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"This is the chronology of our movement." —Frank Lucido, MD

Summer 2003

Mikuriya Asks Medical Board to Drop Charges
and Clarify Practice Standards re Cannabis

The International Cannabinoid Research Society Meets at Asilomar

What Medical Conditions Are Californians Actually Using Cannabis to Treat?

O’Shaughnessy’s Statement of Purpose

Cannabis as a Substitute for Alcohol by Tod Mikuriya

Notes on Learning What to Look For by Tom O’Connell

Recommendation to Patients: “Don’t Smoke, Vaporize” by Dale Gieringer

Marijuana Smoking Doesn’t Lead to Higher Death Rate
(account of a study by Kaiser researcher Steven Sidney, MD)

CMA, Patients Join Push for Guidelines

The Marijuana Problem by Lester Grinspoon

Bayer Buys Rights to Market GW’s Cannabis Extract
Sidebar: Bayer’s Original Blockbuster

A Predecessor to the Indian Hemp Drug Commission Report (1873 Tax Survey)

Spring 2004 (no copies available)

Encouraged by 9th Circuit’s Conant Ruling,
More California Doctors Approve Cannabis Use
(Denney and Sullivan Open Orange County Office)

Cannabis in the Curriculum (Claudia Jensen's syllabus)

Cannabis Specialists Agree on Health History Questionnaire (turned out to be wishful thinking)

Implementation of the Compassionate Use Act in a Family Medical Practice:
Seven Years’ Clinical Experience by Frank Lucido and Maria Mangini)

Volcano is to Vaporizer as Porsche is to Automobile

Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research Has 18 State-funded studies in pipeline

Notes re Pattern of Use ( —O”Connell

The Regulatory Role of Endocannabinoids Melamede

Which Conditions are Treatable with Cannabis?

ICRS 2003 report: “Therapeutic Potential” in Spotlight

Requiem for JCANT

The Legal Status of Medical Marijuana by Alice Mead

Succession of Successes (Pebbles Trippet on seven court cases)

Cannabis for the Wounded

Autumn 2004

Ricky Williams Protests Drug Testing by Quitting Football

Cannabinoid Antagonist Will be Sold as Diet Drug (Rimonabant)

Privacy Wins in Bearman Case

Why I’m Starting MedBoardWatch —Lucido

Honor Complexity by Andrew Weil

“Marijuana Use Disorders” Note by Tod Mikuriya

ICRS 2004 Overview by FG plus Talks of Interest by Dr. X

California MJ Research Program Stretches Mandate
to Hold “Cannabinoid Therapeutics” Event in Italy

The Prosecution of Tod Mikuriya by FG

Medical Board Got Records From DEA Illegally (in re Dr. Fry)

A Reluctant Martyr: Marian Fry, MD

California and U.S. Officials Conspired to Block Prop 215 —Pat McCartney

Dr. Leveque’s Unspoken Message to Congress

Pat Humphrey: His Brother’s Keeper

Understanding Plant Canopy Measurement

The Context of Prohibition (collage)

Spring 2005

Ashcroft v. Raich: Background and Arguments

Cities and Counties Impose Restrictions but Cannabis Clubs Keep Opening

Vioxx Deaths = 55,000 (19 times mores than 9/11)

Reduced use of Pharmaceuticals is a Recurring Theme from Patients by Jeff Hergenrather

Letter to a Chief Probation Officer —Denney

Cannabis for PTSD Note by Mikuriya

On the Prosectuion of Pain-Treating Physicians by Frank Fisher

Medboard Watch: MBC drops prescription-drug analogy, CMA signs on to cannabis guidelines; Probing “Physician Conduct” Rather than Harm to Patients —Lucido

A Cautionary Tale —Lucido

A Pro-Cannabis Doctor “Comes Out” by Carol Wolman

Petitions ‘R’ Us: ASA Goes to Washington, Gettman Tries Again (Again); UMASS Seeks License to Cultivate

Medical Marijuana and Biochemical Balance by Robert Melamede

Scientific American Explains How Cannabinoids Work (“Retrograde Messengers”)

Cannabis Use in Adolescence: Self-Medication for Anxiety —O'Connell

Approval as a Botanical Drug (Anonymous FDA consultant)

Another Indication for Sativex: severe cancer pain

Marijuana and AIDS: WAMM study (Brown et al)

Robert Raich on the Supreme Court ruling

Activists’ Cases Riding on Raich by Ann Harrison

Landmark Cases in the Implementation of Prop 215 —Trippet and Figueroa

CHP Disrespects Prop 215

ASA Asks Return of Property by Kris Hermes

California to Issue ID Cards to Medical MJ Patients, Caregivers by Ellen Komp

The Allowable Quantity Expert (a profile of Chris Conrad)

“Orgies of the Hemp Eaters” reviewed by Michael Aldrich

Cannabis Trimmer Attributes Illness to Pesticide Exposure (re Jane Weirick)

