Medical Marijuana Card

Pain is by far the most common condition for which medicinal cannabis is used. About 50% of all medical cannabis patients use cannabis to alleviate pain. The medical conditions responsible for pain are quite varied, but there is a remarkable consistency in patient’s responses to cannabis use. The majority of patients can reduce or eliminate their use of prescription opiates such as Vicodin or OxyContin. Patients who do well on cannabis often cannot tolerate the side effects of opiates, including constipation and daytime sedation. When cannabis is used for pain, most patients report that they do not experience significant side effects typical of those experienced by recreational users, such as giddiness, short-term memory loss, or sedation. Recent research on brain physiology suggests that the pain receptors are more receptive to stimuli when one is in pain. At the same time, the pleasure and addiction centers are relatively resistant to stimulation. This is why the vast majo...

As they might have expected, the Federal Prosecutor in California, Melinda Haag, replied with a warning that the Feds intended to prosecute medical marijuana growth facilities even if the city approved them of Oakland. She wrote that she would prosecute even if the medical marijuana growth facilities were licensed under state law. She also warned that the prosecutions could include more than just the medical marijuana growers ; they could consist of the property owners, the landlords and the financiers of the medical marijuana growing facilities. Haag's office acknowledged the 09 memo from the Justice Department that keeps the Feds from going after the medical marijuana patients if licensed by state law. Still, this does not apply to the Large Scale medical marijuana growth facilities. One of the loopholes that the smaller scale medical marijuana dispensaries have used is by having the clients designate the medical marijuana dispensary as the Primary Caregiver they can fa...

Hemp, cannabis, Marijuana: when we talk about "grass," we often see terminological confusion. Marijuana is a psychoactive substance obtained by drying the inflorescences of Cannabis sativa. Not all varieties of this plant are, however, exploited for recreational purposes: only those belonging to the THCAS genotype (commonly defined as "Indian hemp") have psychoactive effects due to the content of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).   It is a "drug" useful in various diseases, without side effects. It is a substance that can induce addiction and, in the long run, cause damage to the body and mind. The debate on cannabis, with different nuances, has been rotating for a long time on these two positions in stark contrast. A new influential report published by the American National Academies of Sciences has examined the amount of research that has been issued for years on the use of cannabis for medical or recreational purposes , establishing  for the first time wi...