Reschedule Cannabis

In today’s news, a few college presidents in America have began pushing the idea that we should lower the drinking age back to 18. This is obviously despite all evidence that points to increasing abuse of alcohol by underage teens and those aged 18 - 21. They claim “the 21 drinking age isn’t working” - to that I would like to say:

The drinking age is working fine, it is the parents and the enforcement of this law that is not working. It is no secret and no one denies that most underage drinking is done at home and often within the presence of adults in the family. It is easy to pass the blame onto something as arbitrary as “the drinking age” - but that doesn’t make it right.

The drinking age is not at fault here, the enforcement is. On college campuses across the US drinking age is rarely enforced, many students report binge drinking more than once a week, even at ages 18-20.

The easy way out is to blame the “drinking age.” But what is the drinking age without those who enforce it? There are stores who sell alcohol to minors every single day in America, will lowering the drinking age have any effect on that? Doubtful.

“Twenty-one is not working,” says the group’s statement, signed by presidents from prominent colleges such as Dartmouth, Duke and Syracuse. “A culture of dangerous, clandestine ‘binge drinking’ - often conducted off-campus - has developed.”

So how is lowering the drinking age going to fix this?

The other prominent weapon used in this debate is “Why can a person serve in the military at 18, but not drink a beer.”

One thing you never hear in this debate is, why not raise the age of serving in the military? Why does it always have to be to lower the drinking age? Why not raise the military serve age to 21. Personally, I don’t think most of those 18 year olds understand the life altering decision they are making by joining the military and waisting their time instead of pursuing a real career with real lifetime achievement goals instead of recruiting for foreign wars and spending billions on arming these 18 year olds who don’t want to kill, they want to get drunk or smoke weed.

I am tired of hearing the same old argument from alcoholics and those who wish others to live their style of life consuming alcohol daily. Notice it is never ex-drinkers pushing this agenda. It is almost ALWAYS promoted by groups and lobbyist networks working for the alcohol industry in disguise. These college campus presidents should not be trusted with the welfare and safety of students while they seek their education.

The interest of the students should be on educating them for the future, but hey - when many are just going to drop out from their drinking problem, and join the military, why should the campus president care?

Lowering the drinking age will not stop underage drinking, that problem needs to be addressed by parents taking some responsibility and not keeping so much alcohol in the house. Too many households have cases of beer in the fridge right next to the milk. These same parents want to blame someone else for how their kids get alcohol - but never stopping to think the problem actually started in their own household. Dad keeps his cases of beer cold right next to the baby formula and eggs.

You will never change society when the parents are alcoholics too. Nor will you curb this problem by thinking the drinking age is the blame. The parents are the blame, those who enforce drinking ages to begin with are to blame - if a problem persists AFTER you already have a strict law in place - perhaps it is the society itself that is at fault, not the drinking age. And since these campus presidents already believe in lowering the drinking age, perhaps this is their own admission as to why drinking laws are not enforced on their campuses and thus pushing this problem even further. These campuses are riddled with binge drinking accidents and even fatalities (1700 students die every year from alcohol related injuries) and because they cannot control it, the campus presidents take the easy way out of a bad problem and point the finger at “the drinking age.”

What a cop out, and as a tea-totaling ex-drinker I can’t help but notice the ignorance that surrounds the issue of alcohol. Alcohol causes thousands of deaths every year - marijuana is completely safe and medical - yet the government wants to keep one illegal, and lower the age to get the other.

Don’t you think the system is a little backwards, and could we not make a few changes that could benefit this entire country and not just the alcohol industry?

Although this is not a religious site, it would seem to many that the message of mercy and compassion is exactly what Jesus taught, and those who are religious would support medical marijuana.

Congressman Phil Hare, D-Rock Island, will vote in favor of legalizing medical marijuana for the second straight year.

This time, however, he has the support of seven religious leaders in the 17th district. Clergy from the Disciples of Christ and United Church of Christ are standing by Hare in the push to legalize the Schedule I drug.

“Medical marijuana is an issue of mercy and compassion,” said the Rev. William Pyatt, Carthage United Methodist Church, in a news release. “Being seriously ill is stressful enough already without living in fear of arrest for taking doctor-recommended medicine.”

An additional 55 religion leaders throughout Illinois have added their support to the legislation.

Religious leaders in support of medical marijuana legislation to help protect patients who use cannabis as a doctor-approved medication.

