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  Australian State To Try Out Medical Marijuana

Posted by CN Staff on May 20, 2003 at 08:30:37 PT
By The Associated Press 
Source: CTV 

Sydney, Australia — Following the lead of Canada and the Netherlands, Australia's most populous state has decided to allow the medicinal use of marijuana for pain relief in a four-year trial, authorities said Tuesday.New South Wales state Premier Bob Carr said the trial was aimed at alleviating the chronic suffering of people with severe pain. "This is a compassionate scheme," he told the state legislature in the capital, Sydney.
"It's directed at people like the 62-year-old man with bowel cancer ... (who) uses cannabis to relieve pain and to beat the nausea that stops him from eating."Carr said the trial, believed to be the first in Australia, will include strict safeguards. Legislation clearing the way for the experiment is expected to pass later this year.Under the proposal, patients would be able to gain access to the drug through a new Office of Medicinal Cannabis within the New South Wales Health Department."Patients must be able to show that conventional treatment will not relieve their suffering," Carr said."We're talking about people suffering wasting due to cancer and HIV/AIDS, nausea from chemotherapy, severe or chronic pain, muscle spasticity due to Multiple Sclerosis and spinal cord injuries," he added.People convicted of an illicit drug offence, on parole, under 18 years of age, or pregnant will not be able to register as a user, Carr said.Countries including the Netherlands and Canada have laws sanctioning the medicinal use of marijuana.Eight U.S. states also have taken steps toward permitting the medicinal use of the drug. The U.S. Supreme Court, however, has ruled there is no exception in federal law for people to use marijuana, so those living in states with tolerant laws could face arrest if they do.Marijuana Backgrounder: http://www.ctv.ca/generic/WebSpecials/marijuana/Source: CTV (Canada)Published: May 20, 2003Copyright: 2003 Bell Globemedia Interactive Inc. Website: http://www.ctv.ca/Contact: newsonline ctv.ca Related Articles & Web Site:Medical Marijuana Infrmation Linkshttp://freedomtoexhale.com/medical.htmMarijuana To Be Trialled as Pain Drughttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread16342.shtmlCanada Rethinks Medical Marijuana Lawshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread16079.shtmlMarijuana Now Legal in Dutch Pharmacieshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread15747.shtml

