Medical
Cannabis Page Two |
Arizona Paper Carries Column by Rhode Island
Editor Endorsing Prop 200 – Without Mentioning Medical Marijuana |
| Medical Marijuana Initiative Makes It To
Ballot in Washington State, But Not In Maine |
The AP Reveals That Funding For Oregon Medical
Marijuana Initiative Came From Out Of State;
When Will They Examine The Funding Of Marijuana Prohibition? |
How the Government Helps Medical Marijuana
Patients:
"McWilliams vomited repeatedly in court Friday, prompting guards to keep a trash can
nearby." |
| How You Can Help Peter McWilliams |
AIDS And Cancer Patient Peter McWilliams
Remains Jailed As Court Refuses To Reduce Bail |
A Few Facts and Lots Of Venom About Arizona
Proposition 200; Either Way, We Lose – 2 Articles |
A Message From Peter McWilliams, Prisoner Of
The War On The Sick And Dying |
Great Story From The AP On Class Action
Medical Marijuana Suit |
A Few UK MS Patients To Be Allowed To Inhale
Whole Cannabis Without Being Arrested – Next Year!
That’s Why They Are Called "Patients;" We Expect Them To Wait! -- 2
Articles |
Judge Approves Giving Orange County Patient
Records To Prosecutor; Disallows Prop. 215 Defense |
Peter McWilliams Still Held on $250,000 Bond;
Denied AIDS Medication For Four Days!!! Two Stories |
The Arizona Proposition 200 Situation
Explained. Sort of… |
House of Lords To Hear Licensed UK Medical
Cannabis Grower – BBC To Air Special On Medical Marijuana |
The Judicial Lynching Of Marvin Chavez
Continues –Two Reports |
The Feds Drop The Other Jackboot; Indict Peter
McWilliams, Todd McCormick and Others,
Alleging Vast Conspiracy To Supply Medical Marijuana |
Oakland City Council Officially Authorizes The
Oakland Cannabis Buyers’ Cooperative To Distribute Medical Marijuana |
Philadelphia Legal Newspaper Says Medical
Marijuana Class Action Lawsuit
"essentially demands a peaceful surrender in one of the major battles in the war on
drugs." |
Disabled Vet Uses Medical Marijuana To
Liberate Himself From the Pharmaceutical Industry |
Customs Agent Seizes Gram Of Medical Marijuana
From California Patient With A Prescription, Sends Letter to Doctor |
Ontario Editorial Is In No Hurry to Arrest MS
Patient Harichy, Nor In Any Hurry for Justice |
More On the Injustice of the David Herrick
Case |
Journal Of Psychoactive Drugs Reports On The
Importance Of Cannabis Clubs In Providing Medical Marijuana |
Herrick Sentenced to Four Years For Selling
Medical Marijuana; Chavez Pretrial Hearing Next |
Science Journal Reports That Cannabinoid
Receptors Located Outside The Brain And Spine
Are Affected When The Skin Or Flesh Is Cut Or Hurt --The Independent |
"Cannabis could form the basis for an
entirely new approach to pain."
"Why marijuana is emerging as such a panacea." UK Report |
NORML Responds to Nevada Doctor Who Said
"Let them eat Marinol" |
Oregon Medical Marijuana Initiative To Be On
Ballot Along With Measure To Repeal Recriminalization |
| Marijuana Appears To
Protect Against Brain Injuries, Federal Researchers Find |
Nevada Police Hail Apparent Failure of Medical
Marijuana Petition Drive |
Las Vegas Police Clear Themselves Of Charges
That They Violated the Rights Of Medical Marijuana Petitioners |
The First Amendment Is In Better Shape In
Jacksonville Beach, Thanks to the Hempfest |
Feds Ask Judge To Immediately Close Medical
Cannabis Clubs In Oakland, And In Marin And Mendocino Counties |
A Letter From Oregon Shows What the Medical
Marijuana Movement Is Really All About |
Peter Baez of Santa Clara County Medical
Cannabis Center Gets Legal "Dream Team" To Defend Him |
Oakland City Council Votes To Allow Patients
One And Half Pounds Of Medical Marijuana |
| Orange County Attorney
Defending Marvin Chavez Showing Gratitude For Help To Son-in-Law Who Died Of Cancer |
Cannabis May Prevent
Brain Damage From Strokes; Slow Progress of Alzheimers and Parkinsonism
DEAland National Institute of Mental Health Study,
But Reported In British Media |
UK Victims of Tranquilizers Urge That
"Far Safer" Medical Cannabis Be Made Available -- IoS
"More people died from benzodiazepine usage than from such
drugs as heroin and cocaine." |
Medical Marijuana Class Action Lawsuit Filed
In Philadelphia Federal Court;
Starting With Over 100 Plaintiffs; Text of Suit On Line |
| Washington State Medical
