Medical cannabis web resources
The Medical Marijuana Handbook
Todd. H. Mikuriya MD, a long-time advocate
of medical cannabis, respected author and one of the medical staff at the San
Francisco Buyers Club.
>> Medical
Marijuana Handbook
Marijuana
as Medicine - A Plea for Reconsideration>
A commentary article written
by Lester Grinspoon and James Bakalar, which appeared in the June 21st 1995 edition
of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
>> Marijuana
as Medicine - A Plea for Reconsideration
The
Medicinal Use of Marijuana
A special topic article, written by nurse Mary
Mathre, that appeared in the June '93 issue of Perspectives on Addictions Nursing.
>> The
Medicinal Use of Marijuana
Judge
Young's ruling (Docket 86-22)
The US Drug Enforcement Agency held hearings
in 1987 to determine whether cannabis should be allowed as medicine. After 1000's
of hours of legal deliberations, the judge in charge accepted that cannabis is
"capable of relieving the distress of great numbers of very ill people" and that
it would be safe to use cannabis as a medicine under medical supervision. He recommended
that the DEA should allow cannabis as a medicine, but its Administrator refused.
The full text of Judge Youngs ruling is online ... the testimony of doctors, nurses
and patients makes astonishing reading.
>> Judge
Young's ruling (Docket 86-22)
Medical
Reality Versus Authoritarian Brutality
Ian Goddard exposes the lies of US federal
bureaucrats who claim that cannabis is harmful with no recognised medical use.
>> Medical
Reality Versus Authoritarian Brutality
- The
History of Cannabis. This chapter from Dr. Lester Grinspoon and James Bakalar's
1993 book Marihuana: The Forbidden Medicine provides an excellent historical overview
to the medical possibilities and political obstacles to medicinal marijuana.
- Club Medicine, by Jim Christie for the April, 1996 issue of Reason, explores the pheonomenon of marijuana "buyers clubs."
- Out of Joint: The Case for Medicinal Marijuana by Brian Hecht for the July 15, 1991 New Republic.
- Therapeutic Potential and Medical Uses of Marijuana. A brief overview of the many potential medicinal uses of marijuana, by Tod Mikuriya.
- The Medical Marijuana Issue Among PWAs: Reports of Therapeutic Use and Attitudes Toward Legal Reform. A June, 1996 report by Ben Wesner of the Drug Research Unit, Social Science Research Institute, University of Hawaii at Minoa.
Erowid
The Erowid
medicinal marijuana vault contains a lot of information, albiet with a US
bias. It contains some history of medical usage, and several articles from the
media.
>> Erowid
medicinal marijuana
The Science of Medical
Marijuana is sponsored by Americans for Medical Rights, and carries several
interesting and important reports and studies.
>> The Science of Medical
Marijuana
The International Association
for Cannabis as Medicine (IACM) is 'a scientific society advocating the improvement
of the legal situation for the use of the hemp plant and its pharmacologically
most important active compounds, the cannabinoids, for therapeutic applications
through promotion of research and dissemination of information.' They are a membership
based organisation, but their website has a lot of information, and you can sign
up for a free bi-weekly bulletin to keep up to date with the latest medical research
news.
>> The International Association
for Cannabis as Medicine