Transcript: Montel Williams' Battle With M.S. Hannity & Colmes
Source: FoxNews.com January 14, 2004
ALAN COLMES, CO-HOST: Television veteran -- don't you hate that word, veteran? -- Montel Williams -- It would apply to people that are old in this business, have been in it for a long time. Huge success with his daytime talk show, but since 1999 he's also been fighting constant pain and depression from multiple sclerosis. In his new book, "Climbing Higher," he talks how he almost took his own life and why his love for his children gave him the strength to go on living.
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Montel Williams on his use of Medical Marijuana
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Montel Williams has Multiple Sclerosis and uses medical marijuana to treat his disease.
Montel Williams: 'Climbing Higher'
NEW YORK, Jan. 9, 2004
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Another way he has dealt with the pain has been via painkillers. In his book he also reveals his marijuana use.
He says, I spent 22 years in the service supporting, defending our Constitution of the United States, I fought in the war against drugs. I want to tell you right now in this country, we need to start thinking about compassion.
He proposed changing marijuana from class 1 drug to class 2 drug. He points out,
How dare someone tell me they can prescribe morphine, vicodin, percocet. Make the drugs most addictive, name the most addictive drug, they can give me and I can be a walking member of the society by taking that garbage, but my doctor, who has prescribed it for me, cant prescribe medicinal marijuana? Why? Because we have an idea everybody who does it sits around smoking. There are 50 different ways to utilize it. You can eat it; you can process it into a liquid; or you can turn it into a pill form. The willow tree was taken apart about 200 years ago and turned into aspirin. And we all take it.
Montel Williams: Marijuana is the best tool for me. January 08 04
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Montel Williams goes to pot 07jan04
On November 3, Montel Williams was briefly detained at Detroit Metro Airport, where baggage screeners found a glass pipe and residue of a marijuana by-product in his bags. That's when the talk show host, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, was outed as a user of the herb for medicinal purposes.
In his first interview after the airport discovery, Williams makes no apologies. In fact, he devotes several chapters to the case for medical marijuana in his new autobiography, "Climbing Higher," in bookstores today. He clears the air to TV Guide Online.
Q. What happened to you in Detroit?
A. When my bags were going through a metal detector at the Detroit airport, the security people found my needles. I take injectable drugs every day. Then, one guy found a perfectly clean glass pipe that looks like an egg. He said, "What do you smoke in it?" I said, "None of your business." And it pissed him off. I also had a little bottle that had been in my bag for a month. It had less than a twentieth of a gram of kef residue. He called the police. They had to give me a paraphernalia violation. (Williams paid a $100 fine.) They said there was too little to bother testing.
Q. Have you done a show on medical marijuana?
A. I'm doing a show on Jan. 13 about the book and this issue. The model Emme, whose father died of MS complications, is going to interview me. I think it's time for a change. I hope to inspire others to take a stand. You cannot tell me that if one of George Bush's daughters came to him and said, "This is the only thing that will help my pain," he'd say, "No, baby, you have to suffer. I'll lay you down on a bed and hook you up to a morphine drip, and when you wake up in four or five days, we'll talk."
Q. Why do you use it?
A. It eases depression in some ways. It helps sleeping disorders and it eases nerve pain.
Q. Why not use any of the legal painkillers?
A. I attempted to use some. Oxycontin and Vicodin are extremely addictive.
Percocet didn't work. Marijuana is the best tool for me.
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Today I viewed someone I have never really watched, by coincidence I turned on the tube and there was Montel Williams discussing his new book Climbing Higher. The book I knew of, and the fact he uses medicinal Ganja for his MS. But this was straight up advocating on prime time mainstream TV and that would be almost historical. I believe he blew the doors off the place with very credible references in the audience and not one member of the audience scoffed or even questioned or commented against it. Not one. Patients testifying and Doctors testifying. Very moving, especially for television. Almost total truth though he did slide into politics a little. I can't blame the medicinal users for feeling more worthy because of their illnesses. I've helped them get it a few decades now and have all the compassion I can for them... but,
I'll never change my feelings of the fact that healthy people using shouldn't be in cages either. That religious or re-creational use has absolutely nothing to do with the medicinal benefits, and can in no way shape or form, change the physical properties of Ganja used to treat a wide range of symptoms for a wide range of illnesses. Or that anyone would give up legal Pharmaceuticals that worked, and suffer through their symptoms just to smoke pot that didn't work, quasi legally. Its always been an either or, is or isn't and now finally its all being corroborated on nationwide television. It was informative TV and I always thought that was mostly an oxymoron.
I'm waiting for the transcript. Hope this is replayed. Maybe then someday they'll realize Hemp doesn't change its tensile strength or versatility because of users either. The Ganjawar exists because people profit on it, it has very little to do with the dangers of using Ganja because the "dangers" are in the prohibition. If there were no profits in this war, no one would show up to fight it.
Peace, Love and Liberty or DEAth
DdC
CLIMBING HIGHER
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Today Montel Williams says he will experience one of the most difficult shows he has ever participated in. With the help of fashion model, Emme, Montel will put himself in the hot seat and answer some very painful questions about his experiences with MS. He'll discuss in detail some of his most personal information that he has written about in his new book, Climbing Higher. For the first time he'll reveal the depths of depression that he has been suffering from ever since his diagnosis with MS - including terrifying thoughts of suicide. He'll discuss the physical torture of neuralgia - the terrible nerve pain that MS patients are afflicted with - and how it has affected his life. Montel will also open up about some of the treatments he has used to help him cope with the daily pain he lives with.
