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High Times
Here you can read about med-marijuana issues in the News Flash and News Archives, going back to early 1997, as well as links to med-mar Web sites. This is the granddaddy pro-pot site of them all, so take your time, and look around. 25 years and still going!
MAPS: Multi-Disciplinary Association For Psychedelic Studies
As it says here at their homepage, MAPS has been supporting research into psychedelics and medical marijuana since 1986. This vast Web site has loads of quite heady information, so please, if you are at all inclined to thinking, visit here!
Marijuana: The Forbidden Medicine
This is the Web site of Dr. Lester Grinspoon, who co-wrote Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts (The Lindesmith Center, 1997), and wrote Marijuana: The Forbidden Medicine (Yale University Press, 1997). A Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Grinspoon knows one hell of a lot about medical marijuana, and pot use in general. Very interesting site - a must visit!
American Medical Marijuana Association
The American Medical Marijuana Association (AMMA) was established in 1999 by Steve Kubby, Anna Boyce, both co-authors of California's Compassionate Use Act (1996), when they both, together with Dr. Tod Mikuriya, Dr. Jay Cavanaugh, and Dr. John Beresford, and others too, found that the police in some Californian counties were still prosecuting medical marijuana patients, even though the Californian state constitution explicitly states that the police must enforce any and all laws passed by the people, no matter what (as with Prop. 215, now the Compassionate Use Act of 1996). AMMA is six months old on May 7th, 2000, and has been an incredibly active med-mar advocacy group, tirelessly working to bring some sanity to Prohibitionists. Kubby is a cancer patient fighting his own private war with the Placer Co. police over their blatantly evil bust of Kubby and his wife for growing his own medicine. Kubby can basically prove that pot is the only thing keeping his adrenal cancer form killing him, according to his doctor, one of the foremost experts on Kubby's type or rare cancer. The cops would really rather he were dead, and are working hard at ensuring that result by trying to keep him from growing and using his medicine.
Medical Marijuana Magazine
This is embarrassing to admit, but I can't figure out if this magazine is put out by Peter McWilliams, and/or Todd McCormick. They are mentioned quite a bit, with lots of info on both their travails with the Prohibitionist enforcers and their repressive, anti-American anti-drug laws. This is an amazingly full site, so again, spend some time here!
Campaign for the Restoration and Regulation of Hemp
This is one of the most amazing sites on cannabis related issues! Be sure to check out their Hemp TV area. Incredible array of films and video that you too can watch right on your computer. Find out just what the US government has been trying to hide all these years, the facts behind the current Prohibition policy. Based in Oregon, this is one hell of a Web site!
DRCnet.org: The Drug Reform Coordination Network
Loads of current, up-to-the-minute news on drug policy and reform efforts around the country and the world. This is one of those Web sites that really, really pisses off the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. When will it end? What is their criteria for victory? How do we know when the Drug War is won?
Medical Marijuana Insurance
Protect your investment against overeager, lawbreaking cops who just can't stand the fact that some people don't agree with their views of reality, and the medications they want to use. Humbug!
Yahooka: Health and Medicinal
Wow, "if we unite together in one voice, we will be heard." This is quite an optimistic Web site. One heck of a lot of information here on a multitude of reasons to smoke pot medicinally!
Medical Marijuana
This is a "compilation of scientific research and informed commentary" on medical marijuana, papers, reports, articles, history of medical use, etc. This site has a lot to see, but even it points out, there is a lot more information available.
Farmacy.org
Here is a well thought out argument for the idea that med-mar was 'grand-fathered' into continued respectability and legality, in 1938, under US law. Very interesting argument, and I am not doing it justice here, so go take a look yourself!
The Lindesmith Center: Broadening The Debate On Drugs And Drug Policy: Medical Marijuana Focal Point
While not strictly dealing with med-marijuana issues, the Lindesmith Center, based in New York City, and funded partly by philanthropist George Soros, is striving to shine more light onto the issue of failed US anti-drug policies, the tactics of repression and intimidation, the tearing apart of US Constitutionally guaranteed rights, and in countries that have succumbed to the exported ant-drug hysteria. Visit and see one of the largest online libraries of drug related information form around the world, find out when symposiums will be held, and where you might catch the movie Grass (2000) narrated by Woody Harrelson, detailing the US anti-pot war.