Hare agrees that a patient comfort should come first.

“We want to give patients the best quality of life,” Hare said. “As long as it is done within the consultation of a doctor.”

The legislation would prevent the federal government from interfering in state medical marijuana laws. Currently 12 states allow the use of medical marijuana. It is often used for patients with cancer, AIDS and multiple sclerosis.

Why does this member of congress support medical marijuana?

Hare noted his time spent as a hospice volunteer as an influence on his position, commenting on how he was humbled by several of the patients. One specific patient with lung cancer stands out as one of his most memorable. The patient, an older man, confided in Hare his last wishes were to sit with his cat, drink a beer and have a conversation with someone.

So Hare brought the man a six-pack of Bud Light and his cat. The two sat and talked for hours, sipping beer.

Two weeks later, after the man died, his wife approached Hare, telling him how much the gesture meant to her husband.

Hare became a hospice volunteer after the death of his mother.

The story reflects Hare’s position on medical marijuana.

If more of the people trying to stop medical marijuana were forced to spend time with actual patients who use cannabis to live, they may actually show some compassion.

Hare said medical marijuana is not given for patients to get high, but to make them comfortable.

Morphine and fentanyl are more efficient medications for pain relief McClean said. The two can also be given multiple ways — by patch, mouth or even as a suppository — making it easier for the patient. While both Schedule II medications are heavily addictive, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, McClean said patients can be weaned off them. He also said addiction is not an issue for terminally ill patients because “when they have two weeks to live, we don’t worry about addiction.”

Patients across America are given much more addicting substances as medicine. And even the religious are beginning to support medical marijuana in public and through their church.

It is important that the patient’s side of the story be presented and not just the drug war media distortions.

SEATTLE _ Martin Martinez says the small, private collective and outreach group he runs from a storefront are legal, a place for medical-marijuana patients to get help growing the medicine they need to manage their pain.

One of the earliest advocates for what became a voter-approved state medical-marijuana law 10 years ago, Martinez says he hasn’t handed out pot, nor grown any in his cramped office.

But Tuesday afternoon, Seattle police, armed with a search warrant, carted away marijuana and hundreds of private patient files, and tore down a wall in search of a marijuana patch that didn’t exist.

King County prosecutors say the raid was justified. Martinez’s neighbors have been complaining about a pervasive smell of pot, they said, so authorities need to figure out whether Martinez has been breaking the law.

But the episode has Martinez frustrated and his attorney furious. They accuse the police and prosecutors of being overzealous and refusing to honor the law that is supposed to let sick people use pot in peace. At a minimum, Martinez says, the authorities should let the whole thing blow over _ and return his stuff.

I’ve posted about this already, but feel there should be a little more emphasis put on some of the facts, and at least present more quotes from the victim and his attorney.

“We’re trying desperately to be legal, to stay alive and not have these conflicts,” Martinez said. “Science and law have to come to terms, because the doctors are recommending cannabis and the police have got to get on the same page.”

Martinez, 48, suffered severe neurological damage in a motorcycle accident in 1986. He later became one of the first people in King County to use medical necessity as a defense against prosecution for using marijuana.

In 1998, he helped promote the medical-marijuana initiative that voters approved overwhelmingly. It allows people with certain serious ailments to use marijuana if authorized by a physician.

For the past four years or so, he has operated Lifevine _ a private collective of patients who work together to grow their own medical marijuana _ and Cascadia NORML, a public-outreach organization that provides ID cards to medical-marijuana patients so they can show police that they have a legal right. He said the groups used three different locations in the U District on Northeast 55th Street and never had any problems.

I would like to thank Martinez for his effort.

“I’m just hopping mad,” said Douglas Hiatt, Martinez’s attorney, who arrived at the office during the search and called a deputy prosecutor to try to talk her out of executing the warrant. “It’s stupid and was totally preventable.”

Hiatt said Martinez is “super responsible” and makes sure he follows the letter of the law.

“I’d like for them to give him his stuff back and compensate him for anything they broke,” Hiatt said. “If they decide to go forward with this (and file charges), we’re going to have a real fight.”

Most of the time patients are not breaking any law when they have their doors kicked in, property seized, and harrassed in this manner.

But Mark Larson, the chief criminal deputy for the King County Prosecutor’s Office, said an investigation is warranted to determine whether Martinez was operating within the bounds of the state law.

