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Understanding Medical Cannabis – 1: Lucy Haslam Reports good News for the Terminally Ill 2. Medical Cannabis:Where do Doctors Stand? 3. Israel-Australia Cannabis Collaboration
1.United in Compassion: FInally some good news for people living with terminal illness who rely on Cannabis Lucy Haslam Tamworth, Australia JUN 13, 2017 — Dear supporters, finally some good news on the medicinal Cannabis front with the Government’s disallowance of cannabis access to the terminally ill, (through the pathway set up to recognise the urgency…
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Understanding Medical Cannabis – 1. Lucy Haslam Medical Cannabis Symposium 2. Cannabis Helps Leukemia 3. CBD Improves Schizophrenia Symptoms 4. DEA Reality Problem “Marijuana not Medicine”
1. Lucy Haslam: Invitation: Medicinal Cannabis Symposium What a disappointing few weeks for medicinal cannabis patients…… first the good news….some (almost reluctant) recognition from a leading Victorian Paediatric Neurologist that the Cannabis trials for children with Dravet Syndrome (an intractable form of epilepsy) have had a significant measure of success. For these very sick children, even…
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Understanding Medical Cannabis – 1. Basic Cannabinoid Education 2. United in Compassion Education Event 3. Bill Shorten opposes Malcolm Turnbull by backing Greens on drug ruling
1. Basic Cannabinoid Education The cannabis plant contains dozens of active compounds called cannabinoids, which are found within the flower, leaf, and stem. Researchers have identified over 80 unique cannabinoids within the cannabis plant, plus a range of other useful phytochemicals that act as anti-oxidants or enhance the therapeutic effect of the various cannabinoids. The…
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Understanding Medical Cannabis 1. UIC Provides Quality Education 2.Switzerland to legalise cannabis 3. Multi-disciplinary cannabis research 4. Marijuana can treat autism 5. Gastric disorders?-use edible cannabis
1.United in Compassion-An Education Event Quality information and education is hard to come by in regard to medical cannabis. Many people have formed inaccurate perspectives given the long periods of negative press it has been given. United in Compassion is a registered charity that i2P can recommend as the appropriate education provider to currently fill…
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Micro-practice – Future Direction for Pharmacy
I2P has long proposed that pharmacy attracts two types of consumers – customers and patients. A little reflection will resolve this issue because clearly, customers will be attracted to the more commercialised aspects of pharmacy that compete with retailing in general, and the reason why pharmacists see their major competitors as supermarkets and variety stores.…
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Understanding Medical Cannabis – What are the basic Components?
This article is one of a series planned for the provision of basic information relating to medical cannabis – a catch-all generic term for a range of cannabinoids that individually or collectively qualify for the terminology of medical cannabis. It can be confusing because that term is often used interchangeably with other names such as…
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Understanding Medical Cannabis
I2P has been proactive in identifying the potential of medical cannabis as a tool for clinical pharmacists and a useful treatment for chronically ill patients – particularly the elderly prone to suffering chronic conditions characterised with an underlying common factor of inflammation. People can also buy medical cannabis or marijuana in Real CBD store. Now,…
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United in Compassion – Medical Marijuana and Dan’s Story
Editor’s Note: As most i2P subscribers would know, we carry a range of information on diverse topics, one of which is medical marijuana. i2P has been encouraging pharmacists to become engaged with medical marijuana as Cannabis Directory Australia does because of the promise of major health benefits, also a product that could impact on the…
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Medical Maijuana – will Australian Community Pharmacies consider the legislation of Uruguay?
Ministers in the South American country Uruguay have voted in support of a new law, known as 19.172 and enacted in December 2013, to permit marijuana to be sold for non-medicinal use. They also accepted the offer by Uruguay’s community pharmacy owners to sell the drug through their outlets. The community pharmacy owners argue that community pharmacies…
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Three Bioethicists Critical of Pharmacy Retailing
Three bioethicists have combined to criticise the concept of community pharmacy conducting retail front of shop activities, while simultaneously working in the best interests of the patient. Their comments are published in Croakey here. The bioethicists, Wendy Lipworth, Christopher Mayes and Ian Kerridge (all medical academics attached to the University of Sydney) discuss what is…