MedicalMarijuana
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Researchers use Cannabis to Treat Epileptic Children in University of Alberta Study
As desperate parents of children with severe epilepsy turn to alternative therapies, researchers are…
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New Study Finds Smoking Marijuana Has No Proven Link To Lung Cancer
In case marijuana advocates needed something else to celebrate after today’s legalization in Maine…
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Can Cannabis Treat MS Symptoms?
An estimated 400,000 Americans are currently living with multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease w…
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History of Cannabis Use Not An Independent Risk Factor for Stroke
The use of cannabis is not an independent contributing factor to the risk of stroke in those under 60 years of age, according to population-based data published online ahead of print in the journal Stroke.An international team of investigators from Sweden and France assessed the relationship between marijuana use and stroke risk in a population-based cohort of over 49,000 men.Researchers reported “no significant association between cannabis use in young adulthood and overall incidence …
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Research Finds That Cannabis May Be Better For Chronic Pain Than Opioids
For years, medical marijuana advocates have asserted that cannabis may be more effective and have fewer side effects than prescription opiates for chronic pain. Without scientific proof, however, it was only anecdotal.With mounting concern by doctors, nurses and even the CDC about opioid fatalities, dependence, and abuse, alternatives to opiates are being sought throughout the medical world, including cannabis use.But here’s the rub: With cannabis still federally illegal, legitima…
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Cannabis Legalization In Europe: Is France Next?
Marijiuana, a divisive issue that normally resurfaces in Europe during election campaigns, has come home to France's hotly-contested presidential race.With eight months to go until the 2017 French presidential election, marijuana - or cannabis, as the French prefer to call it - is an honored guest meme in the candidates' discourse, and a subject of intense controversy among the French electorate.But hold on. The political debate is less about interdiction or legalization but, rather, abo…
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Pressure Mounts for Slovenia to Embrace Medical Cannabis
Pressure to legalize medical cannabis in the small, Central European country of Slovenia has been mounting for some time. It’s beginning to look like 2017 could be a year of change.The country, perched on the edge of the Alps just south of Austria, boasts magnificent mountain peaks, clear lakes and raging rivers, and—for the past five or six years—a rapidly growing medical cannabis community. While cannabis remains illegal in the country, the number of patients using cannabis to treat …
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Cannabis May Actually Improve Cognitive Function
A recent pilot study from Harvard University indicates that marijuana use actually improves cognitiv…
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Cannabis Compounds Show Promise in Treatment of Cardiac Disease
A Nevada company is hoping to develop new medicines for heart failure using compounds in marijuana a…
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Israel Set to Decriminalize Personal Cannabis Use
Israel could soon decriminalize personal use and possession of marijuana, a leading government offic…
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Cannabis Legalization in Europe – Is France Next?
Marijiuana, a divisive issue that normally resurfaces in Europe during election campaigns, has come home to France's hotly-contested presidential race.With eight months to go until the 2017 French presidential election, marijuana - or cannabis, as the French prefer to call it - is an honored guest meme in the candidates' discourse, and a subject of intense controversy among the French electorate.But hold on. The political debate is less about interdiction or legalizat…
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Albania – A Cannabis Paradise in Europe
A bumpy road full of puddles from the last rainfall leads to a row of shacks near the northern Albanian town of Rreshen. The sun is going down. Two women seek refuge in the darkness so they can speak openly. They are afraid because the drug lab they were working for until a few weeks ago was raided by the police. It was a former chicken farm where 4.2 tons of cannabis were harvested, dried and packaged.Mira and Rita (their names have been changed) were unemployed before they began to work in…
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The British Soldier Using Medical Cannabis to Overcome PTSD
Serving as an infantryman in Afghanistan sent Paul into a black hole of drink and drugs. Now it’s medical marijuana helping him get his life back on track.When Paul, a young British soldier, arrived at his checkpoint in Afghanistan in early March 2011, he remembers looking out from the tall guard tower, wondering where the first attack would come from. Manned by just 13 soldiers, Paul’s isolated posting was only 500 metres from the closest known enemy position and ten miles nor…
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The Secret British Cannabis Club
Over Christmas, there were two pretty unique parties in Teesside – in a speakeasy-style ‘Cannabis Club’ where people can blaze up freely.It’s similar to the ‘speakeasy’ drinking clubs where Americans drank in secret during Prohibition – and its creator hopes to inspire others around Britain, in a push for legalisation.The club – in a top-secret location, which varies every time – caught the interest of Professor Green – who interviewed founder John Holliday …
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Young Boy With Severe Epilepsy Now Seizure Free With Cannabis Oil
"I do not care what anybody says. I would rather have my child on medical cannabis and have him be a…
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Serbian Cannabis Leader Arrested Ahead of Public Hearing
Life in Serbia, the largest and most populous country to emerge after the breakup of communist Yugos…
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University in Israel Offers First Ever Medical Cannabis Course
While Israel have always been at the forefront of the medical cannabis movement, the nation has take…
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Eastern Europe and the Medical Cannabis Revolution
Over the past six years, Eastern European countries have seen an unprecedented rise in the number of patients treating themselves with homemade cannabis extracts. The healing potential of THC, CBD, and other cannabinoids also led to the formation of several Eastern Europe-based patients movements demanding medical cannabis be legalized. What explains the development of such strong advocacy in this region, the likes of which are rarely seen in other European countries?One explanation is Jind…
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Life-saving Effect of Cannabis for Seizures Captured by News Crew
It’s widely known that cannabis aids in the treatment of many disabling conditions. One of the biggest breakthroughs has been in the treatment of seizures, especially in children.Well now that treatment has been caught on camera. In an amazing turn of events, ABC affiliate WFTS in Tampa Bay, Florida was out discussing the use of cannabis with patients. The team seemed to be researching the effects of Florida’s medical marijuana law, which goes into effect this year.While interviewing…
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How Medical Marijuana is Helping a Boy Whose Parents Ran Out of Options
Jackson Leyden had always been a healthy kid; he practiced taekwondo, and he played lacrosse and baseball. But in 2011, a few months after his eighth birthday, he began having seizures several times a day. Many were brief, a half-minute of staring into space, but he also had severe episodes in which he would collapse, sometimes injuring himself. Over the next two years, he was hospitalized about 50 times, and he missed much of fourth and fifth grade.His parents took him to more than 20 docto…
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Spanish Doctor Launches Cannabis Research Hub Amid Push for Reform
Legal access to cannabis in Spain, where the plant remains in a legal gray zone, is still a ways over the horizon, but medical patients in country are hopeful change is underway. Developments such as a new national observatory centered on medical applications of cannabinoids and initiatives like the CannabMed conference in Barcelona are adding to the country’s cannabis knowledge base, empowering patients and health care professionals, and highlighting the need for reform of medical cannabis le…
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