It is no secret that tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) received the most attention in the past as far as cannabinoids are concerned. Growers in search of strains with the strongest high used selective breeding techniques to build their plants’ THC levels over time. Interest In Cannabidiol (CBD) Research Is Rising As a result, cannabis testing labs across…
Medicinal cannabis is routinely recommended for a wide variety of conditions. For example, in California, patients can qualify for cannabis medicine if they have AIDS, anorexia, arthritis, cachexia, cancer, chronic pain, glaucoma, migraines, muscle spasms, seizures, nausea, or other chronic symptoms. This begs the question – how can cannabis be recommended for so many different…
Despite a prohibitionist tantrum, pot is legal in the nation’s capital. Last Tuesday, the chairman of the House committee that oversees the District of Columbia warned D.C. officials that they could go to prison if they insisted on implementing Initiative 71, the marijuana legalization measure that voters approved by an overwhelming margin last November. “There…
The state’s Department of Revenue has published marijuana sales data, giving a detailed look at the footprint of the young industry. (TNS) No longer will backwards math be needed to determine marijuana sales in Colorado. The Colorado Department of Revenue on Tuesday published a mother lode of previously unreleased sales data for the state’s marijuana…
Long before Angus Wilfong started testing the nation’s first marijuana-based drug meant to treat epilepsy, a 4-year old boy and his parents came to him for help. The healthy child had suddenly begun suffering from as many as 210 seizures a day. He was diagnosed with febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome, a rare and potentially deadly…
Lawmakers pass anticipated legislation that reduces possession of small quantities to a petty offence and paves way for medical cannabis industry Jamaican lawmakers have passed an act to decriminalise small amounts of marijuana and establish a licensing agency to regulate a lawful medical cannabis industry on the island. After several hours of debate legislators in…
A new study has quantified the risk of death associated with an array of legal and illegal drugs to find that alcohol was the deadliest of them all, followed by heroin and cocaine. Marijuana, on the other hand, was associated with the lowest risk of death. The study even suggests that we’ve been overestimating how…
Alaska’s voter initiative making marijuana legal takes effect Tuesday, placing Alaska alongside Colorado and Washington as the three U.S. states where recreational marijuana is legal. The new law means people over age 21 can consume small amounts of pot — if they can find it. It’s still illegal to sell marijuana. “You can still give…
The original paper can be found at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4311234/pdf/srep08126.pdf 1Epidemiological Research Unit, Technische Universita¨t Dresden, Klinische Psychologie & Psychotherapie, Dresden, Germany,2Chemisches und Veterina¨runtersuchungsamt (CVUA) Karlsruhe, Germany, 3Social and Epidemiological Research (SER)Department, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto, Canada, 4Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto(UofT), Toronto, Canada, 5Dalla Lana School of Public Health, UofT,…
In plain English: No brain shrink from the ganja. The mainstream media last year was nearly in hysterics to report structural changes to the brain due to marijuana. They were following a study conducted at Northwestern University and sponsored by the always truthy Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). A headline in the Los…
