medical marijuana

Yesterday was a great day for AIDS patients as an official study proves that marijuana-like compounds can help to find AIDS in the late-stage of this horrific decease. The research has been done by doctors from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and was published in the medical journal PloS ONE. Cristina Maria Costantino, the leader of the study explains: “We knew that cannabinoid like marijuana can have a therapeutic effect in AIDS patients, but did not understand how they influence the spread of the virus itself." Does this mean that HIV patients will be smoking pot?

It's not a secret that drug laws are creating more crime of course. And so it does in Ireland as well. A couple of cool students have made an interesting documentary about the illegality of cannabis in Ireland for both recreational and medical users. It has already been screened at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime conference in Vienna! Good work guys! But how long will it take before governments, like the Irish in this case, will realize that the way the laws are set right now are just simply f*cked up?

Medical marijuana saved his life, but is somehow also ruining it. Chaz Moore is 17 and is one of about 50 people in the world diagnosed with myoclonus diaphragmatic flutter. This is a very rare decease that causes muscle spasms that can recur dozens of times per day. The horrible disease makes Chaz speak in hiccups, one syllable at a time. After many years of going from emergency room to emergency room and from hospital to hospital, looking for a medicine that would help, it finally came out that marijuana is the only suited medicine in his case. Chaz lives in Colorado Springs and had to enroll in an online school because he is not allowed to use marijuana anywhere but at home. It might sound cool to some of you to be forced to sit at home with a pipe full of marijuana and follow online classes, but Chaz feels like as if he is on house-arrest. Read his story.