“We’re certainly aware people have a right to use medical marijuana,” Larson said. “But that doesn’t include dispensing, and it doesn’t include possessing unlimited quantities.”

It has already been stated he was in fact not dispensing marijuana at the facilities, nor did he have “unlimited quantities.” He was within state law. At least the chief criminal deputy acknowledges awareness of “the right to use medical marijuana.”

State laws don’t specify legal amounts or ways medical marijuana can be dispensed to others, he said. The state Legislature last year ordered the Health Department to establish maximum amounts each patient may possess, but the department’s proposals are still being debated.

“We’d love to have these issues clarified so that people who need it get it, and people who operate outside the rules risk prosecution,” Larson said.

So again, how was he breaking laws if state law does not specify his allowance? This is exactly why I have recently begun discussing how much a patient should be allowed to grow. I have personally found that 71 ounces for 2 months is barely enough if you use it in the cooked form, which many prefer because of negative side effects of smoking.

Having 12 ounces of marijuana may last the guy 3-4 weeks depending on how often he uses?

The business owner who complained about the smell said she didn’t know until after Tuesday’s bust that Martinez’s office was being used by medical-marijuana patients.

She said she suspected someone was growing pot in the three-story building, which houses a mix of businesses and apartments.

Isn’t that convenient…

“I’m really sorry. We didn’t want to bother anyone,” he said. “We’re a very private group, which is why it doesn’t say ‘medical marijuana’ on the door.

“We’ve tried to keep to ourselves.” said Martinez

No doubt brother, keep up the good work and stand strong.

Never relent.

The Seattle police who illegally seized files recently have returned the files, but refused to return the patient’s medicine, which is within the legal amount he can possess. Again, he is a legal patient, who can legally carry medical marijuana. These cops should not be able to take his medicine away, which helps him cope with daily pain from motorcycle accident.

Seattle police returned hundreds of patient files and a computer hard drive to Martin Martinez Thursday evening, two days after they raided his University District storefront where he runs a collective and outreach group for medical-marijuana patients.

Prosecutors have told Martinez he won’t face any charges and the investigation is now closed.

“Nothing is going to happen. It’s done,” said Douglas Hiatt, Martinez’s lawyer, who went to the Seattle Police Department Thursday to pick up the files and other belongings.

But police have so far refused to return about 12 ounces of marijuana and two bongs seized during Tuesday’s bust, Hiatt said.

According to Hiatt, a police-department attorney has promised that the drugs and water pipes won’t be destroyed until Hiatt can raise the issue with King County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Satterberg or take the matter to court.

Let me get this straight, a citizen who is breaking no laws, can have their doors kicked in, have their medicine taken away illegally, computers seized, and then they are the ones who have to fight it in court? This police department should brace itelf for the lawsuit about to come its way. The items should never have been seized in the first place, considering no crime was committed, no one has been charged with a crime, and there is no evidence of any crime taking place. To demand sick and dying patients “take the matter to court” is another way of hurting patients while trying to continue to further the Drug War Policy in the minds of law enforcement and much of the public despite the fact medical marijuana has been voted on, approved, and legalized.

“It’s really the principle — if you have the legal right to have something, the police shouldn’t be able to take it away from you and not give it back,” Hiatt said.

We must fight to stop this abuse of patients by our law enforcement. The police are here to protect and serve us, not abuse us.

Dan Donohoe, a spokesman for Satterberg, confirmed the files’ return and that Martinez would not face criminal charges but referred questions about the seized marijuana to Seattle police, who couldn’t be reached Thursday.

The Police Department couldn’t be reached for comment? They at least confirm no charges will be filed. So again, why seize property and medicine?

Officers (paid for with tax dollars) come in destroy property, steal things and we have to sit back and take it?

But the statement also acknowledges that Martinez, who suffered severe neurological damage in a motorcycle accident in 1986, “is authorized to possess marijuana for medical purposes,” and that the amount of pot seized by police was arguably within the 60-day supply limit the state medical-marijuana law provides.

Seattle police searched Martinez’s office on Northeast 50th Street after neighbors complained of a strong odor of pot in the building. After obtaining a search warrant, they carted off the pot and the files, which included detailed medical histories and medical-marijuana prescriptions. They also broke down part of a wall in search of marijuana plants. They didn’t find any.

