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OPNews - April 2006 edition
A Publication of Ohio Patient Network (OPN)
ORGANIZATIONAL NEWS
Help Wanted, Urgently! OPN Board Position Available!
Be a full- or part-time volunteer helping the sick, suffering, and dying receive
justice! Please consider helping the Ohio Patient Network and its sister Ohio
Patient Action Network.
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STATE NEWS
MEDICAL MARIJUANA PATIENT SENTENCED TO THREE YEARS
Ohio Patients are OUTRAGED (Columbus, OH) On Friday, March 24, 2006, Randy
Brush of Wellsville, Ohio, was sentenced to prison time for felony marijuana
possession and cultivation. Columbiana County Judge C. Ashley Pike, a Republican,
sentenced Brush to the following:
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CINCINNATI POISED TO TOUGHEN POT LAW
Starting today, getting caught with a little pot could mean a little jail time
- for at least the next year.
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3/21 Hearing on HB/SB 8 - Ohio's DUID Bill
OPN member, Mary Jane Borden, attended the Ohio House Criminal Justice Committee's
hearing on HB/SB 8 on Tuesday, March 21, 2006. Rob Ryan, who has testified before
about this proposed "Driving While Under the Influence of Drugs" (DUID)
legislation, put together testimony, but couldn't make it to Columbus. Borden
attended instead, taking 25 copies of Ryan's written testimony with her.
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NATIONAL NEWS
SO NOTED
"We must make sure that the casualties of the war on drugs are not suffering
patients who legitimately deserve relief." - - Scott Fishman, President
of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, on tensions between doctors treating
pain and federal authorities enforcing laws against drug abuse.
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STATE ASKS COURT TO TOSS SD COUNTY MEDICAL MARIJUANA SUIT
NORTH COUNTY, CA ---- State officials formally asked judges to throw out San
Diego County's precedent-setting lawsuit seeking to overturn California's 10-year-old
medical marijuana law, saying that the only controversy over the law was in
the minds of county supervisors.
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Congress Requests GAO Count Dollars Wasted On Medical Marijuana Arrests
March 2, 2006 - The full text of the letter from Hinchey and his colleagues
requesting a GAO investigation is at http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=3142
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RAIDED POT 'EDIBLES' TROUBLE ADVOCATES
A day after federal agents seized thousands of marijuana plants and a booty
of pot-laced candy and soda pop in raids on warehouses in Emeryville and Oakland,
local medical cannabis advocates reacted coolly -- bitter at another federal
plunder on a substance the state deems legal for the sick, but leery of an operation
that packaged its products to mimic popular brands of sweets.
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http://www.ohiopatient.net/v2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=323&Itemid=2
ILLINOIS COULD BE NEXT STATE TO LEGALIZE MEDICAL MARIJUANA
To Bruce Mirken, denying people in need of marijuana is absurd -if they need
it for medical reasons, he believes they should have it.
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http://www.ohiopatient.net/v2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=322&Itemid=2
MEDICAL MARIJUANA ACTIVISTS ASK REP. UNDERHEIM FOR COMMITTEE VOTE ON AB-740
February 27, 2006 - Wisconsin medical marijuana activists are calling on Rep.
Gregg Underheim to set a vote in his Assembly Health Committee on the medical
marijuana bill he authored.
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http://www.ohiopatient.net/v2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=321&Itemid=2
City puts moratorium on pot dispensaries
PICO RIVERA, CA - Fearing Pico Rivera could get caught with no regulations
in place for medical marijuana dispensaries, the City Council has unanimously
moved to put a temporary ban on any such facilities until it can establish rules
for them.
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http://www.ohiopatient.net/v2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=319&Itemid=2
Physician advocates for medical marijuana
Rutland Herald, February 26, 2006 - By BRENDAN McKENNA Staff Writer -- As he
opened his remarks about medical marijuana, Dr. Joseph McSherry said he couldn't
be as informative as he would like to be.
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http://www.ohiopatient.net/v2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=318&Itemid=2
Marijuana compound may help stop diabetic retinopathy
Toni Baker, Feb. 27, 2006 -- A compound found in marijuana won't make you high
but it may help keep your eyes healthy if you're a diabetic, researchers say.
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http://www.ohiopatient.net/v2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=317&Itemid=2
POLICE HOLD MAN'S MEDICAL MARIJUANA
GLENDORA, CA - A man whose marijuana-cultivation charge was dismissed because
he was using it for medical purposes is having a hard time getting his plants
and seeds back from police.
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http://www.ohiopatient.net/v2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=316&Itemid=2
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Preliminary Results from Sativex® Phase III Multiple Sclerosis spasticity
study
Porton Down, UK, 17 March 2006 - GW Pharmaceuticals plc (AIM: GWP) today announces
preliminary results from a Phase III study of Sativex® in the relief of
spasticity in people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). This study is one of a number
of Phase III studies which are currently taking place to support approval of
Sativex across Europe in a range of target indications.
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Seized pot returned to user
REGINA (SNN), CANADA -- A Regina medical marijuana user has his plants back.
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