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Current Affairs 2007 - Medical (61 items)
| Dec 29, 2007 | Woman Led Fight to Legalize Medical Marijuana KITCHENER - In recent years, when people saw Catherine Devries of Kitchener, they saw a tiny and obviously ill woman who needed to use a wheelchair when she managed to get out of bed at all. ....Catherine died last Sunday in St. Mary's Hospital, at the age of 49. Most of her life, she had struggled with a host of health problems and pain.
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| Dec 19, 2007 | BC: Judge's Death Puts Cases In Jeopardy Crown and defence lawyers are working to keep on track two long-running and ongoing Victoria cases temporarily delayed by the sudden death of a Supreme Court judge.
Conferences have been scheduled for January to make sure of continuations of the murder trial of Ruby Ann Ruffolo and the constitutional challenge to the marijuana charges levelled at two men arrested in a raid on a house used by the Vancouver Island Compassion Society as a grow operation.
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| Dec 18, 2007 | MS Sufferer Wins Right to Use Pot Vapourizer Pam Edgar has won her fight to have the provincial government pay for a device she says is needed for her to use marijuana to ease symptoms of multiple sclerosis.
The government, which earlier refused to pay for a $200 marijuana vapourizer, has been forced to reverse its decision following the unanimous decision of an appeal tribunal.
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| Dec 13, 2007 | Compassion Pleaded After Drugs Convictions Pete Young said he wasn't trying to hide anything -- he was offering marijuana from a downtown location to ease people's pain.
He said doctors knew. So did the police.
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| Dec 6, 2007 | ON: Medicinal Pot Case Wraps Up Lawyers for Canadian users of medical marijuana who want Ottawa to ease restrictions on where they get their pot wrapped up their case Wednesday by telling a Federal Court judge that government-approved marijuana, grown by a Flin Flon contractor, doesn't compare to higher-quality strains available on the street.
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| Dec 3, 2007 | NS: Simpson Facing Charges of Trafficking, Sentencing AMHERST - Within minutes of his Supreme Court sentencing for counts of possession, trafficking and producing marijuana being adjourned, Rickey Logan Simpson was taken into custody and faces additional charges of trafficking the same substance.
Crown attorney Paul Drysdale told Justice Felix Cacchione that two officers from Amherst Police Department, including Sgt. Tim Hunter, were at the back of the courtroom to take Simpson into custody where he would be charged with trafficking marijuana.
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| Nov 29, 2007 | Judge's Death Puts Pot Trial In Jeopardy The death of B.C. Supreme Court Justice Robert Edwards has jeopardized a lengthy and costly criminal trial involving an important constitutional challenge of the marijuana law.
In most criminal cases, when a judge is unable to follow through to judgment, a mistrial is declared.
In this case, a rare hearing has been scheduled in Vancouver tomorrow to see if there is a way to save the huge expense incurred and the evidence already presented.
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| Nov 5, 2007 | Professor's Grant Goes To 'Pot' The goal of the cannabis research is to find a way to block the production of psychoactive cannabinoids that produce the mind-altering effects in users so cannabis can become a useful crop for oil, fibre and even food, said Facchini.
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| Nov 1, 2007 | Northside Man Wants Medical-Pot Regulations Relaxed Rocky Paul has been using medical marijuana to control pain and other discomforts for the last seven years.
The St. Mary's First Nation resident would like to see the rules eased up a bit so that those who need the drug can get it more easily.
Paul said as many as 30 pages of documents have to be filled out once a year by patients and their doctors in order to continue to qualify for the licence.
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| Oct 4, 2007 | Med Pot's Slow Access? As the Montreal Compassion Centre gets ready to celebrate the official opening of their new digs on 72 Rachel E. this Tuesday, Oct. 9, at 6 p.m., relations between the benevolent marijuana distribution organization and the bureaucrats running Health Canada's Medical Marijuana Access program remain as stilted as ever.
