Colorado Sees 20% Increase In Youth Marijuana Use
A new study showed just how much people use marijuana in the state of Colorado.
Not surprisingly, since legalization, use of pot was significantly higher than national averages.
While that may be good for the economy, what concerned some is kid’s use of the drug.
The data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, or NSDUH, showed kids 12 to 17 used the drug 20% more in the two years since legalization.
During that same time period, the national average of teen pot use dropped 4%, which made teen use in Colorado 74% higher than the national average.
That moved our state from #4 up to #1 in teen pot use.
Across the board, pot use was up in every age group measured, but even with state campaigns educating kids about marijuana use the study showed this increase.
Some said this is just the tip of the iceberg for youth use.
Others said there’s a reasonable explanation for the increase.
“With the legalization of marijuana it has just kinda made people more comfortable with being open about. It’s more socially acceptable, so I think people are more open about the fact that they use it,” said Studio A64 Owner Ambur Racek.
“I can also see the argument that kids are still under reporting their use, because they’re being asked a question about something that’s still, somewhat, considered illegal at the federal level,” said Physician Kenneth Finn with Springs Rehabilitation.
Both sides said the argument boils down to simple facts.
“This is just not good for kids and it’s not good for their brains and it’s not good for learning,” said Finn.
“In comparison, other drugs that the kids are getting in to, I feel like pot is one of the ones we should maybe not focus so much attention on, because there’s serious things that are really hurting kids and I’m not saying I agree with underage pot use, but like I said, kids are gonna be kids and they’re just going to do what they’re going to do,” said Racek.
“I would agree that we do need be looking at things like molly, ecstasy, methamphetamine, but the numbers pale in comparison in the amount of usage with marijuana across the state and across the country,” said Finn.
“I think above all just talking with your kids about being responsible and what are good things to do and what are bad things to do, good decisions to make, and things like that are the most important. it all comes from your parenting,” said Racek.
“Not every kid is using. not every kid that uses is going to have trouble, but just by sheer numbers of kids using you’re gonna have more kids that are going to run into trouble,” said Finn.
Those against said serious steps need to be taken by the state to ramp up education.
They suggested it needs to start as early as 1st and 2nd grade about the dangers of youth pot use.
While others said programs like D.A.R.E. were around when they were kids, yet they still smoked as a teen.
They asserted that kids will do what they want.
http://marijuanaworldnews.com/colorado- ... juana-use/
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Here’s a Map of Every State and Their Marijuana Laws
This year could be big one for marijuana legalization, with states like Arizona, Maine and Vermont likely to jump on the bandwagon, which is already led by Alaska, Colorado and Washington. As of June, marijuana was legalized in some way in 23 states and Washington D.C, proving that a revolution is already underway.
But federally, marijuana is still considered a Schedule I drug — along with heroin and LSD — meaning that it has a high potential for abuse. That’s left both the industry and consumers in a confusing gray area, since in states like Washington, people over the age of of 21 can walk into a commercial dispensary to buy an ounce of marijuana.
President Barack Obama has said on record that he supports “carefully prescribed medical use” of marijuana, and reducing incarceration rates from marijuana possession and crime, according to the Huffington Post. Marijuana crimes account for about 30% of drug arrests, advocacy group Norml found. “At a certain point, if enough states end up decriminalizing, Congress may then reschedule marijuana,” he told Vice’s Shane Smith in March.
– Read the entire article at Yahoo News.
http://www.cannabisculture.com/content/ ... juana-laws
This year could be big one for marijuana legalization, with states like Arizona, Maine and Vermont likely to jump on the bandwagon, which is already led by Alaska, Colorado and Washington. As of June, marijuana was legalized in some way in 23 states and Washington D.C, proving that a revolution is already underway.
But federally, marijuana is still considered a Schedule I drug — along with heroin and LSD — meaning that it has a high potential for abuse. That’s left both the industry and consumers in a confusing gray area, since in states like Washington, people over the age of of 21 can walk into a commercial dispensary to buy an ounce of marijuana.
President Barack Obama has said on record that he supports “carefully prescribed medical use” of marijuana, and reducing incarceration rates from marijuana possession and crime, according to the Huffington Post. Marijuana crimes account for about 30% of drug arrests, advocacy group Norml found. “At a certain point, if enough states end up decriminalizing, Congress may then reschedule marijuana,” he told Vice’s Shane Smith in March.
– Read the entire article at Yahoo News.
http://www.cannabisculture.com/content/ ... juana-laws
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BUSINESS Inforgraphic: Marijuana Lessons For Canada From Holland, Portugal, U.S.
When it comes to legalizing marijuana, Canada isn’t sailing entirely into the unknown. A number of countries and U.S. states have experimented with loose pot policies (if not outright decriminalization), and these places offer potential models and lessons for Canada.
Toronto-based law firm O’Neill Moon Quedado LLP has put together an infographic comparing three countries known for their experimentation with drug decriminalization: The Netherlands, Portugal, and, most recently, the U.S.
The law firm says we should be watching closely developments in the U.S., where Colorado, Oregon and Washington state have legalized marijuana for recreational use, with Alaska following this year. Those examples “will be the most relevant for Canada during the drafting of the law,” the law firm says.
http://www.cannabisculture.com/content/ ... rtugal-u-s
When it comes to legalizing marijuana, Canada isn’t sailing entirely into the unknown. A number of countries and U.S. states have experimented with loose pot policies (if not outright decriminalization), and these places offer potential models and lessons for Canada.
Toronto-based law firm O’Neill Moon Quedado LLP has put together an infographic comparing three countries known for their experimentation with drug decriminalization: The Netherlands, Portugal, and, most recently, the U.S.
The law firm says we should be watching closely developments in the U.S., where Colorado, Oregon and Washington state have legalized marijuana for recreational use, with Alaska following this year. Those examples “will be the most relevant for Canada during the drafting of the law,” the law firm says.
http://www.cannabisculture.com/content/ ... rtugal-u-s
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Native American Church Sues Postal Service Over Seizure of ‘Sacramental’ Marijuana
Leaders of a Native American church have sued the U.S. Postal Service in federal court after the government seized marijuana that church leaders say was intended for religious use by a member in Ohio.
Leaders of the Utah-based Oklehueha Native American Church said the federal government violated their right to religious freedom when authorities seized marijuana intended for use as part of "Native American spiritual healing practices" by a member who suffers from cancer.
Joy Graves leads a Cottage Grove branch of the church. Graves and James Mooney, the church's spiritual leader, are listed as plaintiffs in the suit, filed this month in U.S. District Court in Portland.
The church, which the suit says serves the Oglala Sioux Tribe of Pine Ridge as well as other Native American tribes, incorporates "medicine men," cannabis "and various other natural herbs and plants" into its religious practices, according to court documents.
The suit claims that the church's use of the U.S. Postal Service to send "sacramental cannabis" to a member in Ohio are protected by the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which among other things protects Native American use of peyote.
In a written statement, the U.S. Postal Service said the package was seized "based on obvious signs that it contained a controlled substance... Under federal law, regardless of state law, a person is prohibited from sending controlled substances -- such as marijuana -- through the mail."
In early December, Graves attempted to mail a package that included about five ounces of marijuana to the Ohio church member. Graves sent the package via priority mail from a Eugene post office.
Later that month, Graves learned that law enforcement seized the package at a postal facility in Portland. Graves, according to the suit, told the official that the marijuana was to be used as part of the church's "spiritual healing practices."
The official told Graves that it is illegal under the federal Controlled Substances Act to mail marijuana and that the package would not be "returned, released or delivered to the church member in Ohio."
"Each day the sacrament is delayed, the healing process provided through the church is denied to its member," the suit states.
The lawsuit asks the court to grant a temporary restraining order requiring the postal service to return the cannabis to the church.
http://www.oregonlive.com/marijuana/ind ... es_po.html
Leaders of a Native American church have sued the U.S. Postal Service in federal court after the government seized marijuana that church leaders say was intended for religious use by a member in Ohio.
Leaders of the Utah-based Oklehueha Native American Church said the federal government violated their right to religious freedom when authorities seized marijuana intended for use as part of "Native American spiritual healing practices" by a member who suffers from cancer.
Joy Graves leads a Cottage Grove branch of the church. Graves and James Mooney, the church's spiritual leader, are listed as plaintiffs in the suit, filed this month in U.S. District Court in Portland.
The church, which the suit says serves the Oglala Sioux Tribe of Pine Ridge as well as other Native American tribes, incorporates "medicine men," cannabis "and various other natural herbs and plants" into its religious practices, according to court documents.
The suit claims that the church's use of the U.S. Postal Service to send "sacramental cannabis" to a member in Ohio are protected by the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which among other things protects Native American use of peyote.
In a written statement, the U.S. Postal Service said the package was seized "based on obvious signs that it contained a controlled substance... Under federal law, regardless of state law, a person is prohibited from sending controlled substances -- such as marijuana -- through the mail."
In early December, Graves attempted to mail a package that included about five ounces of marijuana to the Ohio church member. Graves sent the package via priority mail from a Eugene post office.
Later that month, Graves learned that law enforcement seized the package at a postal facility in Portland. Graves, according to the suit, told the official that the marijuana was to be used as part of the church's "spiritual healing practices."
The official told Graves that it is illegal under the federal Controlled Substances Act to mail marijuana and that the package would not be "returned, released or delivered to the church member in Ohio."
"Each day the sacrament is delayed, the healing process provided through the church is denied to its member," the suit states.
The lawsuit asks the court to grant a temporary restraining order requiring the postal service to return the cannabis to the church.
http://www.oregonlive.com/marijuana/ind ... es_po.html
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New Study Confirms That Cannabis Can Help Migraine Sufferers
Cannabis has long been used for the treatment of migraines, but only in recent years have scientists closed in on the reasons why. A new study published this week from Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Colorado looked at the effects of inhaled and ingested cannabis in migraine sufferers, and the results confirmed what previous studies had begun to unearth.
Researchers reviewed reports from 121 adult participants and collected the following data:
The average number of migraine headaches decreased from 10.4 per month to 4.6
Almost 40% of subjects reported positive effects
19.8% of subjects claimed medical marijuana helped to prevent migraines
11.6% of subjects reported that cannabis stopped migraine headaches
About 85% of subjects reported having fewer migraines per month with cannabis
About 12% saw no change in migraine frequency with cannabis
Only about 2% experienced an increase in migraine frequency
Inhalation methods appeared to provide the fastest effects and were more likely to stop migraine headaches in their tracks. As expected, edible cannabis took longer to provide relief and was more likely to induce negative side effects like sleepiness and overly intense euphoria (which was reported in 11.6% of participants).
Past studies attempted to understand why cannabis tends to help migraines, citing endocannabinoid deficiencies and activation of CB2 receptors as possible explanations. This particular study didn’t help to answer those questions, but it did add to the growing body of research supporting the use of cannabis as a migraine medication, given the fact that over 85% of participants saw a reduction in migraine frequency.
The next frontier in this field of research is figuring out which cannabinoids, strains, and delivery methods are most effective in treating headaches and migraines. In the meantime, we’ll have to continue relying primarily on anecdotal evidence. If you’re struggling with migraines, be sure to explore all the strains other Leafly users have used to manage their pain here.
Which strains, products, or delivery methods have you found most effective in treating migraines? Share your thoughts with the community below!
https://www.leafly.com/news/health/new- ... -sufferers
Cannabis has long been used for the treatment of migraines, but only in recent years have scientists closed in on the reasons why. A new study published this week from Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Colorado looked at the effects of inhaled and ingested cannabis in migraine sufferers, and the results confirmed what previous studies had begun to unearth.
Researchers reviewed reports from 121 adult participants and collected the following data:
The average number of migraine headaches decreased from 10.4 per month to 4.6
Almost 40% of subjects reported positive effects
19.8% of subjects claimed medical marijuana helped to prevent migraines
11.6% of subjects reported that cannabis stopped migraine headaches
About 85% of subjects reported having fewer migraines per month with cannabis
About 12% saw no change in migraine frequency with cannabis
Only about 2% experienced an increase in migraine frequency
Inhalation methods appeared to provide the fastest effects and were more likely to stop migraine headaches in their tracks. As expected, edible cannabis took longer to provide relief and was more likely to induce negative side effects like sleepiness and overly intense euphoria (which was reported in 11.6% of participants).
Past studies attempted to understand why cannabis tends to help migraines, citing endocannabinoid deficiencies and activation of CB2 receptors as possible explanations. This particular study didn’t help to answer those questions, but it did add to the growing body of research supporting the use of cannabis as a migraine medication, given the fact that over 85% of participants saw a reduction in migraine frequency.
The next frontier in this field of research is figuring out which cannabinoids, strains, and delivery methods are most effective in treating headaches and migraines. In the meantime, we’ll have to continue relying primarily on anecdotal evidence. If you’re struggling with migraines, be sure to explore all the strains other Leafly users have used to manage their pain here.
Which strains, products, or delivery methods have you found most effective in treating migraines? Share your thoughts with the community below!
https://www.leafly.com/news/health/new- ... -sufferers
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What happens when you get stoned every single day for five years
New research published today in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine confirms what many of us have suspected for some time: If you smoke a lot of weed — like a lot of it — it can potentially do permanent damage to your short-term memory.
Professor Reto Auer of the University of Lausanne led a team of researchers who examined data on the marijuana habits of nearly 3,400 Americans over a 25-year period. At the end of the study period, the subjects took a battery of tests designed to assess cognitive abilities — memory, focus, ability to make quick decisions, etc.
The study found that people who smoked marijuana on a daily basis for a long period of time — five years or more — had poorer verbal memory in middle age than people who didn't smoke, or who smoked less. This association remained even after researchers controlled for a variety of other factors known to affect cognitive performance, including age, education, use of other substances and depression.
Auer and his team measured lifetime marijuana exposure in a fantastic new unit of measurement they call "marijuana-years." Essentially, if you smoke pot every day for a year, that equals one marijuana-year of use. Ditto if you smoke every other day for two years, or once a week for seven years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/won ... ive-years/
New research published today in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine confirms what many of us have suspected for some time: If you smoke a lot of weed — like a lot of it — it can potentially do permanent damage to your short-term memory.
Professor Reto Auer of the University of Lausanne led a team of researchers who examined data on the marijuana habits of nearly 3,400 Americans over a 25-year period. At the end of the study period, the subjects took a battery of tests designed to assess cognitive abilities — memory, focus, ability to make quick decisions, etc.
The study found that people who smoked marijuana on a daily basis for a long period of time — five years or more — had poorer verbal memory in middle age than people who didn't smoke, or who smoked less. This association remained even after researchers controlled for a variety of other factors known to affect cognitive performance, including age, education, use of other substances and depression.
Auer and his team measured lifetime marijuana exposure in a fantastic new unit of measurement they call "marijuana-years." Essentially, if you smoke pot every day for a year, that equals one marijuana-year of use. Ditto if you smoke every other day for two years, or once a week for seven years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/won ... ive-years/
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Study: Vaporizers Deliver Safe, Reliable Doses of Cannabinoids
Electronically driven vaporizers deliver cannabinoids in a relatively safe and reliable manner, according to data published in the journal PLOS ONE.
Swiss investigators evaluated the ability of various types of vaporizer technologies to safely and effectively release THC and CBD (cannabidiol) in vapor.
Researchers reported that electronically driven devices, which allow for precise temperature control, were able to provide for relatively safe and uniform dosing. By contrast, gas-powered devices performed in a more unreliable manner and “cannot be recommended for therapeutic purposes.”
Authors concluded, “[T]he four electrically-driven and temperature-controlled vaporizers investigated in this study efficiently decarboxylate acidic cannabinoids and release reliably the corresponding neutral cannabinoids into the vapor. Therefore, they can be considered as a promising application mode for the safe and efficient administration of medicinal cannabis and cannabinoids.”
Vaporizer technology seeks to heat marijuana to a point where cannabinoid vapors form, but below the point of combustion. In clinical trials, investigators have concluded that vaporization “does not result in exposure to combustion gases” and produces higher plasma concentrations of THC compared to smoked cannabis.
The full text of the study, Medicinal Cannabis: “In vitro validation of vaporizers for the smoke-free inhalation of cannabis,” appears online here.
http://www.thedailychronic.net/2016/527 ... nabinoids/
Electronically driven vaporizers deliver cannabinoids in a relatively safe and reliable manner, according to data published in the journal PLOS ONE.
Swiss investigators evaluated the ability of various types of vaporizer technologies to safely and effectively release THC and CBD (cannabidiol) in vapor.
Researchers reported that electronically driven devices, which allow for precise temperature control, were able to provide for relatively safe and uniform dosing. By contrast, gas-powered devices performed in a more unreliable manner and “cannot be recommended for therapeutic purposes.”
