Top Ten Health Benefits of Marijuana

Top 10 Health Benefits of Marijuana

1. Cancer
Cannabinoids, the active components of marijuana, inhibit tumor growth in laboratory animals and also kill cancer cells. Western governments have known this for a long time yet they continued to suppress the information so that cannabis prohibition and the profits generated by the drug industry proliferated.

THC that targets cannabinoid receptors CB1 and CB2 is similar in function to endocannabinoids, which are cannabinoids that are naturally produced in the body and activate these receptors. The researchers suggest that THC or other designer agents that activate these receptors might be used in a targeted fashion to treat lung cancer.

2. Tourette’s Syndrome
Tourette’s syndrome is a neurological condition characterized by uncontrollable facial grimaces, tics, and involuntary grunts, snorts and shouts.

Dr. Kirsten Mueller-Vahl of the Hanover Medical College in Germany led a team that investigated the effects of chemicals called cannabinols in 12 adult Tourette’s patients. A single dose of the cannabinol produced a significant reduction in symptoms for several hours compared to placebo, the researchers reported.
3. Seizures

Marijuana is a muscle relaxant and has “antispasmodic” qualities that have proven to be a very effective treatment for seizures. There are actually countless cases of people suffering from seizures that have only been able to function better through the use of marijuana.
4. Migraines

Since medicinal marijuana was legalized in California, doctors have reported that they have been able to treat more than 300,000 cases of migraines that conventional medicine couldn’t through marijuana.
5. Glaucoma

Marijuana’s treatment of glaucoma has been one of the best documented. There isn’t a single valid study that exists that disproves marijuana’s very powerful and popular effects on glaucoma patients.
6. Multiple Sclerosis

Marijuana’s effects on multiple sclerosis patients became better documented when former talk-show host, Montel Williams began to use pot to treat his MS. Marijuana works to stop the neurological effects and muscle spasms that come from the fatal disease.
7. ADD and ADHD

A well documented USC study done about a year ago showed that marijuana is not only a perfect alternative for Ritalin but treats the disorder without any of the negative side effects of the pharmaceutical.
8. IBS and Crohn’s

Marijuana has shown that it can help with symptoms of the chronic diseases as it stops nausea, abdominal pain, and diarrhea.
9. Alzheimer’s

Despite what you may have heard about marijuana’s effects on the brain, the Scripps Institute, in 2006, proved that the THC found in marijuana works to prevent Alzheimer’s by blocking the deposits in the brain that cause the disease.
10. Premenstrual Syndrome

Just like marijuana is used to treat IBS, it can be used to treat the cramps and discomfort that causes PMS symptoms. Using marijuana for PMS actually goes all the way back to Queen Victoria.

Mounting Evidence Suggests Raw Cannabis is Best

Cannabinoids can prevent cancer, reduce heart attacks by 66% and insulin dependent diabetes by 58%. Cannabis clinician Dr. William Courtney recommends drinking 4 – 8 ounces of raw flower and leaf juice from any Hemp plant, 5 mg of Cannabidiol (CBD) per kg of body weight, a salad of Hemp seed sprouts and 50 mg of THC taken in 5 daily doses.

Why raw? Heat destroys certain enzymes and nutrients in plants. Incorporating raw cannabis allows for a greater availability of those elements. Those who require large amounts of cannabinoids without the psychoactive effects need to look no further than raw cannabis. In this capacity, it can be used at 60 times more tolerance than if it were heated.
Raw cannabis is considered by many experts as a dietary essential. As a powerful anti-inflammatory and antioxidant, raw cannabis may be right u there with garlic and tumeric.

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About the Author

Marco Torres is a research specialist, writer and consumer advocate for healthy lifestyles. He holds degrees in Public Health and Environmental Science and is a professional speaker on topics such as disease prevention, environmental toxins and health policy.

Marijuana Compounds Offer ‘Promising’ Treatment Option For Neurodegenerative Disorders

Cannabis’ active components show promise in halting the progression of certain neurodegerative disorders and should be evaluated in clinical trials, according to a review published online in theBritish Journal of Pharmacology.

An international team of researchers from Spain and Israel assessed the potential of cannabinoids to moderate Huntington’s disease (HD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD), two degenerative brain disorders that are mostly unresponsive to conventional treatment therapies.

