Health Canada announced today that medical marijuana patients are allowed to grow a “limited” amount of cannabis at home. Up until now Canadian medical marijuana patients were limited to purchasing their cannabis through one of Canada’s 34 Health Canada approved producers. The announcement follows a Feb. 24 ruling by Federal Court judge Michael Phelan that…
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Buried in the wave of today’s bad news following the DEA’s announcement that it would continue to consider cannabis among the most harmful and dangerous substances known to man was a most encouraging nugget. One of the key reasons why the DEA denied several appeals to reschedule cannabis is a lack of evidence that marijuana…
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The Drug Enforcement Administration is under severe criticism today after it failed to downgrade marijuana from its federal status as the most dangerous drug in the world. News broke Wednesday night that the DEA’s much-anticipated decision on “re-scheduling” marijuana down from Schedule I to a lower level would not be occurring. Instead, the DEA —…
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Opponents of California’s Proposition 64 to legalize marijuana for adults have filed a lawsuit that claims advocates made “false and misleading” statements about how the measure regulates advertising, sales and more. The suit was filed one day after backers of Proposition 64 filed a lawsuit of their own over what it called “reefer madness-style misinformation”…
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Things are busy in the nation’s drug agencies according to the testimony of Susan R.B. Weiss, Ph.D., director, Division of Extramural Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). On July 13, Dr. Weiss testified before the Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, part of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on the topic of “Researching the Potential Medical…
DetailsThere ain’t no bones about it! Compounds in the cannabis plant may help prevent bone diseases and even make them stronger after fracture. Diseases like osteoporosis and osteoarthritis are painful and debilitating. Osteoporosis can make bones so brittle that they break even after a soft fall. Research conducted over the past several years has found that…
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Slowly but surely, Americans are kicking their cigarette habits and picking up joints instead. Reported cannabis use is at an all-time high, according to results of a Gallup poll released Monday. Since states began legalizing small amounts of cannabis for adults in 2012, the number of American adults admitting to using marijuana nearly doubled, from…
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All-time top Olympian Michael Phelps carried the U.S. flag in the Olympic opening ceremony in Rio and has picked up his 19th gold medal as part of the U.S. men’s 100-meter freestyle relay. Caught smoking a bong at University of South Carolina house party weeks after he won eight gold medals at the Bejing Olympics…
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Thirty million Americans can’t be wrong. More American adults than ever say they currently use cannabis, according to results of a Gallup poll released Monday, which showed an increase of nearly 100 percent in cannabis confessionals. According to the polling outfit’s Consumption Habits poll conducted last month, 13 percent of adults over the age of…
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Arthritis can be one of the most frustrating illnesses to live with. Simple tasks like opening a jar, standing up after sitting, and walking around a grocery store can become almost unbearable due to chronic pain. Few treatments have provided effective relief for arthritis sufferers, forcing patients to rely on painkillers, anti-inflammatory medications, and even chemotherapy…
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama granted clemency to a record 214 inmates on Wednesday, far surpassing his previous single-day record, as part of an ongoing effort to release federal inmates serving prison terms deemed to be unduly harsh. To date, Obama has commuted the sentences of 562 federal inmates, more than the previous nine presidents…
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Hugh Hempel got into the medical marijuana business to help his twin daughters. The girls, now 12, suffer from Niemann-Pick Disease, a rare and fatal genetic disorder often referred to as childhood Alzheimer’s. Hempel and his wife became health care entrepreneurs in seek of treatments and, later, found that cannabidiol was effective in combating the…
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