Medical Cannabis (Marijuana or Marihuana) Bibliography
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Books
- if not in your local bookstore, new and used
books are often at www.amazon.com or www.half.com
Handbook of Cannabis Therapeutics:
From Bench to Bedside edited by Ethan Russo MD and Franjo
Grotenhermen MD (Haworth Press 2006) 1-800-HAWORTH.
Cannabis and Cannabinoids: Pharmacology, Toxicology, and
Therapeutic Potential edited by Franjo Grotenhermen MD and Ethan Russo MD
(Haworth Press 2002).
The
1999 National Academy of Sciences/
Is Marijuana the Right Medicine for You? A Factual Guide to
Medical Uses of Marijuana by Bill Zimmerman PhD with Rick Bayer MD and Nancy
Crumpacker MD (Keats 1998). Chapter 3: Why All the Controversy? What Does
The Research Actually Show? Online at www.medmjscience.org/Media/pdf/chap3.pdf
A Primer on Drug Action: A Concise, Nontechnical Guide to
the Actions, Uses, and Side Effects of Psychoactive Drugs (Eighth
Edition) by Robert M Julien MD PhD (Freeman 1998)
Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts: A Review of the Scientific
Evidence by Lynn Zimmer PhD, and John Morgan MD (The Lindesmith
Center 1997) www.marijuanafacts.org
Marijuana
Medical Handbook: A Guide to Therapeutic Use by Ed Rosenthal, Dale
Gieringer PhD and Tod Mikuriya MD (Quick American Archives 1997) 1-800-428-7825
Ext. 102
Cannabis
in Medical Practice: A Legal, Historical, and Pharmacological Overview of the
Therapeutic Use of Marijuana edited by Mary Lynn Mathre RN
(McFarland & Company, Inc. 1997) www.medicalcannabis.com/reference.htm
Marihuana:
The Forbidden Medicine by Lester Grinspoon MD and James Bakalar JD (Yale
University Press 1997) 1-800-YUP-READ www.rxmarihuana.com
Hemp
for Health: The Medicinal and Nutritional Uses of Cannabis Sativa by Chris
Conrad (Healing Arts Press 1997) www.chrisconrad.com
Marihuana
Reconsidered by Lester Grinspoon MD (Harvard University Press 1971 and
1977 and Lester Grinspoon 1994 and Quick American Archives 1996) 1-800-428-7825
Ext. 102
Cancer Treatment & Marijuana Therapy edited by
Robert Randall (Galen Press 1990)
Marijuana:
Medical Papers 1839-1972 edited by Tod Mikuriya MD (Medi-Comp Press 1973)
online at www.mikuriya.com/mmp.html and www.mikuriya.com/cannabis.html
Why
Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It: A Judicial Indictment of
the War on Drugs by Judge James P. Gray (Temple Press 2001)
Drug
Crazy: How We Got Into This Mess and How We Can Get Out by Mike
Gray (Random House 1998)
From
Chocolate to Morphine: Everything You Need to Know about Mind-Altering Drugs by Andrew
Weil MD and Jennifer Rosen (Houghton Mifflin 1983 and 1993)
Articles Online
- abstracts
or summaries are often online at the National Library of Medicine www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
International
Association of Cannabis as Medicine (IACM) Database on Clinical Studies and
Case Reports www.acmed.org/english/nav/home-science.htm
O'Shaughnessy's Journal of
the California Cannabis Research Medical Group (CCRMG) www.ccrmg.org/journal.html
Solvay
Pharmaceuticals offers the only federally legal cannabinoid in the USA,
synthetic THC (dronabinol) in a capsule called Marinolâ www.marinol.com Important prescribing information about THC is
at: www.marinol.com/prescribe.html Marinol
versus Natural Cannabis: Pros, Cons, and Options for Patients by
Paul Armentano 2005 is at www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6635
GW
Pharmaceuticals developed Sativexâ, an herbal cannabis extract sprayed into the mouth. In
2005, it became available by prescription in
Developing
Science-Based Per Se Limits for Driving under the Influence of Cannabis by F
Grotenhermen MD et al 2005 www.ornorml.org/faq/Grotenhermen
Cannabis Driving Report 2005.pdf You Are Going
Directly To Jail: DUID Legislation: What It Means, Who's Behind It, and
Strategies to Prevent It by Paul Armentano 2005 www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=5448 Medical
Cannabis (Marijuana) and Impairment: What are the facts? R Bayer MD 2005 www.alternativesmagazine.com/35/bayer.html
or with endnotes www.ccrmg.org/journal/05aut/impair.html
or the original 2005 Oregon House Bill 2693A testimony with footnotes www.omma1998.org/2005 HB 2693a
testimony.pdf
“Medical Marijuana and the Supreme
Court” by Susan Okie MD New England Journal of Medicine 353;7
August 18, 2005 content.nejm.org/cgi/reprint/353/7/648.pdf
“Medical Marijuana, American Federalism, and the Supreme
Court” by Lawrence O Gostin JD LLD (Hon) Journal of
the American Medical Association 294;7 August 17, 2005
www.csdp.org/research/842.pdf
“Federal Foolishness and
Marijuana” by Jerome Kassirer MD.
“Marihuana as Medicine: A
Plea for Reconsideration” by L Grinspoon MD and J Bakalar JD Journal of the
American Medical Association 273(23)1995 www.rxmarihuana.com/jama.htm
“Cannabis Vaporizer Combines Efficient Delivery of THC with
Effective Suppression of Pyrolytic Compounds” by Dale Gieringer, Joseph St.