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Today's Show: Climbing Higher
Montel will be joined by Dr. Adam Kaplin, chief psychiatric consultant at the MS Center at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who will explain the depression that is so common for MS survivors. Graham Boyd, director of the ACLU drug policy litigation project, Mark Barondess a fellow MS patient and friend will be on the show as well as Larry Grobel, Montel's co-author of his new book, Climbing Higher.
Emme: Supermodel, television host, author, lecturer, and clothing designer who's an advocate for MS awareness will be on the show to interview Montel about his new book, Climbing Higher
Dr. Adam Kaplin: Chief psychiatric consultant to the MS center at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who is featured in Montel's new book
Nancy Davis: [On Videotape] MS patient and founder of The Center Without Walls who awarded Montel "The Man of Courage Award" for his decision to come forward about having MS and his encouragement of others to become more active in fighting MS
Graham Boyd: Attorney with the ACLU who will share his experiences with the political war on drugs and prescription medications www.ACLU.org
Larry Grobel: Co-author of Climbing Higher who will talk about the writing process he shared with Montel Mark Barondess: Lawyer and MS patient who is friends with Montel
Jackie & Jana: Sisters who wanted to give their support to Montel and his goal of broadening awareness about MS
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UK Trial Results On Value Of Cannabis For MS
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Marijuana May Help MS Patients
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Major Study of MMJ Indicates It Helps in MS
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Safe Use of Cannabis" by Tod H. Mikuriya, M.D.
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Montel Williams Show: Feedback form
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Montel Williams Caught with Medical Marijuana
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Talk Show Host Fined For Drug Paraphernalia
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Montel Williams: 'Climbing Higher'
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Montel Williams Goes To Pot
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MS, Marijuana and Me
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Alison Myrden has Multiple Sclerosis. Her condition causes her constant pain, bladder problems and leg spasms. The drugs prescribed for her condition render her comatose. Instead, Alison chooses medical marijuana. Come spend a day with her and find out why.
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Therapeutic Hemp Oil by Andrew Weil, M.D.
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The nutritional composition of oil from the marijuana plant could be beneficial to your health. To most people, Cannabis sativa is synonymous with marijuana, but the plant's Latin name means the "useful hemp." Species designated sativa (useful) are usually among the most important of all crops. In fact, the utility of hemp is manifold: the plant has provided human beings with fiber, edible seeds, an edible oil, and medicine, not just a notorious mind-altering drug.
Natural Help For Depression by Dr. Andrew Weil
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The Master Key to Self Healing.
Another option is to snack on toasted hemp seeds (which, by the way, aren't psychoactive). You can order hemp seeds from The Ohio Hempery, (800) BUY-HEMP. www.hempery.com
Nutritious Omega 3 hemp oil is emerging as alternative to toxin-tainted fish.
New study finds mercury pollution is a serious health risk for those that eat fish.
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MARIJUANA RESCHEDULING PETITION
FRANCIS L. YOUNG, Administrative Law Judge
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Dr. Andrew Weil, a general medicine practitioner in Tucson, Arizona, who also teaches at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, accepts marijuana as having a medical use in the treatment of spasticity. In multiple sclerosis patients the muscles become tense and rigid because their nerve supply is interrupted. Marijuana relieves this spasticity in many patients, he has found. He would prescribe it to selected patients if it were legally available,
Webster's Dictionary 1952
Bhang-(bang). n [Hind.from Sans.. bhanga,hemp]
An Indian variety of the common hemp, the resin of which is highly narcotic and intoxicant, and a popular Oriental stimulant, otherwise called hashish. Also employed in medicine, for its anodyne, hyponotic, and anti-spasmodic qualities; also spelled bang, beng.
Legalise Cannabis Alliance
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CannabisNews Medical Marijuana Archives
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Study: Many HIV Patients Use Pot for Mental Health
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Up-to-Date Chronology of Cannabis Hemp
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2737 BC: Cannabis referred to as a "superior" herb in the world's first medical text,
or pharmacopoeia, Shen Nung's Pen Ts'ao, in China
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Cannabis From The Chemist
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Pain Drove Me To Pot
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Multiple sclerosis sufferer Biz Ivol has found a way to ease her shakes and pains - she smokes cannabis, as advised by her doctor. The Orkney Islander also sends "care parcels" to other sufferers.
Cannabis Campaigner To Take Own Life Jun 13, 2003
A wheelchair-bound cannabis campaigner plans to take her own life with an overdose of paracetamol and champagne after putting her case to legalise the drug at a court case next week. Biz Ivol, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, is already planning her own funeral and has had a cardboard coffin delivered to her home in Orkney. She says she desperately wants to end her life because of the crippling pain from the illness which makes her feel like a prisoner in her own body. However, she has pledged that she will first of all fight her charges of possessing and supplying cannabis, which she claims alleviates her suffering. Continued...
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Biz Ivol Cannabis news
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Hashing Out Marijuana
Articulate J. David Sapp seems to be an ideal spokesman for a proposed Columbia ordinance that seeks to legalize marijuana for medicinal use and make possession of small amounts of marijuana a municipal offense. Until Sapp returned to Columbia four years ago, he had a doctors prescription that allowed him to buy marijuana-laced brownies from San Franciscos Cannabis Club. He said the drug seemed to be the only thing that would help lessen the tightening and spasms of his muscles, which are caused by multiple sclerosis.
