AIRING ON: January 10, 2013.  Ricki's tackling some controversial medical issues, including what many consider to be one of the most contentious debates in health care today - medical marijuana.

Ricki conducts a daytime exclusively interview with a couple who have made national headlines with their controversial decision to administer marijuana to their 7-year-old daughter who is battling an aggressive form of cancer.

Boston, MA: Question 3, 'An Initiative Petition for a Law for the Humanitarian Medical Use of Marijuana,' took effect on Tuesday, January 1. Sixty-three percent of state voters approved the measure on Election Day. Massachusetts is the 18th state since 1996 to allow for the physician-authorized use of cannabis as a therapeutic option for qualified patients. Neighboring states Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island, and Vermont all also allow for cannabis therapy.

A study just recently published has shown that low-dose, vaporized cannabis products, are effective in treating neuropathic pain.  This is significant for a large number of people who suffer this condition.  I suppose I should start with, what is neuropathic pain?

Evidence showing that cannabis could be the most nutritional vegetable in the world!

Under strict conditions severely ill Germans may be allowed to grow cannabis at home, the Supreme Administrative Court of Munster said in a judgment of 7 December 2012. The reasons have now been published. Patients for whom no other therapies are available or effective, but may have medicinal benefit from cannabis, can make an application to the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) in Bonn, so that they can treat themselves with their own grown cannabis, accompanied and monitored by their doctor. Previously, all such requests were refused by directive of the Federal Ministry of Health. This practice is illegal, the court stated.