Marijuana Petitions Submitted With 230,000 Signatures |
| California Legislature
Debates & Defeats Measure Providing Medical Marijuana Distribution By Local
Communities |
Prosecutors Seek Medical Records of Hundreds
Of Members of Orange County Cannabis Co-op |
Elderly Oregon Medical Marijuana User More
Severely Punished Than Child Molester |
Financial Times Article Says Prescribing
"Compassionate Reefers" To Certain Patients Is Justified On Existing Evidence. |
An Insight Into How Colorado’s Medical
Marijuana Law Was Repealed And Who Opposes Its Restoration |
The Text of The Nevada Medical Marijuana
Initiative |
| Barton Kaitz, Whose Long Suffering From MS
Led His Mother To Grow Him Marijuana And Get Arrested |
| New Oakland Policy Would
Permit Patients To Have One And Half Pounds Of Medical Marijuana |
| Steve Kubby To Bow Out Completely From Medical
Marijuana Activism To Campaign For Governor |
American Bar Association Governmental
Affairs Office Washington Letter States ABA Support for
"federal legislation to establish a program under which seriously ill patients can be
treated with marijuana." |
Nevada State Medical Association Opposes Even
AMR’s Very Restrictive Medical Marijuana Initiative |
Police Have To Return Medical Marijuana To
Disabled Vet; They Do, But It’s Dead; Well, They Had To Kill Something |
The Townswomen’s Guild, Led By Seventy Year-Old, Will
Now Be "Militant" In Favor Of Medical Marijuana -- IoS |
American Medical Marijuana Organization Forms
New Board And Expands Compassionate Use Photo ID Program |
As Lords Spiritual and Lords Temporal Discuss
Cannabis Policy, Lords Nark Persecute The Sick And Dying -- IoS |
A Fairly Accurate History of the Marijuana
Issue From The Las Vegas Paper |
No Evidence That THC Is Addictive Says Maker
of Marinol After 9 Month Study Including Law Enforcement |
MS Patient Krieger Found Guilty Of Intent to
Sell Medical Marijuana; Vows To Appeal to Canadian Supreme Court |
San Mateo County Times Blames Dennis Peron Not
Lungren For "Medical Marijuana Stalemate" – But Wants It Anyway |
Study Faults Pain Treatment In Cancer
Patients; "Most doctors are not well trained to manage pain." Just Our Lives |
Las Vegas Paper Gives An Overview of State
Politics On Medical Marijuana, Not A Pretty Picture |
60 Days After Law Against Public Use Of
Medical Marijuana In Sacramento County, No One Has Been Arrested |
New California Coalition Of Patients,
Physicians And Attorneys Plans To Register 10,000 Medical Marijuana Patients |
McCormick Now Prisoner Of Pharmaceutical
Industry; To Stay Out Of Jail He Must Pay $17,500 To Set Up Test Differentiating Between
Marijuana and Marinol. Hemp Seed Oil Also Banned |
British Firm To Spend Huge Sums To Turn
Medical Marijuana Into An Expensive Pharmaceutical While Arrests Continue |
Sacramento City Government Divided Over
Medical Marijuana Policies - To Help Or Persecute The Sick and Dying |
Perhaps The Single Most Damning Article On
Medical Marijuana Fiasco I Have Ever Read – Without Intending To Be |
| Oakland CBC Offers Medical Marijuana Photo IDs
For Only 5 Dollars Each, Steve Kubby Announces |
Article Gives A Peek At How Prohibitionists
Use Public Funds To Organize Nationally Against Medical Marijuana |
Private Patient Photo ID Service Started By
California Medical Marijuana Advocate, Libertarian Candidate, Kubby |
UK Government Commission Supports Medical
Marijuana; "Irrational" Not To Explore Its Use In Other Treatments. IoS |
Could Medical Marijuana
Have Prevented Gulf War Syndrome? Derivative Combats Nerve Gas, Say Israeli Reports |
More On Disabled Vet Medical Marijuana Grower
Pleading Not Guilty in California |
UK Jury Acquits Man For Growing
"Medicinal Cannabis;" More Pressure On Government, Reports London Times |
Marijuana Can’t Kill, So Reno Okays Assisted Suicide
Law; Overrules DEA, Which Claims Exclusive Right To Kill Us |
| Two San Diego Cannabis
Club Workers Face Felony Charges; Up to Eight Years In Prison |
| Washington Post Reports
On Steve Michael’s Final Protest; But Mumbles About Medical Marijuana |
| Lungren Sued For
Thwarting Prop 215; Suit Asks State To Allow Counties And Cities To Distribute Medical
Marijuana |
Las Vegas Medical Marijuana Petitioners File
Complaint After Being Harassed By The Police |
Dead Man Protesting! – Body Of D.C.