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Pot Guidelines Soothe Fears By Chris Smith
The Press Democrat June 13, 2001
Beckie Nikkel, a mother and Christian missionary in Santa Rosa, has a medical secret. She said she's thankful to Sonoma County authorities for allowing her to feel safer talking about it. Nikkel, 47, uses marijuana for relief from the spasms and other debilitating effects of multiple sclerosis. She has pretty much kept word of the medication to herself, she said, because of the stigma that surrounds marijuana and because of the chance that narcotics police might appear at her door. Read More...
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Bryan Epis Chronic pain patient, medical marijuana caregiver
Serving 10 years for conspiracy to cultivate marijuana
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Bryan Epis: 10 Years Medical Marijuana Provider
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Bryan Epis Protest Pictures & Articles
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Pardon Medical Marijuana Patient Bryan Epis Petition
Media Awareness Project MAP Inc: Bryan Epis
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United States Government vs. Bryan Epis
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Bryan Epis Sentenced to Ten Years for Growing Medical Pot
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The jury was firmly instructed to disregard the medical circumstances and duly proceeded to convict him not only for cultivating over 100 plants, but also conspiring to cultivate over 1,000 plants, a charge which carries a ten-year mandatory minimum.
My dad is not a criminal
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Massive Statewide Billboard Campaign Proclaims: "Medical
Marijuana: Compassion Not Federal Prison" (excerpted)
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In all federal medical marijuana prosecutions jurors are not told about the medical issues for which marijuana was being used. In Bryans case the jury was not told that he nearly died in an automobile accident in 1983 when a VW Beetle in which he was a passenger hit a pole. He had 15 inches of lacerations in his skull, his Sternum was fractured, two ribs were broken and the T2 and T3 vertebrae suffered compression fractures. The surgery just to stitch his head together lasted 2 1/2 hours. He was in a coma for two days. The surgeon said he was lucky not to be a vegetable or dead. Bryan began two years of physical therapy. He was told that the compression fractures would never heal. He suffers from chronic pain. He was prescribed codeine and Vicodin for the pain. In 1983, his orthopedic surgeon recommended marijuana as a drug that could relieve pain. Bryan used cannabis from 1983 to 1997. Using marijuana reduced the pain level from level 10 to level 1. While using cannabis in his treatment, he finished high school; finished the grueling program for a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from California State University at Chico in May 1991 (only 1 in 5 who enter the program graduate); and finished law school at California Northern School of Law in May 1998. Bryan claims to have been growing marijuana for him and other seriously ill patients.
Medical marijuana: compassion, not federal prison.
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Statement from Bryan Epis for the NORML conference.
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Google: Bryan Epis
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White House Budget Office Flunks the DEA
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Dr. Heath/Tulane Study, 1974
The Hype: Brain Damage and Dead Monkeys
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Cannabis Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74
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The Medical Marijuana Magazine
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Google: Todd Mccormick
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The Peter McWilliams HomePage
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Google: Peter McWilliams
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Free Press My Ass
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Equal Rights for All!
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Lynn and Judy Osburn
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Lynn and Judy Osburn Defense Fund Website
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Lynn and Judy Osburns Medical Marijuana Trial Update
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HEMP SEED: THE MOST NUTRITIONALLY COMPLETE FOOD SOURCE IN THE WORLD
Part One by Lynn Osburn
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Part II, Hempseed Oils and the Flow of Life Force
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HEMP, THE PREMIER RENEWABLE RESOURCE
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Energy Farming in America
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Osburn Defense Fund
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT DEAD THAT YOU DON?T UNDERSTAND?
by Richard Cowan reprinted at DrugWar.com with permission Dec. 17, 2003
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CALIFORNIA MEDICAL MARIJUANA CHRONICLES: A WIDENING CONFLICT
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Prop 215 (Cal HS 11362.5),
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November Coalition
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Long-Term Pot-Use Study: No Ill Health Effects
By Peter Gorman, Special To HighWitness News
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Therapeutic Use of Cannabis
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Epilepsy, Multiple Sclerosis, Back Pain & Spasms
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CANNABIS A MEDICAL MIRACLE - IT'S OFFICIAL
Scientific Tests Of 'Wonder Drug' Give Patients New Hope.
Cannabis is a 'wonder drug' capable of radically transforming the lives of very sick people, according to the results of the first clinical trials of the drug. Tests sanctioned by the Government are proving far more successful than doctors, patients and cannabis campaigners ever dared hope. Some of the patients are simply calling it a 'miracle'. continued...
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Marijuana Activist to be Denied Drug in Jail By Dawn Walton January 23, 2001
Grant Krieger, 46, who showed up at a Calgary police station with three ounces of home-grown marijuana and a court ruling that allows him to possess it, said ingesting cannabis helps ease the symptoms of multiple sclerosis. Read More...
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Canada: Ailing Krieger Busted
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Canada- Crown appeals Grant Krieger's acquittal
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Dutch Passion News
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Judge Frees Frail Krieger Until Pot Trial
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Leave Grant Krieger Alone
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Multiple Sclerosis Caregiver Goes On Trial in Washington DC www.cannabisnews.com/news...4915.shtml
Resident Jim Miller assisted his seriously disabled wife Cheryl at a protest in U.S. Rep. Bob Barr's (R-GA) Congressional office and was subsequently arrested after helping her lie down on a sleeping bag in Barr's office doorway.
