Organizations Supporting Medical-cannabis Reform
- Americans for Safe Access(ASA) coordinates "...a nation-wide day of action to push back DEA attempts to re-criminalize medical cannabis! On or after June 6th, 2002 the DEA will attempt to shut down dispensaries now legally providing medical cannabis to patients in California. To respond...".
- International Association for Cannabis as Medicine (IACM),
founded March, 2000... scientific society advocating improvement of
legal situation for use of hemp plant (Cannabis sativa L.) and its
pharmacologically most important active compounds, cannabinoids,
therapeutic applications through promotion of research and
dissemination of information.
- Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics, information about medical use, clinical studies and reform efforts.
- American Civil Liberties Union "The ACLU has opposed the outright criminalization of drugs since 1968,
believing that the best way to deal with drugs is regulation, not incarceration".
- California NORML
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The Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics
defines cognitive liberty as "the right of each individual to think
independently and autonomously, to use the full spectrum of his or her
mind, and to engage in multiple modes of thought". This page
explains their thoughts about medical cannabis.
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Coalition for Medical Marijuana approaches patients' medical rights through
political & judicial activism
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The Coalition for Rescheduling Cannabis filed a comprehensive rescheduling petition (including a descriptive bibliography) with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on October 9, 2002. Read a Press Release.
On April 3, 2003 the Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA) accepted the filing of the rescheduling petition
seeking federal recognition of the accepted medical use of cannabis.
- Drug PolicyAlliance
concentrate their collections of full-text materials on drugs and drug
policy... recent & pertinent news headlines... tools and
suggestions for helping act for change... discussion forums to develop
policy, and share insights & ideas with others...
- Drug Reform Coordination Network (DRCNet) features "Medical Marijuana" prominently in its online library of information about drugs and drug policy.
- "Drug Sense Means Education & Action".
- Floridians for Medical Rights fielded a petition for medical cannabis in 1999.
J.R. Dawson's Freedom Page covers this campaign, and current issues... locally, nationally, and worldwide.
- Green Cross
serves, lawfully in the State of Washington (RCW 69.51A.010), patients
from Seattle into the Greater Puget Sound Area & beyond.
- Los Angeles Cannabis Resource Center, fresh-washed by a hard steel rain... doesn't call it quits, rather calls its friends.
- Marijuana Dot Org (was Californians for Compassionate Use) "Medical marijuana resources from the patients who wrote Proposition 215".
- Marijuana Policy Project
(MPP) is a Washington, D.C.-based group that focuses exclusively on
federal cannabis-law reform... as in reforming Federal Agencies that
shut Los Angeles Cannabis Resource Center...
... an important continuing resource at their site is a
guide to the legal status of medical cannabis in all fifty states.
- "The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies(MAPS)
is a membership-based non-profit research and educational organization
with about 1800 members. We assist scientists to design, fund, obtain
approval for and report on studies into the healing and spiritual
potentials of MDMA, psychedelic drugs and marijuana.
- National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws
(NORML). Since its founding in 1970, NORML has been the principal
national advocate for cannabis-law reform, including articulate support
for medical-cannabis.
- November Coalition:
"The drug war does not reduce drug use... to wage a 'war' on
drugs stimulates a violent, underground economy, an economy which would
collapse if drug prohibition ended. Our country, and our world
should be safer, not simply less free."
- Portland NORML has affiliated with National NORML as Oregon NORML. They're building their site, and migrating resources from their "old site"
- Washington Citizens for Medical Rights, sponsored a successful medical cannabis ballot measure in November 1998.
"As a result, this Initiative is now State Law... a measure of
protection for patients within the State of Washington. Because of the
complexity of this issue, and... that... Medical Marijuana remains
illegal on a federal level, we advise both patients and doctors to...
the specific protections and limitations of this new law.... we have
prepared an informational brochure outlining the new law. To read it
online, go here."
Information and News
- California Compassionate Use Act of 1996 documents major aspects and continuing implications of Proposition 215.
- CannabisNews.com tracks news articles about cannabis.
- Levellers' Cannabis Section with news & information from compassionate equalitarians.
- "Welcome to George McMahon's Home Page.
I am the 5th legal medical marijuana recipient in the United States.
Since March of 1990, I have been receiving a monthly prescription for
medical marijuana from the federal government. At the current time,
there are only eight of us left."
- Marijuana Info,
presents "the conflicting views and opinions of different sides of a
medical marijuana debate... Should smoked marijuana be a medical option
now?... in a non-partisan Pro/Con format".
- Marijuana News, features news about medical cannabis developments, frequently updated by Richard Cowan, former director of NORML.
- Marihuana: The Forbidden Medicine.
"Welcome! Your virtual hosts are: Lester Grinspoon, M.D., Associate
Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School and James
Bakalar, J.D., Lecturer in Law in the Department of Psychiatry at the
Harvard Medical School."
- Marinol Dot Com developed by Roxane, now owned by Unimed, Inc, of Solvay Pharmeceuticals, Inc.
- Medline.
Scan medical research freely, courtesy of the National Library of
Medicine, a part of the National Institutes of Health. Remember, though:
1) Medline does not generally include research more than 20 years old,
but the U.S. government has not allowed any research with real cannabis
since the 1970s;
2) Marinol, or synthetic THC, used in many experiments, is not cannabis;
3) Correlation is not causation;
4) Not a single piece of research purporting to find significant harm
from smoking cannabis has ever been both A) published in a
peer-reviewed scientific journal; and B) replicated by other scientists
using the same methodology.
- Medical Board of California Link to Medical Board policy on Medical Cannabis.
- MedScape, another free internet medical site provides thousands of articles that are Web-enhanced for online browsing.
- Carl Olsen offers excellent web pages with resources on
Marijuana as Medicine, including the
1988
ruling by the DEA's top administrative law judge, Francis L. Young,
directing the DEA to transfer cannabis from Schedule 1 to Schedule 2.
- Research Findings on Medicinal Properties of Marijuana, January 1997, reviews about 75 scientific studies on cannabis and health, compiled by Kevin B. Zeese, president of
Common Sense for Drug Policy.
- Ron Shaw: "I smoke Marijuana for medical reasons."
- Sensi Cannabis Search Engine All kind of information on Cannabis products, related subjects, all cannabis strains, hybrids and seeds.
- A slide show narrates Allen Eugene Bennett's reprieve from death by cancer by a marvelous natural medicine. More slides provide political context.
- Weedtracker.com You must be 18 years of age or older to vist, view, join, read, post,
or contribute to WeedTRACKER.com. You must also be a California Medical
Marijuana Patient, as defined by Prop. 215 and CA SB420.
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