Transcript: But there’s one part of her story
she has never talked about publicly until now:
A controversial choice she made to help with
the harsh side effects of chemo.
Television talk show host Montel Williams
displays a can of medicinal marijuana on the steps
of the Canon House Office Building
in Washington, May 4, 2005.
Williams joined U.S. Representatives Barney Frank (D-MA),
Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), Sam Farr (D-CA) and
Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) in a press conference
to launch a new bipartisan congressional drive
to protect patients who use marijuana from arrest.
California Attorney General Bill Lockyer sided
with two medical marijuana patients Wednesday
in their U.S. Supreme Court battle with the
Bush administration, arguing that patients
who use locally grown marijuana in states
that allow it should be protected
from federal drug enforcement.
A pair of medical marijuana patients
won legal protection Tuesday against arrest
and federal prosecution, setting the stage
for a U.S. Supreme Court showdown
to determine whether states can allow
cannabis to be used as medicine.
Washington -- The U.S. Supreme Court let stand
on Tuesday a ruling that the government cannot
revoke the federal prescription licenses
of doctors who recommend medical marijuana
to sick patients.
Chronic Cannabis Use
in the Compassionate Investigational
New Drug (IND) Program:
An Examination of Benefits
and Adverse Effects of Legal
Clinical Cannabis
Ethan Russo,
Mary Lynn Mathre,
Al Byrne,
Robert Velin,
Paul J. Bach,
Juan Sanchez-Ramos,
Kristin A. Kirlin
William S. Eidelman, M.D.,
one of Los Angeles' only specialists
in Cannabis medicine,
was recently suspended
by the California Medical Board
after being underhandedly
and illegally targeted
by four undercover cops
posing as patients.
In the first study of its kind,
four recipients of federally provided
medical marijuana were examined
for the health effects of their long-term cannabis use
and none showed any serious adverse effects.
Chris Bennett asks Cannabinoid expert
Dr. Ethan Russo about the possibility
that NIDA "standardized" cannabis
is a spray on THC product and the
importance of a full range of cannabinoids
in effective medical marijuana.