Floridians for Medical Rights
This outfit is working hard to get a med-marijuana statute passed in my home state of Florida. Get and sign the petition here to get this initiative onto the Florida ballot!
Coloradans for Medical Rights
Colorado had enough signatures to legally vote on whether doctors in that fine state could 'recommend' marijuana to their patients they felt could and would benefit from smoking pot medicinally, but then Secretary of State Buckley made sure, by hiding some signature petitions inside her desk drawer, that Coloradans would not vote in 1998 on med-marijuana. The Prohibitionists usually resort to lies and distortions in pushing their insanity on the rest of us.
MASS CANN/NORML
This is the Web site of the Massachusetts Cannabis Coalition, the local chapter of NORML. One more voice amongst the rising swell crying out for an end to this War on Some Drugs.
Cures, Not Wars
This organization's leader, Dana Beal, has been behind the Marijuana Marches in New York City for the last nineteen years, working to get medical marijuana out into the public debate, and working hard to get Ibogaine treatment to the masses for heroin and methadone addiction. One of the old Yippies, Beal has had his differences with this person or that one, but deserves much kudos and credit for all the dedication and effort he has put into his beliefs.
Act Up DC
This is the group of activists in Washington DC, lead by Wayne Turner, who got the medical marijuana bill, I-59 onto the Washington DC ballot in 1998, which Rep. Bob Barr prevented the votes for from being counted, then killed the results anyway, once it was found that 69 percent of the voters in DC voted "yes" for medical marijuana. Rep. Barr should be voted out of office as one of the biggest hypocrites and bullshitslingers in public "service."
Medical Marijuana Growers' Club
Buy information on how to grow your own medicine at this site, but at your own risk. Cops do bust sick smokers just as eagerly as healthy smokers.
The Compassionate Use Act (1996)
Read the text of the law that California voters passed into law in 1996, the one that some California police are ignoring. Aren't the police the one's who are supposed to uphold the law? Hmmm, isn't 'Rampart' in California, the division in LA where eighty drug convictions have so far been thrown out? It sure damn well is!
Medical Marijuana News Briefs: 1998-1992
Another large collection of links to articles about medical marijuana.
Freevibe
Here is a "reefer madness" Web site, a complete sham, I'm sure is associated with the ONDCP in some way. I have tried to submit a comment to their discussion board, but they don't seem to want to post it, though they do seem to post some really ridiculous, retarded sounding statements, made by people (obviously young and brainwashed, like the one saying "we have the greatest country in the world here, so if you don't like it, we don't want you so go somewhere else," apparently forgetting that this country was born because our forefathers didn't like a few things, and rather than running away, they took it upon themselves to effect some changes in the system. I hate that statement more than most!) who while not using drugs, sound worse than the burnouts I've come across.
Institute of Medicine: Marijuana & Medicine
Yet another taxpayer funded report (1999) on marijuana, commissioned by the US government that goes against the Prohibition-oriented domestic policies. General Barry McCaffrey has misquoted it when he wants support, and ignored it when reformers use it to show what an idiot he really is, and how idiotic continuing the War on Some Drugs is!
Shelter From The Storm
This California group is one of the few who actually have a community garden where med-mar using patients can grow their medicine (pot, marijuana, herb, cannabis, grass, ganja) with the 'tacit approval' of the San Diego Police Department. So why were 314 pot smokers arrested at New York City's Millennium Marijuana March 2000? What is wrong with the Prohibitionists? Why aren't they hissing and booing at the not-so-Secret Police State tactics in the US?
Cannabis for Migraine Treatment: The Once and Future Prescription?
This report (1998) by Ethan Russo, who I saw speak recently in New York City at a two-day Drug Reform conference, knows more than I could ever hope to get close to learning about the use of marijuana in treating various ailments! A clinical child and adult neurologist, Dr. Russo has had his own problems just getting the US government to allow him to conduct clinical trials to test the efficacy of cannabis in treating various illnesses.
The Fitz Hugh Ludlow Hypertext Library
What a find! Ludlow, author of the infamous essay The Hashish Eaters (1857), wrote a number of articles on drugs in the Nineteenth Century, mainly hashish, but not entirely about hashish. Not only can you find most of his writings here, but also there is a huge compilation of Nineteenth Century drug writings, including articles from Aleister Crowley's magical and scientific journal The Equinox, hashish stories from the Arabian Nights, and many more amazing links as well!
