New Jersey Medical Cannabis Program Expanded
Gov. Phil Murphy announced on Tuesday, March 28th, 2018, that the New Jersey medical cannabis program will be expanded to include new qualifying conditions.
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Dr. Eric Baron Discussing History Of Medical Marijuana Migraine Pain Treatment
Dr. Eric P. Baron explains how medical cannabis works with migraine sufferers and pain….
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'Grandma's magic remedy:' Mexico's medical marijuana secret
Mexico City (AFP) – When her legs ache, this Mexican grandmother rubs them with…
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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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Migraines? Maybe You're Clinically Endocannabinoid Deficient
Migraines? Maybe You’re Clinically Endocannabinoid Deficient Can this concept explain therapeutic benefits of cannabis…
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Medical Marijuana Restores Debbie Wilson's Life
Debbie Wilson was disabled 22 years ago when the 16-year-old driver of a pick-up…
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Cannabis in early textbooks and treatment of migraines
Actually I was very skeptical rather than opposed. The first person who introduced me to the possibility that cannabis was medicinal was my father who was a pharmacist. We were talking about prohibition and he mentioned that when he was a freshman in pharmacy school at the University of Minnesota in 1928 and one of their assignments was to make tincture of cannabis. He said, we had to be very careful because the alcohol was illegal. I’ve got his 1927 Remmington’s Textbook of Pharmacy and on page 999 and 1000 it tells you how to make tincture of cannabis. It also says that it is useful for relief of pain and a tranquilizer. In the process of marginalizing quackery we also tended to marginalize homeopaths, naturopaths, osteopaths all of whom placed greater importance on herbal medicine that allopathic doctors, the doctors that we today called MD’s. There still was interest in plant based medicine but there was a problem that it was not standardized. However, as late as 1937 the AMA testified against the marijuana tax act. First off, they said we don’t have any idea why you are not calling this cannabis obviously we need to explore that why was it called marijuana when that’s not what it was called at that time. And secondly he said, yes, this is decreasingly being prescribed by physicians because of lack of standardization.
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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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