104 comments Facebook Reddit StumbleUpon Digg E-Mail Text Size: A | A | A | A By Steve Holt, TakePart We’ve known for years about Big Ag’s influence, through market saturation and advertising, on the consumer. But many don’t know about the corporate food industry’s efforts to use the scientific community to produce research that [...]

Saturday, 26 May 2012 Dear NORML supporters, Over the last five years there have been numerous media reports about the anecdotal use of cannabis to help autistic children. Two brave women, one on the east coast the other the west, have been at the forefront of this effort to help scientifically explain why cannabis appears [...]

by Phillip Smith, May 24, 2012, 12:33am, (Issue #735) Posted in: 2012 Marijuana — Personal Use Marijuana Industry Marijuana Legalization News Feature As summer draws near, the election picture when it comes to statewide marijuana legalization initiatives is becoming a bit clearer. At the beginning of the year, activists in eight states undertook efforts to [...]

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  In 2010, following the ‘gold standard’ FDA protocol, the University of California Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research conducted a placebo-controlled clinical trial of “the medical utility of inhaled cannabis”. It found that by using marijuana as an inhaled remedy, neuropathy was significantly alleviated. Neuropathy presents as various levels of nerve pain associated with many [...]