one of the candidates for governor says new mexico’s medical marijuana program should be done away with. susana martinez says she’d would work to repeal the three year old law. jeremy jojola spoke with one of the first new mexicans to enroll in the program. he’s live downtown with her take on what martinez wants to do. jeremy. from cancer, post traumatic stress disorder, to aids.. all sorts of patients in new mexico are now legally smoking marijuana under state law. but susana martinez says patients should be using other options and that minute thumbnail 06:05 pm marijuana is still illegal under federal law. she’s 65 years old and living alone with aids. this frail albuquerque woman, who wants to be called mary, says marijuana saved her life. "basically it’s kept me alive. if it were not for that i would not be sitting here. in the last three years, i came close to death twice." "jojola: you probably don’t have a medicine cabinet that can fit all of this." mary says the 30 pills she takes every day are nauseating. and that the marijuana on her coffee table helps her eat. "it overrides the nausea and gives me the energy to get up and prepare the food when i need it." in her wallet—a state medical cannabis card. she’s among the first to get one. "there are more than two thousand patients participating in the state’s medical cannabis program. a program so tightly regulated, you don’t see any marijuana shops anywhere."

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Washington, Aug 29 : A new test being developed could now pinpoint smoke deliveries of select chemicals that an individual smoker consumes on a per cigarette basis.

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Novel test may lead to custom-tailored quitting approaches for smokers

Swiss drug maker Roche Holding AG (RHHBY.PK) (ROG.VX) will face a litmus test related to its top-selling cancer drug Avastin within a few weeks. The drug has also suffered a series of clinical trial setbacks recently , which have dimmed the shine of its bullish growth prospects. But that said, there may be still room to grow for the drug before its US patent expires in 2017 as it continues to be …

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WASHINGTON: An experimental therapy that targets the protein that feeds certain types of advanced melanomas has successfully shrunk tumours in up to 80 per cent of test patients, a study said.

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Drug ’shut off’ protein that feeds melanoma

The scepticism that surrounded Ben Cousins’ arrival for a pivotal drug test in 2008 with a newly shaved head has proved to be well founded.

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Cousins shaved down to beat drug test

BBC special on Cannabinoid Receptors…below an article by Steve Kubby, Sierra Times …A new study published in Nature Reviews-Cancer provides an historic and detailed explanation about how THC and natural cannabinoids counteract cancer, but preserve normal cells. It is hard to believe that the knowledge that cannabis can be used to fight cancer has been suppressed for almost thirty years , yet it seems likely that it will continue to be suppressed. Why? According to Cowan, the answer is because it is a threat to cannabis prohibition . "If this article and its predecessors from 2000 and 1974 were the only evidence of the suppression of medical cannabis, then one might perhaps be able to rationalize it in some herniated way. However, there really is massive proof that the suppression of medical cannabis represents the greatest failure of the institutions of a free society, medicine, journalism, science, and our fundamental values," Cowan notes. Millions of people have died horrible deaths and in many cases, families exhausted their savings on dangerous, toxic and expensive drugs. Now we are just beginning to realize that while marijuana has never killed anyone, marijuana prohibition has killed millions. FAIR USE NOTICE: This video may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for educational purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in Title 17 USC section 107 of the US Copyright Law

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Biomerica Inc. said Monday it has received European regulatory approval to sell a home test that consumers can use to determine if they are allergic to dogs. The biomedical company will sell the product through drug stores and other retailers in the European… Allergy - Health - Allergies - Conditions and Diseases - Retailing

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Amid a rash of accidents involving public utility vehices, two transport groups on Sunday expressed support for a proposal to test PUV drivers for drug abuse as part of efforts to ensure safety on the road.

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The credit crisis appears to have sobered up Wall Street in more ways than one. A review of drug-test data compiled by drug testing firm Sterling Infosystems Inc., shows that cocaine is losing its favor among investment professionals. What drug is their choice? Marijuana.

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Random urinalysis for Bolling Airmen happens every week. All civilians and E-1 through E-6 and O-1 through O-3 Airmen are subject to random drug testing.

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