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Comment #9 posted by Lehder on May 20, 2003 at 16:33:48 PT
Robert Stephens e Maconha
Thanks to Virgil for sending me NarcoNews, but no thanks to Robert Stevens, drug crusader for personal profit, banished to Brazil after acquiring only 129 patients for "marijuana treatment" in the U.S. and for claiming that marijuana causes insomnia and loss of appetite! How ridiculous, how obtuse and contrary to reality and to the experience of every smoker on the planet can these prohibitionists become? How do they live with themselves?You know that anyone who so perverts himself with such bald lies has failed somewhere, perhaps consistently, in life. He has nothing to offer, and must travel to another continent but still cannot outrun his reputation. I wonder where he screwed up. I wonder if the Internet could tell me.The only new thing that this article taught me was a new word for marijuana, *maconha*. It's just a direct translation of 'marijuana' into Portuguese. You can enter 'maconha' into the browser and have some fun translation expressions like A Casa da Maconha precisa da sua ajuda!! Participe do maior site de leilões da América!! TC.
  Mantenha a mente aberta!!!Now, who is Robert Stephens and at what has he so miserably failed? The investigation is difficult because of the plentitude of Robert Stevensuz, but this one, from the Narco News article, is a professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, which evidently harbors a fetish for Robert Stevensuz because it has hired three of them:http://search.vt.edu/people.jsp?query=RObert+StephensWe might guess that the miscreant we're seeking is the Robert S. Stevens, psychologist, not the historian Robert P. and not the Robert daniel of undeclared discipline. Still, it's quite a tangle! Now, Entering Robert S. Stevens into Yahoo we find a whole bevy of Robert S.'s, all of them more accomplished than than the scalawag who now shits in Brazil; for example, Robert S. a Ph. D. of Immunology at Berkeley, Robert S. the engineer of Stevens Engineering. Better to use quotes around the entire "RObert S. Stevens", like this, and here he is,http://search.yahoo.com/search?x=wrt&p=%22Robert+S.+Stephens%22&vm=i&n=20&fl=0all mixed up with cannabis "research" and having discovered that marijuana causes loss of appetite and insomnia. I've had enough of him, thanks, but I know he fucked up somewhere or he'd be doing something useful. I hope someone can come up with the goods on this quack. Good Night!
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Comment #8 posted by Virgil on May 20, 2003 at 15:56:46 PT
For what it is worth
The guy that used to put up most of the articles at the old DE messageboard is Billy Barker. He has this thread in the UK Cannabis Policy section at hempcity- http://www.hempcity.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=168&highlightHe has two entries and I put them up to glean from them. The thread title is "Class 'C' in action."Interesting report on the UKCIA mailout about how the introduction of class"C" in Northern Ireland has worked out. Seems loads of people are smoking cannabis in pubs and clubs but there's not been a tidal wave of "allowing premises" prosecutions! Also seems they have less of a heroin problem than we have on "the mainland" 'cause the paramilitairies have been controlling the trade and they have concentrated on cannabis! Signs for the future?Entry #2aseasyasacb.co.uk gets you all the latest news on Worthing ...read this b4 u visit....be warned the police are out to close them down...... good luck and love, peace & rainbows to all in Worthing...you may be crazy but I applaud you for keeping the dream alive and not letting Blunkett forget that we like to socialise with a spliff and there's nowt wrong with it in most people's eyes..... 
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Comment #7 posted by Virgil on May 20, 2003 at 14:33:34 PT
NarcoNews articles address cannabis
The leading two articles at NarcoNews concern cannabis. http://www.narconews.com/Issue30/article786.html -"Therapeutic Justice," Made in the USA – The Drug Treatment Industries Lobby’s Newest Industries- Marijuana Users – Anyone that read Cnews understands that the drug testing industry would love to test everyone and do their best to get the drug test numbers up and get those profits and how the government is helping the industry over the rights, dignity, and integrity of public funds. The new racquet is drug treatment. with jail being the alternative meant to shake the money out of your pants. http://www.narconews.com/Issue30/article786.html - U.S. Funded "Expert" Brings Reefer Madness to Brazil -  São Paulo Newspaper Claims that Marijuana Causes "Insomnia, Nausea, Muscular Pain," and "Loss of Appetite" - Look at this paragraph from the article and see if the prohibitionist take reality and say that its inverse is true. Among the demonstrably false claims made the sponsors of the forum titled "Advances in the Treatment of Marijuana Users" at the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp) were, according to the daily O Estado of São Paulo, that the use of marijuana causes "insomnia, nausea, muscular pain, anxiety, nervousness, sweat, diarrhea, loss of appetite and intense desire to use the drug." 
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Comment #6 posted by FoM on May 20, 2003 at 14:17:06 PT
Portion from The Article Below
Ehrlich Vetoes Could Determine State's FutureA medical marijuana bill strongly opposed by the Bush administration is also on the potential veto list, but Ehrlich has supported medical marijuana legislation in Congress and has indicated he was leaning toward signing it. The bill would reduce the penalty to a maximum $100 fine with no jail time. http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/2216937/detail.html
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Comment #5 posted by FoM on May 20, 2003 at 12:21:14 PT

Terror Alert
I just saw on the news that the terror alert is going up. It seems everytime that happens they hassle Cannabis people and thought you might want to know.
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Comment #4 posted by Lehder on May 20, 2003 at 12:03:00 PT

2890 references to marijuana and alzheimers:
http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=marijuana+Alzheimersand from the medical literature:"These results suggest that
            activation of the MAPK pathway by either cannabinoids or
            corticotrophin-releasing hormone could be used to prevent Abeta
            peptide induced neurodegeneration. "http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12384227&dopt=Abstract6390 more:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=search&DB=PubMedThe war on drugs contradicts reality. These references are from science, not from government TV propaganda.
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Comment #3 posted by Lehder on May 20, 2003 at 11:33:52 PT

Marijuana Slows the Onset of Alzheimer's Disease
So how about a twenty-year trial by the entire population. Prohibitionists can form the control group. Marijuana offers benefits to the healthy too. One does not need to be in severe pain or on a death bed to benefit from marijuana. It takes a whole web site, pages and pages, to discuss the multifarious benefits of marijuana:http://www.marijuana-uses.com/examples/
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Comment #2 posted by Virgil on May 20, 2003 at 09:09:55 PT

GWP forced their hand
I too am surprised by a 4-year study especially since GWP will have their exracts approved for Australian consumption in 18 months or so. The public figures that decided this are just avoiding embarrassment at this point.Of course cannabis should have long ago been free so that it current research would already have been done and we would now be benefiting from research done decades ago. The study I am most interested in is about cannabis/hemp in the diet of everyday people. Does A hemp diet help with America's biggest killer, heart disease? Is hemp flour substantially nutitionally different than wheat flour? And what nutrition is in the buds of a hemp plant and the indica and sativa strains and for that matter rudellis?.How long does the Shedule One Lie have left?
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Comment #1 posted by Thomas on May 20, 2003 at 08:42:03 PT

Four Years?
I would think they could prove the efficacy of cannabis in four months. Of course with all the studies that have already been done or are being done a new study seems unnecessary and obvious foot dragging. Needless to say, this approach is still light years ahead of the U.S.
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