Content about Psychedelics, dissociatives and deliriants

03.12.10
Cannabis as a Cure for Anxiety

Just as with the article looking at cannabis as a cause of anxiety, I have

03.07.10

One of the best (or worse, it depends on one’s perspective and physical location!) indicators of the total failure of a law, is when it is woefully and subjectively applied.

03.07.10
USA: K2 incense/spice products and marijuana... Marijuana.com Headline News | 3/7/10 | Ganjika

"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for

03.07.10
Smoking Weed in Rehab is Okay, According to Researcher LA Weekly 3/5/2010 | Dennis Romero

Dr. Drew would keel over at the notion, but a study published Friday in the pro-pot Harm Reduction Journal suggests that it's okay smoke weed while trying to ween yourself off other drugs.

03.03.10

Greenway University was formed to provide training and education for the medical marijuana/ cannabis industry and as such it holds workshops to help potential

03.02.10
CA: Pot-smoking young adults aren't doomed to psychosis just yet L.A Times Blogs | 3/1/10| Tami Dennis

03.01.10

Once again members of the mainstream media are running wild with the notion that marijuana use causes schizophrenia and psychosis.

02.27.10

Talk about chutzpah! The United Nation’s Anti-drug agency, International Narcotic Control Board, recently attacked the Parliament-sanctioned Canadian Medical Cannabis Program, oddly looking right past Prohibition-addled but medical cannabis-friendly America.

That’s right.

02.26.10

On arguments for reducing the penalties for possession of cannabis…

A criminal record is a serious matter A criminal record labels a person caught with possessing small amounts of cannabis as a criminal and severely limits their ability to find employment, professional certification and to travel to other countries. Criminalizing a behaviour has a number of effects: it may make it more attractive to some youth, and it may result in the further marginalization of some youth, making it more difficult to help them.

02.25.10

Hilariously pathetic.

Yesterday, I noted that Transform had found a page on the UNODC site that was remarkably reasonable.

It actually talked about the effects of cannabis laws.

02.24.10

As of February 12, 2010, Inflammatory Autoimmune-mediated Arthritis has been added to New Mexico’s Department of Health Medical Cannabis Program.

02.24.10

Did you know that since 2001 more USA vets have committed suicide than have died on the battlefields of Iraq or Afghanistan?  Or that 20% of soldiers returning from the killing fields suffer from

02.24.10
WORLD: Medical Marijuana May Help Fibromyalgia Pain CNN & Health.com | 2/24/2010 | Anne Harding

02.22.10
MO: Pettis County makes cannabis-like K2 illegal in the county connect midmissouri | 2/22/2010 | Kermit Miller

02.20.10
CA: Medical Marijuana Benefits MS, Spinal Cord Patients. EmpowerHer | 2/19/2010 | Associated Press
02.19.10
CA: Medical Marijuana Has Merit, Research Shows WebMD / Feb. 18, 2010 / Kathleen Doheny

Although Research Shows Medical Mariuana Works, Critics Say California Center's Research Is Flawed

02.19.10

On Wednesday of this week, the University of California added a scientific underpinning to something many of us already know; in the first US clinical trials in more than 20 years, researchers found that marijuana helps relieve the pains and muscle

02.18.10

Richard Friar, a 66-year-old farmer from Australia, and his wife Wendy are the proud owners of Australia´s first licensed industrial hemp crop to be grown in an urban area.

02.18.10
US: Medical Marijuana: An Over-Hyped Drug Forbes / February 18, 2010 / Peter A. Lipson

02.17.10

Anecdotal evidence suggests that use of cannabis/marijuana reduces symptoms associated with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS).  Now a research team from the University of Calgary in Canada would like to add the scientific to the anecdotal.

02.17.10

Free Cannabis: There’s an App for That Medical Marijuana iPhone Locator Released for Free

02.16.10
CO: Cannabis Science Announces Preliminary Results of Its Survey of Cannabis Use By Veterans and Others With Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) "Listen to What Our Veterans Are Telling Us" Cannabis Science Inc. / Staff / February 16, 2010
02.16.10

[Editor's note: This post is excerpted from this week's forthcoming NORML weekly media advisory. To have NORML's media advisories delivered straight to your in-box, sign up for NORML's free e-zine here.]