Cherylheart
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Gary Storck Drug Policy Forum of Wisconsin:
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New Jersey's 1981 CDS Therapeutic Research Act A Story of Official Neglect
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Pot Users Invade Barr Office
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MMJ Use Advocates Stage Protest at Barr's Office
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Jim Busted, Cheryl Put Back in Chair
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IMMLY Announce: R.I.P. Cheryl Miller 1946-2003
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Doctor Testifies Thousands with Multiple Sclerosis Using Cannabis
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Multiple Sclerosis Study Aided by Marijuana
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The Suffering Few Who Legally Possess Marijuana
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Cannabis 'Dramatically Improves Pain Relief'
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Summary of the Testimony of Lester Grinspoon, M.D. before the Crime Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee U.S. House of Representatives October 1, 1997 (excerpted)
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In particular, marihuana is becoming increasingly recognized as a drug of choice for the pain that accompanies muscle spasm, which is often chronic and debilitating, especially in paraplegics, quadriplegics, other victims of traumatic nerve injury, and people suffering from multiple sclerosis or cerebral palsy. Many of them have discovered that cannabis not only allows them to avoid the risks of other drugs, but also reduces muscle spasms and tremors; sometimes they are even able to leave their wheelchairs.
Dr. Grinspoon: To Smoke Or Not To Smoke
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Corporation Receives Patent for Use of Marijuana
Ingredient For Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis
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Bush's painful obsession with medical pot by Kate Scannell, M.D.
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Multiple Sclerosis News
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Multiple Sclerosis News for Dec 03/Jan 04
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31st Dec Canadian MJ Exemption
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31st Dec MJ Advocates Disappointed by Canadian Supreme Court
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12th Dec Canada to Provide Med MJ Long Term
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12th Dec Canadian Govt Ease Med MJ Restrictions
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5th Dec Med MJ Man Convicted
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5th Dec San Diego Med MJ Case Settled
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5th Dec Two Arrested as Canadian Med MJ Cafe Opens
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5th Dec Students Aim to Legalize Med MJ
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5th Dec Med MJ Side Effect Fear
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Multiple Sclerosis News for April 2002
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30th Apr Med MJ Clears Senate Hurdle
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30th Apr Canada/Med MJ
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Montel Williams Promotes MS Awareness
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10th Apr NY Mayor Appears In Marijuana Ads
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25th Apr US: Gov. Ventura Supporting Med MJ
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New Montel Williams MS Website
www.montelms.org
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Spotlight Health and Montel Williams Unveil New Educational Resources for Multiple Sclerosis
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CLIMB FOR THE CAUSE An excerpt from
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neuroprotection
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cannabis, cannabinoids and the brain
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cannabinoids and Parkinson
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cannabis/dopamine
biopsychiatry.com/canher.htm
Green-Aid.com
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Ed Rosenthal's Trial Pictures & Articles
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Americans For Safe Access
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Marijuana Policy Project
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Sulfur in Coal
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Omega 3: Fish v Hempseed Oil
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Protein: Mad Cows v Hempseed
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Source: FoxNews.com January 14, 2004
ALAN COLMES, CO-HOST: Television veteran -- don't you hate that word, veteran? -- Montel Williams -- It would apply to people that are old in this business, have been in it for a long time. Huge success with his daytime talk show, but since 1999 he's also been fighting constant pain and depression from multiple sclerosis. In his new book, "Climbing Higher," he talks how he almost took his own life and why his love for his children gave him the strength to go on living.
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Montel Williams on his use of Medical Marijuana
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Montel Williams has Multiple Sclerosis and uses medical marijuana to treat his disease.
Montel Williams: 'Climbing Higher'
NEW YORK, Jan. 9, 2004
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Another way he has dealt with the pain has been via painkillers. In his book he also reveals his marijuana use.
He says, I spent 22 years in the service supporting, defending our Constitution of the United States, I fought in the war against drugs. I want to tell you right now in this country, we need to start thinking about compassion.
He proposed changing marijuana from class 1 drug to class 2 drug. He points out,
How dare someone tell me they can prescribe morphine, vicodin, percocet. Make the drugs most addictive, name the most addictive drug, they can give me and I can be a walking member of the society by taking that garbage, but my doctor, who has prescribed it for me, cant prescribe medicinal marijuana? Why? Because we have an idea everybody who does it sits around smoking. There are 50 different ways to utilize it. You can eat it; you can process it into a liquid; or you can turn it into a pill form. The willow tree was taken apart about 200 years ago and turned into aspirin. And we all take it.
Montel Williams: Marijuana is the best tool for me. January 08 04
www.heraldsun.news.com.au...02,00.html
Montel Williams goes to pot 07jan04
On November 3, Montel Williams was briefly detained at Detroit Metro Airport, where baggage screeners found a glass pipe and residue of a marijuana by-product in his bags. That's when the talk show host, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, was outed as a user of the herb for medicinal purposes.
In his first interview after the airport discovery, Williams makes no apologies. In fact, he devotes several chapters to the case for medical marijuana in his new autobiography, "Climbing Higher," in bookstores today. He clears the air to TV Guide Online.
Q. What happened to you in Detroit?
A. When my bags were going through a metal detector at the Detroit airport, the security people found my needles. I take injectable drugs every day. Then, one guy found a perfectly clean glass pipe that looks like an egg. He said, "What do you smoke in it?" I said, "None of your business." And it pissed him off. I also had a little bottle that had been in my bag for a month. It had less than a twentieth of a gram of kef residue. He called the police. They had to give me a paraphernalia violation. (Williams paid a $100 fine.) They said there was too little to bother testing.
