References Cited
National NORML's "War Agains Marijuana Consumers" page. NORML is the National Orgainization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, the principle group that has been advocating legalization of marijuana since 1970.
Willamette Week Newspaper Dec. 12, 1995.
p.27.
Willamette Week is a free local newspaper in Portland, OR, which is
traditionally liberal in its views and highly respected my much of the
community.
Marijuana and the Human Brain and Marijuana and the Brain, Part II: The Tolerance Factor by Jon Gettman is a fabulous site that explains much of cannabis' effects on the human brain. Jon Gettman was the national director of NORML and has created a college-level course on the web, called Marijuana, Science, and Public Policy focusing on all aspects of marijuana.
National Institute of Drug Abuse Research Findings on Smoking of Abused Substances. Editors: C. Nora Chiang, Ph.D. and Richard L. Hawks, Ph.D. 1990. page 72
Marijuana and Health by Alfred P. Fishman Chairman of
Commitee of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press, 1983.
Washington D.C.
AND
A
Critical Review of the Research Literature Concerning Some Biological and
Psychological Effects of Cannabis by Dr. Peter L. Nelson. This is THE
SITE for documented reviews of scientific papers about everything you
could ever want to know about marijuana's effects. (WARNING: this site is
HUGE! 32+ pages)
History of Marijuana Use: Medical and Intoxicant is a site that give some excerpts from the Report of the US National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse's report intitled "Marihuana, A Signal of Misunderstanding". The site isn't particularly well organized, but it does have a lot of good information.
Abel, Ernest L. "Marihuana: The First Twelve Thousand
Years" Plenum Press,
New York. 1980.
Bloomquist, Edward R. "Marijuana: The Second Trip"
Glencoe Press, Beverly
Hills. 1971.
Marihuana, the
Forbidden Medicine This site contains some in depth excerpts from Dr.
Lester Grinspoon's book of the same title (Yale University Press, 1993)
that covers a number of diseases that have been treated by cannabis.
UK
CIA is a site based in England that has a couple of pages dedicated to
medical marijuana.
Kaiser
Permanente is a large HMO that has endorsed marijuana as an effective
appetite stimulator.
The
Lindesmith Center is a drug policy research institute that supports a
web site on medical marijuana that includes many full-text articles from
scientific and popular journals.
High Times is
a popular magazine dedicated to the total legalization of marijuana and
some other drugs. Many of the articles included in its pages are other
than scientific, but they occasionally print one of great substance.
Research
Findings on Medicinal Properties of Marijuana is a page by Kevin B.
Zeese, supported by the Lindesmith Center, that briefly covers the history
of medical marijuana and some of the recent research on the topic.
Marijuana as
Antiemetic Medicine: A Survey of Oncologists is a site, supported by
the Schaffer Drug Library, that provides the abstract of a 1990 survey
conducted by Richard Doblin and Mark Kleiman.
The
Lindesmith Center is a drug policy research institute that supports a
web site on medical marijuana that includes many full-text articles from
scientific and popular journals.
High Times is
a popular magazine dedicated to the total legalization of marijuana and
some other drugs. Many of the articles included in its pages are other
than scientific, but they occasionally print one of great substance.
Research
Findings on Medicinal Properties of Marijuana is a page by Kevin B.
Zeese, supported by the Lindesmith Center, that briefly covers the history
of medical marijuana and some of the recent research on the topic.
Marijuana as
Antiemetic Medicine: A Survey of Oncologists is a site, supported by
the Schaffer Drug Library, that provides the abstract of a 1990 survey
conducted by Richard Doblin and Mark Kleiman.
The Glaucoma
Foundation is an international non-profit organization dedicated to
fighting glaucoma. They support a web site that provides quite a bit of
basic information about the disease and resources for glaucoma
patients.
Review
of Human Studies on Medical Use of Marijuana by Dale H. Gieringer
Ph.D., is a faily long paper that summarizes the scientific literature
concerning marijuana as medicine for a number of ailments including:
cancer chemotherapy, glaucoma, AIDS and many others.
The National
Society for Epilepsy is a large site with "all you need to know about
epilepsy." It is designed as a resource for epilepsy patients and their
families.
The National
Multiple Sclerosis Society supports a large site containing a myriad
of information about this disease including: symptoms, diagnosis, and
treatments among many other issues.
Cure Paralysis
Now is a site dedicated to everone affected by spinal cord injuries.
Its section on "Frequently Asked Questions" has almost anything you could
ever want to know about paralysis and its treatments.
"The Percieved Effects of Marijuana on Spinal Cord
Injured Males" by M. Dunn & R. Davis in Paraplegia vol. 12 p. 175
(1974).
The
AIDS Treatment Data Network is a large cite that has an incredible
amount of information about HIV and AIDS, especially in the area of
treatment.
Heath, R.G., A.T. Fitzjarrell, R.E. Garey, & W.A. Meyers.
(1979) Chronic marijuana smoking: Its effect on function and structure of
the primate brain. In G.G. Nahas & W.D.M. Paton (Eds.), Advances in the
Biosciences (Vol. 22 and 23)(pp. 713-730). Oxford: Pergamon Press. In A
Critical Review of the Research Literature Concerning Some Biological and
Psychological Effects of Cannabis by Dr. Peter L. Nelson.
Herkenham, M., A.B. Lynn, M.D. Little, M.R. Johnson,
L.S.
Melvin, B.R. DeCosta & K.C. Rice. (1990) Cannabinoid receptor localization
in brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 87,
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