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Cannabis Cures Prostate Cancer
November 21, 2009 – Chemicals found in cannabis leaves can be used to stop prostate cancer cells. The researchers hope that cannabis leaves can be used as a remedy for the treatment of prostate cancer. After focusing on the network on human cancer cells,Ines Diaz-Laviada and colleagues from the University of Alcala in Madrid, also…
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How to Make Your Own Medicinal Hemp Oil
November 14, 2009 – The following comes from Rick Simpson’s website, Pheonix Tears. The procedure is outlined in detail below and he shows exactly how to produce Hemp Oil in this video ( about 2 minutes into the video) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9NN98CuFGA] “Properly made hemp medicine is the greatest healer on this planet bar none. Once you…
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How Hemp Seed Oil Can Help Your Arthritis
November 11, 2009 – Many people would dismiss arthritis as a simple and natural process of aging when in fact it is not. It is a crippling disease; slow yet decapitating. Arthritis has many forms and accompanying painful symptoms. Somehow, in the advent of modern-day technology and medical breakthroughs, we look for an organic alternative…
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Patients Flock to California Doctors Practicing Pot Medicine
November 8, 2009 – In Mississippi, where Dr. David Allen worked as a heart surgeon, authorities seized his home and ranch this year after finding $800 worth of marijuana and $1,000 in hashish. A grand jury is to consider a cultivation charge that could net him 30 years in prison under Mississippi’s drug laws. In…
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Michigan Man Pleads For Cannabis To Ease Cancer
November 2, 2009 – Carroll Fisher does not regularly use marijuana. But he’d like to. The retired 67-year-old Niles factory worker has never smoked a joint — except for trying one in his 20s — until July. That was three months after he was diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer. He took a trip to…
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What We Know About Medical Marijuana
October 27, 2009 – Last week, the Justice Department ordered its staff to back off prosecution of people who use marijuana for medical purposes in the 14 states in which such use is legal. The directive reopened a question that has been part of the debate on U.S. drug policy for decades. To understand more…
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Cancer and the Emerging Evidence on Marijuana's Potential
October 18, 2009 – Research shows some cancers can be treated with marijuana. Even with successful surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy treatment, gliomas — a highly aggressive form of brain cancer that strikes approximately 10,000 Americans annually — tragically claim the lives of 75 percent of its victims within two years and virtually all within five…
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Early Medical Research: Marijuana and Chemotherapy
October 12th, 2009 – Early in 1972, after the death of Sidney Farber, the Harvard children’s oncologist for whom the Sidney Farber Cancer Research Center was named, my wife and I were invited to dinner at the home of a fellow Harvard Medical School faculty member. He wanted me to meet Emil Frei, who had…
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Is it Time For Alcohol Detox?
October 7, 2009 – Alcohol is nice within bounds, and in moderation it can be one of life’s pleasant things. Unfortunately, many folks nowadays are addicted to drinking copious volumes of alcohol, this is very damaging to both their physical and mental welfare. Those people around them, the relatives and friends, also feel these damaging…
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Report: Tobacco Use Kills 6Million People a Year
Tobacco Industry has Shifted Marketing to Target Low Income Countries, Report Says August 27, 2009 – (CBS) Tobacco use causes 6 million deaths a year, a third of those deaths from cancer, according to a report released by the American Cancer Society and World Lung Foundation. The tobacco industry is targeting countries with fewer tobacco…