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Still Believe Nature Got It Wrong? Top 10 Health Benefits of Marijuana
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Cannabis Treats Cancer and Epilepsy
'I already published that marijuana is the best medicine for 3-year-old Cash Hyde of Missoula, Montana. The boy’s parent’s defied doctor’s orders—and Montana law—to get their hands on the medicinal treatment their son needed after he was diagnosed with recurring brain tumors at 22 months old. “I’ve had law enforcement threatening to kick my door down, but I would have done anything to keep Cashy alive,” said Mike Hyde, who has long been a proponent of the drug, told ABCNews.com.
My book on Medical Marijuana goes into the research from around the globe, including from Harvard University that sustains the conclusions of doctors McAllister and Desprez.'
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Thirteen Things You May Not Know About Cannabis
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'1. Smoking marijuana is actually the least effective way to benefit from the medicinal power of marijuana. Opt for liquid extracts, cannabis butters or medicated oils to truly gain the deepest use from this healing plant.
2. The term “marijuana” is actually a Mexican slang term that the U.S. government bestowed on the cannabis plant in the 1930’s. The true name of the plant is simply: cannabis.
3. In all of recorded history, nobody has ever died from consuming or smoking marijuana.'
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A Sitting NY Supreme Court Judge With Cancer Makes A Plea For Medical Marijuana
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He’s spent 40 years in the law — over two decades as a judge — and thus never could have imagined that he would one day find himself turning to marijuana to quell his unbearable suffering, as he explains in his NY Times Op Ed...'
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The Top Five Special Interest Groups Lobbying To Keep Marijuana Illegal
'Last year, over 850,000 people in America were arrested for marijuana-related crimes. Despite public opinion, the medical community, and human rights experts all moving in favor of relaxing marijuana prohibition laws, little has changed in terms of policy.
There have been many great books and articles detailing the history of the drug war. Part of America’s fixation with keeping the leafy green plant illegal is rooted in cultural and political clashes from the past.
However, we at Republic Report think it’s worth showing that there are entrenched interest groups that are spending large sums of money to keep our broken drug laws on the books:'
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Why is Marijuana Illegal? | Examining the Health Aspects of Cannabis
'Countless studies have highlighted the industrial and medicinal uses of marijuana (cannabis), yet the federal government claims that it has ‘no accepted medical use’ and continues to classify it in the same category as heroin, MDMA, and PCP. Despite the ruling, the medial marijuana market is priced at around $1.7-billion — that’s almost as much as the explosive Viagra market, coming in at around $1.9 billion.
Why do so many individuals suffering from disease swear by marijuana if it has no real medical use? And furthermore, were the thousands of studies on the medicinal benefits of marijuana completely incorrect?'
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Eating Cannabis as Medicine
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'Cannabis treats such a wide variety of conditions that a single method of treatment isn’t always suitable. Smoking cannabis is short lasting and wasteful, as well as exposing patients to potential harms that come with inhaling burnt plant matter (vaporizing helps to avert these health concerns, also).
Eating cannabis is essential for individuals who cannot smoke due to compromised lungs or who cannot afford to buy the buds due to black market prices driven up by the risks associated with prohibition. Eating is effective over a longer period of time and uses ordinarily wasted material, such as stalk and leaf, and reduces costs.
Topical application can assist patients for whom smoking and eating cannabis are not feasible options as “the top side of cannabis leaves are coated with thousands of microscopic thorns, and these sometimes cause minor intestinal irritation, even after grinding.”[i] Patients who have no desire to experience full body effects from taking cannabis internally can choose to localize their relief by applying cannabis through the skin. The fat soluble cannabinoids, soaked in vegetable oil, create a simple and effective lotion.'
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Why Can’t You Smoke Pot? Because Lobbyists Are Getting Rich Off of the War on Drugs
'John Lovell is a lobbyist who makes a lot of money from making sure you can’t smoke a joint. That’s his job. He’s a lobbyist for the police unions in Sacramento, and he is a driving force behind grabbing Federal dollars to shut down the California marijuana industry. I’ll get to the evidence on this important story in a bit, but first, some context.'
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Study: Passage Of Medical Marijuana Laws Correlated With Fewer Suicides
'The enactment of statewide laws allowing for the limited use of cannabis therapeutically is associated with reduced instances of suicide, according to a discussion paper published recently by the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn, Germany.
Researchers at Montana State University, the University of Colorado, and San Diego State University assessed rates of suicide in the years before and after the passage of statewide medical marijuana laws.'
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Big Pharma-Govt Wants Medical Cannabis Monopoly
'Barthwell frames Big Pharma cannabis as best way to bring marijuana into medical usage: "The safety and advisability of any prescriptive medicine should depend on years of careful scientific scrutiny, not whims at the ballot box by individuals who lack the qualifications to make such decisions.
Allowing cannabis to circumvent FDA approval sets a dangerous precedent and puts us on a slippery slope." Big Pharma's big contributions to many legislators means they have many elected officials willing to see things the drug companies' way on this, as on many other issues.'
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Decriminalization is a Farce, It's Time to Legalize All Drugs
'The pharmaceutical industry makes more money when people are ignorant of the fact that marijuana & hemp can replace a lot of the “traditional” drugs out there (and indeed, hemp does represent a massive threat to the oil industry as well). But at the end of the day, elites are really giving each other high-fives over the fact that they’ve more-or-less successfully banned one of the most amazing plants in the world.
Pot is illegal because pot is absolutely amazing and has the ability to dramatically improve many different aspects of our lives in a variety of different ways.
It’s great that people are fighting so hard for patients to be able to get effective medicine, but where does that put those of us who just want to have a good time with that same medicine? And wouldn’t those who want their medicine also benefit from the efforts of those who want total freedom to enjoy that which is harmless?'
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Arizona Governor Gives Up Medical Marijuana Fight
'Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) said Friday she would no longer block medical marijuana dispensaries from opening in the state. The news came in a statement announcing that the state would not try again after a lawsuit she filed blocking implementation was dismissed in federal court earlier this month.
Brewer said she will direct the state health department to begin accepting and processing dispensary applications once a separate legal challenge over state regulations is settled. The pending state court lawsuit was filed on behalf of Compassion First, a group formed to advise those opening dispensaries, which has challenged restrictive health department rules restricting who can operate a dispensary.'
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