The American Medical Association recently converse its long-standing position and urged the federal government to loosen the classification of Marijuana and clear the path for more medical marijuana use and clinical research.

OK–great–but for real: why isn’t pot entirely legal already?

Likely because of a straitlaced law-and-order ethos that pervades the generations of policymakers who have curried exclusive right with frightened and uninteresting voters by creating a make-believe egression out of cannabis, is my theory.

Lumping pot in with other Schedule I drugs (the highest classification for a controlled substance)  like heroin and LSD is so completely unreasonable that it’s like lumping alcohol in with setting your face on fire.

Setting your face on fire is clearly the more dangerous high between the two.

In fact, based on my completely anecdotal observations, I would posit that alcohol is absolutely, positively a worse drug than marijuana.

In my line of work (i.e. writer), I’ve known a ton of potheads (i.e. writers) and alcoholics (i.e. other writers). No one gets in fights when they’re high. They don’t hurt anyone, they don’t do anything. They sit on the couch, eat Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and giggle at infomercials for four hours. “Normal” people like tax accountants and nurses are more dangerous.

The Obama administration has already said that it will not concern the justice department with chasing down potheads, which makes it that much easier in severalizes where weed is quickly becoming de facto legal.

The next step will likely come from California, which is drawing ever closer to legalization and taxation of pot–cutting it out of the business portfolio of Mexican drug cartels and elevation $1.4 billion for the cash-strapped state in the bargain.

The entire ill-conceived war on drugs is an experiment in legislating morality that borders on outright farce. As Chris Rock–probably one of the great thinkers of our time if you get right down to it–once pointed out, people will do anything to get high.

You wanna make drugs illegal? Well, people will just let their excrement ferment in the sun and then take a big whiff.

I am not making that up.

And what are parents or the government or the D.A.R.E. officers supposed to tell kids now?

That if you smoke weed, you’ll never amount to anything? You’ll never be a record-breaking Olympic swimmer? The President of the United States (”I inhaled. That was the point.”)? A published author?

Please. Somebody get me some Ben & Jerry’s.

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The Los Angeles City Council last week finally adopted a medical marijuana ordinance. Though not perfect, it balances the needs of local communities with those of patients who truly need access to medical marijuana. And it will rein in an out-of-control situation in which a federally banned substance has been sold for the last four years as hundreds of dispensaries proliferated in the city of Los Angeles, with no local regulations and ambiguous state laws to guide us.

To make the new ordinance work as effectively as possible, legislators need to clarify the state’s medical marijuana laws — Proposition 215 and its accompanying SB 420. Both are silent or vague on critical issues for the practical implementation at the local level.

As cities throughout California draft ordinances, they are grappling with issues that they have no power over and that should be handled at the state level. Moreover, they are trying to pinpoint evolving and changing court rulings interpreting state law.

In Los Angeles, one of the most difficult issues was what constitutes a “sale.” My colleagues on the City Council and I addressed this by stipulating that although no collective shall operate for profit, “cash and in-kind contributions, reimbursements and reasonable compensation” are allowed as long as they comply with current state law. However, we don’t know how this provision will be enforced because we are relying on state law that is unclear and in litigation.

It is also unclear whether the over-the-counter dispensary model was what voters intended when they approved Proposition 215. The law might have intended a much more limited distribution of marijuana, such as having either patients or their caregivers grow their own product or having collectives grow a small amount and reimburse members for their labor.

Without clarity from the state, the council also had to punt on the issues of cultivation and transportation of marijuana by saying that the ordinance would abide by state law.

Cultivation is important because the ordinance as written does not address where the collectives will obtain their marijuana. Will it be grown locally, imported from Northern California or bought on the black market? And are people who transport the marijuana to and from collectives immune from prosecution?

Another issue that is not being addressed locally but perhaps is the biggest impediment to properly regulating dispensaries relates to the wide discretion and relative immunity that physicians have in recommending medical marijuana to patients. When most of us have a medical issue, we don’t look through the pages of alternative weeklies to find a physician. We go to the doctor who knows the most about our medical history — our primary-care physician.

