12 January, 2015

A survey about using marijuana-based treatments appears to have split opinions between people with epilepsy and the doctors who treat them. Specialists warn there is not yet enough evidence to support their use

The survey findings were presented in the medical journal Epilepsia. Researchers conducted the survey online between 20 May 2014 and 1 September. It was open to anyone – researchers, medical professionals, patients and their families.

Hickey to Discuss Medical Marijuana Industry with Sri Lankan Officials

HOUSTON, TX / ACCESSWIRE / January 12, 2015 / Solanbridge Group Inc (SLNX) is pleased to announce that Earle G. Hickey, President of Solanbridge Group NS, Inc., will be in Sri Lanka this week and plans to meet with the newly elected Executive President of Sri Lanka His Excellency Maithripala Sirisena, concerning the benefits of medical marijuana. This will be Mr. Hickey's fourth trip to Sri Lanka.

Most of you who are involved in the cannabis community will have, at some point, come across GW Pharmaceuticals. Unless you have been living under a rock  or have found yourself with limited access to the outside world, possible incarceration for weed dealing, let me tell you about the guys who are also weed dealing but have monopolised cannabis to sell it legally with our governments help and permission.

Marijuana plant. Picture: AP Source: AP

PEOPLE who occasionally smoke marijuana do not suffer long-term lung damage the way cigarette smokers do and may actually experience a slight improvement, according to a US study published today.

Since the research includes more than 5000 people over 20 years, the authors say it should help clear up some of the confusion about the risks of marijuana smoking, which is increasingly common in the US.

However, they warned that the risks of heavy marijuana use were difficult to assess and cautioned against regular or frequent smoking.

It's enough to set cuckoo clocks bonging . . . Growing and selling marijuana may soon become legal in once staid Geneva, a year after Switzerland decriminalized possessing the drug.

It’s as good a way to start the New Year as any: Geneva is considering a radical liberalisation of the canton’s drug laws to undermine the black market in marijuana, a year after the country very sensibly decriminalised possession of the drug. Among the spin offs is not just research showing that there’s less likelihood of children trying it. When marijuana – or cannabis, as it is also known – is used correctly, it can be medicine. MS

By David Courbet

Clinical cannabis use is not decided by the military patient’s need for her medicine but rather by where she lives. This practice is of course totally illogical. Considering the source of this decision, the war on drugs mentality, it is not surprising. Realizing that Veterans are not being treated for their injuries properly, is not surprising to me. I’m a Vietnam Veteran and I have seen this all before.Treatment by geography can be looked on as a win for Veterans, some Vets. Before this protocol was adopted by the Veterans Health Administration, in July of 2010, there was no cannabis allowed medicinally for any service member.