Dr. Marvel McCain Parker addresses the League of Women Voters of the Park Forest Area Saturday in University Park. (Photo: Gary Kopycinski) University Park, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Dr. Marvel McCain Parker issued a challenge Saturday night to the League of Women Voters of the Park Forest Area, urging members to "become advocates[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 12, 2010.  Joseph Casias, 29, has sinus cancer and an inoperable brain tumor. Despite his condition, he has dutifully gone to work every day for the last five years at a Walmart in Battle Creek, Michigan, where in 2008 he was named Associate of the Year. Casias is[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 3, 2010.  In the latest sign of a growing embrace of medical marijuana by the business community in this country, a California-based insurer said this week that it will now offer medical marijuana-related coverage in all 50 states. A spokesman for Statewide Insurance Services said the new program[Read More…]

Commentary The Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research (CMCR), based at the University of California, San Diego, published a report today summarizing the results of clinical trials studying medical marijuana’s efficacy in treating pain. The studies, funded by CMCR under the mandate of a 1999 legislative action, found that marijuana is[Read More…]

Commentary Great news from the great state of Iowa: Today the state’s Board of Pharmacy voted 6-0 to recommend to lawmakers that the state reclassify marijuana as a Schedule II drug and create a task force to study the possible implementation of medical marijuana in the state. This recommendation puts[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–California has had legal medical marijuana for over 13 years, and more than 80% of Americans support patients’ rights to use it. But none of that mattered to Christian Hughes’ employer, who fired him for testing positive for marijuana that he uses under his doctor’s recommendation to treat injuries[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2010.  Yesterday, a team of bipartisan Maryland legislators announced the details of two bills that would make medical marijuana legal and accessible for qualified patients in the state. The bill’s main sponsor in the House is Del. Dan Morhaim (D-Baltimore County), who, as an internist and emergency[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 19, 2010.  A new ABC News/Washington Post poll reveals that more than eight in 10 Americans (81%) support efforts to make marijuana legal for medical use, up from 69 percent in 1997. Fifty-six percent say that if it’s allowed, “doctors should be able to prescribe medical marijuana to[Read More…]

Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– People in crisis generally don’t have the energy or ability to take on a long search for help. The best way to prevent suicide with clinical depression is to know the risk factors for suicide and to recognize the warning signs of suicide. Take these signs seriously.[Read More…]

Westchester, IL–(ENEWSPF)– A study in the Jan. 1 issue of the journal Sleep found that adolescents with bedtimes that were set earlier by parents were significantly less likely to suffer from depression and to think about committing suicide, suggesting that earlier bedtimes could have a protective effect by lengthening sleep duration and[Read More…]