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Understanding Medical Cannabis – 1. Cannabinoids Explained 2. Cannabis Effects Different for Men & Women 3. Could marijuana’s mellow cousin be the next environmental and economic boon?
1. Cannatech News: Cannabinoids Explained: A Closer Look At Cannabis Compounds Well, it’s mostly down to the many active chemical compounds that the plant produces. These chemicals are called cannabinoids, and it’s these cannabinoids and their specific ratios that, when smoked or ingested, make this fast-growing weed so effective at treating so many ailments. What are…
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Understanding Medical Cannabis – 1. Let The People Grow (They Do Anyway) 2. 150,000 Full-Time Marijuana Jobs in the U.S., a 22% Increase from Last Year 3. Legalizing Weed Has Done What $1,000,000,000,000 and a 40 Year Drug War Couldn’t
1. SCOOP: Let The People Grow (They Do Anyway) Article: Shane Le BrunPart Two in a series of opinion pieces by Shane Le Brun, Coordinator, Medical Cannabis Awareness New Zealand (MCANZ) There is strong public support for significant reform of Medical Cannabis (MC) regulation. The system currently in place, which focuses wholly on pharmaceutically trialed cannabis-based…
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Understanding Medical Cannabis – 1.Aging & Cannabis 2. A Lawsuit to Deschedule Cannabis 3. South Africa – Legal Cannabis for Personal Use
1. Cannabis cheri: Aging and Cannabis As a Disease Preventative – An RN’s Perspective by Lanny Swerdlow, RN, LNC The endocannabinoid system regulates almost every biological process in our bodies and has evolved to not only restore our body’s homeostatic balance when it is ravaged by disease, but to prevent the development of diseased states in…
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Understanding Medical Cannabis – 1. Addiction Experts Beg Govt. to Scrap Welfare Drug Tests 2. People Who Think Punitive Measures Help Drug Addicts Have Not Seen What I have 3. Single Dose CBD Shown to Reduce Blood Pressure
1. Huffington Post: Addiction Experts Beg Government To Scrap Welfare Drug Tests Aug. 19th, 2017 Some of Australia’s foremost experts on addiction have pleaded for the federal government to scrap its controversial plan to drug test welfare recipients, saying the program’s negative impacts far outweigh its benefits and that it will further swamp an already struggling treatment…
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Pharmacists are primary in healthcare and its economics
One of the most successful marketing slogans ever developed by the Pharmacy Guild of Australia (PGA) was: “Ask your family chemist – he knows!” The public response to it was massive and just seemed to hit the right nerve. Its popularity eventually irritated the medical profession who couldn’t understand how a pharmacist might know more…
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Understanding Medical Cannabis – 1. The Canna-Nanna Movement 2. Peer Reviewed Journal “Cannabis & Cannabinoid Research” 3. Lucy Haslam Petition
1. Greendorphin Aug. 16th, 2017: Australia’s Canna Nanna’s Movement – Aussie Grandmas with Big Vision for Cannabis When remarkable women unite behind a noble cause, mountains move easily and seemingly impossible results are achieved.Being a woman comes with wonderful qualities that are not just essential to be a loving and devoted partner and mother, and…
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Understanding Medical Cannabis – 1. The Pharmaceutical Journal -MS Charity Recommends Cannabis be legal 2. Sydney Criminal Lawyers – Opposes Victorian Blanket Legislation 3. Australian Company to Provide Cannabis for Australian Prescription Market
1. The Pharmaceutical Journal 31 JUL 2017: MS charity says cannabis should be legalised for medicinal use UK should follow the lead of Germany and Canada and legalise the drug for people with multiple sclerosis, a condition that already has a licensed cannabis-derived treatment, says MS Society. Multiple sclerosis is the only condition that has a licensed…
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Understanding Medical Cannabis – 1. CBD & Parkinson’s Disease 2. Young Cancer Patient Planned His Own Funeral 3.The Reason You Get Runner’s High
Project CBD: CBD and Parkinson’s Disease The endocannabinoid system and digestive imbalance play major roles in Parkinson’s disease. Research on CBD, THC, and THCV has demonstrated that cannabis medicine may help to manage PD symptoms. Highlights: The endocannabinoid system plays a major role in Parkinson’s Disease (PD). PD is associated with impairment of motor control after…
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Understanding Medical Cannabis 1. Marijuana Legalisation & Car Accident Rates 2. Sydney Criminal Lawyers – Arrests for Possession of Medical Cannabis 3. WHO Statement Calls For Decriminalisation of Drugs
1. Washington Post: By Christopher Ingraham, on Jun 26, 2017 We have asked to wilkes-barre car accident attorney what marijuana legalization did to car accident rates? Last week, a pair of studies came to seemingly opposite conclusions on whether rising marijuana use is causing an increase in car crashes in states that have legalized the drug. The…
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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…