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Chile: Psychiatrist Leads Crusade To Legalize Marijuana
Editor's Note: Gotta love this shrink! Dr. Marijuana, do you make international house calls? It's about time mainstream Doctors started using REAL medicine.
'A Chilean psychiatrist known as "Dr. Marijuana" has earned notoriety in his South American nation for his crusade to legalize cannabis.
Dr. Milton Flores, 58, describes cannabis as "a tool and a medicine," reports Rafael Romo at CNN. He says he's used cannabis for years to treat patients with conditions including depression and anxiety -- and he's also smoked pot himself, for 44 years.
Flores is considered Chile's main advocate for cannabis legalization. He also favors legalization of other "entheogens" (psychoactive plants), including peyote, ayahuasca and San Pedro cactus. All were used by local shamans and healers well before the arrival of Europeans in the 16th century.'
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Dr. Sanjay Gupta Now Supports Medical Marijuana
He apologizes for 'misleading' public in speaking out against it.
'CNN's chief medical expert Dr. Sanjay Gupta has done an about-face on weed, and he now backs using the drug for medical conditions. On Piers Morgan's Wednesday night show, Gupta he announced that he's changed his mind, and he apologized for 'misleading' the public by opposing the drug in the past.'
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Study: Why Pot Smokers Are Skinnier
'PROBLEM: "Marijuana use is associated with an acute increase in caloric intake," goes the clinical jargon for popular lore. Still despite eating more while high (by some measures, over 600 extra calories per day), marijuana users' extra intake doesn't seem to be reflected in increased BMI (body mass index). Indeed, studies have identified a reduced prevalence of obesity in the pot smoking community.'
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Illegal Marijuana Used by 10 Per Cent of Fibromyalgia Patients: Study
'People who suffer from a medical disorder that causes chronic pain are buying marijuana on the street for relief, a new study has revealed.
The study, led by Dr. Mary-Ann Fitzcharles, a rheumatologist at the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal, appears in the journal Arthritis Care & Research.'
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A Higher Level of Freedom: The Benefit of Cannabis To Health
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"If the words "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on."
- Terence McKenna
'While this article is not focused on the recreational use of cannabis, Terence McKenna's quote speaks directly to a sacred right, increasingly being legislated against in our society, namely, the ability to choose and use substances that grow freely on this Earth as our medicine.
In a day and age where possession of an herb like cannabis is an offense punishable by incarceration, it is important for us to reflect on how we arrived at this dark point in time.
Herbs, after all, were put here by God. If you prefer the word Nature, the point is the same, and it was put best by Bob Marley when he said: "you can't tell God it [cannabis] is illegal."'
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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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Nature's Wonder Drug Curbed by Illuminati
'For most of my life, I believed Hemp and Cannabis, or Marijuana, was an evil visited upon our society. I viewed those who used it as slow, ignorant and lazy. I had never taken any time to research the subject because I trusted the government verdict.
Then, in 2004 I read an article entitled "The Brain's Own Marijuana" by Roger A. Nicoll and Bradley N. Alger, in Scientific American detailing medical benefits from the plant.
First I felt astonishment, then anger, that my government had obviously been lying to me. I felt shame for my self-righteous judgment of pot users.
When the National Institutes of Health (NIH) posted the following statement on their website and then later removed the portion that stated "Cannabinoids appear to kill [cancer] tumor cell" I became so outraged that I filed a complaint of RICO against the Freemasons with the U.S. Inspector General.'
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Study: Smoking Pot Won't Give You Lung Cancer, or Hurt Your Lungs at All
'According to a new study, exposure to cannabis smoke, even over the long-term, is not associated with adverse effects on pulmonary function.'
'Further, in 2006, the results of the largest case-controlled study ever to investigate the respiratory effects of marijuana smoking reported that cannabis use was not associated with lung-related cancers, even among subjects who reported smoking more than 22,000 joints over their lifetime. (Read NORML’s summary of this study here.)
“We hypothesized that there would be a positive association between marijuana use and lung cancer, and that the association would be more positive with heavier use,” the study’s lead researcher, Dr.Donald Tashkin of the University of California at Los Angeles stated. “What we found instead was no association at all, and even a suggestion of some protective effect” among marijuana smokers who had lower incidences of cancer compared to non-users.'
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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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Contrary To What Many Studies Suggest, Marijuana Use Does Not Lead to Mental Decline
'Cannabis is one of the most powerful healing plants on the planet. Dozens of studies have made pseudo scientific attempts to indicate that young people who use cannabis tend to experience psychological, social problems and mental decline. However, there is no evidence that marijuana use is directly linked with such problems, according to the results of a study published in The Lancet.'
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5 Popular But Harmful Drugs That Can Be Replaced With Marijuana
'The notion that any authority can determine what a sovereign human being can and cannot ingest into their own body is the very essence of control. Banning any substance from responsible adult consumption no matter how harmful should simply not be permitted in a free society.
However, certain substances are deemed so harmful by “experts” that they claim to adversely affect society as a whole and thus they’re banned from the population. Of course, force of laws with guns and jails have never been able to eliminate their use throughout history. So, as a practical matter, banning any substance from society always tends to do more harm than good.
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The Medical Miracle You'll Get Arrested for Using
'There are more than 60 chemical compounds known as cannabinoids in the marijuana plant. Cannabinoids interact with your body by way of naturally occurring cannabinoid receptors embedded in cell membranes throughout your body. There are cannabinoid receptors in your brain, lungs, liver, kidneys, immune system and more; both the therapeutic and psychoactive properties of marijuana occur when a cannabinoid (such as the THC produced by the cannabis plant) activates a cannabinoid receptor.
Your body also has naturally occurring endocannabinoids that stimulate your cannabinoid receptors and produce a variety of important physiologic processes, far beyond that of the traditional "highs" associated with THC.
What is amazing is that your body is actually hard-wired to respond to cannabinoids through this unique cannabinoid receptor system; research is still ongoing on just how extensive their impact is on our health, but to date it's known that cannabinoid receptors play an important role in many body processes, including metabolic regulation, cravings, pain, anxiety, bone growth, and immune function.'
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