Q. Have you done a show on medical marijuana?
A. I'm doing a show on Jan. 13 about the book and this issue. The model Emme, whose father died of MS complications, is going to interview me. I think it's time for a change. I hope to inspire others to take a stand. You cannot tell me that if one of George Bush's daughters came to him and said, "This is the only thing that will help my pain," he'd say, "No, baby, you have to suffer. I'll lay you down on a bed and hook you up to a morphine drip, and when you wake up in four or five days, we'll talk."
Q. Why do you use it?
A. It eases depression in some ways. It helps sleeping disorders and it eases nerve pain.
Q. Why not use any of the legal painkillers?
A. I attempted to use some. Oxycontin and Vicodin are extremely addictive.
Percocet didn't work. Marijuana is the best tool for me.
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Today I viewed someone I have never really watched, by coincidence I turned on the tube and there was Montel Williams discussing his new book Climbing Higher. The book I knew of, and the fact he uses medicinal Ganja for his MS. But this was straight up advocating on prime time mainstream TV and that would be almost historical. I believe he blew the doors off the place with very credible references in the audience and not one member of the audience scoffed or even questioned or commented against it. Not one. Patients testifying and Doctors testifying. Very moving, especially for television. Almost total truth though he did slide into politics a little. I can't blame the medicinal users for feeling more worthy because of their illnesses. I've helped them get it a few decades now and have all the compassion I can for them... but,
I'll never change my feelings of the fact that healthy people using shouldn't be in cages either. That religious or re-creational use has absolutely nothing to do with the medicinal benefits, and can in no way shape or form, change the physical properties of Ganja used to treat a wide range of symptoms for a wide range of illnesses. Or that anyone would give up legal Pharmaceuticals that worked, and suffer through their symptoms just to smoke pot that didn't work, quasi legally. Its always been an either or, is or isn't and now finally its all being corroborated on nationwide television. It was informative TV and I always thought that was mostly an oxymoron.
I'm waiting for the transcript. Hope this is replayed. Maybe then someday they'll realize Hemp doesn't change its tensile strength or versatility because of users either. The Ganjawar exists because people profit on it, it has very little to do with the dangers of using Ganja because the "dangers" are in the prohibition. If there were no profits in this war, no one would show up to fight it.
Peace, Love and Liberty or DEAth
DdC
CLIMBING HIGHER
www.montelshow.com/show/todays.htm
Today Montel Williams says he will experience one of the most difficult shows he has ever participated in. With the help of fashion model, Emme, Montel will put himself in the hot seat and answer some very painful questions about his experiences with MS. He'll discuss in detail some of his most personal information that he has written about in his new book, Climbing Higher. For the first time he'll reveal the depths of depression that he has been suffering from ever since his diagnosis with MS - including terrifying thoughts of suicide. He'll discuss the physical torture of neuralgia - the terrible nerve pain that MS patients are afflicted with - and how it has affected his life. Montel will also open up about some of the treatments he has used to help him cope with the daily pain he lives with.
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Today's Show: Climbing Higher
Montel will be joined by Dr. Adam Kaplin, chief psychiatric consultant at the MS Center at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who will explain the depression that is so common for MS survivors. Graham Boyd, director of the ACLU drug policy litigation project, Mark Barondess a fellow MS patient and friend will be on the show as well as Larry Grobel, Montel's co-author of his new book, Climbing Higher.
Emme: Supermodel, television host, author, lecturer, and clothing designer who's an advocate for MS awareness will be on the show to interview Montel about his new book, Climbing Higher
Dr. Adam Kaplin: Chief psychiatric consultant to the MS center at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who is featured in Montel's new book
Nancy Davis: [On Videotape] MS patient and founder of The Center Without Walls who awarded Montel "The Man of Courage Award" for his decision to come forward about having MS and his encouragement of others to become more active in fighting MS
Graham Boyd: Attorney with the ACLU who will share his experiences with the political war on drugs and prescription medications www.ACLU.org
Larry Grobel: Co-author of Climbing Higher who will talk about the writing process he shared with Montel Mark Barondess: Lawyer and MS patient who is friends with Montel
Jackie & Jana: Sisters who wanted to give their support to Montel and his goal of broadening awareness about MS
Is there an episode of MONTEL that you just have to add to your video library? Maybe you missed an episode that everyone's talking about...Don't worry, it's simple to order your video cassette or transcript. Just call Burrelle's Transcripts directly at (800) 777-8398.
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Tuesday 1-13-4: CLIMBING HIGHER
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UK Trial Results On Value Of Cannabis For MS
cannabisnews.com/news/thread17753.shtml
Marijuana May Help MS Patients
cannabisnews.com/news/thread17747.shtml
Major Study of MMJ Indicates It Helps in MS
cannabisnews.com/news/thread17746.shtml
Safe Use of Cannabis" by Tod H. Mikuriya, M.D.
www.mikuriya.com/althealt...a.html#Can
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Montel Williams Show: Feedback form
www.montelshow.com/show/tell.htm
Montel Williams Caught with Medical Marijuana
www.marijuana.com/article.php?sid=7760
Talk Show Host Fined For Drug Paraphernalia
www.cannabisnews.com/news...7732.shtml
Montel Williams: 'Climbing Higher'
www.cannabisnews.com/news...8120.shtml
Montel Williams Goes To Pot
www.cannabisnews.com/news...8095.shtml
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MS, Marijuana and Me
www.cbc.ca/webone/alison/index.html
Alison Myrden has Multiple Sclerosis. Her condition causes her constant pain, bladder problems and leg spasms. The drugs prescribed for her condition render her comatose. Instead, Alison chooses medical marijuana. Come spend a day with her and find out why.
