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Medical Marijuana Being Studied as Treatment for MS
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a truly devastating illness. The disease involves destruction (technically a demyelinating) of the covers that insulate nerve cells. Once these covers a destroyed, the underlying nerve cell is damaged, and this leads to an injury to spinal cord and brain.
This degenerative condition leads to a loss of motor control, double vision, mental illness and in some cases severe psychiatric illness as well.
Despite ongoing research, there is currently no cure for multiple sclerosis, but there are some treatment options. These treatment options involve taking powerful pharmaceuticals that do work in some cases to prevent new attacks, but will not repair damage already done.
Now, there is research to suggest marijuana may help.
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For one small town in Southern California that has seen better times, residents are looking for a different kind of rainmaker. They are hoping medical marijuana cultivation will be the answer to their problems so the town can see “boom times” once again. That’s to a recent news feature from 
In some cases, fighting the war on drugs involved using the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and its vast resources to fight drugs domestically and in the countries in which these drugs are manufactured. They have used high speed boats, airplanes, two giant blimps both named Fat Albert, and just about anything else they could imagine to fight the influx of drugs into this country. 
In some of the worst cases, the child will suffer from prolonged seizures and reach a stage of the illness known as status epilepticus. There a variety of treatment options, but often the only thing parents can do is to give benzodiazepines such as Klonapin or Valium, and hope this stops the seizures from occurring, or if they do occur, lessens the severity of the seizures. However, these anti-seizure medications do not always work, and they are also very powerful habit forming drugs that many parents do not want to give to their young children.
The workers at this particular Orange County medical cannabis dispensary have signed a collective bargaining agreement with a food and commercial workers union. This dispensary has 20 employees, all of whom are now union members. Collective bargaining will begin soon.
This man is an attorney who suffers from hemophilia and lived in California with his wife who was a cancer survivor. The defendant was recently released and said he is happy to be out of prison and no longer having to eat bologna sandwiches and sleep on a cot.
If these younger and more liberal voters come out to vote, there is believed to be a high likelihood that many of them will vote straight-ticket Democrat. This is especially true of voters who do not know much about the particular candidates.
It was a different world when the federal government, including the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), was making it clear that medical marijuana was very much illegal under federal law, as marijuana was and still is the most dangerous controlled substance according to Congress, even though that classification as a Schedule One Controlled Dangerous Substance was much more political than based in science or even facts of any kind.