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Title: medical marijuana
Post by: mozart123 on March 09, 2016, 11:27:16 AM
Deaths Caused By Painkillers Are Down 25 Percent In States Where Weed Is Legal
As states throughout the country continue to legalize marijuana for both medicinal and recreational use, you have to wonder how this plant’s legalization might be helping lower the use of harmful medications.
A study conducted by the American Medical Association found, in the states that legalized medicinal marijuana between the years of 1999 and 2010, deaths caused by painkillers have been reduced by 25 percent.
For decades, those suffering from injuries and illnesses have leaned on various prescription drugs such as Vicodin and OxyContin to help relieve their pain and discomfort.
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Post by: mozart123 on March 31, 2016, 05:30:47 PM
Inside the world of the 'weed nuns': Sisters who run a medicinal marijuana business pictured smoking cannabis, tending plants and making their pot-infused products in striking picture series
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Post by: mozart123 on April 12, 2016, 08:00:36 AM
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Post by: mozart123 on April 17, 2016, 10:49:37 AM
New York man designs a pizza box that turns into a pipe to smoke marijuana
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Post by: mozart123 on April 20, 2016, 09:54:17 AM
U.S. Senate Votes to Give Veterans Access to Medical Marijuana
Federal lawmakers are working once again to provide military veterans with hassle-free access to state medical marijuana programs.
The Senate Appropriations Committee recently approved an amendment aimed at giving physicians employed with the Department of Veterans Affairs the freedom to recommend medical marijuana to their patients without incurring the wrath of Uncle Sam.
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Post by: mozart123 on May 12, 2016, 08:02:11 PM
House passes medical marijuana plan in historic vote
COLUMBUS - In a first for Ohio legislators, House lawmakers passed a plan to legalize medical marijuana after a lengthy debate and hand wringing on both sides of the aisle.
After years of opposing plans to legalize marijuana, medicinal or otherwise, House lawmakers passed a plan 71-26 Tuesday. Members of GOP-controlled House – under pressure from two medical marijuana efforts shooting for the November ballot – talked seriously and passionately about medical marijuana for the first time.
Why now? Polls show Ohioans are much more interested in legalizing medical marijuana than the recreational drug. The bill's GOP sponsor Rep. Stephen Huffman, an emergency room physician from Tipp City, said this proposal is what's best for patients after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration failed to act.
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Post by: mozart123 on May 29, 2016, 11:40:30 PM
Congress Finally Approves Medical Marijuana for Veterans
Veterans struggling to gain access to medical marijuana caught a major break last week at the hands of Congress.
On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate put their seal of approval on an amendment that would prevent the Department of Veterans Affairs from dipping into the federal budget to stop Uncle Sam’s doctors from providing patients with recommendations to use medical marijuana.
This is the first time in American history that both chambers have seen eye to eye on an amendment of this kind—a move that stands to eliminate restrictions that have kept the men and women of the United States military from having legal access to a safer alternative to dangerous prescription drugs.
"The death rate from opioids among VA health care is nearly double the national average," Representative Earl Blumenauer, who introduced the House amendment, said prior to the vote. "From what I hear from veterans is that medical marijuana has helped them deal with pain and PTSD, particularly as an alternative to opioids."
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Post by: mozart123 on September 12, 2016, 11:35:50 PM
In Israel, booming medical marijuana looks to conquer new high
While research into health benefits of cannabis has zipped along thanks in part to the local culture of ‘protekzia,’ a pioneer in the field says hundreds of uses of the plant are waiting to be discovered, and a marketer wants to slip it into milk so everyone can have a daily dose
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Post by: mozart123 on September 27, 2016, 08:36:05 AM
MARIJUANA PROTECTS BRAIN CELLS FROM ALZHEIMER'S, SAYS NEW STUDY
Researchers at the Salk Institute have found evidence that many compounds found in marijuana, especially tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), help remove the toxic proteins linked to Alzheimer's disease.
Doctors and researchers have been following evidence that suggests that toxic proteins called amyloid beta have a strong link to the development of Alzheimer's, especially in causing the inflammation of the brain that is widely assumed to play a role in the disease's devastating effects.
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Post by: mozart123 on July 11, 2017, 06:03:16 PM
Nevada sold out of legal marijuana so quickly that the governor endorsed a 'statement of emergency
Less than two weeks after sales of recreational marijuana kicked off in Nevada, stores are running out of pot to sell, according to the state's Department of Taxation.
On Friday, Gov. Brian Sandoval endorsed the department's call for a "statement of emergency," which would allow for more licensed distributors, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported.
Nearly 50 dispensaries in the state have licenses to sell marijuana for recreational use. Those sales got underway on July 1.
But those same retailers do not legally have the authority to restock their inventories.
Alcohol wholesalers have the exclusive rights to move marijuana from growers to retailers in Nevada, as part of a temporary court order that was extended in June by a Carson City district judge. The rule aims to "promote the goal of regulating marijuana similar to alcohol" — and protect liquor stores from losing business as the demand for recreational marijuana rises.
Nevada is the only state with legal marijuana that has such an arrangement.
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Post by: mozart123 on October 08, 2017, 11:49:07 AM
California Aiming to Open Marijuana Retail Stores by January 1
The mainstreaming of marijuana is about to get huge boost.
Recreational marijuana sales will launch in three states next year, including the biggest one of all: California.
It’s already for sale in five states, but the addition of a legal retail marijuana market in California, with its massive economy and population, will dramatically change the landscape.