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Search results for "Medical Marijuana" ...
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Pot Docs: Investigating Medical Marijuana
KCRA looks at how California patients are able to obtain recommendations for medical marijuana from doctors who set up their own clinics for the express purpose of handing out recommendations for the drug.
Tags: Medical Marijuana
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Up in Smoke: The Chris Bartkowicz story"
After KUSA aired promotions for a story taking viewers inside a medical marijuana grow house, the Drug Enforcement Agency immediately raided the grower's home. Protests outside the KUSA studios followed, along with a discussion of states' rights versus federal law regarding medical marijuana.
Tags: medical marijuana; pot; DEA; states' rights; marijuana
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Up In Smoke
The series was dealing with the “proliferation of medical marijuana clinics in Los Angeles”. The series revealed “a loophole inadvertently included in legislation passed by the Los Angeles City Council which allowed hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries to open with no oversight”. Further, the council was unwilling or unable to control the problem they had knowledge about.
Tags: FOIA; City government; Oaksterdam University; cash crop; entrepreneurs; medical purposes; cancer; AIDS; glaucoma
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Firefighters Under Fire
This three part series investigates the San Francisco Fire Department based on information revealed from unnamed firefighters. In "Light Duty", hidden cameras show one officer works just 16 hours a week at his full time job, but still gets paid for 40 hours. Other light duty-or injured firefighters-get paid to watch for alarms, a job that could be eliminated and save tax dollars if the system was automated. Light duty officers are supposed to be restricted to one year of this recovery work, but this rule was not enforced. "Fire Raid" shows alcohol and drug use are problems at fire stations. One officer was found on duty with a blood alcohol level above the accepted limit and another tested positive for marijuana. A third officer drove a fire truck while taking medication that warns against operating hazardous machinery. In "EMS Mistake", the paramedic team is accused of not following protocol in response to an accident and causing the victim to be paralyzed. The investigation finds that other on-going investigations accuse paramedics of assault and even leaving a live woman for dead.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; FOIA; sunshine law; firefighter; fire department; EMS; emergency medical service; hidden camera; light duty; drugs; alcohol; marijuana
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Half an Ounce of Healing
This article examines WAMM, "the first medical marijuana club in the country to be granted non-profit status." WAMM, or the Wo/Man's Alliance for Medical Marijuana, helps to distribute marijuana to the desperately ill. "The club is strict about membership, admitting only the very sick, an d only those with a written recommendation from a doctor."
Tags: WAMM; drugs; marijuana; medical marijuana; illness; health
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Another Victory for Medical Marijuana
Rolling Stone reports that a new government report cautiously endorses pot as a painkiller - and it not only embarrasses drug czar Barry McCaffrey but also may help to undermine the $17 billion War on Drugs. The study, "Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base," was conducted by the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine.
Tags: Marijuana; legalization
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No title (id: 8854)
Details Magazine looks at the future of marijuana with the election of Bill Clinton and Al Gore, two admitted former users of pot; speculates that the drug is gaining a more rational acceptance; looks at a judicial system overburdened with soft-drug cases, and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency that too often is unfair in the treatment of small-time users; the increase in candor by rock musicians and other popular celebrities is allowing for a more public acceptance, especially for medical purposes, February 1993.
Tags: NY Morris NORML DEA
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No title (id: 1213)
Ann Arbor News runs articles examining the medical use of marijuana to treat cancer patients after a Michigan law allowing the practice was allowed to expire, April 20, 1988.