Medical Pot: An NZBN Bibliography

ProgTeeTotall · Heavy User Joined: Jul 25, 2003 Posts: 310

Okay, the report may have its shortcomings. Courtesy of the NZ Bibliographical Network, here's a list of NZ held and other potential resources that NORML and allies can use to lobby for that incremental advance at least:

NEW SOUTH WALES:

Marie Swain and Gareth Griffith: Medical Use of Cannabis: Recent Developments: Sydney: NSW Parliamentary Library Research Service: 1999: Briefing Paper: NSW Parliamentary Library Research Service No 99/11

Report of Working Party on Use of Cannabis for Medical Purposes: New South Wales: Working Party on Use of Cannabis for Medical Purposes: 2000.

Report on Consultation on Findings and Recommendations of Working Party on Use of Cannabis for Medical Purposes: Sydney: Office of Drug Policy, Cabinet Office: New South Wales State Government: 2001:
ISBN: 0731354036

[Do a Net search for these resources or ask your NSW contacts for copies, or contact the NSW State Govt direct c/o the Sydney Telstra
White Pages online]

WOMEN

Ethan Russo, Melanie Dreher and Mary Lynn Mathrie, Women and Cannabis: Medicine, Science and Sociology: New York: Harworth Herbal Press 2002
ISBN: 0789021013

[No NZ Holdings. Not much on women's cancers and medicinal uses of cannabis. See below. Order from Barnes and Noble/Amazon.Com]

CURRENT NZ-HELD RESOURCES ON MEDICAL CANNABIS:

British Medical Association: Therapeutic Uses of Cannabis: Amsterdam:
Harwood Academic: 1997
ISBN: 9057023180

Holdings: Auckland University of Technology Library, New Plymouth District Library, North Shore Library, Tauranga District Library, UCOL Library (Palmerston North), UNITEC Library, University of Auckland Library, University of Otago Medical Library, Waikato District Library

[Strongly recommended]

Alan Bock: Waiting to Inhale: The Politics of Medical Marijuana: Santa Ana: Seven Locks Press: 2000
ISBN: 0929765826

Holdings: University of Auckland Library

Mary Ann Mathre: Cannabis in Medical Practice: Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company: 1997
ISBN: 0786403616

Holdings: Wellington Institute of Technology Library.

Bill Zimmerman: Is Marijuana the Right Medicine for You? A Factual Guide to Medical Uses of Marijuana: New Canaan: Keats Publishing: 1998:
ISBN: 0879839066

Holdings: Christchurch City Libraries, Rodney District Libraries, Taupo District Library, Tauranga District Library, Waipa District Library, Whangarei District Library.

CANADA

Research Plan for Marijuana for Medical Purposes: Status Report:
Therapeutic Products Programme, Health Canada: 1999

[Again, do an online search for this one]

NO CURRENT NZ HOLDINGS [...but perhaps order via Amazon.Com or Barnes and Noble?]

Ethan Russo: Cannabis Therapeutics in HIV/AIDS: New York: Haworth
Integrative Healing Press: 2001
ISBN: 0789016990

Geoff Guy et al: Medicinal Use of Cannabis: London: Pharmaceutical Press: 2003
ISBN: 0853695172

R.C.Randall (ed) Cancer Treatment and Marijuana Therapy: Washington DC: Galen Press: 1990:
ISBN: 0936485051

[May be dated.]

ProgTeeTotall · Heavy User Joined: Jul 25, 2003 Posts: 310

Unfortunately, I ran out of time to complete my NZBN-derived list of available and potentially available resources on the medicinal use of cannabis in New Zealand. Happily, though, I have news of two excellent and comprehensive reports on medicinal use of cannabis and its derivatives, this time from the United States. Even better, both have considerable numbers of New Zealand holdings and are recent compilations of current evidence-based studies about medicinal usage of cannabis.

US INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE: PUBLICATIONS ABOUT MEDICINAL

Janet Joy, Stanley Watson and John Benson (eds) Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base: Division of Neuroscience and Behavioural Health, Institute of Medicine: Washington DC:National Academy Press: 1999:
ISBN: 0309071550

New Zealand Holdings:

Auckland City Libraries
Auckland University of Technology Library
Canterbury Medical Library
Ministry of Health Information Centre
South Waikato District Library
University of Auckland Philson Library
Wellington Institute of Technology Library

Alison Mack and Janet Joy (eds) Marijuana as Medicine? The Science Behind the Controversy: Washington DC: National Academy Press: 2001:
ISBN: 0309065313

New Zealand Holdings:

Auckland University of Technology Library
Eastern Institute of Technology Hawkes Bay Library
Invercargill District Library
Kapiti District Library
Tauranga District Library
UCOL Library (Palmerston North)
University of Auckland Science Library
University of Canterbury Law Library
University of Otago Medical Library
Waikato Institute of Technology Library
Wellington Institute of Technology Library

[Read this one last year. Strongly recommended, as can be seen from its diversity of university specialist library placements.]

Hope this helps others in lobbying efforts and practical campaign work.

Craig

ProgTeeTotall · Heavy User Joined: Jul 25, 2003 Posts: 310

This one seems more of a humanitarian interest story, but such concrete examples are damned useful lobbying tools. I don't know if Mr Reilly is still with us, but he might be asked to contribute if he's not too sick to do so. Couldn't find anything comparable about HIV/AIDS.

Pauline Reilly: Cannabis and Cancer-Arthur's Story: Carlton North, Victoria: Scribe 2001
ISBN: 090801161X

NZ Holdings:

Auckland Public Libraries
Dunedin Public Library
Fielding District Library
Horowhenua District Library Trust
Kapiti District Library
Marlborough District Library
Napier Public Library
Nelson Public Library
New Plymouth District Library
South Taranaki District Library
Stratford and District Library
Timaru Public Library
Waimakariri District Library

ProgTeeTotall · Heavy User Joined: Jul 25, 2003 Posts: 310

By the way, anyone who wants to use the medical marijuana bibliography in terms of leaflets, submissions, pro-reform websites, and other contexts that are supportive of medicinal use decriminalisation, feel free. It mightn't
be a bad idea to comb the books for useful secondary reference material
either, and then consult university, institute of tech or any other specialist libraries for further and new pro-decriminalisation medical and social scientific research:

If you do, remember the following rules of thumb when assessing new research material for campaign use:

Good research =

+ Large sample size (otherwise how can you tell whether its representative or not)
+ Representative population (as opposed to clinical population eg
if people have probs with cannabis, is it because of polydrug use
and bad interactions? Is it because they have prior mental health
problems?)
+ Control groups (eg someone who doesn't use; for example, is
symptom severity for people with schizophrenia dependent on
other factors than cannabis ie possible polydrug use, absence of
community care and access to reliable and safe meds, etc)
+ Duration of study (How long is it supposed to take? Can you infer
anything from a short-term sample, especially if cumulative effects are what is being measured?)
+ No unwarranted inferences (Are these claims corroborated by the
available data, or known research literature on the subject?)
+ No artefactual overprocessing (This is slightly more complicated. Basically, the idea is this. Take a data subset of an original research procedure that shows exactly the opposite conclusions and then focus on that data subset to the exclusion of all else)
+ No monocausal inferences (Is it caused by cannabis consumption, or
are there other effects attributable to other variables that are unmentioned
or inadequately footnoted? It might not be a bad idea to look at comparable research to see if there is dodginess going on here)

***Do not take prohibitionist research claims at face value***

+ Allow for adverse reactions and suggest solutions (Do some people have a genetic predisposition to adverse reactions to cannabinoids? If so, wouldn't this be best met by harm minimisation and risk reduction ie
something similar to health warnings on ciggie packets? Or feature them prominently on pro-reform websites?)

NB: It's not only illicit drugs that carry that risk- I had an adverse reaction to Prozac, which is overprescribed and documented as having had numerous cases of similar responses overseas.

drstuey · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 11:59 pm

Good work Craig!!

I also developed a list of medical pot research papers and wrote (hopefully accurate) summaries of them for the UKCIA website when I ran it... http://www.ukcia.org/medical/

ProgTeeTotall · Heavy User Joined: Jul 25, 2003 Posts: 310

True enough, DS, although you'd have to rope in a vet or animal behaviouralist to corroborate that the physiological effects on the specfied animals are not homologous (comparable) to humans. And as every social scientist knows, lab experiments are *too* controlled to adequately gauge outside stimuli that might or might not affect others.

