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Health & Wellness News tagged with medical marijuana

Obama Administration Won't Prosecute Where Medical Marijuana Is Legal
Health & Wellness  (tags: medical marijuana, AlternativeMed )

Lone
- 42 days ago - washingtonpost.com
The Obama administration delivered new guidance on medical marijuana to federal prosecutors Monday, signaling a broad policy shift that will mean fewer crackdowns
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Oakland Pot Tax Adds Fuel to Legalization Fire
Health & Wellness  (tags: AlternativeMed, legalization, medical marijuana, tax )

Lone
- 120 days ago - sacbee.com
OAKLAND - Bill O'Donnell illegally self-medicated with marijuana for years for a combat injury and post-traumatic stress from military service in Vietnam - landing him in jail once for possession.
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Oakland Voters Pass Pot Tax to Boost City Coffers
Health & Wellness  (tags: medical marijuana, Good NEWS, environment, humans, government, interesting, illness, protection, prevention, safety, research, treatment )

Dana
- 130 days ago - news.yahoo.com
By LISA LEFF-OAKLAND, Calif. - Oakland residents overwhelmingly voted Tuesday to approve a first-of-its kind tax on medical marijuana sold at the city's four cannabis dispensaries.
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Marijuana Chemical May Fight Brain Cancer
Health & Wellness  (tags: cancer, medicine, humans, medical marijuana, research, treatment, healthcare, illness, disease, science, health )

Holly
- 240 days ago - webmd.com
The active chemical in marijuana promotes the death of brain cancer cells by essentially helping them feed upon themselves, researchers in Spain report.
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More States Move Toward Allowing Medical Marijuana Use
Health & Wellness  (tags: medical marijuana, passes, New Hampshire House )

Little
- 248 days ago - usatoday.com
"The change in the federal government's attitude ... speaks volumes," says New Hampshire state Rep. Evalyn Merrick, a Democrat. She is the author of a bill that would legalize medicinal use of marijuana approved by a doctor. It passed the House 234-138.
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Bill Proposes That Oregon Grow, Sell Pot to Medical Users
Health & Wellness  (tags: Body-Mind-Spirit, AlternativeMed, humans, medicine, protection, marijuana grown in oregon, medical marijuana )

Patricia
- 262 days ago - kgw.com
The state of Oregon should be responsible for growing medicinal marijuana, not patients or caregivers, according to the sponsors of a bill working its way through a legislative committee
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Magistrate Bernadette Callaghan Encourages Jason Bernard Young to Use Marijuana
Health & Wellness  (tags: medical marijuana, burn victim, magistrate urges use of marijuana, legalize marijuana )

Patricia
- 312 days ago - news.com.au
A MAGISTRATE has encouraged a regular marijuana user to attempt to get his drug usage legalised, because it was the only substance that numbed his pain after his whole body was badly burned.
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Medical Marijuana: How Much Is Enough?
Health & Wellness  (tags: medical marijuana, health, drugs )

Brian
- 557 days ago - seattletimes.nwsource.com
A state Health Department proposal that medical-marijuana patients be allowed more than 2 pounds of pot every two months took law enforcement by surprise and prompted the governor to tell health officials to start over.
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Is Medical-Marijuana Use Reason to Deny Someone An Organ Transplant?
Health & Wellness  (tags: organ transplant, medical marijuana )


- 575 days ago - seattletimes.nwsource.com
The death this week of a musician who said he was denied a liver transplant because of his medical-marijuana use has highlighted a new ethical consideration: Should pot use with a doctor's blessing be held against a dying patient who needs an organ transp
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Medical Marijuana User Dies for Lack of Liver Transplant
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, humans, illness, hospital, corruption, medical marijuana, transplant, patient, death )

Holly
- 577 days ago - seattletimes.nwsource.com
Garon died a week after his doctor told him a University of Washington Medical Center committee had again denied him a spot on the liver transplant list because of his use of marijuana, although it was authorized under Washington state law.
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Medical Marijuana Use Forces Patient Off Transplant List.
Health & Wellness  (tags: UW, his liver is failing, hepatitis C, medical marijuana, organ transplant )


- 581 days ago - komotv.com
His liver, ravaged by hepatitis C, is failing. Without a new one, his doctors tell him, he will be dead in days.But Garon's been refused a spot on the transplant list, largely because he has used marijuana, even though it was legally approved for medical
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Physicians Group Urges Easing of Ban on Medical Marijuana
Health & Wellness  (tags: medical marijuana, cancer, chemotherapy, Parkinson's disease, American Nurses Assn., American ublic Health Assn. )

Blue
- 654 days ago - latimes.com
Bbig news. The American College of Physicians just endorsed medical marijuana. Photo:RELIEF: Betty Hiatt, 81, smokes medicinal marijuana at her Seattle home. Having survived cancer, Crohn's disease and the onset of Parkinson's disease, the grandmother...
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Federal Court of Canada Strikes Down Regulation Limiting Growers of Medical Marijuana
Health & Wellness  (tags: cannabis, pot, marijuana, medical marijuana )

Steph
- 689 days ago - cnews.canoe.ca
Canadians prescribed marijuana to treat their illnesses will no longer be forced to rely on the federal government as a supplier following a Federal Court ruling that struck down a key restriction in Ottawa's controversial medical marijuana program.
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American Psychiatric Association Assembly Backs Medical Marijuana Patient Protection
Health & Wellness  (tags: medical marijuana, medicine, health, protection )

Jamie
- 753 days ago - mpp.org
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In a unanimous vote, the Assembly of the American Psychiatric Association has approved a strongly worded statement supporting legal protection for patients using medical marijuana with their doctor's recommendation.
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Feds Go After Wildly Successful Medical Pot Sellers
Health & Wellness  (tags: AlternativeMed, drugs, humans, interesting, medical marijuana )

Linda
- 754 days ago - sfgate.com
What's more, their dispensary had a medical marijuana permit issued by Alameda County and was regularly visited by sheriff's deputies to make sure everything was on the up and up.
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