“Cannabinoids are promising medicines to slow down disease progression in neurodegenerative disorders including Parkinson’s disease (PD) and Huntington’s disease (HD), two of the most important disorders affecting the basal ganglia,” authors reported.

Researchers noted that both THC and cannabidiol (CBD) have been demonstrated to “protect nigral or striatal neurons in experimental models of both disorders.” Investigators added that the separate “activation of CB(2) [cannabinoid] receptors leads to a slower progression of neurodegeneration in both disorders.”

Authors concluded, “[T]he evidence reported so far supports that those cannabinoids having antioxidant properties and/or capability to activate CB(2) receptors may represent promising therapeutic agents in HD and PD, thus deserving a prompt clinical evaluation.”

In June, a team of investigators from Spain, Italy, and the United Kingdom reported in the Journal of Neuroscience Research that the administration of THC and CBD-rich botanical extracts delays the progress of Huntington’s disease in laboratory animals.

Separate studies have also indicated the potential of cannabinoids to moderate additional neurodegenerative diseases, including Lou Gehrig’s disease and Alzheimer’s.

Posted by Jay Smoker at 3:53 AM on July 22, 2011 Ending Marijuana Prohibition, Medical Marijuana Policy

For more information, please contact Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director, at: paul@norml.org. Full text of the study, “Prospects for cannabinoid therapies in basal ganglia disorders,” appears in the British Journal of Pharmacology.

U.S. Government and Cannabis

Federal Government Reports that Marijuana Kills Cancer Cells
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51148243/ns…

US Patent 4837228
Cannabichromene (CBC)
http://www.google.com/patents/US4837228

US Patent 4189491
Glaucoma Treatment
http://www.google.com/patents/US4189491

US Patent 5631297
Anandamide Compounds
http://www.google.com/patents/US5631297

US Patent 6132762
Pain, inflammation and arthritis
http://www.google.com/patents/US6132762

US Patent 6410588
Cannabidiol and inflammatory diseases
http://www.google.com/patents/US6410588

US Patent 6974568
Treatment for coughs
http://www.google.com/patents/US6974568

US Patent 6630507
Inflammatory and autoimmune diseases
Strokes, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
http://www.google.com/patents/US6630507

US Patent 7741365
Novel polycyclic cannabinoid analogs
http://www.google.com/patents/US7741365

US Patent 7597910
Prostate cancer and prostatitis
http://www.google.com/patents/US7597910

US Patent 7977107
Detecting traces of cannabinoids
http://www.google.com/patents/US7977107

US Patent 8071641
Diabetes and insulitis
http://www.google.com/patents/US8071641

US Patent 8242178
Cannabidiol and autoimmune hepatitis
http://www.google.com/patents/US8242178

US Patent 8034843
Nausea, vomiting and motion sickness
http://www.google.com/patents/US8034843

US Patent Application 20100292345
Cannabigerol (CBG)
http://www.google.com/patents/US20100…

US Patent Application 20080181942
Multiple sclerosis and MS relapse
http://www.google.com/patents/US20080…

US Patent Application 20090197941
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
http://www.google.com/patents/US20090…

US Patent Application 20100204312
Treating cell proliferation and cancers
http://www.google.com/patents/US20100…

US Patent Application 20080262099
Inhibition of tumour cell migration
http://www.google.com/patents/US20080…

US Patent Application 20100222437
Gastrointestinal inflammatory and cancers
http://www.google.com/patents/US20100…

”Miracle” Cannabis Oil: May Treat Cancer, But Money and the Law Stand in the Way of Finding Out.

 By Chris Roberts Wednesday, Apr 24 2013

First it was a cough. Then it was bronchitis. Then it was time to say goodbye to Michelle Aldrich.

Constance Finley was mistaken for a narc by classmates at Oaksterdam University. Now, she says, a San Francisco oncologist refers to her Stage 4 cancer patients, many of whom are given weeks to live, and all of whom she says receive healing from an oil she makes from the cannabis plant.

Cannabis oil, which cancer-sufferers credit with saving their lives, and which is supposedly useful in healing other ailments, from diabetes to skin rashes, is made by distilling raw bud down to its essential ingredients.

