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Here is yet another marijuana success story that flies directly in the face of its schedule I federal status designation of "no medical use." 4 year old boy Landon Riddle was diagnosed with leukemia and prescribed a rigorous treatment of chemotherapy and a myriad of anti-cancer pills.
In Denver where it is legal to give away cannabis for free, hundreds of veterans lined up to enter Operation Grow4Vets largest event to date where free cannabis was distributed.
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.
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 that there is an anti-cannabis agenda being pushed by drug companies that has nothing to do with health and safety, and everything to do with keeping prescription drug sales up.
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 weed? The answer is no, according to the National Cancer Institute. And here’s why:
The enactment of medicinal marijuana laws is associated with significantly lower state-level opioid overdose fatalities, by an average of 24.8%, according to data published online today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Internal Medicine.
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.
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 has been more or less a stick in the mud, refusing to allow the flood of popular marijuana use budge them from the last century.
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 the gamut of pharmaceutical pain medication that these men are readily prescribed.
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 control of her life.
Faced with growing concern about the use of marijuana "edibles" and taking preemptive steps toward industry self-education and self-regulation, the National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA) announced...
After a decade and a couple hundred thousand dollars, I have learned that although it worked to an extent, the Big Pharma drug was likely sending me to an early grave while fueling record profits for the drug companies, doctors and hospitals I trusted with my health.
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 medication. I'm hopeful that some doctors, especially in the MMJ states, are offering cannabis as a treatment. But for many people, their doctors don't know about, don't believe in, or are disallowed from suggesting cannabis.
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 being labeled an abuser of children for having aspirin, chardonnay, or peanuts in their home.
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 assess dopamine release says little if anything about how cannabis users would respond to natural sources of reinforcement."
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 growing ubiquity and acceptance of cannabis?
A new lawsuit is being levied against the NFL by ex-players who say they were intentionally deceived by team physicians and are now suffering the ravages of the narcotics.
A new survey from the National Pain Foundation suggests medical marijuana may top currently available pharmaceuticals for treating fibromyalgia. 62% of the ~1,300 patients surveyed found
