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Although I never believed the use of cannabis was detrimental to health, the idea that its use was beneficial for health did not enter my consciousness until 1995 when I became a caregiver for a close friend who had contracted AIDS. A roly-poly guy, my friend had wasted away [...]
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5. August 2010
As a nurse, I provide patients with advice based on sound scientific research on a variety of health issues. As a nurse, I do not offer advice on health issues based on my political affiliations or economic philosophy. I may offer advice on political issues [...]
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1. July 2010
Although freedom of speech, assembly and religion are always trotted out when speaking of freedom on the Fourth of July, the one freedom Americans value most on our nation’s Independence Day is the freedom to get into their cars and drive, drive, drive. Like all freedoms, the freedom to drive comes with responsibilities, and one of [...]
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3. June 2010
In the upcoming initiative campaign to tax and regulate cannabis, you will be inundated by false, misleading and self-serving statements from opponents. One of the most egregious you will hear ad nauseam is that marijuana use causes significant health and social problems. In a recent speech to the California Police Chiefs Assn., U.S. drug czar Gil Kerlikowske stated “ [...]
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6. May 2010
Science proves medical efficacy of cannabis—finally! By Lanny Swerdlow, RN “The Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research is currently conducting scientific studies to determine the efficacy of marijuana in treating various ailments. Until that research is concluded, however, most of what the public hears from marijuana activists is little more than [...]
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1. April 2010
420 has become such a ubiquitous term for marijuana use that there is a special day, international in scope, just to celebrate it—April 20. Whatever the origins of the term, 420 doesn’t just celebrate the use of cannabis, it specifically celebrates the recreational use of marijuana. Unfortunately for those of us who have
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4. March 2010
In the August issue of Cancer Prevention Research, seven medical researchers reported that “10 to 20 years of marijuana use was associated with a significantly reduced risk of head and neck squamous cell cancer.” The italics are mine because
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4. February 2010
Although marijuana was not the sole cause of the upheavals and changes in social mores during the turbulent ’60s, it was an important part of the anti-war movement—as annunciated in the movement’s defining slogan of “Make Love, Not War.” That’s marijuana, all right—enhancing lovemaking
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7. January 2010
The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that health care costs reached $2.2 trillion in 2007, more than three times the $714 billion spent in 1990, and over eight times the $253 billion spent in 1980
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3. December 2009
I constantly get calls at the THCF Medical Clinic by perspective medical-marijuana patients telling me they are tired of taking all their prescription pharmaceuticals and they want to use a “natural herbal remedy.” Give me a break! These people are
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2. September 2010
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