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Revealing the Secrets of the Longest Running Medical Marijuana Study Ever Conducted
Although you probably never heard of this before, CIND is the longest running medical marijuana prog…
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Bipolar Disorder – Does Cannabis Help or Hurt?
There is nothing more controversial that the use of cannabis in patients with coexisting mental illn…
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Cannabis Extracts “Improve Pain, Bladder Control and Muscle Spasms in M.S. Patients”
Ever since the term medical marijuana erupted on the cannabis scene, along with the recent discovery…
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How Cannabis Can Prevent Wasting Syndrome
This article arrives on the heels of an announcement by the World Health Organization that obesity and obesity-related diseases are now a greater problem than world hunger and starvation. Imagine that.However, and in contrast to the WHO report, we have a population of patients across the planet who are ‘starving’ due to their medical condition regardless of what they may eat. But it’s far worse than simply not being able to gain muscle mass or body fat. In fact, many of these patients …
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Cannabis is a Significant Treatment for ALS Patients, Study Suggests
With the incidence of ALS increasing in frightening proportions across the world, sufferers of this dreaded disease may now find some comfort in using marijuana to help alleviate their symptoms. Notable individuals who have been diagnosed with ALS include baseball great Lou Gehrig. ALS ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Translated from the Latin it means: "No muscle nourishment." When a mu…
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Is Cannabis a Proven Medicine for All Ailments?
With medical marijuana being legal in numerous states, one country, and many municipalities throughout the world, it would be very helpful to ascertain which medical conditions cannabis appears to have its strongest applications.One of the biggest problems that has emerged in the post-MMJ movement is trying to address which conditions are effectively treated or helped by using medical-grade marijuana. No matter where you look, each state or country that recognizes cannabis as medicine, has …
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Using Cannabis to Treat Asthma and COPD
Although some may cringe at the mere thought of smoking something to treat pulmonary disease, it is not a new idea. In fact, for centuries European ‘healers’ prescribed smoked thornapple to relieve bronchospasm. Just recently, viewers of the popular series Outlander, which takes place in the Scottish Highlands, witnessed a character prescribing thornapple to a severe asthmatic. You could clearly see the relief he experienced as he drew in his first cloud of smoke.If you saw that episode…
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British Journal of Ophthalmology: Can Smoking Marijuana Treat Glaucoma?
When I was in high school I recall an acquaintance who had terrible eyesight. He had to wear some as…
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Does Cannabis Improve Symptoms of HIV/AIDS? – A Doctor’s Case Study
You may not know this but HIV positive patients and those with AIDS constitute the largest single gr…
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GW Pharmaceuticals Publishes First Ever Study Using THC in the Treatment of Arthritis
Autoimmune diseases are becoming pandemic across the planet, a phenomenon that has taken off like a …
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Is There Harmful Levels of Aluminum in Cannabis Plants?
While researching the effects of aluminum toxicity from vaccines and environmental exposures for an upcoming book publication (You’re next. Lies, Corruption and the Dirty Business of Vaccines. October, 2016), I came across some rather unsettling information. The information is so disturbing that it stands to redefine medical cannabis use, and its implications in treating diseases. So far, this may be the single greatest health risk that I have seen regarding cannabis use. THE RISK Recent dis…
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The War on Drugs and the True Costs of Cannabis Prohibition
The war on drugs has produced the world’s largest illegal commodities market. The prohibitionists global drug control system has effectively abdicated control of a growing and lucrative trade to violent criminal profiteers — at a cost in enforcement terms estimated to be at least $100 billion per year.Despite ever increasing monies directed at supply-side enforcement, the illicit drug market has continually expanded, and is now estimated by the UN to generate more than $330 billion a yea…
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Does Cannabis Use Increase or Decrease the Risk of Depression?
For those individuals who chronically use marijuana, either medically or for recreational purposes, there may be an increased risk of developing depression with frequent use. Or heavy cannabis use may actually help relieve depression. It all depends on who you ask since we have information supporting both. The definitive answer is still pending as more research becomes available. STUDIES SHOWING AN INCREASED RISK FOR DEPRESSION A while back a study was published in the American Journal of Psyc…
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Analysing the Hazards of Cannabis Use
We hear in the media how cannabis is great for hundreds of maladies from insomnia to acne. That it "cures" many different diseases including incurable brain tumors, and stage four cancers. Sadly, hard evidence of these "cures" are still lacking. Internet searches produced the occasional anecdotal case study showing that marijuana indeed provided treatment, it seemed to induce a remission in some cases of end-stage cancers and other grave diseases. And I have written up nearly every high-quality …
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Cannabis Terpenes and Terpenoids Explained
Did you ever wonder why certain strains of cannabis have such unusual, yet characteristic scents an…
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The Protective Effects of THC on the Brain and in Preventing Cognitive Decline
Neurodegenerative diseases are at pandemic levels throughout much of the world. Neurodegeneration is…
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Medical Cannabis Trends in Europe and Around the World
The times they are changing, that’s a fact. It seems that only a short while ago the thought of le…
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Aggressive Lung Cancer and Cannabis Oil: From California to Serbia
You might be asking yourself what mesothelioma is?Hardly a household word, mesothelioma is a type of lung cancer that affects the lining of the lungs. That lining is called the visceral pleura, when it becomes malignant it’s called pleural mesothelioma.This is a very aggressive, deadly cancer with an exceedingly poor five-year survival. Once diagnosed, there are few options and no cure is available. I cannot think of a cancer that has a poorer prognosis. The cause for the overwhelming …
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Cannabis Oil and Infantile Spasms: The Alluring Case of Maddie Gorman
This case is a particularly bittersweet one. Our patient has had the misfortune of dealing with not just one deadly disease, but two. It involves a child who has survived acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) with over one year of chemotherapy only to develop Infantile Spasms (IS), a devastating disease.IS can develop from chemotherapy if it causes significant inflammatory changes in the child’s brain. It is also a permanent condition if it occurs. This disease can be as threatening as ALL. …
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Leukaemia and Cannabis Oil: The Story of the Late Ronnie Smith
One of the all-stars of the cannabis counter culture, Ronnie Lee Smith ranks right up there with Rick Simpson, Jack Herer, and many others. Ronnie, at the age of 47 regretfully passed away in Colorado, on April 3rd 2014. The cause of death is said to be complications from leukaemia.That’s why Ronnie’s case is particularly important. That’s because Ronnie died of a disease for which he has supposedly treated others in similar situations. Ronnie, with his rocket-scientist in-the-rough i…
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Amylea’s Story: The First Baby to Receive Cannabis Oil for Seizures
Today we’ll discuss a history making case. It’s concerning the very first baby to receive cannabis oil in a hospital setting in 2016. This case has several implications that I think are important which we’ll discuss momentarily. It also raises an interesting point regarding CBD oil versus cannabis oil. There exists plenty of confusion both legal and medical regarding the use of CBD oil. In fact, entire states in the USA are wrestling with the legalities of CBD oil as if it were a separate …
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