User:AlonLevy/Cannabis

Colorado

• Stoned driver, Keith Kilbey, was drunk - http://m.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/06/06/colorados-poster-boy-for-stoned-driving-was-drunk-off-his-gourd/

Israel

• [http:// www.tapuz.co.il/blog/net/ViewEntry.aspx?EntryId=2092454&skip=1 Dr. Einat Wolf] about the need for decriminalization of all drug users.
• Form for medical cannabis. Only one allowed provider at a time. Requires a plugin that doesn't work on linux (despite having sos - maybe just fedora, glibc or other missing dependency).
  • http://www.health.gov.il/Services/Citizen_Services/Pages/kanabis.aspx
• Q&A on getting medical cannabis permits. Help with Medical Cannabis by Shlomi Sandak (שלומי סנדק), also at osher.
• עמותת הקנאבוס הרפואי בישראל (ע"ר)
• Seminarion on legalization effects of cannabis and hashish in hebrew.
• שיח

• List of providers at Israel Medical Cannabis Association

Government

• this week in the knesset, more mystery about medical cannabis commentary about transcript of undersecretary of Health Yaakov Litzman talking to Einat Wolf and others in a 2011 knesset meeting, published here

Articles

• will be available from 2013 in pharmacies

• http://doctorsonly.co.il/2013/02/52774/ - 10 reasons not to use Cannabis for mental health patients.
  • http://doctorsonly.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/%D7%A7%D7%A0%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A1-%D7%A1%D7%9D-%D7%91%D7%A2%D7%9C-%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%9E%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%9B%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%91%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%90%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%A0%D7%A4%D7%A91.pdf - Cannabis, a drug with severe effects on mental health, Ami Nehamiah Shufman, Eliezer Witzum (In Hebrew, I translated the title and authors). Would be interesting to check it out.

Research

Researchers

• Lumír Ondřej Hanuš - discoverer of anandamide structure while at HUJI, Czech Medical Cannabis activist.

* "one of the safest known medications"

Courses

From search for cannabis spelled in hebrew with an alef on health.gov.il:

11231	שימוש בקנאביס למטרות רפואיות - א. מוס'	1	11	מיומנויות מקצועיות	36	2011	מרכז לבריה"נ אברבנאל	מ. הבריאות	4/18/2012	בתעודה רשום 41 שעות

Medicinal uses & Chemical data

• For Cancer see User:AlonLevy Cancer/Cannabis section
• parkinson article in haaretz.

• Material Safety Data Sheet @erowid. (Source: Occupational Health Services Inc. , 1992)

• גראס באישור רופא movie by צחי קליין with lead אברי גלעד.

Cancer

See User:AlonLevy/Cancer

Approved Drugs

Approval is done by the Ministry of Health, ‫‪Medical Technology And Infrastructure Administration‬‬:

• Letters address:
  • ‫רח' ב טבאי ‪ 2‬ירושלים ‪ 93591‬ת‪.‬ד‪ 1176 .‬ירושלים ‪91010‬‬
  • ‫‪2 BEN TABAI ST. JERUSALEM 93591 P.O.B. 1176‬‬
• Address:
  • ‫רח' פייר קניג ‪ 33‬תלפיות‪ ,‬בני הטורקיז‪ ,‬קומה ג' ירושלים טל'‪ 02 5657700 :‬פקס‪02 5657720 :‬‬
  • ‫‪33 PIERRE KOENIG ST. TALPIOT JERUSALEM TEL: 02-5657700 FAX: 02-5657720‬‬

• Sativex: (which is just cannabis processed with liquid nitrogen for extracting THC & CBD and everything else, see below)
  • A8/9 for Septicity in MS, B7 for Neuropathic pain ‫עיקרי החלטות – דיון הועדה הציבורית להרחבת סל שירותי הבריאות לשנת ‪ 3102‬מיום ‪33.00.03‬‬, unchanged (looking for previous decision, and what do A8/9 and B7 mean).
  • From 34482410, 1.11.2010:

‫‪Sativex .34‬‬
‫מוגש להכללה בסל לטיפול בכאב על רקע מחלות טרשת נפוצה וסרט )בהתוויות מסוימות(‪.‬‬
‫נדונו ההתוויות השונות והוחלט‪:‬‬
‫לגבי כאב סרטני טר אושר לרישו ולכ לא ידו השנה‪.‬‬
‫לגבי טיפול בכאב נוירופאתי וספסטיות בחולי טרשת נפוצה לאור העדויות המדעיות ולאור החלופות‬
‫הקיימות ידורג כ ‪.A9‬‬

Media

• Wake up commercial by Kain Derrick.
• Breaking the taboo, Narrated by Morgan Freeman directed by Fernando Grostein Andrade. (imdb)
• When we grow, this is what we can do - documentary on cannabis in the uk.
  • contains description (~39:55) of Sativex production, sounds *exactly* like the protocol for Rick Simpson Oil.

Compilations

• Dor M@ (emet)

Sativex

• clear-uk including correspondence. Reports on it's contents:

It is within the public domain that Sativex is an whole plant extract manufactured by blending two strains of herbal cannabis and using a CO2 extraction process to produce a tincture which also contains ethanol, propylene glycol and peppermint oil. Sativex is cannabis and contains all the cannabinoids, terpines and flavonoids present in the plants from which it is made.

Safety

• drug toxicity Robert S. Gable.

Con

• american National Institute of Health request for research on CRD (Cannabis resulting disorders) from 2003.
  • Has the claims (a multitude of debilitating long term effects of cannabis) substantiated or refuted?

Papers

• Cannabinoids as therapeutic agents in cardiovascular disease: a tale of passions and illusions. British journal of pharmacology 151:4 2007 Jun pg 427-40

Traffic

• blog post on the silk road
• yahooka
• cannabis classifieds

Articles

• http://icmag.com/
• http://thcfarmer.com/

Schizophrenia

• Heavy marijuana users have abnormal brain structure and poor memory
  • Summary (mine - no abstract available): 97 teens (17-19) using daily for 3 years where structure MRI'ed after 2 years of no use. Not sure about the actual disposition in the 97 since the full article is unavailable. The MRI showed reductions in size of brain structure associated with memory correlating with length of chronic use.
  • Northwestern. No pdf available yet. Not appearing on the main investigator's (according to the press release) site.
  • Main investigator: lead study author Matthew Smith, an assistant research professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • Press release: http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2013/12/marijuana-users-have-abnormal-brain-structure--poor-memory.html

• A controlled family study of cannabis users with and without psychosis )Ashley C. Proal, Jerry Fleming, Juan A. Galvez-Buccollini, Lynn E. DeLisi( Schizophrenia Research - 04 December 2013 (10.1016/j.schres.2013.11.014
  • Summary (from abstract): The results of the current study suggest that having an increased familial morbid risk for schizophrenia may be the underlying basis for schizophrenia in cannabis users and not cannabis use by itself.
  • http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24309013
  • Full text behind Elsevier paywall.
  • Study used interviews, no MRI. ~200 subjects.