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  Meet Alysa Erwin, the Teen Who Beat Cancer with Cannabis

  June 9, 2014 at 7:39 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  At 14 years old, Alysa Erwin was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.  As it would with any family, the news hit hard. “When the doctor called me to tell me Alysa had cancer, she said there wasn’t a good outcome. There was no success rate whatsoever,” said Carly, Alysa’s mother. “She told me all we could do was have hope.” But that was in 2011. In 2014, Alysa is cancer-free, and her family believes cannabis oil saved her life. At the time, [...]

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  Widow Who Pushed for Medical Marijuana Law Not Allowed to Use It

  September 3, 2013 at 9:52 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  Marijuana was illegal in Illinois, so she always knew the day might come. Still, when police stormed her North Side apartment a year ago, Michelle DiGiacomo was unprepared. “I was about to experience the worst 28 hours of my life,” says the 53-year-old who runs DirectEffect Charities, a Chicago nonprofit serving needy Chicago Public Schools kids. “We had discussed this possibility in the past; one I had hoped would never come to be.” For the past five years, the widowed [...]

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  Cannabis Compound Might Have Use As An HIV Drug

  May 10, 2013 at 2:56 pm / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  The chemical compound in cannabis, THC, appears to be able to damage and weaken the most common strain of the HIV virus. Before you light up a spliff, though, this is only a preliminary result reached under laboratory conditions, and further research will be needed. THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, is the main psychoactive ingredient in cannabis — it’s the chemical that gets the user stoned. Synthetic versions of it have been developed for research purposes, and it’s this that was used [...]

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  MMJ Use Results in Liver Transplant Denial, Death

  April 29, 2013 at 4:55 pm / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Medical Marijuana

  After being diagnosed with liver cancer in 2009,  Norman B. Smith applied to the liver transplant list at Cedar-Sinai hospital. While waiting for a transplant, Mr. Smith underwent chemotherapy in an attempt to destroy the cancer eating away at his liver. This caused severe side-effects, common to many cancer patients. In an attempt to curb the pain, and on the recommendation of his oncologist, Mr. Smith began using medical marijuana. Cannabis has become increasingly common as a medicine of choice for patients [...]

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