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Scientists test medicinal marijuana against MS, inflammation and cancer
By Nathan Seppa, Science NewsIn science’s struggle to keep up with life on the streets, smoking cannabis for medical purposes stands as Exhibit A.
Medical use of cannabis has taken on momentum of its own, surging ahead of scientists’ ability to measure the drug’s benefits. The pace has been a little too quick for some, who see medicinal joints as a punch line, a ruse to free up access to a recreational drug.
Manitoba addictions expert quits job
CBC NewsOne of Manitoba's foremost experts on addictions is leaving her job out of frustration.
Dr. Lindy Lee said the addictions unit at Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre is overwhelmed with people addicted to opiates such as OxyContin and codeine.
The unit needs to be expanded into a full clinic to deal with the growing demand, she said, noting that staff are so overwhelmed they can't assist people when they first call for help.
"It needs a whole organized clinic…an outpatient clinic. And although we've asked for that, it's not happening and the workload is no longer manageable," Lee said.
Doctors in N.S. most likely to prescribe marijuana
By NICK MOORE, Daily GleanerNew Brunswick has some of Canada's more medical marijuana-friendly physicians, and a national group says it expects even more provincial doctors to be writing these prescriptions in the year to come.
The latest numbers from Health Canada and the Canadian Institute for Health Information suggest that about three per cent of New Brunswick's 1,447 physicians support the authorization for patients to have possession of marijuana for medical purposes.
Nova Scotia leads all provinces and territories for physicians who support medical marijuana use, with 7.2 per cent.
Mayor meets with pot dispensary society
By Monisha Martins - Maple Ridge NewsIf the mayor of Maple Ridge had his way, marijuana would regulated and taxed.
“In Ernie’s perfect world, it would be dispensed from a pharmacy just like all other medicine,” said Ernie Daykin, after a meeting Tuesday with the director of the Always Growing Green Society, Michael Joinson, and marijuana activists Dana Larsen and Jacob Hunter.
The sit-down with Daykin and district staff was organized after The Always Growing Green Society opened Taggs Medical Cannabis Dispensary on 224th Street, without warning, last week.
Process to obtain medicinal pot very difficult, says Nanaimo patient
By: Walter Cordery, Daily NewsA Nanaimo woman who suffers with a brain tumour wants to know why she can walk into any clinic in the city and get narcotics that may do her more harm than good, but can't get confirmation from Health Canada that her medicinal marijuana licence has been renewed.
Carolejean Heaver, 56, claims she grew wary of prescription medication after nearly dying from a seizure brought about by an anticonvulsant drug. She said the drug permanently damaged her liver.
Before getting authorization for medicinal marijuana use, she had been prescribed a variety of other drugs, all of which are metabolized by the liver, unlike marijuana that goes into the bloodstream through the lungs.
By JOHN TIERNEY, New York TimesOxycodone boom hits Manitoba
By Chris Kitching, QMI AgencyWINNIPEG -- A few years ago people were worried crystal meth would invade Manitoba the way it did some U.S. states, which became ridden with addicts, fatal overdoses and clandestine labs.
It didn’t happen to that extent, thankfully.
But a different drug has creeped in without the hoopla and warnings, and is quickly becoming an abused drug of choice, especially for middle-class Manitobans.
The oxycodone boom is here.
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