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Mind-altering psychedelics, or hallucinogens, are back in the research labs, where their therapeutic applications -- rather than the illegal use -- are being explored. Studies are looking at psychedelics to treat a number of otherwise intractable psychiatric disorders, including chronic depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and drug or alcohol dependency.
The past 15 years have seen a quiet resurgence of psychedelic drug research as scientists have come to recognize the long-underappreciated potential of these drugs. In the past few years, a growing number of studies using human volunteers have begun to explore the possible therapeutic benefits of drugs such as LSD, psilocybin, DMT, MDMA, ibogaine and ketamine......
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I for one have experienced the healing and awaking of a good experiment into the brain via the helping hand of a psychedelic. Our society has been putting great tools on the back burner and keeping us from the truly healing potions that have been used for thousands of years.
Have you had a healing experince?
Why are some substances "drugs" while others are "medications?"Mind-altering psychedelics, or hallucinogens, are back in the research labs, where... more
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- Senators McCain and Obama:
If elected, will you create a Presidential Commission to study marijuana—its Prohibition, Budgetary, Social, and Health effects, and to make recommendations for marijuana law reform?
By George Rohrbacher, NORML Board Member
Federal law prohibiting marijuana dates from 1937. The Marijuana Tax Stamp Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives for just over a minute and against the wishes of organizations such as the American Medical Association. Cannabis, as it was then known, was a component of at least 28 patent medicines made by industry leaders such as Merck, Eli Lilly, and Squibb. With the passage of this law, not only did the legal sale and possession of cannabis end, but all American research into medicinal use of marijuana ground to a halt, and even the ages-old knowledge of marijuana as a medicine went into deep remission.
Today there is a whole universe of information on the subject of marijuana that is brand-new since the Shafer Commission last studied marijuana in the 1970’s. The information then available lead Nixon’s own handpicked commission come to a surprising conclusion: they recommended no legal penalties for adults possessing up 100 grams of marijuana. Nixon freaked out, flew into a rage, canceled print runs of the report, and refusing to read the document, he buried the Shafer Commission’s recommendations. Tricky Dick did exactly the opposite and started America’s full-scale War on ‘Weed’, instead. And now forty years later, the War on Pot continues to grind on, getting larger with each passing year. After hundreds of billions of dollars expended, after millions of people arrested, is it not time we studied marijuana again? Because, by every measure available, America’s current approach to marijuana has failed—and, in the words of former-President Jimmy Carter, it is “…doing more harm than good.” [more]
- Senators McCain and Obama:
If elected, will you create a Presidential Commission... more
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Join MPP’s Sara Cannon as she takes a look at outright lies made by the Drug Free America Foundation.Join MPP’s Sara Cannon as she takes a look at outright lies made by the Drug... more
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While the prohibition of cannabis is absurd, the ban on the plant’s non-psychoactive components is even more mind-boggling — particularly when it’s apparent that these compounds possess amazing therapeutic properties. Case in point: cannabidiol (CBD).
A just published scientific review by Sao Paulo University (Brazil) researcher Antonio Zuardi reports that there’s been an “explosive increase” of interest in CBD over the past five years. It’s apparent why.
“Studies have suggested a wide range of possible therapeutic effects of cannabidiol on several conditions, including Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, cerebral ischemia, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, other inflammatory diseases, nausea and cancer,” Zuardi writes. Let’s look at a few of these in detail, shall we? [more]While the prohibition of cannabis is absurd, the ban on the plant’s... more
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- For more than a year, the state has approved some New Mexicans to use marijuana, but they have yet to approve anyone to distribute it.
On the surface, it was just another public hearing on medical marijuana. But look a little harder and you'll see patients who said they need a medicine that's illegal -- -- but in the crowd were people who said their quality of life depended on the final decision.
"A lot of pain, nausea, not being able to keep weight on," medical marijuana user Hank Tafoya said, describing his symptoms, "(I've been) HIV positive for twenty years, AIDS diagnosis for 19 years and this year was also told I have cancer."[more]ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- For more than a year, the state has approved some New Mexicans to... more
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All healing comes from God.
Marijuana cures cancer and many other diseases
Time to do a check up from the neck up.All healing comes from God.
Marijuana cures cancer and many other diseases
Time to... more
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"Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man." [more]"Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active... more
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Andrew Feldmar (the Canadian psychotherapist who was denied entrance to the United State last year when a US border guard Googled his name and found a research paper in which Feldmar described two acid trips he took 1967) has an essay in the Guardian about psychedelics as a useful took in psychotherapy.