ACT-UP’s Steve Michael Will Join Medical Marijuana Protest At White House |
Prohibitionist Oregonian Paper Takes Objective
Look at Prozac Use By Kids; Almost A Million Take Anti-Depressants |
Disabled California Veteran Who Told Police He
Was Growing Medical Marijuana To Sue Them For Arresting Him |
Libertarian Candidate Steve Kubby’s Role
In Passing Prop 215 And the Continuing Medical Marijuana Campaign |
Medical Use Of Marijuana Was Legal In Colorado
Until 1995; Now There Are Competing Initiatives To Bring It Back |
"Pot Shopping In Delightful Dolores Park
-- I’ve come to think of the place as Reefers R Us" -- Great Column |
Silicon Valley Weekly Demolishes Case Against
Peter Baez; This Is Not Virtual Injustice; It Is The Real Thing |
Marijuana Derivative Blocks Irreversible Brain
Damage After Accidents; Another Way Marijuana Prohibition Kills |
23 California Democratic State Legislators Ask
Clinton To End Federal Efforts To Close Medical Marijuana Clubs |
Following Closing of Peron’s Club San Francisco
Supervisors and DA Move Forward To Provide Medical Marijuana |
| Confrontated By Florida
Medical Marijuana Advocates Former Drug Addicted Drug Czar Makes Total Fool Of Himself
|
| CMA Joins Many Others
Backing Removal Of Marijuana From Schedule I Prohibitive Status |
Transcript of Politically Incorrect May 15th,
1998 With Todd McCormick; Introducing Iatrogenic Suicide |
"We’ll Blush To Tell Our Grandchildren" – Great
Comment on the Closing of the San Francisco Club |
California Medical Association To Support
Rescheduling Of Marijuana; Otherwise Little Accomplished At Summit |
| A Mental Health
Professional On Over-using Drugs To Solve Problems and Blaming Drugs for Underlying
Problems |
| "Making A Mess Of
Medicinal Marijuana" Deplored By Member Of The Editorial Board of The San Jose
Mercury News |
The Waco Tribune-Herald Denounces Suppression of Hemp and Medical
Marijuana |
Indianapolis Star Reports: "Eli Lilly Doing
Spin Control After News Oregon Shooter Took Prozac" |
San Francisco Sheriff Closes Cannabis Healing
Center Early Today; Thousands of Sick and Dying Without Medicine |
He Showed Sick People How To Grow Marijuana,
So The Judge Said He Should Rot In Hell. (Which Is Happening.) |
Medical Marijuana Got Man Out Of Wheelchair;
"Meanwhile, the MS Society of Canada keeps a cautious distance..." |
Letter from Steve Kubby Calling For Senator
Vasconcellos to Open Medical Marijuana Summit To Other Views. |
California NORML’s Proposed "Friendly
Amendment" To Proposition 215 Sent to Senator Vasconcellos |
Letter From David Herrick; In Jail 1 Year; Another
Reason Why Something Has To Be Done To Implement Prop 215 |
Two Year Million Dollar Study Of How Marijuana
Affects AIDS Patients Finally Begun After Five Year Delay |
Mendocino County Sheriff’s Race Heats Up Over
Marijuana Eradication; All Candidates Support Medical Marijuana |
Florida Medical Marijuana Patients Travel to
Orlando to Denounce "Marijuana Education Summit" |
| Judge Declares Peron’s
Club A "Public Nuisance" And Orders It Shut Down; Narks Use Forged Prescriptions
|
| Marijuana Clubs in
Standoff with Federal Officials in San Francisco |
| DEA Agent Busted By Jeff
Jones At Oakland CBC – A Report From Steve Kubby |
| Orange County Register
Editorial Suggests Ways Out of Medical Marijuana "Mishmash" |
Letter to Senator
Vasconcellos On Medical Marijuana Summit From Colorado Citizens for Compassionate Cannabis |
Proposal for a
California Therapeutic Marijuana Commission |
| NORML's Analysis of Judge's Order Closing 6
California Buyer's Clubs: Intent of Prop. 215 Not Challenged By Ruling |
Medical Marijuana Advocate Accuses Canada of
Hypocrisy; Cheer Olympians and Persecute the Sick; Two Articles |
Painkillers Put Millions At Risk Of Ulcers;
Hospitalize 76,000 & Kill 7,600 Annually; One That Doesn’t Kill Is Illegal |
Critique of Vasconcellos Medical Marijuana
Summit By Libertarian Gubernatorial Candidate Steve Kubby & My Critique |
More on Sacramento Medical Marijuana Summit;
This Is Truly A Major Event; Is It A Trap For Lungren and the DEA? |
"Medical Marijuana Distribution
Summit" in Sacramento on May 26; California Seeks "Medical Marijuana
Consensus" |
California Caretakers "Routinely Drug Foster
Children;" Great Journalism; We Are All Kept In A Chemical Straightjacket |
Mental Health, Marijuana, and Marijuana Prohibition |