Authors concluded, “[T]he four electrically-driven and temperature-controlled vaporizers investigated in this study efficiently decarboxylate acidic cannabinoids and release reliably the corresponding neutral cannabinoids into the vapor. Therefore, they can be considered as a promising application mode for the safe and efficient administration of medicinal cannabis and cannabinoids.”
Vaporizer technology seeks to heat marijuana to a point where cannabinoid vapors form, but below the point of combustion. In clinical trials, investigators have concluded that vaporization “does not result in exposure to combustion gases” and produces higher plasma concentrations of THC compared to smoked cannabis.
The full text of the study, Medicinal Cannabis: “In vitro validation of vaporizers for the smoke-free inhalation of cannabis,” appears online here.
http://www.thedailychronic.net/2016/527 ... nabinoids/
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Marijuana vs. Tobacco: Not All Smoke Is Created Equal
Long-term exposure to tobacco smoke is demonstrably harmful to health. According to the United States Center for Disease Control, tobacco smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, and chronic exposure to tobacco smoke is linked to increased incidences of cancer as well as vascular disease. Inhaling tobacco smoke is also associated with a variety of adverse pulmonary effects, such as COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease).
Does smoking cannabis pose similar dangers to lung health? According to a number of recent scientific findings, marijuana smoke and tobacco smoke vary considerably in their health effects. So then why are lawmakers in various states, such a Minnesota and New York, imposing new restrictions prohibiting the inhalation of herbal preparations of cannabis?
Marijuana Smoke vs. Tobacco Smoke
Writing in the Harm Reduction Journal in 2005, noted cannabis researcher Robert Melamede explained that although tobacco smoke and marijuana smoke have some similar chemical properties, the two substances possess different pharmacological activities and are not equally carcinogenic. Specifically, he affirmed that marijuana smoke contains multiple cannabinoids – many of which possess anti-cancer activity – and therefore likely exerts “a protective effect against pro-carcinogens that require activation.” Melamede concluded, “Components of cannabis smoke minimize some carcinogenic pathways whereas tobacco smoke enhances some.”
Marijuana Smoke and Cancer
Consequently, studies have so far failed to identify an association between cannabis smoke exposure and elevated risks of smoking-related cancers, such as cancers of the lung and neck. In fact, the largest case-controlled study ever to investigate the respiratory effects of marijuana smoking reported that cannabis use was not associated with lung-related cancers, even among subjects who reported smoking more than 22,000 joints over their lifetime. Summarizing the study’s findings in The Washington Post, pulmonologist Dr. Donald Tashkin, Professor Emeritus at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, concluded: “We hypothesized that there would be a positive association between marijuana use and lung cancer, and that the association would be more positive with heavier use. What we found instead was no association at all, and even a suggestion of some protective effect.”
A meta-analysis of additional case-control studies, published in the International Journal of Cancer in 2014, similarly reported, “Results from our pooled analyses provide little evidence for an increased risk of lung cancer among habitual or long-term cannabis smokers,” while a 2009 Brown University study determined that those who had a history of marijuana smoking possessed a significantly decreased risk of head and neck cancers as compared to those subjects who did not.
Marijuana Smoke and Pulmonary Function
According to a 2015 study conducted at Emory University in Atlanta, the inhalation of cannabis smoke, even over extended periods of time, is not associated with detrimental effects on pulmonary function, such as forced expiratory volume (FEV1) and forced vital capacity (FCV). Assessing marijuana smoke exposure and lung health in a large representative sample of U.S. adults, age 18 to 59, they maintained, “The pattern of marijuana’s effects seems to be distinctly different when compared to that of tobacco use.” Subjects had inhaled the equivalent of one marijuana cigarette per year for 20 years, yet did not experience FEV1 decline or deleterious change in spirometric values of small airways disease.
Marijuana Smoke and COPD
While tobacco smoking is recognized as a major risk factor for the development of COPD – a chronic inflammation of the airways that may ultimately result in premature death – marijuana smoke exposure (absent concurrent tobacco smoke exposure) appears to present little COPD risk. In 2013, McGill University professor and physician Mark Ware wrote in the journal Annals of the American Thoracic Society: “Cannabis smoking does not seem to increase risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or airway cancers… Efforts to develop cleaner cannabinoid delivery systems can and should continue, but at least for now, (those) who smoke small amounts of cannabis for medical or recreational purposes can breathe a little bit easier.”
Mitigating Marijuana Smoke Exposure
The use of a water-pipe filtration system primarily cools cannabis smoke, which may reduce throat irritation and cough. However, this technology is not particularly efficient at eliminating the potentially toxic byproducts of combustion or other potential lung irritants.
By contrast, vaporization heats herbal cannabis to a point where cannabinoid vapors form, but below the point of combustion – thereby reducing the intake of combustive smoke or other pollutants, such as carbon monoxide and tar. Observational studies show that vaporization allows consumers to experience the rapid onset of effect while avoiding many of the associated respiratory hazards associated with smoking – such as coughing, wheezing, or chronic bronchitis. Clinical trials also report that vaporization results in the delivery of higher plasma concentrations of THC (and likely other cannabinoids) compared to smoked cannabis. As a result, the authors affiliated with the University of California Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research and elsewhere now acknowledge that vaporizers provide a “safe and effective” way to for consumers to inhale herbal cannabis.
The Bottom Line
Based on this scientific record, it makes little sense for lawmakers to impose legislative bans on herbal cannabis products, such as those that presently exist for patients in Minnesota and New York and which are now being proposed in several other states (e.g., Georgia and Pennsylvania). Oral cannabis preparations, such as capsules and edibles, possess delayed onset compared to inhaled herbal cannabis, making these options less suitable for patients desiring rapid symptomatic relief. Further, oral administration of cannabis-infused products is associated with significantly greater bioavailability than is inhalation – resulting in more pronounced variation in drug effect from dose to dose (even in cases where the dose is standardized). These restrictions unnecessarily limit patients’ choices and deny them the ability to obtain rapid relief from whole-plant cannabis in a manner that has long proven to be relatively safe and effective.
http://www.thedailychronic.net/2016/520 ... ted-equal/
Long-term exposure to tobacco smoke is demonstrably harmful to health. According to the United States Center for Disease Control, tobacco smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, and chronic exposure to tobacco smoke is linked to increased incidences of cancer as well as vascular disease. Inhaling tobacco smoke is also associated with a variety of adverse pulmonary effects, such as COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease).
Does smoking cannabis pose similar dangers to lung health? According to a number of recent scientific findings, marijuana smoke and tobacco smoke vary considerably in their health effects. So then why are lawmakers in various states, such a Minnesota and New York, imposing new restrictions prohibiting the inhalation of herbal preparations of cannabis?
Marijuana Smoke vs. Tobacco Smoke
Writing in the Harm Reduction Journal in 2005, noted cannabis researcher Robert Melamede explained that although tobacco smoke and marijuana smoke have some similar chemical properties, the two substances possess different pharmacological activities and are not equally carcinogenic. Specifically, he affirmed that marijuana smoke contains multiple cannabinoids – many of which possess anti-cancer activity – and therefore likely exerts “a protective effect against pro-carcinogens that require activation.” Melamede concluded, “Components of cannabis smoke minimize some carcinogenic pathways whereas tobacco smoke enhances some.”
Marijuana Smoke and Cancer
Consequently, studies have so far failed to identify an association between cannabis smoke exposure and elevated risks of smoking-related cancers, such as cancers of the lung and neck. In fact, the largest case-controlled study ever to investigate the respiratory effects of marijuana smoking reported that cannabis use was not associated with lung-related cancers, even among subjects who reported smoking more than 22,000 joints over their lifetime. Summarizing the study’s findings in The Washington Post, pulmonologist Dr. Donald Tashkin, Professor Emeritus at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, concluded: “We hypothesized that there would be a positive association between marijuana use and lung cancer, and that the association would be more positive with heavier use. What we found instead was no association at all, and even a suggestion of some protective effect.”
A meta-analysis of additional case-control studies, published in the International Journal of Cancer in 2014, similarly reported, “Results from our pooled analyses provide little evidence for an increased risk of lung cancer among habitual or long-term cannabis smokers,” while a 2009 Brown University study determined that those who had a history of marijuana smoking possessed a significantly decreased risk of head and neck cancers as compared to those subjects who did not.
Marijuana Smoke and Pulmonary Function
According to a 2015 study conducted at Emory University in Atlanta, the inhalation of cannabis smoke, even over extended periods of time, is not associated with detrimental effects on pulmonary function, such as forced expiratory volume (FEV1) and forced vital capacity (FCV). Assessing marijuana smoke exposure and lung health in a large representative sample of U.S. adults, age 18 to 59, they maintained, “The pattern of marijuana’s effects seems to be distinctly different when compared to that of tobacco use.” Subjects had inhaled the equivalent of one marijuana cigarette per year for 20 years, yet did not experience FEV1 decline or deleterious change in spirometric values of small airways disease.
Marijuana Smoke and COPD
While tobacco smoking is recognized as a major risk factor for the development of COPD – a chronic inflammation of the airways that may ultimately result in premature death – marijuana smoke exposure (absent concurrent tobacco smoke exposure) appears to present little COPD risk. In 2013, McGill University professor and physician Mark Ware wrote in the journal Annals of the American Thoracic Society: “Cannabis smoking does not seem to increase risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or airway cancers… Efforts to develop cleaner cannabinoid delivery systems can and should continue, but at least for now, (those) who smoke small amounts of cannabis for medical or recreational purposes can breathe a little bit easier.”
Mitigating Marijuana Smoke Exposure
The use of a water-pipe filtration system primarily cools cannabis smoke, which may reduce throat irritation and cough. However, this technology is not particularly efficient at eliminating the potentially toxic byproducts of combustion or other potential lung irritants.
By contrast, vaporization heats herbal cannabis to a point where cannabinoid vapors form, but below the point of combustion – thereby reducing the intake of combustive smoke or other pollutants, such as carbon monoxide and tar. Observational studies show that vaporization allows consumers to experience the rapid onset of effect while avoiding many of the associated respiratory hazards associated with smoking – such as coughing, wheezing, or chronic bronchitis. Clinical trials also report that vaporization results in the delivery of higher plasma concentrations of THC (and likely other cannabinoids) compared to smoked cannabis. As a result, the authors affiliated with the University of California Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research and elsewhere now acknowledge that vaporizers provide a “safe and effective” way to for consumers to inhale herbal cannabis.
The Bottom Line
Based on this scientific record, it makes little sense for lawmakers to impose legislative bans on herbal cannabis products, such as those that presently exist for patients in Minnesota and New York and which are now being proposed in several other states (e.g., Georgia and Pennsylvania). Oral cannabis preparations, such as capsules and edibles, possess delayed onset compared to inhaled herbal cannabis, making these options less suitable for patients desiring rapid symptomatic relief. Further, oral administration of cannabis-infused products is associated with significantly greater bioavailability than is inhalation – resulting in more pronounced variation in drug effect from dose to dose (even in cases where the dose is standardized). These restrictions unnecessarily limit patients’ choices and deny them the ability to obtain rapid relief from whole-plant cannabis in a manner that has long proven to be relatively safe and effective.
http://www.thedailychronic.net/2016/520 ... ted-equal/
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500 pounds of marijuana found in truck outside Walmart
Five hundred pounds of marijuana was seized outside of a Walmart Supercenter in Fishers, Ind., on Tuesday, according to police.
The Fishers Police Department said officials seized the marijuana around 4 a.m. They found the drugs in a semi-tractor trailer parked outside of the store.
Authorities reported suspicious activity when two men were found in the semi-tractor waiting to "make a delivery," police said. Drug-sniffing dogs were called to the scene. Police found drugs in the trailer during a search, police said.
Two men, a driver and a passenger, were detained. Investigators were told only the driver knew about the marijuana. The passenger was released.
The driver, Isaac Roberto Aristiga Bojorquez, 25, of Mexico was arrested on suspicion of intent to deliver more than 5 pounds of marijuana.
Tuesday's drug bust marked the largest in Fishers' history, said Sgt. Tom Weger, spokesman with Fishers police.
The truck, which police said wasn't connected to Walmart, also contained coffee creamer. A different truck was used to move the creamer to its original destination.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nat ... /79750060/
Five hundred pounds of marijuana was seized outside of a Walmart Supercenter in Fishers, Ind., on Tuesday, according to police.
The Fishers Police Department said officials seized the marijuana around 4 a.m. They found the drugs in a semi-tractor trailer parked outside of the store.
Authorities reported suspicious activity when two men were found in the semi-tractor waiting to "make a delivery," police said. Drug-sniffing dogs were called to the scene. Police found drugs in the trailer during a search, police said.
Two men, a driver and a passenger, were detained. Investigators were told only the driver knew about the marijuana. The passenger was released.
The driver, Isaac Roberto Aristiga Bojorquez, 25, of Mexico was arrested on suspicion of intent to deliver more than 5 pounds of marijuana.
Tuesday's drug bust marked the largest in Fishers' history, said Sgt. Tom Weger, spokesman with Fishers police.
The truck, which police said wasn't connected to Walmart, also contained coffee creamer. A different truck was used to move the creamer to its original destination.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nat ... /79750060/
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Powerful Study Finds Marijuana Dispensaries Are Literally Saving Lives
It’s no secret that the country is in a deep painkiller epidemic. Statistics show that over the past 15 years, there has been an unbelievable rise in both the sales of pharmaceutical opiates and the number of people who die each year from abusing them. According to the Center For Disease Control, in 2013, more than 16,000 people overdosed and died on prescription painkillers, making up for 60% of all overdose deaths. Many skeptics have feared that the legalization of marijuana and the easy accessibility to it would cause a similar epidemic, but a new study has shown that some legal states are lowering their painkiller statistics simply by making cannabis easier to get.
According to an article in UPI, researchers from the RAND Corporation and the University of California-Irvine looked at states that had legalized marijuana in the years following their legislation passing and their statistics with regards to fatal overdoses and addiction treatment center admissions relating to opioid abuse. The researchers found that these states had “significant reductions in both measures of opioid misuse — but only if they had also legalized marijuana dispensaries.”
It seems the dispensary issue is an important one because, in the six states where doctors are allowed to prescribe marijuana, but where retail dispensaries are prohibited, the study found “no evidence” of “reductions in substance abuse or mortality.” But in the 18 states where medical marijuana shops are allowed, there was a 16% reduction in “opioid-related mortality” and a 28% reduction in opioid-abuse treatment admissions.
The study also found no decline in the distribution of legal opioid painkillers in states with dispensaries. That led researchers to suggest that the reduction in painkiller abuse in these states “comes less from patients switching their prescriptions, than from people who were taking illegally obtained opioids replacing the drugs with legal weed. In other words — the findings suggest that dispensaries may have saved the lives of some recreational pill-poppers, who quit hard drugs once they got a pot prescription.”
The UPI article also points out that chronic marijuana use has some potential harm attached to it. Some studies have found that it may lead to memory loss and amotivational disorder. But no one has ever died from smoking too much weed. So does the solution to the nation’s opioid epidemic lie within legal marijuana dispensaries? According to this eye-opening study, they just might.
http://thenationalmarijuananews.com/201 ... ave-lives/
It’s no secret that the country is in a deep painkiller epidemic. Statistics show that over the past 15 years, there has been an unbelievable rise in both the sales of pharmaceutical opiates and the number of people who die each year from abusing them. According to the Center For Disease Control, in 2013, more than 16,000 people overdosed and died on prescription painkillers, making up for 60% of all overdose deaths. Many skeptics have feared that the legalization of marijuana and the easy accessibility to it would cause a similar epidemic, but a new study has shown that some legal states are lowering their painkiller statistics simply by making cannabis easier to get.
According to an article in UPI, researchers from the RAND Corporation and the University of California-Irvine looked at states that had legalized marijuana in the years following their legislation passing and their statistics with regards to fatal overdoses and addiction treatment center admissions relating to opioid abuse. The researchers found that these states had “significant reductions in both measures of opioid misuse — but only if they had also legalized marijuana dispensaries.”
It seems the dispensary issue is an important one because, in the six states where doctors are allowed to prescribe marijuana, but where retail dispensaries are prohibited, the study found “no evidence” of “reductions in substance abuse or mortality.” But in the 18 states where medical marijuana shops are allowed, there was a 16% reduction in “opioid-related mortality” and a 28% reduction in opioid-abuse treatment admissions.
The study also found no decline in the distribution of legal opioid painkillers in states with dispensaries. That led researchers to suggest that the reduction in painkiller abuse in these states “comes less from patients switching their prescriptions, than from people who were taking illegally obtained opioids replacing the drugs with legal weed. In other words — the findings suggest that dispensaries may have saved the lives of some recreational pill-poppers, who quit hard drugs once they got a pot prescription.”