Most of the plant material is removed using a solvent. What’s left is up to 83 percent active ingredients. Patients start taking a dose the size of a grain of rice before ramping up to a full gram per day.

Michelle Aldrich says her life was saved by cannabis oil, which she credits for her swift recovery from lung cancer. “I always knew it was medicine,” the lifelong marijuana advocate says, “and now I’ve proved it. I’m living proof.”

The year 2011 was supposed to be a good one for the 66-year-old. That June, she and her husband, Michael, were feted with a lifetime achievement award by High Times magazine for their four decades of work on marijuana legalization. Yet something was off. She was smoking a lot, maybe more than ever.

And she couldn’t get high.

In the fall of that year — a bad time for the local marijuana movement, as the federal Justice Department began shutting down hundreds of California medical cannabis dispensaries — Aldrich went in to see a series of doctors for what she thought was a flu that just refused to go away.

After six weeks of progressively worse diagnoses — flu became bronchitis, which became pneumonia — a CT scan revealed the cause behind the “heat” she felt in the middle of her chest. A tumor, “poorly-differentiated non-small cell adenocarcinoma.” In other words, stage 3 lung cancer.

Lung cancer is a killer, with nearly 70 percent of new cases resulting in deaths, according to statistics published by the National Cancer Institute. “I thought I was going to die,” Aldrich says from her Marina District apartment. But she didn’t. And now, she is busy telling anyone who will listen that, along with diet and chemotherapy, a concoction of highly concentrated cannabis oil eliminated her cancer in less than four months.

She was diagnosed in January 2012; by April, CT scans revealed that the tumor had shrunk by 50 percent. Her surgeon at California Pacific Medical Center removed what was left of the tumor that May. (CPMC did not return calls by press time.) She isn’t “officially” cured yet — a cancer patient needs five years of cancer-free living to beat the disease — but her most-recent scan, on March 27, was all clear. Her doctors — one of whom noted the effect of “homeopathic treatments, including hemp oil” to reprogram the cancer cells to kill themselves — “are floored,” she says. “They’ve never seen anything like it.”

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Constance Finley has. She says that, over the last year, a “world-class oncologist” — who for now wants to remain nameless, perhaps to preserve his practice — has referred 26 people to her, a skilled East Bay marijuana grower who knows how to distill a pound of high-grade bud to an ounce of oil.

                                                                                                           Anna Latino

The oil itself is simple. Anyone with a bucket, a pile of pot, and a solvent can make it. First devised by Canadian cannabis pioneer Rick Simpson — from which it derives one of its names, Simpson oil — the oil is merely cannabis distilled to its essential active cannabinoids, with as much of the plant material as possible removed using the solvent. Aldrich’s providers of what they call “milagro oil” at Wo/Men’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana in Santa Cruz use Everclear; Finley uses 99 isopropryl alcohol.

The oil also is extremely potent. Finley says her concoction is 72 percent tetrahydracannabinol, or THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana that gets you stoned, and which in lab studies has shrunk tumors in rats; and 11 percent cannabidiol, or CBD, the cannabinoid in marijuana that studies suggest doesn’t get you high but has anti-inflammatory and anti-anxiety properties.

It may not be for everyone: Patients start with a dose as small as a grain of rice before ramping up to a full gram per day, a hit that can leave some people woozy and dizzy — uncomfortably high. And it’s expensive. A pound of good bud runs $2,500 to $3,000 in the Bay Area, and Finley ships to anywhere in California. Aldrich says a three-month regimen cost her $1,200 a month; Finley charges $5,500 for a two-month cycle.

But it might be money well-spent. All 26 of Finley’s referrals had stage 4 cancers — brain tumors, colon cancers, lung cancers — which means the malignant growths had metastasized to other organs. Most had prognoses of a few months to live, some had less than six weeks. All complemented modern Western medicine treatments such as chemotherapy with the concentrated oil — and all but one have survived, she says. A patient’s prognosis can very widely depending on the type of cancer, but the disease is a reliable killer at stage 4, meaning Finley’s patients’ 96 percent survival rate is unheard-of.

