"Grow
Tipz" Information and assistance in growing medical cannabis.
ACT
UP! Washington DC, sponsors of the medical marijuana initiative Congress
censored but, according to exit polls, residents of the District of Columbia
favored 2-1 in November 1998.
Action
Class for Freedom of Therapeutic Cannabis is a class-action lawsuit
currently being litigated in federal court in Philadelphia. Lawrence Elliott
Hirsch is the lead attorney for the constitutional challenge to the ban
on medical marijuana.
Alliance
for Cannabis Therapeutics, information about medical use, clinical
studies and reform efforts.
Alpine
World medical marijuana archive is back online! A large library of
information created by Steve Kubby in California includes lots of news
and information on Proposition 215. See also the Kubby
Files.
American
Medical Association medical marijuana recommendations.
American
Public Health Association endorses medical marijuana. Drug warriors
like to say they will stop arresting sick people when "doctors stand up"
for medical marijuana. Guess what? They already have, in a vote of the
membership reported in the March 1996 American Journal of Public Health.
The American Public Health Association (APHA) is the oldest and largest
organization of public health professionals in the world. The APHA represents
more than 50,000 members and has been effectively influencing policies
and setting priorities in public health since 1872. (In fact, however,
according to the DEA's own administrative law judge, Francis L. Young in
a 1988
decision,
it's not necessary for the APHA or AMA or any other organization to endorse
medical marijuana.
Arizona
Company Medical says it has an Arizona cannabis and controlled substance
dealers license and is in the business of selling medical marijuana to
doctors and people over 18 with illnesses such as cancer, AIDS, multiple
sclerosis, glaucoma, anorexia, chronic pains, spasticity, arthritis, migraine,
or any other condition for which medical marijuana provides relief. As
always, buyer beware.
Berkeley
Rx. Cannabis Growers Coop
California
Compassionate Use Act of 1996, a site dedicated to documenting legal
and other aspects of the medical marijuana law enacted by Proposition 215.
One big attraction is the "Lungren Updates" in the "State Government Responses"
section.
Californians
for Compassionate Use, associated with Dennis Peron and the now-defunct
San Francisco Cannabis Buyers' Club.
Cannabis
Helping Alleviate Medical Problems (CHAMP), a medical marijuana dispensary
in San Francisco.
Cannabis
Research Library formats most articles as Adobe Acrobat .pdf files.
Coloradans
for Medical Rights, sponsors of a medical marijuana initiative that
the Secretary of State kept off the November 1998 ballot, but which will
likely face voters in 2000.
Contigo-Conmigo
is a medical-marijuana patient advocacy group based in Monmouth, Oregon.
Dykes
For Medical Marijuana mentions marijuana's medical utility for some
people suffering from diabetes.
Farmacy,
in cooperation with state, local, and federal government officials, assists
patients so they can obtain or cultivate a safe and affordable, lawful
supply of marijuana for personal medical use.
Floridians
For Medical Rights, a political committee formed to sponsor the Medical
Freedom initiative which would allow for the certified medical use of marijuana.
Green
Cross serves the Puget Sound medical-marijuana community. The Oregon
chapter of Green Cross now has its own web site.
Hemp
is Hep, the Crescent Alliance Self Help for Sickle Cell, a peer operated
organization devoted to researching and developing remedies and therapies
for those whose lives are directly affect with sickle cell disease.
Hyperreal
Medical Marijuana page.
International
Cannabinoid Research Society
Levellers'
Therapeutic Cannabis Section focuses on the schism developing between
voter initiative campaigns around the United States sponsored by Americans
For Medical Rights and others.
Lindesmith
Center medical-marijuana archive, a variety of information, including
scientific studies detailing marijuana's medical efficacy.
Los
Angeles Cannabis Buyers Club, directed by Scott
Imler.
Main
Medical Marijuana Page, an independent site dedicated to the Oregon
Medical Marijuana Act.
