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Chicago - A new patch, to fight pain. It's the latest product being rolled out at the states medical marijuana dispensaries. And as CBS 2's Roseanne Tellez tells us in this Original Report, it offers relief — without the high. It's the newest delivery method for medical marijuana. The...

Chicago - A new patch, to fight pain. It's the latest product being rolled out at the states medical marijuana dispensaries. And as CBS 2's Roseanne Tellez tells us in this Original Report, it offers relief — without the high. It's the newest delivery method for medical marijuana. The...

For my last column, Is There a Hidden Drug Abuse Problem Among Pulmonary Hypertension Patients?, I spoke to several pulmonary hypertension patients who use prescribed pain killers to help manage pain. Sarah and Lindsay shared that they began to abuse their prescribed painkillers within the last...

For my last column, Is There a Hidden Drug Abuse Problem Among Pulmonary Hypertension Patients?, I spoke to several pulmonary hypertension patients who use prescribed pain killers to help manage pain. Sarah and Lindsay shared that they began to abuse their prescribed painkillers within the last...

Radiation treatment for Kelly Oliphant's Stage 4 prostate cancer left him with radiation colitis and cystitis. "I have, from one hip to the other in the front, a six-inch belt that burns constantly," Oliphant explains. "It's like having a sunburn on the inside of your skin. One doctor related it...

Radiation treatment for Kelly Oliphant's Stage 4 prostate cancer left him with radiation colitis and cystitis. "I have, from one hip to the other in the front, a six-inch belt that burns constantly," Oliphant explains. "It's like having a sunburn on the inside of your skin. One doctor related it...

A silly headline but a useful article from NZ Herald: Medical marijuana: Is NZ dazed and confused? A conservative lobby group is seeking support for new, cheaper medicinal cannabis for chronic pain relief. Kat Le Brun, by her own admission, is a "grumpy" Christian student teacher from...

A silly headline but a useful article from NZ Herald: Medical marijuana: Is NZ dazed and confused? A conservative lobby group is seeking support for new, cheaper medicinal cannabis for chronic pain relief. Kat Le Brun, by her own admission, is a "grumpy" Christian student teacher from...

A Cook County Judge has ordered the Illinois Department of Public Health to add Post-Operative Chronic Pain to the list of disorders treatable with medical cannabis. In a blistering order, Cook County Judge Neil Cohen told the Director of the State Department of Public Health, Dr. Nirav Shah...

A Cook County Judge has ordered the Illinois Department of Public Health to add Post-Operative Chronic Pain to the list of disorders treatable with medical cannabis. In a blistering order, Cook County Judge Neil Cohen told the Director of the State Department of Public Health, Dr. Nirav Shah...

As a flower child of the late 60s, I enjoyed sharing a joint with friends — and yes, unlike Bill Clinton, I did inhale. After all, as President Obama has said, that was sort of the point. And, like many women of my generation, I found marijuana the only relief from monthly malaise. If it was...

Decriminalisation campaigners suggest ending cannabis arrests could go a long way towards easing the workload for the police force. Rallies will be held outside 26 police stations around the country at 4pm today to call for a stop to all arrests involving the drug. Campaigners say cannabis...

An increasing number of places around the world, including 25 US states, Canada, Israel and more than ten European countries, are relaxing laws on medical marijuana use — but Britain has yet to follow. A group of MPs in the UK is calling for access to medical marijuana, in a report which...

An increasing number of places around the world, including 25 US states, Canada, Israel and more than ten European countries, are relaxing laws on medical marijuana use — but Britain has yet to follow. A group of MPs in the UK is calling for access to medical marijuana, in a report which...

Cannabis should be made legal in Britain for medicinal uses, according to a cross-party group of MPs and peers who led an inquiry into the drug's potential to help patients. The recommendation from the group chaired by Lady Meacher would put the UK in line with at least 11 other European...

Fort Collins, Colorado - If college athletes want to use marijuana, the NCAA likely won't catch them, and Treyous Jarrells is proof of that. He says he was high in almost every game he played. Now he has given up his dream of a football career for one that's very different: He has one of...

Fort Collins, Colorado - If college athletes want to use marijuana, the NCAA likely won't catch them, and Treyous Jarrells is proof of that. He says he was high in almost every game he played. Now he has given up his dream of a football career for one that's very different: He has one of...

I found this invaluable article and decided it was too important not to share. Unfortunately, I can't link directly to the article without violating site security rules, so I've attempted to transfer as much of the information as I can in as close a format as Anna Wilcox set it up. I couldn't...

Cannabis is quickly becoming the wonder-drug being used to treat a growing list of pains, aches, and diseases. Now, it is apparent that the 1.6 million American citizens living with an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis (1) could use it to treat their...

Cannabis is quickly becoming the wonder-drug being used to treat a growing list of pains, aches, and diseases. Now, it is apparent that the 1.6 million American citizens living with an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis (1) could use it to treat their...