An Ancient Look At A New Medical Approach For Pain
Dr. Donna Schwontkowski interviews Dr. Phillip Denney, M.D.
Cannabis: should it be legal or not? Decide for yourself after you read this interview with Dr....
Cannabis Effective At Relieving Pain After Major Surgery
A cannabis plant extract provides pain relief for patients after major surgery such as knee replacements, a study by Imperial College London and the...
New Weapon In Battle Against Osteoporosis
Medical researchers at the University of Bonn, working in collaboration with scientists from Israel, the USA and Britain, have identified a previously unknown regulatory...
Hebrew U. Researchers Find Cannabis Can Strengthen Bones
An article on the Hebrew University research appeared this week in the prestigious American PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the...
The Science Of Why Pot Makes You Hungry
ScienceDaily — Marijuana--or more specifically its active ingredient, tetrahydrocannabinol--has a well-documented tendency to stimulate hunger. And while scientists have traced this property to cannabinoid...
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...
Cannabinoids Among Most Promising Approaches To Treating Neuropathic Pain
In MedPanel Summit, Leading Pain Experts Name Cannabinoids Among Most Promising Approaches to Treating Neuropathic Pain, Assert That Sociopolitical Climate Will Hamper Drug Approvals
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Marijuana And Multiple Sclerosis / Muscle Spasms
Movement Disorders stated in a 2004 article "Survey on Cannabis Use in Parkinson's Disease" (Vol. 19, No. 9, pp. 1102-1106, Sept. 2004) by researchers...
Marijuana Helps MS Patients Alleviate Pain, Spasms
By Kathleen Doheny
SAN DIEGO (Reuters Health) - Cannabis, or marijuana, is an effective drug that can help patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) to reduce...
Cannabinoids And Multiple Sclerosis
Cannabinoids inhibit neurodegeneration in models of multiple sclerosis
Gareth Pryce*,1, Zubair Ahmed*,1, Deborah J. R. Hankey*,1, Samuel J. Jackson1, J. Ludovic Croxford1, Jennifer M. Pocock1,...
MMJ: National MS Society Takes Half-Step Toward Recognizing Therapeutic Uses
The National MS Society has released an expert opinion paper that marijuana has the potential to treat MS symptoms and limit the progression of...
Medical Marijuana: Headaches/Migraines
A review of The Merck Manual 1999 Edition indicates that the causes of Headaches and/or Migraines are by no means settled and The Manual...
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...
Cannabidiol, A Cannabis Sativa Constituent, As An Antipsychotic Drug
A.W. Zuardi2, J.A.S. Crippa2, J.E.C. Hallak2, F.A. Moreira1 and F.S. Guimarães1
1Departamento de Farmacologia, 2Departamento de Neurologia, Psiquiatria e Psicologia Médica, Faculdade de Medicina de...
Marijuana And Psychological Conditions
Does medical marijuana produce lasting schizophrenia,
psychosis, or other mental disorders?
Mitchell Earleywine, Ph.D. and Thomas Denson state in their study "Decreased Depression in Marijuana Users,"...
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...