Seattle Paper Endorses Medical Marijuana
Initiative: "A Better Approach" |
London Times Column Asks Are There Real Uses
For Cannabis? I Wonder, Are There Real Uses For Newspapers? |
US Agents Raid Peron’s Medical Marijuana Farm;
Patients With AIDS, Multiple Sclerosis And Glaucoma Handcuffed |
California Cannabis Clubs Vow To Defy
Judge’s Order; Peron says. "We’ll bring this issue into the national
arena." |
Cannabis Medical Use Trials Backed by House of
Lords Committee |
| Federal Judge To Issue
Injunction Against Clubs;But Does Not Foreclose "possibility of a medical necessity
defense" |
| Medical Marijuana Grower
Cancer Patient Featured on Frontline Busted the Next Day |
Orange County Cannabis Co-op Volunteer David Herrick Guilty on
Two Counts Of "Selling" |
San Mateo County Plans Research On Medical
Marijuana; They May Learn More Than They Expect |
Were Narks Sent to Coerce Eviction of San
Francisco Club? Lungren Denies Pressuring Landlord |
Marijuana Laws Mean Little To The Suffering
Says Son Of Cancer Patient |
| American Bar Association
Opposes House Resolution Attacking Medical Marijuana |
San Jose Closing: "The biggest death is that of the
spirit of giving, and that of every sick and dying patient in our county." |
David Herrick Denied Proposition 215 &
Medical Necessity As Defense, Mocked By Judge; Orange County Rally |
Scottish Scientist Timidly Calls For New
Cannabis Law But Sounds So Bold |
Thursday Morning Rally For Marvin Chavez; Plus
Update on Three Orange County Cases |
Prop 215 Claims and Medical Necessity Defense
To Be Taken to California Court Of Criminal Appeals |
A Libertarian Editorialist Takes A Pragmatic
Look At How To Make Proposition 215 Work in The Real World |
NORML Reports Vote On House Anti-Medical
Marijuana Resolution Delayed Again |
Director Of UK Alliance For Cannabis
Therapeutics Before The House Of Lords Committee |
British Medical Journal Reports That UK
"Experts" Will Speed Up Work On Alternatives To Medical Marijuana |
Oregon Initiative A Reaction To Draconian Laws
-- Doctors Should Be Able To Prescribe Marijuana, Says the Doctor |
Rally for Marvin Chavez Of Orange County
Cannabis Coop On May 7th -- News Release |
Hypocrisy Entrepreneur, Former Drug-Addicted Drug Czar
Bennett Speaks at Denver Anti-Medical Marijuana Rally |
Legal Victory For San Francisco Cannabis
Healing Center; Next Hearing In June; Problem For Lungren |
San Jose Woman Cries Over Closing Of Club;
Needs Marijuana For Her 78-Year-Old Husband, Dying Of Cancer. |
An Oklahoma Pharmacist Protests The Medical
Mistreatment Of Will Foster: Marijuana or Cruelty |
Judge Says McCormick Can Use Marinol
Unless Government Can Prove He Is Using It to Hide Medical Marijuana Use |
Oregon Medical Association Declines to Oppose
Medical Marijuana; Believe It or Not, This Is A Victory |
"Can weeds and bark be better than
drugs?" A Wonderfully Ironic Column |
"Let Health Workers Distribute Medical
Marijuana" -- San Francisco D.A. Hallinan Says Again |
Most Governments In California Have Flunked
The Test Of Implementation Of Prop 215 – Orange County Register |
Best Selling Author / AIDS-Cancer Patient Peter
McWilliams
Launches Medical Marijuana Press; Risks Federal Imprisonment in Doing So |
"The People Of California Agreed Not To
Stick Mower’s Failing Body In Prison
For The Crime Of Growing Medicine. He Better Be Grateful." |
| Winning The War On the Sick And Dying; Legal
Hassles Extinguishing Buyers Clubs (Really great journalism!) |
| Latest From Orange County: Guns And Cannabis Were
Locked Up Together, Weapons Charges Added To His Case. |
| British Medical Association Calls For
Decriminalizing Medical Marijuana, But Wallows in Reefer Madness |
Doc
Clone’s Compassionate Café Gives No-Or Low-Cost Medical Marijuana
To More Than 60 People In NW Ontario |
| Hazel Rogers’ Birthday Was On 4/20! And
Good Journalism From the Associated Press |
| Senator Smith Uses Oregon School Children In
His Campaign to Justify Arresting the Sick and Dying; Great Column! |
| NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Gives Timid,
Superficial Coverage To California Medical Marijuana Issue |
| Hazel Rogers New Head Of San Francisco
Cannabis Healing Center As Peron Begins Run For Governor |
Scottish Nurses To Back Medical Cannabis
"Despite Claims By Some Doctors That It Causes Paranoia, Even Insanity." |
