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Italy court rules home-growing cannabis is legal,
ByOSadminThis article originally appeared at https://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-cannabis-ruling/italy-court-rules-home-growing-cannabis-is-legal-reigniting-dispute-idUSKBN1YV14H ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s Supreme Court has ruled that small-scale domestic cultivation of cannabis is legal, in a landmark decision triggering calls for further legalization from weed advocates and anger from the country’s conservatives. Called on to clarify previous conflicting interpretations of the law, the Court of Cassation decreed…
US Traffic Fatalities, 1985–2014, and Their Relationship to Medical Marijuana Laws
ByOSadminThis article originally appeared at https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2016.303577 Authors: Julian Santaella-Tenorio, DVM, MSc, Christine M. Mauro, PhD, Melanie M. Wall, PhD, June H. Kim, MPhil, MHS, Magdalena Cerdá, DrPH, Katherine M. Keyes, PhD, Deborah S. Hasin, PhD, Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, and Silvia S. Martins, MD, PhD Objectives. To determine the association of medical marijuana laws (MMLs)…
Cannabidiol protects liver from binge alcohol-induced steatosis by mechanisms including inhibition of oxidative stress and increase in autophagy
ByOSadminAbstract Acute alcohol drinking induces steatosis, and effective prevention of steatosis can protect liver from progressive damage caused by alcohol. Increased oxidative stress has been reported as one mechanism underlying alcohol-induced steatosis. We evaluated whether cannabidiol, which has been reported to function as an antioxidant, can protect the liver from alcohol-generated oxidative stress-induced steatosis. Cannabidiol…
Exposed: The Full Story Behind Why Marijuana Is Illegal
ByOSadminThis article originally appeared at: http://www.medicaljane.com/2013/01/23/exposed-the-full-story-behind-why-marijuana-is-illegal-and-classified-as-a-schedule-1-drug/ Last night we got together and discussed the censorship of medical marijuana knowledge. Despite the multitude of studies supporting the medicinal benefits of cannabis, nothing is changing and the plant remains illegal. To help us understand why this news isn’t getting covered, let’s go over the history of the…
Cannabidiol as an adjuvant treatment in adults with drug-resistant focal epilepsy
ByOSadminThis article originally appeared at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37196452/ Authors Silvia Kochen 1 , Manuela Villanueva 1 , Liliana Bayarres 1 , Anilu Daza-Restrepo 1 , Silvia Gonzalez Martinez 1 , Silvia Oddo 2 Highlights Abstract Cannabidiol oil (CBD) has been approved as an anti-seizure medication for the treatment of uncommon types of epilepsy, occurring in children: Dravet syndrome, Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, and Tuberous…
Comparative risk assessment of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis and other illicit drugs using the margin of exposure approach
ByOSadminThis article originally appeared at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4311234/ Abstract A comparative risk assessment of drugs including alcohol and tobacco using the margin of exposure (MOE) approach was conducted. The MOE is defined as ratio between toxicological threshold (benchmark dose) and estimated human intake. Median lethal dose values from animal experiments were used to derive the benchmark dose….
