Cannabis and U.S. politics have been bedfellows for as long as people have been dumping tea in harbors. George Washington made detailed notes on separating the male and female plants; Andrew Jackson wrote home often about smoking with his soldiers; and Thomas Jefferson smuggled especially potent hemp seeds out of China at the risk of […]
Month: October 2016
Cervical Cancer Treatment – Cannabis Triggers Cancer ‘Suicide’
Women may soon use marijuana for cervical cancer treatment. New study suggests the drug contains a chemical compound that could encourage cancer cells to kill themselves. Researchers at North-West University in South Africa found marijuana has anti-carcinogenic properties potentially effective for cervical cancer treatment. They found cannabidiol (CBD) triggered the process called apoptosis or cell […]
British Regulator Declares Cannabis Compound A Medicine
Last Thursday the United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) officially announced it was designating cannabidiol (CBD) – a non-psychoactive cannabis compound – as a medicine that can be administered for the purpose of “restoring, correcting, or modifying physiological functions.” This means that CBD products, which British law has been silent on until […]
5 Things You Need To Know About CBD Marijuana
CBD, or cannabidiol, is quickly changing the debate around the potentials of medical marijuana. When most people think of marijuana, they think of the chemical THC because it is the chemical that gets users high. But recently, more and more people have been looking into another compound found in marijuana called CBD. While many doctors […]
Growing Industrial Hemp In Eastern Canada
What if there was one crop that could produce a variety of really useful products? Growing this crop would probably seem like a no-brainer. Unless this crop is industrial hemp. Industrial hemp, one variety of the plant Cannabis sativa, can produce a wide variety of products. However, because hemp is a relative to marijuana, growing […]
Lawmakers Want To Defund The DEA’s Marijuana Eradication Program
In 2015, the Drug Enforcement Administration gave $ 20,000 to the state of New Hampshire to eradicate marijuana plants, according to federal documents. But the Granite State’s law enforcement agencies didn’t have much luck finding any weed to pull that year – their efforts uncovered a single outdoor grow site with a grand total of […]
Nearly 80 Percent Of Floridians Support Legal Medical Marijuana
Two years ago, Florida voters just barely missed a 60 percent threshold to legalize medical marijuana in the state. That won’t happen this November – at least not if a new poll on the measure from the University of North Florida is even close to accurate. UNF’s survey, released this morning, finds that 77 percent […]
UK Recognizes Marijuana Extract As Medicine
A chemical compound found in marijuana can now be used for medicinal purposes in the United Kingdom, according to the governmental branch that regulates medicine. “We have come to the opinion that products containing cannabidiol (CBD) are a medicine,” a spokesman for the U.K.’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency told The Huffington Post. CBD, […]
Top 10 Health Benefits Of Marijuana
There is no plant on Earth more condemned than marijuana. We’re talking about a living organism which governments have taken upon themselves to designate as an illegal substance. Despite no existing evidence of anyone ever dying of a marijuana overdose, possession of this plant is still illegal in many parts of the world. Marijuana has […]
KY: State Expects Hemp Program To Grow
Kentucky’s industrial hemp research pilot program heads into its fourth growing season with expectations that it will continue to expand. Applications are being accepted through Nov. 14 by the state Department of Agriculture. But farmers should note that there are some new fees for participants, including a first-time $ 350 fee per growing address. Participants […]