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FAA – Food Addicts Anonymous. GA – Gamblers Anonymous. Gam-Anon / Gam-A-Teen, for friends and family members of problem gamblers. HA – Heroin Anonymous. LAA – Love Addicts Anonymous. MA – Marijuana Anonymous. NA – Narcotics Anonymous. N/A – Neurotics Anonymous, for recovery from mental and emotional illness.
Marijuana Anonymous set up in London UK in 2000. [citation needed] Marijuana Anonymous World Services is a non-profit corporation formed to carry out the necessary business and legal affairs of Marijuana Anonymous. Trustees are the officers of MA World Services, as “trusted servants” of the members of MA.
Narcotics Anonymous ( NA ), founded in 1953, describes itself as a "nonprofit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem." [1] Narcotics Anonymous uses a 12-step model developed for people with varied substance use disorders [2] and is the second-largest 12-step organization, [3] after 12-step pioneer ...
Cannabis and country music icon Willie Nelson will be one of the keynote speakers at the virtual marijuana convention Luck Summit: Planting the Seed, taking place on April 26-29 in Nelson’s ...
On May 31, 2019, the Illinois General Assembly passed the Illinois Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act to legalize recreational marijuana use starting on January 1, 2020. The bill was signed by Governor J. B. Pritzker on June 25, 2019. [24] [25] [26] Recreational-use revenue in Illinois is expected to reach an estimated $1.6 billion a year. [27]
Twelve-step program. Twelve-step programs are international mutual aid programs supporting recovery from substance addictions, behavioral addictions and compulsions. Developed in the 1930s, the first twelve-step program, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), founded by Bill Wilson and Bob Smith, aided its membership to overcome alcoholism. [1]
e. Veterans for Medical Cannabis Access ( VMCA ), which was founded as Veterans for Medical Marijuana Access ( VMMA) reflecting the pejorative word "marijuana", is an Elliston, Virginia -based non-profit service organization designed to assist American veterans who wish to be able to use marijuana for medical purposes with a doctor's ...
Cannabis use disorder ( CUD ), also known as cannabis addiction or marijuana addiction, is a psychiatric disorder defined in the fifth revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM-5) and ICD-10 as the continued use of cannabis despite clinically significant impairment. [2] [3]