Laurent, Scott Goodrich Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics 4(1) 2004 www.maps.org/mmj/Gieringer-vaporizer.pdf “NORML-MAPS
Study Shows Vaporizers Reduce Toxins in Marijuana Smoke” by D Gieringer PhD www.canorml.org/healthfacts/vaporizers.html
and www.mikuriya.com/can_vapor.html by Tod
Mikuriya MD. “Medical Cannabis Update: Smokeless Marijuana” by R Bayer MD 2004 www.alternativesmagazine.com/31/bayer.html
“Dried,
Activated, Oil-Free, Cannabis Capsules for Legal Patients” by R
Bayer MD 2005 www.omma1998.org/mmjcaps1.1.pdf
“Short-Term Effects of Cannabinoids in Patients with HIV-1
Infection: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial” by Donald
Abrams MD et al Annals of Internal Medicine. 2003;139:258
www.annals.org/cgi/reprint/139/4/258.pdf “Marijuana Does Not Appear to Alter Viral
Loads of HIV Patients Taking Protease Inhibitors” by Donald Abrams MD.
“Therapeutic Cannabis (Marijuana) as an Antiemetic and
Appetite Stimulant in Persons with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)”
by Richard Bayer MD Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics 1(3/4) 2001 www.omma1998.org/Bayer-Cannabis
for nausea in AIDS JCT 2001.pdf
“Cannabis is more than simply D9–tetrahydrocannabinol”
by E Russo, J McPartland Psychopharmacology
(2003)165:431 www.omma1998.org/Psychopharmacology-Russo-McPartland.pdf “Cannabis and Cannabis
Extracts: Greater than the Sum of their Parts?” by McPartland & Russo J
Cann Ther 1(3/4) 2001 www.omma1998.org/McPartland-Russo-JCANT
1(3-4)-2001.pdf
“The
Role of Cannabis and Cannabinoids in Pain Management” by Ethan Russo MD.
Chapter 31 from Pain Management: A Practical Guide for Clinicians edited
by Richard S Weiner PhD (6th edition American
“Cannabis Treatments in
Obstetrics and Gynecology: A Historical Review” by Ethan
Russo MD. Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics 2(3/4) 2002 www.freedomtoexhale.com/russo-ob.pdf
“Chronic Cannabis Use in
the Compassionate Investigational New Drug Program: An Examination of Benefits
and Adverse Effects of Legal Clinical Cannabis” by Ethan
Russo, Mary Lynn Mathre, Al Byrne, Robert Velin, Paul Bach, Juan Sanchez-Ramos,
and Kristin Kirlin Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics 2(1) 2002 www.drugpolicy.org/docUploads/Chronic_Cannabis.pdf
Entire Charter Issue
Online: Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics 1(1) 2001 www.cannabis-med.org/jcant/Jcant1(1).pdf
includes “Marijuana (Cannabis) As Medicine” by Leo Hollister MD and “Effects of
Smoked Cannabis and Oral D 9 Tetrahydrocannabinol
on Nausea and Emesis After Cancer Chemotherapy: A Review of State Clinical
Trials” by Richard Musty and Rita Rossi.
“Inhalation Marijuana as an
Antiemetic for Cancer Chemotherapy” by V Vinciguerra, T Moore, E Brennan New
York State Med Journal Oct 1988 www.omma1998.org/omr_vinciguerra.html
“Delta-9-THC as an
Antiemetic in Cancer Patients Receiving High-Dose Methotrexate” by A Chang MD
et al Annals of Internal Medicine 91(6) 1979 www.omma1998.org/omr_chang.html
Websites and Links
to many other websites and links:
Patients
Out of Time www.medicalcannabis.com
National
Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws (NORML) www.norml.org and
Drug
Policy Alliance (formerly Lindesmith Center and Drug Policy Foundation) www.dpf.org
Drug Reform Coordination Network Online Library of Drug
Policy www.druglibrary.org
Media Awareness Project www.mapinc.org
Is the
Groups including the American and Oregon Medical
Associations and American Cancer Society support marijuana research. Federal
delay of research include Dr. Abram’s efforts to study Marijuana in AIDS
Wasting: www.maps.org/mmj/index.html and Dr.
Russo’s efforts in Acute Migraine Headache: www.maps.org/news-letters/v08n1/08115rus.html
Under federal law, it is illegal for doctors to prescribe marijuana/cannabis as
medicine even to dying and suffering patients to whom we routinely give drugs
such as morphine.
Who
Supports Access to Medical Cannabis?
See public opinion polls www.ohiopatient.net/projects/Poll_Analysis.htm
single page list of organizations www.medicalcannabis.com/PDF/Grouplist.pdf
supporting access to therapeutic cannabis and multi-page list of organizations
including statements and types of endorsements www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=3388. The
Oregon Medical Association is "neutral" on the
A 2002 Federal Court of Appeals decision upheld First
Amendment rights of physicians to recommend medical use of marijuana: http://oregon.gov/DHS/ph/ommp/legal.shtml
Return to Home Page www.omma1998.org Bibliography by Richard Bayer MD,
FACP; Board Certified: American Board of Internal Medicine. Please contact ricbayer@omma1998.org to report
mistakes or broken links.