Join Lanny Swerdlow at The Hemp and Cannabis Foundation Medical Clinic for a free seminar on the anti-aging and health benefits of cannabis. Presented once a month on the first Friday of every month. 8 p.m. THCF Medical Clinic, 647 Main St., Riverside 92501. For more information call: 951-782-9898. Lanny Swerdlow, registered nurse and founder of [...]
Sandra has been using medical marijuana to treat several conditions and it has helped her to reduce the amount of opiates and has increased her quality of life in a myriad of ways. She has astonished her doctors, and with the help of her husband and sons has come to find hope once again in [...]
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Long Beach medical marijuana patient and advocate Madeline Johnson, talks about how she makes tea with medical marijuana leaves. This process, which requires drying out the wet leaves in the sun, helps her treat her symptoms of osteoporosis.
She has forcefully and earnestly battled osteogenesis imperfecta congenital, the most severe form of the rare genetic disorder, since birth. Think brittle bone disease mixed with scoliosis and melded with multiple gastro-intestinal complications. Bend and snap.
She has never placed one foot in front of the other. Instead, she awakes every day to a body buckled, bent and bound to a wheelchair. The medicinal marijuana, outlawed in the state of Florida, crowds out most of the pain. Some still slips through.
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By Kandice Hawes | OC NORML Chapter President Roughly ten thousand people are becoming Senior Citizens everyday for the next 19 years, according to USA Today magazine. In response to this growing population and the need for education about alternative medical solutions, the Apothecary Senior Citizens Project was started. The purpose of the project was [...]
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By Aaron Rowe | Published in Wired.com Marijuana contains an amazing chemical, beta-caryophyllene, and scientists have thoroughly proven that it could be used to treat pain, inflammation, atherosclerosis, and osteoporosis. Jürg Gertsch, of ETH Zürich, and his collaborators from three other universities learned that the natural molecule can activate a protein called cannabinoid receptor type [...]