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Therapeutic Hemp Oil by Andrew Weil, M.D.
www.ratical.com/renewable...pHoil.html
The nutritional composition of oil from the marijuana plant could be beneficial to your health. To most people, Cannabis sativa is synonymous with marijuana, but the plant's Latin name means the "useful hemp." Species designated sativa (useful) are usually among the most important of all crops. In fact, the utility of hemp is manifold: the plant has provided human beings with fiber, edible seeds, an edible oil, and medicine, not just a notorious mind-altering drug.
Natural Help For Depression by Dr. Andrew Weil
www.naturalhealthweb.com/...weil2.html
The Master Key to Self Healing.
Another option is to snack on toasted hemp seeds (which, by the way, aren't psychoactive). You can order hemp seeds from The Ohio Hempery, (800) BUY-HEMP. www.hempery.com
Nutritious Omega 3 hemp oil is emerging as alternative to toxin-tainted fish.
New study finds mercury pollution is a serious health risk for those that eat fish.
www.hemp.co.uk/html/mercury.html
www.hempfood.com
MARIJUANA RESCHEDULING PETITION
FRANCIS L. YOUNG, Administrative Law Judge
www.marijuana.org/young1.html
Dr. Andrew Weil, a general medicine practitioner in Tucson, Arizona, who also teaches at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, accepts marijuana as having a medical use in the treatment of spasticity. In multiple sclerosis patients the muscles become tense and rigid because their nerve supply is interrupted. Marijuana relieves this spasticity in many patients, he has found. He would prescribe it to selected patients if it were legally available,
Webster's Dictionary 1952
Bhang-(bang). n [Hind.from Sans.. bhanga,hemp]
An Indian variety of the common hemp, the resin of which is highly narcotic and intoxicant, and a popular Oriental stimulant, otherwise called hashish. Also employed in medicine, for its anodyne, hyponotic, and anti-spasmodic qualities; also spelled bang, beng.
Legalise Cannabis Alliance
www.lca-uk.org
CannabisNews Medical Marijuana Archives
cannabisnews.com/news/list/medical.shtml
Study: Many HIV Patients Use Pot for Mental Health
www.cannabisnews.com/news...6605.shtml
Up-to-Date Chronology of Cannabis Hemp
www.ccguide.org.uk/chronol.html
2737 BC: Cannabis referred to as a "superior" herb in the world's first medical text,
or pharmacopoeia, Shen Nung's Pen Ts'ao, in China
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Cannabis From The Chemist
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/progr...625124.stm
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Pain Drove Me To Pot
www.cannabisnews.com/news...9916.shtml
Multiple sclerosis sufferer Biz Ivol has found a way to ease her shakes and pains - she smokes cannabis, as advised by her doctor. The Orkney Islander also sends "care parcels" to other sufferers.
Cannabis Campaigner To Take Own Life Jun 13, 2003
A wheelchair-bound cannabis campaigner plans to take her own life with an overdose of paracetamol and champagne after putting her case to legalise the drug at a court case next week. Biz Ivol, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, is already planning her own funeral and has had a cardboard coffin delivered to her home in Orkney. She says she desperately wants to end her life because of the crippling pain from the illness which makes her feel like a prisoner in her own body. However, she has pledged that she will first of all fight her charges of possessing and supplying cannabis, which she claims alleviates her suffering. Continued...
www.cannabisnews.com/news...6613.shtml
Biz Ivol Cannabis news
www.cannabisnews.com/thcg...l&H=40&T=B
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Hashing Out Marijuana
Articulate J. David Sapp seems to be an ideal spokesman for a proposed Columbia ordinance that seeks to legalize marijuana for medicinal use and make possession of small amounts of marijuana a municipal offense. Until Sapp returned to Columbia four years ago, he had a doctors prescription that allowed him to buy marijuana-laced brownies from San Franciscos Cannabis Club. He said the drug seemed to be the only thing that would help lessen the tightening and spasms of his muscles, which are caused by multiple sclerosis.
www.cannabisnews.com/news...5290.shtml
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Pot Guidelines Soothe Fears By Chris Smith
The Press Democrat June 13, 2001
Beckie Nikkel, a mother and Christian missionary in Santa Rosa, has a medical secret. She said she's thankful to Sonoma County authorities for allowing her to feel safer talking about it. Nikkel, 47, uses marijuana for relief from the spasms and other debilitating effects of multiple sclerosis. She has pretty much kept word of the medication to herself, she said, because of the stigma that surrounds marijuana and because of the chance that narcotics police might appear at her door. Read More...
www.cannabisnews.com/news...0048.shtml
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Bryan Epis Chronic pain patient, medical marijuana caregiver
Serving 10 years for conspiracy to cultivate marijuana
www.hr95.org/epis.b.html
Bryan Epis: 10 Years Medical Marijuana Provider
www.november.org/thewall/...pis-b.html
Bryan Epis Protest Pictures & Articles
freedomtoexhale.com/protestpics.htm
Pardon Medical Marijuana Patient Bryan Epis Petition
Media Awareness Project MAP Inc: Bryan Epis
www.mapinc.org/people/Bryan+Epis
United States Government vs. Bryan Epis
lindenarms.com/court
Bryan Epis Sentenced to Ten Years for Growing Medical Pot
www.canorml.org/news/epissentenced.html
The jury was firmly instructed to disregard the medical circumstances and duly proceeded to convict him not only for cultivating over 100 plants, but also conspiring to cultivate over 1,000 plants, a charge which carries a ten-year mandatory minimum.
