Medical Marijuana Reports

Medical Marijuana Reports

Marijuana's therapeutic uses are well-documented in modern scientific literature. The studies indicate that marijuana provides symptomatic relief for a number of medical conditions, including nausea and vomiting, stimulating appetite, promoting weight gain, and diminishing intraocular pressure from glaucoma. There is also evidence that smoked marijuana and/or THC reduces muscle spasticity from spinal cord injuries and multiple sclerosis, and diminishes tremors in multiple sclerosis patients. Patients and physicians have also reported that smoked marijuana provides relief from migraine headaches, depression, seizures, insomnia and chronic pain, among other conditions.

Reference materials on marijuana as medicine:

• NORML's Statement on the Medical Use of Marijuana -- Science Supports Amending Federal Law
  
  
  
  
• National Institute of Health's Workshop on the Utility of Medical Marijuana (1998)
  
  
  
  
• Drug Sense's Review of Medical Marijuana Studies and Reports (1997)
  
  
  
  
• Institute of Medicine's "Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base" (1999) (book no. 0309071550)
  
  
  
  
• NORML's Review of Human Studies and Medical Marijuana (1996)
  
  
  
  
• Landmark Legal Case: NORML v. DEA
  
  
  
  
• Guest Editorial in the Journal of American Medical Association, by L. Grinspoon, M.D. "Marijuana as Medicine -- A Plea for Reconsideration" (June 21, 1995)
  
  
  
  
• News magazine article, "The more things change, the more they stay the same..."
  
  
  
  
• Newt Gingrich's Letter Supporting Medical Marijuana, published in the Journal of American Medicine (JAMA, 1982)
  
  
  
  
• Institute of Medicine Report Endorsing Medical Marijuana (1982)
  
  
  
  
• New England Journal of Medicine's Endorsement of Medical Marijuana

Link: http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=3472