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Cookie High! 
Posted by FoM on January 20, 2002 at 08:15:06 PT
By Shane Holladay -- Staff Writer
Source: Edmonton Sun
Better baked than blowing smoke: Edmonton's marijuana compassion club is offering confections that put a new spin on the term "baked goods." "Cookies mostly," said Munir Ahmad, the Edmonton compassion club operator. "Cookies that can be baked in five to seven minutes." Ahmad is the incoming executive director of a group dedicated to supplying marijuana to people who use it medically to treat chronic pain or other problems. 
Recently, the federal government launched dedicated efforts to create a supply of pot for people ruled medically exempt from narcotics laws. However, delays have cropped up during Health Canada's efforts to design a private and secure distribution system that doesn't violate international treaties. As the number of exemptees goes up, so too will demand, said Ahmad. "In time, we'll grow. Demand for our club will depend on our reputation in the community. "Some medical marijuana users may be reluctant to give medical records to a society that's in a grey area of the law." The club is diversifying into baked goods because some members aren't happy with having to smoke pot for its effects, said Ahmad. Some parents don't like the idea of using grass around their children, he said, and cookies are one alternative. "We're not just trying to get different varieties of pot for potheads." Ahmad pointed to work by the British drug company GW Pharmaceuticals, which produced an inhaler delivering a dose of pot-derived chemicals in a mouth-spray. Eventually, the club would prefer this method as well, he said. Members of the Edmonton compassion club benefit from the efforts of growers to take advantage of how different varieties of pot affect different symptoms, said Ahmad. "We have many strains. What's good for one person isn't good for another," he said. "I have this one kind of marijuana which I thought was good. It helps people during the day, but doesn't have the right pain-killing properties." As a result, some people have two varieties of pot on the menu, he said. Dr. Helen Hayes, a prominent Edmonton palliative care specialist, said a lot of research is going into alternate methods of delivering marijuana therapy. "We don't want people smoking it. It's more toxic than tobacco," she said. Hayes has said she has patients who have turned to marijuana as a chronic pain medication. "If you want to have maximum benefits, you have to inhale it," she said, adding that the liver dilutes the effects of marijuana baked into food. Note: Pot advocates bake up a storm in bid to create alternatives to smoking for medical users. Newshawk: puff_tuffSource: Edmonton Sun (CN AB)Author: Shane Holladay -- Edmonton SunPublished: January 20, 2002 Copyright: 2002, Canoe Limited Partnership.Contact: letters edm.sunpub.comWebsite: http://www.fyiedmonton.com/htdocs/edmsun.shtmlRelated Articles & Web Site:UK Medicinal Cannabis Projecthttp://www.medicinal-cannabis.org/Medical Marijuana Information Linkshttp://freedomtoexhale.com/medical.htmPot On Back Burnerhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread11797.shtmlGW To Test Dope's Pain Relief Effect http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread11782.shtml
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Comment #8 posted by Toker00 on January 21, 2002 at 16:35:06 PT
qCsTRT
Actually, you can get there from here. Go to C-News front page, go to left collumn, select msg. boards, click on Yahooka discussion boards, then select politics and activism section. There are a lot of youngsters there, but a few of us OLDIES but GOODIES there to help keep them in line. Come on over! Sometimes there are some really good debates and discussions.Peace. Realize, then Legalize.
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Comment #7 posted by FoM on January 21, 2002 at 09:35:52 PT
Links
I want you to know it's ok with me when people put links to other web sites. That's the only way we learn. I know some sites are funny about exterior links but I sure am not. I thought I should mention this so no one hesitates to post a link to a drug policy reform site if they want too.
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Comment #6 posted by qCsTRT on January 21, 2002 at 09:28:57 PT
    Toker00
Give the Link to that site :)
just an oooooooold man with nothing to do. 
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Comment #5 posted by Toker00 on January 21, 2002 at 07:16:12 PT
Hey, EJ
I used your post here at another site where mis-information was being bantered about by OUR side. Hope you don't sue me. LOL. I thank you late, and ask your permission post/post, but you helped me make a point about Cannabis v. tobacco. THANKS.Peace. Realize, then Legalize.
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Comment #4 posted by lookinside on January 20, 2002 at 19:53:33 PT:
Lehder...
Could you compile a list of links and email them to health Canada? With recent events, it may be possible those folks have not seen the data. Even if they have, getting emails with them listed might give them pause.
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Comment #3 posted by Lehder on January 20, 2002 at 15:58:02 PT
The Drug War is Genocide
some quotes:Cannabis is the best natural expectorant to clear the human lungs of smog, dust and the phlegm associated with tobacco use. Marijuana smoke effectively dilates the airways of the lungs, the bronchi, opening them to allow more oxygen into the lungs. It is also the best natural dilator of the tiny airways of the lungs, the bronchial tubes - making cannabis the best overall bronchial dilator for 80% of the population. The remaining 20% sometimes show minor negative reactions). (UCLA Tashkin Studies, 1969-83; US Costa Rican Studies, 1980-82; Jamaican Studies 1968-74.) Many joggers and marathon runners feel cannabis use cleans their lungs, allowing better endurance. The evidence indicates cannabis use will probably increase these outlaw American marijuana-users' lives by about one or two years - but they can lose their rights, property, children, state licences, etc. for using that safest of substances: cannabis.More than 15 million Americans are affected by asthma. Smoking cannabis (what the American Medical Association called the 'raw drug') would be beneficial for 80% of them and add 30 to 60 million person-years in the aggregate of
extended life to current asthmatics over presently legal toxic medicines. The use of cannabis for asthmatics goes back thousands of years in literature. (Tashkin, Dr.
