This series of articles 'Medical Marijuana Dictionary' is from http://www.cannibusmd.net and reprinted with permission from Martin Martinez, webmaster

Martin Martinez presented Seattle's first medical necessity defense in 1996, eight months prior to the passage of Proposition 215 in California. Two years of legal battles with the State of Washington that included a trial and two arrests finally ended the same week that Washington adopted The Medical Use of Marijuana Act of 1998, a popular measure initially filed by Martin's physician in 1997. Martinez relocated to Oakland, California for four years. During that time he was one of the 14 marijuana patients who petitioned the US Supreme Court for the use of medical marijuana in the OCBC vs. Ashcroft case litigated by attorney Robert Raisch for Jeff Jones and Bay Area supporters. During this time Martinez also wrote The New Prescription--Marijuana as Medicine, a compendium of scientific studies on medical marijuana published by Quick American Archives (Ed Rosenthal) of Oakland. Martin's science-based website, www.Cannabis MD.org, was launched near the turn of the century. The site remains a valuable resource for marijuana patients and activists throughout the world, generating over one million hits per year. Martinez has spent many years petitioning the Washington State Legislature for reforms to the existing medical marijuana statutes, personally representing hundreds of patients, members of Lifevine, the medicinal collective designed to conform to state statutes. Martin Martinez has also represented facts of medical and botanical science in courtrooms around The Evergreen State as Washington’s only court-appointed expert witness on the use and cultivation of cannabis. Martinez produced a short documentary entitled The Miracles of Marijuana that has been viewed by many government officials in Washington. The crippled chronic pain patient recently spent many long hours in draft and lobby efforts that eventually resulted in the passage of Senate Bill 6032, a much-needed update of the original citizen's initiative. A key feature of those legislative revisions is the Department of Health determination of the 60 day supply clause which has been the source of numerous legal battles. This paper, Marijuana Patient Dosage and Cultivation Limits, was specifically written to help Department of Health administrators understand some important facets of medicinal cannabis, the most powerful herbal medicine known to mankind.