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Smoking Marijuana Does Not Cause Lung Cancer (www.alternet.org) TMC

New research shows here seems to be something in pot that actually undermines cancer, instead of causing it. -- and the media are doing their best to ignore it.

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Submitted 6 months ago by saramediaconsortium | 0 Comments |

More Evidence That Marijuana Prevents Cancer (www.alternet.org) TMC

New study finds that marijuana smokers have a lower risk of head and neck cancers.

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Submitted 6 months ago by saramediaconsortium | 0 Comments |

Marijuana Use Associated with a “Significantly Reduced Risk” of Head and Neck Cancers (www.chelseagreen.com) TMC

Some promising new research shows that marijuana use could have beneficial effects on certain types of cancer.

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Submitted 7 months ago by saramediaconsortium | 0 Comments |

Does the Marijuana Pill Work? (www.alternet.org) TMC

The government says a pill called Marinol offers the same benefits as medical marijuana. Is it true?

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Submitted 7 months ago by saramediaconsortium | 0 Comments |

Is Big Pharma Trying to Take All the Fun out of Pot? | DrugReporter | AlterNet (www.alternet.org) TMC

Drug researchers are trying to replicate marijuana's therapeutic effects, but without the "side effect" of getting people high.

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Submitted 7 months ago by saramediaconsortium | 0 Comments |

Everybody must get stoned (www.salon.com) TMC

Can Californians help dig themselves out of their historic fiscal crisis by getting high? Tom Ammiano thinks so, and he isn't smoking a thing.

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Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |

Addicted to fake outrage: Michael Phelps' pot pipe (www.truthdig.com) TMC

By David Sirota I’m not sure if it’s because we’re strung out on “Lost” episodes, or if it’s because we’re still suffering from a post-9/11 stress disorder that makes us crave... More

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Submitted about 1 year ago by HealthcareNewsLadder | 0 Comments |

Will Obama Decriminalize Marijuana? Don’t hold your breath. (www.chelseagreen.com) TMC

America’s longest and costliest war, says Paul Armentano, isn’t Iraq: it’s the so-called War on Drugs. Deputy director of NORML and co-author of the forthcoming...

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Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |

Weekly Pulse: Are We There Yet? (tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com) TMC

This week in healthcare, the Pulse adopts what doctors call a "watchful waiting stance." So much is happening, yet so little has actually happened. A spokesman for Rep. Pete Stark, chair of a... More

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Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |

What Sanjay Gupta doesn't know about pot (www.alternet.org) TMC

By Russ Belville. The next surgeon general needs to stop putting politics before science. Gupta may not be ready for that. If Dr. Sanjay Gupta is picked for the post of surgeon general, he... More

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Submitted about 1 year ago by HealthcareNewsLadder | 0 Comments |

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