Ramblings

January 31, 2011 Marijuana Patients Organization

Active Ingredient In Cannabis Eliminates Morphine Dependence In Rats

ScienceDaily — Injections of THC, the active principle of cannabis, eliminate dependence on opiates (morphine, heroin) in rats deprived of their mothers at birth.  The findings could lead to therapeutic alternatives to existing substitution treatments.

In order to study psychiatric disorders, neurobiologists use animal models, especially maternal deprivation models. Depriving rats of their mothers for several hours a day after their birth leads to a lack of care and to early stress. The lack of care, which takes place during a period of intense neuronal development, is liable to cause lasting brain dysfunction.

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January 19, 2011 Marijuana Patients Organization

Stop The Suffering

Cancer treatment is hell.  Pure hell.  Modern medical cancer protocols are now able to save or greatly extend life.  However, the medications used, radiation and/or chemotherapy cocktails, wreak havoc on the body.  While doctors do the best they can, there are still days when it takes all a cancer patient has to deal with the bombardment of toxins required to treat the disease.  For some, marijuana can minimize the side effects, associated with this brutal regimen and in so doing, provide patients with a much needed dose of sanity during one of the worst times of their lives.

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January 18, 2011 Marijuana Patients Organization

City of Southfield Wants To Limit Medical Marijuana

They can say whatever they want.  They can call it what they want . . . zoning, monitoring or whatever “municipal oversight” term they have conjured up over the years to limit yours and my property and privacy rights.   But it is what it is — they are passing ordinances and laws at a local level that severely impact the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act and the rights of patients/caregivers to grow, cultivate and manufacture marijuana.  This is not about the police or prosecutors . . . it is about Patients.  

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January 17, 2011 Marijuana Patients Organization

Anti-DEA Rallies Held Over Medical Marijuana Enforcement

A judge in Grand Rapids has postponed a hearing to determine if the state should cooperate with a federal subpoena seeking medical marijuana records. The delay was due to a last-minute request to intervene by a group called “the Michigan association of compassion clubs.” The Drug Enforcement Administration won’t talk about the Lansing-area probe, but will say they’re not cracking down on medical marijuana users.

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