“I’m not a stoner,” she says now, almost defensively, noting that classmates at Oakland-based cannabis grow college Oaksterdam University, where she honed her cultivator skills, at times mistook her for an undercover cop. “It was against my own prejudice that this could really be true.”

These survival stories are becoming more common. One of the most high-profile was the case of Montana toddler Cash Hyde, diagnosed with a brain tumor at 20 months, whose family credits cannabis oil for keeping the tumor at bay and keeping him alive — until a change in Montana state law cut off his access to oil for a few months. The tumor returned and he died in November, at age four.

These stories are remarkable, but for now they’re also just stories — which means they’re all but worthless to the medical community, which needs hard data. “Anecdotes are not evidence — you need to do research, controlled studies,” says Dr. Donald Abrams, the chief of oncology at San Francisco General Hospital and an integrative medicine specialist at the University of California at San Francisco. Abrams, a personal friend of the Aldriches who has researched cannabis’s medical value extensively — and is a believer in its value — is still a scientific skeptic. “I hear stories all the time — ‘I was cured of cancer by this or that’ — and most of the time it’s frankly bogus.”

This skepticism helps explain why, right now, it appears no scientists in the United States are researching the health benefits of this purported miracle oil. Which means that more and more Americans are turning to something that for now is little more than a folk remedy — in the same scientific category as snake oil — and, so they claim, finding a faster, less toxic cure to near-incurable diseases.

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Seizures and Cannabis

The incredible stories of two pediatric cannabis patients which will revolutionize the way that the world views the cannabis plant.
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Autism and Cannabis!

Mutations found in individuals with autism interfere with endocannabinoid signaling in the brain

		IMAGE: This image shows an inhibitory neuron whose function is affected by neuroligin mutation. Click here for more information.

Mutations found in individuals with autism block the action of molecules made by the brain that act on the same receptors that marijuana’s active chemical acts on, according to new research reported online April 11 in the Cell Press journal Neuron. The findings implicate specific molecules, called endocannabinoids, in the development of some autism cases and point to potential treatment strategies.

“Endocannabinoids are molecules that are critical regulators of normal neuronal activity and are important for many brain functions,” says first author Dr. Csaba Földy, of Stanford University Medical School. “By conducting studies in mice, we found that neuroligin-3, a protein that is mutated in some individuals with autism, is important for relaying endocannabinoid signals that tone down communication between neurons.”

When the researchers introduced different autism-associated mutations in neuroligin-3 into mice, this signaling was blocked and the overall excitability of the brain was changed.

“These findings point out an unexpected link between a protein implicated in autism and a signaling system that previously had not been considered to be particularly important for autism,” says senior author Dr. Thomas Südhof, also of Stanford. “Thus, the findings open up a new area of research and may suggest novel strategies for understanding the underlying causes of complex brain disorders.”

The results also indicate that targeting components of the endocannabinoid signaling system may help reverse autism symptoms.

The study’s findings resulted from a research collaboration between the Stanford laboratories of Dr. Südhof and Dr. Robert Malenka, who is also an author on the paper.

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Neuron, Foldy et al.: “Autism-Associated Neuroligin-3 Mutations Commonly Disrupt Tonic Endocannabinoid Signaling.”

Article from http://www.eurekalert.org/

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/cp-mfi040513.php

United States Patent On Cannabis.

Just in case you wanted to see the patent, here it is:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/45507728/Cannabis-Cures-Cancer-US-Patent

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6630507.PN.&OS=PN/6630507&RS=PN/6630507

CHRONIC CONDITIONS TREATED WITH CANNABIS

CHRONIC CONDITIONS TREATED WITH CANNABIS                               PAGE 1
Encountered Between 1990-2004 (A – M  LISTING)
“Dr. Tod’s List” – Chronic Conditions Treated With Cannabis (Additions since this publication are noted)
by Tod H. Mikuriya, M.D. © 2004 Tod H. Mikuriya, M.D.

