PERRY BULWER - BRIGHT ON THE EDGE

I've been a member of the BCCCS for 9 years and served on its board for 3 years.

Lester Grinspoon, an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, is the coauthor of "Marijuana, the Forbidden Medicine." He has been on the board of the BC Compassion Club since its inception.

A history of the battle between politics and science over the use of marijuana as a medicine.

Reality: In a White House-commissioned 1999 report, the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine declared that "nausea, appetite loss, pain, and anxiety are all afflictions of wasting and all can be mitigated by marijuana."

Scientific studies indicate that marijuana can halt the spread of numerous cancer cells, including the type that Kennedy suffers from.

A historic document from the 124,000-member American College of Physicians certifies the medical value of marijuana.

Marijuana has been smoked for its medicinal properties for centuries. Preclinical, clinical, and anecdotal reports suggest numerous potential medical uses for marijuana.

While the the American Medical Association claims pot has no medical value, Big Pharma is busy getting patents for marijuana products.

Research exploring new ways of exploiting the full medicinal uses of cannabis while avoiding unwanted [by some] side-effects

Editors: Current restrictions on marijuana research are absurd

Research into natural chemicals that mimic marijuana's effects in the brain could help to explain--and suggest treatments for--pain, anxiety, eating disorders, phobias and other conditions

Scientists from Hungary, Germany and the U.K. have discovered that our own body not only makes chemical compounds similar to the active ingredient in marijuana (THC), but these play an important part in maintaining healthy skin.

Evidence from peer-reviewed scientific literature that supports the hypothesis that humans, and all animals, make and use internally produced cannabis-like products (endocannabinoids) as part of the evolutionary harm reduction program.

Emerging Clinical Applications For Cannabis & Cannabinoids A Review of the Recent Scientific Literature, 2000 — 2006

“It is clear that there is very realistic potential for cannabinoids as medicines. Scientists are looking at a range of possible applications.”

A considerable body of data shows that no state with a medical marijuana law has experienced an increase in youth marijuana use since its law’s enactment. All states have reported overall decreases...

Namisol® is indicated for the treatment of different diseases symptoms such as: Spasticity with pain, Chronic neuralgic pain, Nausea and vomiting, Palliative treatment of cancer and HIV/AIDS

A rash of new studies of marijuana has hit the mass media, generating absurd headlines like "Smoking Pot Rots Your Gums."

The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health wants to clarify legislation so that prescribing cannabis to sufferers of chronic pain would no longer be automatically illegal.

"I think this verdict will help send a message to lawmakers to catch up with the way ordinary people really think,"

After a 40-year moratorium, credible research for treating illnesses and addictions with psychedelic compounds has made a miraculous comeback.

Today, Ketchum steadfastly maintains that cannabis and LSD are safe drugs compared to many legal substances. This is what the Edgewood experiments and other studies have shown, he contends.

Clinical trial data to be published in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS).

Patients with fibromyalgia treated with a synthetic form of marijuana, nabilone, showed significant reductions in pain and anxiety in a first-of-its-kind study, published in The Journal of Pain.

The growing body of evidence that cannabis may be effective as a pain reliever has been expanded with publication of a new study in The Journal of Pain reporting that patients with nerve pain showed reduced pain intensity from smoking marijuana.

Cannabis significantly reduces HIV-associated neuropathic pain compared to placebo, and possesses an acceptable margin of safety for use, according to clinical trial data to be published in the journal Neurology.

Cannabis significantly reduces neuropathic pain compared to placebo and is well tolerated by patients with chronic pain conditions, according to clinical trial data to be published in The Journal of Pain.

Cannabis has long been recognized as a medicinal plant. Researchers from ETH Zurich and Bonn University have now established anti-inflammatory properties in hemp oil.

Augmentation of the endocannabinoid system via exogenously administered cannabinoid receptor agonists may constitute an option to treat inflammation and fibrosis in chronic pancreatitis.