The UPI article also points out that chronic marijuana use has some potential harm attached to it. Some studies have found that it may lead to memory loss and amotivational disorder. But no one has ever died from smoking too much weed. So does the solution to the nation’s opioid epidemic lie within legal marijuana dispensaries? According to this eye-opening study, they just might.
http://thenationalmarijuananews.com/201 ... ave-lives/
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Marijuana can help reduce the frequency of mental health problems
Medicinal cannabis is known to help treat – and in some cases, prevent – a myriad of mental health problems, including Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s disease. Until recently, however, little had been known about the medicinal benefits marijuana has for migraines. According to a recent study, medical marijuana could help migraine sufferers reduce the frequency of headaches.(1,2)
The study included 121 people who suffered from frequent migraines. Approximately 103 of the participants claimed to experience fewer migraines after using marijuana, 15 people claimed their migraine frequency remained the same and three claimed their migraine frequency increased.(1)
Researchers found that people who reported an improvement went from experiencing an average of 10.4 headaches a month to 4.6 headaches a month.(1)
Sending migraines up in smoke
“There was a substantial improvement for patients in their ability to function and feel better,” author of the study Laura Borgelt, a professor of clinical pharmacy at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, said in a statement.(1)
Nevertheless, “Like any drug, marijuana has potential benefits and potential risks,” Borgelt noted. “It’s important for people to be aware that using medical marijuana can also have adverse effects,” she added.(1)
During the study, the researchers reviewed the number of migraines per month for patients in Colorado, whose doctors advised that they use medicinal cannabis to ease and thwart their migraines between January 2010 and September 2014.(1)
Most people in the study ingested marijuana in various ways, including inhaling, smoking and eating it. The majority preferred to inhale marijuana to treat acute migraines and eat it to prevent future migraines. Nearly half of the people in the study used marijuana in conjunction with prescription drugs for migraines.(1)
Fourteen people in the study said they experienced ill side effects over the course of the treatment, such as sleepiness, nightmares and nausea. More side effects were reported among those who consumed marijuana in its edible form.(1)
Cannabinoids ease brain inflammation responsible for cognitive disorders
The researchers also acknowledged that they were unsure why or how marijuana was able to soothe and stop migraines. Scientists still don’t have a complete picture of what triggers migraines, though poor dietary habits are considered to be a major factor.
Research has shown that cannabinoids act as an antioxidant in the brain. The brain’s cannabinoid system is capable of cleansing damaged brain cells and creating new ones. For this reason, cannabis is able to mitigate the inflammation behind a slew of cognitive disorders, including Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s disease.(2)
There are many reasons that could explain why marijuana can help treat migraines specifically. For instance, some scientists have proposed that migraines are the result of a problem in the brain’s cannabinoid receptors, which impact the transmission of feel good chemicals in the brain, like serotonin. The compounds in marijuana may influence these receptors.(2)
It’s equally possible that serotonin itself plays a significant hand in migraine headaches. According to Borgelt, research has demonstrated that THC – the chemical responsible for marijuana’s psychological effects – could impact serotonin levels.(2)
Fortunately, what all migraine sufferers need to do to prevent future headaches is to make some simple lifestyle adjustments. Cutting back on alcohol, caffeine and avoiding food preservatives are all sufficient ways to reduce the frequency of migraines. The fact that marijuana happens to soothe headaches is just an added bonus. Just keep in mind this age-old adage: An ounce of prevention is always better than a pound of cure.(3)
http://newstarget.com/2016-02-01-mariju ... blems.html
Medicinal cannabis is known to help treat – and in some cases, prevent – a myriad of mental health problems, including Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s disease. Until recently, however, little had been known about the medicinal benefits marijuana has for migraines. According to a recent study, medical marijuana could help migraine sufferers reduce the frequency of headaches.(1,2)
The study included 121 people who suffered from frequent migraines. Approximately 103 of the participants claimed to experience fewer migraines after using marijuana, 15 people claimed their migraine frequency remained the same and three claimed their migraine frequency increased.(1)
Researchers found that people who reported an improvement went from experiencing an average of 10.4 headaches a month to 4.6 headaches a month.(1)
Sending migraines up in smoke
“There was a substantial improvement for patients in their ability to function and feel better,” author of the study Laura Borgelt, a professor of clinical pharmacy at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, said in a statement.(1)
Nevertheless, “Like any drug, marijuana has potential benefits and potential risks,” Borgelt noted. “It’s important for people to be aware that using medical marijuana can also have adverse effects,” she added.(1)
During the study, the researchers reviewed the number of migraines per month for patients in Colorado, whose doctors advised that they use medicinal cannabis to ease and thwart their migraines between January 2010 and September 2014.(1)
Most people in the study ingested marijuana in various ways, including inhaling, smoking and eating it. The majority preferred to inhale marijuana to treat acute migraines and eat it to prevent future migraines. Nearly half of the people in the study used marijuana in conjunction with prescription drugs for migraines.(1)
Fourteen people in the study said they experienced ill side effects over the course of the treatment, such as sleepiness, nightmares and nausea. More side effects were reported among those who consumed marijuana in its edible form.(1)
Cannabinoids ease brain inflammation responsible for cognitive disorders
The researchers also acknowledged that they were unsure why or how marijuana was able to soothe and stop migraines. Scientists still don’t have a complete picture of what triggers migraines, though poor dietary habits are considered to be a major factor.
Research has shown that cannabinoids act as an antioxidant in the brain. The brain’s cannabinoid system is capable of cleansing damaged brain cells and creating new ones. For this reason, cannabis is able to mitigate the inflammation behind a slew of cognitive disorders, including Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s disease.(2)
There are many reasons that could explain why marijuana can help treat migraines specifically. For instance, some scientists have proposed that migraines are the result of a problem in the brain’s cannabinoid receptors, which impact the transmission of feel good chemicals in the brain, like serotonin. The compounds in marijuana may influence these receptors.(2)
It’s equally possible that serotonin itself plays a significant hand in migraine headaches. According to Borgelt, research has demonstrated that THC – the chemical responsible for marijuana’s psychological effects – could impact serotonin levels.(2)
Fortunately, what all migraine sufferers need to do to prevent future headaches is to make some simple lifestyle adjustments. Cutting back on alcohol, caffeine and avoiding food preservatives are all sufficient ways to reduce the frequency of migraines. The fact that marijuana happens to soothe headaches is just an added bonus. Just keep in mind this age-old adage: An ounce of prevention is always better than a pound of cure.(3)
http://newstarget.com/2016-02-01-mariju ... blems.html
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Use of marijuana is increasing among adults but decreasing in teens
More adults are using cannabis since laws were introduced to legalize the drug, experts have revealed.
Meanwhile fewer teenagers are turning to the drug, there has been a decrease in marijuana-related arrests, but an increase in admissions for addiction treatment.
A team of scientists led by Dr Jane Maxwell from the University of Texas at Austin and Bruce Mendelson, of the Denver Office of Drug Strategy, reviewed data looking at how marijuana laws have affected rate of use of the drug.
As of June last year 23 states and the District of Columbia currently have laws legalizing marijuana in some form.
Cannabis is legal of recreational use in Washington state, Oregon, Alaska and Colorado as well as the District of Columbia.
The drug is legalized for medical use in California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Montana, Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.
Data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health reveal that, over the past decade, marijuana use has increased significantly among adults aged 18 to 25, and those aged 26 and older.
Dr Maxwell and Mr Mendelson note these trends could have begun before 2012, when Colorado and Washington became the first states to legalize the drug.
Meanwhile, cannabis use by young people aged 12 to 17 has not seen the same increase.
However, young people's perceptions of the risks of using marijuana have decreased, suggesting they may be more likely to using the drug in the future.
Studies have consistently shown the potency of cannabis is increasing.
Data from California suggests that marijuana is more widely available, and that more drivers are testing positive for it, the authors said.
Initial reports from Colorado and Washington state also provide evidence on the impact of legalizing the drug.
In Denver, marijuana-related hospital admissions, emergency department visits, and calls to poison control centers have all increased.
At the same time, arrests for marijuana use and, or possession and admissions to substance use disorder treatment programs have decreased.
Furthermore in Seattle, data reveals reduced rates of treatment admissions and police involvement, along with an increased prevalence of frequent cannabis use.
The authors said: 'As more states enact laws allowing the medicinal use of marijuana and relax penalities for the personal use of marijuana, attention should be paid to the experiences of the states to date, and changes in their laws to handle unanticipated problems.'
They added: 'Data is needed to understand the relationship between the patterns and amounts of use in terms of consequences as well as data on the health conditions of those receiving medical marijuana and the impact of higher potency.'
The authors note there is a lack of data on the characteristics of users of medical cannabis, their medical conditions and use patterns.
There is also a knowledge gap regarding adverse effects of medicinal marijuana, and the adverse events users may suffer by using different variations of the drug.
They said more studies are needed to understand the relationship between the patterns and amounts of use in terms of consequences, as well as on the health conditions of those receiving medical marijuana and the impact of higher potency.
The study is published in the Journal of Addiction Medicine.
http://420intel.com/articles/2016/02/04 ... sing-teens
More adults are using cannabis since laws were introduced to legalize the drug, experts have revealed.
Meanwhile fewer teenagers are turning to the drug, there has been a decrease in marijuana-related arrests, but an increase in admissions for addiction treatment.
A team of scientists led by Dr Jane Maxwell from the University of Texas at Austin and Bruce Mendelson, of the Denver Office of Drug Strategy, reviewed data looking at how marijuana laws have affected rate of use of the drug.
As of June last year 23 states and the District of Columbia currently have laws legalizing marijuana in some form.
Cannabis is legal of recreational use in Washington state, Oregon, Alaska and Colorado as well as the District of Columbia.
The drug is legalized for medical use in California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Montana, Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.
Data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health reveal that, over the past decade, marijuana use has increased significantly among adults aged 18 to 25, and those aged 26 and older.
Dr Maxwell and Mr Mendelson note these trends could have begun before 2012, when Colorado and Washington became the first states to legalize the drug.
Meanwhile, cannabis use by young people aged 12 to 17 has not seen the same increase.
However, young people's perceptions of the risks of using marijuana have decreased, suggesting they may be more likely to using the drug in the future.
Studies have consistently shown the potency of cannabis is increasing.
Data from California suggests that marijuana is more widely available, and that more drivers are testing positive for it, the authors said.
Initial reports from Colorado and Washington state also provide evidence on the impact of legalizing the drug.
In Denver, marijuana-related hospital admissions, emergency department visits, and calls to poison control centers have all increased.
At the same time, arrests for marijuana use and, or possession and admissions to substance use disorder treatment programs have decreased.
Furthermore in Seattle, data reveals reduced rates of treatment admissions and police involvement, along with an increased prevalence of frequent cannabis use.
The authors said: 'As more states enact laws allowing the medicinal use of marijuana and relax penalities for the personal use of marijuana, attention should be paid to the experiences of the states to date, and changes in their laws to handle unanticipated problems.'
They added: 'Data is needed to understand the relationship between the patterns and amounts of use in terms of consequences as well as data on the health conditions of those receiving medical marijuana and the impact of higher potency.'
The authors note there is a lack of data on the characteristics of users of medical cannabis, their medical conditions and use patterns.
There is also a knowledge gap regarding adverse effects of medicinal marijuana, and the adverse events users may suffer by using different variations of the drug.
They said more studies are needed to understand the relationship between the patterns and amounts of use in terms of consequences, as well as on the health conditions of those receiving medical marijuana and the impact of higher potency.
The study is published in the Journal of Addiction Medicine.
http://420intel.com/articles/2016/02/04 ... sing-teens
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Facebook deletes medical marijuana pages
Medical marijuana is legal in 23 states including New Jersey, but the ubiquitous social media giant Facebook apparently doesn't "like" it. Home pages run by three Garden State dispensaries and at least handful of others across the country have been deleted.
The surprise move stunned dispensary owners and angered patients, who said Wednesday they rely on the up-to-the-minute information these sites provide about the latest strains that help alleviate debilitating symptoms.
"It seems high-handed to simply shut down important resources for sick patients without even saying why or giving organizations a way to ask for reconsideration," said Peter Rosenfeld, one of the 5,668 registered patients in the state program. "What better use of a social media than having sites where parents of sick children can ask questions about medication and treatments?"
In an email, the Facebook media relations office declined to answer questions, and referred NJ Advance Media to the community standards section on its homepage.
Officials from Breakwater Wellness and Treatment Center in Cranbury and Compassionate Sciences Alternative Treatment Center in Bellmawr said their home pages were shut down Tuesday. When they tried to use their home page, they found an electronic message that said: "We remove any promotion or encouragement of drug use."
"Your page is currently not visible on Facebook. It looks like content on your page does not follow the Facebook Community Terms and Standards."
"The site does not allow ads that promote the sale or use of . . .illegal, prescription, or recreational drugs," according to the advertising policies' page.
Marijuana possession and production violates federal law, although the Obama administration has publicly announced that it would not devote law enforcement resources to investigating lawful use permitted by state statutes.
Breakwater founder Alex Zaleski called Facebook's actions "a great disservice to our patients who rely on us to keep them updated on what is going on. We are looking into the matter and hope to resolve it in the patients' favor as soon as possible."
Although each of the five dispensaries in the state have their own web page, the Facebook presence is important because the state rules prohibit advertising, Compassionate Sciences General Manager Michael Nelson said.
Facebook is "incredibly important because the state limits what we can do on our website," Nelson said. "It allows us to post strain names which allows people to do research. It allows the communication between the patients about what is working."
The Facebook presence for Garden State Dispensary in Woodbridge is also missing, but a dispensary representative could not immediately be reached. But the pages for Greenleaf Compassion Center in Montclair and Compassionate Care Foundation in Egg Harbor Township remained active as of 3 p.m.
News about Facebook's actions made for passionate fodder on the Facebook home page of the Friends of the Medical Marijuana Coalition of New Jersey Wednesday.
"It makes me question whether any of us should continue to use FaceBook. Maybe it is time for people to migrate to new ways of communicating," Rosenfeld said.
It's unclear how many legal medical marijuana and recreational marijuana operations have been affected. Dispensaries in Maine and Washington have taken to Facebook's community forum in the last three months to complain about the unilateral decision to disconnect their social media presence.
"I am a dentist and I also own a legal marijuana business in Washington State. I run tasteful ads. Right now, my page has been deleted by facebook, but my competitor...is advertising tons of marijuana on facebook, with no problems from you. Why are you focusing on me, but no one else?"
"I expect an answer soon or at least let me know the next step or should I just start legal action? I feel you are not dealing with this in a fair manner."
http://420intel.com/articles/2016/02/04 ... uana-pages
Medical marijuana is legal in 23 states including New Jersey, but the ubiquitous social media giant Facebook apparently doesn't "like" it. Home pages run by three Garden State dispensaries and at least handful of others across the country have been deleted.
The surprise move stunned dispensary owners and angered patients, who said Wednesday they rely on the up-to-the-minute information these sites provide about the latest strains that help alleviate debilitating symptoms.
"It seems high-handed to simply shut down important resources for sick patients without even saying why or giving organizations a way to ask for reconsideration," said Peter Rosenfeld, one of the 5,668 registered patients in the state program. "What better use of a social media than having sites where parents of sick children can ask questions about medication and treatments?"
In an email, the Facebook media relations office declined to answer questions, and referred NJ Advance Media to the community standards section on its homepage.
Officials from Breakwater Wellness and Treatment Center in Cranbury and Compassionate Sciences Alternative Treatment Center in Bellmawr said their home pages were shut down Tuesday. When they tried to use their home page, they found an electronic message that said: "We remove any promotion or encouragement of drug use."
"Your page is currently not visible on Facebook. It looks like content on your page does not follow the Facebook Community Terms and Standards."
"The site does not allow ads that promote the sale or use of . . .illegal, prescription, or recreational drugs," according to the advertising policies' page.
Marijuana possession and production violates federal law, although the Obama administration has publicly announced that it would not devote law enforcement resources to investigating lawful use permitted by state statutes.
Breakwater founder Alex Zaleski called Facebook's actions "a great disservice to our patients who rely on us to keep them updated on what is going on. We are looking into the matter and hope to resolve it in the patients' favor as soon as possible."
Although each of the five dispensaries in the state have their own web page, the Facebook presence is important because the state rules prohibit advertising, Compassionate Sciences General Manager Michael Nelson said.
Facebook is "incredibly important because the state limits what we can do on our website," Nelson said. "It allows us to post strain names which allows people to do research. It allows the communication between the patients about what is working."
The Facebook presence for Garden State Dispensary in Woodbridge is also missing, but a dispensary representative could not immediately be reached. But the pages for Greenleaf Compassion Center in Montclair and Compassionate Care Foundation in Egg Harbor Township remained active as of 3 p.m.
News about Facebook's actions made for passionate fodder on the Facebook home page of the Friends of the Medical Marijuana Coalition of New Jersey Wednesday.
"It makes me question whether any of us should continue to use FaceBook. Maybe it is time for people to migrate to new ways of communicating," Rosenfeld said.
