With ever-increasing costs of conventional healthcare, and continuing issues with insurance coverage, alternative medicine is growing in popularity. Inasmuch as it is still officially denigrated, cannabis is about as “alternative” as it gets. This, despite no shortage of historic references to cannabis, or its extract marijuana (prepared from the dried and crushed flowers and leaves […]
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CBD Oil Is Shaking Up The Medical Cannabis Industry
Corinne Malanca credits CBD oil with saving her father’s life. Five years ago, Stan Rutner underwent chemotherapy for Stage 4 lung cancer. After treatment, an inoperable brain tumor was found and he fell sick with pneumonia caused by his radiation treatments. Thinking Rutner only had weeks to live, Malanca turned to the internet for answers. […]
Ireland: Medical Cannabis – Is It High Time For A Change?
In 1839, Limerick-born physicist William O’Shaughnessy was credited as the first expert to introduce cannabis to Western medicine after researching its benefits in Calcutta. His second trip to India saw him knighted by Queen Victoria and dubbed the “grandfather of cannabis research”. Almost 175 years later, a promising comedian by the name of Aodhrua Fitzgerald […]
How A Cannabis Extract Could Help Anxiety
Anxiety affects a lot of us. Recent studies put the stats at 1 in 10 likely to acquire the mental health condition at some stage in our lives. Many suffer in silence and some turn to prescription medications, which can be extremely helpful for some people, but not everyone gets on with them. There’s call […]
The Case For Cannabis
Background Medical marijuana, legalization, and the reduction of criminal penalties have been a topic of heavy debate for quite a while now. I started researching the benefits of marijuana in about 2011, and since then it’s clear that some state governments have caught on to many benefits. In this article, I’d like to sum up […]
Colorado Hits Another Cannabis First With Certified Hemp Seed
Fruita, Colo. – Colorado is expected to reach another national first on cannabis Wednesday when state agriculture officials show off the first domestic certified hemp seeds. The Colorado Department of Agriculture has been working for years to produce hemp seeds that consistently produce plants low enough in the chemical THC to qualify as hemp and […]
Cannabis Threatens To Disrupt The Pharmaceutical Industry
Oftentimes, we don’t know the answer even when it’s right in our face. There has been a torrent of news about fentanyl, the deadly opioid that killed Prince. Our country is awash in this stuff, and it’s killing us. Here’s the skeleton narrative: drug manufacturers use opioids to create addictive drugs such as Fentanyl. The […]
5 Cannabis Friendly Destinations In India
BENGALURU: Cannabis derivates such as weed, hash and bang were pretty legal in India until 1985, when the Rajiv Gandhi government supposedly imposed a ban on it by categorizing it under other potentially harmful chemical drugs. There is quite a little conspiracy revolving around The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985 which goes […]
Ireland: Bill To Legalise Medicinal Cannabis Tabled In Dáil
An opposition TD has introduced a bill in the Dáil that would see cannabis legalised for medicinal use. Anti-Austerity Alliance/ People Before Profit deputy Bríd Smith said there is demand for such medication by a number of specific groups of ill-health sufferers. She said that she has met with a group representing people who suffer […]
Where Cannabis Is Legal Around The World
We’ve recently been tracking cannabis laws around the United States, going deeper into which states have legalized recreational and medicinal use, including Washington, Colorado and Oregon. Cannabis is about to be big business in the U.S. Ackrell Capital, a San Francisco-based investment bank focused on middle-market and emerging growth companies, forecasts that the total U.S. […]