Lawsuit time. He is legal under state law, protected under state law. These cops break down walls, take what they want and never have to answer to anyone even though no crime was committed or reported. This is again, based on a cops nose being used to initiate the arrest, harassment, and prosecution of sick and dying patients.

Looks like the police are not protecting and serving in Seattle.

Seattle police seized files on nearly 600 medical marijuana patients when officers searched the headquarters of a patient support group, activists said Wednesday.

The search occurred Tuesday after a nearby police bicycle officer reported the smell of marijuana. Martin Martinez, who runs the Lifevine cooperative as well as Cascadia NORML, the local chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, said no one was arrested but officers seized about 12 ounces of marijuana in addition to the patient files and a computer.

Another case of a cop using his nose to initiate arrests of completely innocent people. If no one was arrested, why did they seize property?

There were no marijuana plants growing there, Martinez said. He is a longtime advocate of legalizing the medical use of marijuana, following a severe motorcycle crash that left him with nerve damage in 1986. Three other patients authorized to use pot under Washington’s medical marijuana law were also present when officers arrived at the office, which does not dispense marijuana, he said.

Again, these patients are authorized for medical marijuana and are breaking no laws.

Cascadia NORML has been issuing identity cards to medical marijuana patients, but before doing so, it requires the patients to provide their medical authorizations for verification. That’s why the patient files were in the office, Martinez said. The cards are not issued pursuant to the state’s medical marijuana law, but are designed to help identify the patient as legitimate if confronted by police.

Some of the nearly 600 patients are now dead, and some others are no longer actively using marijuana, he said.

This fact cannot be overlooked, many of the patient files they illegally seized are in fact for patients who have died. What do they need this for? This is a good program helping sick and dying people, why are the police seizing computer files on these patients? Do cops kick in the doors of dentists and steal their computers and go through their confidential patient file history? This is illegal, to do so under the guise of “eradicating marijuana” is misleading and malicious.

The police “have a heck of a lot of patient records I don’t think they should have,” said Douglas Hiatt, a Seattle attorney who specializes in medical marijuana cases. “For one thing, those records are protected under federal privacy laws. If you’re a medical marijuana patient, you don’t want the police to know who you are or where you live, and this is why - because you don’t get treated very well.”

Nice, a lawyer speaking the truth about how patients are treated, and the fact these records should remain private. Again, not to mention the fact these patients were not breaking any state laws. No plants were being grown there.

Under Washington’s medical marijuana law, doctors can authorize patients to have as much as a 60-day supply of marijuana to treat symptoms of AIDS, cancer and other debilitating or chronic conditions. The law doesn’t define what a 60-day supply is, but the state Health Department proposed this month that it be defined as 24 ounces of usable pot, along with six mature plants and 18 immature plants. Marijuana remains illegal under federal law.

According to Hiatt, the seized documents included patient authorizations, full medical histories, and the names of doctors who authorized the marijuana use.

This is why it is important to learn how California & New York are trying to put an end to this practice - Hault To Prosecuting Patients - by denying tax dollars be used for prosecuting patients and doing this type of illegal activity. Again, they did not arrest anyone because there were no laws being broken, this should not be tolerated or accepted in our society.

These are sick and dying people suffering daily pain, just trying to live a better life - have these police no compassion? Why should tax dollars go to pay cops to arrest the very people that laws were enacted to allow medical marijuana use?

Alison Chinn Holcomb, who follows marijuana issues for the Washington state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, said there doesn’t appear to be any evidence that the group was providing or growing marijuana, and no information that has been revealed thus far would seem to justify seizing the patient files.

“These are very sick people with very serious conditions, and we’re sure none of them want the nature of those conditions made available to the public or to anyone who doesn’t have a valid need for it,” she said.

Many patients are dying, and to have them being treated this way is a mockery of what America is supposed to stand for.

This is not freedom. When a people vote for laws, and the cops themselves fight against those laws - who can win? They are the ones with the guns, the patients have doctor bills, not weapons.

The idea that the cancer patient behind California Proposition 215 would spend a single day in jail suffering from a rare form of adrenal cancer for over 25 years, is so absurd frankly - I find it hard to even believe.

VANCOUVER — An American medical marijuana advocate who tried to claim refugee status in Canada is out of jail in California and says he wants to come back here - at least for a visit.

Steve Kubby served a total of 40 days of a 120-day sentence for possessing drugs found in a police raid almost a decade ago.