| Press Release from Rep. McCollum, Sponsor of
House Anti-Medical Marijuana Resolution And NORML’s Response |
Under Jeff Jones, Oakland Buyers Club Endures In Spite of
Troubles Elsewhere;
Peron Gives Control to Hazel Rogers, 78 |
"Morphine and marijuana," Eugene Paper
Editorializes For Medical Marijuana;
Against Senator Smith’s Reefer Madness |
| "Once upon a time, I believed in America." A Letter
From Will Foster, Serving 93 Years For Medical Marijuana |
| San Jose Police Begin Smear Campaign Against Peter Baez; Claiming
Club’s Mark-up Excessive |
Canadian MS Patient Harichy Frustrated:
"How naive I am. This issue is a full-time job without pay." But She Perseveres! |
Doctor Afraid To Write "Prescription"
for Medical Marijuana,
So Californian With Hepatitis Must Spend 90 Days in Jail |
Peron To Close Club; Sheriff To
"Evict" – For A Day;
The Washington Post Is Bemused; Lungren Confused; I'm Amused |
| Orange County Cannabis Co-op Founder Denied Use of
Body-Neck Brace In Jail ("It could be used as a weapon!") |
| San Jose Protesters In Wheelchairs Denounce
Baez’s Arrest; Ask City to Back Medical Marijuana |
| FREE WILL FOSTER Medical Marijuana Rally;
Oklahoma State Capitol Monday, April 20, 1998, 4pm |
| Todd McCormick and Woody Harrelson To Appear
On Politically Incorrect On April 20 |
| Canadian Herbalist, Runs Hemp Clothing Company Establishes
Chapter Of The Medical Marijuana Clubs Of Ontario |
| Judge Orders Peron’s Club Closed; Dennis says,
"They're going to have to bring in the tanks and stage another Waco.'' |
| Press Conference For Todd McCormick Thursday,
April 16, 1998, 12 Noon, Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel |
| California Libertarian Gubernatorial Candidate
and Medical Marijuana Activist Kubby Denounces Jailing McCormick |
| Adverse Pharmaceutical Reactions Major Cause
of Death; Marijuana Does Not Kill But Must Be Approved By FDA? |
Judge Orders McCormick Released; Held Illegally
Without Hearing After Government Said He Failed Urine Test.
Now Federal Prosecutor Says, " He Was Not Aware Of The Test Results." |
| Problems At Two California Clubs Demonstrate
The Cruelty of Leaving Sick and Dying To Fend For Themselves |
Former New York Times Managing Editor
Rosenthal
Denounces "False Compassion" Of Medical Marijuana Proponents |
| Rebuttal of House Resolution 372; A Case of
Mistaken Identity By Ed Glick, RN Excellent! |
| Orange County Club Leaders Arrested For Giving
Away Marijuana To A Nark Who Lied And "Made A Contribution" |
Forced to Walk Barefoot Through Sewage, Denied
Even A Pillow, Cancer Patient Todd McCormick
In Such Fragile Condition, He Is Transferred To The Psychiatric Ward Where He Is Kept In
Cold Cell |
| Results Of Todd McCormick’s March 31, 1998, Drug
Test: |
| Only Nine House Members Go On Record Against
The Anti-Medical Marijuana Resolution |
| San Francisco Mayor Brown Urges
"Don’t Bar A Pain Killer Approved By Voters" |
| A Letter From A Medical Marijuana User Who Found That
It Relieves His Depression And Bi-Polar Disorder |
| British "Addiction Specialist" Calls for Clinical
Trials for Cannabis; But Warns About Moving Trees And Floating Arms |
| Free Todd McCormick Rally/Vigil Monday, April 13
Federal Courthouse, Downtown Los Angeles |
| Facing Nine Years In Prison, Cancer Patient Baez
Stepping Down As Head Of San Jose Cannabis Center. |
| Swedish Prohibitionists Report: Maine
"Rejects Petitions For Vote On So-Called ‘Medicinal Use’ Of Marijuana"
|
| Dr. Andrew Weil Tells Conference Of Medical
Professionals Marijuana Is Medically Useful |
| Lungren Calls Peron’s Cannabis Cultivator’s Club
"A Drug House;" Asks Judge For Immediate Closing |
| Felony Charges In Another California Medical
Marijuana Cultivation Case; Crop Was Supply For A Buyers Club |
| "Ninety Three Years for Pot" A Great
Column About Will Foster From The Heartland |
| More On UK Jury Acquittal Of Man On
Cultivation Charges; Vows To Keep Giving Cannabis To Wife With MS |
| NBC Reports Judge Ignored McCormick’s
Obvious Pain; Even Denied Right To Take Special Pillow To Jail |
| Activist Alan Gordon Starting Hunger Strike
Until Clinton Outlines Medical Marijuana Program Prof. Heicklen Reports |
| IoS Cannabis Campaign Influencing Public
Opinion; UK Jury Acquits Medical Marijuana Grower; Ignores Judge. |
| Medical Marijuana Advocates Protest As
