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Medical Cannabis Information
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Medical Cannabis Information Service
Providing information on Medical Cannabis use.

The Ethics of Prescribing Cannabis: freedom, autonomy, and values

Canada seems to lead the world with its medical cannabis. Lots of good information on this site. Click on the banner.

Medical Cannabis Feature Story:
CLICK HERE to play the Real Video file of the interview with Smolder.

This interview is with Smoulder - a unique individual who has cerebral palsy, and suffers that little bit more because of the prohibition of cannabis. This Interview was made in 1999 at the People's Drug Summit in the Domain, in Sydney.

Smoulder is concerned that cannabis is not legal and he would like to be able to smoke before getting into bed each night so he can get a good sleep.

It may be difficult to understand Smoulder's speech and Australian accent, as the traffic around the Domain is very loud, so read the text of what he says here first.

Smoulder's message is clear and uncomplicated; the truth.
He believes people in this country must be free to grow and to smoke marijuana.

Smoulder: "I get very angry and can't understand why people are not free to smoke openly and freely in Australia".

Lucy: "and what sort of difference would it make to your life if cannabis was legal and you were able to just get it any time you needed it, without any hassle"?

Johanne: "He still needs someone to roll because he can't roll".

Smoulder: "I would be happy to have my own; I can barely afford to pay rent, run a car and buy my drugs.

It is very unfair".

Johanne and Lucy: "It is unfair, it is very unfair".

Despite his apparrent disability, and difficulty with speech, Smoulder has no mental impairment, and is actually a very intelligent individual with a unique slant on life that has grown from his varied experiences with institutions and able bodied humanity.

He walks like a drunken sailor, it takes much time and patience to learn to understand his words, and he can barely light his joints, but he can climb into the specially built four wheel drive he uses, and drive as well as anyone. He often helps people out of bogs or move house, and has a very organised mind. When you take the time to know him, he is inspirational and your own everyday problems look insignificant by comparison.

LINKS:

Towards safer medical use.
http://www.wamm.org/howtouse.htm

History of Marijuana Medical Use, p.4
Original source: Kabelik 1960 : 8
http://www.a1b2c3.com/drugs/mj002a.htm

Marihuana as Medicine: A Plea for Reconsideration, Dr Lester Grinspoon;
http://rxmarihuana.com/jama.htm

Medical Cannabis Guide:
was originally online in full at; http://www.ukcia.org/medical/pain.html
now; http://www.drugwarfacts.org/medicalm.htm

Association for Cannabis as Medicine Bulletin:
http://www.acmed.org

Medical Marijuana Information. Info on ailments cannabis is known to have an effect on. http://www.medicalseeds.com/medicalmarijuana.html

COOKING:

The Gallery at Cannabisculture.com
Cooking with Cannabis. So far, we've got a few nice recipes. ... This one is an
old-time favorite from the 1954 Alice B. Toklas Cook Book,. HASCHICH FUDGE ...
www.cannabisculture.com/gallery/cook/cook.html - 34k

AAMC: Cooking with Cannabis
Chili Con Cannabis. Chuey’s Chewy Oatmeal/Raisin Delight NEW and IMPROVED!
Coma Cookies NEW! Cooking Means Cash. Ginger Snap Heaven. Green Garlic Toasted ...
www.letfreedomgrow.com/recipes/ - 14k

cannabis cooking recipes
Marijuana, cannabis, hemp all describe the same plant cannabis sativa. Unbiased
information about marijuana, cannabis, and hemp. (Goes to Home page - navigate to link)
www.disabilityuk.com/cannabis/ cannabis_cooking_recipies.htm" - 54k

Use and self-medication with cannabis by Hepatitis C positive people.
A study by Lucy Charlesworth
http://jackal.inta.net.au/research/hcvmc.html

Internet:

Protocol: Smoked Marijuana for HIV-Associated Anorexia and Wasting by Donald Abrams, MD, April 1996
http://www.maps.org/mmj/abrams2.shtml

Review of Dr Abrams work by Charlene Laino
http://www.asam.org/pressrel/medmar.htm

The week Online, Issue #128 DRCNet, March 2000
Kaiser Permanente's 12 year study of 65,000 marijuana users
http://www.stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/129/marijuanarisk.shtml

Testimony of Lester Grinspoon, MD,
Before the Crime Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee
US House of Representatives, October 1, 1997
http://www.rxmarihuana.com/testimony.htm

CSDP factbook online
was at; http://www.csdp.org/factbook/marijuana.htm
now; http://www.drugwarfacts.org/medicalm.htm

NHMRC Media Release of 16th November 1998
http://www.health.gov.au/nhmrc/media/98releas/pain.htm

International Cannabis Alliance of Researchers
http://www.druglibrary.org/olsen/medical/pot/icare.html

Marijuana Cuts Lung Cancer Tumor Growth In Half
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070417193338.htm
http://www.hempembassy.net/hempe/cancer.html

Reports:

The Medical Use of Cannabis: Recent Developments, by Gareth Griffith and Marie Swain, BriefingPaper No 11/99, May 1999
ISBN 07313 16487

Cannabis: The Contemporary Debate (Vol. 1: Text), by Gareth Griffith and Rebekah Jenkin, Background Paper No 1994/1
ISBN 0 7240 9562 4

The New South Wales Drug Summit: Issues and Outcomes, by Marie Swain, Background Paper No 3/1999
ISBN 07313 1652 5

The illicit drug problem: drug courts and other alternative approaches, by Marie Swain, Briefing Paper No 4/99
ISBN 07313 1641 X

Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base, Division of Neuroscience and Behavioral Health, Institute Of Medicine, 1999,
The National Academy of Sciences Press, Washington DC 1999
http://www.nap.edu/books/0309071550/html/

National Institute of Health: Workshop on the Medical Utility of Marijuana, 1997: Executive Summary
http://www.nih.gov/news/medmarijuana/MedicalMarijuana.htm

Effective Drug Control Strategy 1999
http://www.csdp.org/edcs/edcs.htm

Articles:

New Scientist, Hot-topics, Marijuana

http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/marijuana/

Books:

Marihuana Reconsidered
by Lester Grinspoon MD
3rd printing 1996 Quick American Archives
ISBN 0-932551-13-0
1st printed 1971 Harvard University Press
ISBN 0-674-54834-5 paperback

Marihuana The Forbidden Medicine
by Lester Grinspoon, MD and James B. Bakalar
1997 Yale University Press
ISBN 0-300-07086-1

The Healing Magic of Cannabis
by Dr. Beverly A. Potter and Dan Joy
1998 Ronin Publishing, CA
ISBN 1-57951-001-9

Marijuana Botany,
by Robert Connell Clarke
Ronin Publishing Inc. 1981
ISBN 914171-78-X

Nutritional and Medicinal Guide to Hemp Seed
by Kenneth Jones
1995 Rainforest Botanical Lab
ISBN 0-9625638-9-7

The Great Book of Hemp
by Rowan Robinson
1996 Park Street Press
ISBN 0-89281-541-8

1653 Nicholas Culpeper's Complete Herbal
This edition 1985 Omega ISBN: 1- 85007-026-1

A Modern Herbal -1996 edition- by Mrs M. Grieve, Barnes and Noble/Random House Great Britain
ISBN: 0-88029-921-5

1900 John Henry Clarke's A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica,
Three Volumes reprinted by Shobi Offset Press, Delhi, India.

Journals:

Connexions Magazine
Oct/Nov 99 Vol. 19 No 5