Medical weed can be good for the brain

[Little Bud]

I'm sure all of you know that weed has been suggested for use as a medecine for Chronic pain sufferers that can't get releif from anything else (with out making them selves non functional like with morphine or something). But a study now shows that chronic pain can shrink parts of your brain and affect your ability to make good decisions. so for these people the only way to retain or restore natural functioning could be weed.

[Key West]

Here is a way to help the cause.......

Take Action Now!
http://capwiz.com/norml2/issues/aler...130936&type=CU

Last September, a coalition of patients and drug policy organizations
including NORML, Americans for Safe Access, Students for Sensible Drug
Policy and the Drug Policy Alliance, converged in Washington, DC for two
days of intense lobbying for medical marijuana.

One of the key actions of this two day action - known as the Cheryl Miller
Memorial Project (www.cheryldcmemorial.org) in remembrance of longtime
multiple sclerosis patient and medical marijuana activists Cheryl Miller -
was a visit to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, in which patients
urged the organization to change their official position on medical
marijuana. Despite endorsements of medical marijuana from the MS
Societies in Canada and Great Britain, the U.S. National MS Society is
playing politics with the lives of seriously ill patients, and refuses to
acknowledge marijuana's therapeutic value in the treatment of MS.

Therefore, the participants in the Cheryl Miller Memorial Project demanded
three actions by the MS Society:

A) Conduct a survey of its members to identify if they have ever used
cannabis therapeutically.

B) Actively lobby for and fund clinical trials in the United States on the
efficacy of inhaled marijuana on MS-related symptoms.

C) Post a pro/con debate on the National MS Society website regarding the
therapeutic use of cannabis.

So far, the MS Society has refused to take action on any of these demands.
In fact, the only information posted on the MS Society website after
their meeting with the patients clearly states:

"It is the opinion of the National MS Society's Medical Advisory Board
that there are insufficient data at this time to recommend cannabinoids in
any form as a treatment for MS."

In light of the MS Society's refusal to act on the medical marijuana
issue, we are asking all medical marijuana supporters to write the
National MS Society, and demand that they take medical marijuana seriously
by implementing these three requests.

NORML has created a pre-written letter that you can send to the MS Society
urging them to take a realistic look at the existing evidence surrounding
medical marijuana as a treatment for multiple sclerosis. Please be sure
to check the boxes on the alert which will send a copy of your letter to
the Washington, DC chapter and to Ms. Jeanne Angulo, director of the
Washington DC office who met with the group of patients in September.

Please take two minutes to send a pre-written letter to the MS Society by
visiting:
http://capwiz.com/norml2/issues/aler...130936&type=CU

Thank you for taking the time to speak out on this important issue.

Regards,

Kris Krane
Associate Director
NORML

[witchdoctor]

cannabis culture did a great article with a pro wrestler, rob van dam. in the article there is refernce for the studies that prove thc activates dead or bruised brain tissue from concussions or other brain injuries. i forget the year and month, but thas what the net is for. i notice with my post concussion syndrome that the herb makes me "sharper" and more creative. i have double post concussion syndrome. from 2 seperate accidents. watch the "ricky simpson" video circulating in threads in this med thread.