Cannabinoids In Bipolar Disorder
The role of cannabis (marijuana) in psychiatric disorders remains controversial. In bipolar disorder, it is known that many people use cannabis for various reasons....
Rheumatoid Arthritis – Cannabis Eases Pain And Suppresses Disease
The first study to use a cannabis-based medicine (CBM) for treating rheumatoid arthritis has found that it has a significant effect on easing pain...
Marijuana Cures Hiccups
Two American medical doctors report the use of marijuana to cure persistent (intractable) hiccups in an AIDS patient. The patient had received intravenous midazolam...
Marijuana May Be Effective For Neuropathic Pain
The growing body of evidence that marijuana (cannibis) may be effective as a pain reliever has been expanded with publication of a new study in...
Diabetes & Marijuana
Diabetes Mellitus
Diabetes mellitus is a group of autoimmune diseases characterized by defects in insulin secretion resulting in hyperglycemia (an abnormally high concentration of glucose...
Cannabis And Depression
Depression is actually a variety of disorders that affect approximately 18 million Americans. Women are twice as likely as men to suffer from some...
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...
Marijuana And ADD Therapeutic Uses
Marijuana and ADD
Therapeutic uses of Medical Marijuana
in the treatment of Attention Deficit Disorder
By Kort E Patterson
It was mentioned in the Portland newspaper that the...
Marijuana And Pain / Analgesia
The Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics published an article by researchers from GW Pharmaceuticals in the U.K. (Vol. 1, No. 3/4, 2001, pp. 183-205) which...
Morphine-Cannabis Super-Painkiller
Pain can often be better managed when two types of painkiller are used together. For example, it has recently become known that cannabinoids such...
Cannabis And Marinol In The Treatment Of Migraine Headache
by Tod H. Mikuriya, M.D.
Edie L., a thirty eight year old pert, intense, intelligent, articulate stock broker and former law student suffers from severe...
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...
Finding The Dose Window For Optimal Pain Relief From Cannabis
Dose-dependent Effects of Smoked Cannabis on Capsaicin-induced Pain and Hyperalgesia in Healthy Volunteers
Abstract
Background: Although the preclinical literature suggests that cannabinoids produce antinociception and antihyperalgesic...
National Eye Institute Policy On Marijuana
NEI Statement
Glaucoma and Marijuana Use
National Eye Institute
National Institutes of Health
Glaucoma is an eye disease usually associated with an increased fluid pressure inside the eyes...
Medical Breakthrough! Medicinal Marijuana For Diabetics
The medical literature has very few citations in regard to any direct effect of cannabis on blood sugar levels. These citations are sometimes contradictory....
Endocannabinoids The Brain Demonstrate Novel Modes Of Action When Stressed
Three separate research team reports ?one from Louisiana, one from Japan and one from Scotland ?are presenting independent research results pointing to involvement of...