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Medical Reasons To Use Marijuana - Articles
Medical Marijuana: Smoking pot can get you fired
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Matthew Z.
Posted
Mon 25 Aug 2008 3:07pm
Twelve states have made medical marijuana use legal, but it appears the law that protects does not extend to the workplace. The California Supreme Court has ruled a medical marijuana user can be fired from their job for failing a company mandated drug test.
Medical marijuana use is a complicated and contradictory issue. Legal in 12 states
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Smoked Marijuana May Ease Chronic Nerve Pain
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HealthFinder
Posted
Mon 30 Aug 2010 10:00am
problem with using smoked cannabis, Ware said. While recreational users are seeking an altered state of mind, research shows that legitimate medical marijuana users are not looking... has been controversial in the United States. While federal law prohibits marijuana use, in 1996, California became the first state to legalize medical marijuana usage
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Smoked Marijuana May Ease Chronic Nerve Pain
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Medline Plus
Posted
Mon 30 Aug 2010 9:00am
. While federal law prohibits marijuana use, in 1996, California became the first state to legalize medical marijuana usage with a prescription from a doctor. More than a dozen... percent often found in marijuana sold on the street, Ware said.
Researchers kept the levels low for two reasons, Ware explained. One was to minimize the psychoactive effects
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New Study Suggests Smoking Marijuana Does Not Cause Lung Cancer
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Chelsea Green
Posted
Fri 28 Aug 2009 5:55pm
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In study after study, the causal relationship between cigarette smoking and lung cancer has been firmly established. Less so with marijuana. Smoking marijuana does damage cells in the lungs and airways—however, the damaged cells die rather than reproduce. They fail to become malignant.
In a 2005 study at UCLA, Professor Donald Tashkin’s research
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How can I stop a panic attack after smoking marijuana?
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David M.

Posted
Mon 29 Mar 2010 6:31pm
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I used to smoke all of the time and not have any anxiety. Nowadays, I have been getting pretty bad panic attacks every now and then after I smoke marijuana. I want to know what I can do to decrease the effects of the panic attack if I feel it coing on right after I smoke. Is there a certain type of weed to smoke or device to smoke out
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Does Smoking Marijuana Help Prevent Dementia? Part 1
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Susan Berg
Posted
Sun 25 Oct 2009 11:04pm
in interrupting processes that lead to development of Alzheimer’s dementia.
To determine whether cannabinoids or marijuana is clinically useful in the treatment of dementia, Cochrane... with dementia.,,,read more of Does Smoking Marijuana Help Prevent Dementia
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Does Smoking Marijuana Help Prevent Dementia? Part 2
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Susan Berg
Posted
Mon 26 Oct 2009 11:05pm
in the treatment of dementia.
Conclusion
To date, there is......read more of Does Smoking Marijuana Help Prevent Dementia
... dementia brain boosting activities
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Results
Despite the dearth of publications on the topic of marijuana, only one small study met the above criteria but the data
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