Author : Jorge Cervantes
Publisher : Van Patten Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 34,14 MB
Release : 2004-03
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781878823304
Jorge's RX column - a monthly feature in High Times Magazine - solves growers' problems with definitive clarity. Here he compiles a selection of the best questions and answers from his column, offering illuminating insights into frequently-encountered - and intriguingly rare - dope growing difficulties.
Author : Robert C. Randall
Publisher :
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 14,14 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781560251668
Discusses the arguments for and against the use of marijuana as a medical treatment.
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 11,49 MB
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309453070
Significant changes have taken place in the policy landscape surrounding cannabis legalization, production, and use. During the past 20 years, 25 states and the District of Columbia have legalized cannabis and/or cannabidiol (a component of cannabis) for medical conditions or retail sales at the state level and 4 states have legalized both the medical and recreational use of cannabis. These landmark changes in policy have impacted cannabis use patterns and perceived levels of risk. However, despite this changing landscape, evidence regarding the short- and long-term health effects of cannabis use remains elusive. While a myriad of studies have examined cannabis use in all its various forms, often these research conclusions are not appropriately synthesized, translated for, or communicated to policy makers, health care providers, state health officials, or other stakeholders who have been charged with influencing and enacting policies, procedures, and laws related to cannabis use. Unlike other controlled substances such as alcohol or tobacco, no accepted standards for safe use or appropriate dose are available to help guide individuals as they make choices regarding the issues of if, when, where, and how to use cannabis safely and, in regard to therapeutic uses, effectively. Shifting public sentiment, conflicting and impeded scientific research, and legislative battles have fueled the debate about what, if any, harms or benefits can be attributed to the use of cannabis or its derivatives, and this lack of aggregated knowledge has broad public health implications. The Health Effects of Cannabis and Cannabinoids provides a comprehensive review of scientific evidence related to the health effects and potential therapeutic benefits of cannabis. This report provides a research agendaâ€"outlining gaps in current knowledge and opportunities for providing additional insight into these issuesâ€"that summarizes and prioritizes pressing research needs.
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 32,21 MB
Release : 2000-12-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309065313
Some people suffer from chronic, debilitating disorders for which no conventional treatment brings relief. Can marijuana ease their symptoms? Would it be breaking the law to turn to marijuana as a medication? There are few sources of objective, scientifically sound advice for people in this situation. Most books about marijuana and medicine attempt to promote the views of advocates or opponents. To fill the gap between these extremes, authors Alison Mack and Janet Joy have extracted critical findings from a recent Institute of Medicine study on this important issue, interpreting them for a general audience. Marijuana As Medicine? provides patientsâ€"as well as the people who care for themâ€"with a foundation for making decisions about their own health care. This empowering volume examines several key points, including: Whether marijuana can relieve a variety of symptoms, including pain, muscle spasticity, nausea, and appetite loss. The dangers of smoking marijuana, as well as the effects of its active chemical components on the immune system and on psychological health. The potential use of marijuana-based medications on symptoms of AIDS, cancer, multiple sclerosis, and several other specific disorders, in comparison with existing treatments. Marijuana As Medicine? introduces readers to the active compounds in marijuana. These include the principal ingredient in Marinol, a legal medication. The authors also discuss the prospects for developing other drugs derived from marijuana's active ingredients. In addition to providing an up-to-date review of the science behind the medical marijuana debate, Mack and Joy also answer common questions about the legal status of marijuana, explaining the conflict between state and federal law regarding its medical use. Intended primarily as an aid to patients and caregivers, this book objectively presents critical information so that it can be used to make responsible health care decisions. Marijuana As Medicine? will also be a valuable resource for policymakers, health care providers, patient counselors, medical faculty and studentsâ€"in short, anyone who wants to learn more about this important issue.
Author : Jorge Cervantes
Publisher : Van Patten Publishing
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 26,94 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781878823236
Expanded and completely rewritten with information on grow rooms, greenhouses and outdoor growing, medicinal cannabis, security, lighting, fertilisers, hydroponics, Sea of Green, seeds, seedlings, vegetative growth, mother plants, cloning, flowering, harvesting and curing, diseases, pests and hash making. More than 1100 full colour photos and drawings illustrate every detail and numerous simple cultivation solutions make for easy appeal to novice growers. Readers will learn how to achieve the highest, most potent yields, even with limited space and budget.
