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WE MISS OUR SON(ROBERT)DEEPLY AND WILL ALWAYS MISS AND LOVE HIM FOREVER!!, WE LOVE YOU ROBERT ,MOM & DADMarijuana: It’s Actually Good For YouTwo recent U. S. studies—one at Harvard and another at UCLA—have concluded that marijuana smoking, even when regular and heavy, does not cause cancer, and that the active ingredient in marijuana may turn out to be an excellent treatment for lung cancer! Here's the dope:Harvard researchers used lab and mouse studies to show that the compound, known as THC, cuts lung tumor growth in half and helps prevent the cancer from spreading. Researchers also demonstrated that THC inhibited the growth and spread of cells from two different lung cancer cell lines and from patient lung tumors.They injected THC into mice that had been implanted with human lung cancer cells. After three weeks, tumors shrank by about 50%, compared with tumors in untreated mice, says Anju Preet, PhD, a HarvardUniversity researcher in Boston who tested the chemical. Preet notes that animals injected with THC seem to get "high," showing signs of clumsiness and getting the munchies. "You would expect to see the same thing in humans, so if this work does pan out, getting the dose right is going to be all important," she says.The findings were presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. The largest study of its kind has unexpectedly concluded that smoking marijuana, even regularly and heavily, does not lead to lung cancer.The new findings "were against our expectations," said Donald Tashkin of the University of California at Los Angeles, a pulmonologist who has studied marijuana for 30 years. "We hypothesized that there would be a positive association between marijuana use and lung cancer, and that the association would be more positive with heavier use," he said. "What we found instead was no association at all, and even a suggestion of some protective effect." Federal health and drug enforcement officials have widely used Tashkin's previous work on marijuana to make the case that the drug is dangerous. Tashkin said that while he still believes marijuana is potentially harmful, its cancer-causing effects appear to be of less concern than previously thought. Earlier work established that marijuana does contain cancer-causing chemicals as potentially harmful as those in tobacco, he said. However, marijuana also contains the chemical THC, which he said may kill aging cells and keep them from becoming cancerous. Tashkin's study, funded by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Drug Abuse, involved 1,200 people in Los Angeles who had lung, neck or head cancer and an additional 1,040 people without cancer matched by age, sex and neighborhood.They were all asked about their lifetime use of marijuana, tobacco and alcohol. The heaviest marijuana smokers had lighted up more than 22,000 times, while moderately heavy usage was defined as smoking 11,000 to 22,000 marijuana cigarettes. Tashkin found that even the very heavy marijuana smokers showed no increased incidence of the three cancers studied. "This is the largest case-control study ever done, and everyone had to fill out a very extensive questionnaire about marijuana use," he said. "Bias can creep into any research, but we controlled for as many confounding factors as we could, and so I believe these results have real meaning." Tashkin's group at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA had hypothesized that marijuana would raise the risk of cancer on the basis of earlier small human studies, lab studies of animals, and the fact that marijuana users inhale more deeply and generally hold smoke in their lungs longer than tobacco smokers -- exposing them to the dangerous chemicals for a longer time. In addition, Tashkin said, previous studies found that marijuana tar has 50 percent higher concentrations of chemicals linked to cancer than tobacco cigarette tar.While no association between marijuana smoking and cancer was found, the study findings, presented to the American Thoracic Society International Conference this week, did find a 20-fold increase in lung cancer among people who smoked two or more packs of cigarettes a day. The study was limited to people younger than 60 because those older than that were generally not exposed to marijuana in their youth, when it is most often tried.http://pr.cannazine.co.uk/content/view/337/27/.. Myspace Layout Generator-Layoutgen.com
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Medical marijuana bill proposed in Ohio By Anton Hepler, News Staff Reporter Wednesday, May 21, 2008 COLUMBUS — Ohio Sen. Tom Roberts, D-Dayton, unveiled details of the Ohio Medical Compassion Act on Tuesday, which if adopted, “would allow patients to use medicinal cannabis through a regulated system of quality health care.”If enacted, Ohio would join 12 other states that have currently de-criminalized the use of medicinal marijuana.According to Roberts, the legislation would allow qualified patients and primary caregivers to use medicinal cannabis through a cardholder system.Tonya Davis, a medicinal marijuana user who assisted in drafting the bill, said that under the proposed legislation, only a patient with a medical condition or illness that is sufficiently serious or debilitating, and who has the approval of his or her medical practitioner, will be able to use cannabis. Davis suffers from a host of debilitating medical conditions, including domestic violence-induced scoliosis, and is confined to a wheelchair.