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	Neurobiological Effects of Medicinal Marijuana
		Most of the experiments conducted concerning marijuana have been done on animals and through the research, scientists were able to discover that there is a dependency and withdrawal effect from the use of marijuana but not nearly as sever with other drugs.
		Because the substance, when used medicinally, is monitored/controlled, the psychological effects on the patient is slightly different, and its effects also vary depending on the type of the disease the patient is suffering from.
		The positive affects of medicinal marijuana documented through the case studies done of patients who used the drug as treatment to help elevate the pain and other side effects due to their illness.
	serendip.brynmawr.edu /bb/neuro/neuro02/web3/aalexander.html (1558 words)

	Medicinal Marijuana - Torah.org
		The case was brought by the Clinton Administration to stop a California group from allocating "medicinal marijuana," which some patients say relieves their suffering, but which the federal government considers an illegal substance with questionable therapeutic value.
		Marijuana commonly is used to treat loss of appetite and weight related to AIDS; nausea resulting from chemotherapy; and glaucoma, a condition which according to Jewish law can potentially endanger one's life.
		Advocates of medicinal marijuana claim it is useful in treating a wide array of debilitating but non-lethal maladies, ranging from chronic back pain to fibromyalgia to migraine headaches.
	www.torah.org /features/secondlook/marijuana.html (971 words)

	CNN.com - Supreme Court allows prosecution of medical marijuana - Jun 6, 2005
		Lawyers for the patient countered with the claim that the marijuana was neither bought nor sold.
		The current case considered by the justices dealt with the broader issue of whether marijuana users could be subject to prosecution.
		Marijuana users, in their defense, argued, "Since September 11, 2001, Defendants [DEA] have terrorized more than 35 Californians because of medical cannabis." In that state, the issue has become a hot political issue this election year.
	www.cnn.com /2005/LAW/06/06/scotus.medical.marijuana (726 words)

	Medicinal Marijuana - Marijuana as Medicine - Marijuana Legalization Organization topic page
		In the long term, we believe that medicinal marijuana will be a non-issue because marijuana will be legal for responsible adults to use regardless of illness.
		Seniors Support Medicinal Marijuana: 72 percent of respondents in AARP survey agree that "adults should be allowed to legally use marijuana for medical purposes if a physician recommends it."
		Canada has a much more sensible approach to medicinal marijuana than the U.S. Health Canada grants access to marihuana for medical use to those who are suffering from grave and debilitating illnesses.
	www.mjlegal.org /medicinal.html (413 words)

	Medicinal Marijuana cannabis seeds medical users
		Medicinal Marijuana, a product having the properties of a medicine made from the dried flower clusters and leaves of the cannabis plant usually smoked or eaten to induce euphoria or to relieve pain.
		The effects of Medicinal Marijuana vary with its strength and dosage and with the state of mind of the user.
		City Attorney Christi Hogin said the presence of the PCH Collective, a medicinal marijuana dispensary tucked in an office building behind a Thai restaurant on Pacific Coast Highway, is opposed by sheriff’s department officials she has talked to.
	www.goldenseed.co.uk /medicinalmarijuana (6510 words)

	Research Findings on Medicinal Properties of Marijuana
		Marijuana was found to be an effective and safe antiemetic in each of the studies and more effective than other drugs for many patients.
		Marijuana has been shown to be effective for many cancer chemotherapy patients, safe dosage levels have been established and a dosage regimen which minimizes undesirable side effects has been devised and tested.
		Regarding the medical use of marijuana, he was lead counsel on a challenge brought against the DEA to the scheduling of marijuana under federal law.
	www.csdp.org /kz/mmj.htm (7069 words)

	Medicinal Marijuana Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Researchers are working to harness the medicinal effects of the cannabinoid THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), the most powerful therapeutic chemical in marijuana, while avoiding the "high" that it causes.
		The National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine issued a 1999 report -- "Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base" -- that reported "cannabinoids have 'potentially far-reaching therapeutic applications.'" Nausea, AIDS-related appetite loss, glaucoma, and multiple sclerosis are among the conditions that respond to cannabinoids.
		England's GW Phamaceuticals is developing marijuana hybrids that will have a greater therapeutic effect and reduced psychoactivity.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0ISW/is_2001_July/ai_76445684 (253 words)

