MEDICINAL CANNABIS news from NZ and around the world. Updated ......?
US CA: Stockton Man
Wants Medical-Marijuana Site (MAP - 23 July
2000)
The 41-year-old Stockton resident broke his neck nearly a decade ago, and still suffers
daily aches and numbness from bone spurs, bad discs in his back and arthritis.
Smoking marijuana, he said, relieves pain and enables him to forgo nearly a dozen
prescription medications with unwanted side effects....
US: Marijuana
Derivatives Tested In Mice (MAP - 22 July
2000)
A research study by an international group of investigators suggests that injections of
chemical derivatives of marijuana either natural or synthetic may control spasticity and
tremor in laboratory mice that have an MS-like disease called EAE....
US:
Oakland Pot Club Ready to Reopen Ruling allows sales for medicinal purposes (S.F. Examiner- 22 July 2000)
The club may reopen as soon as next week because of the same judge's decision this week to
allow the distribution of cannabis to seriously ill patients who could ``suffer imminent
harm'' without marijuana, have a proven medical necessity for the drug and have no other
legal alternative....
NZ: Crippled
drug grower jailed for two years (Stuff: Wellington 22
JULY 2000)
A man crippled by a drunk driver who used illegal drugs to control the severe pain agreed
to grow cannabis for a drug dealer during a tumultuous time in his life, the High Court at
Wellington was told yesterday....
US CA: Editorial:
Pot For Pain (MAP - 21 July 2000)
It stands to reason that if the government can't illustrate why a law is necessary, then
that law should not exist....
US: California Medical
Marijuana Moves Ahead on Two Fronts (DRCNet 21
July 2000)
It's been a heady week for medical marijuana supporters in California, where the city of
San Francisco and a federal judge took substantive actions that should make it easier for
seriously ill people to use marijuana....
US: Study Says Pot Doesn't
Interfere with AIDS Drugs (DRCNet 21 July
2000)
Study Says Pot Doesn't Interfere with AIDS Drugs, Scientific First Comes After Years-Long
Battle With Government Health Honchos....
UK: UK Doctor Studies Cannabis for
Pain Relief in Debilitating Illnesses (MarijuanaNews.com
- 21 July 2000)
Speculation is mounting that cannabis could be decriminalised for medical use within the
next few years, opening up a whole new field of therapeutics....
US CA: Editorial:
Medical Marijuana (MAP - 20 July 2000)
The news that U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer has modified a previous
injunction against northern California cannabis clubs tops a week-end of good news on the
medical marijuana front....
US CA: Town Hall
Meeting Draws Medical Marijuana Debate (MAP -
20 July 2000)
Medicinal marijuana patients are ridiculed, harassed and humiliated in Shasta County, a
Redding marijuana advocate complained at Assemblyman Dick Dickerson's town hall meeting
Wednesday night....
US CA: San Diego.
Medical Marijuana Talk Set (MAP - 20 July
2000)
Nearly four years after California voters passed Proposition 215, making marijuana legal
for medicinal purposes, the San Diego City Council will discuss ways to implement the
law....
US CA: Officials
Issue Medical Marijuana Statements (MAP - 20 July 2000)
On Wednesday, the Humboldt County District Attorney's Office and Sheriff's Department
publicized written guidelines regarding the medical use of marijuana....
NZ: Committee gives NZ
drug law reform "green light" (Scoop - 18 July 2000)
Sweeping change to New Zealand drug law is likely to proceed under the Misuse of Drugs
Amendments Bill (No 4) - as reported with amendments from Parliament's health select
committee late in June.....
US CA: Wire:
California Club Gets Judge's OK to Dispense Medical Marijuana (MAP - 18 July 2000)
A federal judge on Monday opened the door for one California club to distribute marijuana
to seriously ill patients, saying the US government had failed to show why some people
should be barred from using the drug as medicine....
US:
Protests mount over marijuana identity cards (Electronic Telegraph - 17 Jul 2000)
MARIJUANA smokers in San Francisco are to be given a special ID card to show they are
allowed to use the drug, if they can prove they need it for medical reasons....
US: Pot Called Safe
To Treat AIDS (MAP - 17 July
2000)
In the first government-sanctioned test of the effects of marijuana on people infected
with the AIDS virus, a San Francisco study has found that the patients on pot came out of
a 21-day trial just as fit and quite a bit fatter than when they started.....
US CO: Voters Will
Decide Fate Of Medical Marijuana (MAP
- 17 July 2000)
Ror Poliac hopes he is the last man prosecuted in Colorado for growing marijuana for use
as a pain reliever....
US: Federal Judge Allows Oakland CBC
to Sell Medical Marijuana (MarijuanaNews.com
- 17 July 2000)
This is truly a major victory for medical marijuana. Notice that this ruling applies to
sales, not just possession. The courts recognize that medical marijuana has to come from
somewhere....
US: Legal Crop
Exceeds Demand (MAP - 16 July
2000)
Down in Mississippi, there are a couple of people who get paid to grow dope for the
federal government....
US CA: OPED:
Cannabis Is Medicine (MAP - 16
July 2000)
...over 4000 years of historical medicinal use of cannabis, including documented medicinal
use in the United States since 1839....
US CA: City IDs
Entitle Sick To Use Marijuana (MAP
- 15 July 2000)
SAN FRANCISCO -- With $25 and a doctor's note, sick people can get an official city ID
card entitling them to use marijuana, the city district attorney announced Friday....
US: Nearly Three
Decades Ago The Government Knew Marijuana Could Help Cure Cancer (MAP - 15 July 2000)
Nearly Three Decades Ago The Government Knew Marijuana Could Help Cure Cancer; The Rest Of
Us Are Just Finding Out Now The term medical marijuana took on dramatic new meaning in
February when researchers in Madrid announced they had destroyed incurable brain cancer
tumors in rats by injecting them with THC, the active ingredient in cannabis....
US CA: Deputies
Seize Medical Marijuana (MAP -
15 July 2000)
Phillipsville log truck driver Larry Ford was trying to do the right thing when he invited
sheriff's deputies to inspect the marijuana garden he grows under California's medical
marijuana law....