Reddit ask me anything with Dr. Sanjay Gupta
Dr. Sanjay Gupta Answers Marijuana Questions from Reddit, a trained neurosurgeon and CNN’s chief medical correspondent, has now explored the topic of medical marijuana twice since last summer. His second documentary ‘Weed 2: Cannabis Madness’ premiered Tuesday night, telling the story of two-year-old ... Read More
Category: Endocannabinoids
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Dec2014
22
Nov2014
Watch as the active ingredient in marijuana, kills cancer cells.
Cannabis oil kills cancer cells leaving healthy cells alone Since 1974 studies have shown that cannabis has anti-tumor effects.
The results of the 1974 study, reported in an Aug. 18, 1974 Washington Post newspaper feature, were that the cannabis's component, THC, "slowed the ... Read More
11
Nov2014
Documentary Charlottes Web Cannabis
Featured last year on CNN, Josh Stanley and his brothers developed a non-psychotropic strain of marijuana which is drastically reducing seizures for many pediatric epilepsy patients in Colorado, called “Charlotte’s web“. The focus of A Time documentary Charlottes Web Cannabis. Josh recently also spoke at a TEDx convention in ... Read More
05
Sep2014
Are patients in medical cannabis states substituting pot for potentially lethal painkillers? It appears that way.
According to data published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine, the enactment of statewide medicinal marijuana laws is associated with significantly lower state-level opioid overdose mortality rates. Investigators conducted a time-series analysis of medical ... Read More
19
Jun2014
Everyone Wants To Jump On The Bandwagon Of "Medical Marijuana" Provided No One Is Going To Experience Any Altered Consciousness
By DR. MICHELLE SEXTON | June 19, 2014
Sierra Riddle is able to provide whole plant CBD-rich medicine for her son because she lives in Colorado. Not all parents have this available.
Does ... Read More
25
Mar2014
Some forms of medical marijuana may help alleviate certain symptoms in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), according to new guidelines published in the journal Neurology.
Complementary or alternative medicine (CAM) therapies, such as medical marijuana, are popular among patients with MS, who often seek them out to help alleviate symptoms or ... Read More
24
Aug2013
NIH scientists identify possible treatment target for type 2 diabetes
By The National Institutes of Health | Published in NIH.gov
The researchers say some natural messenger chemicals in the body are involved in an inflammatory chain that can kill cells in the pancreas, which produces insulin. A report of the finding appears ... Read More
24
Aug2013
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health discovered that natural messenger chemicals in the body are involved in an inflammatory chain that can kill pancreas cells which produce insulin.
27
Mar2013
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 ... Read More