Craig

ProgTeeTotall · Heavy User Joined: Jul 25, 2003 Posts: 310

US MEDICAL MARIJUANA DECRIMINALISATION

Rob Randall and Alice McLeary: Marijuana Rx: The Patients Fight for Medical Pot: New York: Thunders Mouth Press: 1998:
ISBN: 1560251662

New Zealand Holdings:

Auckland City Libraries
Whangarei District Libraries

Am about to check out Natl Library Australia. Back soon if I discover anything.

Craig

ProgTeeTotall · Heavy User Joined: Jul 25, 2003 Posts: 310

ADDITIONAL NZ RESOURCES

Leslie Iversen, The Science of Marijuana: New York: Oxford University Press 2000
ISBN: 0195131231

New Zealand Holdings:

Christchurch City Libraries
Dunedin Public Libraries
Feilding Public Libraries
Hamilton City Libraries
Nelson Public Libraries
Office of Film and Literature Classification Library
Parliamentary Library
Nelson Public Library
New Plymouth District Library
Waikato District Library

Wellington Institute of Technology Library
University of Auckland Library
University of Otago Library

(2nd Edition) Oxford: Oxford University Press: 2001
ISBN: 195151100

New Zealand Holdings:

Auckland City Libraries
Waikato Institute of Technology Library

[Oxford University Press is a reputable academic publisher, so check this one out, particularly when dealing with prohibitionist statements about the alleged toxicity of pot.]

FOUND AT NSW STATE LIBRARY:

John Prior: "Implementation of A Scheme of Prohibition With Civil Penalties for Personal Use of Cannabis" Perth: Government of Western Australia: 2002

[Available at WA Govt website, but my public access terminal couldn't handle pdfs. Looks interesting. NSW State Library also has several surveys about South Australia's spot fine/cannabis expiation notice scheme.]

ProgTeeTotall · Heavy User Joined: Jul 25, 2003 Posts: 310

Laura Murphy and Andrzej Bartke (eds) Marijuana and Cannabinoids: Neurobiology and Neurophysiology: Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press: 1992:
ISBN: 0849379318

New Zealand Holdings:

Wellington Medical Library/University of Otago Medical School
QV 77.7. M335 1992

ProgTeeTotall · Heavy User Joined: Jul 25, 2003 Posts: 310

http://www.gaynz.com/political/Marijuana.asp

ProgTeeTotall · Heavy User Joined: Jul 25, 2003 Posts: 310

Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics: Official Journal of
International Association for Cannabis as Medicine
From : Issue 1.1 (2001) -
ISBN: 15299775

Website: http://www.haworthpressinc.com

NZ Holdings:
Information and Research Services
ESR Kenepuru Science Centre

Still on the prowl for additional evidence-based studies.

Craig

ProgTeeTotall · Heavy User Joined: Jul 25, 2003 Posts: 310

Hey, I'm an enthusiast and a teetotaller at the same time.

How zen.

Craig

drstuey · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2003 12:58 am

Well of course that is an enthusiastic user of these forums, not an enthusiastic user of cannabis. Just wait when you reach 50 you will become a chronic user!!!

cheers

ProgTeeTotall · Heavy User Joined: Jul 25, 2003 Posts: 310

Gasp! And I've *never inhaled!!!!*

Craig

drstuey · Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2003 8:09 pm

Aha so its Heavy User for 50 posts. Chronic's the next rank. 100 posts.
http://www.norml.org.nz/postt61.html

Hey Craig, congratulations, and you added an avatar too. There are lots of new ones.
http://www.norml.org.nz/postt24.html

ProgTeeTotall · Heavy User Joined: Jul 25, 2003 Posts: 310

Lorenz Bollinger (ed) Cannabis Science: From Prohibition to Human Right:
Frankfurt: P.Lang: 1997
ISBN: 0820432385

Patricia Erickson et al (ed) Harm Reduction: New Direction for Drug Policies and Programmes: Toronto: University of Toronto Press: 1997
ISBN: 0802078052

NZ Holdings: Alcohol and Liquor Advisory Council Information Services

Ed Leuw and E Haen (eds) Between Prohibition and Legalisation: The Dutch Experiment in Drug Policy: Kugler: Amsterdam: 1994.
ISBN: 9062991033

NZ Holdings:
University of Auckland Philson Library
University of Otago Library

[While this contains a summary of a broad range of drug regulation issues related to the Netherland's use of rational regulation and harm minimisation strategies, if you use this, emphasise that you're only referring to cannabis, whatever merits decriminalisation, medicalisation or reclassification of other substances might have.]

