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Cannabis Can Help Fight Alcoholism
I grew up in an era when Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” campaign proliferated through the airwav…
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Patients often substitute medical marijuana for opioid pain medications and other drugs
Medical marijuana patients tend to reduce their use of prescription opioid pain medications, accordi…
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Cannabinoids used in Sequence with Chemotherapy are a more Effective Treatment for Cancer
New research has confirmed that cannabinoids - the active chemicals in cannabis - are effective in k…
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Cannabis Extracts Associated With Reduced ADHD Symptoms
The administration of whole-plant cannabis extracts is associated with improvements in cognition and behavior in subjects with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), according to clinical trial data published online ahead of print in the journal European Neuropsychopharmacology.British scientists conducted a randomized, placebo-controlled trial evaluating the efficacy of cannabis extracts in 30 adults with ADHD.Treatment was associated “with a nominally significant improvemen…
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Veteran Says Medical Marijuana Controls His PTSD Symptoms: Wants Cannabis For All Vets
Some of the latest statistics show that somewhere around 20 percent of the military veterans that served in Afghanistan and Iraq suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a vicious malady that can cause severe panic attacks and haunting nightmares. However, many veterans, like 42-year-old Leo Bridgewater, say medical marijuana has the power to control the symptoms of PTSD – allowing them to lead normal, productive lives among that portion of civil society that has never seen combat. …
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Medical Cannabis Use May Be Legalized in Greece
The Health Ministry in Greece is set to propose changes to legislation covering the use and production of medicinal cannabis.Health Minister Andreas Xanthos suggested measures are on the way allowing doctors to prescribe drugs that contain cannabis purely for medical reasons.The government is also set to put forward draft legislation that would allow these types of medicines to be packaged and produced in Greece. The ministry’s decisions are based on a scientific study on the effective…
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Mother Of Teen With Tourette’s Pushes For Medical Cannabis In Schools
Since the passage of the medical marijuana bill in Minnesota, patients across the state have been helped.Joy Mitchell says her 16-year-old son Josh went from being violent and often pulled from school to being able to control himself. But the law is still holding the Crosby teenager back.Even a few months ago, a quiet concentrated game of chess would have been out of the question for Josh Mitchell. The 16-year-old has autism and was diagnosed with Tourette syndrome.“He’d bang his…
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Medical Marijuana Use Rejected for Intractable Pain & Autism
The Illinois Department of Public Health has rejected intractable pain and autism spectrum disorder …
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Study Reveals Cannabis Use Associated With Lower BMI
Marijuana users have been portrayed historically as lazy bums. That is not actually the case. Many, …
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New York Approves Medical Cannabis as Treatment for Chronic Pain
Since the introduction of the medical marijuana program in New York a year ago, it has been the subj…
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British Child Allowed to Return to U.K. with Cannabis Oil
Charlotte Caldwell, mother of 11-year old Billy Caldwell, says they traveled to Los Angeles, California to treat Billy’s epilepsy with nurse Karen Roellich because of the long waiting lists in the UK. “It’s a life-threatening form of epilepsy that he has, we had no choice but to go there.” At times, he would suffer as many as 22 seizures a month, and during his time in America he suffered a seizure that left him in a coma.Billy Caldwell has been taking CBD and THCa formulated by Cali…
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CBD-Dominant Cannabis Extracts Reduce Seizure Frequency
The administration of whole-plant cannabis extracts rich in the cannabinoid cannabidol (CBD) is associated with reduced seizure frequency in patients with refractory epilepsy, according to data published online ahead of print in the journal Epilepsy & Behavior.Researchers performed a retrospective chart review of the clinical records of 272 patients who were taking whole-plant CBD extracts.Eighty-six percent of those treated observed some clinical benefit (a reduction in seizure freq…
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Can Medical Cannabis Help Treat Liver Disease?
Can medical marijuana help treat liver disease? As more scientific research is being done on the cannabis plant in general, so is more research on the endocannabinoid system. There have been articles written about what the endocannabinoid system is, and even articles about how endocannabinoid deficiency can affect the human body.Research has also found that liver disease, a disease that inflicts more than 400,000 people each year and is ranked among the top 10 leadi…
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Germany to Offer Cannabis on Prescription
Seriously ill patients in Germany can buy cannabis by prescription. The permission is granted for a maximum of three days, and the medical insurance covers the costs. This was announced by the State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Health Lutz Stroppe, reports Deutsche Welle.In the near future, it will also be allowed to grow cannabis for medical purposes in Germany. The management and coordination of this process will be implemented by a special agency subject to the Federal Institute o…
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Oxford University Receives $12.3M to Study Medical Cannabis
One of the world’s top research universities, Oxford University, has received 10 million…
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Netherlands Make ‘Historic’ Move To Expand Legal Cannabis
Dutch lawmakers have made a “historic breakthrough” on marijuana legalization, passing a measure…
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Brazil Allow CBD Oil for Multiple Sclerosis Patients
Medical Marijuana, Inc. (OTC: MJNA), the first publicly traded cannabis company in the United States…
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Researchers Test Medical Cannabis as Treatment for MS-Linked Neuropathic Pain
Canadian researchers are testing mice to see if cannabinoid oil products — a common medical marijuana treatment — could help alleviate the neuropathic pain that often afflicts patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).The preclinical study, “Identifying the molecular mechanisms involved in supressing multiple sclerosis induced neuropathic pain following cannabinoid treatment in an animal model of multiple sclerosis (MS),” is a joint effort between CanniMed Therapeutics and researchers at…
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Medical Marijuana Gives Life to Seizure-Stricken Girl
Karen Diller is a staunch supporter of Pennsylvania's medical marijuana legislation, and the York startup that wants to bring a dispensary to Chambersburg next year.She and her husband, Jeff, have seen what medical marijuana can do for extreme seizure disorders such as the rare genetic disease that has incapacitated their daughter Karly for so much of her life.Karly has been part of clinical trials at a New York City hospital studying the effect of medical marijuana on int…
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Ireland to Legalise Cannabis for Specific Medical Conditions
Ireland is set to legalise the use of cannabis for treating specific medical conditions, after a report commissioned by the government said the drug could be given to some patients with certain illnesses.The Irish health minister, Simon Harris, said he would support the use of medical cannabis “where patients have not responded to other treatments and there is some evidence that cannabis may be effective”.The report said cannabis could be given to patients with a range of illnesses i…
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New Seedbank ‘Medical Marijuana Genetics’ Release Groundbreaking 20:1 CBD Strain
Medical Marijuana Genetics, a newly founded seedbank, have released a medical strain that offers a 20:1 CBD:THC ratio, the most consistent count of a CBD-rich phenotype in Europe.Candida will be available alongside four other strains, all of which hold remarkable medicinal properties and guarantee a CBD:THC ratio of at least 1:1.Upon the release of these new strains, founder of Medical Marijuana Genetics, John Green stated, “we are very excited to be the first CBD dominant seedbank in …
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