Prescribed pot users face transplant hurdles

kavin submitted, created time 8 months 1 week (www.msnbc.msn.com)

Should using marijuana be held against a patient in need of transplant? About this question, there are several different views. And people tend to advise that there needs to be some kind of national eligibility criteria. Because the patients are trusting their physician to do the right thing. The physician prescribes marijuana, they take the marijuana, and they are shocked that this is now the end result. And no one tracks how many patients are denied transplants over medical marijuana use.

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American Psychiatric Association Assembly Unanimously Backs Medical Marijuana

wugongliang submitted, created time 1 year 1 month (www.salem-news.com)

In a unanimous vote, the Assembly of the American Psychiatric Association has approved a strongly worded statement supporting legal protection for patients using medical marijuana with their doctor's recommendation.

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Meditators' brains seem alert

angelfish submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.abc.net.au)

Australian PhD researcher Dylan DeLosAngeles, at the Flinders Medical Centre in Adelaide, shows that mediation produces changes in brainwaves usually associated with increased alertness.

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Vaporization provides safer delivery for medical marijuana

Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (www.nature.com)

Marijuana is used as a painkiller, appetite stimulant and nausea suppressant in patients with glaucoma, AIDS, MS and who are on chemotherapy, but smoking introduces harmful carcinogens and ingestion can degrade the active components. Still, I'm somehow not surprised that this study comes out of UC San Francisco.

Vaporization works on several other whole-plant substances. I heard that a company or two was working on an insulin inhaler for a while, but I don't think they had much luck.

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