Green Awareness

The Green ribbon represents many different awareness crusades en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_ri…. The campaigns this ribbon represents are
Mental Health and Medical Marijuana awareness in the USA.

Mental Health issues can be difficult things to deal with and is real. The U.S. National Library of Medicine www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov has some very basic incomplete although accurate info on Mental Health. It is important to not face it alone. There are many support groups around the web in the forms of chat rooms, forums and blogs. These can be of help to some that suffer form Mental Health issues.

Fifteen states and the District of Columbia have legalization of Marijuana for Medical Treatment, Amendments. Arizona being the 15th state. Cannabis has been used for Medical Treatment for millenia. Many health and government organizations will not accept cannabis having medical value until more scientific research is done. The anecdotal research is available through out history in almost every culture. This alone should be enough to merit the research needed. Here are a few informative articles about Medical Marijuana.

Times magazine www.time.com/time/health/artic…
Scientific American www.scientificamerican.com/art…
National Geographic video.nationalgeographic.com/v…
The White house .gov website www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_o…
The New York times www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/hea…

Spread awareness be it this one or the one you feel needs to be shared. Education is key to everything.

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