Court of Appeals is set to hear oral arguments in a lawsuit challenging the federal government’s classification of marijuana as a dangerous [...]
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Hardly the harmful intoxicant that many once thought it was, cannabis is a nourishing plant that actually improves and prolongs life. The following is an excerpt from MARIJUANA: GATEWAY TO HEALTH—How Cannabis Protects Us from Cancer and Alzheimer’s Disease. By Clint Werner | July 25, 2012 For thousands of years cannabis has been used as [...]
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By Meiko Hester-Perez | Published in Joeysmom.blog.com Friday May 25,2012 Walking into the Autism One conference 2012 held in Lombard, IL with a friendly face by my side. James Gierach Board Chairman-elect of LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) who I had met on my Autism & Cannabis journey 3 years ago while speaking at various medical & drug [...]
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In Part II of our recap at the IACM 6th Conference on Cannabinoids in Medicine and 5th European Workshop on Cannabinoid Research, Naturopathic Doctor Michelle Sexton informs us on the invaluable relationship between person and plant. Program: Part II The eCBss and the Chemical Reactions that Sustain Life Maybe you saw the article recently in Time magazine, from the American Journal [...]
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The story of Joey and his mother, Mieko Perez, is a heart-wrenching one, and as people around the world hear of a little boy who nearly died due to his symptoms of autism, and the depths an Orange County conservative mother of three is doing to save her son’s life, Mieko is finding support from [...]
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