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How Cannabis was used to Shrink one of the Most Aggressive Brain Cancers
November 15th, 2014 – Widely proscribed around the world for its recreational uses, cannabis is being used in a number of different therapeutic ways to bring relief for severe medical conditions. Products using cannabinoids, the active components of the cannabis plant, have been licensed for medical use. Sativex, for example, which contains an equal mixture…
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Kids Need THC, Too: Lawmakers Are Legalizing Certain Strains of Marijuana, but That Won’t Be Good Enough
September 22nd, 2014 – Republicans love marijuana. Pushed by a cadre of Christian brothers from Colorado and promoted by CNN’s doctor-on-television Sanjay Gupta, a strain of marijuana acceptable for suburban squares and the churchgoing set is winning friends on the right. Marijuana low in THC but high in CBD — cannabidiol, one of the many…
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Psoriasis: Cannabidiol’s Potential to provide Relief
September 20th, 2014 – Psoriasis is a chronic immune-mediated disease that appears on the skin. It occurs when the body’s immune system fires flawed signals which increases the momentum of the skin cells’ growth cycle. Although it may seem like psoriasis would be a communicable disease, it is in fact not contagious. There are five…
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Parkinson’s Disease & the Endocannabinoid System
August 20th, 2014 – Parkinson’s disease was originally termed Shaking Palsy by James Parkinson when he became the first to fully characterize the condition in 1817 (1). Since this time the disease has taken on his name despite the fact he never had the condition himself. Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative condition which outwardly…
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Harnessing the Hemp Industry: Q&A With Chris Boucher of CannaVest
August 4th, 2014 – In 1990, Chris Boucher walked into a store selling his line of tie-dyed backpacks and wallets to chat with the owners about business matters. He left eight hours later with a new idea: make his products from hemp. “The owners asked me to sign a petition for the legalization of hemp,…
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Bipartisan House Bill Would Legalize ‘Charlotte’s Web’ Medical Marijuana
July 28th, 2014 – A bipartisan bill introduced in the House of Representatives on Monday would legalize a compound in marijuana used to treat severe epilepsy. The legislation, called the “Charlotte’s Web Medical Hemp Act of 2014,” would exclude “therapeutic hemp” and “cannabidiol,” or CBD, a non-psychoactive compound in marijuana used for medical purposes, from…
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First CBD Law in Nation Goes Into Effect
July 12th, 2014 – The first CBD-only medical cannabis legislation went into effect in Utah on July 8 as the state began issuing the first “Hemp Extracts Registry” cards. Utah’s HB 105, which was signed into law by Governor Herbert in March, exempts possession of hemp extracts that are greater than 15 percent cannabidiol (CBD)…
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Alzheimer’s Prevention Starts with Marijuana, According to British Journal
May 14th, 2014 – A paper published by the British Journal of Pharmacology suggests that the chemical compounds in marijuana likely prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, and age-related dementia. Chronic brain inflammation, oxidative stress, and intra-cellular dysfunction are the primary reasons why people develop these debilitating neurological diseases. The study…
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Why Hemp-based medicine (aka Cannabidiol) will explode – The dark side of acetaminophen
February 21, 2014 – There is a drug — probably sitting in your purse, desk drawer or medicine cabinet — that is widely considered one of the world’s safest painkillers. But over the last decade, it has killed hundreds of Canadians, hospitalized tens of thousands and cost the health-care system tens of millions, a Toronto…
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Cannabis Oil Fights Cancer
July 25, 2011 – A number of recent studies have confirmed the cancer-fighting, tumor-shrinking value of medical marijuana. Although the first study to demonstrate that cannabis has anti-carcinogenic properties was done back in 1974 by the U.S. National Institute of Health, more recent studies, which began abroad in 1999, have shown that cannabis can effectively…