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| Dane Wilkins is right when he says that medical
marijuana will not go away ("Decade of Prop. 215," Sept.
25). Regardless of the wrongheaded and legally silly suit by San Diego
and other counties that object to medical marijuana, science keeps
proving its value. Most recently, researchers at UC
San Francisco reported that medical marijuana gave a big assist to
treatment for hepatitis C, boosting cure rates an astonishing 300
percent.
Advocates of medical marijuana got some more good
news last Cannabinoids destroy
cancer Marijuana protects your brain -> No funding for THC
tumour research Targeting CB2 cannabinoid receptors as a novel
therapy to treat malignant lymphoblastic disease THC destroys brain cancers by Dana Larsen (01 Mar, 1999)
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| http://www.ukcia.org/research/scrip.htm
Andrew Coldwell, a 50-year-old British man, who has multiple sclerosis and smokes about ten 'joints' (cannabis rolled up in cigarette paper with tobacco) every week to relieve his muscle spasms, at a cost of around £30. "I was diagnosed with MS about 14 years ago, and five years ago I was in a conversation with some friends at a local club. A couple of them said that they have heard that cannabis was good for MS, and suggested that I try it." One of them smoked cannabis recreationally and gave Coldwell a joint, which he kept for a while because, he recalls, "I was rather sceptical about the whole thing." Then one day he had a severe attack of muscle spasms, "like the twisting of a metal bar in my calf muscle...it was excruciating." He had tried all the conventional therapies, including the muscle relaxant baclofen, and his doctor at the time had even given him an injection of morphine. In desperation he decided to smoke the joint. "Within ten minutes my muscle spasms had stopped. For the first time in four days I had a good nights sleep and, ever since then, I've smoked cannabis whenever I nedd it."
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