Acute Effects Of Smoked Marijuana And Oral Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol In Asthmatics
American Review of Respiratory Disease, Volume 109, 1974, p. 420-428
By Donald P. Tashkin, Bertrand J. Shapiro, and Ira M. Frank
SUMMARY: The acute effects of...
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...
Marijuana And Tourette’s Syndrome7
The American Medical Association states in their online report "Medical Marijuana (A-01)," accessed on Jan. 10, 2007:
"Only limited data exist on the effects of...
THC Effective In Tourette-Syndrome
IACM-Bulletin of 31 March 2002
A clinical study conducted at the Medical School of Hannover (Germany) and published in the current issue of Pharmacopsychiatry demonstrated...
Israeli Research Finds That THC Could Alleviate Allergic Skin Disease
A chemical found in the cannabis (hashish) plant can help the body's immune system alleviate a common skin disease called allergic contact dermatitis, according...
Sickle Cell Disease And Cannabis
Some 70,000 Americans suffer from Sickle Cell Disease. Sickle Cell is a genetic blood disorder that primarily affects African Americans, Latinos, and those of...
New Cannabinoid Receptor In Pulmonary Arteries
Researchers suggest the therapeutic effects of cannabinoids on pulmonary disease, such as Hypertension, are due to an unindentified cannabinoid receptor. Abstract posted below.
If you...
Scientists Measuring Natural ‘Cannabis’ In Pregnant Women
Writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association, a medical team from the University of Leicester say they have established a predictor for...
Medical Marijuana: A Surprising Solution To Severe Morning Sickness
As is the case for many young women, my indulgence in recreational drugs, including alcohol and caffeine, came to an abrupt halt when my...
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...
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...
Cannabis Relieves Morning Sickness
Medical researchers wishing to test the safety and efficacy of drugs need people willing to participate in their clinical trials. Cannabis dispensaries serve people...
Prenatal Marijuana Use And Neonatal Outcome
Day N, Sambamoorthi U, Taylor P, Richardson G, Robles N, Jhon Y, Scher M, Stoffer D, Cornelius M, Jasperse D.
Department of Psychiatry, University of...
Dependence Liability: Basic Research On Rewarding Tolerance And Withdrawl
Basic research on rewarding, tolerance and withdrawal
In recent years, scientists were able to show that animals do self-administer THC under certain conditions. Basic animal...
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...
Potential For Abuse: Use And Abuse
The government’s review of the 1995 marijuana rescheduling petition did not distinguish between use and abuse according to professional standards, such as those in...