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| Oct 3, 2007 | Club Head Wants Quebec To Run Medical Marijuana Access The founder of the Montreal Compassion Club wants Quebec to take over the administration of the federal Medical Marijuana Access program in the province.
Marc-Boris St-Maurice said yesterday the program is "an embarrassing oxymoron."
He complained about major delays processing applications, licence renewals and changes of address.
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| Oct 1, 2007 | Patients, Activists To Address Ramifications Of New National Anti-Drug MEDIA ADVISORY
Location: Charles Lynch Press Theatre, Room 130-S, Parliament Hill,
Ottawa
Date and Time: Tuesday, October 2, 2007 at 1 p.m.
For further Information:
Christine Lowe - 613-248-9190
Tara Lyons - 613-263-1335
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| Oct 1, 2007 | PR: New National Anti-Drug Strategy plays politics with people's lives TORONTO, Oct. 1 /CNW/ - The new National Anti-Drug Strategy to be officially
unveiled this week by federal Health Minister Tony Clement is a huge step
backward for Canada's response to HIV/AIDS, said the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal
Network today...."It seems clear that the new drug strategy is based on ideology instead of
evidence, and from every angle - human rights, public health, or use of
taxpayers' dollars - that's irresponsible and unacceptable."
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| Sep 24, 2007 | Marijuana and the Munchies Whether or not you've ever tried marijuana, whether or not you've inhaled, you have your own cannabis infrastructure, a grid of nerve receptors that changes your experience of pain, sleep and appetite. We all make our own natural cannabinoids, marijuana-like chemical compounds...Looking for an anti-munchies drug, researchers found the synthetic compound rimonabant, a cannabinoid blocker. ( It switches off the same neural network that our own cannabinoids and marijuana turn on. ) So long as you stay on it, the drug reduces appetite, blood sugar, waist size and weight ( by about five per cent ), while it raises HDL ( "good" ) cholesterol.
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| Sep 12, 2007 | NS: Judge Reins In Accused In Marijuana Case Ricky Logan Simpson, who is defending himself, sighed and shook his head when Justice Felix Cacchione intervened for about the 12th time Tuesday to prevent him from questioning one of four RCMP officers during the second day of his trial in Nova Scotia Supreme Court.
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| Sep 11, 2007 | New Dosage Limits for Medical Marijuana But Where's The Science?
New evidence-based guidelines are urgently needed to help doctors negotiate Canada's hazy medical marijuana landscape, particularly in light of Health Canada's efforts to impose new dose limits, say the nation's leading cannabis researcher and doctors who have been queried about their marijuana authorizations.
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| Sep 7, 2007 | Time To Address Medical Marijuana, Onley Says TORONTO -- He didn't say it outright, but one day after being sworn in as Ontario's 28th Lieutenant-Governor, David Onley all but endorsed medicinal marijuana use by the chronically ill.
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| Aug 30, 2007 | MS Sufferers Look to Mary Jane for Relief Tremlett said that anecdotal evidence from people with MS suggests that marijuana is helpful, but clinical trials have not proven its effectiveness. She said there is a "potential mechanism", which could account for the positive responses. Tremlett explained that there are cannabinoid receptors found on pain pathways in the brain and spinal cord. It is believed that because pain is mediated through those pathways, cannabis is able to offer relief.
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| Aug 29, 2007 | Mental Illness Medications Go To Pot The association between marijuana use and mental illness is tiny and one that definitely doesn't indicate a cause-and-effect relationship. The truth is that those more prone to mental illness are also more prone to using marijuana ( or alcohol, for that matter ) to take the edge off symptoms, which alone is enough to create a correlation.
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| Aug 21, 2007 | Clement To Doctors: Talk Straight On Drug Dangers Federal Health Minister Tony Clement delivered a tough, anti-drug message to doctors on Monday, saying young people need straight talk about the dangers of illicit drugs, including marijuana.
"The messages young people have received during the past several years have been confusing and conflicting to say the least," Clement told the annual meeting of the Canadian Medical Association ( CMA ) in Vancouver.
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