Sentences with phrase «say use of medical marijuana»

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Ready with cash and either Health Canada authorizations or doctors» notes saying their patients report relief when using marijuana, they walk up to a counter inside Cannabis As Living Medicine (CALM), one of the city's longest - running medical pot dispensaries.

Weston said Loblaw is currently focused only on the distribution of marijuana for medical use, not recreational use.

Last month, the professional group updated its stance, saying it had growing concerns over what it calls a «lack of clinical oversight» in the use of medical marijuana if pharmacies don't play a «front - line role» in providing access to the drug.

Previous research that focused on adolescents» use of the drug in the wake of medical marijuana laws didn't find an increase in that age group, she said.

The company has signed up about a third of the roughly 200,000 medical marijuana customers in Canada, and Linton said he expected some 3 million Canadians to use legal non-medical pot next year.

Doctors are more divided, with some saying medical use of marijuana is untested.

«A majority of voters also say they would vote in favor of requiring legislators to disclose all outside income, for a property tax cap, to allow the use of medical marijuana, to allow wine to be sold in grocery stores, and to legalize same sex marriages,» Said Siena pollster Steven Greenberg.

The facility the company is proposing to use to manufacture medical marijuana, once used as a now - closed juvenile detention center, is within a START - UP NY economic development zone, said Fulton County Board of Supervisors Chairman Ralph Ottuso.

Kingsley, a medical doctor who has directed his professional focus on medical marijuana, said he is skeptical of expanding legalized marijuana for recreational use, adding that prescribed medical marijuana is «not a panacea» for all patients.

In his recent State of the State message, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he would revive a 1980 statute that would permit limited use of medical marijuana to patients with diseases like cancer and glaucoma.

Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, the sponsor of a wider medical marijuana bill in the Assembly, says the governor's plan would not help children like Morgan, because it would not permit specialized strains of cannabis to be used.

Patient advocates say Cuomo's aides told them the governor would consider the Gottfried - Savino bill to permit wider use of medical marijuana if it were passed by both houses of the legislature and came to his desk.

In his July debate with Tom Suozzi, Spitzer, apparently eager to disagree with his opponent during the «lightning round,» shocked members of his own staff by saying he was against using marijuana for medical purposes.

Medical marijuana experts say that home deliveries are growing across the state, helping to sustain a budding industry of suppliers, some of whom have struggled financially after the drug was approved for use in January.

Even though Obama said in 2008 that he considered the «basic concept of using medical marijuana for the same purposes and with the same controls as other drugs prescribed by doctors... entirely appropriate» and did not plan on using the DOJ's resources to circumvent state laws, the department has continued to raid, and in some cases shut down, dispensaries and cultivation facilities in at least nine state since he took office.

«After conducting a thorough review of the scientific literature, it became clear that there may be certain benefits in the use of medical marijuana by patients suffering from chronic pain,» said Health Commissioner Dr. Howard A. Zucker.

«The dangers of medical marijuana outweigh the benefits,» said Cuomo, who has admitted using marijuana in his youth.

He said while he believes there are those who struggle with marijuana addiction and that marijuana use should not be encouraged, the city and state should look at whether anti-marijuana enforcement is being done properly and the possibility of becoming the 17th state to legalize marijuana for medical purposes.

Critics of the program's limited scale, including State Senator Diane Savino and Assembly health committee chairman Richard Gottfried, said the governor's plan also relies on an unstable source for the drug's supply, and could potentially use marijuana seized by law - enforcement officials, instead of the purified and specially - grown strains developed to treat specific medical conditions.

Governor Cuomo has been very cautious about allowing the use of medical marijuana, saying he wanted to start slowly, and he does not support recreational marijuana.

Governor Cuomo, in his State of the State message, said he'd revive a 1980 statute that would permit limited use of medical marijuana to patients with diseases like cancer and glaucoma.

Nobody would want to buy that kind of marijuana unless you are using it for medical purposes,» says Gottfried, who says the 1980 law lacks provisions for modern «state of the art» production.

Brian Curran (R - Lynbrook) said that while he supported medical marijuana use, he still opposes recreational use, «regardless of any type of revenue» it could bring to the state.

Savino also said the state would set up a committee of medical and law enforcement professionals to identify the diseases or medical conditions that would warrant marijuana use.

But because marijuana is now classified as a Schedule I controlled substance — along with a cluster of drugs that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) says have «no currently accepted medical use in the United States,» such as heroin, ecstasy, and LSD — any studies a researcher might like to pursue come with daunting roadblocks: See here, here, and here.

«Until there is sufficient scientific evidence of safety and efficacy, neither marijuana nor synthetic medical cannabis should be used for the treatment of sleep apnea,» Dr. Ilene Rosen, president of the sleep academy, said in an academy news release.

It is clear that that can not go on indefinitely and there are now multiple bills pending in Congress and both the US House and the US Senate that would rectify this issue, that would explicitly and once and for all say that marijuana policy and the decision whether or not to regulate the adult use of marijuana or the medical use of marijuana is a decision that is left solely up to the discrimination of the individual states.

But because federal regulations make it difficult to study the medical effects of marijuana, it's difficult for anyone to say how long - term recreational marijuana use affects your health.

Property managers who oversee apartment complexes should be advised that in the 28 states that have legalized medical marijuana use — eight of which have also approved recreational use — they can not deny a tenant with a medical need the right to use pot on their properties, Booth said.

Chuck: What say you to the numerous reports / studies put forth by / conducted by psychiatrists / psychologists and the medical profession, respectively, that conclude that the use of marijuana during teen - age years causes brain damage... long term... regarding memory loss, reasoning ability, lowered I.Q. and motivation?