Netherlands Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport/Netherlands Ministry of Justice (eds) Drug Policy in the Netherlands: Continuity and Change:
Hague: Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport: 1997:

URL: http://www.drugtext.org/library/reports/wva/drugnota/0/Default.htm

Craig

ProgTeeTotall · Heavy User Joined: Jul 25, 2003 Posts: 310

HARM MINIMISATION AND RISK REDUCTION: SUB-BIBLIOGRAPHY

Shantayanan Devarajan and Jeff Hammer: Public Spending and Risk Reduction: Washington: World Bank Development Research Group, Public Economics: 1998: Policy Research Working Papers 1869

Margaret Hamilton, Allan Kelleher and Greg Rumbold (eds) Drug Use in Australia: A Harm Minimisation Approach: Melbourne: Oxford University Press: 1998.
ISBN: 019554126X

NZ Holdings:

Alcohol and Liquor Advisory Centre
Auckland University of Technology Library
Christchurch City Libraries
Ministry of Health Information Centre: WM 270 DRU 1998 97672
Ministry of Justice Information Services Centre 362.290994 DRU
University of Otago Medical Library
University of Waikato Library
Waikato Institute of Technology Library

V.W.Mitchell (ed) Perceived Risk and Risk Reduction: Establishing
Reliability, Generalizability and Cross Validization: Manchester:
Manchester School of Management: UMIST: 1992
ISBN: 1971782392

NZ Holdings:
National Library of New Zealand PAM 658.83 MIT 1992

David Hawks (ed) Cultural Variations in the Meaning of Harm Minimisation: Their Implications for Policy and Practice in the Drugs Arena: World Health Organisation Collaborative Centre for Prevention and Control of Drug Abuse/National Centre for Research into Prevention of Drug Abuse: Perth: Curtin University, 1996

[The World Bank and University of Manchester Management School papers need to be assessed by someone with the appropriate technical background. Any suggestions? Craig]

ProgTeeTotall · Heavy User Joined: Jul 25, 2003 Posts: 310

FORTHCOMING:

David Castle and Robin Murray (eds) Marijuana and Madness: Cambridge University Press: Cambridge: [July] 2004.
ISBN: 0521819407.

See especially Wayne Hall and Louise Degenhardt's "Is There a Distinct Cannabis Psychosis" in this forthcoming volume. See also comments I've made in the medical forum related to Murray's attribution of a causal relationship between cannabis and psychosis, as well as the get active forum on addiction
Craig

ProgTeeTotall · Heavy User Joined: Jul 25, 2003 Posts: 310

NO CURRENT NEW ZEALAND HOLDINGS

Cannabis: Report of the [Canadian] Senate Special Committee on Illicit Drugs: Toronto: University of Toronto Press: 2003:
ISBN: 0802086306

James Mills Cannabis Britannia: Empire, Trade and Prohibition: Oxford: Oxford University Press: 2003.

ISBN: 0199249385

[Historical retrospective on British imperial cannabis policy during the nineteenth century. Looks interesting.]

Craig

ProgTeeTotall · Heavy User Joined: Jul 25, 2003 Posts: 310

NEW ZEALAND RESOURCES

Dana Peterson: Cannabis: Information Relating to the Debate on Law Reform:
Wellington: New Zealand Parliamentary Library [April] 2000: No 23

Dana Peterson: Cannabis: Information to Supplement April 2000 Report:
Wellington: New Zealand Parliamentary Library: 2001: No 25

URL: http://www.clerk.parliament.govt.nz/Templates/Custom/ResearchPapers/

New Zealand Holdings:

University of Otago Robert Stout Law Library
University of Waikato Library

MEDICINAL CANNABIS DEBATE:

United States General Accounting Office: Marijuana: Early Experience with Four States That Allow Use for Medical Purposes: Washington DC: GAO:
2002

[Alaska, California, Hawaii and Oregon: No NZ Holdings or ISBN.]

Ethan Russo: Cannabis: From Pariah to Prescription: Binghamton: Haworth Herbal Press: 2003:
ISBN: 0789023997

Tatiana Shohov (ed) Medical Use of Marijuana: Policy, Regulatory and Legal Issues: New York: Nova Science Publishers: 2003
ISBN: 1590337549

[No New Zealand Holdings]

Craig


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