That is the predicament of medical marijuana.

DEA's missed opportunity on medical marijuana

The Commission echoed the concerns voiced by the President of the Board on movements that would allow the non medical use of cannabis, the use of cannabis in various food products and other developments that would contribute to a wider acceptance of drugs for recreational or non medical use.

I'll be back.

The road to medical marijuana research is paved with surprises and hypocrisy nearly everywhere you look.

That same search revealed only 57 papers on medical marijuana benefits.

I'm a senior resident in anesthesia in intensive care at the University Hospital of the West Indies.

Noting that countries differ significantly in their level of consumption of narcotic drugs and that in most developing countries the use of narcotic drugs for medical purposes has remained at an extremely low level,

Up until today, there has been only one federally approved source of research grade medical marijuana, at the University of Mississippi.

Anesthesiologists, surgeons are waiting around.

What's the trouble, doctor?

Don't worry, dear Otto. We'll get a doctor. A good one.

Concerned also that the abuse of cannabis, especially among young people, often leads to risk taking behaviour,

quot Recognizing that the medical use of narcotic drugs continues to be indispensable for the relief of pain and suffering and that adequate provision must be made to ensure the availability of narcotic drugs for such purposes,

This is Mass General in Boston.

Even if more medical marijuana will now be freed up for research, the institute will still have to approve any studies it funds.

The limiting factors are the range of expertise available to the four medical officers, one surgeon and one anaesthetist.

This happened at the University of Arizona when Dr. Sue Sisley was let go after trying to pursue a medical marijuana trial.

Such a bother! She offended the doctor.

With regard to the hypocrisy of federal medical marijuana policy, however, it is worth summoning the stamina to relentlessly present the facts.

By any measure of rational analysis marijuana can be safely used within the supervised routine of medical care.

You shouldn't trouble yourself. I'm all right.

The vast majority were research into the harm of marijuana, such as Bad trip due to anticholinergic effect of cannabis, Cannabis induced pancreatitits and Marijuana use and risk of lung cancer.

Consider this A quick (and admittedly non scientific) search through the U.S. National Library of Medicine pulled up 1,434 papers on medical marijuana over the past five years.

The role of the Board in ensuring the availability of opiates for medical purposes was stressed, and Governments were requested to implement the recommendations made by the Board in its special report entitled Availability of Opiates for Medical Needs, 6 published in 1996.

instead of the average THC content of 0.5 to 4.0 per cent of outdoor cultivation. With its active ingredient so high, the psychoactive effect of cultivated cannabis can be powerfully hallucinogenic, making it a very different drug from the traditional plant whose abuse became popular in the 1960s.

See who uses marijuana.

5. Cannabis type drugs refer to cannabis products such as hashish and marijuana.

He was the chief of anesthesiology in a hospital in Malawi, a teaching hospital.

The lives of patients such as that of Charlotte Figi, whose seizures abated with the use of medical marijuana, and so many others depend on it.

Anesthesia gave surgeons the freedom to operate.

Recognizing that the medical use of narcotic drugs, including opiates, is indispensable for the relief of pain and suffering,

Hashish refers to cannabis resin, while marijuana usually refers to the dried parts of the plant.

Dr Von Hallor, would you tell the court what your opinion is of this case?

It's a research crop marijuana grow room.

Roughly 10 of people who smoke cannabis go on to develop dependence, which produces withdrawal symptoms when use is stopped, such as craving, irritability, sleep disturbances, abdominal pain, and nervousness. Again, CBD seems to offset the addictive effects of cannabis, and seems to provide relief from withdrawal symptoms.

quot Desiring to conclude a generally acceptable international convention replacing existing treaties on narcotic drugs, limiting such drugs to medical and scientific use ... quot

6. The policy of permitting the use of narcotic drugs for medical and scientific needs, while preventing their harmful uses, is articulated in the preamble to the 1961 Convention, which reads as follows

2. Cannabis abuse per 100 inhabitants, 1992 1995 6

The concentration of the active substance tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) varies widely, depending on the part of the plant used and where it is grown.

In strict medical terms marijuana is far safer than many foods we commonly consume.

Present position Head of Department of Clinical and applied Psychology, Medical University of Southern Africa (MEDUNSA)

Australia's public insurance system, Medicare, covers all Australians through programmes that fund some or all of the cost of hospital care, physician care and pharmaceuticals.

Moreover, different strains of cannabis pose more or less risk for psychosis. A comparison of the two most common types of cannabis in the United Kingdom, hash and sinsemilla ( skunk ), found that using skunk implied a significantly greater risk of psychosis, while hash did not.

The United States Health Care Financing Administration provides about 3 million a year to Lyndon Baines Johnson Tropical Medical Center (about 16 per cent of all funding) and most of those funds are used to purchase most of the medicine and medical supplies used at the Medical Center.