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We flash foward to 2006 to learn from Robert Melamede, PhD, Biology Professor at the University of Colorado, exactly what marijuana does for ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) and other degenerative nerve diseases, like Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

By Jennie Miller, C & G Staff Writer

SOUTHFIELD — Hundreds of applications for medical marijuana identification cards flooded the Michigan Department of Community Health April 4, exactly five months after voters approved the statewide proposal to legalize the drug for medical purposes.

Many of those applications were from patients of The Hemp and Cannabis Foundation, which opened the state’s first medical marijuana clinic in Southfield in December.

Paul Stanford, founder of THCF, which has 18 clinics across the country in states that have legalized medical marijuana, personally accompanied 75 of his clinic’s patients to Lansing April 6 to hand-deliver the applications.

"Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base"

Janet E. Joy, Stanley J. Watson, Jr., and John A. Benson, Jr., Editors

Division of Neuroscience and Behavioral Health

Source: http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=6376&page=R1

Investigators from the nonpartisan Institute of Medicine (IOM) released their findings, "Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base," on March 17, 1999. The White House Office of National Drug Control commissioned the 267-page report shortly after voters in California passed the Compassionate Use Act of 1996, which legalized the medical use of cannabis under state law.

By Josh Farley, Kitsap Sun

PORT ORCHARD — A jury has acquitted 54-year-old Bruce Olson on one count of manufacturing marijuana and one count of possession of marijuana with intent to deliver.

Olson, who had a card from the state allowing him to use marijuana for medicinal purposes, was arrested in May 2007 by detectives with the West Sound Narcotics Enforcement Team, who contended that he had marijuana than state law allowed.

The jury deliberated between two and three hours between Monday and Tuesday before returning the verdict.

Olson said he had to sell his home to fund his defense. He and his wife, Pamela, live in a travel trailer.

Ten years ago today, the use of medical marijuana went from fringe to mainstream.

March 17, 2009 marks the 10-year-anniversary of the publication of the Institute for Medicine's landmark study on medical cannabis: Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base. At the time this report was commissioned, in response to the passage of California's Compassionate Use Act of 1996, many in the public and the mainstream media were skeptical about pot's potential therapeutic value. The publication of the Institute for Medicine's findings—which concluded that marijuana possessed medicinal properties to treat and control pain and to stimulate appetite—provided the issue with long-overdue credibility, and began in earnest a political discourse that continues today.

By Dr. Phillip Leveque, Salem-News.com

I was not surprised when my first Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) patient showed up. I knew it was extremely painful from my regular medical practice.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Thousands of readers of my articles on dozens of websites know that I am a strong advocate for medical marijuana and that it is effective medicine for dozens if not hundreds of medical conditions. I must say as a physician/pharmacologist that the mechanisms of effectiveness are not always clear.

I was not surprised when my first Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) patient showed up. I knew it was extremely painful from my regular medical practice.

Kitsap County prosecutors begin their trial to imprison medical marijuana patient Bruce Olson. All concerned Washington citizens are invited to bear witness to this circus of horrors.

Dear President Obama,

Governor Chris Gregoire, Washington

Alison Holcomb, Drug Policy Director WA ACLU,

Allen St. Pierre, Director, NORML

and all compassionate individuals,

Re: Bruce Olson v. Kitsap County

The ICRS is a non-political and non-religious organization dedicated to scientific research in all fields of the cannabinoids, ranging from biochemical, chemical and physiological studies of the endogenous cannabinoid system to studies of the abuse potential of recreational cannabis.

In addition to acting as a source for impartial information on cannabis and the cannabinoids, the main role of the ICRS is to provide an open forum for researchers to meet and discuss their results.

(CBS) Mitch Earleywine, Ph.D. is an associate professor of psychology at SUNY Albany who believes marijuana should be legalized for medical purposes.

Therapeutic use of marijuana has a history spanning over 4,500 years.

OMMA is Under Attack! Stand Up for Your Medical Rights!

We need to let our representatives know that we oppose this bill. It would allow law enforcement to inspect our gardens at any time and create even more hoops to jump through and more paperwork that would be a burden not only to the state but also to medical marijuana patients, caregivers and growers throughout the state.

Grassroots power forces Board of Health to postpone vote on medical marijuana.

The Colorado Board of Health has officially postponed its vote on restricting medical marijuana patients rights. This vote was previously scheduled for March 18th and will be moved to a date to be announced-- likely in June.

After receiving this response, the state decided to delay the vote to secure a room large enough to accommodate the many, many patients and supporters that care about this issue.

For now, medical marijuana patients in Colorado can breathe a sigh of relief. But we will need your help again in June. Keep an eye out for further action alerts and donate today to support our work. Every dollar we raise allows us to keep fighting this threat to safe access.

In solidarity,

By KSTP.com

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Supporters of medical marijuana are enlisting family members of those who have died in slow agony as they push to get a bill to Gov. Tim Pawlenty's desk this session, even though he remains opposed.

Opponents include a former drug dealer who said authorizing seriously ill patients to obtain and use marijuana would just open the door to mischief.

Judith shares her experience using medical marijuana to relieve her fibromyalgia symptoms and breaking her dependence on dangerous pharmaceuticals. This is a clip from the public-access TV show, Hemp’n Aint Easy, based in Sacramento, California.

Source: http://www.thepainconnection.com/fibromyalgia/medical-marijuana-helps-fi...

By Dr. Julian Reindhurst

Studies have suggested that medical marijuana can reduce the pain of a condition called chronic pain syndrome in which is when a burning sensation occurs and touch can feel like an injury.

This condition is unaffected by drugs in the aspirin family and fairly resistant to stronger analgesics such as opiates.

A study on neuropathic pain related to HIV infection had 50 patients smoked medical marijuana cigarettes three times a day or medical marijuana cigarettes from which active ingredients had been extracted in a study done in 2007 .

The studies were then instructed to rate their pain on a scale ranging from no pain to worst pain imaginable.

Safe Access to Medical Marijuana is in Danger!

The Colorado Health Department is acting to restrict patient access to medical marijuana.

If you have a compelling story which you would like to share, please send an email outlining your concerns to brian@sensiblecolorado.org

Source: http://sensiblecolorado.org/colorado-action-alert

[Sensible Colorado]

(THCF Supports Sensible Colorado in their efforts!)