Congressman Rogan Makes An Even Bigger Fool Of Himself |
| Cancer Patient Todd McCormick Jailed
for 3 Weeks; Because Federal Prosecutor was "Not Ready for the Hearing"!! |
| Major Setback For Lungren: Judge Denies Motions To
Close Buyers Club; Sets Jury Trial For April 27. |
| Update On Todd McCormick: He Is To Be Held In Federal
Detention Until April 22 – Or Until Marinol Clears System |
| San Jose Buyers Club Will No Longer Accept New
Clients Because Of The Club’s Legal Troubles. |
| AIDS Patient’s Worst Nightmare: Medical
Records With Intimate Details Of Illness Seized And Read By Police |
Arrest Warrant For Todd McCormick For Failing
Urine Test
Only Two Weeks After Order To Stop Using Legal Marinol! |
Wage
Peace. Letter from Todd McCormick:
"Do not be daunted by their cruelty, PLEASE continue to fight for freedom" |
| Canadian Court Delays Trial Of MS Patient
Harichy Until Province’s Top Court Has Ruled On Medical Defense Issue. |
| British Medical Journal "Cannabis As Medicine:
Time For The Phoenix To Rise?" Some Facts; No Courage |
| Hawaiian House Health Committee Isn’t
Ready To Ask Congress To Allow Doctors To Prescribe Marijuana. |
| Canadian MS Patient Harichy To Begin Buyers
Club Without Store: "We Don’t Want Buyers Scared By Police" |
| A Letter From A Medical Marijuana User
Describes Fear And Frustration |
| Canadian MS Patient Harichy: "We Don’t
Want To Be Criminals But There Is A Necessity For It." |
| Lungren Believes People Dying Of Alcoholism
Should Be Able To Smoke Tobacco in Bars But Not Marijuana in Hospices |
| California Congressman Whose Cousin Used
Medical Marijuana, Now Opposes It. Denounced By Local Paper |
| "High On A Lie"-- The Reader’s
Digest Attacks The Medical Marijuana Movement; Yes, Someone Is Lying |
| !!!!Journal Of The American
Medical Association Reviews Marihuana, The Forbidden Medicine !!!! |
| Patients Plan To File A Class-Action Lawsuit
Against San Jose Police For Violating Confidentiality Of Medical Records |
| Peter Baez Taking Leave of Absence From Buyers
Club; "Shaken Up" By Jailing |
| Review of All The Proposed Oregon Marijuana
Initiatives – Which Do Police Fear Most? |
| Director Of California NORML Reports That The
Judge Asked The Right Questions -- Excellent Analysis |
| London Times Reports Sympathetically About
Medical Marijuana User – Leaves Government Sounding Cruel |
| Hundreds March And Pray In San Francisco As
Federal Court Begins Hearings On Closing Buyers Clubs |
| Santa Clara Cannabis Club Operator/Cancer
Patient Baez Arrested for Selling To Man Who Only Has Broken Back |
| Party Representing Quebec Demands Debate On
Medical Marijuana In Canadian Parliament – Major Escalation |
| International Prohibitionist View of US
Medical Marijuana Battle |
| Senator Smith Of Oregon Lies (Badly) To A
Constituent To Justify Arresting The Sick And Dying |
| Dallas Morning News Editorialists Can’t
Even Get DEA Medical Marijuana Party Line Straight |
| West Hollywood Mayor to Participate Tomorrow
in Pro-Medical Marijuana Rally in San Francisco |
| President Of The International Cannabinoid
Research Society Writes On Cannabis As A Medicine |
| The British Medical Journal Debates Rights of MS Patient: Mr K And The
Cannabis Cake |
| White House and the Justice Department Reject Appeal By Four
California Mayors to Save Buyers Clubs |
| 61 Year Old Disabled Korean War Veteran With
Spotless Record A Felon For Growing 7 Plants in California! |
| Oregon Democrats Support Medical Marijuana;
Called "Crazy Plank" By Party Chairman |
Blind Man Subject To Uncontrollable Vomiting
Convicted In California
Of Growing Marijuana For Other Medical Users |
| Sacramento County Makes Public Use of Medical
Marijuana Subject To Six Months In Jail - AIDS Patient Defiant! |
| The Washington Post Does Another Story On
Medical Marijuana In California – But Only In California |
| Four California Mayors Urge Clinton To Spare
Buyers’ Clubs -- Major Political Confrontation! |
| Sacramento Bee Editorial Calls for Ordinance
Forbidding Medical Marijuana Use In Public -- In the Closet Perhaps? |
British Medical Association and Government
Graciously Allow Sick and Dying Synthetic Cannabis In 2 Years, Maybe |
| Judge Cancels McCormick Hearing. Says
There’s ‘No New Information’ In The Motion. A Note From Todd's Mother |
"My son goes on trial tomorrow. He is blind
and gravely ill."