Schaffer Library of Drug Policy: Medicinal Marijuana Master Reference
This page has not been updated apparently for quite some time, so some of the links here may not be working, but overall, well worth a visit. A vast collection of medical marijuana related articles, papers and reports.
Let Them Eat Chemo
This Salon article (May 15, 2001), by Dan Shapiro, reflects personally on chemotherapy and med-mar therapies. Details the political economy of med-mar legalization.
Fighting 'Cheech & Chong' Medicine
This Salon article (July 27, 2000), by Darren Forbes, examines the tactics used by White House drug czar Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey to fight med-mar legalization, and draws some disturbing conclusions.
Gallup Poll on Medical Marijuana March 1999
In this nationwide US Gallup Poll seems to show that 73 percent of Americans agree that doctors should be legally allowed to prescribe marijuana. Now we have to convince these people who think this about med-marijuana, but still think it should be illegal in any way that they are only part of the way there.
High Court Nixes Medical Pot
This Associated Press story (March 14, 2001) details a major blow to med-mar activists: the US Supreme Court ruled "that a federal law classifying the drug as illegal has no exception for ill patients."
Pot Clubs Defiant-- and Packed
This LA Times article (May 15, 2001), by Maria L. La Ganga, explores reactions by med-mar activist groups to the US Supreme Court's declaration that marijuana has no medical benefit.
Medical Applications of Whole Marijuana vs. Oral THC Debated
The title pretty much explains this short article (March 1993) on the preferences of many patients for smokable medical marijuana as opposed to the patented THC pills, like Marinol. Most patients seem to prefer smoking their medicine, and it is no wonder, since that is the way nature intended.
A Second Chance
This O.C. Weekly article (May 5-11, 2000), by Nick Schou, is from a Libertarian oriented publication that has a strong opinion on the stupidity of continuing the War on Some Drugs, on the subject of Marvin Chavez getting released from prison in California pending appeal almost four years ahead of schedule. It seems that the prosecutor who spent his final day working as prosecutor was up to no good when he railroaded Chavez into prison for distributing med-marijuana to sick patients. Read about it here.
Mining the Depths for Dope
This Wired article (July 28, 2001), by Charles Mandel, details Canadian-sponsored research by the biotech firm Prairie Plant Systems to study if marijuana is medically effective as a pain reliever. "The company is cultivating the herb in the mineshaft under grow lights in a 12,000 square-foot growth chamber."
Canada Opens Door to Marijuana
This BBC article (July 30, 2001) outlines Canada's medical marijuana plan "by people suffering from terminal illnesses and chronic conditions."
Federal Foolishness and Marijuana
This is an editorial (January 30, 1997) from the New England Journal of Medicine by Dr. Jerome P. Kassirer, going into great detail about patients who benefit from smoking marijuana while suffering chronic pain, cancer, chemotherapy, nausea, glaucoma, and the idiocy on the part of the Prohibitionist US government of barring the use by these suffers of med-marijuana.
New Mexico Governor's Task Force On HIV/AIDS-Position Statement: Medical Use Of Marijuana
Read the decision of Governor Johnson's Task Force, basically saying that patients who find pot useful and beneficial should be allowed to use it, and the federal government be damned. Just not in those words!
Everybody Must Get Stoned
This Salon article (May 18, 2001), by Ian O'Doherty, is a marijuana-fueled gonzo trip through Zimbabwe.
Institute of Medical Marijuana
This outfit hails from Rotterdam, another city where the idea of medical marijuana is spreading like wildfire. They offer assistance to patients who need med-mar, but they stress in a postscript at the bottom of the page that they can't help us in the US, only those in Europe.
Official Web Site of George McMahon: The Fifth Legal US Medical Marijuana Patient
Here you can find out how to bring George here to your town to talk about how the US government supplies his medical marijuana.
The Emperor Wears No Clothes
Order the brilliant, seminal book by Jack Herer and read about why pot is illegal, the possible conspiracy behind the original outlawing of pot, and the myriad uses of cannabis in all its different forms. Buy this book, buy two copies and give one to that Prohibitionist supporting friend or parent!
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