Prescription drugs kill about 100,000 people in the world each year. Off the top of your head, do you know how many deaths are caused by using marijuana, either medicinally or recreationally?
Tommy Chong claims he is going to beat cancer with hemp oil. His “Doctor” is Rick Simpson, a Canadian who had to flee his country because the government was coming after him.
Israel has become a world leader in the use of medical marijuana. More than 10,000 patients have received government licenses to consume the drug in order to treat ailments such as cancer and chronic pain.
It’s been 14 months since the police swarmed Bob Crouse‘s Colorado Springs House, confiscated his personal medical marijuana garden and brought a felony charge against him for possession with intent to distribute. Friday an El Paso County jury found the leukemia patient not guilty.
CANNABIS CULTURE - Can cannabis cause cancer if you use it chronically over long periods? Cenk Uygur of "the largest online news show in the world", The Young Turks, seems to think so, but CC blogger David Malmo-Levine set them sets him straight in this letter.
Sixty-three year-old medical marijuana patient Norman B. Smith was diagnosed with inoperable liver cancer in 2009 and sought treatment from the internationally lauded Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Smith's oncologist at Cedars-Sinai, Dr. Steven Miles, approved of his medical marijuana use as a means to deal with the effects of chemotherapy and pain from an unrelated back surgery.