An friend recently sent a small group of us this story about his experience obtaining medical marijuana, partly in response to my own experience. Looks like not a lot has changed in the last two years. I post this here with his permission:

The past week or so i've had constant pain in my side from what I thought was a gastrointestinal issue ( ( Read more... )

I was thrust into the medical marijuana debate more than three years ago when an MCD opened two doors down from my house and our residential street filled up with mostly mid-twenties "patients" looking to buy "medicine". While no one disputes that some patients who are legitimately can legitimately use marijuana to treat their symptoms, what ( Read more... )

I've been talking with spiritualmonkey in the comments of another post about medical marijuana and whether to encourage or require medical cannabis dispensaries to treat their "medication" like other medication: to standardize it, dispense it in measured doses, or certify its purity and potency through trusted third parties. He pointed out (I hope I'm ( Read more... )

A while ago I complained about the treatment of "medical" marijuana within every cannabis dispensary I've ever seen or heard of. I have no problem with herbal medicines, but if you're actually serious about treating an herb as a medicine it's insufficient to just smoke a bowl and call it a day. For the last few thousand years "medication" has ( Read more... )

A few thousand years ago the Greeks invented the Pill. At the time pills were simple balls of paste, but the invention of the pill was a breakthrough because it enabled a measured dosage of medication to be reliably administered. Greek patients no longer had to fumble with scales or guess how much to consume, they knew exactly how much to take ( Read more... )

lockalsh and I own a house a few doors down from the “Re-Leaf Herbal Center”. The "medical marijuana club" is in the middle of our residential district within two blocks of an elementary school, a high school, a day care center, the Mission Recreation Center, and a recreational park with tennis and soccer courts. Since the club opened our garage door and ( Read more... )