Author : Robert C. Randall
Publisher : Alice O'Leary Randall
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 15,57 MB
Release : 2023-07-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
This is the long-awaited ePub version of the widely acclaimed 1998 book Marijuana Rx: The Patients’ Fight for Medicinal Pot by Robert C. Randall and Alice M. O’Leary. It tells the human story behind the Byzantine legal battles, government stonewalling, public triumphs, and heartbreaking individual tragedies that marked the first twenty years of the medical cannabis movement. Told through the eyes of Robert Randall, the first person to be granted legal access to medical marijuana — grown on the government “pot plantation” —Marijuana Rx is part history, part biography, part expose: an attempt to record the efforts of some remarkable people who, often at great personal peril, worked to right a wrong. Marijuana Rx is an object lesson in the tenacity and courage required by all would-be Davids when facing the Goliath of government bureaucracy. Anyone who reads this book will come away with a sense of outrage at the ways AIDS, cancer, glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, and other patients have been treated. This is a story to inspire anger and action. Robert Randall passed away in 2001 but his widow, Alice O’Leary Randall, has continued to work in the medical cannabis movement. The original book was published in 1998, nine years before the appearance of ePubs in 2007. (It was originally published by Thunder’s Mouth Press which went out-of-business in 2007.) Alice realized that ePub provided an opportunity to make a new historical record with links to twenty years of documents, news articles, pictures, and videos. These links make history come alive making this ePub book a must have for historians, students, activists, and patients.
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 17,8 MB
Release : 2017-09-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309459575
Drug overdose, driven largely by overdose related to the use of opioids, is now the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States. The ongoing opioid crisis lies at the intersection of two public health challenges: reducing the burden of suffering from pain and containing the rising toll of the harms that can arise from the use of opioid medications. Chronic pain and opioid use disorder both represent complex human conditions affecting millions of Americans and causing untold disability and loss of function. In the context of the growing opioid problem, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched an Opioids Action Plan in early 2016. As part of this plan, the FDA asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene a committee to update the state of the science on pain research, care, and education and to identify actions the FDA and others can take to respond to the opioid epidemic, with a particular focus on informing FDA's development of a formal method for incorporating individual and societal considerations into its risk-benefit framework for opioid approval and monitoring.
Author : Jorge Cervantes
Publisher : Van Patten Publishing
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 21,38 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781878823274
Chronicles five gardens from beginning to end - how to lay out and construct grow rooms according to budget; how to grow a gram of sensemilla per watt of HID light; how to choose a safe house, build a grow room and cloning chamber, install ventilation, hydroponics and grow lights.
Author : Josef Donnerer
Publisher : Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,95 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 3805575475
Prevention and treatment of nausea and emesis are important issues in a patients wellbeing in the clinical setting as well as for the outpatient. Various and still partly unresolved pathomechanisms play a role in nausea and emesis in humans. It is therefore important to compare results from preclinical research in animal models with results from clinical studies. This book combines an overview of the preclinical research on antiemetic drugs and state-of-the art reviews on the prevention and treatment of nausea and emesis. Established treatment regimens are compared with new interesting compounds in clinical trials. An up-to-date overview of the selection of antiemetic drugs, of their dosage and route of administration is given for clinical conditions such as emetogenic anti-cancer chemotherapy, radiation therapy, surgery, and hyperemesis gravidarum. The treatment of nausea and emesis in opioid therapy and in motion sickness is equally outlined. Whereas this book should serve the clinician in making the right choice for every patients need, it also pays significant attention to the interests of scientists in the fields of oncology, nutrition, gastroenterology, obstetrics and gynecology as well as anaesthesia.
Author : John Geluardi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 32,98 MB
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317262832
Cannabiz tells one the most important political and business stories of our generation: the transformation of a counterculture movement into a growth industry with staggering potential. Charting the rise of medical marijuana in California and 14 other states, award-winning journalist John Geluardi vividly recounts the movement’s early activism, its legal challenges and victories, and its emergence as a commercial and political force. Tracing the history of marijuana in the United States, Cannabiz also reports on the industry’s key players, political allies and opponents, internal strife, and audacious aspirations—including a 2010 ballot initiative to legalize the adult use of marijuana in California. Along the way, Geluardi describes local efforts to regulate dispensaries, ranging from workable ordinances in some cities to bureaucratic paralysis in Los Angeles, where dispensaries came to outnumber McDonalds franchises. He also reports on efforts in Humboldt County, the heartland of marijuana cultivation, to keep pot illegal—and prices high. Adroitly profiling this unique industry, Cannabiz tells a distinctively American story—one whose colorful characters and fascinating details evoke Prohibition and the Gold Rush.
