Tag: prescription drugs

(73 posts)
September 22, 2014
09/22/2014
New Drug Use Data Spoils Prohibitionist Propaganda

New Drug Use Data Spoils Prohibitionist Propaganda

While cannabis use in the general population has showed a steady increase (unsurprisingly in our softening cannabis culture), it has leveled off among teen users.
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September 15, 2014
09/15/2014
Is Big Pharma Behind Anti-Cannabis Research?

Is Big Pharma Behind Anti-Cannabis Research?

As we recognize the hidden financial ties between academics advocating for the prohibition and strict regulation of cannabis and large prescription drug companies, we begin to see...
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August 28, 2014
08/28/2014
Can You Overdose on Marijuana?

Can You Overdose on Marijuana?

While prescription painkillers cause thousands of overdose deaths each year, no one has ever died from a marijuana overdose. But is it even possible to overdose on...
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August 26, 2014
08/26/2014
JAMA: Medical Cannabis States Possess Lower Rates of Opiate-Induced Fatalities

JAMA: Medical Cannabis States Possess Lower Rates of Opiate-Induced Fatalities

The enactment of medicinal marijuana laws is associated with significantly lower state-level opioid overdose mortality rates, according to data published online today in the Journal of the American Medical Association...
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August 26, 2014
08/26/2014
Wales Health Services Now Offers Prescription Cannabis-Based Drug for MS

Wales Health Services Now Offers Prescription Cannabis-Based Drug for MS

The NHS of Wales in the UK has just become the first NHS in the UK to fund cannabis-based medicine for people with multiple sclerosis.
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August 25, 2014
08/25/2014
Oregon Early Learning Council: Medical Marijuana Worse Than Booze, Pills and Guns

Oregon Early Learning Council: Medical Marijuana Worse Than Booze, Pills and Guns

For a state sandwiched between the legal pot haven of Washington and the heavily-medical marijuana saturation in California, Oregon sure exhibits some backwater ways of thinking. Oregon...
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August 21, 2014
08/21/2014
ASA and Leafly Tag-Team NFL

ASA and Leafly Tag-Team NFL

The main, practical reason that I feel cannabis should be legal and allowed for consumption by NFL players is that it is a tremendously safe alternative to...
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August 11, 2014
08/11/2014
Heroin Saves Woman’s Life

Heroin Saves Woman’s Life

A German woman has emigrated to Switzerland where she can get government supplied synthetic heroin that, she claims, is the reason she has been able to regain...
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August 1, 2014
08/01/2014
Marijuana Industry Steps Up on Edibles, Retailing

Marijuana Industry Steps Up on Edibles, Retailing

Faced with growing concern about the use of marijuana “edibles” (food products containing marijuana) and taking preemptive steps toward industry self-education and self-regulation, the National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA)...
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August 1, 2014
08/01/2014
Big Pharma Meds Almost Sent Me to an Early Grave, While Pot Helped Ease My Disease

Big Pharma Meds Almost Sent Me to an Early Grave, While Pot Helped Ease My Disease

After a decade and a couple hundred thousand dollars, I have learned that although prescription drugs worked to an extent for my Crohn’s disease, the Big Pharma drug...
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July 28, 2014
07/28/2014
Could Cannabis Replace Spinal Injections?

Could Cannabis Replace Spinal Injections?

Cannabis is one of the safest and most effective anti-inflammatory agents in existence, which I suspect is a large part of why it is such a powerful...
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July 22, 2014
07/22/2014
Cannabis and Child Abuse: The Proximity Dilemma

Cannabis and Child Abuse: The Proximity Dilemma

For many medical marijuana patients, simply having cannabis in a house where children reside could result in claims of child abuse. No one runs the risk of...
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July 18, 2014
07/18/2014
Marijuana Linked to Depression?

Marijuana Linked to Depression?

Mitch Earleywine, professor of psychology at SUNY Albany, doesn’t think marijuana leads to depression. “I think that giving folks Ritalin or any other stimulant in an effort to...
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June 25, 2014
06/25/2014
Cannabis Workplace Smoking Rooms?

Cannabis Workplace Smoking Rooms?

While the once omnipresent employee smoking lounge has been all but obliterated in the American workplace, is it possible that such a place could reemerge with the...
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May 30, 2014
05/30/2014
Lunacy: The NFL Drug Policy

Lunacy: The NFL Drug Policy

Ex-NFL player and current sports columnist, Ryan Riddle, wrote a great piece on an NFL drug policy that he calls “hypocritical and harmful.” Indeed, a new lawsuit...
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April 23, 2014
04/23/2014
Cannabis May Be Best Treatment for Fibromyalgia, Survey Finds

Cannabis May Be Best Treatment for Fibromyalgia, Survey Finds

A new National Pain Foundation survey suggests medical marijuana may top currently available pharmaceuticals for treating fibromyalgia. 62% of the patients surveyed found medical marijuana to be “very...
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April 18, 2014
04/18/2014
Blake Griffin: Medical Marijuana in NBA “Makes Sense”

Blake Griffin: Medical Marijuana in NBA “Makes Sense”

Blake Griffin said in a Rolling Stone interview this week that he would support the use of medical marijuana in the NBA in part because it would...
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March 13, 2014
03/13/2014
Project Propaganda: SAM’s Real Agenda

Project Propaganda: SAM’s Real Agenda

Our friends over at High Times recently put out an article detailing some of the glowing orbs of shit that Project SAM is disseminating. It got me...
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March 3, 2014
03/03/2014
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Officially Dead of Accidental OD

Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Officially Dead of Accidental OD

News broke last Friday that Phillip Seymour Hoffman officially died of an accidental drug overdose, something that is physically impossible to do with cannabis. “According to the...
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February 26, 2014
02/26/2014
Marijuana Helps Seniors Get Off Drugs

Marijuana Helps Seniors Get Off Drugs

Medical marijuana is helping seniors across the country trade some of their pills for pot, and get off drugs that cause as many problems as they solve.
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