Last week, California Superior Court essentially erased the conviction under legislation that allows the move when defendants have fulfilled the terms of their probation.

“This was such a tempest in a teapot,” Kubby, a 61-year-old former ski magazine publisher and pot activist, said in an interview from his home in Mendocino, Calif. “This whole thing was so absurd. It’s finally gotten straightened out.”

He is not just a “medical marijuana advocate” - he deserves a bit more recognition than that…

Steven “Steve” Wynn Kubby (born December 28, 1946) is a Libertarian Party activist who played a key role in the drafting and passage of California Proposition 215. The proposition was a ballot initiative to legalize medical marijuana which was approved by voters in 1996. Kubby himself is well-known as a cancer patient who relies on medical cannabis.

I’d like to thank him personally should he ever read this.

Kubby suffers from a rare form of adrenal cancer that he says can only be kept in check by using marijuana. Without it, he says his body over-produces adrenaline, which can spike blood pressure, causing heart attacks and strokes.

Not only has the medical marijuana kept his cancer in check - as his doctor has claimed it has stopped its growth!

All other patients with this diagnosis have had a 100% mortality rate within five years. His physician, Dr. Vincent DeQuattro, a specialist from the USC School of Medicine, monitored his condition and treated him with conventional therapies, including chemotherapy, until referring him to the Mayo Clinic in 1981 for yet another surgery and radiation.

For the next 25 years, Kubby claimed to control the symptoms of his disease solely by smoking medical marijuana and by maintaining a healthy diet. His original doctor, an expert on this condition shocked to learn he was still alive, said, “In some amazing fashion, this medication has not only controlled the symptoms of the pheochromocytoma, but in my view, has arrested its growth.”

Wow, a 100% mortality rate in under 5 years thwarted by the natural medical marijuana use. (more…)

For those looking for info regarding Rhode Island’s Medical Marijuana Program, here are the details.

The Rhode Island General Assembly directed the Department of Health to create a medical marijuana program (MMP). The “Edward O. Hawkins and Thomas C. Slater Medical Marijuana Act” was enacted on January 3, 2006 (Public Laws 05-442 and 05-443. To see the law click on the following link: Rhode Island Medical Marijuana Law

The MMP will permit persons with debilitating medical condition(s) to use marijuana if a physician certifies in writing that the marijuana may mitigate the symptoms of the condition(s) and that the potential benefits of using medical marijuana would likely outweigh the health risks to the patients. The Medical Marijuana Act provides registered patients and caregivers with authority, under certain circumstances, to possess a limited amount of marijuana without violating state law. The Medical Marijuana Act does not alter federal statutes and regulations prohibiting the possession and use of marijuana.

Registration Requirements:

To access the Rules and Regulations for registration please click on the link below:

Rhode Island Medical Marijuana Program Restrictions & Requirements (.pdf file)

Anyone in this state who qualifies for medical marijuana should immediately get involved in your area. Become a medical marijuana patient today.

More and more politicians, whether it be Senators or Representatives, are changing their mind after meeting with patients who live with daily pain. Many politicians are caught up in the “drug war” mind-frame and have never sat down with patients and really examined the issue from a compassion point of view. As time moves on though, we see compassion and understanding regarding medical marijuana and those who need it daily.

Rep. Jerry McNerney is now willing to vote for an amendment he’d opposed last year that would bar the federal government from spending money to arrest or prosecute medical-marijuana patients in the states — including California — where medical marijuana is legal.

“In the past year, the congressman has met several patients with debilitating illnesses that use doctor-prescribed medical marijuana,” McNerney spokesman Andy Stone said Friday. “Hearing their stories, he feels that he cannot in good conscience deny doctor-prescribed treatment to a person that experiences excruciating pain on a daily basis.”

Asked whether this means McNerney, D-Pleasanton, will vote for the Hinchey-Rohrabacher amendment when it’s brought forward again in the next few weeks, Stone replied, “That’s a fair assumption.”

This is a sign of compassion and we applaud McNerney for taking this stance on this highly controversial topic. Once you get past the propaganda and cops vs drug dealers rhetoric, you will find medical cannabis is a very simple and easily discussed topic, that clearly has pros and cons - but when someone’s daily pain is in question, you have to be willing to look past your own prejudices and consider others. Again, a round of applause for Rep. Jerry McNerney.