Can Trade Group Set Standards for Growers and Dispensaries? —Weirick

San Francisco Police return cannabis to patient

Ricky Williams Does ’60 Minutes’

Dennis Peron Will Run English Hotel

Autumn 2005

Smoking Cannabis Does Not Cause Cancer of Lung or Upper Airways, Tashkin Finds;
Data Suggest Possible Protective Effect

A Cooling Effect from Cannabis? —Mikuriya

Cannabis Alleviate Symptoms of Crohn’s Disease —Hergenrather

JAMA Acknowledges the Endocannabinoid System (“ECS”)

Clinical Uses of Cannabis: Lessons from a California Practice (outline by Denney)

Marijuana and Impairment by Rick Bayer

Rational Guidelines for Dosing by Greg Carter et al

Extreme Sensitivity to Marinol —Note by Mikuriya

Implications of Early Cannabis Initiation —O’Connell

Use by Teens Declines in States with Medical Marijuana Laws

ICRS 2005 Report plus Dr. X’s Talks of Special Interest

US Supreme Co;urt Ruling on Raich Case Leaves Doctor-Patient Relationship Intact;
DEA Targets Some Growers, Dispensaries

Doctrors Respond to Raich Ruling

CHP to Follow State Law

California Resumes Issing ID Cards to MMJ Users

Denney Advises Shasta County: Confidentialityh Concerns May Keep Patients from Getting ID Cards

NIDA Blocks Vaporations Study; Researchers Appeal to DEA

Spurt of Medical MJ Cases Follows Raich Ruling

Feds Take Over Prosecution of Merced Organizer (Dustin Costa)

The “Professional Bust” of Fred Demchuk

Don’t Lie to Your Doctor —Lucido

Local Responses to Dispensaries Vary From Outright Bans to Regulation —Gieringer

Painful Lessons to be Learned from DEA War on Opioid Prescribers by Joe Talley

Scripture and Strategy — Talley

The Sweet Internationalism of Rick Steves

The Myth of Available Treatment —Frank Fisher

What’s the Matter with Canada by Richard Cowan

Oregon Bills Dr. Leveque, Steve McWilliams Says Goodbye

A Real Farmer Looks at ‘Medical Marijuana’ an Interview with Bob Cannard

Costs of Prohibition Calculated (Jeff Miron study)

Ricky Williams Takes a Late Hit

Spring 2006

A Day in the Life of a Cannabis Consultant —Denney

Continuing Medical Education at Patients out of Time Conference FG

Cannabis as a First-Line Treatment for Childhood Mental Disorders —Mikuriya

Dreher Discussses Jamaican Study on Cannabis Use in Pregnancy

Cannabis Relieves Morning Sickness by Phillipe Lucas

Patients’ PTSD Stories —Al Byrne, Erin Hildebrandt, Christopher Largen

PTSD: A Clinician Ponders Mechanism of Action by David Bearman

Cannabis Eases Post-Traumatic Stress —Mikuriya
Sidebar: the toxic alternatives

Oregon in Denial Over Cannabis as an Antidepressant (Ed Glick)

Harm Reduction: The Cannabis Paradox —Melamede

Counties Challenge Law Creating ID Card Program;
California Changes Record-Keeping Requirements by Ellen Komp
Sidebar: Oakland CBC will run Alameda County Card Program

Cloning Made Simple by Andrew Glazier

Urziceanu Ruling Protects Sales, Distribution

Advantages of Orally Ingested Cannabis -Fry

The Undertreatment of Pain Crisis -Fisher

The Remarkable W.B. O’Shaughnessy - Aldrich

Parke, Davis Marketed Cannabis Extracts to Doctors with ‘Buy American’ Pitch

The Prohibition of Marijuana (1937 Congressional hearing transcript)

Rodney Dangerfield’s Lifelong Romance With Marijuana by Joan Dangerfield

Winter/Spring 2007

Medical Marijuana in California 1996-2006 by Tod Mikuriya et al

Lab Studies by Cannabinoid Researchers Help Explain Cilnical Reports of Efficacy

ICRS 2006: Increasing Focus on CBD

Acomplia Goes on Sale for Weight Loss

Emerging Clinical Applications of Cannabis by Paul Armentano

Dennis Peron and the Passage of Proposition 215 FG

A Stall in the Name of Science (The Institute of Medicine Report)

The Decade of the Cannabis Club by Dale Gieringer

The DISimplementation of Prop 215 by Pat McCartney and Martin Lee

Medical Board Targets Cannabis Consultants
for Violating Unrealistic “Standard of Practice”

My Civil Rights Suit vs. the Medical Board by David Bearman

Denney’s Suit: “Keep Big Brother Out of my Exam Room”

The State ID Card Program: Views by Hergenrather and Denney

Medical Milk by David Moore

Weeds (Hollywood Does Cannabis)