Marijuana
Policy Project's guide to the legal status of medical marijuana in all
50 states.
Marinol,
a company site dedicated to the synthetic-THC pharmaceutical medicine manufactured
by Roxane Laboratories, Inc., which is owned by Unimed. For a different
perspective on Marinol, click here.
George
McMahon, the home page for the fifth U.S. citizen to be furnished legal
medical marijuana by the federal government.
Medical
Marijuana Magazine, published by best-selling author and cancer patient
Peter McWilliams. The Todd McCormick saga is covered here.
Medline.
Scan the medical research yourself for free, courtesy of the National Library
of Medicine, a part of the National Institutes of Health. Just remember:
1) Medline does not generally include research more than 20 years old,
but the U.S. government has not allowed any clinical research with real
marijuana since the 1970s; 2) Marinol,
or synthetic THC, used in many experiments, is not marijuana; 3) Correlation
is not causation; 4) Not a single piece of research purporting to find
significant harm from smoking marijuana has ever been both A) published
in a peer-reviewed scientific journal; and B) replicated by other scientists
using the same methodology.
Medical
Marijuana and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. A related page is here.
MedScape
bills itself as the No. 1 free Internet medical site providing thousands
of articles that are Web-enhanced for online browsing.
Multidisciplinary
Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). "Psychedelic studies" may
sound far out, but MAPS is one of the most rational and respected organizations
you'll find involved in medical marijuana issues.
National
Cancer Institute, guidelines for use of medical marijuana.
NORML's
medical-marijuana page
Oakland
Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative
Carl
Olsen has some excellent Web
pages with resources on Marijuana
as a Medicine,
including the 1988
ruling
by the DEA's top administrative law judge, Francis L. Young, directing
the DEA to transfer marijuana from Schedule 1 to Schedule 2. Olsen is also
archiving documents related to the the lawsuit against the federal prohibition
on medical marijuana being litigated in Philadelphia by public interest
attorney Lawrence Elliott Hirsch.
Oregonians
for Medical Rights, sponsors of the successful 1998 Oregon Medical
Marijuana Act initiative campaign. Includes a good page of links to cannabis-related
medical research.
Patients
Out Of Time.
Research
Findings on Medicinal Properties of Marijuana, January 1997, a review
of about 75 scientific studies on marijuana and health, by Kevin B. Zeese,
president of Common Sense for Drug Policy.
RxMarihuana.com
the site of Dr. Lester Grinspoon and James D. Bakalar of Harvard Medical
School, featuring excerpts from their book, "Marihuana: The Forbidden Medicine."
Clifford
Schaffer's Library of Medical Marijuana, research papers and historical
documents, local statutes and resolutions, organizational statements and
legal briefs.
Science
of Medical Marijuana, an online library sponsored by Americans for
Medical Rights.
Ron
Shaw: "I smoke Marijuana for medical reasons."
Shelter
From the Storm, a collective of medical cannabis users in San Diego
who have banded together to share the costs of a community grow room.
Sonoma
Alliance for Medical Marijuana, in California.
215Now.com,
the Libertarian Party of California intends to use this site to pressure
government officials into fully implementing Proposition 215. The heart
of the site is an online petition that visitors can use to send e-mail
messages to designated officials.
Washington
Citizens for Medical Rights, sponsors of Initiative 692, the medical
marijuana ballot measure approved by voters in November 1998.
Wo/Men's
Alliance for Medical Marijuana, in Santa Cruz, combines the efforts
of patients and caregivers, provides information, facilitates education
and offers safe, high-quality, genetically controlled, organically grown,
medical marijuana at no charge for California patients with a letter of
recommendation from their physicians. WAMM is a patient collective, empowering
the terminally ill to care for themselves.
Non-U.S. links pertaining to medical marijuana can be found in the
International section. Much more
information about medical marijuana can be found in articles at other domains,
listed here; in Portland NORML's own
Articles section; and in Portland NORML's
massive news archive.