“It’s time that Ohio just look at the science and with it being well regulated, hopefully ... we’ll be able to protect the patients more,” Davis told the News.Roberts’ proposed legislation would call on the Ohio Departments of Health and Agriculture to establish an advisory board to regulate the use of medicinal marijuana. The program would be run under a cardholder system, and the board would be responsible for reviewing the use of cannabis in cases of debilitated medical conditions, reviewing applications for registry identification cards and providing recommendations for the safe growing and use of medical cannabis.“After talking with Tonya [Davis] on and off for the last two years, I’ve had the opportunity to meet people who’ve had these debilitating conditions that this kind of medical treatment could help,” Roberts told the News. “When crafting this bill, we took the best practices from across the country and put them into the Ohio Medical Compassion Act.”Additionally, Davis said, the bill would prohibit cardholders from performing tasks under the influence that would constitute negligence or malpractice, possessing or using on school grounds or correctional facilities, and driving under the influence.The bill would also prohibit the smoking of marijuana in public and would not require employers to accommodate the use of cannabis in the workplace. It also establishes that a patient may not possess more than 200 grams of marijuana and 12 mature plants for personal use.Allen St. Pierre, executive director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, told the News that if passed, the new law should not be that problematic since Ohio is already a de-criminalized state.“These patients should be protected from going into the justice system any further than an initial arrest,” said St. Pierre. “At the prosecutorial level, [prosecutors] should be able to take a deep breath, look at the law, and in most cases, if the person complied with the [medicinal] law, then these individuals will not go any further through the criminal justice system. Society at this point realizes that for a person who is sick and dying, a jail cell should not be a prescription.”St. Pierre said that Tennessee, Illinois, Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan all have similar legislation pending voter approval.For now, Roberts said he plans to formally introduce the bill in the Senate this morning, where it will soon be referred to committee for hearing. Roberts said Davis and others are expected to testify to the committee about the benefits of the proposed legislation.“I’m just so humbled and touched that this is finally going to happen,” said Davis. “I just hope I live to see this bill pass.”

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Local Woman, Other Users Plead For Change Category: News and PoliticsLocal Woman, Other Users Plead For Change------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------- .. -- / icon and title --.. -- message -- Dayton Lawmaker Launches Medical Marijuana Plan Local Woman, Other Users Plead For Change Jim Otte, ReporterPOSTED: 3:43 pm EDT May 21, 2008 UPDATED: 4:14 pm EDT May 21, 2008COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Tanya Davis, left unable to walk and suffering chronic pain by multiple illnesses, looked on with a sense of pride Wednesday at a Statehouse news conference.It happened as her state senator announced plans to introduce a bill to legalize medical marijuana.Davis, of Dayton, said her crusade has taken several years of letter-writing, making phone calls and meeting with lawmakers.Finally, she convinced state Sen. Tom Roberts that the time was right for the bill to be introduced.It allows people who qualify to grow and use marijuana for their own medicinal purposes."I require medical marijuana to maintain a lifestyle with dignity," Davis said.She spoke at a Statehouse news conference hosted by Roberts to announce the introduction of the Ohio Medical Compassion Act.The bill would give the Ohio Department of Health and Ohio Department of Agriculture legal power to regulate medical marijuana cultivation and use.Roberts said the controls would be tight enough to prevent abuse of the drug.He and other supporters of the bill were quick to point out that 12 states already have medical marijuana laws on the books.Jayson Jones, a medical marijuana user and former Oregon resident, said that state issues identification cards to residents who qualify for the program."I do not think it is the government's duty to say, 'No, you can only buy these drugs from these companies.' We can't even go to Canada to get drugs any more. So this is just part of the overall scheme of giving people control of their own medicine," Jones said.Similar bills had been introduced in the past, but this may be the first to win serious hearings.Even then, Roberts said, it will be an uphill battle."We know that we will have a difficult road to convince members that it is possible. It is needed. But I think the time to do it is now," Roberts said.The medical community has not supported medical marijuana bills in the past.Davis said she will continue to push for passage and looks forward to hearings on the bill.She said medical marijuana is not a magic cure-all but allows for better treatment of chronic pain for many patients.In her case, it allows her to cut back on the use of other prescription [email protected] http://www.whiotv.com/news/16353297/detail.html .. -- / message --

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