It's unclear how many legal medical marijuana and recreational marijuana operations have been affected. Dispensaries in Maine and Washington have taken to Facebook's community forum in the last three months to complain about the unilateral decision to disconnect their social media presence.
"I am a dentist and I also own a legal marijuana business in Washington State. I run tasteful ads. Right now, my page has been deleted by facebook, but my competitor...is advertising tons of marijuana on facebook, with no problems from you. Why are you focusing on me, but no one else?"
"I expect an answer soon or at least let me know the next step or should I just start legal action? I feel you are not dealing with this in a fair manner."
http://420intel.com/articles/2016/02/04 ... uana-pages
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World Cancer Day: Can cannabis combat cancer?
Scientists around the world continue to seek natural alternatives to fight cancer that don't destroy healthy cells - like radiation and chemotherapy do - in an effort to save millions of victims afflicted with the disease.
As World Cancer Day is marked on Thursday, a myriad of alternative cancer treatments have been reported by researchers showing promising signs - including wasp venom and a variety of herbs - after being tested in laboratories.
One potential alternative that has been a central subject of debate in the scientific community for decades is the plant cannabis.
While medical marijuana use has grown in prominence in recent years for alleviating symptoms of disease, a burgeoning body of scientific reporting suggests cannabis may also possess powerful anti-cancer properties.
The plant has a long history of treating many different types of illnesses since ancient times. But it wasn't until the 1940s when scientists managed to extract a group of chemicals - known as cannabinoids - that have become prominent in modern medical research, and prompted the development of the International Cannabinoid Research Society.
Last year, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for the first time announced that: "Cannabis has been shown to kill cancer cells in the laboratory."
"Studies in mice and rats have shown that cannabinoids may inhibit tumour growth by causing cell death, blocking cell growth, and blocking the development of blood vessels needed by tumours to grow. Laboratory and animal studies have shown that cannabinoids may be able to kill cancer cells while protecting normal cells," the NCI stated.
The NCI told Al Jazeera that since 2010 it has funded at least 36 cannabis-relatedresearch projects, noting that it funds only proposals of the "highest scientific merit".
The National Institute of Drug Abuse, another US government agency, also announced in 2015 that cannabis may have the capacity to combat tumours, citing a recent test on animals by researchers in Britain.
Dr Wai Liu - a research fellow at St George's University of London, who led the research project - told Al Jazeera that clinical trials had begun testing two cannabinoids against brain cancer in human patients after promising mice-tests.
Liu said some compounds in cannabis can alter the "signalling pathways" in cancer that "resist cell-death instructions".
"What we have shown is that cannabinoids can restore normal functioning of these pathways. This means that cancer cells are now able to die," Liu said.
"Our latest findings have shown that cannabinoids can combine effectively with irradiation to treat brain cancer. We showed that using these two together significantly reduced the sizes of brain cancer seen in mice.
"This data is very new and so exciting that clinical trials have started in patients with brain cancer."
Liu also led a study in 2013 that found six cannabinoids were effective against leukemia cells.
"These agents are able to interfere with the development of cancerous cells, stopping them in their tracks and preventing them from growing. In some cases, by using specific dosage patterns, they can destroy cancer cells on their own," he said in a press release.
"Used in combination with existing treatment, we could discover some highly effective strategies for tackling cancer. Significantly, these compounds are inexpensive to produce and making better use of their unique properties could result in much more cost-effective anti-cancer drugs in future."
But he told Al Jazeera that "it is still too early to say if cannabinoids will work in humans".
Dennis Hill, a biochemist who had worked as cancer researcher for 10 years at the University of Texas MD Cancer Center – one of the country's leading cancer hospitals, told Al Jazeera how he avoided conventional treatments and cured himself of prostate cancer solely with cannabis oil.
In 2010, Hill was diagnosed with a late-stage aggressive adenocarcinoma and scheduled by his urologist to receive radiation therapy.
"I got to see patients pretty often and watched many people suffer and die from the treatments, so I knew I was not interested in that," he said.
In the meantime a friend of his recommended cannabis as a remedy and that prompted his research into it.
"As a biochemist, I understood the medical explanations that I read on how cannabis kills cancer cells," he said.
He then cancelled his appointment for the radiation treatment. After several months of consuming cannabis oil, the "cancer was completely gone", Hill said.
"It was amazing," he said, adding the side-effects were "very trivial".
However, Dr Otis Brawley, chief medical officer at the American Cancer Society, told Al Jazeera there was not enough scientific evidence to suggest cannabinoids were responsible for the remission and other factors could have played a role.
Hill said the plant needed to become legal for further research to thrive.
"As long as cannabis is on the federal government list of forbidden narcotics, it will not be available to researchers in this country. When cannabis is off this list, we will have plenty of research. Everyone is waiting, especially universities."
Dr Ralph Moss, who promotes both conventional and alternative cancer treatments, told Al Jazeera many obstacles have been put up against new treatments.
"The problem is that almost invariably scientific advances must also be highly profitable to clear the hurdles of the FDA [US Food and Drug Administration].
"This severely limits the number of drugs that can come to market, since unpatentable, out-of-patent, natural or generic medications are automatically ruled out by the demands of the marketplace. This issue, by the way, is almost entirely lacking from discussions of the pace of improvement in cancer treatment."
http://420intel.com/articles/2016/02/04 ... bat-cancer
Scientists around the world continue to seek natural alternatives to fight cancer that don't destroy healthy cells - like radiation and chemotherapy do - in an effort to save millions of victims afflicted with the disease.
As World Cancer Day is marked on Thursday, a myriad of alternative cancer treatments have been reported by researchers showing promising signs - including wasp venom and a variety of herbs - after being tested in laboratories.
One potential alternative that has been a central subject of debate in the scientific community for decades is the plant cannabis.
While medical marijuana use has grown in prominence in recent years for alleviating symptoms of disease, a burgeoning body of scientific reporting suggests cannabis may also possess powerful anti-cancer properties.
The plant has a long history of treating many different types of illnesses since ancient times. But it wasn't until the 1940s when scientists managed to extract a group of chemicals - known as cannabinoids - that have become prominent in modern medical research, and prompted the development of the International Cannabinoid Research Society.
Last year, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for the first time announced that: "Cannabis has been shown to kill cancer cells in the laboratory."
"Studies in mice and rats have shown that cannabinoids may inhibit tumour growth by causing cell death, blocking cell growth, and blocking the development of blood vessels needed by tumours to grow. Laboratory and animal studies have shown that cannabinoids may be able to kill cancer cells while protecting normal cells," the NCI stated.
The NCI told Al Jazeera that since 2010 it has funded at least 36 cannabis-relatedresearch projects, noting that it funds only proposals of the "highest scientific merit".
The National Institute of Drug Abuse, another US government agency, also announced in 2015 that cannabis may have the capacity to combat tumours, citing a recent test on animals by researchers in Britain.
Dr Wai Liu - a research fellow at St George's University of London, who led the research project - told Al Jazeera that clinical trials had begun testing two cannabinoids against brain cancer in human patients after promising mice-tests.
Liu said some compounds in cannabis can alter the "signalling pathways" in cancer that "resist cell-death instructions".
"What we have shown is that cannabinoids can restore normal functioning of these pathways. This means that cancer cells are now able to die," Liu said.
"Our latest findings have shown that cannabinoids can combine effectively with irradiation to treat brain cancer. We showed that using these two together significantly reduced the sizes of brain cancer seen in mice.
"This data is very new and so exciting that clinical trials have started in patients with brain cancer."
Liu also led a study in 2013 that found six cannabinoids were effective against leukemia cells.
"These agents are able to interfere with the development of cancerous cells, stopping them in their tracks and preventing them from growing. In some cases, by using specific dosage patterns, they can destroy cancer cells on their own," he said in a press release.
"Used in combination with existing treatment, we could discover some highly effective strategies for tackling cancer. Significantly, these compounds are inexpensive to produce and making better use of their unique properties could result in much more cost-effective anti-cancer drugs in future."
But he told Al Jazeera that "it is still too early to say if cannabinoids will work in humans".
Dennis Hill, a biochemist who had worked as cancer researcher for 10 years at the University of Texas MD Cancer Center – one of the country's leading cancer hospitals, told Al Jazeera how he avoided conventional treatments and cured himself of prostate cancer solely with cannabis oil.
In 2010, Hill was diagnosed with a late-stage aggressive adenocarcinoma and scheduled by his urologist to receive radiation therapy.
"I got to see patients pretty often and watched many people suffer and die from the treatments, so I knew I was not interested in that," he said.
In the meantime a friend of his recommended cannabis as a remedy and that prompted his research into it.
"As a biochemist, I understood the medical explanations that I read on how cannabis kills cancer cells," he said.
He then cancelled his appointment for the radiation treatment. After several months of consuming cannabis oil, the "cancer was completely gone", Hill said.
"It was amazing," he said, adding the side-effects were "very trivial".
However, Dr Otis Brawley, chief medical officer at the American Cancer Society, told Al Jazeera there was not enough scientific evidence to suggest cannabinoids were responsible for the remission and other factors could have played a role.
Hill said the plant needed to become legal for further research to thrive.
"As long as cannabis is on the federal government list of forbidden narcotics, it will not be available to researchers in this country. When cannabis is off this list, we will have plenty of research. Everyone is waiting, especially universities."
Dr Ralph Moss, who promotes both conventional and alternative cancer treatments, told Al Jazeera many obstacles have been put up against new treatments.
"The problem is that almost invariably scientific advances must also be highly profitable to clear the hurdles of the FDA [US Food and Drug Administration].
"This severely limits the number of drugs that can come to market, since unpatentable, out-of-patent, natural or generic medications are automatically ruled out by the demands of the marketplace. This issue, by the way, is almost entirely lacking from discussions of the pace of improvement in cancer treatment."
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New Canadian study to assess medical cannabis for arthritis treatment
Researchers in Canada are to carry out a new study that will assess the potential benefits that medical cannabis can provide for arthritis patients.
Canada’s Arthritis Society is providing a three-year research grant to Dr Jason McDougall of Dalhousie University, a leading pain researcher, to investigate the drug’s impact on arthritis pain and disease management.
Specifically, it will examine the ability of cannabis-like compounds to repair joint nerves and thereby relieve neuropathic pain from osteoarthritis. Dr McDougall’s project was selected following an extensive multi-disciplinary peer review process ranking competing submissions from a number of Canadian researchers.
This will provide fresh insights not only into the medical applications of cannabis, but also into the emerging theory that much of the pain felt by osteoarthritis sufferers is neuropathic in nature, meaning it is caused by nervous system damage rather than joint degeneration.
Should this be proven true, it would help explain why current therapies are only mildly effective in managing osteoarthritis pain.
In Canada, medical cannabis is authorised for use in certain circumstances. According to the Arthritis Society’s research, the majority of Canadians who are allowed to use it do so to help manage their arthritis pain.
Janet Yale, president and chief executive officer of the Arthritis Society, said: “People living with arthritis pain are looking for alternatives to improve their quality of life. We need research to help answer the many important questions around medical cannabis and its use.”
A spokeswoman for Arthritis Research UK said: “There is an urgent need for better pain relief to help the millions of people who live with the daily agony caused by osteoarthritis.
“Previous research has suggested that cannabinoid receptors could help to relieve pain and inflammation in the joints. Recent research conducted at the Arthritis Research UK Pain Centre shows that chemical compounds synthesised in the laboratory, similar to those found in cannabis, could be developed as potential drugs to reduce the pain of osteoarthritis.
“However, before cannabinoid medicines could be made available on prescription, more research is needed to clearly show their benefit and safety for people with arthritis and musculoskeletal conditions, so we welcome this new research and look forward to its findings.”
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Researchers in Canada are to carry out a new study that will assess the potential benefits that medical cannabis can provide for arthritis patients.
Canada’s Arthritis Society is providing a three-year research grant to Dr Jason McDougall of Dalhousie University, a leading pain researcher, to investigate the drug’s impact on arthritis pain and disease management.
Specifically, it will examine the ability of cannabis-like compounds to repair joint nerves and thereby relieve neuropathic pain from osteoarthritis. Dr McDougall’s project was selected following an extensive multi-disciplinary peer review process ranking competing submissions from a number of Canadian researchers.
This will provide fresh insights not only into the medical applications of cannabis, but also into the emerging theory that much of the pain felt by osteoarthritis sufferers is neuropathic in nature, meaning it is caused by nervous system damage rather than joint degeneration.
Should this be proven true, it would help explain why current therapies are only mildly effective in managing osteoarthritis pain.
In Canada, medical cannabis is authorised for use in certain circumstances. According to the Arthritis Society’s research, the majority of Canadians who are allowed to use it do so to help manage their arthritis pain.
Janet Yale, president and chief executive officer of the Arthritis Society, said: “People living with arthritis pain are looking for alternatives to improve their quality of life. We need research to help answer the many important questions around medical cannabis and its use.”
A spokeswoman for Arthritis Research UK said: “There is an urgent need for better pain relief to help the millions of people who live with the daily agony caused by osteoarthritis.
“Previous research has suggested that cannabinoid receptors could help to relieve pain and inflammation in the joints. Recent research conducted at the Arthritis Research UK Pain Centre shows that chemical compounds synthesised in the laboratory, similar to those found in cannabis, could be developed as potential drugs to reduce the pain of osteoarthritis.
“However, before cannabinoid medicines could be made available on prescription, more research is needed to clearly show their benefit and safety for people with arthritis and musculoskeletal conditions, so we welcome this new research and look forward to its findings.”
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129 Facts About Cannabis You May Or May Not Know
There's a lot about cannabis you probably know. There's a lot about cannabis you don't know. Read on.
1. Cannabis is the third most popular recreational drug in the United States.
2. There are 3 types of cannabis: sativa, indica and ruderalis.
3. Government surveys show 25 million Americans have used cannabis in the past year.
4. The first states to legalize recreational cannabis were Washington, Colorado, Oregon and Alaska.
5. Someone who occasionally uses cannabis will test positive in a urine test for 1 to 3 days after consumption.
6. Cannabis plants can be hermaphrodites.
7. Hemp is a distinctive variety of cannabis sativa that contains less than 1% THC.
8. Hemp can be used to make everything from hand cream to jeans to plastics and paints.
9. The "Most Successful Counter Drug Operation" according to the Guinness Book of World Records was announced on February 5, 1982. Over 14 months, 2,903 tonnes of Columbian marijuana was seized, 495 people were arrested and 95 vessels were seized. It was called "Operation Tiburon".
10. The "Most Ingenious Drug Mule" according to the Guinness Book of World Records was on January 2011 when a pigeon was used to smuggle 45 grams of marijuana into a Columbian prison.
11. Afghanistan holds the world record for the most cannabis producing country in the world.
12. The earliest documented example of Hemp is a piece of cloth from 6,000 years ago in Asia.
13. In Ancient China, surgeon Hua Tuo used medical cannabis to anesthetize patients.
14. Natural cannabinoids in the body are called endocannabinoids.
15. Canadian hemp can contain up to 0.3% THC, more than that and it's considered marijuana instead.
16. More than 690,000 individuals are arrested each year due to prohibition, more than the total of arrestees for all violent crimes combined.
17. The phrase 420 started in San Rafael, California.
18. The First Church of Cannabis is a registered church in Indiana. It was created in March 2015.
19. Female plants produce better flowers for cannabis consumption.
20. Male plants make the best hemp.
21. In the United States both hemp and cannabis are classified as Schedule I drugs under the Controlled Substances Act, even though only cannabis can get you high.
22. According to a 2011 report China makes the most hemp, followed by Chile and the European Union.
23. 30 countries worldwide grow hemp legally, but not the United States.
24. While it's illegal to grow hemp in the United States, the country imports more than $500 million worth of hemp products every year.
25. The US government really does have a patent on marijuana (US6630507) titled "Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants". In October 2003, it was awarded to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
26. In India, cannabis is called ganja or bhang.
27. Frequent cannabis users may still test positive in a urine test 10 days after consumption.
28. Iceland is the world's heaviest cannabis consuming country at 18.3%. It is not legal.
29. In Zambia, 17.7% of the population uses cannabis.
30. 1 in 7 Americans use cannabis regularly.
31. The term 420, to refer to smoking pot at 4:20 in the afternoon started in 1971.
32. More Canadians (12.2%) use cannabis than Jamaicans (9.8%).
33. "Landrace strains" are indigenous strains from the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
34. Landrace strains eventually spread to South America, Asia, Jamaica, Africa, and Russia.
35. In the 60s and 70s, landrace strains were collected and propegated in California and Hawaii, and are now called heirlooms.
36. The website Leafly divides strains into 14 different types of effects you can have including giggly, euphoric and aroused.
