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Review Finds Marijuana May Help MS Patients

MedicineNet.com - Fri Dec 4, 4:28 pm ET

Title: Review Finds Marijuana May Help MS Patients Category: Health News Created: 12/4/2009 8:10:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 12/4/2009

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Jeffrey L. Smith: For paraplegics like me, medical pot safer
The Capital Times - 1 hour 32 minutes ago
Dear Editor: I’m writing in support of the Jacki Rickert Medical Marijuana Act. There will be public hearings on Dec. 15 by both the Assembly and Senate health committees. I strongly recommend that the bill be passed to the floor for debate and possible passage into law with the governor’s signature.
Mother of boy shot receives prison term
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - 2 hours 5 minutes ago
A 22-year-old mother of two, Janice Collins kept a loaded .40-caliber Glock handgun in her bed overnight.
Drug testing planned for Iditarod mushers
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - 2 hours 42 minutes ago
FAIRBANKS — The Iditarod plans to test mushers for drugs and alcohol in March, a change that many mushers don’t have a problem with — unless one asks three-time champion Lance Mackey. “I think it’...
Budget woes prompt early release of prisoners
New Haven Register - 2 hours 45 minutes ago
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut officials have reinstated an early release program for prison inmates that was curtailed after two parolees were charged with killing a woman and her two daughters in Cheshire in 2007.
Council demands marijuana ban
Hi-Desert Star - Sat Dec 5, 4:07 am ET
YUCCA VALLEY — The Town Council were all ayes Tuesday night as they directed staff to work with the Planning Commission to draft a ban on medical marijuana dispensaries in Yucca Valley.
Medical marijuana facility to open in Riverside
The Press-Enterprise - Sat Dec 5, 3:21 am ET
Riverside's first medical marijuana collective, where patients with doctors' recommendations can buy the drug from patients who grow it, is set to open today, after months of preparations and delays. The Inland Empire Health and Wellness Center Medical Marijuana Collective is a nonprofit open only to members and not the general public, said William Sump, the collective's general manager.
Preparing for cannabis, a growth industry
Detroit News - Sat Dec 5, 1:11 am ET
The business of medical marijuana is rapidly evolving in Michigan, with Royal Oak preparing to pass the state's first zoning law to cluster professional growers and the opening in Southfield of a trade school teaching plant cultivation.
Marijuana seized in traffic stop
Deseret News - Sat Dec 5, 12:56 am ET
MAGNA — A short, high-speed chase on I-80 Friday morning led to the arrest of an Arizona man and the seizure of two...
Rocky Mountain high: medical marijuana
Richmond Times-Dispatch - Sat Dec 5, 12:18 am ET
DENVER—Inside the green neon sign, which is shaped like a marijuana leaf, is a red cross. The cross serves the fiction that most transactions in the store—which is what it really is—involve medicine. The Justice Department recently announced that federal laws against marijuana would not be enforced for possession of marijuana that conforms to state laws. In 2000, Colorado legalized medical ...
Williams enjoying his new life with Dolphins
Olean Times Herald - Fri Dec 4, 11:06 pm ET
Bryan Scott scrunched his face and brainstormed. He thinks he played Ricky Williams before. Maybe. The memory is fading. Feels like forever ago. “I’m not sure. I’m not sure,” Buffalo’s safety-turned-linebacker repeated. “I think so. Yeah. By the time I got into the league, he was already in Miami.”
Medithrive Voted #1 Medicinal Marijuana Dispensary in Bay Area
redOrbit - Fri Dec 4, 8:09 pm ET
. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Medithrive, Inc. has won the Patient's Choice Award as the favorite dispensary in the SF Bay Area by popular vote conducted by the online website, www.weedmaps.com.
CBP Officers Seize $176K In Marijuana
CBS 5 Phoenix - Fri Dec 4, 7:36 pm ET
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officers seize about 110 pounds of marijuana at the Douglas Port of Entry.
Five arrested in Fackler
The Scottsboro Daily Sentinel - Fri Dec 4, 6:33 pm ET
A two-month probe by investigator Kevin Miller concluded with several arrests Tuesday afternoon on County Road 45 in Fackler. Five people were arrested, at two different residences, on drug charges, according to Chief Deputy Chuck Phillips.
CRIME LOG: Friday's police news from around the region
Delaware Coast Press - Fri Dec 4, 6:09 pm ET
Trooper bitten by DUI suspect's dog: A Delaware State Police officer was sent to the hospital this morning for a dog bite he received while arresting a local woman for impaired driving.
Study confirms that cannabis is beneficial for multiple sclerosis
Science Daily - Fri Dec 4, 5:24 pm ET
Cannabis can reduce spasticity in multiple sclerosis patients. A systematic review found that five out six randomized controlled trials reported a reduction in spasticity and an improvement in mobility.