Donald, UCLA Pulmonary Studies, 1969-90....Researchers at the Medical College of Virginia discovered that cannabis is an incredibly successful herb for reducing many types of tumours, both benign and malignant(cancerous). The DEA and other federal agencies had ordered these tumour studies done after hearing of erroneous reports of possible immunicological problems associated with cannabis smoke. When, instead of health problems, an apparent medical breakthrough occurred in 1975 and successful tumour reductions were recorded, orders were handed down by the DEA and the National Institute of Health to defund all further cannabis/tumour research and reporting (Cohen & Stillman, Therapeutic Potential of Marijuana, UCLA, 1976.... [end quotes]read on about AIDS, apetite, insomnia, multiple sclerosis, nausea, antibiotics, back pain, herpes, rheumatism, cystic fibrosis and on and on:http://www.parklandtrading.com/lcacumbria/medical.phpWhy does marijuana get you high? So that you will smoke it! One could very likely make a strong argument here about evolution: Prehistoric people whose chemistry allowed them to get high from marijuana smoked it and survived because of the many health benefits. The benefits of marijuana are built into our genes and our body and brain chemistries.How many people have died from cancer or other diseases, or lived diminished lives because of the US government's intractable hatred for cannabis? We should sound off about these health benefits of marijuana - as I did today to a store clerk and as I do every day whether people want to hear it or not - to everybody! 
Just look at the number of ailements it relieves and consider the huge numbers of people needlessly suffering from them because of the drug war. Consider how dissatisfied most of these people are with the efficacy and cost of their health care. You and I and everyone have a right to the herb that extends life, relieves pain and suffering, and offers so many benefits. People should know about these health benefits. They have the right to make an informed decision in the choice which the government presents them: Death from cancer on the outside or Death from AIDS or tuberculosis in prison.When the truth is finally known to the many, and when the benefits of cannabis are available free to all from their window boxes, then we must also demand that the drug warriors be tried in criminal courts for inflicting decades of slow genocide on cannabis users and abstainers alike. The truth is out so ignorance is no excuse, and this war will not be over until we can say "Never Again."
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Comment #2 posted by Elfman_420 on January 20, 2002 at 14:16:54 PT
Wow.. that's amazing!
I've been saying that marijuana does not cause lung cancer, and that if you smoke marijuana and tobacco then you are safer than if you just smoke tobacco for about two years, but nobody ever believed me.I hadn't seen the study, and I wasn't sure why that happened, I only saw the statistics. But THC interfering with the carcinogens so they don't react with the cell to make it cancerous is a good way of explaining why that happens.When I first read it, I kind of believed it, just thinking that marijuana was some kind of magical plant (that, 2 years ago, I had never even seen, only heard about.. I was researching it because I was thinking about trying it.)
But now I realize that marijuana is just some kind of magical plant...Oh, wait
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Comment #1 posted by E_Johnson on January 20, 2002 at 13:46:33 PT
Even the people on our side are uninformed
Dr. Helen Hayes, a prominent Edmonton palliative care specialist, said a lot of research is going into alternate methods of delivering marijuana therapy. "We don't want people smoking it. It's more toxic than tobacco," she said.Dr. Hayes and others like her desperately need to be alerted to two recent pieces of research reagrding marijuana smoking and lung disease:Cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins finds no statistical link between pot smoking and head, neck or lung cancer:
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/1728.57309The curious thing about his result is that he found his null result BEFORE he corrected for tobacco smoking. Now how could that be? That would seem to imply that marijuana smoking made tobacco smoking less dangerous. Now that sounds like obvious nonsense, right?But this was possibly explained by the later research by noted lung disease specialist Dr. Donald Tashkin at UCLA, whose team found that the THC in marijuana smoke blocks the activity of the enzyme needed to metabolize the aryl hydrocarbon carcionogens in the marijuana tar into a form that can get into the cell and cause cancer:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11245634&dopt=AbstractIf this enzyme is blocked, then the carcinogens can't do anything to the cell. The enzyme whose activity is blocked by THC is a necessary part of the process of creating cancer from the carcinogen.In this research, they say that the presence of THC added to tobacco tar also inhibits the activity of the carcinogen-metabolizing enzyme.The mere presence of a carcinogenic substance is not enough to cause cancer. The carcinogen has some interaction with the cells that make the cells become cancerous. This latest resarch at UCLA is saying that apparently, THC is able to interfere successfully in that interaction between the carcinogen and the process that initiates the actual cancer.That's a pretty damned smart molecule, I'd say. 
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