March 2012
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February 2012
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“There is nothing in the medicinal use of Cannabis that has any relation to...”
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Dr. William C. Woodward at the House of Representatives: Committee on Ways and Means—Washington, D.C.
Tuesday, May 4, 1937
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“As demand for marijuana-based medications accelerated, pharmaceutical firms...”
– Marijuana as Medicine: Beyond the Controversy, 2001
Janet Joy, PHD
Alison Mack
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“In 1889, an article by Dr. E. A. Birch in The Lancet, then as now one of the...”
– Cannabis: A History
Martin Booth, referencing the March 30, 1889 issue of “The Lancet” (vol. 133)
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"Multicenter, Double-Blind, Randomized,... →
Jeremy R. Johnson, MBChB, Medical Director at the Shropshire and Mid Wales Severn Hospice, et. al, wrote the following in a Nov. 2009 article titled “Multicenter, Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Parallel-Group Study of the Efficacy, Safety, and Tolerability of THC:CBD Extract and THC Extract in Patients With Intractable Cancer-Related Pain,” published on theJournal of...
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“[A law]…establishing a system for the cultivation, acquisition, and...”
– from the
Arkansas Medical Marijuana Act
SIGN—DONATE—VOLUNTEER
Source: arcompassion.org
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“In 1996, patients and advocates turned to the state level for access, passing...”
– A History of Medical Cannabis
Let’s make Arkansas next!
Source: arcompassion.org
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"Smoked Cannabis for Chronic Neuropathic Pain: A... →
Mark A. Ware, MD, MSc, et al., stated the following in their Aug. 30, 2010 study titled “Smoked Cannabis for Chronic Neuropathic Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial,” published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal:
A single inhalation of 25 mg of 9.4% tetrahydrocannabinol herbal cannabis three times daily for five days reduced the intensity of pain, improved sleep and...
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“The study, from the University of California at San Francisco, found smoked...”
– Dr. Lester Grinspoon, commenting on a 2007 study in the journal Neurology.
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“There aren’t many scientists or clinical investigators that are...”
– Dr. Donald Abrams
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“The absorption when taken orally—of THC—is very variable and low.”
– Donald Abrams, M.D.
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“It is far and away the best medicine we have for Chronic Wasting and increasing...”
– Wendy Gwinner on Medical Marijuana—
She is the Oncology Social Worker at Bozeman Deaconess Hospital Cancer Center. She holds a Master’s of Social Work and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, with advanced certification in oncology social work
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Study Shows No Increased Lung Cancer Risk for Even... →
While a clear increase in cancer risk was seen among cigarette smokers in the study, no such association was seen for regular cannabis users.
Even very heavy, long-term marijuana users who had smoked more than 22,000 joints over a lifetime seemed to have no greater risk than infrequent marijuana users or nonusers.
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“All of [the studies] demonstrated, to one extent or another, that smoked...”
– Dr. Donald Abrams on the use of Marijuana for Neuropathic pain
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“To say, however, as has been proposed here, that the use of the drug should be...”
– Dr. William C. Woodward at the House of Representatives: Committee on Ways and Means—Washington, D.C.
Tuesday, May 4, 1937
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“Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active...”
– Francis Young, the DEA’s own Administrative Law Judge
September 6th, 1988
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listening to "Bob Dylan - Blowin →
“How many ears must one man have/before he can hear people cry?”—Bob Dylan #SafeAccess http://arcompassion.org #mmot
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listening to "Woody Guthrie- This Land Is Your... →
This land was made for you and me! Help put medical marijuana on the Arkansas ballot. Find out more @ http://arcompassion.org #SafeAccess
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