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Health / New York Legalizes Medical Marijuana by jessetom(m): 12:44am On Jul 08, 2014 |
-- New York became the latest state to permit the use of medical marijuana on Monday. At a news conference in New York City, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the Compassionate Care Act, which allows doctors to prescribe marijuana in a nonsmokable form to patients with serious ailments that are recognized by the state on a predefined but flexible list of conditions. The bill was passed by the State Assembly and Senate in June, said Jason Elan, a spokesman for Sen. Diane Savino, a sponsor of the bill. Cuomo said Monday that it was difficult to develop and pass the bill because it needed to embrace increased medical acceptance of marijuana while rejecting situations and conditions that state legislators said could have "good intent and bad results." "There is no doubt that medical marijuana can help people," Cuomo said Monday. "We are here to help people. And if there is a medical advancement, then we want to make sure that we're bringing it to New Yorkers." Senate Co-Leader Jeffrey D. Klein said the "patient-centric program" will provide relief to thousands of people and will be "one of the safest, most tightly regulated medical marijuana programs in the country." The legalization of medical marijuana has had "overwhelming support" in state polls, State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has said in a statement. Cuomo has said the act included criminal penalties in case a person tries to defraud the system, as well as a "fail safe" mechanism allowing the governor to "suspend the program at any time on recommendation of either the State Police Superintendent or the Commissioner of Health if there is a risk to the public health or public safety." New York will be the 23rd state, along with the District of Columbia, to allow medical marijuana in some form, according to information compiled by the National Conference of State Legislatures . Among the states that allow medical marijuana are Connecticut, Vermont and New Jersey, each of which borders New York. The momentum has picked up recently, with most of these efforts taking effect over the past decade. A proponent of the measure, Missy Miller of Long Island, said she considered moving to California to gain access to a special strain of marijuana called Charlotte's Web oil, a derivative that may help cease her son Oliver's seizures. Oliver, 14, suffered a stroke in utero that resulted in a brain stem injury. Among several other life- threatening consequences are seizures, sometimes more than a dozen a day. "I am extremely relieved and proud to have been a part of helping bring necessary change that so many of us need," Miller said. But "I am quite concerned about the 18-month implementation, though, because Oliver does not have that time to wait. I am hopeful that some kind of expedited access plan can be worked out to help those with urgent need like Oliver." Opponents of the measure have said it was driven by politics. "I think serious questions can be raised about using a political vehicle to achieve the use of a prescribable medication in America," William Foster, president of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependency, told CNN when the plan was unveiled in January. http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/07/health/new-york-medical-marijuana/index.html?sr=fb070714NYlegalpot7pvodtoplink
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Career / Re: Marketing Or Operations, Which Is More Challenging In Banking? by jessetom(m): 7:40pm On Jul 07, 2014 |
hahaha.... made front page in comments.... god punish devil.... |
Health / 8 Year Old Girl Having Daily Multiple Seisures, Get Saved By Use Of Cannabis by jessetom(m): 3:46am On Jul 07, 2014 |
A Mother’s Brave Efforts “She was dying, she could barely walk or talk, was unable to toilet herself and slept a similar cycle to a newborn,” said Cheri O’Connell to The Herald Sun , a mother of an epileptic child living in Victoria, Australia. “We had basically been told that there was not too much more we could do, just to take her home and to love her and maybe if you are lucky she’ll get to nine, we didn’t see her having a future at all,” Ms. O’Connell said. Cheri O’Connell and her daughter’s story took a turn for the better, however, after a controversial treatment yielded some miraculous results. In January last year, her desperate parents started her on a cannabis mix known as a tincture, after a cocktail of prescribed pharmaceutical medications left her heavily sedated while failing to stop the seizures. In developments that have surprised doctors, one year later, Tara is a bubbly eight-year-old and her wheelchair is collecting dust in the corner of the family’s home in central Victoria. Senior clinical neuropsychologist Dr Silvana Micallef at Austin Health saw the results for herself, stating she saw “significantly improved [cognitive performances]” after only 12 months. “Since commencing medical cannabis (together with the cessation of her seizures), there is a convincing clinical history of improvements in all facets of her presentation as reported by her mother,” Dr. Micallef wrote . Remarkably, the only ‘side-effects’ reported were increased appetite and fatigue. The treatment O’Connell was receiving only contained a minuscule amount of THC, the cannabinoid molecule responsible for the ‘high’ feeling associated with cannabis use. A Widespread Phenomenon Unfortunately, Tara wasn’t the only child suffering from seizures in the family. Her 11-year-old brother, Sean, also had a case of epilepsy, milder in comparison to Tara’s condition but debilitating nonetheless. Sean could barely write due to his condition, a challenge for a budding young artist. After administering Sean a liquid cannabis concentration, his disability swiftly dissipated. After an investigation, The Herald Sun discovered that a number of other children (approximately 70) across Australia are being administered medical cannabis by school staff. These people did not make any public statements however, due to the illegal status of medical cannabis in Australia. Cheri O’Connell is calling for the go-ahead on more medical cannabis studies. Parents of children with incapacitating ailments should have the right to treat their children with any treatment that works, especially if other treatments are not. 70 percent of children respond positively to seizure medication, but should the other 30 percent have to suffer? Not according to the O’Connell family. “We had to break the law or see her die. Any parent will do whatever it takes to make a sick child better.” The use of medical cannabis has become widespread. Old taboos and propaganda-based beliefs surrounding cannabis have dissolved in our current era of self-awareness and information accessibility. The results are in, cannabis works. By spreading this knowing, you could be saving the lives of so many people who are suffering and who don’t know about the remarkable healing benefits of this little green plant. source::: www.collective-evolution.com/2014/07/06/8-year-old-girl-was-having-20000-seizures-a-year-and-was-given-only-a-few-months-to-live-until-she-tried-this-illegal-treatment/
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Family / Re: 22 Children’s Hilariously Inappropriate Spelling Mistakes by jessetom(m): 9:22am On Jul 03, 2014 |
what about when your teacher mistakenly writes "to" twice consecutively....makinn it look like "to to" 1 Like |
Fashion / Re: Tiwa Savage's Outfit To BET Awards 2014 by jessetom(m): 5:05pm On Jun 30, 2014 |
haters ....... saying shit ....... anyways.... Wise people speak because they have something to say... fools speak because they have to say something...... 1 Like |
Education / Re: Engineering Students Chatroom by jessetom(m): 9:27am On Jun 28, 2014 |
Greatest Nigerian Students,..... Greatest Engineering Students..... I am a 100l Chemical Engineering student from the prestigeous Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun...... please masters, I would love to know how to get the best outta this course....Please you guys should help me.... thank you... |
Travel / Re: Nigerians Among Races That Excel In America by jessetom(m): 11:16pm On Jan 10, 2014 |
na wa ooo........... sm1 jst farted....eeeeeeeeewwwwwwhhhhhhh........ well tank God i made front page....so happy#dancin skelewu# so wana use dis medium 2 tnk ma dad 4 forcin me 2 sch even though i didnt wanna...hence i was able 2 discover nairaland.... my mom 4 takin care of me so dat i wnt b a tout..... n mostly my lil bro emuesisi 4 borrowin me his iphone5s so i can browse wit his bis......... oh am so so happy.....#tears#..... n i also tank ma oga @d top SEGUN...for putin up nairaland...... |
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