Category archives for: Appetite

International Psychedelic Science Conference Returns to California

Follow the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) on FB and Twitter, and use #PsychedelicScience2013 to see up to the minute news.

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 [...]

Cannabinopathic Medicine

Lester Grinspoon

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 [...]

First Medical Marijuana Dispensary Opens in New Jersey

NJ MMJ Program

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. [...]

The Healing Power of Marijuana Has Barely Been Tapped

Cannabinoid Science

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 [...]

Top 10 Cannabis Studies the Government Wished it Had Never Funded

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.

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, [...]

Medical Marijuana Lawsuit Reviewing Scientific Evidence Reaches Federal Court for First Time in Nearly 20 Years

A court date decades in the making will finally arrive October 16, 2012.

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 [...]

How Cannabis Can Protect Us From Cancer and Alzheimer’s

Clint Werner speaking at the MAPS Conference last year.

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 [...]

Joey’s Mom’s Blog

Joey's mom's blog follows and discusses Joey's success with medical cannabis for his Autism

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 [...]

Medical Marijuana and the Chemical Reactions that Sustain Life: “Eat, Sleep, Relax, Forget”

Multiple Sclerosis sufferer and medical cannabis patient Sarah Martin at the Cannabinoid Conference in Bonn, Germany.

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 [...]

Australian Doctor Says on T.V. What Most U.S. Doctors Won’t – Cannabis Can Be Very Good

Mieko Hester-Perez posing with Robin Roberts and Diane Sawyer following her GMA appearance.

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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