THE OREGON DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES

 

HEALTH SERVICES – OREGON MEDICAL MARIJUANA PROGRAM

 

In the Matter of the Petition of Edward Glick,    )

 to add Clinical Depression, Depressive              )

Symptoms, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder        )      EDWARD GLICK’S PETITION

 (PTSD), Severe Anxiety, Agitation and              )      PURSUANT TO ORS §475.334

 Insomnia, to Those Diseases and Conditions     )

Which Qualify as ‘Debilitating Medical               )

Conditions’ under the Oregon Medical               )     

Marijuana Act                                                      )

 

TO:  Grant Higginson, MD, MPH, Administrator, Office of Community Health and

        Health PText Box: #

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Petitioner Edward Glick, petitions the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program to add Clinical Depression, Depressive Symptoms, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Severe Anxiety, Agitation and Insomnia to Those Diseases and Conditions Which Qualify as ‘Debilitating Medical Conditions’ under the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act, as follows:

 

 

            This petition is subject to OAR 333-008-0090, and for that reason, petitioner submits the following new scientific research in support of adding each of these conditions. This additional research submission is in addition to research submitted in January, 2009.

 

PROPOSED CONDITION

 

NEW SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

Clinical Depression and Depressive Symptoms

Depression/Depressive Symptoms Research

Studies

 

Fride, E., Russo, E., Neuropsychiatry: Schizophrenia, Depression, and Anxiety, in Endocannabinoids, The Brain and Body’s Marijuana and Beyond. Taylor and Francis, Boca Raton FL, 2006.  371-382.

 

 

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

 

Hohmann, A., et al., An endocannabinoid  mechanism for stress-induced analgesia. Nature, Vol. 435/23 June 2005. 1108-1112.

 

Marsicano, G., et al., The endogenous cannabinoid system controls extinction of aversive memories. Nature, Vol. 418/1 August 2002. 530-534.

 

 

Personal Correspondence

OMMP Patient 161570

 

M. W.     1/31/09

 

D. W.      2/03/09

 

D. P.      2/07/09

 

W. H.      2/08/09

 

J. C.      2/13/09

 

B. H.     2/22/09

 

D. N.     2/22/09

 

J.           2/25/09

 

B. B.     2/28/09

 

S.          2/28/09

 

C. M.      3/02/09

 

J. S.       3/09/09

 

T. D.       3/11/09

 

K. S.       3/20/09

 

G. T.      ?

 

A.I.        3/11/09

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Severe Anxiety

 

 

Severe Anxiety Research Studies

 

 

 

Agitation

 

 

Agitation Research Studies

 

 

 


 

Personal Correspondence

 

M. Tina, Bipolar and Medicinal Marijuana. (2006)

 

Insomnia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Insomnia Research Studies

 

Russo, E., et al., Cannabis, Pain and Sleep: Lessons from Therapeutic Clinical Trials of Sativex, a Cannabis-Based Medicine. Chemistry and Biodiversity, Vol. 4, 2007. 1729=1743.