A Patient's Guide to Medical Cannabis

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Common Questions About Marijuana 
Read what the nation’s top scientists have concluded about: addiction, progression to harder drugs, cancer, mortality, brain damage, a motivational syndrome and medical marijuana.

MARIJUANA USE BY YOUNG PEOPLE: The Impact of State Medical Marijuana Law

Marijuana Prohibition Facts

Medical Marijuana Briefing Paper The Need to Change State and Federal Law

Granny Storm Crow’s MMJ Reference List
“This Granny’s list” contains hundreds of studies about cannabis and how it can heal, check it out for yourself!

Know Your Rights
Many arrests for cannabis possession are due to traffic violations and noise complaints, this brochure is to help medical marijuana patients by traveling safely, being prepared and discreet with a few simple ways to operate.

10 Things You Should Know About Marijuana
This brochure covers simple questions from What is Medical Marijuana? to Is It Physically Addictive?

5 Things You Can Do Right Now to Help Legalize Cannabis
Are you interested in helping the legalization of Cannabis? This should guide you on some actions you can pursue to help the cause.

Cooking with Cannabis
Helping you use cannabis in your favorite recipes as well as new recipes from butter, tea, brownies, pizza, pancakes and so much more!

History of Medical Cannabis
Here’s and excerpt from the article, read more to understand more about the history of Medical Cannabis:

In 1988, the DEA’s Chief Administrative Law Judge, Francis L. Young, ruled after extensive hearings that,  “Marijuana, in its natural form, is  one of the safest therapeutically active substances known… It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for the DEA to continue to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance…” Yet the DEA refused to implement this ruling based on a procedural technicality and resists rescheduling to this day.

History of Cannabis as a Medicine By Lester Grinspoon, M.D.
Lester Grinspoon, an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School explores the History of Cannabis as a Medicine.

Marijuana As Medicine?: The Science Beyond the Controversy
Some people suffer from chronic, debilitating disorders for which no conventional treatment brings relief. Can marijuana ease their symptoms? Would it be breaking the law to turn to marijuana as a medication? 

Marijuana As Medicine? provides a foundation for making decisions about their own health care. Including:

• Whether marijuana can relieve a variety of symptoms, including pain, muscle spasticity, nausea, and appetite loss.

• The dangers of smoking marijuana, as well as the effects of its active chemical components on the immune system and on psychological health.

• The potential use of marijuana-based medications on symptoms of AIDS, cancer, multiple sclerosis, and several other specific disorders, in comparison with existing treatments.

Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base
The medical use of marijuana is surrounded by a cloud of social, political, and religious controversy, which obscures the facts that should be considered in the debate. This book summarizes what we know about marijuana from evidence-based medicine–the harm it may do and the relief it may bring to patients. The book helps the reader understand not only what science has to say about medical marijuana but also the logic behind the scientific conclusions.

Cannabis is a Safe and Effective Medicine

WAR ON DRUGS – Global Commission Report
“The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world…break the taboo on debate and reform. The time for action is now.”

End the Drug War!
In an effort to end the Drug War, the Family Council on Drug Awareness quickly covers the drug war and asks you to consider the alternatives in this brochure.

Physiology of Cannabis
An informative handout the touches on the respiratory effects, gastrointestinal benefits, cardiovascular response, and the affect on mood, movement and pain in the brain from cannabis.

Summary of Medical Effects of Cannabis
An informative handout that provides a bit more information on the effects of cannabis on the body beginning with how its absorbed in the brain and going down the human body to the eyes, ears, mouth, lungs and so on.

NORML Clinical Applications for Cannabis and Cannabinoids
Despite the ongoing political debate regarding the legality of medical marijuana, clinicalinvestigations of the therapeutic use of cannabinoids are now more prevalent than at any time in history and The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws discusses the clinical applications for cannabis including but not limited to Alzehiemer’s Disease, Chronic Pain, Diabetes Mellitus, Gastrointestinal Disorders, Cancer, Hepatitis C, and HIV.

HIV/AIDS and Medical Cannabis Brochure

ARTHRITIS and Medical Cannabis Brochure

AGING and Medical Cannabis Brochure

CANCER and Medical Cannabis

CHRONIC PAIN and Medical Cannabis

GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDERS and Medical Cannabis

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS and Medical Cannabis

MOVEMENT DISORDERS (MD) and Medical Cannabis Brochure

Cannabis and the Old Testament

Marijuana & The Bible

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