Showing posts with label medicine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medicine. Show all posts
The Government Is Not Us: Mother Faces 30 Year Prison Sentence For Using Cannabis To Treat Crohn’s Disease
by Carey Wedler. A prime candidate for jury nullification. Last month, Kansas mother Shona Banda made headlines when her son was removed from her custody after he defended her use of medical marijuana to treat Crohn’s Disease. He had spoken up about her use at an anti-drug presentation at his school. This prompted the school to call to ... MOREDavid Downs: Seeking To Prove The Opposite, Scientist Finds Smoking Marijuana Decreases Lung Cancer Risk
An inconvenient truth for drug warriors. As more and more Americans consider the pros and cons of cannabis legalization, many points are worth repeating, and chief among them: cannabis actually decreases the risk of lung cancer. It’s a counter-intuitive notion, since tobacco smoking causes cancer, marijuana smoking must as well. But as ... MORESenate Formally Begins Process To Repeal Obamacare
Innovation Vs Intervention In Health Care
by Veronique de Rugy. How can we produce better health for more people at a lower cost, year
after year? By lifting all the rules and barriers that prevent health
care innovators from bringing new lifesaving products to consumers and
force doctors to beg bureaucrats and insurance administrators for
permission to save lives. For years, free market ... MOREKelly McLauglin: Morgan Freeman Makes Impassioned Plea For Legalization Of Cannabis While Discussing His Habit
'I'll eat it, drink it, smoke it, snort it' Hollywood's favorite narrator Morgan Freeman opened up about being an advocate for legalizing marijuana last week, claiming that 'pot is very useful'. Freeman, 77, is a longtime user who was turned on to the drug by his first wife 'many years ago'. 'I'll eat it, drink it, smoke it, snort it! This movement is ... MOREDonald Bradley: After State Takes Her Child, A Kansas Woman Is At The Center Of National Marijuana Debate
Treat your disease or raise your child. You can't do both. Shona Banda says she had a clear choice: Live in misery or use medical marijuana to ease her Crohn’s disease and risk going to jail. Turned out to be an easy call for the Garden City, Kan., woman. She said her symptoms eased to the point where she could return to work and once again play with ... MOREBeing A Good Mom Puts Her At Odds With Her Government
by John Pendygraft. Mom of epileptic son caught in Charlotte's Web medical marijuana bureaucracy. Just as 13-year-old Branden Petro flops into the passenger seat of
his mom's car, his eyes roll back. His face twitches uncontrollably. He
curls into a fetal position. It is his third seizure on a particularly bad day. His mother, Renee
Petro, 36, jumps ... MOREDEA Warns Of Stoned Rabbits If Utah Approves Medical Pot
The new face of marijuana addiction. Utah is considering a bill
that would allow patients with certain debilitating conditions to be
treated with edible forms of marijuana. If the bill passes, the state's
wildlife may "cultivate a taste" for the plant, lose their fear of
humans, and basically be high all the time. That's according to testimony ... MORENew Narcotic Painkiller Rules Put The Hurt To Veterans
by Emily Wax-Thibodeaux. Frequent appointment requirements overwhelm the VA. New federal rules that make it harder to get narcotic painkillers are taking an unexpected toll on thousands of veterans who depend on these prescription drugs to treat a wide variety of ailments, such as missing limbs and post-traumatic stress. The restrictions, ... MORECongressman Blasts San Francisco Medical Pot Prosecutions
by David Downs. Calling out the feds. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher blasted San Francisco’s local U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag Sunday, saying she was “breaking the law” in her attempts to seize major Bay Area dispensaries Harborside Health Center and Berkeley Patients Group. The libertarian-leaning Republican from Huntington Beach has ... MOREThomas Sowell: Random Thoughts On The Passing Scene
The observations of a genius. Who says President Obama doesn't promote bipartisanship? His
complicity in Iran's moving toward nuclear bombs has alarmed some top
Senate Democrats enough to get them to join Republicans in opposition to
the Obama administration's potentially suicidal foreign policy. Before the current measles outbreak, ... MOREHave Prescription Drug Abuse Regulations Gone Too Far?
by CJ Arlotta, Forbes. Policy of more pain, less drugs questioned. Many health care professionals are concerned with the growing usage
of opioids among the general public, but does this mean the answer to
the problem is tightening regulations on physicians prescribing
controlled substances? “I think what we have seen with regulations in this ... MORELimited Access To Hydrocodone Pushes Abusers To Heroin
Unintended consequences of DEA dictating health care. After the DEA ruled to make hydrocodone a schedule two drug, some health officials became concerned abusers would find more dangerous ways to feed their addiction. Now that hydrocodone isn't easily accessible, those who abused it aren't able to meet their addiction needs, ... MOREKim Bellware: Despite Medical Marijuana Having Been Legal In Illinois For Over A Year, No Patients Have Benefited
Government obstruction at its best. Medical marijuana has been legal in Illinois for more than 365 days,
but the number of patients that have actually been able to get relief
from the drug remains a big fat zero. While 600 local patients have already been approved
for a medical marijuana card, there's no place to actually buy the
stuff. And ... MORERobert W. Wood: Who Shares In Marijuana Taxes?
Will gov't tax drive pot back to the black market? Taxes on marijuana are big, and it’s easy to see why. A discussion about legalizing marijuana often segues into one about tax revenues. Marijuana for medical use is legal in 23 states and the District of Columbia. Recreational marijuana is legal in DC and in four states, Colorado, ... MOREFeds Decide Better To Live In Pain Than Risk Drug Abuse
The rescheduling of hydrocodone. Imagine being wheeled into an operating room for an eye lift. As the
anesthesia begins to flow into your vein, you see that instead of small
precision scalpels on the instrument tray next to you, your surgeon
will be using a hatchet and an ax. Panic swells as you slide
defenselessly out of consciousness… ... MOREOur Fear Of Opioids Leaves The World In Pain
by Helen Redmond. Healthcare now dictated by DEA. Ever broken a bone? Recovered from a major surgery? Do you live with chronic pain?
If so, you understand on a visceral level that access to opioids like
morphine to manage pain is critical. Opioids are necessary to perform
surgery, make recovery from traumatic injuries possible, and can grant ... MORE
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