On the first day of a National Medical Cannabis Unity Conference, an accredited cannabinoid education program will offer a CRE to healthcare professionals. By Americans for Safe Access | January 25, 2013 At 2 pm on Friday, February 22, 2013 an accredited cannabinoid education program called “Cannabis in Medicine: A Primer for Health Care Professionals” [...]
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(Editor’s Note: Studies done with smoked cannabis ingestion methods may have different results from non-smoked ingestion methods) By Jeanie Lerche Davis | Published in WebMD Health News Cannabis may offer hope to people with autoimmune disorders such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. Cannabis seems to decrease inflammation in the body by suppressing certain parts of the immune system. Researchers are hoping [...]
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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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By Letitia Pepper | July 20, 2011 The federal government continues to persecute people for using “medical marijuana,” claiming that “marijuana” has no medical value. This is one of the biggest lies ever sold to the American public via the use of billions of dollars to spreading lies and rumors about an herb. The proper [...]
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San Bernardino The Sun Newspaper Letter to the Editor | May 7, 2011 Can you imagine a county’s Board of Supervisors claiming they have no responsibility to make sure county residents have access to pharmaceutical drugs? Can you imagine them banning all pharmacies? Yet that’s equivalent to what San Bernardino County’s Board of Supervisors did [...]
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(Original article can be found in the June 1 issue of the Washington Post)
WILLITS, CALIF. — The one-armed man loitered in the waiting room for much of the morning, flipping through magazines with impressive dexterity, quietly waiting for word that the doctor would see him. Now.
William Courtney, MD, offered the chair to the right of the desk, the one occupied during regular office hours by a steady stream of patients seeking a doctor’s recommendation for marijuana. In California, such a recommendation means an adult may grow, buy and smoke marijuana, all while remaining safely within the confines of state law.
The singular peculiarity of Courtney’s “pot doc” practice here in Northern California is what he recommends: Don’t smoke the stuff, he tells patients. Eat it.
My name is Victoria Zavala. I live in the city of Lancaster California. I am 36 years old and have a 4-year-old daughter. I suffer from systemic Lupus and degenerative disc decease. I think I have had it for a long time but I was actually diagnosed in 2006 a year after my daughter was [...]
Time went on, and I lost my jobs. Cause I couldn’t go get my medicine. And I couldn’t medicate and keep up with my duties. Finally a doctor said “you’re sick, you’re really bad”. And it was a doctor that is here local, that actually is pro cannabis now. He just said, “you are to [...]
