Minnesota Grants Medical Cannabis Access For Chronic Pain
The state of Minnesota is making headlines this December, not for its freezing temperatures, but for increasing medical cannabis access.
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Using Marijuana May Help Your Night Vision
Researchers Find Cannabinoids Applied To The Eye, Widen Field of Vision Researchers from the…
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The Impact of Marijuana on Diabetes and Complications From Diabetes
The Impact of Marijuana on Diabetes and Complications From Diabetes in the U.S., over 29.1 million people are currently diagnosed with diabetes.
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Medical marijuana could reduce need for other opiate drugs
Minnesota Commissioner of Health Dr. Ed Ehlinger decides to add intractable pain as a qualifying condition for the Minnesota medical cannabis program.
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5 Legal Medical Marijuana Uses For Elderly Patients
Kari L. Franson, PharmD, PhD, BCPP, of the University of Colorado Skaggs School of…
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What medical conditions qualify for marijuana treatment in California?
What medical conditions qualify for marijuana treatment in California? California passed the Compassionate Use…
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Medical Marijuana For Glaucoma
What Is Glaucoma An ocular condition characterized by varying degrees of pressure resulting in…
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Irvin Rosenfeld - For Past 32 Years, His Medicine Has Been Marijuana
“Compassionate Investigational New Drug” Program Patient Speaks Out The tin canister that Irvin Rosenfeld…
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Five Concrete Benefits Of Cannabis As A Medicine
Concrete Reasons Why Marijuana is Medicine Five concrete benefits of cannabis as A medicine….
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Cannabis Helps Jacqueline Patterson Reduce Cerebral Palsy Symptoms
By LUKE SLISZ Ā | Ā December 9, 2013 Cerebal Palsy is an umbrella term encompassing…
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My AMAZING Road Trip to the 20th Anniversary of Seattle Hempfest with a Federal Medical Marijuana Patient
By Dawn M. Schiaretti Ā | Ā Published in The Human Solution It all started at…
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Elvy Musikka Patient Story - Glaucoma
The Medical Marijuana the government supplies four of us today, has been grown at the University of Mississippi in Oxford since the ’70’s. It grows every year I guess. And they ship it to North Carolina and they get it rolled into papers, and then they look like a Pall Mall, I wish I had one now, but I am leaving tomorrow and all of those are gone.
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Medical Marijuana Patient Elvy Musikka
My name is Elvy Musikka and I have glaucoma. I was diagnosed with Glaucoma in 1975. Within a year, I already knew that there was nothing absolutely nothing that was on the market then worked for my glaucoma except for marijuana.
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Medical Marijuana and Glaucoma
In studies such as Cannabinoids in the Treatment of Glaucoma and lectures by David Pate, PHd, MSc, he suggests that the cannabinoid receptors in the eye (and he lists four), when bound to THC and other cannabinoids found in medical marijuana can arrest and reverse intraocular pressure and degradation to the eye. Through our CB1 receptor, medical cannabis helps to promote ādrainage of aqueous humor and eliminate nerve damage progressionā, according to Dr. Pate. Research as early as the 70ās suggests patients suffering from glaucoma and experience severe intraocular pressure or progressive blindness could greatly benefit from medical cannabis ingestion of some form.
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