Kansans hold out for medical cannabis
CBD oil is technically illegal in Kansas on the state level, but Gordon says shops in and around Lenexa in the Kansas City area, where her family lives, still sell it.
The use of Cannabis for the four legged critters
Phyto Animal Health, a subsidiary of Medical Marijuana Inc., which already produces cannabidiol (CBD) oils used to treat epilepsy in human children, is now marketing products for pets and livestock.
How Greece is growing medical marijuana to tackle high unemployment
Greece is taking advantage of its warm climate to cultivate pot and create more than 2,000 jobs
Malta will soon become cannabis medicine producer
The proposed law will permit the industrial production of cannabis products for medical use, opening up a new economic sector.
Cannabis May Protect Alcohol Users From Liver Disease
They wanted to see if the observed anti-inflammatory effects of cannabis also affect the development of liver disease. The study was led by Adeyinka Charles Adejumo of North Shore Medical Center in Salem, Massachusetts
Researchers analyzed more than a dozen studies on how marijuana affects your heart
The findings sounded alarming. But like any study, this one had key limitations, including the fact that it defined cannabis “users” as anyone who’d ever tried the drug. More importantly, however, it highlighted an important gap in our current understanding of the science of cannabis:
House Panel Backs Expansion Of Medical Marijuana Oils
Advocates for medical marijuana have tried and failed in Virginia year after year. A few years ago, they persuaded lawmakers to allow it for epilepsy.
Canada’s Aurora Cannabis to buy rival to create world’s most valuable weed firm
“The action is where the medical cannabis export markets are, which are much larger than Canada,” said Chris Damas, editor of the BCMI Cannabis Report. “CanniMed has patents, they have relationships with different universities, research and clinical trials, and export relations with other countries, and Aurora wants to add to their own relationships in Europe.”
Pharmaceutical cannabis could reduce sudden falls for people with treatment-resistant epilepsy
The trial reduced the frequency of seizures in patients with the illness, just 10% of whom had previously been found to respond to conventional drug treatments, though the authors say that efficacy and safety of the new treatment ‘now needs to be confirmed’.
Queensland trial evaluating benefits of medical cannabis for cancer patients
The Federal Government will invest the money in world-leading medical researchers to target devastating and rare conditions like acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in infants, aplastic anaemia, multiple sclerosis and Huntington’s disease.