Medical Marijuana is The New Midol? California Docs Pitch Cannabis to Fairer Sex

sevenearth

Forget about all kind of lost and win stuff and just think for cannabis and marijuana highs and buy drugs for that from given below site name please go on legal-highs !!!!

Guest

THIS AMAZING PLANT can take care of my insomnia, nausea, and cramps! HOW FUCKING AWESOME IS THAT. Beats taking pills that come along with side effects the government approves.

Really listen to those pharmaceutical commercials. You can take a depression pill and a side effect that comes along with it is thoughts of suicide. haha how ridiculous is that. Marijuana helps out tremendously with my depression without those nasty side effects.

Ronb641

and what was the purpose of this article??

R824

If they are going to really market it as such then why are topicals so rarely available? I make my own and it is literally better than vicodin for those f-ing cramps..acts instantly and localized, so no side effects

Christina Mob Pereyra

National Cancer Institute did a recent study that showed that marijuana has anti-tumor effects. NIDA & DEA coerced them into not only removing the true statement, but also wanted them to add that marijuana is "addictive" & provide a link for the "adverse effects of marijuana" (directly from NIDA's website). Thankfully the NCI refused to add the last two statements, explaining that there wasnt any conclusive evidence to support such claims. Any open-minded & logical person knows there are many benefits of medicinal marijuana. Mr. Romero, its ignorant sarcastic assholes like yourself that prevent med marijuana bills from being passed to people who actually need it just to have a decent quality of life. Have you ever had to watch a loved one suffer from an illness & die slowly? I highly doubt it after reading this article.

http://www.tokeofthetown.com/2...

Anonjones

Dennis is this supposed to be journalism?? Very amateurish if it is dude.....U really need to do more research before trying to deny the medicinal values of Cannabis and also I would advise some lesson on sarcasm if that's the best u can do....Very dry indeed................Dick!!

Dennis Romero

Anon:

Like I've told others, maybe you should do research on me before accusing me of NOT doing research. Google my name and marijuana and see how much I've done on the topic.

Also, I didn't "deny the medicinal values of cannabis." What I said in a comment was that there was no medical research to conclusively point to its prescription for specific ailments. (Or else there would be a basis for state guidelines instead of an open-ended situation where docs can pretty much prescribe it for anything, which is what we have now).

Try to read.

Charlie Bott

I think you mean that there is no "FDA approved" medical research that points conclusively to marijuana's prescription for specific ailments. This is one of the main arguments in the DEA's recent refusal to reschedule marijuana. Of course there is no "FDA approved" research at all on marijuana, because the FDA is not allowed to approve research on marijuana.

With a quick internet search, I found two medical research articles and a video in support of Cheri Siccard's above comment: "Since the body's natural endo-cannabinoid system regulates every other system in the body, it makes perfect sense that cannabis would have an effect on so many varied ailments."

The two articles I found appear in the January/February 2005 issue of _Alcohol & Alcoholism_, the official journal of the UK's Medical Council, and the September 2006 issue of _Pharmacological Reviews_. The video includes an in-progress full body scan that maps the location of endocannabinoid receptors throughout the body, and is from a BBC documentary on cannabis. It can be found by searching for the video, "Density of Cannabinoid Receptors in the Brain."

Beth Mann

When was it not our bud, boy? (In response to your "Cannabis is your bud, too, girls.")

Yeah, I found this too snarky to be informative. Just a head's up: women have been using weed to treat cramps and PMS for a loooong time. It's just the first you've heard of it.

Though I hear what you're saying, re: weed being the cure-all for everything.

Dennis Romero

Beth:

Where do you get that it's "the first" I've heard of it? The piece was about doctors using women as marketing aim.

-Dennis

Marianne Bays

I didn't get that, Dennis. Very unclear thesis. Probably just your snarkiness getting in the way.

Carlos M. Roa

Queen Elizabeth used it for those reasons Beth. Good point. Above the ignorance.

Carlos M. Roa

I wish you could meet my Grandmother who has found new life again with cannabis to cure her Parkinson disease & lack of sleep. Look up Cash Hyde just to see how powerful medical marijuana can be. You know what is fact Dennis, 0 people have died from cannabis use in 5000+ years of history. I'll write you a fat check if you can prove that wrong.

Dennis Romero

Carlos:

I'm happy for grandma. I'm not trying to deny her bud.

Simonamarie921

Hmmmmm I wonder, I wonder!!!

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Cheri Sicard

Before you get snarky in your writing, you may want to do even just a smidgen of research and attempt to understand how cannabis works in the body. Since the body's natural endo-cannabinoid system regulates every other system in the body, it makes perfect sense that cannabis would have an effect on so many varied ailments. But of course, you wouldn't know that because it's much easier to make fun of those "quacks" than to really try to see if there just might be anything to it. Sloppy shoddy "reporting" if that's what we're calling it these days.

Dennis Romero

Cheri:

Actually there's no medical research to support what you're saying (so before you accuse a reporter of sloppy reporting, get a clue). In fact that's why there are no state guidelines, of the kind you might see for prescription drugs, regarding what, exactly, medical marijuana can be prescribed for.

Marianne Bays

Dennis - you didn't look very hard for the medical research. It's out there. Take a look, for example, at research done by Heather Bradshaw on The Endogenous Cannabinoid System and Reproductive Pain.

bs-bloodhound

http://norml.org/index.cfm?Gro...but just to be helpful, these will get you started.

bs-bloodhound

people shouldn't have to do your job for you http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

Charlie Bott

There is no FDA APPROVED medical research to support what Cheri says, but there is plenty of UNCONTESTED, peer-reviewed scientific research showing that endocannabinoid receptors are found throughout the body--and are, in fact, more densely found in the brain than any other kind of receptors. These receptors promote homeostasis within the body

Starting a little past 4 minutes in the video from a BBC produced documentary on the science of cannabis at this link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... there is a full body scan of where endocannabinoid receptors are located throughout the body.

Here's a link to a very technical article explaining the physiology and pharmacology of the endocannabinoid system (http://alcalc.oxfordjournals.o... from the _Oxford Journal of Alcohol and Alcoholism_. Oh, and here's a link to an abstract for the article, "The Endocannabinoid System as an Emerging Target of Pharmacotherapy"(http://pharmrev.aspetjournals...., published in _Pharmacological Reviews_, September 2006 issue. There are LOTS more, but I feel like I've already taken up too much space.

Dr Robert Melamede at the University of Colorado has studied and spoken widely on this subject and might be available for comment if you took the time to contact him.

Before you lash out and accuse people of making unfounded claims that might indicate sloppy reporting, please spend 20 minutes on a Google search.

Gary

THE ENDOCANNABINOID SYSTEM: PHYSIOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY

http://alcalc.oxfordjournals.o...Actually Dennis, there is plenty of medical research to support what Cheri is saying, and this is just a starting point... The above is just 1 article on endo-cannabinoid receptors in our DNA. You should do some research yourself instead of listening to the lies of our Federal Government, who we know is in bed with big pharma and has other interests.

Yes there are millions of people that would like to have this legalized for recreational use; however irregardless, medicinally this is not a topic that should be taken tongue-in-cheek as there are legitimately many who benefit from this.