37. Arkansas has rejected medical marijuana legalization initiatives 7 times.
38. Don't be an asshole - that's the first commandment at the First Church of Cannabis.
39. The leaves from a cannabis plant can be used to make THC infused butter or milk.
40. The "cola" is the terminal bud site where tight female flowers bloom.
41. In Cambodia you can buy cannabis infused Happy Pizza at many restaurants.
42. The blanket of crystal resin on a cannabis bud is called "kief".
43. High Times lists OG Kush as the greatest strain of all time.
44. Trichomes are the clear bulbous globes on a bud that ooze terpenes.
45. Hash production relies on trichromes.
46. "When I was a kid, I inhaled, frequently. That was the point," That was President Barack Obama, discussing his cannabis use while running for president in 2008.
47. George W Bush admitted to his biographer Douglas Wead (like the plant) that he did indeed try marijuana.
48. Willie Nelson once got high on the roof of the White House.
49. In 1996 California became the first state to legalize medical marijuana.
50. Despite the legalization of small amounts of cannabis, it is not fully legal in the Netherlands.
51. Cannabis is dioecious.
52. In Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" all of the clocks are set to 4:20.
53. California's medical marijuana bill was named SB420.
54. Erectile dysfunction caused by over consumption of cannabis is called weed dick.
55. The term 420 was invented by a group of California teens named the Waldos.
56. The Grateful Dead subculture helped spread the term 420.
57. A Washington state farmer experimented with feeding his pigs cannabis as a way to enhance the flavor of their meat.
58. Hash is usually made using cannabis indica.
59. Large scale marijuana growers use music to help their plants.
60. The story that 420 was a police term in California to refer to 'Marijuana Smoking In Progress' is a total urban myth.
61. Water pipes are known as bongs, which comes from the Thai word "baung".
62. Sedgwick Alternative Relief in Sedgwick, Colorado was the first cannabis dispensary in that state.
63. Dues at the First Church of Cannabis are $4.20 a month.
64. Willie Nelson's marijuana company is called Willie's Reserve.
65. The Marijuana Dictionary is an online resource that curates the various words people use for cannabis. There are multiple entries under every letter of the alphabet.
66. Liquid and gas chromatography is how labs test the potency of cannabis.
67. The only place cannabis is native is Central Asia.
68. Female plants are the best producers of cannabinoids.
69. In China, hemp is called "ha-ma" meaning "great fibre".
70. Cannabis indica is known for its shorter, stockier appearance.
71. In Cambodia, cannabis is sometimes boiled and the liquid is sprinkled on tobacco.
72. Herodotus recorded the use of cannabis by the Sythian people of the Black Sea region.
73. Doctor and author François Rabelais (writer of the immortal Gargantua and Pantagruel) cultivated hemp on a large scale at his property in France.
74. Hemp was known as gallows grass because the hangman's noose was made of its fibers.
75. In early medicine hemp was used to treat gout and worms.
76. Kevin Smith, Chuck Lorre and Margaret Cho are all creating cannabis themed TV shows.
77. Since 1968, the University of MIssissippi has grown marijuana for research.
78. In January 2016, a Canadian medical marijuana producer cuts its prices to $5/gram for some strains.
79. Any cannabis you eat versus smoke is known as edibles.
80. Despite legalization in some states, the DEA still performs busts there, because cannabis is not legal on a federal level.
81. Indica is the cannabis type that gives you couch-lock.
82. Many cannabis users swear by tolerance breaks.
83. Former talk show host Montel Williams is an outspoken medical marijuana advocate.
84. High Times can be credited for mainstreaming the term 420 and making it famous amongst cannabis lovers.
85. In 1998 Canadian snowboarder Ross Rebagliati won the gold medal for snowboarding at the Olympics but was disqualified after cannabis was discovered in his drug test, the decision was eventually overturned. he now runs his own cannabis company.
86. The 420 Games are a series of athletic events that take place in California, Colorado, Washington and Oregon to promote the healthy use of cannabis.
87. Jamaica decriminalized small amounts of cannabis in 2015.
88. In Jamaica, Rastafarians use cannabis as part of their religious practice.
89. Uruguay became the first country to fully legalize recreational cannabis in 2014.
90. Justin Trudeau was the first Canadian Prime Minister to promise to legalize recreational cannabis.
91. A 2012 report shows a pair of scientists in San Francisco used a compound derived from cannabis to stop metastasis of aggressive cancer in lab animals.
92. There are more than 20 flavanoids in cannabis.
93. In Alaska you can possess up to 6 plants and one ounce of cannabis if you are over 21.
94. Many think cannabis was the first thing ever sold on the internet. A transaction does pre-date the current World Wide Web, but no money was ever exchanged.
95. The Vedas, sacred Hindu texts, contain the earliest mention of cannabis.
96. The Hindu god Shiva is also called Lord of the Bhang (what they call cannabis in India)
97. Families, like that of teen medical marijuana user Coltyn Turner's, actually move to other states to be able to use medical cannabis.
98. In India cannabis is often consumed as a Bhang Lassi, a drink of nuts, spices, cannabis and boiled milk.
99. Cannabis ruderalis is the least well-known form of cannabis.
00. The American Medical Association opposed the United States' government's Marijuana Tax Act of 1937because it taxed physicians who prescribed cannabis.
101. Irvin Rosenfeld, a stockbroker in Florida consumed his 115,000th marijuana cigarette on Nov. 20, 2009, setting a world record.
102. In 1978 the average THC content in cannabis was 1.37% THC, in 1998 it was 4.43%
103. While THC is the most famous cannabinoid, there are more than 70 known to science.
104. The ballot initiative that legalized recreational cannabis use in Washington passed in 2012.
105. Cannabis may be the first billion-dollar industry run primarily by women.
106. Cannabis was officially decriminalized in Washington D.C. in 2014.
107. Colorado began selling recreational cannabis on January 1, 2014
108. In Colorado recreational cannabis is taxed at 25% plus an additional 2.9% state sales tax, making it the most heavily taxed item in the state.
109. Due to the Clean Indoor Air act, you cannot smoke recreational cannabis publicly in Colorado.
110. As of Jan. 2016, 23 states plus Washington D.C. allow legal medical marijuana.
111. Medical marijuana is legal in all six New England States.
112. In its first week of legal sales Oregon sold $11 million worth of recreational cannabis.
113. Cannabis Sativa is known for its height, growing up to 20 feet high.
114. The Eros Association in Australia is lobbying government to legalize cannabis and have it sold in sex shops.
115. Elvis Presley was an anti-drug crusader and honorary federal agent in the war on drugs.
116. Rihanna has been open about her love of cannabis, but she is not starting her own cannabis product line.
117. No one has ever died of a cannabis overdose.
118. Cannabis is a Schedule 1 drug in the USA, which means the government considers it to have a "high potential for abuse", "no currently accepted medical use" and "a lack of accepted safety."
119. There are more than 400 chemicals in cannabis including steroids and Vitamin A.
120. In the states that legalized medical marijuana by 2006, 80% of the states saw a decrease in teen use of cannabis.
121. Cannabis was used in the Bible.
122. Cannabis was decriminalized in Cambodia in 1994.
123. Sativa is known for energizing and stimulating effects.
124. Cannabinol (CBN), cannabigerol (CBG) and cannabitriol (CBT) are just some of the many other types of cannabinoid found in cannabis.
125. CNB (cannabinol) is the third most common cannabinoid.
126. Growers like to cross-breed indica and sativa with ruderalis because of its fast flowering cycle.
127. Reservists in Israel can use medicinal marijuana.
128. There are cannabis museums you can visit in Barcelona and Amsterdam.
129. Enforcing prohibition in the United States costs taxpayers $10 billion per year.
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There's a lot about cannabis you probably know. There's a lot about cannabis you don't know. Read on.
1. Cannabis is the third most popular recreational drug in the United States.
2. There are 3 types of cannabis: sativa, indica and ruderalis.
3. Government surveys show 25 million Americans have used cannabis in the past year.
4. The first states to legalize recreational cannabis were Washington, Colorado, Oregon and Alaska.
5. Someone who occasionally uses cannabis will test positive in a urine test for 1 to 3 days after consumption.
6. Cannabis plants can be hermaphrodites.
7. Hemp is a distinctive variety of cannabis sativa that contains less than 1% THC.
8. Hemp can be used to make everything from hand cream to jeans to plastics and paints.
9. The "Most Successful Counter Drug Operation" according to the Guinness Book of World Records was announced on February 5, 1982. Over 14 months, 2,903 tonnes of Columbian marijuana was seized, 495 people were arrested and 95 vessels were seized. It was called "Operation Tiburon".
10. The "Most Ingenious Drug Mule" according to the Guinness Book of World Records was on January 2011 when a pigeon was used to smuggle 45 grams of marijuana into a Columbian prison.
11. Afghanistan holds the world record for the most cannabis producing country in the world.
12. The earliest documented example of Hemp is a piece of cloth from 6,000 years ago in Asia.
13. In Ancient China, surgeon Hua Tuo used medical cannabis to anesthetize patients.
14. Natural cannabinoids in the body are called endocannabinoids.
15. Canadian hemp can contain up to 0.3% THC, more than that and it's considered marijuana instead.
16. More than 690,000 individuals are arrested each year due to prohibition, more than the total of arrestees for all violent crimes combined.
17. The phrase 420 started in San Rafael, California.
18. The First Church of Cannabis is a registered church in Indiana. It was created in March 2015.
19. Female plants produce better flowers for cannabis consumption.
20. Male plants make the best hemp.
21. In the United States both hemp and cannabis are classified as Schedule I drugs under the Controlled Substances Act, even though only cannabis can get you high.
22. According to a 2011 report China makes the most hemp, followed by Chile and the European Union.
23. 30 countries worldwide grow hemp legally, but not the United States.
24. While it's illegal to grow hemp in the United States, the country imports more than $500 million worth of hemp products every year.
25. The US government really does have a patent on marijuana (US6630507) titled "Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants". In October 2003, it was awarded to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
26. In India, cannabis is called ganja or bhang.
27. Frequent cannabis users may still test positive in a urine test 10 days after consumption.
28. Iceland is the world's heaviest cannabis consuming country at 18.3%. It is not legal.
29. In Zambia, 17.7% of the population uses cannabis.
30. 1 in 7 Americans use cannabis regularly.
31. The term 420, to refer to smoking pot at 4:20 in the afternoon started in 1971.
32. More Canadians (12.2%) use cannabis than Jamaicans (9.8%).
33. "Landrace strains" are indigenous strains from the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
34. Landrace strains eventually spread to South America, Asia, Jamaica, Africa, and Russia.
35. In the 60s and 70s, landrace strains were collected and propegated in California and Hawaii, and are now called heirlooms.
36. The website Leafly divides strains into 14 different types of effects you can have including giggly, euphoric and aroused.
37. Arkansas has rejected medical marijuana legalization initiatives 7 times.
38. Don't be an asshole - that's the first commandment at the First Church of Cannabis.
39. The leaves from a cannabis plant can be used to make THC infused butter or milk.
40. The "cola" is the terminal bud site where tight female flowers bloom.
41. In Cambodia you can buy cannabis infused Happy Pizza at many restaurants.
42. The blanket of crystal resin on a cannabis bud is called "kief".
43. High Times lists OG Kush as the greatest strain of all time.
44. Trichomes are the clear bulbous globes on a bud that ooze terpenes.
45. Hash production relies on trichromes.
46. "When I was a kid, I inhaled, frequently. That was the point," That was President Barack Obama, discussing his cannabis use while running for president in 2008.
47. George W Bush admitted to his biographer Douglas Wead (like the plant) that he did indeed try marijuana.
48. Willie Nelson once got high on the roof of the White House.
49. In 1996 California became the first state to legalize medical marijuana.
50. Despite the legalization of small amounts of cannabis, it is not fully legal in the Netherlands.
51. Cannabis is dioecious.
52. In Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" all of the clocks are set to 4:20.
53. California's medical marijuana bill was named SB420.
54. Erectile dysfunction caused by over consumption of cannabis is called weed dick.
55. The term 420 was invented by a group of California teens named the Waldos.
56. The Grateful Dead subculture helped spread the term 420.
57. A Washington state farmer experimented with feeding his pigs cannabis as a way to enhance the flavor of their meat.
58. Hash is usually made using cannabis indica.
59. Large scale marijuana growers use music to help their plants.
60. The story that 420 was a police term in California to refer to 'Marijuana Smoking In Progress' is a total urban myth.
61. Water pipes are known as bongs, which comes from the Thai word "baung".
62. Sedgwick Alternative Relief in Sedgwick, Colorado was the first cannabis dispensary in that state.
63. Dues at the First Church of Cannabis are $4.20 a month.
64. Willie Nelson's marijuana company is called Willie's Reserve.
65. The Marijuana Dictionary is an online resource that curates the various words people use for cannabis. There are multiple entries under every letter of the alphabet.
66. Liquid and gas chromatography is how labs test the potency of cannabis.
67. The only place cannabis is native is Central Asia.
68. Female plants are the best producers of cannabinoids.
69. In China, hemp is called "ha-ma" meaning "great fibre".
70. Cannabis indica is known for its shorter, stockier appearance.
71. In Cambodia, cannabis is sometimes boiled and the liquid is sprinkled on tobacco.
72. Herodotus recorded the use of cannabis by the Sythian people of the Black Sea region.
73. Doctor and author François Rabelais (writer of the immortal Gargantua and Pantagruel) cultivated hemp on a large scale at his property in France.
74. Hemp was known as gallows grass because the hangman's noose was made of its fibers.
75. In early medicine hemp was used to treat gout and worms.
76. Kevin Smith, Chuck Lorre and Margaret Cho are all creating cannabis themed TV shows.
77. Since 1968, the University of MIssissippi has grown marijuana for research.
78. In January 2016, a Canadian medical marijuana producer cuts its prices to $5/gram for some strains.
79. Any cannabis you eat versus smoke is known as edibles.
80. Despite legalization in some states, the DEA still performs busts there, because cannabis is not legal on a federal level.
81. Indica is the cannabis type that gives you couch-lock.
82. Many cannabis users swear by tolerance breaks.
83. Former talk show host Montel Williams is an outspoken medical marijuana advocate.
84. High Times can be credited for mainstreaming the term 420 and making it famous amongst cannabis lovers.
85. In 1998 Canadian snowboarder Ross Rebagliati won the gold medal for snowboarding at the Olympics but was disqualified after cannabis was discovered in his drug test, the decision was eventually overturned. he now runs his own cannabis company.
86. The 420 Games are a series of athletic events that take place in California, Colorado, Washington and Oregon to promote the healthy use of cannabis.
87. Jamaica decriminalized small amounts of cannabis in 2015.
88. In Jamaica, Rastafarians use cannabis as part of their religious practice.
89. Uruguay became the first country to fully legalize recreational cannabis in 2014.
90. Justin Trudeau was the first Canadian Prime Minister to promise to legalize recreational cannabis.
91. A 2012 report shows a pair of scientists in San Francisco used a compound derived from cannabis to stop metastasis of aggressive cancer in lab animals.
92. There are more than 20 flavanoids in cannabis.
93. In Alaska you can possess up to 6 plants and one ounce of cannabis if you are over 21.
94. Many think cannabis was the first thing ever sold on the internet. A transaction does pre-date the current World Wide Web, but no money was ever exchanged.
95. The Vedas, sacred Hindu texts, contain the earliest mention of cannabis.
96. The Hindu god Shiva is also called Lord of the Bhang (what they call cannabis in India)
97. Families, like that of teen medical marijuana user Coltyn Turner's, actually move to other states to be able to use medical cannabis.
98. In India cannabis is often consumed as a Bhang Lassi, a drink of nuts, spices, cannabis and boiled milk.
99. Cannabis ruderalis is the least well-known form of cannabis.
00. The American Medical Association opposed the United States' government's Marijuana Tax Act of 1937because it taxed physicians who prescribed cannabis.
101. Irvin Rosenfeld, a stockbroker in Florida consumed his 115,000th marijuana cigarette on Nov. 20, 2009, setting a world record.
102. In 1978 the average THC content in cannabis was 1.37% THC, in 1998 it was 4.43%
103. While THC is the most famous cannabinoid, there are more than 70 known to science.
104. The ballot initiative that legalized recreational cannabis use in Washington passed in 2012.
105. Cannabis may be the first billion-dollar industry run primarily by women.
106. Cannabis was officially decriminalized in Washington D.C. in 2014.
107. Colorado began selling recreational cannabis on January 1, 2014
108. In Colorado recreational cannabis is taxed at 25% plus an additional 2.9% state sales tax, making it the most heavily taxed item in the state.
109. Due to the Clean Indoor Air act, you cannot smoke recreational cannabis publicly in Colorado.
110. As of Jan. 2016, 23 states plus Washington D.C. allow legal medical marijuana.
111. Medical marijuana is legal in all six New England States.
112. In its first week of legal sales Oregon sold $11 million worth of recreational cannabis.
113. Cannabis Sativa is known for its height, growing up to 20 feet high.
114. The Eros Association in Australia is lobbying government to legalize cannabis and have it sold in sex shops.
115. Elvis Presley was an anti-drug crusader and honorary federal agent in the war on drugs.
116. Rihanna has been open about her love of cannabis, but she is not starting her own cannabis product line.
117. No one has ever died of a cannabis overdose.
118. Cannabis is a Schedule 1 drug in the USA, which means the government considers it to have a "high potential for abuse", "no currently accepted medical use" and "a lack of accepted safety."
