Riverside County businessman Stewart Hauptman's latest venture gives new meaning to the term "recreational drugs." Until recently, he sold marijuana for medical use from a souped-up RV he parked outside a Norco clinic.

He refurbished a 1985 Pace Arrow motor home, installing display cases, a baked-goods section and other amenities. He named the operation the Lakeview Collective-on-Wheels and parked the converted RV in a lot outside the clinic, where people were being evaluated for medical marijuana use.

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Steve DeAngelo, executive director of Oakland's Harborside Medical Center, featured in today's Sacramento Bee, is traveling east this weekend to introduce a new medicinal pot strain he says is unlikely to get anyone stoned.

DeAngelo is to introduce a "non-psychoactive" cannabis developed by Harborside's patient-cultivators.

He will appear at the "Cannabis - the Medicine Plant Forum" at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Warwick, RI to discuss a specially-developed "True Blueberry" and "OG Kush" pot hybrid.

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Here is my latest update of the medical marijuana map I’ve been creating for years. I feel like this is my most comprehensive map yet.

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Schwer kranke Kinder profitieren von antispastischer, schmerzlindernder und angstlösender Wirkung

Der Kinderarzt, Schmerz- und Palliativmediziner Sven Gottschling vom Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes in Homburg/Saar behandelt Kinder, die aufgrund von Erkrankungen wie Krebs, Erbleiden oder Behinderungen unter starken Schmerzen leiden. Wenn er mit den herkömmlichen Medikamenten die Pein seiner kleinen Patienten nicht mehr in den Griff bekommt, verordnet Gottschling seit fünf Jahren Dronabinol, den halbsynthetisch hergestellten Hauptwirkstoff der Cannabis-Pflanze. Die Präsentation seiner Fallserie auf dem Deutschen Schmerz- und Palliativtag in Frankfurt/Main wurde Sven Gottschling heute mit dem 1. Posterpreis ausgezeichnet.

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Es ist eine sonderbare Apotheke. „Die Medizin nicht auf dem Parkplatz einnehmen“, warnen Schilder vor Eingang. Drei Sicherheitsleute kontrollieren die Kunden, ein Metalldetektor hält Waffenträger fern, 22 Kameras überwachen das Gelände. Drinnen wirkt das „Haborside Health Center“ im kalifornischen Oakland wie eine Mischung aus Wellness-Tempel, Boutique und Edel-Gartencenter. In den Ecken thronen Buddhastatuen. Süßlicher Geruch hängt in der Luft. Im Hintergrund läuft sanfter Reggae. Die Kunden stehen vor acht Verkaufsvitrinen geordnet Schlange. Sie legen Rezepte vor und wählen zwischen Heilpflanzen, die Namen tragen wie Baba Kush, Hindu Skunk oder Pink Panther. Gut gelaunte Verkäufer erklären Geschmacksnoten und Wirkweisen dieser „Arzneien“.

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Senate Bill 109 would bar doctors from writing recommendations inside dispensaries that sell medical marijuana and requires a full physical exam before recommending marijuana for patients. Critics claim that government officials with no formal medical training are demonizing and second-guessing private confidential decisions of trained physicians who advise patients and prescribe marijuana as a medical treatment to patients. Marijuana advocates say government should not interfere with private medical decisions in respect to doctors and patients.

It is obvious that the courts will have to weigh in to stop all the Reefer madness.

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2009 was undeniably the "Year of Medical Marijuana" in Colorado as tens of thousands of patients came out of hiding and opted to be added to the state's medical marijuana registry. Thousands of others who had either never tried marijuana, or whose experience with the plant ended decades ago, began to cautiously ask family, friends and their doctors about medical marijuana and what realistic benefits they might expect. Despite a seemingly endless stream of media coverage on the issue, many people are still unclear what "medical" marijuana really means.

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