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Panelists Give Two Cents on Medical Pot Legalization
Health & Wellness  (tags: AlternativeMed, medicine, research, investigation, humans, illness, health, Body-Mind-Spirit, cancer, disease, drugs, ethics, government, news, science, study, treatment )

John
- 1 day ago - athensnews.com
All agreed that marijuana could be beneficial as medicine, but some of the panelists stressed that additional research is needed before it is legalized for medicinal use.
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ACT NOW: Tell Canada to Ban Exports of Cancer Causing Asbestos! PLEASE SIGN !
Health & Wellness  (tags: canadian government, ban asbestos, studies, deaths, illness, cancer )

Simone
- 13 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Canada is one of only a handful of countries who have been unwilling to - under the Rotterdam Convention - ban the use of Asbestos or the exporting of these toxic fibres. Their reasoning - it's cheaper than the alternatives
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Tell the USDA to Dump Dow's Dangerous Agent Orange Corn!
Health & Wellness  (tags: Agent Orange, Dow Chemical, USDA, GMO corn, 2, 4-D, Vietnam defoliant, birth defects, cancer, hormone disruption )

Dandelion
- 32 days ago - action.fooddemocracynow.org
Dow Chemical is petitioning the USDA to approve a new GMO Agent Orange corn to tolerate 2,4-D, a main chemical component of the Vietnam era defoliant linked to birth defects, cancer, and hormone disruption.
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PLEASE SIGN!! Urge President Obama to End the War on Drugs! *** TAKE ACTION***
Health & Wellness  (tags: AlternativeMed, Body-Mind-Spirit, cancer, death, diet, disease, drugs, environment, food, government, healthcare, humans, illness, medicine, prevention, protection, research, safety, science, society, study, treatment )

Kit
- 39 days ago - secure2.convio.net
For the first time, we have a real, coordinated international opportunity to end the failed war on drugs. Tell Obama to stand with Latin American leaders to end the drug war today! Please Sign!
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Herbal Remedy Ingredient Tied to Cancer, Kidney Failure
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, AlternativeMed, herbal remedies, illness, cancer, risks, research, warning, medicine )

Dee
- 40 days ago - news10.com
THURSDAY, April 12 (HealthDay News) -- A toxic component of a plant used in certain types of herbal remedies can cause kidney failure and upper urinary tract cancer, researchers warn.
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The Elkhorn Manifesto -- What Do Hemp and Hitler Have in Common?
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, AlternativeMed, Body-Mind-Spirit, cancer, death, disease, drugs, ethics, family, food, government, healthcare, illness, medicine, prevention, protection, research, science, study, treatment )

Kit
- 42 days ago - worldaudit.org
Today, thanks to the efforts of pioneer hemp researchers and public advocates such as Galbraith, Jack Fraizer, Jack Herer, Chris Conrad, Ed Rosenthal, Don Wirtshafter and others, the federal government's unjustifiable suppression of our state's right-->
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Why Is Marijuana Illegal?
Health & Wellness  (tags: AlternativeMed, Body-Mind-Spirit, cancer, children, disease, drugs, family, food, government, healthcare, medicine, prevention, research, safety, society, study, treatment )

Kit
- 42 days ago - drugwarrant.com
Many people assume that marijuana was made illegal through some kind of process involving scientific, medical, and government hearings; that it was to protect the citizens from what was determined to be a dangerous drug.
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Dear Media, Please Ask Obama to Explain His Escalating War on Medical Marijuana
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, Americans, cancer, death, disease, drugs, environment, government, healthcare, illness, medicine, prevention, protection, research, safety, science, society, treatment )

Kit
- 46 days ago - stopthedrugwar.org
Monday morning's DEA raid of Oaksterdam University is making major headlines, but there's one detail missing from the coverage: why the f#$k is Obama at War with Medical Marijuana in the first place? Seriously, why is any of this even happening at all?
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Who Is the Biggest Drug Cartel in the World? Big Pharma
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, cancer, children, death, drugs, environment, family, food, government, healthcare, illness, investigation, medicine, prevention, protection, research, risks, science, society, study, treatment, warning )

Kit
- 46 days ago - blog.buzzflash.com
According to a March 9, 2012, New York Time article: High-strength painkillers known as opioids represent the most widely prescribed class of medications in the United States. And over the last decade, the number of prescriptions for the strongest-->
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The Real Health Care Debate
Health & Wellness  (tags: americans, activists, ethics, family, education, government, interesting, media, politics, obama, usa, candidates, congress, cancer, disease, drugs, government, healthcare, health, medicine, research, treatment )

Michael
- 46 days ago - opednews.com
"We have the solution, we have the resources and we have the money to provide lifelong, comprehensive, high-quality health care to every person," Dr. Flowers said when we spoke a few days ago in Washington, D.C. Many Americans have not accepted the S.P.
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Cancer Prevention Strategies Can Eliminate More Than Half Of All Cancers. SIGN TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE!
Health & Wellness  (tags: AlternativeMed, death, disease, cancer, health, healthcare, government, medicine, prevention, protection, research, risks, safety, science, society, study, treatment, warning )

Jim
- 50 days ago - forcechange.com
A study conducted by researchers at the Siteman Cancer Center has found that more than half of all cancer cases are preventable. Only heart disease kills more people in this country than cancer. This year almost 1.7 million new cancer cases will be diagn
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DO YOU WANT CANCER? Raise More Effective Awareness Of The Dangers Of Tanning Beds. SIGN!
Health & Wellness  (tags: diseases, illness, humans, interesting, abuse, women, men, science, prevention, study, cancer, tanning beds, tan, risks, warning, doctors, skin, death, protection, research )

Jim
- 52 days ago - forcechange.com
Indoor tanning is an incredibly popular trend currently with young teenagers and even middle-aged adults. There is plenty of warnings and information that is easily accesible and that clearly outlines the risks of indoor tanning, namely cancer. Despite
63 comments
America Needs Healthcare, Not Health Insurance
Health & Wellness  (tags: americans, affordable, children, cancer, death, diet, disease, drugs, environment, healthcare, humans, illness, medicine, prevention, protection, society, treatment )

Kit
- 56 days ago - alternet.org
Ironically, the Roberts Court could actually be the instrument that leads us toward something approaching a rational, affordable healthcare provision.
30 comments
The Savage Arithmetic of the Pre-Existing Condition -- William Rivers Pitt
Health & Wellness  (tags: americans, cancer, children, death, diet, disease, drugs, environment, exercise, family, food, government, healthcare, illness, medicine, prevention, protection, research, treatment )

Kit
- 56 days ago - truth-out.org
I went to the doctor Guess what he told me Guess what he told me... - Sinead O'Connor Let's send this to Supreme Five.
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If We Let Health Care Workers Lose Their Jobs and Homes, Who's Left to Care for Us?
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, cancer, care, children, death, disease, healthcare, illness, medicine, prevention, protection, safety, treatment )

Kit
- 61 days ago - alternet.org
Faced with cuts in programs and stripped of their bargaining rights, home care workers are trying to maintain the activist vigor of their scrappy past.
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