The US Patent & Trade Office granted GW Pharma a medical patent covering all plant-based phytocannabinoids for use in the treatment and prevention of basically all forms of human cancer. By Ron Marczyk | Published in Toke Signals In January of this year, the National Cancer Institute updated its Cannabis and Cannabinoids PDQ® webpage with [...]
Can this concept explain therapeutic benefits of cannabis in migraine, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome and other treatment-resistant conditions? Published in PubMed.Gov This study examines the concept of clinical endocannabinoid deficiency (CECD), and the prospect that it could underlie the pathophysiology of migraine, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, and other functional conditions alleviated by clinical cannabis. METHODS: [...]
After erroneous claims made by a San Diego DEA Agent, the spokesperson for Mr. Sherman clarified he “is not a doctor and was not stating science, just stating the position of the DEA.” By San Diego Americans For Safe Access William R. Sherman, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) San [...]
The National Medical Cannabis Unity Conference will take place in D.C. later this month and it is clear Americans for Safe Access is taking a strategic approach to bridging the gap between public and policy and bringing in experts from Law Enforcement Against Prohibition as well as medical experts to discuss harm reduction, science, public [...]
Numerous cases show clinical cannabis is effective on illnesses in children By Dr. William Courtney | Published in US News and World Report The courage and fortitude of parents who have chosen cannabis compounds to treat their children facing life-threatening illness have raised eyebrows. Some live in terror that their government will take their child [...]
By Paul Armentano | Published by NORML Adults with a history of marijuana use have a lower prevalence of type 2 diabetes and possess a lower risk of contracting the disease than those with no history of cannabis consumption, according to clinical trial data published in the British Medical Journal. Investigators at the University of California, Los Angeles [...]
Pot-smokers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your pipe dreams. By Martin Lee | Published in Alternet.org Marijuana legalization is a beginning, not an end. When residents of Colorado and Washington voted to legalize the adult use of cannabis, it felt like a momentary rush of sobriety in a country dazed [...]
Naturopathic Doctor, Michelle Sexton, writes about the IACM 6th Conference on Cannabinoids in Medicine and 5th European Workshop on Cannabinoid Research that took place this September 8-10 at the University of Bonn, Germany. By Dr. Michelle Sexton, ND | September 17, 2011 Inflammation and neuro-excitation flared and were then calmed by the endogenous cannabinoid signaling system (eCBss) recently [...]
The bi-annual Cannabis Conference returns to Bonn, Germany, and brings the best and brightest medical cannabis researchers in the world together, but there was not a single politician from anywhere that wanted to learn more about the medicinal benefits of this particular plant. By Sam Sabzehzar | September 10, 2011 When I return to Long [...]
By Yann Le Strat and Bernard Le Foll | Published in Oxford Journals The role of cannabis and endocannabinoids in appetite regulation has been extensively studied, but the association of cannabis use with weight in the general population is not known. The authors used data from 2 representative epidemiologic studies of US adults aged 18 [...]
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