.
Acquired hypothyroidism 244
Acute Sinusitis 461.9
Acute Gastritis 535.0
Addiction*****
ADD w/o hyperactivity 314.00
ADD w hyperactivity 314.01
ADD other 314.8
Adrenal Cortical Cancer 194.0
Agoraphobia 300.22
AIDS Related Illness 042
Alcoholism+ 303.0
Alcohol Abuse+ 305.0
Alopecia 704.0x
Alzheimer’s Disease*****
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis 335.2
Amphetamine Depend 304.4
Amyloidosis 277.3
Anaphylactic or Reaction 995.0
Anorexia Nervosa 307.1
Anorexia+ 783.0
Anxiety Disorder+ 300.00
Ankylosis 718.5
Angina pectoris 413
Arthropathy, gout 274.0
Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease 414.X
Arthritis, Degenerative 715.0
Arthritis, post traumatic+ 716.1
Arthropathy, Degenerative+ 716.9
Arthritis, Rheumatoid+ 714.0
Atrophy Blanche 701.3
Asthma, unspecific 493.9
Autism/Aspergers 299.0
Autoimmune disease 279.4
Back Sprain 847.9
Bell’s palsy 351.0
Bipolar Disorder 296.6
Brain malignant tumor 191
Brain Trauma 310.9
Bruxism 306.8
Bulemia 307.51
Chemotherapy Convalesce V66.2
Cancer, site unspecified 199
Cerebellar Ataxia 334.4
Cerebral Palsy+ 343.9
Cluster Headaches 346.2
Compression of Brain 348.4
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome 354.0
Charcot-Marie-Tooth 356.1
Color Blindness* 368.55
Conjunctivitis 372.9
Cardiac conduction disorder 426.X
Chronic Pain
Chronic Sinusitis 473.9
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder 491.90
Cystic Fibrosis 518.89
Colitis, Ulcerative 536.9
Colitis+ 558.9
Colon diverticulitis 562.1
Constipation 564.0
Cervical Disk Disease 722.91
Cervicobrachial Syndrome 723.3
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome 780.7
Cough+ 786.2
Cachexia 799.4
Cerebral Aneurism 747.81
Cocaine Dependence+ 304.2
Crohns 555.9
Dupuytens Contracture 728.6Diabetes Adult Onset
250.0
Diabetes Insulin Depend. 250.1
Diabetes Adult Onset Uncontrolled 250.2
Diabetic Renal Disease 250.4
Diabetic Ophthalmic Disease 250.5
Diabetic Neuropathy 250.6
Diabetic Peripheral Vascular Disease 250.7
Diabetes Mellitus*****
Delerium Tremens+ 291.0
Dysthymic Disorder 300.4
Dystonia*****
Dyslexic Amblyopia** 368.0
Drusen of Optic Nerve 377.21
Dentofacial anomaly pain 524
Dermatomyositis 710.3
Darier’s Disease 757.39
Diarrhea 787.91
Dumping Syndrome Post Surgery 564.2
Epilepsy(ies)+ 345.x
Emphysema 492.8
Epididymitis** 604.xx
Endometriosis** 617.9
Eczema 692.9
Epidermolysis Bullosa 694.9
Erythma Multiforma 695.1
Eosinophilia-Myalgia Syndrome 710.5
Ehlers Danlos Syndrome 756.83
Felty’s Syndrome 714.1
Fore Arm/Wrist/Hand 959.3
Fibromyagia/Fibrositis 729.1
Friedreich’s Ataxia 334.0
Genital Herpes 054.10
Glioblastoma Multiforme 191.9
Graves Disease** 242.0
Grand Mal Seizures** 345.1
Glaucoma 365.23
Gastro-Esophageal Reflux Disease 530.81
Gastrointestinal Disorders*****
Gilomas (tumors in the brain)*****
Gastritis+ 535.5
Hepatitis-non-viral 571.4
Herpetic infection of penis 054.13
Hypoglycemia(s) 251
Hemophilia A 286.0
Henoch-Schoelein Purpur 287.0
Huntington’s Disease+ 333.4
Hemiparesis/plegia 342
Hypertension+ 401.1
Hyperventilation 786.01
Hiccough+ 786.8
Hip 959.6
Harm Reduction for Drug/Alcohol
Impotence, Psychogenic 302.72
Ischemic Heart Disease 411.X
Insomnia+ 780.52
Intermittent Explosive Disorder 312.34
Intervertebral Disk Disease 722.x 722.1
IVDD Cerv w Myelopathy 722.71
Irritable Bowel Syndrome. 564.1
Incontinence*****
Jacksonian Epilepsy** 345.5
Knee, ankle & foot injury 959.7
Lower Back Pain 724.5
Lumbosacral Back Disease 724.x
Lupus 710.0
Limbic Rage Syndrome** 345.4
Lipomatosis 272.8
Lymphoma & reticular cancer 200
Lyme Disease 088.81
Lymphoma 238.7
L-S disk disorder sciatic nerve irritation
Menopausal syndrome 627.2
Malignant Melanoma 172.9
Myeloid leukemia 205
Mucopolysaccharoidosis 277
Mania 296.0
Major Depression, Single Episode 296.2
Major Depression, Recurring 296.3
Multiple Sclerosis 340.0
Mononeuritis lower limb 355
Muscular dystrophies 359
Musculoskeletal Injuries*****
Macular Degeneration** 362.5
