Fibromyalgia: Effective Treatment With Medical Marijuana
Fibromyalgia is a very painful, complex disease causing spasm of muscles and accompanying nerves and has been a contentious puzzle to both victims and...
THC Reduces Pain In Fibromyalgia Patients
Mannheim, Germany: Oral administration of THC significantly reduces both chronic and experimentally induced pain in patients with fibromyalgia, according to clinical trial data to...
Marijuana-Like Compounds May Aid Array Of Debilitating Conditions
No longer a pipe dream, new animal research now indicates that marijuana-like compounds can aid a bevy of debilitating conditions, ranging from brain disorders...
Autism Ritalin And Cannabis
I wrote a recent article: Autism, ADD, ADHD and Marijuana Therapy, in which I reported that California Medical Marijuana doctors had reported successful treatment...
Cannabidiol And Epileptic Patients
CHRONIC ADMINISTRATION OF CANNABIDIOL TO HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS AND EPILEPTIC PATIENTS
Pharmacology 21: 175-185 (1980)
Jomar M. Cunha, E.A. Carlini, Aparecido E. Pereira, Oswaldo L. Ramos,
Camilo Pimentel,...
Cannabis Use Can Improve Effectiveness Of Hepatitis C Therapy
Recent research by Diana L. Sylvestre, MD, assistant clinical professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues...
Accepted Medical Use: Pharmaceutical Industry
The pharmaceutical industry is showing not only increasing interest in synthetic modulators of the endogenous cannabinoid system, but also industry members are funding several...
Cannabis As A First-Line Treatment For Childhood Mental Disorders
By Tod H. Mikuriya, M.D.
Originally published in O'Shaughnessy's, Spring 2006
Alex P. was prescribed pharmaceutical stimulants, depressants, analgesics, and antipsychotics that exacerbated his problems. Cannabis...
Documented Safety Of Long Term Cannabis Use
Studies have shown the long-term use of cannabis to be safe. In contrast to many other medicinal drugs, the long-term use of cannabis does...
Dreher’s Jamaican Pregnancy Study
More Suppression of Marijuana Research
By Fred Gardner
In the 1980s Melanie Dreher and colleagues at UMass Amherst began a longitudinal study to assess the well-being...
Smoked Cannabis And Asthmatics
Acute effects of smoked marijuana and oral delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol on specific airway conductance in asthmatic subjects
American Review of Respiratory Disease, Volume 109, 1974, p. 420-428
By...
Rheumatology Benefits: Current Scientific Status
There is no doubt that patients with rheumatic and autoimmune diseases are taking full advantage of relaxed laws in the United States surrounding recreational...
Marijuana’s Active Ingredient Shown To Inhibit Primary Marker Of Alzheimer’s
Discovery Could Lead to More Effective Treatments
LA JOLLA, CA, August 9, 2006 - Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have found that the active...
Cannabis Eases Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
William Woodward, MD, of the American Medical Association, testifying before Congress in 1937 against the Prohibition of cannabis, paraphrased a French author (F. Pascal,...
Potential For Abuse: Cannabis And Dronabinol
There is growing evidence that there is no relevant difference in subjective effects between (Schedule III) dronabinol and cannabis. Thus, it can be expected...
MMJ And Rheumatoid Arthritis: Studies
Medical cannabis has been gaining traction as a potential treatment for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). This chronic autoimmune disease can affect various parts of the...