- Another Medical Marijuana User Stands Up For His Rights |
| Press Conference Tuesday for McCormick’s
Appeal To Be Allowed to Use Medical Marijuana -- Musika To Testify |
| An Ides Of March Update 1998 From Author
AIDS/Cancer Patient Peter McWilliams |
| The
Drug Czar’s Position On Medical Marijuana |
| Have City Health Dept. Distribute Medical Marijuana If
Clubs Close -- San Francisco D.A. Hallinan |
| Canadian Health Minister Says He Is
"Taking Seriously" Plea By MS Patient Harichy To Legalize Medical Marijuana |
| Only Forty People Show Up For Bill Bennett's Anti-Medical Marijuana
Hate-Fest |
| Americans For Medical Rights Files Petition
Calling For Nevada Medical Marijuana Initiative |
| Support Grows For Medical Cannabis In New
Zealand -- Health Ministry Has "No Intention Of Changing The Law" |
| Absolute Defiance, A Constitutional Defense, A Scientific
Medical Marijuana Defense And Great Human Beings! |
| The Canadian Government Does Masterful Job of
Ducking Medical Marijuana Questions in the House of Commons |
| London Ontario Woman With MS Plans to Open
Buyers Club In Defiance of Prohibitionist Mayor |
| AIDS Patient Mortal Threat to Canada’s
Cannabis Laws. Doctor Says "I just find the marijuana laws ludicrous." |
| "Ritalin Puts Some Kids Into Zombie-Like
State" Says Study -- Making It Easier To "Just Say No to Drugs"? |
NORML Special Legislative Alert—Contact
Congress Today!
House Of Representatives To Debate The
Medical Use Of Marijuana |
| Results of CNN Web Site Poll On Medical Marijuana -- Update Vote In The Poll To See The Current Results |
| Vegetarians Are Apparently Not To Be Confused
With Libertarians – Even After Lunch |
| International Prohibitionist Conference On
Medical Marijuana to Be Held In New York on March 20-21 |
House Republicans Continue Assault On States’ Rights,Medical
Marijuana Research
-- NORML March 5 Press Release: |
| Statement Of Author Peter McWilliams To
Institute Of Medicine Medical Marijuana Hearings |
| NORML Director Rick Doblin’s Testimony to the
Institute of Medicine Medical Marijuana Hearings |
| Judge Denies Cancer Patient Todd McCormick "Any Form Of
Marijuana," -- Marinol, Even "Hemp Seed Oil." |
| Orange County’s First Medical Marijuana Trial Stayed –
Prosecutorial Misconduct Alleged |
| A Brilliant Letter to The Lancet Makes the Case for the Medical Use
of "Natural Cannabis" |
| The Libertarian Orange County Register
Editorializes Against Lungren’s Attacks On Medical Marijuana And Prop 215 |
| A Surprisingly Sympathetic Article on California Medical Marijuana Clubs
in the Washington Post |
| New Research On Cannabidiol Offering Better
Understanding Of The Great Medical Potential Of Marijuana |
| San Francisco Medical Marijuana Users Denounce Lungren --Very Humane
Journalism |
| Author of Book, Marijuana: Not Guilty As Charged Assails the
Suppression of Medical Marijuana |
| Does Marijuana Have A Place In Medicine? Or --
Does Arresting Sick and Dying People Have a Place In Medicine? |
| The Persecution of the Sick, Dying and Disabled --
Ruthlessly Pursued In Orange County -- They Need Support! |
| The Lancet Reports That Deaths From Medication
Errors More Than Double In Decade |
| Medical Marijuana and the Degradation of Science-- The Scientist
Should Worry About Faust Not Frankenstein |
| The Scientist Magazine Does A Reverent Interview with the Head of
NIDA |
| French
Artists and Intellectuals Challenge Judges Over "Soft Drugs" Law -- Medical
Cannabis Breakthrough |
| The New York Times Gives Surprisingly Sympathetic Coverage to Dennis
Peron’s Cannabis Cultivators Club |
| Ukiah
Club In Mendocino County To Stay Open With Support Of County Supervisors Still Faces
Federal Action |
| Hysteria Of Marijuana Prohibition Has Stifled Virtually All Therapeutic
Research. Excellent Letter to the Editor |
| Controversial
Scottish Bishop Calls for Legalized Medical Marijuana – Crucified By Prohibitionists |
| Convicted Grower Agrees To Peddle Message From
The U.S. Government: Marijuana Is Illegal Despite 215 |
| Medical
Marijuana Initiative to be Filed Today in Washington State -- Modeled After Senate Bill |
| All California Cannabis Clubs Face Closing -- "We’re Going To
Stay Here Until The Tanks Come" Vows Peron |
Medical Marijuana Workshop --
Federal Government Does Research on the Science of Stalling and the Stalling of Science |
| Judge
Orders Maine To Accept Medical Marijuana Petitions --Very Close Count Expected |
| Florida Representative McCollum Introduces Anti-Medical Marijuana
Resolution in House of Representatives |
| An
Important Article on the Florida Medical Marijuana Petition and an Outrageous Trial |
| A Medical Marijuana User Tries to Talk to Dr.
