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Scott O'Connell, EastBayRI, 7/02/07 BARRINGTON - When the Rhode Island House and Senate passed the medical marijuana bill into permanent law on June 21, hundreds of patients in the state celebrated. Many other people, however, may have questioned just how..
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ACLU, 5/27/07 Judge Submits Official Recommendation to DEA Urging End to 40-Year Barrier to FDA-Approved Medical Marijuana Research.
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 Margalit Fox, New York Times, 5/29/07 Dr. Tod H. Mikuriya, a California psychiatrist who was widely regarded as the grandfather of the medical marijuana movement in the United States, died on May 20 at his home in Berkeley. He was 73.
The cause was complications..
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Stephanie Armour, USA Today, 4/17/07 On a typical weekday, stockbroker Irvin Rosenfeld has a marijuana cigarette before work, then goes to his firm's smoking area for another after he gets to the office. By day's end, he usually has smoked more than..
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 12 States and their Medical Marijuana laws Since 1996, 12 states have enacted laws that allow patients to use medical marijuana, even though federal law continues to ban the drug.
To be effective, a state law must remove criminal penalties for patients who use,..
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Marijuana Policy Project, 4/9/07 State medical marijuana laws do not increase teen use of marijuana, a new analysis of government data shows. Contrary to claims made by opponents of medical marijuana legislation in Minnesota, the report finds that no state..
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 Deborah Baker, Associated Press, 4/2/07 Nearly three decades after medical marijuana first was approved in New Mexico, Gov. Bill Richardson on Monday signed a law authorizing the state Department of Health to give the drug to some seriously ill patients
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3/18/07 USA: Federal court denies fundamental right to use cannabis for medical purposes
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Medical News Today, 2/19/07 Smoking marijuana effectively relieves chronic HIV-associated nerve pain, including aching, painful numbness, and burning, according to a study published in the February 13, 2007, issue of Neurology®, the scientific journal..
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 LAist, 1/22/07 With all this national attention surrounding the recent DEA raids on Medical Marijuana Dispensaries, LAist found it the perfect time to get the news from the horse's mouth, so we sat down with a Medical Marijuana card-holder..
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The Michigan Daily, 12/4/06 The fight to reverse Michigan's ban on medicinal marijuana is understandable given that the drug has been used as such for thousands of years. Eleven states have already legalized its use for the treatment of serious..
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Seattlepi.com, 11/27/06 The Washington Supreme Court, for hardly the first time in judicial history, has rendered a ruling that is at the same time legally correct and morally wrong.
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Cameron French, Reuters, 8/14/06 activists at the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto on Monday took advantage of Canada's pot-friendly policies to make a pitch for the drug as a pain-killer. While not generally legal in Canada, the federal..
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Clare Dyer, The Guardian (UK) 7/17/06 Prosecutors are taking a firm line on the supply of cannabis for pain relief to people with chronically painful conditions such as multiple sclerosis, despite the downgrading of the drug from class B to class C, and despite..
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 By Dr. Tod Mikuriya Even doctors who support medical marijuana have been reluctant to approve cannabis use by patients under 16 years of age. Physicians and parents both take risks in authorizing cannabis use by children, but the risks are..
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Drug War Chronicle, 6/23/06 National Multiple Sclerosis Society announced this week that it will fund a study on the effect of marijuana for Multiple Sclerosis patients. Though the society currently rejects the use of marijuana to relieve MS symptoms,..
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