After three LSD sessions, a patient emerged from what was labelled chronic psychotic depression (she had attempted suicide three times, had been hospitalised, and given several courses of ECT, major antipsychotics and antidepressants), and was able to hold a job, derive pleasure from her days, and look forward to cultivating a varied garden of delights. She moved from cursing me for not letting her die to blessing me for the surprising freedom that opened up for her as a result of her LSD experiences. Psychotherapy, without LSD, would not have been enough, I'm afraid.
I can only hope that if new research with psychedelics proceeds in a responsible, careful and creative manner, the powers that be can begin to support and foster further research into this fascinating realm. I was 27 when I first tasted this incredible substance called LSD. Now I am 68 and for the last two years have been persona non grata in the US, because a border guard Googled my name, and found an article I wrote many years ago on entheogen-assisted psychotherapy. I hope I will be invited into the US before I die to teach professionals how to use psychedelics for the benefit of all.Andrew Feldmar (the Canadian psychotherapist who was denied entrance to the United... more
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Casting bread on the water.
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At Oaksterdam University, students learn how to cultivate and sell medical marijuana the "safe way." A day in an intro class shows that this may require the paranoid mentality of a drug dealer. Find out how easy it is to get rich off weed. Read More...At Oaksterdam University, students learn how to cultivate and sell medical marijuana... more
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"Depending on whom you ask, marijuana is a dangerous drug that should be kept illegal alongside heroin and PCP, or it's a miracle herb with a trove of medical benefits that the government is seeking to deny the public -- or something in between: a plant with medical uses and drawbacks, worth exploring.
As the political debates over medical marijuana drag on, a small cadre of researchers continues to test inhaled marijuana for the treatment of pain, nausea and muscle spasms.
All drugs have risks, they point out -- including ones in most Americans' medicine cabinets, such as aspirin and other pain-relievers or antihistamines such as Benadryl. Doctors try to balance those risks against the potential for medical good -- why not for marijuana as well, they ask.
The truth, these researchers say, is that marijuana has medical benefits -- for chronic-pain syndromes, cancer pain, multiple sclerosis, AIDS wasting syndrome and the nausea that accompanies chemotherapy -- and attempts to understand and harness these are being hampered. Also, they add, science reveals that the risks of marijuana use, which have been thoroughly researched, are real but generally small.
Dr. Donald Abrams, chief of hematology and oncology at San Francisco General Hospital and professor of clinical medicine at UC San Francisco, says he sees cancer patients in pain, not eating or sleeping well, experiencing nausea and vomiting from treatment, and being depressed about their situation. He says he is glad that he lives in California, where use of medical marijuana is allowed by state law, although federal officials continue to raid cannabis dispensaries in the state and scrutinize practices of physicians who specialize in writing cannabis recommendations for patients.
"I can talk to patients about medicinal cannabis [and] I'm often recommending it to them for these indications," Abrams says.
Read on to learn what science has to say about the medical pros and cons, and some mitigating factors, of Cannabis sativa."
So here's the deal: On that link you'll find links to the "pros" and "cons" links, but I'll post em as comments for y'all."Depending on whom you ask, marijuana is a dangerous drug that should be kept... more
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A Film By Christian Laurette - After a serious head injury in 1997, Rick Simpson sought relief from his medical condition through the use of medicinal hemp oil. When Rick discovered that the hemp oil (with its high concentration of T.H.C.) cured cancers and other illnesses, he tried to share it with as many people as he could free of charge - curing and controlling literally hundreds of people's illnesses... but when the story went public, the long arm of the law snatched the medicine - leaving potentially thousands of people without their cancer treatments - and leaving Rick with unconsitutional charges of possessing and trafficking marijuana!
Canada is in the middle of a CANCER EPIDEMIC! Meet the people who were not allowed to testify on Rick's behalf at the Supreme Court of Canada's Infamous Rick Simpson Trial on September 10, 2007... INCLUDING A MAN WHO WAS CURED OF TERMINAL CANCER USING HEMP OIL!
IF YOU SEE ONLY ONE DOCUMENTARY THIS YEAR... MAKE IT THIS ONE!
(Parental Guidance Suggested - Mature subject matter.)A Film By Christian Laurette - After a serious head injury in 1997, Rick Simpson... more
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