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Round Table Meeting with Judge James P. Gray, Judy K. Thompson & Ron Niehouse (MCJ)

By Medical Cannabis Journal (California)
01/03/12

If you’re gonna use any, well no, not my drug cause it’s a legal drug, that’s alcohol, that’s okay. I can be a social drinker. But if you’re marijuana, you’re the devil weed. They don’t draw those distinctions intentionally. And they will accuse me of being a drug legalizer. Well, what does that mean? Anytime you’re a drug legalizer it has the intended connotation that I don’t care if your 12 year old daughter buys some cocaine in a vending machine across from her junior high school. That’s the connotation that they want. Because it will freeze peoples minds. It will stop the discussion in its tracks & that’s exactly the intended outcome.

By Mark Pedersen: Editor Medical Cannabis Journal. (Virginia)
11/14/11

I have been a registered Nurse for over 35 years. I began in medical/surgical adult care - nursing and the hospital system. Along the way, I learned about patients using cannabis. I have a Masters prepared background in medical/surgical nursing. In the early 80’s, I was a supervising nurse in a small hospital in Washington State. Our Director of Nursing was quite concerned because an elderly patient was coming in with what she called a “marijuana pill.

By Mark Pedersen: Editor Medical Cannabis Journal. (Missouri)
10/07/11

What has happened to Harborside, though regrettable and terribly tragic for those patients that rely on it, is far from being a surprise. The fact is, the only thing that has kept the state and Federal Governments from locking down ALL of the dispensaries in Cali and the other states with cannabis programs has been the sheer number of participants in their medical cannabis programs.

By Ron S. Niehouse, Executive Director (Medical Cannabis Journal) (California)
09/28/11

Every newborn who breast feeds will receive cannabinoids thru breast milk, this helps to stimulate the baby’s appetite?

By Mark Pedersen (Missouri)
07/24/11

Any magazine is only as good as the quality of its writing. It’s not enough just to fill the pages. We decided early on that we would strive to make excellence and accuracy paramount virtues of MCJ.

By Patients Out of Time (Virginia)
07/17/11

In 2011 Medical Cannabis Journal traveled to Virginia to have meetings with the world famous medical cannabis reform group known as Patients out Of Time.

By Ron Niehouse (California)
05/23/11

The federal government is in the cannabis-growing business. Under a federal contract, the University of Mississippi in Oxford cultivates marijuana for use by researchers, who have to be cleared by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

By By Ally (aka pflover) (California)
05/22/11

Parkinson’s disease was originally termed Shaking Palsy by James Parkinson when he became the first to fully characterize the condition in 1817 (1). Since this time the disease has taken on his name despite the fact he never had the condition himself. Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative condition which outwardly manifests as a movement disorder. PD is chronic, progressive and incurable with an onset usually in the second half of life. Although in a few cases genetic mutations are known to cause PD the specific cause in most cases has not been identified

By Mark Pedersen (Missouri)
10/07/10

Mark Pedersen interviews the former Governor of New Mexico and 2012 Presidential hopeful, Gary Johnson.

By Barbara Mackenzie (Colorado)
06/28/10

In 2005, after the 3 year San Diego Federal medical marijuana court case that ended with the death of my partner, Steve McWilliams, I began the long arduous journey to restore my health once again with cannabis, having severely regressed in those 3 years of not being allowed to use it.

What the Oil Does and How it Does It

By Rick Simpson (British Columbia)
12/30/11

I am not going to talk about the corruption that is holding this plant´s medicinal use back. I am here today to simply speak about the healing power of the hemp plant that I have personally witnessed and what I think causes it.

By Ron Niehouse (MCJ) (California)
05/23/11

I help people and they don’t believe a word I’m saying. Simply grown, I can take 1 ounce of that bud and make the oil from it, and go put it on a diabetic ulcer or skin cancer and see what happens. Anybody can prove it.

By Mark Pedersen Ron Niehouse medical cannais journal (Missouri)
05/23/11

The Medical Cannabis Journal (MCJ) envisions a society where cannabis is respected, and it’s therapeutic benefits are widely accepted; a future where cannabis consumption, cultivation, and distribution are not only legal, but common place.

By Casper Leitch "Time4Hemp" (California)
01/19/11

Casper has a chat with Irv Rosenfeld, 1 or 4 remaining IND (Federal cannabis Patients) alive in the U.S. today. The U.S. Government supplies him and three others hundreds of "joints" per month. This interview talks of Irv's new book among many other things.

By Ron Niehouse (MCJ) (California)
12/29/10

Nobody knows what the future brings. From where you are at, it is going to bring change. It isn’t to say that it isn’t going to carry with you things from the now and the past. You have more change in the future than no change in the past.

By Mark Pedersen (California)
10/13/10

The Deputy Director of NORML, Paul Armentano, clears the air regarding concerns from the medical cannabis community regarding California's Proposition 19.

By Bradley Doucet (Ontario)
09/10/10

Eleanor Podmore is a 56-year-old mother of two. She and her husband live in a nice, split-level home in a nice, professional neighborhood in Ajax, a suburb of Toronto. He has a good job working in the insurance industry. She used to work for a major energy company as a manager for corporate locations and franchises for the province of Ontario.

By Steve Van Wormer (California)
06/28/10

The United States is well known for being the "land of the free", but not when it comes to Marijuana. The federal government, guided by special interest groups, has conducted a rigorous and systematic campaign of disinformation and criminalization against marijuana that has lasted through the majority of the twentieth century and continues today.

Why on Earth – Does the War on (Some) Drugs Continue?

By Bradley Doucet (Quebec)
09/24/10

The Drug War has been in the news again this week. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton headed off to Mexico on Wednesday, March 25, for a two-day visit, with the escalating drug-related violence in that country at the top of her agenda. Some 8000 people have been killed in just over a year, and there are worries that the chaos is spreading from northern Mexico into some U.S. border states. Meanwhile, President Barack Obama is expected to announce his plan to overhaul Washington’s anti-narcotics policy in Afghanistan. Efforts to eradicate the Afghani poppy fields that supply 90% of the world’s heroin have failed completely.

By Lanny Swerdlow, RN (California)
09/10/10

When anti-harm reduction drug warriors rant against laws allowing for medicinal use of cannabis, they always trot out insomnia as an example of a trivial ailment for which a medical marijuana recommendation can be written.

By Ron S. Niehouse, Executive Director (Medical Cannabis Journal) (California)
08/01/10

In the State of Rhode Island, the patient's futures are looking much brighter.

By Ron S. Niehouse, Executive Director (Medical Cannabis Journal) (California)
07/30/10

An advocate of jury nullification he spends his own time educating the public about this relatively-unknown topic of "jury Nullification". Dr. Winden has been involved in politically-driven causes for over two decades and is a true fighter of individual freedom and State's rights.