119. There are more than 400 chemicals in cannabis including steroids and Vitamin A.
120. In the states that legalized medical marijuana by 2006, 80% of the states saw a decrease in teen use of cannabis.
121. Cannabis was used in the Bible.
122. Cannabis was decriminalized in Cambodia in 1994.
123. Sativa is known for energizing and stimulating effects.
124. Cannabinol (CBN), cannabigerol (CBG) and cannabitriol (CBT) are just some of the many other types of cannabinoid found in cannabis.
125. CNB (cannabinol) is the third most common cannabinoid.
126. Growers like to cross-breed indica and sativa with ruderalis because of its fast flowering cycle.
127. Reservists in Israel can use medicinal marijuana.
128. There are cannabis museums you can visit in Barcelona and Amsterdam.
129. Enforcing prohibition in the United States costs taxpayers $10 billion per year.
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23 Health Benefits Of Marijuana
States around the country — more than 20 in total — have legalized medical marijuana.
Experts have been changing their minds too — recently, CNN's chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta reversed his opinion on medical marijuana.
While recreational pot usage is controversial, many people agree with Gupta's new stance, and believe that the drug should be legal for medical uses.
And even though the benefits of smoking pot may be overstated by advocates of marijuana legalization, new laws will help researchers study the drug's medicinal uses and better understand how it impacts the body.
Currently only 6% of studies on marijuana analyze its medicinal properties.
Keep in mind, though, that there are negative effects of smoking too much pot or using it for non-medicinal purposes. When overused or abused, pot can lead to dependency and mess with your memory and emotions.
There are at least two active chemicals in marijuana that researchers think have medicinal applications. Those are cannabidiol (CBD) — which seems to impact the brain without a high— and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) — which has pain relieving (and other) properties.
Also keep in mind that some of these health benefits can potentially be gained by taking THC pills like Dronabinol, a synthetic form of THC, which in some ways might be more effective than smoked marijuana.
It can be used to treat Glaucoma.
Marijuana use can be used to treat and prevent the eye disease glaucoma, which increases pressure in the eyeball, damaging the optic nerve and causing loss of vision.
Marijuana decreases the pressure inside the eye, according to the National Eye Institute: "Studies in the early 1970s showed that marijuana, when smoked, lowered intraocular pressure (IOP) in people with normal pressure and those with glaucoma."
These effects of the drug may slow the progression of the disease, preventing blindness.
It may help reverse the carcinogenic effects of tobacco and improve lung health.
According to a study published in Journal of the American Medical Association in January 2012, marijuana does not impair lung function and can even increase lung capacity.
Researchers looking for risk factors of heart disease tested the lung function of 5,115 young adults over the course of 20 years. Tobacco smokers lost lung function over time, but pot users actually showed an increase in lung capacity.
It's possible that the increased lung capacity maybe due to taking a deep breaths while inhaling the drug and not from a therapeutic chemical in the drug.
It can help control epileptic seizures.
Marijuana use can prevent epileptic seizures, a 2003 study showed.
Robert J. DeLorenzo, of Virginia Commonwealth University, gave marijuana extract and synthetic marijuana to epileptic rats. The drugs rid the rats of the seizures for about 10 hours. Cannabinoids like the active ingredients in marijuana,tetrahydrocannabinol (also known as THC), control seizures by binding to the brain cellsresponsible for controlling excitability and regulating relaxation.
The findings were published in the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.
It also decreases the symptoms of a severe seizure disorder known as Dravet's
Charlotte Figi has Dravet's Syndrome, and her parents are giving her marijuana to treat her seizures.
During the research for his documentary "Weed," Gupta interviewed the Figi family, who treats their 5-year-old daughter using a medical marijuana strain high in cannabidiol and low in THC.
Their daughter, Charlotte, has Dravet Syndrome, which causes seizures and severe developmental delays.
According to the film, the drug has decreased her seizures from 300 a week to just one every seven days. Forty other children in the state are using the same strain of marijuana to treat their seizures — and it seems to be working.
The doctors who recommended this treatment say that the cannabidiol in the plant interacts with the brain cells to quiet the excessive activity in the brain that causes these seizures.
As Gutpa notes, a Florida hospital that specializes in the disorder, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Drug Enforcement agency don't endorse marijuana as a treatment for Dravet or other seizure disorders.
A chemical found in marijuana stops cancer from spreading.
CBD may help prevent cancer from spreading, researchers at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco reported in 2007.
Cannabidiol stops cancer by turning off a gene called Id-1, the study, published in the journal Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, found. Cancer cells make more copies of this gene than non-cancerous cells, and it helps them spread through the body.
The researchers studied breast cancer cells in the lab that had high expression levels of Id-1 and treated them with cannabidiol. After treatment the cells had decreased Id-1 expression and were less aggressive spreaders.
In "WEED," Gupta also mentioned a few studies in the U.S., Spain, and Israel that suggest the compounds in cannabis could even kill cancer cells.
It may decrease anxiety.
Medical marijuana users claim the drug helps relieve pain and suppress nausea — the two main reasons it's often used to relieve the side effects of chemotherapy.
In 2010, researchers at Harvard Medical School suggested that that some of the drug's benefits may actually be from reduced anxiety, which would improve the smoker's mood and act as a sedative in low doses.
Beware, though, higher doses may increase anxiety and make you paranoid.
THC slows the progression of Alzheimer's disease.
Marijuana may be able to slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease, a study led by Kim Janda of the Scripps Research Institute suggests.
The 2006 study, published in the journalMolecular Pharmaceutics, found that THC, the active chemical in marijuana, slows the formation of amyloid plaques by blocking the enzyme in the brain that makes them. These plaques are what kill brain cells and cause Alzheimer's.
The drug eases the pain of multiple sclerosis.
Marijuana may ease painful symptoms of multiple sclerosis, a study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal in May suggests.
Jody Corey-Bloom studied 30 multiple sclerosis patients with painful contractions in their muscles. These patients didn't respond to other treatments, but after smoking marijuana for a few days they were in less pain.
The THC in the pot binds to receptors in the nerves and muscles to relieve pain. Other studies suggest that the chemical also helps control the muscle spasms.
Other types of muscle spasms could be helped too.
Other types of muscle spasms respond to marijuana as well. Gupta also found a teenager named Chaz who was using medical marijuana to treat diaphragm spasms that were untreatable by other, prescribed and very strong, medications.
His condition is called myoclonus diaphragmatic flutter (also known asLeeuwenhoek's Disease) and causes non stop spasming in the abdominal muscles which are not only painful, but interfere with breathing and speaking.
Smoking marijuana is able to calm the attacks almost immediately, as it calms the muscles of the diaphragm.
It lessens side effects from treating hepatitis C and increases treatment effectiveness.
California dispensaries have been the subject of federal raids
Treatment for hepatitis C infection is harsh — negative side effects include fatigue, nausea, muscle aches, loss of appetite, and depression — and lasts for months. Many people aren't able to finish their treatment course because of the side effects.
But, pot to the rescue: A 2006 study in theEuropean Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology found that 86% of patients using marijuana successfully completed their Hep C therapy, while only 29% of non-smokers completed their treatment, possibly because the marijuana helps lessens the treatments side effects.
Marijuana also seems to improve the treatment's effectiveness: 54% of hep C patients smoking marijuana got their viral levels low and kept them low, in comparison to only 8% of nonsmokers.
Marijuana treats inflammatory bowel diseases.
Patients with inflammatory bowel diseases like Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitiscould benefit from marijuana use, studies suggest.
University of Nottingham researchers found in 2010 that chemicals in marijuana, including THC and cannabidiol, interact with cells in the body that play an important role in gut function and immune responses. The study was published in the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.
THC-like compounds made by the body increase the permeability of the intestines, allowingbacteria in. The plant-derived cannabinoids in marijuana block these body-cannabinoids, preventing this permeability and making the intestinal cells bond together tighter.
It relieves arthritis discomfort.
Marijuana alleviates pain, reduces inflammation, and promotes sleep, which may help relieve pain and discomfort for people with rheumatoid arthritis, researchers announced in 2011.
Researchers from rheumatology units at several hospitals gave their patients Sativex, a cannabinoid-based pain-relieving medicine. After a two-week period, people onSativex had a significant reduction in painand improved sleep quality compared to placebo users.
It keeps you skinny and helps your metabolism.
A study published in the American Journal Of Medicine on April 15 of last year suggested that pot smokers are skinnier than the average person and have healthier metabolism and reaction to sugars, even though they do end up eating more calories because of the munchies.
The study analyzed data from more than 4,500 adult Americans — 579 of whom were current marijuana smokers, meaning they had smoked in the last month. About 2,000 had used marijuana in the past, while another 2,000 had never used the drug.
They studied their body's response to eating sugars: their levels of the hormone insulin and their blood sugar levels while they hadn't eaten in nine hours, and after eating sugar.
Not only are pot users skinnier, but their body has a healthier response to sugar.
It improves the symptoms of Lupus, an autoimmune disorder.
Medical marijuana is being used to treat the autoimmune disease Systemic Lupus Ertyhematosus, which is when the body starts attacking itself for some unknown reason.
Some chemicals in marijuana seem to have a calming effect on the immune system, which may be how it helps deal with symptoms of Lupus. The rest of the positive impact of the marijuana is probably from the effects on pain and nausea.
While not really a health benefit, marijuana spurs creativity in the brain.
Contrary to stoner stereotypes, marijuana usage has actually been shown to have some positive mental effects, particularly in terms of increasing creativity. Even though people's short-term memories tend to function worse when high, people get better at tests requiring them to come up with new ideas.
One study tested participants on their ability to come up with different words related to a concept, and found that using cannabis allowed people to come up with a greater range of related concepts, seeming "to make the brain better at detecting those remote associations that lead to radically new ideas," according to Wired.
Other researchers have found that some participants improve their "verbal fluency," their ability to come up with different words, while using marijuana.
Part of this increased creative ability may come from the release of dopamine in the brain, lessening inhibitions and allowing people to feel more relaxed, giving the brain the ability to perceive things differently.
Marijuana might be able to help with Crohn's disease.
Crohn's disease is an inflammatory bowel disorder that causes pain, vomiting, diarrhea, weight loss, and more. But a recent study in Israel showed that smoking a joint significantly reduced Crohn's disease symptoms in 10 out of 11 patients, and caused a complete remission of the disease in five of those patients.
That's a small study, but other research has shown similar effects. The cannabinoids from marijuana seem to help the gut regulate bacteria and intestinal function.
Pot soothes tremors for people with Parkinson's disease.
Recent research from Israel shows thatsmoking marijuana significantly reduces pain and tremors and improves sleep for Parkinson's disease patients. Particularly impressive was the improved fine motor skills among patients.
Medical marijuana is legal in Israel for multiple conditions, and a lot of research into the medical uses of cannabis is done there, supported by the Israeli government.
Marijuana helps veterans suffering from PTSD.
The Department of Health and Human Services recently signed off on a proposal to study marijuana's potential as part of treatment for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Marijuana is approved to treat PTSD in some states already. In New Mexico, PTSD is the number one reason for people to get a license for medical marijuana, but this is the first time the U.S. government has approved a proposal that incorporates smoked or vaporized marijuana, which is currently classified by the government as a drug with no accepted medical applications.
Naturally occurring cannabinoids, similar to THC, help regulate the system that causes fear and anxiety in the body and brain.
Marijuana protects the brain after a stroke.
Research from the University of Nottingham shows that marijuana may help protect the brain from damage caused by stroke, by reducing the size of the area affected by the stroke — at least in rats, mice, and monkeys.
This isn't the only research that has shown neuroprotective effects from cannabis. Some research shows that the plant may help protect the brain after other traumatic events, like concussions.
It might protect the brain from concussions and trauma.
There is some evidence that marijuana can help heal the brain after a concussion or other traumatic injury. A recent study in the journal Cerebral Cortex showed that in mice, marijuana lessened the bruising of the brain and helped with healing mechanisms after a traumatic injury.
Harvard professor emeritus of psychiatry and marijuana advocate Lester Grinspoon recently wrote an open letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, saying the NFL should stop testing players for marijuana, and that the league should start funding research into the plant's ability to protect the brain.
"Already, many doctors and researchers believe that marijuana has incredibly powerful neuroprotective properties, an understanding based on both laboratory and clinical data," he writes.
Goodell recently said that he'd consider permitting athletes to use marijuana if medical research shows that it's an effective neuroprotective agent.
It can help eliminate nightmares.
This is a complicated one, because it involves effects that can be both positive and negative. Marijuana disturbs sleep cycles by interrupting the later stages of REM sleep. In the long run, this could be a problem for frequent users.
However, for people suffering from serious nightmares, especially those associated with PTSD, this can be helpful. Nightmares and other dreams occur during those same stages of sleep. By interrupting REM sleep, many of those dreams may not occur. Research into using a synthetic cannabinoid, like THC, but not the same, showed a significant decreasein the number of nightmares in patients with PTSD.
Additionally, even if frequent use can be bad for sleep, marijuana may be a better sleep aid than some other substances that people use. Some of those, including medication and alcohol, may potentially have even worse effects on sleep, though more research is needed on the topic.
Weed reduces some of the awful pain and nausea from chemo, and stimulates appetite.
One of the most well-known medical uses of marijuana is for people going through chemotherapy.
Cancer patients being treated with chemo suffer from painful nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite. This can cause additional health complications.
Marijuana can help reduce these side effects, alleviating pain, decreasing nausea, and stimulating the appetite. There are also multiple FDA-approved cannabinoid drugs that use THC, the main active chemical in marijuana, for the same purposes.
Marijuana can help people trying to cut back on drinking.
Marijuana is safer than alcohol. That's not to say it's completely risk free, but it's much less addictive and doesn't cause nearly as much physical damage.
Disorders like alcoholism involve disruptions in the endocannabinoid system. Because of that, some people think cannabis might help patients struggling with those disorders.
Research in Harm Reduction Journal shows that some people use marijuana as a less harmful substitute for alcohol, prescription drugs, and other illegal drugs. Some of the most common reasons for patients to make that substitution are the less adverse side effects from marijuana and the fact that it is less likely to cause withdrawal problems.
Some people do become psychologically dependent on marijuana, and this doesn't mean that it's a cure for substance abuse problems. But, from a harm-reduction standpoint, it can help.
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States around the country — more than 20 in total — have legalized medical marijuana.
Experts have been changing their minds too — recently, CNN's chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta reversed his opinion on medical marijuana.
While recreational pot usage is controversial, many people agree with Gupta's new stance, and believe that the drug should be legal for medical uses.
And even though the benefits of smoking pot may be overstated by advocates of marijuana legalization, new laws will help researchers study the drug's medicinal uses and better understand how it impacts the body.
Currently only 6% of studies on marijuana analyze its medicinal properties.
Keep in mind, though, that there are negative effects of smoking too much pot or using it for non-medicinal purposes. When overused or abused, pot can lead to dependency and mess with your memory and emotions.
There are at least two active chemicals in marijuana that researchers think have medicinal applications. Those are cannabidiol (CBD) — which seems to impact the brain without a high— and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) — which has pain relieving (and other) properties.
Also keep in mind that some of these health benefits can potentially be gained by taking THC pills like Dronabinol, a synthetic form of THC, which in some ways might be more effective than smoked marijuana.
It can be used to treat Glaucoma.
Marijuana use can be used to treat and prevent the eye disease glaucoma, which increases pressure in the eyeball, damaging the optic nerve and causing loss of vision.
Marijuana decreases the pressure inside the eye, according to the National Eye Institute: "Studies in the early 1970s showed that marijuana, when smoked, lowered intraocular pressure (IOP) in people with normal pressure and those with glaucoma."
These effects of the drug may slow the progression of the disease, preventing blindness.
It may help reverse the carcinogenic effects of tobacco and improve lung health.
According to a study published in Journal of the American Medical Association in January 2012, marijuana does not impair lung function and can even increase lung capacity.
Researchers looking for risk factors of heart disease tested the lung function of 5,115 young adults over the course of 20 years. Tobacco smokers lost lung function over time, but pot users actually showed an increase in lung capacity.
It's possible that the increased lung capacity maybe due to taking a deep breaths while inhaling the drug and not from a therapeutic chemical in the drug.
It can help control epileptic seizures.
Marijuana use can prevent epileptic seizures, a 2003 study showed.
