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  • Nostrums: A Bit of Marijuana Is Found to Ease Pain

    09/11/2010 7:35:57 PM PDT · by neverdem · 61 replies · 1+ views
    NY Times ^ | September 6, 2010 | RONI CARYN RABIN
    People with chronic pain who took just a puff of marijuana three times a day got some mild pain relief and, with rare exceptions, did so without getting high, a Canadian study reports. (Yes, they inhaled.) The patients, who suffered from persistent nerve damage that did not respond to other pain drugs, also reported better sleep and less anxiety, the researchers said. The study is one of the first randomly controlled clinical trials to test the pain-relieving properties of smoked marijuana and of its active ingredient, tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, said Dr. Mark A. Ware, a pain researcher at McGill University...
  • Clearing away the smoke [Republican Christian on Medical Marijuana]

    02/20/2009 6:14:14 PM PST · by Gondring · 62 replies · 2,483+ views
    The Timberjay Newspapers ^ | Friday, February 20, 2009 | Scott Stowell
    Ely photographer K.K. Forss is using words rather than a camera to offer a picture of what his life is like without medical marijuana. Forss traveled to the State Capitol to testify in support of medical marijuana legislation at a Senate Health, Housing and Family Security Committee hearing on Wednesday. Medical marijuana use has been a political issue in Minnesota since the mid-nineties. The bill is currently being sponsored in the House by Rep. Tom Rukavina (DFL-Virginia). A five member bipartisan group is pushing it in the Senate. Last year, though the legislation passed in the Senate, it did not...