“The support for medical marijuana and for the idea that states ought to be able to make these decisions for themselves … has grown every year” since 2004, Bernath said Friday. “So it’s very encouraging that Congressman McNerney has decided to support patients in his area, but I wouldn’t say it’s surprising.”

Public support as well as congress support seems to be growing and we hope it continues. Many people think the Civil War was fought over slavery, but it was actually “state rights” and there are Republicans as well as Democrats and Libertarians who regard state rights as Holy. This debate regarding state rights strikes at the heart of how laws are formed in this country. States have the right to make their own laws, despite Federal Law - it has been that way for a very long time.

A series of judicial defeats — including the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2005 ruling in a case brought by Oakland activist Angel Raich — has had medical-marijuana advocates pinning most of their hopes on Congress. The bipartisan amendment to the Science-State-Justice-Commerce Appropriations bill has been introduced in each year since 2003, and takes its name from sponsors Maurice Hinchey, D-N.Y., and Dana Rohrabacher, R-Huntington Beach. The amendment was defeated in 2007 on a 165-262 vote; it got 163 votes in 2006, 161 votes in 2005, 148 in 2004 and 152 in 2003.

Half of the House’s freshmen Democrats, including McNerney, opposed it last year. But with polls showing Democratic strength in this November’s House elections, it’s possible some now feel they have a bit more cover if they choose to displease a few conservative constituents this year.

Encourage and support those who vote for this.

McNerney last year had issued a statement saying his vote against the amendment was based on his conversations with law enforcement officials about the effect of drug use on his district’s communities, particularly in San Joaquin County. “We are facing a drug crisis with meth and other drug use on the rise. Until we get a handle on the crippling drug use in our society, I cannot support the relaxation of current drug policy,” he said at that time.

Glad to see McNerney has changed his position and has willfully came over to the compassion side of this debate instead of remaining on the side of the irrational. Medical marijuana is gaining support in the government and in the public.

Keep the topic on the minds of our leaders, and never stop pushing for legal and safe access to cannabis in America.

All I can say right now is I am so glad mankind has pushed for the technology we have today, because this news story shows exactly how someone can be completely innocent but proven guilty by the media and police - even though you did NOTHING.

I will leave out the guys name and picture because he is innocent, but this is very popular in the news at this moment.

An 18 year old male was delivering cookies for MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) - the cops claimed the cookies were “laced with LSD” and “smelled of marijuana.” So they arrested the kid, and threw him in jail.

One small problem, the lab tests indicate no drugs at all in the cookies. So now we throw people in jail because a cop “thinks” he smells marijuana on a cookie?

The major flag in all this is where did they pull out the “laced with LSD” accusation? Their “field test” consists of taking a piece of the cookies, putting it in a bag and dripping some liquid on it, if the liquid turns blue - bingo its drugs. But nowhere does it indicate “LSD or marijuana.” And if a cop “smelled” marijuana why would they tack on “laced with LSD” to the charge?

“Our officers took a good whiff and thought they smelled like marijuana,” McGuire said, adding that preliminary tests instead detected traces of LSD.

A cop’s nose is no reason to lock someone up in jail under false accusations… keyword in the above quote “thought” as in “they thought wrong.”

No cops became ill and no officer was sick from eating the cookies. They rushed to judgment on something without any real evidence and ended up locking up an innocent kid trying to do community service… which by the way, how is delivering cookies to cops considered community service? People really need to look into exactly how MADD gets its funding and how it works in regards to things like this - getting tax dollars to deliver cookies to cops? I mean come on - this money can be spent elsewhere. The last thing cops need is cookies. Especially this group of cops… (more…)

Cannabis is and will forever be medicine. No law can change that fact. It was medicine before this country (America) and it will be around long after you and I are dead. Man cannot change this plants reason for existence and no legislation can strip away its magical medicinal properties and natural healing abilities.

What is medical cannabis?

Medical cannabis refers to the use of the Cannabis sativa plant as a physician-recommended herbal therapy as well as synthetic THC and cannabinoids. So far, the medical use of cannabis is legal only in a limited number of territories, including Canada, Belgium, Australia, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Spain, and some U.S. states. This usage generally requires a prescription, and distribution is usually done within a framework defined by local laws.

Personally my interest in medical cannabis started with suffering from Migraine. And of course, living in california - which provoked me to get this web site going.

So I started digging around and educating myself about cannabis used as medicine… (more…)