Meniere’s Disease 386.00
Muscle Spasm 728.85
CHRONIC CONDITIONS TREATED WITH CANNABIS                               PAGE 2
Encountered Between 1990-2004 (M – Z  LISTING)
“Dr. Tod’s List” – Chronic Conditions Treated With Cannabis (Additions since this publication are noted)
by Tod H. Mikuriya, M.D. © 2004 Tod H. Mikuriya, M.D.
Melorheostosis 733.99
Myofacial Pain Syndrome**782.0
Motion Sickness 994.6
Multiple joints pain 719.49
Migraine(s)+ 346.x
Migraine, Classical+ 346.0
Marfan syndrome 759.82
Mastocytosis 757.33
Nausea+ 787.02
Nightmares 307.47
Non-psychotic Organic Brain Disorder 310.8Other
Skin Cancer 173
Neuropathy+ 357
Nail patella syndrome 756.89
Nephritis/nephropathy 583.81
Nystagmus, Congenital 379.5
Neurasthenia 300.5
Obesity, exogenous 278.00
Obesity, morbid 278.01
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. 300.3
Opiate Dependence+ 304.0
Organic Mental Disorder hd injections 310.1
Other CNS demyelization 341
Other spinal cord disease 336
Optic neuritis 377.30
Osteogenesis imperfecta 756.51
Osteoporosis*****
Osgood-Schlatter 732.4
Other arthropod bone disease 088
Prostatitis 600.0
Pelvic Inflammatory Dis 614
Premenstrual Syndrome+ 625.3
Pain, Non-Specific
Pain, Vaginal 625.9
Peritoneal pain 568
Pancreatitis 577.1
Pain, Ureter 788.0
Panic Disorder+ 300.01
Porphyria 277.1
Post W.E. Encephalitis 062.1
Post Polio Syndrome 138.0
Prostate Cancer 186
Psychogenic Hyperhidrosi 306.3
Psychogenic Pylorospas** 306.4
Psychogenic Dysuria 306.53
Persistent Insomnia 307.42
Psychogenic Pain 307.89
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder 309.81
Post Concussion Syndrome 310.2
Psychogenic PAT 316.0
Parkinson’s Disease 332.0
Paraplegia(s) 344.1x
Paralysis, unspecific 344.9
Pneumothorax, Spontaneous 512.8
Pulmonary Fibrosis 516.3
Peptic Ulcer/Dyspepsia 536.8
Pylorospasm Reflux 537.81
Psoriatic Arthritis 696.0
Psoriasis 696.1
Pruritus, pruritic+ 698.9
Pemphigus 694.4
Patellar chondromalacia 717.7
Peripheral enthesopathies 726
Paroxysmal Atrial Tach** 427.0
Post Cardiotomy Syndrome 429.4
Polyarteritis Nodosa 446.0
Peutz-Jehgers Syndrome** 756.9
Quadriplegia(s) 344.0x
Rosacea 695.3
Raynaud’s Disease 443.0
Restless legs syndrome 333.99
Reflex Sympathy Dystrophy 337.2
Radiation Therapy E929.9
Reiter’s Syndrome 099.3
Senile Dementia+ 290.0
Stuttering* 307.0
Schizophrenia(s) 295.x
Schizoaffective Disorder 295.7
Spinal mm atrophy II 335.11
Syringomyelia 336.0
Sedative Dependence+ 304.1
Shingles (Herpes Zoster) 053.9
Strabismus & other bionics 378
Sturge-Weber Disease 759.6
Scleroderma 710.1
Spinal Stenosis 724.02
Spondylolisthesis** 738.4
Scoliosis 754.2
Spina Bifida Occulta 756.17
Sturge-Weber Eye Syndrome** 759.6
Sleep Apnea 780.57
Shoulder Injury Unspecified 959.2
Tobacco Dependence 305.1
Tic disorder unspecific 307.20
Tourette’s Syndrome 307.23
Tension Headache 307.81
Trichotillomania 312.39
Tic Doloroux+ 350.1
Thoracic Outlet Syndrome 353.0
Thyroiditis 245
Testicular Cancer 186.9
Tinnitus 388.30
Thromboangiitis Obliteran 443.1
Tenosynovitis 727.x
Tietze’s Syndrome 733.6
Tremor/Involuntary Movements 781.0
Trachoria Growths***1 ?????
T.M.J Syndrome 524.60
Testicular torsion 608.2
Uterine cancer 236.0
Ureter spasm calculus 592
Urethritis/Cystitis 595.3
Viral B Hepatitis, chronic 070.52
Viral C Hepatitis, chronic 070.54
Vomiting 787.01
Vertebral dislocation unspecific 839.4
Writers’ Cramp**** 300.89
Whiplash 847.0
+ Represents citations from pre-1937 medical literature
*From Eugene Schoenfeld, M.D.
**From Dale Gieringer, PhD CA NORML Hotline
***From Robert Wilson, Hayward Hempery
**** Barry R. McCaffrey
12-30-96 Press Conference (quote from John Stuart Mill 1867)
*****Emerging Clinical Applications of Cannabis, O’Shaughnessy’s Winter/Spring 2007
1. Un-codeable and thought to be a specious disease submitted by an undercover agent who presented a false physician’s note.
Updated 09-10-2004, 04-01-2008
Distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes

