Author Steve Elliott ~alapoet~

Cannabis In Medicine: Patient Empowerment

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 26, 2012 Culture, Medical

By Jack Rikess

Toke of the Town

Northern California Correspondent

I had the privilege and honor of attending a conference this past week in San Francisco titled, “Cannabis In Medicine.” The symposium brought together all levels of health care workers: Doctors, nurses, researchers and other medical professionals, mostly unfamiliar with marijuana as a medical treatment, gathered in one room to receive straight, sober information. We were treated to the results of data, case studies and clinical trials conducted using cannabis therapy.

Cannabis Cures Cancer: Look At Me, I’m Cancer Free!

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 26, 2012 Medical

Sharon Letts

By Sharon Letts

After just a few weeks of ingesting raw cannabis and taking Nternal oil at night, the spider-web-like mass found in my left breast during both a mammogram and subsequent ultra-sound, was nowhere to be found during the first scheduled biopsy.

While there was still a target point for a biopsy, and the oncologist wanted to proceed, I made a deal and bought another month of time. I continued to ingest a green drink made with cannabis in a blender daily, and began ingesting RSO (Rick Simpson Oil), also known as Phoenix Tears, nightly.

During the second scheduled biopsy one month later, the “target point” was gone, with the attending physician declaring, “No biopsy needed.”

Air Force Vet With PTSD In New Ad For Arkansas Med Marijuana

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 26, 2012 Legislation, Medical, News

Arkansans for Compassionate Care

Daniel Hankins urges Arkansans to vote Yes on Issue 5 to help alleviate the suffering of veterans and other patients

Arkansans for Compassionate Care on Friday started airing its second television ad in support of Issue 5, the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Act. The ad features Daniel Hankins, an Air Force veteran who was disabled when a 500-pound bomb fell on his back. As noted in the ad, Daniel also suffers from post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) due to the fact that three close friends lost their lives in front of him.

Hankins expressed his desire to use medical marijuana to alleviate his suffering and allow him to wean off many more harmful pharmaceutical drugs. Under the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Act, veterans with PTSD would qualify to use medical marijuana if they have a doctor’s recommendation to do so.

Measure 80 Would Mean Marijuana For Oregon’s PTSD Veterans

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 25, 2012 Legislation, Medical, News

Vets Helping Vets

Every day in America, 18 military veterans commit suicide. The United States has lost more military service-members and veterans to suicide than to combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Oregon is home to an estimated 300,000 veterans, including more than 20,000 from the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, according to the Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs. A 2008 Rand Corporation study found nearly 20 percent of Iraq and Afghanistan vets reported PTSD symptoms.

Currently, the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program does not recognize or allow for access to cannabis to treat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Therefore, Oregon military veterans who suffer from PTSD cannot access medical marijuana.

Legislator Accuses Medical Marijuana Group Of ‘Harassment’

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 25, 2012 Legislation, Medical, News

Hal Yeager/The Birmingham News

CLUELESS! Rep. Jim McClendon, chairman of the Alabama House Health Committee, called constituent emails “harassment”

Health Committee Chairman Unwilling To Read Citizen Emails

Ah, representative democracy. When citizens have concerns, they contact their elected representatives, right? Right?? One Alabama legislator apparently could use a basic civics lesson; it seems Republican Rep. Jim McClendon has forgotten for whom he works. On Thursday morning, he sent an email message to constituents, colleagues and newspapers statewide accusing medical marijuana lobbyists of “harassment.”

McClendon, chairman of the Alabama House Committee on Health, apparently felt quite put upon by the emails sent by members and supporters of the Alabama Medical Marijuana Coalition, a group fighting for safe access for medicinal cannabis patients in the Heart of Dixie.

5,600 More Montana Patients Denied Rights And Marijuana

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 25, 2012 Legislation, Medical, News

Cannabis Now Magazine

Losing Legal Status and Providers, Suffering Patients Plead for Voters to Oppose IR-124

As Montana fully implements Senate Bill 423 after a June 2011 injunction was lifted by the state Supreme Court on Wednesday, the vast majority of currently legal patients are losing their rights. The state’s data show that 5,598 patients will now lose their status as registered, legal medical users of marijuana.

Marijuana Motivational Poster of the Day

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 25, 2012 Culture

Steve Elliott ~alapoet~

Sometimes, when you’ve really had enough of the prohibitionists’ lies and fear tactics, you need to take a step back, take a toke, and enjoy a simple-messaged motivational poster.

Medical Marijuana Advocates Launch Election-Based Website

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 25, 2012 Legislation, Medical, News

Examiner.com

New tool enables patients, advocates to make informed choices by reviewing voting record of elected officials

The medical marijuana advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) on Thursday launched a new website — VoteMedicalMarijuana.org — that provides patients and their supporters with the tools they need to make informed decisions about the candidates in their districts. The new website will give visitors a pass/fail “grade” for how their Member of Congress has voted on medical marijuana since 1997.

Report: 210K Marijuana Possession Arrests in CO in Last 25 Years

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 25, 2012 News

THC Finder

Blacks and Latinos Disproportionately Arrested

Colorado Voters to Decide on Making Marijuana Possession Legal With November Vote

With just two weeks remaining before Colorado’s voters decide whether to make marijuana possession legal in their state, a new report — “210,000 Marijuana Arrests In Colorado, 1986-2010” — reveals that more than 200,000 people have been arrested in Colorado since 1986. Police made more than half of those marijuana arrests in just the last 10 years.

The study, based on FBI-UCR crime data, reports that nearly everybody arrested was young. In the last ten years, 86 percent of the people arrested were 34 years or younger.

In the last decade, Colorado arrested Latinos for marijuana possession at 1.5 times the rate of whites, and arrested blacks at 3.1 times the rate of whites.

But young blacks and Latinos use marijuana at lower rates than young whites.

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