My dad is not a criminal
www.canorml.org/news/episkidpic.jpg
Massive Statewide Billboard Campaign Proclaims: "Medical
Marijuana: Compassion Not Federal Prison" (excerpted)
www.canorml.org/news/bill...paign.html
In all federal medical marijuana prosecutions jurors are not told about the medical issues for which marijuana was being used. In Bryans case the jury was not told that he nearly died in an automobile accident in 1983 when a VW Beetle in which he was a passenger hit a pole. He had 15 inches of lacerations in his skull, his Sternum was fractured, two ribs were broken and the T2 and T3 vertebrae suffered compression fractures. The surgery just to stitch his head together lasted 2 1/2 hours. He was in a coma for two days. The surgeon said he was lucky not to be a vegetable or dead. Bryan began two years of physical therapy. He was told that the compression fractures would never heal. He suffers from chronic pain. He was prescribed codeine and Vicodin for the pain. In 1983, his orthopedic surgeon recommended marijuana as a drug that could relieve pain. Bryan used cannabis from 1983 to 1997. Using marijuana reduced the pain level from level 10 to level 1. While using cannabis in his treatment, he finished high school; finished the grueling program for a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from California State University at Chico in May 1991 (only 1 in 5 who enter the program graduate); and finished law school at California Northern School of Law in May 1998. Bryan claims to have been growing marijuana for him and other seriously ill patients.
Medical marijuana: compassion, not federal prison.
www.MedicalMJ.org
Statement from Bryan Epis for the NORML conference.
www.drugwar.com/episnorml03.shtm
Google: Bryan Epis
www.google.com/search?num...gle+Search
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White House Budget Office Flunks the DEA
www.whitehouse.gov/omb/bu...ma/dea.pdf
Dr. Heath/Tulane Study, 1974
The Hype: Brain Damage and Dead Monkeys
www.electricemperor.com/e...H15_00.HTM
Cannabis Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74
www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v....html?1979
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The Medical Marijuana Magazine
www.drugsense.org/mcwilli...2998-1.htm
Google: Todd Mccormick
www.google.com/search?num...gle+Search
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The Peter McWilliams HomePage
www.mcwilliams.com
Google: Peter McWilliams
www.google.com/search?num...gle+Search
Free Press My Ass
www.mail-archive.com/ctrl...08133.html
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Equal Rights for All!
www.equalrights4all.org/c...tion=links
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Lynn and Judy Osburn
www.hr95.org/osburns.htm
www.hr95.org/pix/osburnsthumb.jpg
Lynn and Judy Osburn Defense Fund Website
www.letfreedomgrow.com/ar...030214.htm
Lynn and Judy Osburns Medical Marijuana Trial Update
www.letfreedomgrow.com/ar...030630.htm
HEMP SEED: THE MOST NUTRITIONALLY COMPLETE FOOD SOURCE IN THE WORLD
Part One by Lynn Osburn
www.ratical.org/renewable...seed1.html
Part II, Hempseed Oils and the Flow of Life Force
www.ratical.org/renewable...seed2.html
HEMP, THE PREMIER RENEWABLE RESOURCE
www.ratical.org/renewables/index.html
Energy Farming in America
www.ratical.org/renewables/eFarming.html
Osburn Defense Fund
www.osburndefensefund.com
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT DEAD THAT YOU DON?T UNDERSTAND?
by Richard Cowan reprinted at DrugWar.com with permission Dec. 17, 2003
www.drugwar.com/kubbywhatdead.shtm
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CALIFORNIA MEDICAL MARIJUANA CHRONICLES: A WIDENING CONFLICT
www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v...2.html?124
Prop 215 (Cal HS 11362.5),
www.hr95.org/Prop215.html
November Coalition
www.november.org
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Long-Term Pot-Use Study: No Ill Health Effects
By Peter Gorman, Special To HighWitness News
www.cannabisnews.com/news...0533.shtml
Therapeutic Use of Cannabis
www.electricemperor.com/e...H07_00.HTM
Epilepsy, Multiple Sclerosis, Back Pain & Spasms
www.electricemperor.com/e...M#epilepsy
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CANNABIS A MEDICAL MIRACLE - IT'S OFFICIAL
Scientific Tests Of 'Wonder Drug' Give Patients New Hope.
Cannabis is a 'wonder drug' capable of radically transforming the lives of very sick people, according to the results of the first clinical trials of the drug. Tests sanctioned by the Government are proving far more successful than doctors, patients and cannabis campaigners ever dared hope. Some of the patients are simply calling it a 'miracle'. continued...
www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v...8.a01.html
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Marijuana Activist to be Denied Drug in Jail By Dawn Walton January 23, 2001
Grant Krieger, 46, who showed up at a Calgary police station with three ounces of home-grown marijuana and a court ruling that allows him to possess it, said ingesting cannabis helps ease the symptoms of multiple sclerosis. Read More...
www.cannabisnews.com/news...8419.shtml
Canada: Ailing Krieger Busted
www.dutch-passion.nl/news...busted.txt
Canada- Crown appeals Grant Krieger's acquittal
www.dutch-passion.nl/news...uittal.txt
Dutch Passion News
www.dutch-passion.nl/news
Judge Frees Frail Krieger Until Pot Trial
www.cannabisnews.com/news...2816.shtml
Leave Grant Krieger Alone
www.cannabisnews.com/news...3086.shtml
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Multiple Sclerosis Caregiver Goes On Trial in Washington DC www.cannabisnews.com/news...4915.shtml
Resident Jim Miller assisted his seriously disabled wife Cheryl at a protest in U.S. Rep. Bob Barr's (R-GA) Congressional office and was subsequently arrested after helping her lie down on a sleeping bag in Barr's office doorway.