Robert J. DeLorenzo, of Virginia Commonwealth University, gave marijuana extract and synthetic marijuana to epileptic rats. The drugs rid the rats of the seizures for about 10 hours. Cannabinoids like the active ingredients in marijuana,tetrahydrocannabinol (also known as THC), control seizures by binding to the brain cellsresponsible for controlling excitability and regulating relaxation.
The findings were published in the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.
It also decreases the symptoms of a severe seizure disorder known as Dravet's
Charlotte Figi has Dravet's Syndrome, and her parents are giving her marijuana to treat her seizures.
During the research for his documentary "Weed," Gupta interviewed the Figi family, who treats their 5-year-old daughter using a medical marijuana strain high in cannabidiol and low in THC.
Their daughter, Charlotte, has Dravet Syndrome, which causes seizures and severe developmental delays.
According to the film, the drug has decreased her seizures from 300 a week to just one every seven days. Forty other children in the state are using the same strain of marijuana to treat their seizures — and it seems to be working.
The doctors who recommended this treatment say that the cannabidiol in the plant interacts with the brain cells to quiet the excessive activity in the brain that causes these seizures.
As Gutpa notes, a Florida hospital that specializes in the disorder, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Drug Enforcement agency don't endorse marijuana as a treatment for Dravet or other seizure disorders.
A chemical found in marijuana stops cancer from spreading.
CBD may help prevent cancer from spreading, researchers at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco reported in 2007.
Cannabidiol stops cancer by turning off a gene called Id-1, the study, published in the journal Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, found. Cancer cells make more copies of this gene than non-cancerous cells, and it helps them spread through the body.
The researchers studied breast cancer cells in the lab that had high expression levels of Id-1 and treated them with cannabidiol. After treatment the cells had decreased Id-1 expression and were less aggressive spreaders.
In "WEED," Gupta also mentioned a few studies in the U.S., Spain, and Israel that suggest the compounds in cannabis could even kill cancer cells.
It may decrease anxiety.
Medical marijuana users claim the drug helps relieve pain and suppress nausea — the two main reasons it's often used to relieve the side effects of chemotherapy.
In 2010, researchers at Harvard Medical School suggested that that some of the drug's benefits may actually be from reduced anxiety, which would improve the smoker's mood and act as a sedative in low doses.
Beware, though, higher doses may increase anxiety and make you paranoid.
THC slows the progression of Alzheimer's disease.
Marijuana may be able to slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease, a study led by Kim Janda of the Scripps Research Institute suggests.
The 2006 study, published in the journalMolecular Pharmaceutics, found that THC, the active chemical in marijuana, slows the formation of amyloid plaques by blocking the enzyme in the brain that makes them. These plaques are what kill brain cells and cause Alzheimer's.
The drug eases the pain of multiple sclerosis.
Marijuana may ease painful symptoms of multiple sclerosis, a study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal in May suggests.
Jody Corey-Bloom studied 30 multiple sclerosis patients with painful contractions in their muscles. These patients didn't respond to other treatments, but after smoking marijuana for a few days they were in less pain.
The THC in the pot binds to receptors in the nerves and muscles to relieve pain. Other studies suggest that the chemical also helps control the muscle spasms.
Other types of muscle spasms could be helped too.
Other types of muscle spasms respond to marijuana as well. Gupta also found a teenager named Chaz who was using medical marijuana to treat diaphragm spasms that were untreatable by other, prescribed and very strong, medications.
His condition is called myoclonus diaphragmatic flutter (also known asLeeuwenhoek's Disease) and causes non stop spasming in the abdominal muscles which are not only painful, but interfere with breathing and speaking.
Smoking marijuana is able to calm the attacks almost immediately, as it calms the muscles of the diaphragm.
It lessens side effects from treating hepatitis C and increases treatment effectiveness.
California dispensaries have been the subject of federal raids
Treatment for hepatitis C infection is harsh — negative side effects include fatigue, nausea, muscle aches, loss of appetite, and depression — and lasts for months. Many people aren't able to finish their treatment course because of the side effects.
But, pot to the rescue: A 2006 study in theEuropean Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology found that 86% of patients using marijuana successfully completed their Hep C therapy, while only 29% of non-smokers completed their treatment, possibly because the marijuana helps lessens the treatments side effects.
Marijuana also seems to improve the treatment's effectiveness: 54% of hep C patients smoking marijuana got their viral levels low and kept them low, in comparison to only 8% of nonsmokers.
Marijuana treats inflammatory bowel diseases.
Patients with inflammatory bowel diseases like Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitiscould benefit from marijuana use, studies suggest.
University of Nottingham researchers found in 2010 that chemicals in marijuana, including THC and cannabidiol, interact with cells in the body that play an important role in gut function and immune responses. The study was published in the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.
THC-like compounds made by the body increase the permeability of the intestines, allowingbacteria in. The plant-derived cannabinoids in marijuana block these body-cannabinoids, preventing this permeability and making the intestinal cells bond together tighter.
It relieves arthritis discomfort.
Marijuana alleviates pain, reduces inflammation, and promotes sleep, which may help relieve pain and discomfort for people with rheumatoid arthritis, researchers announced in 2011.
Researchers from rheumatology units at several hospitals gave their patients Sativex, a cannabinoid-based pain-relieving medicine. After a two-week period, people onSativex had a significant reduction in painand improved sleep quality compared to placebo users.
It keeps you skinny and helps your metabolism.
A study published in the American Journal Of Medicine on April 15 of last year suggested that pot smokers are skinnier than the average person and have healthier metabolism and reaction to sugars, even though they do end up eating more calories because of the munchies.
The study analyzed data from more than 4,500 adult Americans — 579 of whom were current marijuana smokers, meaning they had smoked in the last month. About 2,000 had used marijuana in the past, while another 2,000 had never used the drug.
They studied their body's response to eating sugars: their levels of the hormone insulin and their blood sugar levels while they hadn't eaten in nine hours, and after eating sugar.
Not only are pot users skinnier, but their body has a healthier response to sugar.
It improves the symptoms of Lupus, an autoimmune disorder.
Medical marijuana is being used to treat the autoimmune disease Systemic Lupus Ertyhematosus, which is when the body starts attacking itself for some unknown reason.
Some chemicals in marijuana seem to have a calming effect on the immune system, which may be how it helps deal with symptoms of Lupus. The rest of the positive impact of the marijuana is probably from the effects on pain and nausea.
While not really a health benefit, marijuana spurs creativity in the brain.
Contrary to stoner stereotypes, marijuana usage has actually been shown to have some positive mental effects, particularly in terms of increasing creativity. Even though people's short-term memories tend to function worse when high, people get better at tests requiring them to come up with new ideas.
One study tested participants on their ability to come up with different words related to a concept, and found that using cannabis allowed people to come up with a greater range of related concepts, seeming "to make the brain better at detecting those remote associations that lead to radically new ideas," according to Wired.
Other researchers have found that some participants improve their "verbal fluency," their ability to come up with different words, while using marijuana.
Part of this increased creative ability may come from the release of dopamine in the brain, lessening inhibitions and allowing people to feel more relaxed, giving the brain the ability to perceive things differently.
Marijuana might be able to help with Crohn's disease.
Crohn's disease is an inflammatory bowel disorder that causes pain, vomiting, diarrhea, weight loss, and more. But a recent study in Israel showed that smoking a joint significantly reduced Crohn's disease symptoms in 10 out of 11 patients, and caused a complete remission of the disease in five of those patients.
That's a small study, but other research has shown similar effects. The cannabinoids from marijuana seem to help the gut regulate bacteria and intestinal function.
Pot soothes tremors for people with Parkinson's disease.
Recent research from Israel shows thatsmoking marijuana significantly reduces pain and tremors and improves sleep for Parkinson's disease patients. Particularly impressive was the improved fine motor skills among patients.
Medical marijuana is legal in Israel for multiple conditions, and a lot of research into the medical uses of cannabis is done there, supported by the Israeli government.
Marijuana helps veterans suffering from PTSD.
The Department of Health and Human Services recently signed off on a proposal to study marijuana's potential as part of treatment for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Marijuana is approved to treat PTSD in some states already. In New Mexico, PTSD is the number one reason for people to get a license for medical marijuana, but this is the first time the U.S. government has approved a proposal that incorporates smoked or vaporized marijuana, which is currently classified by the government as a drug with no accepted medical applications.
Naturally occurring cannabinoids, similar to THC, help regulate the system that causes fear and anxiety in the body and brain.
Marijuana protects the brain after a stroke.
Research from the University of Nottingham shows that marijuana may help protect the brain from damage caused by stroke, by reducing the size of the area affected by the stroke — at least in rats, mice, and monkeys.
This isn't the only research that has shown neuroprotective effects from cannabis. Some research shows that the plant may help protect the brain after other traumatic events, like concussions.
It might protect the brain from concussions and trauma.
There is some evidence that marijuana can help heal the brain after a concussion or other traumatic injury. A recent study in the journal Cerebral Cortex showed that in mice, marijuana lessened the bruising of the brain and helped with healing mechanisms after a traumatic injury.
Harvard professor emeritus of psychiatry and marijuana advocate Lester Grinspoon recently wrote an open letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, saying the NFL should stop testing players for marijuana, and that the league should start funding research into the plant's ability to protect the brain.
"Already, many doctors and researchers believe that marijuana has incredibly powerful neuroprotective properties, an understanding based on both laboratory and clinical data," he writes.
Goodell recently said that he'd consider permitting athletes to use marijuana if medical research shows that it's an effective neuroprotective agent.
It can help eliminate nightmares.
This is a complicated one, because it involves effects that can be both positive and negative. Marijuana disturbs sleep cycles by interrupting the later stages of REM sleep. In the long run, this could be a problem for frequent users.
However, for people suffering from serious nightmares, especially those associated with PTSD, this can be helpful. Nightmares and other dreams occur during those same stages of sleep. By interrupting REM sleep, many of those dreams may not occur. Research into using a synthetic cannabinoid, like THC, but not the same, showed a significant decreasein the number of nightmares in patients with PTSD.
Additionally, even if frequent use can be bad for sleep, marijuana may be a better sleep aid than some other substances that people use. Some of those, including medication and alcohol, may potentially have even worse effects on sleep, though more research is needed on the topic.
Weed reduces some of the awful pain and nausea from chemo, and stimulates appetite.
One of the most well-known medical uses of marijuana is for people going through chemotherapy.
Cancer patients being treated with chemo suffer from painful nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite. This can cause additional health complications.
Marijuana can help reduce these side effects, alleviating pain, decreasing nausea, and stimulating the appetite. There are also multiple FDA-approved cannabinoid drugs that use THC, the main active chemical in marijuana, for the same purposes.
Marijuana can help people trying to cut back on drinking.
Marijuana is safer than alcohol. That's not to say it's completely risk free, but it's much less addictive and doesn't cause nearly as much physical damage.
Disorders like alcoholism involve disruptions in the endocannabinoid system. Because of that, some people think cannabis might help patients struggling with those disorders.
Research in Harm Reduction Journal shows that some people use marijuana as a less harmful substitute for alcohol, prescription drugs, and other illegal drugs. Some of the most common reasons for patients to make that substitution are the less adverse side effects from marijuana and the fact that it is less likely to cause withdrawal problems.
Some people do become psychologically dependent on marijuana, and this doesn't mean that it's a cure for substance abuse problems. But, from a harm-reduction standpoint, it can help.
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7 Ways Cannabis Is Great For Your Brain
We know that cannabis is good for our souls, but what about our minds? Decades of government propaganda have drilled into our collective psyche the idea that pot kills brain cells; stoners lose motivation, becoming stupid, forgetful, and lazy.
The truth, after so many years, is finally coming to light. Not only is cannabis not the horrible, brain-destroying, rape and murder inducing gateway drug that we had been led to believe; it actually is good for our bodies, and especially our brains.
There are dozens of ways cannabis helps our bodies, with more being discovered every day. For our minds, specifically, there are several great things that cannabis can do.
1. Cannabis Promotes Neurogenesis
Research has proven cannabinoids cause new brain cells to grow; a process known as neurogenesis. The process of growing new brain cells, specifically in the hippocampus, explains why cannabis is so effective in treating mood disorders like depression, anxiety, and stress; these conditions are all related to a lack of adult neurogenesis.
2. Cannabis Fights Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer’s is a devastating disease, disrupting memory, language, thinking, and reasoning. Early symptoms include irritability, anxiety, and depression; later stages can include sleep disturbances, outbursts, delusions, and hallucinations. Ironically, many of the symptoms of Alzheimer’s are similar to the false claims made for the effects of cannabis use on the human brain.
THC has been confirmed as a potent antioxidant with neuroprotective properties, directly affecting Alzheimer’s by cleaning away beta-amyloid “brain plaque” whose build-up is the primary cause of the disease.
Cannabis treatment is an effective course for other neurodegenerative diseases as well, including ALS, MS, and Parkinson’s.
3. Cannabis Prevents Brain Damage
Statistical rates of concussion damage to players in professional sports compared to admitted cannabis use show proof of the research that cannabis protects the brain against damage from trauma. It has been shown in laboratory studies to protect cognitive function and vital processes against injury, carbon monoxide poisoning, and stroke. Research even suggests that it could be used not only to recover from these incidents, but as a preventative; reducing damage and speeding recovery by use as a supplement for ongoing protection.
4. Cannabis Fights Brain Cancer
The pharmaceutical industry all but admits admits that cannabis helps fight cancer. In fact, it patented Marinol and Cesamet, synthetic versions of cannabinoids to use in conjunction with chemotherapy, to treat nausea and appetite loss. Cannabis has effectively been shown to attack the processes of tumor and cancer cells, while ignoring healthy cells. This combination therapy has dramatically devastating effects on the brain cancers, as well as other cancers.
5. Cannabis Fights Alcohol Damage To Brain
Cannabis’s neuroprotective capabilities have even been proven to reduce ethanol-induced cell death in the brain by up to 60%. That means that while social and binge drinkers may look down their noses at cannabis from their socially accepted standpoint, cannabis may actually be the best treatment for the devastating effects of long-term alcohol abuse.
6. Cannabis And Mental Functions
While excessive use of a mind altering substance can inhibit proficient complex motor fuctions, such as operating a motorized vehicle, studies are now showing that drivers under the influence of cannabis are actually safer than drivers using alcohol, and perhaps even drivers not under the influence at all.
Use of cannabis is now being shown in MRI’s to have no significant differences from control subjects on brain function, and its effects, even in long term heavy users are only temporary.
Cannabis has long been the muse for creative thinking in artists, musicians, writers, poets, and others. Science has proven that subjects using cannabis had faster and more far reaching, accurate mental association in word association and creative reasoning tests, by over double the score of control subjects. This showed not only were they more able to link associations in word groups, but faster able to recognize when no association was there.
7. Cannabis And Overall Mental Health
Study after study, conpounded with common knowledge, proves time and again that happier people live longer, healthier lives; they have faster recuperation times from illness, and greater endurance and performance of stress and adversity. Their overall positive outlook on life gives them better social skills and greater success in interpersonal tasks. If dietary supplements, excercise, meditation, and rest all act to affect our mood, then we should include cannabis as not just a safe medicine and more healthy recreational substance, but should incorporate it into our daily regimen, for positive mood and health.
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We know that cannabis is good for our souls, but what about our minds? Decades of government propaganda have drilled into our collective psyche the idea that pot kills brain cells; stoners lose motivation, becoming stupid, forgetful, and lazy.
The truth, after so many years, is finally coming to light. Not only is cannabis not the horrible, brain-destroying, rape and murder inducing gateway drug that we had been led to believe; it actually is good for our bodies, and especially our brains.
There are dozens of ways cannabis helps our bodies, with more being discovered every day. For our minds, specifically, there are several great things that cannabis can do.
1. Cannabis Promotes Neurogenesis
Research has proven cannabinoids cause new brain cells to grow; a process known as neurogenesis. The process of growing new brain cells, specifically in the hippocampus, explains why cannabis is so effective in treating mood disorders like depression, anxiety, and stress; these conditions are all related to a lack of adult neurogenesis.
2. Cannabis Fights Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer’s is a devastating disease, disrupting memory, language, thinking, and reasoning. Early symptoms include irritability, anxiety, and depression; later stages can include sleep disturbances, outbursts, delusions, and hallucinations. Ironically, many of the symptoms of Alzheimer’s are similar to the false claims made for the effects of cannabis use on the human brain.
THC has been confirmed as a potent antioxidant with neuroprotective properties, directly affecting Alzheimer’s by cleaning away beta-amyloid “brain plaque” whose build-up is the primary cause of the disease.
Cannabis treatment is an effective course for other neurodegenerative diseases as well, including ALS, MS, and Parkinson’s.
3. Cannabis Prevents Brain Damage
Statistical rates of concussion damage to players in professional sports compared to admitted cannabis use show proof of the research that cannabis protects the brain against damage from trauma. It has been shown in laboratory studies to protect cognitive function and vital processes against injury, carbon monoxide poisoning, and stroke. Research even suggests that it could be used not only to recover from these incidents, but as a preventative; reducing damage and speeding recovery by use as a supplement for ongoing protection.
