How Cannabis Works to Treat Seizures, ADD and IBS
From Dr.David Bearman and The Huffington Post How cannabis works to treat Seizures, ADD…
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The Science Behind Marijuana
Take an in-depth look at the effects, culture, and science behind the popular drug…
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New Study Suggests CBD Benefits People With ADD or ADHD Can Marijuana Help People…
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Attention Deficit Disorder
Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD) Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one…
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Dad Gives 6-Year-Old Medical Marijuana
A 6-year-old boy with epilepsy has been suffering fewer seizures since taking medical…
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Move Over Ritalin: Medical Marijuana in the Classroom
By Jennifer Lance  |  Published in Eco Child’s Play I have the fortune of…
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Gabor Mate Underscores Stress as Contributing Factors to Many Diseases, But Science Doesn't Always Influence Policy
By Sam Sabzehzar  |  September 9, 2011 The medical community is in agreement that…
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Medical Marijuana Replaces Ritalin As Treatment For ADD & ADHD
Claudia Jensen Talks Medical Marijuana and ADD ADD ADHD Marijuana Treatment Replaces Ritalin –…
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"It Works": Leticia Pepper's Letter to the Editor
San Bernardino The Sun Newspaper Letter to the Editor | May 7, 2011 Can…
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Gabor Mate on Uprising Radio While on Tour in Los Angeles to Discuss ADD/ADHD, Addiction
By UprisingRadio.org | Published on KPFK.org A recent study by psychologists at the University…
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Medical marijuana for ADD and it's good for kids!
MSNBC’s Keith Oberman interviews a bold and honest physician/pediatrician from the University of Southern…
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Physician Promotes Pros of Pot
“Marijuana is one of the most beneficial and least side-effect causing drugs known to man,” Bearman said. “The therapeutic value of cannabis is enormous and as a drug it is often more effective, less expensive and causes less complications than many of the treatments currently being used to treat many different types of illness.”
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Medical Marijuana Benefits the Sick and Suffering
Most people when they hear of cannabis, they think pot, chronic, marijuana, an illegal herb which can get them long prison sentences where the authorities throw away the key. Some people have heard that the use of marijuana can drive you insane.
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Cannabinoids Rather Than Ritalin for Children?
Treating Yourself, a medical marijuana journal for patients by patients, in a recent article posses several questions, one of the most obvious being: how could anybody give psychostimulants (like Ritalin and Adderall), amphetamines and methamphetamines, to children?
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Cannabis, Cannabinoids - ADD & Tourettes
Earlier you mentioned that maybe I was opposed to medical marijuana and I said no I was just dubious. And I certainly was dubious about the use of cannabis in treating ADD/ ADHD. But that was because I didn’t know anything and when I looked into it, I found out that there were at least 40 papers written before 2000 dealing with the endo-cannabinioid system, cannabis, and ADD/ ADHD. And that as early as 1998 efforts had been made in Oregon to add ADD/ ADHD to the list of conditions for which cannabis was appropriate or legal in the state of Oregon. I began to have people mention that they were able to focus and concentrate more with cannabis. I had people tell me that their grades went from Ds and Fs to As and Bs when they started using marijuana in Jr High School. I had one patient come in and attributed their graduating from the maritime academy to smoking marijuana. And another person who said that they were able to get their PHD as a result of smoking marijuana. I started looking into this and found that there were hundreds of research studies that had been done which provided some of the information as to why this might work.
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Medical Cannabis and Ritalin
David Bearman, M.D., author of “Demons, Discrimination and Dollars,” discusses with MedicalMarijuana411.com the effects of Cananbis and Ritalin. Some people use Cannabis instead of Ritalin, Dexadrine or other sympathomedic drugs other people use Cannabis with Ritalin because the side effects of Ritalin can include: depressed appetite, difficulty sleeping and jitteriness and Cannabis has the exact opposite effect, in addition to helping people to focus and concentrate more.
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How Cannabis can have positive effects on ADD
The usual situation with a teenager is that they started using the cannabis recreationally and incidentally noticed that it helped them with their focus and concentration. I want to make one thing clear, if a teenager is using cannabis excessively, it may interfere with their education. It is not always something that is helpful. But in the cases that I have seen where people have come in and I have attention deficit disorder I tried Ritalin either it didn’t work or I didn’t like the side effects. I noticed with marijuana or cannabis that I could focus, I could concentrate and my grades went up with this. So, for most people, certainly with people with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) most of them, Cannabis has been helpful. Now some people use the cannabis instead of Ritalin, Concerta or Adderall and other people use it in conjunction with it because one of the problems with the sympathomimetic drugs which is what Ritalin or Dexodrine or the other conventional medications for ADD, they have a side effect profile which is unacceptable to some people. As a stimulant it interferes with your appetite, it can interfere with sleep, cause jitteriness and cannabis has the opposite effect.
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