Cherylheart
www.cherylheart.org
Gary Storck Drug Policy Forum of Wisconsin:
www.drugsense.org/dpfwi
New Jersey's 1981 CDS Therapeutic Research Act A Story of Official Neglect
www.cherylheart.org/NJDHSS.html
Pot Users Invade Barr Office
www.cannabisnews.com/news...3387.shtml
MMJ Use Advocates Stage Protest at Barr's Office
www.cannabisnews.com/news...3365.shtml
Jim Busted, Cheryl Put Back in Chair
www.cannabisnews.com/news...3364.shtml
IMMLY Announce: R.I.P. Cheryl Miller 1946-2003
www.immly.org
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Doctor Testifies Thousands with Multiple Sclerosis Using Cannabis
www.cannabisnews.com/news...4423.shtml
Multiple Sclerosis Study Aided by Marijuana
www.cannabisnews.com/news...4933.shtml
The Suffering Few Who Legally Possess Marijuana
www.cannabisnews.com/news...1135.shtml
Cannabis 'Dramatically Improves Pain Relief'
www.cannabisnews.com/news...0803.shtml
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Summary of the Testimony of Lester Grinspoon, M.D. before the Crime Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee U.S. House of Representatives October 1, 1997 (excerpted)
www.rxmarihuana.com/testimony.htm
In particular, marihuana is becoming increasingly recognized as a drug of choice for the pain that accompanies muscle spasm, which is often chronic and debilitating, especially in paraplegics, quadriplegics, other victims of traumatic nerve injury, and people suffering from multiple sclerosis or cerebral palsy. Many of them have discovered that cannabis not only allows them to avoid the risks of other drugs, but also reduces muscle spasms and tremors; sometimes they are even able to leave their wheelchairs.
Dr. Grinspoon: To Smoke Or Not To Smoke
www.cannabisnews.com/news...9431.shtml
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Corporation Receives Patent for Use of Marijuana
Ingredient For Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis
www.marijuananews.com/mar..._for\_.htm
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Bush's painful obsession with medical pot by Kate Scannell, M.D.
www.letfreedomgrow.com/ar...031026.htm
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Multiple Sclerosis News
www.mult-sclerosis.org/mscowboy.html
Multiple Sclerosis News for Dec 03/Jan 04
www.mult-sclerosis.org/ne...Dec03.html
31st Dec Canadian MJ Exemption
www.mult-sclerosis.org/ne...ption.html
31st Dec MJ Advocates Disappointed by Canadian Supreme Court
www.mult-sclerosis.org/ne...Court.html
12th Dec Canada to Provide Med MJ Long Term
www.mult-sclerosis.org/ne...gTerm.html
12th Dec Canadian Govt Ease Med MJ Restrictions
www.mult-sclerosis.org/ne...tions.html
5th Dec Med MJ Man Convicted
www.mult-sclerosis.org/ne...icted.html
5th Dec San Diego Med MJ Case Settled
www.mult-sclerosis.org/ne...ttled.html
5th Dec Two Arrested as Canadian Med MJ Cafe Opens
www.mult-sclerosis.org/ne...Opens.html
5th Dec Students Aim to Legalize Med MJ
www.mult-sclerosis.org/ne...MedMJ.html
5th Dec Med MJ Side Effect Fear
www.mult-sclerosis.org/ne...tFear.html
Multiple Sclerosis News for April 2002
www.mult-sclerosis.org/ne...Apr02.html
30th Apr Med MJ Clears Senate Hurdle
www.mult-sclerosis.org/ne...urdle.html
30th Apr Canada/Med MJ
www.mult-sclerosis.org/ne...MedMJ.html
Montel Williams Promotes MS Awareness
www.mult-sclerosis.org/ne...eness.html
10th Apr NY Mayor Appears In Marijuana Ads
www.mult-sclerosis.org/ne...naAds.html
25th Apr US: Gov. Ventura Supporting Med MJ
www.mult-sclerosis.org/ne...MedMJ.html
New Montel Williams MS Website
www.montelms.org
www.mult-sclerosis.org/ne...bsite.html
Spotlight Health and Montel Williams Unveil New Educational Resources for Multiple Sclerosis
globalarchive.ft.com/glob...=sclerosis
CLIMB FOR THE CAUSE An excerpt from
www.climbforthecause.com
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neuroprotection
www.cannabis.net/neuropro...index.html
cannabis, cannabinoids and the brain
www.cannabis.net/refs/index.html
cannabinoids and Parkinson
www.cannabis.net/misc/parkinsons.html
cannabis/dopamine
biopsychiatry.com/canher.htm
Green-Aid.com
www.green-aid.com
Ed Rosenthal's Trial Pictures & Articles
freedomtoexhale.com/trialpics.htm
Americans For Safe Access
www.safeaccessnow.org
Marijuana Policy Project
www.mpp.org
Sulfur in Coal
makeashorterlink.com/?J5FA13F07
Omega 3: Fish v Hempseed Oil
makeashorterlink.com/?F11E31117
Protein: Mad Cows v Hempseed
makeashorterlink.com/?H17E22117
Ganja/hemp lnfolinx
makeashorterlink.com/?S11B23B45
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