Cannabis and Multiple Sclerosis Testimony

Cannabis oil ‘eases my symptoms of MS’

By Laura McCardle
September 25, 2012

A cannabis user from Earley who claims the drug has changed his life is calling for it to be made legal.

Clark French, 26, of Sutcliffe Avenue, was diagnosed Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in August 2010.

He was studying ancient history and archaeology at The University of Reading, but his symptoms rapidly became so bad that he had to use a walking stick and was forced to quit his degree.

Mr French said: “It meant I couldn’t walk, I would slur my speech, I would have bladder and bowel problems. It destroyed my life, I couldn’t do anything.

“There’s a treatment which is usually given to people who have had MS for over 10 years, I was offered that when I was diagnosed, which was pretty unheard of.”

Last year Mr French flew out to California, where medicinal use of the drug is legal, and underwent a cannabis-based treatment.

He said: “I got a doctors’ appointment and access to medical cannabis. I used cannabis oil and I’ve not used my walking stick since. It’s drastically increased my quality of life.

“For the first week I just slept a lot and after that I was with some friends and I was climbing up a cliff. I was walking up a really beautiful, special place that I wouldn’t have been able to do.

“I was like, ‘wow, this is instantly changing how I’m feeling, my pain levels and movement’. I think most people wouldn’t know I’ve got MS unless I’ve told them.”

Using the oil enabled Mr French to return to university to complete his degree. He is now campaigning for cannabis to be made legal and founded the Berkshire Cannabis Community activist group.

He said: “By doing that [using the drug] I’m putting myself at risk, but given my health or the law, I’m choosing my health.

“For me personally, I have been able to come off a lot of different prescription medication by using cannabis and I have a much better quality of life by consuming it.

“What the doctor will give me for pain is one molecular link away from heroin, but I’m not allowed to use a plant that’s safe.

“It needs to be acknowledged and, as far as Berkshire Cannabis Community go, we had our third meeting last week and it went really well. Everyone wants to get involved and change the law. We’re doing a thing at the moment where we’re trying to speak to all the Berkshire MPs.

“I’m not saying everyone should be using cannabis and that cannabis doesn’t have any harm, the thing is people shouldn’t be put in prison. That just puts it underground and puts it in the hands of criminals who make loads of money from it.”

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