4. Cannabis Fights Brain Cancer
The pharmaceutical industry all but admits admits that cannabis helps fight cancer. In fact, it patented Marinol and Cesamet, synthetic versions of cannabinoids to use in conjunction with chemotherapy, to treat nausea and appetite loss. Cannabis has effectively been shown to attack the processes of tumor and cancer cells, while ignoring healthy cells. This combination therapy has dramatically devastating effects on the brain cancers, as well as other cancers.
5. Cannabis Fights Alcohol Damage To Brain
Cannabis’s neuroprotective capabilities have even been proven to reduce ethanol-induced cell death in the brain by up to 60%. That means that while social and binge drinkers may look down their noses at cannabis from their socially accepted standpoint, cannabis may actually be the best treatment for the devastating effects of long-term alcohol abuse.
6. Cannabis And Mental Functions
While excessive use of a mind altering substance can inhibit proficient complex motor fuctions, such as operating a motorized vehicle, studies are now showing that drivers under the influence of cannabis are actually safer than drivers using alcohol, and perhaps even drivers not under the influence at all.
Use of cannabis is now being shown in MRI’s to have no significant differences from control subjects on brain function, and its effects, even in long term heavy users are only temporary.
Cannabis has long been the muse for creative thinking in artists, musicians, writers, poets, and others. Science has proven that subjects using cannabis had faster and more far reaching, accurate mental association in word association and creative reasoning tests, by over double the score of control subjects. This showed not only were they more able to link associations in word groups, but faster able to recognize when no association was there.
7. Cannabis And Overall Mental Health
Study after study, conpounded with common knowledge, proves time and again that happier people live longer, healthier lives; they have faster recuperation times from illness, and greater endurance and performance of stress and adversity. Their overall positive outlook on life gives them better social skills and greater success in interpersonal tasks. If dietary supplements, excercise, meditation, and rest all act to affect our mood, then we should include cannabis as not just a safe medicine and more healthy recreational substance, but should incorporate it into our daily regimen, for positive mood and health.
http://420intel.com/articles/2016/01/28 ... your-brain
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Re: News in English 2016
It Turns Out Your Body Was Designed to Work Better With Cannabis
Going back millions of years in history, our ancestor's diets were a mix of plant and protein based food. Days were spent lounging in the jungles, foraging for vegetation and fruits, eating termites, figs,seeds and other sources of nutrition. The fruits and vegetation they consumed may have altered the course of our history forever.
They consumed terpenoids our fellow mammals couldn't or didn't want to reach. If they never ate as many terpenoids and cannabinoids, we can wonder if they would've had the creativity to discover new ways of solving problems, like sparking the first fire or building the first "home".
Cannabis has been our silent partner for millennia. We now know that spices and plants contain varying degrees of cannabinoids and terpenoids. Consider that nutmeg is a known spice and, when consumed in massive quantity, it gives you a mental buzz (Though I don't recommend experimenting).
Many commonly eaten store items such as apricots, parsley, wild thyme, and even drinks containing hops have terpenoids in varying degrees.
Is it too much of a stretch to think our Castaway-like, life-changing event (fire) was inspired by a mix of cannabinoids?
A bit about the Endocannabinoid System (ECS):
def. Endo-(within you) Cannabinoid-(cannabis compound) System-(physiological lock and key system)
Did you know that the ECS determines whether or not babies are born? Anandamide is a chemical that your body produces which is known to cause sudden pregnancy loss. When they discovered reduction of these levels in pregnant mice, they took notice.
How does the human body work with cannabis?
Think of the ECS like a lock and key system inside your body. The lock (receptor) is always present inside your body, waiting for the key (cannabinoids and terpenoids) to open the receptor. When you consume cannabis you activate these receptors and initiate a chain of events inside your body to release endocannabinoids into your bloodstream and cells.
Every cell in your body interacts with cannabinoids.
They stimulate liver cells to form (reverses some of those college days), and expand your lungs so you breathe better!
Your kidneys will thank you.
Your Body Produces Natural Cannabinoids
Ever wonder why breast-feeding is so crucial for human development? Cannabinoids. Researchers found the major function of endocannabinoids is to teach a baby the suckling process by inducing appetite. In essence, some would say mothers got their kids high to eat.
The human body constantly produces and regulates endocannabinoids for a variety of essential life functions.
It Kills Cancer. Really.
Any other pill, any other drug, any other profit-driven medical treatment would be hailed as the medical miracle of our time. Yet, political hypocrisy would keep this fact from the public.
The scientific term is Apoptosis which means to induce cellular death. Cancerous tumors are essential clumps of normal cells that haven't received the stop signal. When cancer patients consume cannabis, cancer cells are "turned off."
No more cancerous growth.
A friend of mine got Stage 4 cancer to go into remission while still in the military and has been cancer-free for over a year. Numerous patients I spoke with during my time inside the dispensary as a budtender tell a similar story.
Bong Hits for Your Bowels
A buddy of mine has Crohn's Disease. When he smokes weed or takes a dab, I wouldn't even know unless he told me. When his stash is short, though, it's a race to the bathroom every 15 minutes.
Your intestines are lined with cannabinoid receptors. It's like nature gave us a fix for everything if we eat naturally produced food.
Blunts for Broken Bones
If you ever miss your landing and break a bone, try to do it in Israel. Their hospitals have found that cannabinoid treatment is beneficial for fractures and other bone injuries. They have your personal vaping bag bedside for you ready with CBD vapor.
Your body's ECS receptors also stimulate bone regeneration.
http://420intel.com/articles/2016/01/23 ... r-cannabis
Going back millions of years in history, our ancestor's diets were a mix of plant and protein based food. Days were spent lounging in the jungles, foraging for vegetation and fruits, eating termites, figs,seeds and other sources of nutrition. The fruits and vegetation they consumed may have altered the course of our history forever.
They consumed terpenoids our fellow mammals couldn't or didn't want to reach. If they never ate as many terpenoids and cannabinoids, we can wonder if they would've had the creativity to discover new ways of solving problems, like sparking the first fire or building the first "home".
Cannabis has been our silent partner for millennia. We now know that spices and plants contain varying degrees of cannabinoids and terpenoids. Consider that nutmeg is a known spice and, when consumed in massive quantity, it gives you a mental buzz (Though I don't recommend experimenting).
Many commonly eaten store items such as apricots, parsley, wild thyme, and even drinks containing hops have terpenoids in varying degrees.
Is it too much of a stretch to think our Castaway-like, life-changing event (fire) was inspired by a mix of cannabinoids?
A bit about the Endocannabinoid System (ECS):
def. Endo-(within you) Cannabinoid-(cannabis compound) System-(physiological lock and key system)
Did you know that the ECS determines whether or not babies are born? Anandamide is a chemical that your body produces which is known to cause sudden pregnancy loss. When they discovered reduction of these levels in pregnant mice, they took notice.
How does the human body work with cannabis?
Think of the ECS like a lock and key system inside your body. The lock (receptor) is always present inside your body, waiting for the key (cannabinoids and terpenoids) to open the receptor. When you consume cannabis you activate these receptors and initiate a chain of events inside your body to release endocannabinoids into your bloodstream and cells.
Every cell in your body interacts with cannabinoids.
They stimulate liver cells to form (reverses some of those college days), and expand your lungs so you breathe better!
Your kidneys will thank you.
Your Body Produces Natural Cannabinoids
Ever wonder why breast-feeding is so crucial for human development? Cannabinoids. Researchers found the major function of endocannabinoids is to teach a baby the suckling process by inducing appetite. In essence, some would say mothers got their kids high to eat.
The human body constantly produces and regulates endocannabinoids for a variety of essential life functions.
It Kills Cancer. Really.
Any other pill, any other drug, any other profit-driven medical treatment would be hailed as the medical miracle of our time. Yet, political hypocrisy would keep this fact from the public.
The scientific term is Apoptosis which means to induce cellular death. Cancerous tumors are essential clumps of normal cells that haven't received the stop signal. When cancer patients consume cannabis, cancer cells are "turned off."
No more cancerous growth.
A friend of mine got Stage 4 cancer to go into remission while still in the military and has been cancer-free for over a year. Numerous patients I spoke with during my time inside the dispensary as a budtender tell a similar story.
Bong Hits for Your Bowels
A buddy of mine has Crohn's Disease. When he smokes weed or takes a dab, I wouldn't even know unless he told me. When his stash is short, though, it's a race to the bathroom every 15 minutes.
Your intestines are lined with cannabinoid receptors. It's like nature gave us a fix for everything if we eat naturally produced food.
Blunts for Broken Bones
If you ever miss your landing and break a bone, try to do it in Israel. Their hospitals have found that cannabinoid treatment is beneficial for fractures and other bone injuries. They have your personal vaping bag bedside for you ready with CBD vapor.
Your body's ECS receptors also stimulate bone regeneration.
http://420intel.com/articles/2016/01/23 ... r-cannabis
Re: News in English 2016
Here’s What We Know About Cannabis and Cancer
The use of cannabis in the treatment of cancer is an emerging field in medicine. By staying up to date on the research and collaborating with other leaders in the field, physicians like my colleagues and myself can continue to meet the needs of real patients who choose not to wait for the federal government to stop obstructing human research on cannabis and cancer. Medical cannabis can be a part of an integrative plan that addresses your mind, body, spirit, family, and community.
Patients Are Reporting Relief From Cancer Symptoms and Treatment Side Effects
When used properly, cannabis can be a safe and effective treatment for nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy1, chronic pain2, and insomnia3. Animal studies have shown that cannabinoids can prevent the development of neuropathic pain, a common side effect of chemotherapy.4,5,6
“Patients can often achieve significant improvements in quality of life with minimal side effects using very low doses of cannabis, in the range of 10-60mg per day (less than half a gram of herbs).” Dr. Dustin Sulak, Healer.com
Medical cannabis can help patients tolerate conventional cancer treatment, such as chemotherapy and radiation, and can be used as an adjunct to these treatments with low likelihood of drug interaction7. For patients with terminal cancer, cannabis offers numerous benefits in palliative care at the end of life8.
A combination of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), Cannabidiol (CBD), and other cannabinoids in various ratios can be used to fine-tune the benefits and minimize the psychoactive side effects of cannabis treatment.
The Use of Cannabis to Fight Cancer and Promote Healing
In addition to the symptom relief and improvement in quality of life for cancer patients, cannabis has also demonstrated anti-cancer oncologic effects in numerous animal models.9 A large body of anecdotal evidence suggests that human cancers also respond to treatment with cannabinoids.10,11
Several patients have reported slowing or arresting the growth of tumors, while others have experienced full remission of aggressive cancers while using cannabis extracts.12
To achieve these powerful anti-cancer effects, most patients require a higher dose than what is needed for symptomatic relief, often 200mg – 2,000mg cannabinoids per day, the equivalent of up to 1-2 ounces of herbal cannabis per week. While this level of treatment may be cost effective, especially if the cannabis is grown outdoors, acquiring this amount of medicine from a medical cannabis retailer could incur significant costs (see below). At these high doses, a knowledgeable medical provider must monitor the treatment to prevent side effects and interactions with conventional cancer treatment.
While any medical treatment carries certain risks, even high-dose cannabis is non-lethal and much safer than conventional chemotherapy, though the efficacy of high-dose cannabis for cancer has not been studied in humans.
If you decide to pursue a high-dose cancer treatment protocol, be prepared for the costs:
Medical costs: Initial and follow-up visits with your oncologist, your cannabis specialist, and perhaps other complementary providers such as an acupuncturist or Reiki practitioner.
Cannabis costs: Most adult patients will have to spend $100-$1,000 per week for a potent cannabis concentrate.
Supplements and natural medicines: Most integrative oncologists and many cannabis specialists will recommend natural medicines that are not covered by health insurance to promote health, fight cancer, reduce side effects, and enhance the benefits of cannabis. Average cost $25-$100 per week.
“If you have cancer, and are interested in learning more about the use of cannabis, please make an appointment with a doctor or nurse practitioner that specializes in ‘cannabinoid medicine’. I am a board member of the Society of Cannabis Clinicians or contact my practice Integr8 Health in New England.”
I recommend reflecting on the following questions before your visit:
What is your prognosis? How likely is success with conventional treatment?
Are you interested in cannabis-based symptomatic treatment or a more aggressive anti-cancer approach?
Are you willing to follow up with your oncologist to monitor the changes in your condition?
How comfortable are you with mortality and death? Are you making fully informed medical decisions based on your personal preferences, or based on fear?
For a comprehensive review of the anticancer effects of cannabinoids, with numerous personal success stories, I suggest Justin Kander’s book “Cannabis for the Treatment of Cancer: The Anticancer Activity of Phytocannabinoids and Endocannabinoids,” available online. I also welcome you to visit Healer.com to learn more about medical cannabis and how to use it therapeutically.
http://420intel.com/articles/2016/02/05 ... and-cancer
The use of cannabis in the treatment of cancer is an emerging field in medicine. By staying up to date on the research and collaborating with other leaders in the field, physicians like my colleagues and myself can continue to meet the needs of real patients who choose not to wait for the federal government to stop obstructing human research on cannabis and cancer. Medical cannabis can be a part of an integrative plan that addresses your mind, body, spirit, family, and community.
Patients Are Reporting Relief From Cancer Symptoms and Treatment Side Effects
When used properly, cannabis can be a safe and effective treatment for nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy1, chronic pain2, and insomnia3. Animal studies have shown that cannabinoids can prevent the development of neuropathic pain, a common side effect of chemotherapy.4,5,6
“Patients can often achieve significant improvements in quality of life with minimal side effects using very low doses of cannabis, in the range of 10-60mg per day (less than half a gram of herbs).” Dr. Dustin Sulak, Healer.com
Medical cannabis can help patients tolerate conventional cancer treatment, such as chemotherapy and radiation, and can be used as an adjunct to these treatments with low likelihood of drug interaction7. For patients with terminal cancer, cannabis offers numerous benefits in palliative care at the end of life8.
A combination of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), Cannabidiol (CBD), and other cannabinoids in various ratios can be used to fine-tune the benefits and minimize the psychoactive side effects of cannabis treatment.
The Use of Cannabis to Fight Cancer and Promote Healing
In addition to the symptom relief and improvement in quality of life for cancer patients, cannabis has also demonstrated anti-cancer oncologic effects in numerous animal models.9 A large body of anecdotal evidence suggests that human cancers also respond to treatment with cannabinoids.10,11
Several patients have reported slowing or arresting the growth of tumors, while others have experienced full remission of aggressive cancers while using cannabis extracts.12
To achieve these powerful anti-cancer effects, most patients require a higher dose than what is needed for symptomatic relief, often 200mg – 2,000mg cannabinoids per day, the equivalent of up to 1-2 ounces of herbal cannabis per week. While this level of treatment may be cost effective, especially if the cannabis is grown outdoors, acquiring this amount of medicine from a medical cannabis retailer could incur significant costs (see below). At these high doses, a knowledgeable medical provider must monitor the treatment to prevent side effects and interactions with conventional cancer treatment.
While any medical treatment carries certain risks, even high-dose cannabis is non-lethal and much safer than conventional chemotherapy, though the efficacy of high-dose cannabis for cancer has not been studied in humans.
If you decide to pursue a high-dose cancer treatment protocol, be prepared for the costs:
Medical costs: Initial and follow-up visits with your oncologist, your cannabis specialist, and perhaps other complementary providers such as an acupuncturist or Reiki practitioner.
Cannabis costs: Most adult patients will have to spend $100-$1,000 per week for a potent cannabis concentrate.
Supplements and natural medicines: Most integrative oncologists and many cannabis specialists will recommend natural medicines that are not covered by health insurance to promote health, fight cancer, reduce side effects, and enhance the benefits of cannabis. Average cost $25-$100 per week.
“If you have cancer, and are interested in learning more about the use of cannabis, please make an appointment with a doctor or nurse practitioner that specializes in ‘cannabinoid medicine’. I am a board member of the Society of Cannabis Clinicians or contact my practice Integr8 Health in New England.”
I recommend reflecting on the following questions before your visit:
What is your prognosis? How likely is success with conventional treatment?
Are you interested in cannabis-based symptomatic treatment or a more aggressive anti-cancer approach?
Are you willing to follow up with your oncologist to monitor the changes in your condition?
How comfortable are you with mortality and death? Are you making fully informed medical decisions based on your personal preferences, or based on fear?
For a comprehensive review of the anticancer effects of cannabinoids, with numerous personal success stories, I suggest Justin Kander’s book “Cannabis for the Treatment of Cancer: The Anticancer Activity of Phytocannabinoids and Endocannabinoids,” available online. I also welcome you to visit Healer.com to learn more about medical cannabis and how to use it therapeutically.
http://420intel.com/articles/2016/02/05 ... and-cancer
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