Recent Developments: Medical Marijuana
Irv Rosenfeld, a Ft. Lauderdale stockbroker, will have smoked 220 pounds of US government marijuana/cannabis over a 23-year period. The longest using patient in the federal governments Compassionate Use Program, with only 7 US citizens being shown such compassion, Irv has benefited from this medicine without negative side effects of any type.
“The accreditation of our educational work by the University of California San Francisco’s Office of Continuing Medical Education, the hosting of the forum by the Santa Barbara City College, coupled with the co-sponsorship of the California Nurses Association has ensured that the US federal government’s claim that cannabis has no medicinal value will be, again, completely rebutted.”
Marijuana Journalism 101 - “Consider The Source”
“Medical cannabis is another name for legalization. Marijuana is addictive everybody knows that. Smoking marijuana leads you straight to the harder drugs. I heard one doctor wrote 5,000 ok’s for patients to use cannabis over the phone. Cannabis patients are recreational users looking to get high. There is no science to support ...
Editorial
Al Byrne
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DREHER'S JAMAICAN PREGNANCY STUDY

More Suppression of Marijuana Research

In the 1980s Melanie Dreher and colleagues at UMass Amherst began a longitudinal study to assess the well-being of infants and children whose mothers used...

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Photojournalists and other media are welcome to witness the revealed quality of the medicine provided and interview four of the medical marijuana supplied patients in the US about their medical use; Barbara Douglass, Irv Rosenfeld, George McMahon and Elvy Musikka. Patients Out of Time shall study the quality of the medicine exposed on April 7 and invites you to document the beginning of the study for the DEA.”.
 
  • From the Santa Barbara conference.and other related video:
    Art Kunkin of the Los Angeles Free Press gives this report to Lanny Swerdlow about the possible future of medical marijuana with the new democarats gaining power. Art reads a letter from Michael Moore to the Republicans that re-assures them that the Democrats won't hurt them, maybe.

 
 
 
In a DEA courtroom in February 2006, a PhD and DEA witness, under oath, charged that a study done by Patients Out of Time on four federal cannabis patients, the "Chronic Cannabis Use in the Investigational New Drug Program: An examination of the Benefits and Adverse Effects of Legal Clinical Cannabis" commonly called "The Missoula Study", included forged pictures of federally supplied cannabis. The testimony was proved false .
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Our Current and Past Press Releases
A ful list of Patient Out of Time press releases concerning various aspects of medicinal cannabis research, clinical use, organizational support and patient advocacy.
   
US - FDA Continues to Politicize Medical Debate
Doing a superb imitation of an ostrich with its head in the sand, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) trotted out a one- page message on April 20 stating it does not support the use of cannabis for medical purposes...PDF file article
   
GadflyOnline.com article Marijuana as Medicine featuring Patients Out of Time
   
Sativex: change of thinking? Plant-based cannabis medicine heads to pharmacies
Canada is the first country in the world to license a plant-based cannabinoid pharmaceutical
medicine in the modern era.
   
Marijuana Myths: Ten Most Common Concerns About Cannabis
   
Chronic Cannabis Use in the Compassionate Investigational New Drug Program:
An Examination of Benefits and Adverse Effects of Legal Clinical Cannabis [pdf]
   
Rebuttal to DEA's "Exposing the Myth of Medical Marijuana"
   
Connecticut Nurses Association passes resolution in support of therapeutic cannabis / marijuana
   
Illinois Nurses Association Position paper on
providing patients safe access to therapeutic cannabis / marijuana
   
Virginia Nurses Again Demand Medical Cannabis
   
  Drug War Facts - Facts on medical marijuana
   
  The Media Awareness Project - medical marijuana related topics
   
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