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Marijuana Treats Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

By Ganja Blue | October 8, 2008

The American Alliance for Medical Cannabis is debating medical marijuana on the Opposing Views forum. This is one of the rare places that drug warriors actually show up to debate. AAMC claims that medical marijuana treats the symptoms of ADHD. Without divulging too much of my personal life I’ll have to agree whole heartedly by [...]

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FDA Admits Prohibition Doesn’t Work

By Ganja Blue | October 8, 2008

The FDA has decided not to ban pediatric OTC cold and cough medicine, even though it has been shown to be ineffective and even dangerous to our children. One of the major objections to the ban is a reasonable one. The FDA recognizes that in the event of a total ban some parents will opt [...]

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Big Pharma Drug Pushers

By Ganja Blue | May 29, 2008

Psychwatch, the psychology watchdog blog, writes about “add on” drugs which are slightly different, to retain patent protection, but no more effective than the original drugs. By slightly changing the chemical makeup of the drug pharmaceutical companies can manipulate doctors in to prescribing the “new and improved” version instead of an old formulation which [...]

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