Chemotherapy Patients Benefit from Smoking Marijuana

Lara Stielow
medical-marijuana
 
 
Cancer treatments are becoming more and more effective, but along with the destruction of cancer cells come a lot of extra undesirable effects. More and more it is becoming widely known that chemotherapy patients benefit from smoking marijuana. Smoking it is not actually necessary though. Eating it in some form seems to be the most beneficial mode of ingestion. Extracts are becoming more frequently made and available which do not produce any feelings on intoxication.
 
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http://guardianlv.com/2013/11/chemotherapy-patients-benefit-from-smoking-marijuana/

‘Marijuana refugees’ stuck in Colorado while children receive treatment

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DENVER — Any parent would do whatever it takes to make a sick child feel better.  But would you uproot your entire life, pack up the kids, and move across the country?
A growing number of families are doing just that.  Relocating to Colorado.  Some call them “marijuana refugees.”
People like Ornella Pisciuneri.  She left her husband and two of her children back home in New Jersey, and moved to Colorado Springs a month ago, seeking treatment for her son Alex, 20, who suffers from Lefora Body Disease, an incurable and often deadly form of epilepsy.
 
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http://kdvr.com/2013/11/27/marijuana-refugees-stuck-in-colorado-while-children-receive-treatment/

The Diary of a Mother’s Fight for Medical Cannabis Access


Anna, age 6, diagnosed with intractable epilepsy
Anna, age 6, diagnosed with intractable epilepsy
Photo: Danielle Keyser
 
It’s Sunday morning. I look over at the clock beside my bed at 5:59 a.m., just seconds before the alarm starts to buzz. I roll over, place my hand gently on my daughter’s chest, and wait to feel the subtle rise and fall of her ribcage. Ahhh, Anna is breathing. I’m good now.
You’d think having just celebrated her 6th birthday, that I would no longer feel the need to make sure Anna is still alive every morning, much less have her nestled between her father and I night after night. But when you have a child with intractable epilepsy, all the conventional rules on parenting will inevitably be thrown out the proverbial window.
 
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http://www.ladybud.com/2013/11/25/moved-to-action-the-diary-of-a-mothers-fight-for-access/

USC research continues to uncover possible medical benefits of marijuana component

BY JOEY HOLLEMAN jholleman@thestate.com
20070829 Biomed research
 
Research into the impact of the principal ingredient in marijuana at the molecular level on diseases keeps leading University of South Carolina researchers to new possibilities.
The latest study, published in The Journal of Biological Chemistry, deals with the impact of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) on a recently discovered class of molecules called microRNA.

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