	Medical cannabis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		That marijuana is now well known in English as a name for cannabis is due largely to the efforts of drug prohibitionists in the United States during the 1920s and 30s.
		Marijuana is in Schedule IV of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, making it subject to special restrictions.
		Report on and index of marijuana medical studies by Todd Mikuriya, M.D. Janet E. Joy, Stanley J. Watson, Jr., and John A Benson, Jr., "Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base," Division of Neuroscience and Behavioral Research, Institute of Medicine (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1999).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Medical_marijuana (5113 words)

	Anne McLellan Health Minister and Marijuana
		But it is entirely another if she is so ideologically opposed to marijuana use that she is stalling implementation of government policy.
		In May, senior government sources told The Toronto Star they believed McLellan was deliberately misrepresenting the quality of government-grown marijuana because she has developed cold feet and does not want to follow through on the government plan to provide marijuana to Canadians who need it for medicinal purposes.
		McLellan has said she is uncomfortable with people smoking marijuana to relieve pain or for any other reason.
	www.medicalmarihuana.ca /avoidance.html (616 words)

	Amazon.com: Marijuana Rx: The Patients' Fight for Medicinal Pot: Books: Robert C. Randall,Alice M. O'Leary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Randall and his companion, O'Leary, cofounders of Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics (ACT) and coauthors of Marijuana, Medicine and the Law (1988), began their battle to make medicinal marijuana available in the 1970s after Randall, who has glaucoma, discovered that he actually saw better after smoking pot than he normally did.
		Told by his physician that he would be blind by the age of 30, he and O'Leary began growing the plant at home; in 1975, their apartment was raided and both were arrested.
		Marijuana Rx The Patients Fight for Medical Pot gives us a rare look inside the lives of two people that found themselves up against the most powerful men in our government.
	www.amazon.com /Marijuana-Rx-Patients-Fight-Medicinal/dp/1560251662 (1434 words)

	Canada: Medicinal marijuana, medicinal cannabis
		Court was considering a constitutional challenge to the marijuana prohibitions in the former Narcotic Control Act ("NCA") and the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act ("CDSA") in the context of the medical use of marijuana.
		There are indications that marijuana could be beneficial for the relief of pain and nausea in cancer, AIDS, MS and glaucoma patients.
		The exemption is a sore point for advocates of medical marijuana use, who have complained that the minister had turned a deaf ear to compassionate applications in the past.
	www.cfdp.ca /mar399hc.htm (16246 words)

	NEJM -- Medical Marijuana and the Supreme Court
		the cultivation, possession, and use of marijuana for medicinal
		to be the primary active components of marijuana.
		The New England Journal of Medicine is owned, published, and copyrighted © 2006 Massachusetts Medical Society.
	content.nejm.org /cgi/content/full/353/7/648 (1762 words)

	The Science of Medical Marijuana
		In short, the report verifies that marijuana does have medical benefit, and argues that it should be made available to patients who could benefit from its use now.
		Political opponents of allowing the use of marijuana as a medicine routinely say that there is no scientific basis for claims that the drug is useful.
		Large, historic reports on marijuana as medicine - governmental and quasi-governmental; readable/accessible by section.
	www.medmjscience.org (217 words)

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		WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Marijuana arrests account for almost half of all drug arrests in the United States, which spends $4 billion a year to catch, prosecute and incarcerate offenders, according to a report released on Tuesday.
		Federal agents have raided farms where medicinal marijuana is grown, closed cooperatives where it is distributed and threatened to punish doctors who discussed it with their patients, all because federal law prohibits distribution or use of marijuana regardless of state law." --
		A 27-year-old Australian beauty student is facing a firing-squad sentence in Indonesia for smuggling marijuana she claims was planted in her luggage.
	www.marijuana.org (4705 words)

	Marijuana from medicinalmarijuanaclub.com..Join Our Medicinal Marijuana Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The Medicinal Marijuana Club is here to help you.
		We are here to see you through the problems of registering for the use of medicinal marijuana.
		We can make available high quality, "Clean" medicinal marijuana for our members with their paper work in place.
	www.medicinalmarijuanaclub.com (148 words)

	Canada Medical Marihuana
		If you need Health Canada medical marijuana use and/or growing application forms mailed directly to you, phone toll-free: 1-866-337-7705.
		Register here if you are now applying for medical marijuana in the Health Canada cannabis access program.
		If you are now a Health Canada Office of Cannabis Medical Access (OCMA) licencee, you can register here for your medical marijuana supply.
	www.medicalmarihuana.ca (410 words)

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