Yet under state law there is no requirement to curb abuse by having people see their primary-care physician first, or, as Oregon does, to require that a patient get a note from an “attending physician” with whom he or she has an established patient/physician relationship.

It’s interesting to note that Oregon, like several other states, only allows medical marijuana for a narrow list of conditions. In contrast, in California, marijuana can be recommended for anything from cancer to writer’s cramp. So, although California voters have not (yet) directed the state to legalize marijuana for nonmedical use, the state medical marijuana law has created de facto legalization because practically anyone can become a qualified patient.

Given these ambiguities, the city has provided an ordinance within existing state law that does its best to create access for medical marijuana patients while protecting local communities from potential negative consequences.

The council voted to support a requirement that dispensaries be at least 1,000 feet from sensitive-use areas where children and families gather, such as schools, playgrounds and places of worship — and from other dispensaries.

We also capped the number of collectives at 70 (instead of the estimated 700-plus that exist) and required notification to neighborhood councils before new dispensaries open in their areas. To control profiteering, we also required annual audits and outlawed common ownership of multiple collectives.

I, like a majority of California voters, voted in favor of Proposition 215 because I believe that patients dealing with cancer, AIDS, chronic pain and other serious ailments should have access to medical marijuana.

However, I remain concerned about profiteers looking to make a quick buck, recreational users looking to use an ambiguous state law to their advantage and less-than-scrupulous doctors willing to play along by writing quick and unverified recommendations. Though seemingly innocuous to some, these unchecked activities can lead to real problems in local communities should the state refuse to further regulate medical marijuana. I encourage state legislators to immediately amend SB 420 to deal with its ambiguities.

In the future, if the voters legalize marijuana for recreational use, I would hope that the state provides clear and practical rules for local implementation, unlike what has occurred with medical marijuana.

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Stress is a common headache trigger. In intense situations, particular chemicals are released into the brain as a counter force to handle the injury.This in turn strokes the blood vessels which lead to headaches. Migraines in particular are caused by stress.

Tension type headaches, too primarily are caused as a consequence of stress. Tension type headaches can be broadly categorized into protracted and episodic. Episodic type headaches are marked by scant headaches that primarily are caused thanks to a stressful event. However, people who deal with an everyday stressful life may have chronic type headache.

Headache causing stress is usually induced by factors which exist in the environment or other internal reasons. The commonest sources of stress include family, social relationship, friends,work and college. Specific stress triggers include :

* issues at home
* The birth of a kid.
* Absence of best friends
* Examination stress
* Preparation for tests or exams
* starting of a new job
* Deadlines at work
* Competing in sports
* Being fired from a job
* Being a perfectionist
* Constant recurring looking for of perfection
* Less sleep than necessary
* Over participation in countless activities.

If you do not need  to deal with headaches, it is important that you keep stress in control. These are some tips that will help you keep stress in control.

* Understand factors that cause stress. Keep a track of diverse factors that might be responsible for triggering a stress attack.
* Manage time effectively: Schedule your jobs by allocating adequate time period for every one of them. Perform a single task at a time.
* Take breaks :taking five from stressful or potentially stressful situations will help reduce possibilities of getting headaches. Take time out to clear your consciousness and re-evaluate in case you end up in a seemingly complex situation. A short walk or a stretch break could very well renew your energy.
* Start exercising every day.Exercising releases endorphins in your body and helps combat a headache.
* Maintain proper diet :A tasty controlled diet with a rich quantity of veggies,fruits and grains maintains your health and also prevents stress.
* Take a short trip. The daily grind can make you stressed. Break your daily routine and go for a short trip. It’ll help you get a new perspective.
* Laugh:Humor is an appropriate approach to easing stress. Laughter releases the chemical endorphin into the brain which keeps your mood positive.

in addition,you may seek help of various non prescription medications to treat headaches that result of stress. Some of the medicines that you might use are ibuprofen, aspirin, acetaminophen and naproxen. You may also go for prescription medication such as ketoprofen, isometheptene, tolmetin, hydrocodone, and diclofenac.

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