Nahas, the Godfather of Reefer Madness |
| Meanwhile in A Civilized Country: Hash For Sale At The Pharmacy |
Are Aerosols the Future of the Spliff? New
Scientist Special Report
Short and Not Very Good Look at Medical Cannabis |
| Proposed Americans for Medical Rights' Medical
Marijuana Initiative for the 1998 Ballot in Colorado |
| Hawaii Legislators Hold Back Bill On Medical
Marijuana But Suggest a Resolution Asking Federal Action |
| Portland Press Herald Editorial -- Medical Marijuana Supporters Have A
Legitimate Gripe. |
| Toronto Medical Marijuana Club Defying Law; Seven Similar Clubs To Open
Across Southern Ontario. |
| Analysis: The Growing Split In The Medical Marijuana Movement |
| Editorial
from the Boca Raton News: Legalize 'Pot' For Pain, But Not In Constitution |
Exclusive to
Marijuananews.com:
Medical Marijuana Advocates Accuse
California AG Lungren of Lying About Prop. 215
then Lying to Cover-up the Lies |
| Medical
Marijuana Patient Todd McCormick Asks Federal Judge to Allow Pot Use while on Bail |
| My Comments on Todd McCormick and the Challenge His Case Presents to the
Prohibitionists. |
| The
Irish Confront A Medical Marijuana Case. It Seems to Be Something New There |
| Medical
Marijuana Petition Drive Should Fail On Merit, Not On Snafus Says Maine's Kennebec Journal
|
| This Short Email Says So Much About The
Viciousness Of The War On Medical Marijuana Users. |
| Hawaiian House Panel Defers Action On Medical
Marijuana -- State Medical Association Betrays Patients |
| Dan
Lungren Runs for Governor on His Record of Persecuting the Sick and Dying |
Canadian AIDS Patient Sues for Right to Use Marijuana to Ease
Pain, Restore Appetite Wants
Government to Supply Him |
| Judge
Regrets Sentencing Medical Marijuana User to Prison for Two Years for Growing Eleven
Plants |
| Great: Medical
Marijuana -- Doing the Science -- An Interview from Synapse, A Student Publication at
UC,SF |
| Canadian
Activists to Force the Medical Cannabis Issue by Openly Supplying Patients -- Bravo! |
| NY
State Legislator and Head of NY Hospital's Dept.of Public Health Support Medical Marijuana |
| The
University of Washington Student Newspaper Reports on Medical Marijuana Bill -- The Governor is Bizarre |
| British Medical Journal The Lancet
Reports On The Use of "Marijuana For Intractable Hiccups" |
| "Floridians for Medical Rights" and ACLU
Respond To Governor's Failure to Seek Medical Cannabis Evidence |
Governor of Florida and
Entire Cabinet Vote to Oppose Medical Marijuana Initiative... Without a Hearing |
| The Portland Oregonian Escalates Its
Propaganda Campaign Against Medical Marijuana Initiative |
| The
Lancet reports on the Terry Parker case."Canadian Judge Allows
Marijuana as Therapy" |
| Important
Press Release : DEA FINALLY CONFIRMS
THE EXISTENCE OF SUFFICIENT GROUNDS TO REMOVE MARIJUANA FROM HARD DRUGS SCHEDULE OF
CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES |
| Canada:
'We'll Approve Marijuana Prescriptions." 'No different than Aspirin,' Health
official says. |
| Florida Group Organized to Campaign for
Fall Initiative For Medical Marijuana |
| The Economist August 16, 1997 Marijuana as a medicine; A subtle syllogism |
| My Problem and how I solved it,
"I broke the law to save my son." |
| Costs keeping 'rescue' drugs from patients |
Nahas versus Kassirer A lengthy
critique
Fraud on Wall Street: How The Wall Street Journal defrauded the
readers of its editorial page. |
| Institute of Medicine Medical Use of
Marijuana: Assessment of the Science Base The "Statement of
Task" page from the NAS Medical Marijuana site. The
Home Page and the rest of the site can be reached from the links at the bottom of this
page. This exercise is both terribly important and yet utterly bizarre. Organized
establishment science will now see if it can discover why sick, dying and disabled
Americans risk their freedom to use marijuana. They will not, however, research the
therapeutic benefits of being arrested, which is the current policy.
Medical Marijuana
and the Internet by Richard Cowan |
Supported