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And the Rules Keep on Changing
Oct 13, 2017 — On August 31, 2017, the Oregon Health Authority issued a letter notifying growers under the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program (OMMP) that they must tell the OHA whether they are going to continue to grow for patients and begin reporting into the same system OLCC licensees...
Trial of Cannabidiol for Drug-Resistant Seizures in the Dravet Syndrome
Orrin Devinsky, M.D., J. Helen Cross, Ph.D., F.R.C.P.C.H., Linda Laux, M.D., Eric Marsh, M.D., Ian Miller, M.D., Rima Nabbout, M.D., Ingrid E. Scheffer, M.B., B.S., Ph.D., Elizabeth A. Thiele, M.D., Ph.D., and Stephen Wright, M.D., for the Cannabidiol in Dravet Syndrome Study Group* The Dravet syndrome is a complex...
Legislature Forces OMMP into OLCC
Click here for info about members of the, “Joint Committee On Marijuana Regulation.”...
Oregon Majority Leader Blames Medical Marijuana Growers for Leakage.
In a recent statement to the Oregonian, Sen. Ginny Burdick – (D) Dist. 18, and Co-chair of the Joint Committee on Marijuana Regulation, stated, “… medical marijuana growers are a chief source of black market cannabis leaving the state. She said she’s confident that tight regulation of the recreational marijuana...
Call to Action – Save the OMMP
CALL TO ACTION ▪ SAVE OMMP Talking points – HB 2198 ♦ Committee targets OMMP growers! ♦ Requires OLCC licenses! ♦ OLCC limits patient access to medicine! Act Now! ♦ Call the Committee and tell them STOP THE INTEGRATION. ♦ New amendments create Uncertainty for Patients. Oppose the “dash ones” and support...
Cannabis as Stigmatized Medicine
In a article published in the February 2013, Harm Reduction Journal entitled, “Perceptions of cannabis as a stigmatized medicine: a qualitative descriptive study” authors Joan L Bottorff, Laura JL Bissell, Lynda G Balneaves, John L Oliffe, N Rielle Capler and Jane Buxton, state, “Experiences of stigma among those with illness and the role stigma plays in seeking treatment are not new...
Chron’s Disease & Cannabis
Treatment of Crohn’s Disease with Cannabis: An Observational Study Timna Naftali MD1, Lihi Bar Lev BA2, Doron Yablekovitz MD1, Elisabeth Half MD1 and Fred M. Konikoff MD1 In a recent study and the first of its kind, Cannabis has been show in this small sampling to benefit those...
Medical Marijuana Laws Reduce Prescription Medication Use In Medicare Part D
In a study by Ashley C. Bradford1 and W. David Bradford2, out of the University of Georgia, it was shown that “national overall reductions in Medicare program and enrollee spending when states implemented medical marijuana laws were estimated to be $165.2 million per year in 2013.” Abstract Legalization of medical marijuana has been...
McLean Hospital Study Finds That Medical Marijuana Use May Improve Cognitive Performance
A Pilot Study Assessing the Impact of Medical Marijuana on Executive Function Preliminary evidence from a new study led by McLean Hospital’s Staci Gruber, PhD, director of the Marijuana Investigations for Neuroscientific Discovery (MIND) program, suggests that medical marijuana may not impair, and in many cases, may actually...