Does Cannabis Hold The Key To Treating Cardiometabolic Disease?
Paul E Szmitko; Subodh Verma
Nat Clin Pract Cardiovasc Med. 2006;3(3):116-117. ©2006 Nature Publishing Group
Obesity, particularly visceral adiposity, and its related metabolic and cardiovascular disorders,...
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...
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...
Treatment For PTSD Should Include Cannabis
For those who do not know it, the humans and all animals so far tested produce two marijuana like substances, Anandamide and 2- Arachidonal...
Cannabidiol May Be Effective In Preventing Mad Cow Disease
Cannabidiol may be effective in preventing bovine spongiforme enzephalopathy (mad cow disease)
J Neurosci 2007;27(36):9537-44
According to basic research of scientists of the National Centre for...
Use Of Marijuana During Pregnancy
Warnings that marijuana causes birth defects date back to the late 1960s.1 Some researchers claimed to have found chromosomal abnormalities in blood cells taken...
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,...
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...
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...
20 Health Benefits Of Cannabis
Cannabis can be found in various forms, and the health benefits of cannabis is ever growing, here Tara Leo of CaliExtractions gives us an...
Cannabis May Soothe Inflamed Bowels
Cannabis-based drugs could offer treatment hope to sufferers of inflammatory bowel disease, UK researchers report.
Cannabis smokers with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have often claimed...
Sam’s Story – Using Medical Cannabis To Treat Autism Spectrum Disorder
Sam is an eight-year-old male. He was diagnosed with Pervasive Developmental Delay- Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS) when he was two and one-half years old...
Cannabis And Aggression
Cannabis is widely regarded as a "peace" inducing drug, a legacy of the hippie era in the 1960s. Relaxation and stress relief are among...
Marijuana’s Active Ingredient Kills Leukemia Cells
November 2005
The New Drug Study Group in London discovered that Δ9-THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, works to kill leukemia cells by affecting the...
American Psychiatric Association Assembly Unanimously Backs Medical Marijuana
(WASHINGTON, D.C. ) - In a unanimous vote, the Assembly of the American Psychiatric Association has approved a strongly worded statement supporting legal protection...
How MMJ Can Give People Their Life Back
In the UK in 2022 the cannabis conversation is changing as more patients, doctors, and individuals are learning about the benefits of medicinal cannabis....