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Kids Need THC, Too: Lawmakers Are Legalizing Certain Strains of Marijuana, but That Won’t Be Good Enough
September 22nd, 2014 – Republicans love marijuana. Pushed by a cadre of Christian brothers from Colorado and promoted by CNN’s doctor-on-television Sanjay Gupta, a strain of marijuana acceptable for suburban squares and the churchgoing set is winning friends on the right. Marijuana low in THC but high in CBD — cannabidiol, one of the many…
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Ottawa Father denied say in Son’s Cancer Treatment after Fighting Chemo in favour of Hemp Oil
September 15th, 2014 – An Ottawa father has been denied a say in his 18-month-old son’s leukemia treatment after he wanted to use hemp oil instead of chemotherapy. “My fear is that his body is not going to take well to [chemotherapy], and he’s only an 18-month little boy,” the 23-year-old father told CBC News…
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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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Who’s in Charge of Your Health? Minnesota cancer patient Daniel Hauser, medical marijuana, and the politicization of medicine.
May 27, 2009 – This Memorial Day weekend, FBI officials are combing Southern California and parts of Northern Mexico in search of Daniel Hauser, a 13-year-old from Sleepy Eye, Minnesota who has Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Authorities believe Hauser and his mother fled to the area after a Minnesota judge ordered his parents to consent to treating…