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Ohio Democratic Primary Election:
In order to inform our members of the current 2004 presidential candidates' stance on medical marijuana we present this brief Associated Press article. While the OPN does not endorse any candidate for public office will strive to educate our members as to the candidates position on various issues that may effect them.
Remember, your vote counts!
(Editor's note: Howard Dean has dropped out of the 2004 presidential race)
WHERE THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES ON THE ISSUES
WASHINGTON - A look at some of the positions of Republican President Bush and Democrats contesting their party's presidential nomination. They are former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, Sens. John Edwards and John Kerry, Rep. Dennis Kucinich and Al Sharpton.
MEDICINAL MARIJUANA
Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Nevada, Oregon and Washington allow medical use of marijuana, but possession remains illegal under federal law.
Bush: Has opposed legalization.
Dean: Would have Food and Drug Administration study issue, then follow FDA recommendation. NOTE: (Dean has dropped out of the 2004 presidential race)
Edwards: Opposes legalization until medicinal benefits are proved.
Kerry: Wants scientific review before deciding.
Kucinich: Legalize.
Sharpton: No known position.
MEDICAL MARIJUANA AND ITS WITLESS ENEMIES
Anti-Drug Advocates Continue to Ignore Credible Science
Modern cancer treatments have saved countless lives, but they can be a cruelly mixed blessing. Chemotherapy, often indispensable in curing cancer, sometimes is enough to make you ill, causing violent nausea and vomiting.
COMMUNITY BANDS IN MARIJUANA BATTLE
Kip Strean finally has found his cause. The day he met a "soft- spoken, gentle guy" named Don Nord, Strean joined an increasing number of people in Routt County -- and across the country -- who see themselves as activists, helping Nord carry his oxygen tank into battle. "It just broke my heart when he told me his story," Strean said.
CANNABIS IN THE CURRICULUM
USC Med School Takes The Lead
"Any pain-management training that does not have information about cannabis is committing malpractice." -Claudia Jensen, MD
On Feb. 13 students and faculty from the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine put on a half-day program devoted to the clinical uses of cannabis and the relevant pharmacology. Some 30 first- and second-year med students attended the history-making event in McKibben Hall, which was organized by Rolando Tringale, a second-year med student, and Claudia Jensen, MD, a Ventura pediatrician who is an Instructor in the Department of Family Medicine.
MEDICAL MARIJUANA MEASURE ADVANCES
Albany - Legislation Clears Assembly Panel With Bipartisan Support
A bill legalizing the medical use of marijuana is gaining momentum in the state Assembly, with bipartisan sponsorship and a successful vote Tuesday in the Assembly Health Committee.
MILLER SEEKS DEBATE ON MEDICAL MARIJUANA ISSUE
I haven't responded, until now, to recent letters by Terrence Farley, Ocean County's first assistant prosecutor, of medical marijuana ignorance, published the day before Thanksgiving and two days after Christmas.
Each time I tried, I was overcome with the reality that this was my late wife Cheryl's favorite time of the year. She loved the holiday season and this was my first without her. I chose not to deal with Farley's constant anti-medical marijuana propaganda and his Nov. 26 attack on me because of my own personal weakness. It made me feel bad.
VIETNAM MARIJUANA IRAQ
Although the modern medical marijuana movement began in San Francisco in response to the AIDS epidemic, it could have taken off in the early '70s when wounded Vietnam vets began smoking the herb openly in the VA hospitals. When I got wind of this phenomenon ( you could smell mj on the spinal-injury wards ) I did not understand its implications. I knew that marijuana would help ward off despair, but not that it eased pain and spasticity. I didn't really get it. I thought the way to help and protect the vets was to not publicize their use of marijuana.
NOTHING CRIMINAL IN HEALING HERBS
Should patients suffering from severe ailments -- AIDS, cancer, glaucoma -- have access to medical marijuana which, often alone among available medicines, can alleviate their suffering? Or should they be liable to arrest and prosecution like any other drug user?
POT POLITICS
If it feels like something's amiss this political season, it's because you haven't heard the Marijuana Policy Project people wedge themselves into all this political squawk just yet. Well, here they come, saying that "medical marijuana states" could determine the Democratic presidential nominee. And guess what? Nevada is a medical marijuana state!
BRITISH FIRM HOLDS HOPE FOR USERS OF MEDICAL POT
Some Say Prescription Marijuana Spray Could Defuse A Legal Standoff.
Carol Rosenfield hurts. Pain and fatigue smother her, arriving without warning. Sometimes, the 58-year-old West Hollywood woman says, symptoms of her multiple sclerosis strike so hard she feels as if she's melting, "like the Wicked Witch of the West."
ILLINOIS REPRESENTATIVE TESTS POT WATERS
SPRINGFIELD - Cancer and AIDS sufferers as well as Illinoisans suffering from glaucoma, would be able to grow, possess and use marijuana without fear of arrest or jail under legislation just introduced in the General Assembly.
But House Bill 4868's sponsor, Rep. Angelo "Skip" Saviano, R-River Grove, said his motivation in offering the measure is only to educate his fellow lawmakers.
MARIJUANA RX FOR METHAMPHETAMINE?
Hawaii May Give It a Try As Drug War Chronicle has previously reported, Hawaii has the nation's highest incidence of methamphetamine abuse. It also has medical marijuana. And it has the Rev. Jonathan Adler of the Religion of Jesus Church-East Hawaii Branch ( http://www.sacramedicine.com and http://www.medijuana.com ). Mix these three facts together, add in some legislative action, and you could have the recipe for the nation's first state-approved effort to use marijuana to treat meth addiction.
MEDICAL MARIJUANA PATIENT'S SETTLEMENT OFFER REJECTED
HILO - County Council members voted 5 - 2 this week not to settle with a medical marijuana patient who is suing police officers for taking her marijuana plants and arresting her nearly two years ago.
North Kona Councilman Curtis Tyler and Bob Jacobson, representing Puna, Ka'u and South Kona, cast the two dissenting votes after an executive session Wednesday.
MAN SENTENCED; NOW HAS PERMIT TO GROW MEDICAL MARIJUANA
WAILUKU - After being arrested last year for growing marijuana in his back yard, a Kihei man will be allowed to legally cultivate the drug as long as he follows requirements of his medical marijuana permit.
Brian D. Onwiler, 36, was placed on five years' probation Tuesday, with 2nd Circuit Judge Shackley Raffetto also ordering the defendant not to consume or possess alcohol or illegal drugs - with the exception of what's allowed under Onwiler's state medical marijuana permit.
NETHERLANDS OFFERS DRUGSTORE MARIJUANA
Law Allows Doctors To Prescribe Drug
GRONINGEN, Netherlands - With a lever controlled by his left arm - the only part of his body he can still move - Peter Boonman maneuvers his motorized wheelchair across the floor of his spacious apartment to a table where he keeps a vaporizing pipe and small plastic pharmaceutical containers of pungent marijuana.
UK TESTING MEDICAL MARIJUANA INHALER
Device Has Unlikely Future In USA
Plans to make marijuana available by prescription to British multiple sclerosis sufferers also promise to shake up the debate in the USA over legalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes.
Sativex, an inhaler that dispenses medical marijuana in mist form, is in the final stages of testing by the United Kingdom's Department of Health, a spokeswoman said.
SELLING POT AT PHARMACIES CONSIDERED
Medicinal marijuana may soon be available in pharmacies, according to proposals being examined by a variety of special interest groups in consultation with Health Canada.
Officials from Health Canada on Wednesday met with pharmacists, medical experts, police and medicinal pot users behind closed doors to discuss access to medicinal marijuana.
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