Category Archives: Health and Wellness News
How Cannabis Use Helps Spinal Cord Injury Victims
Victims of spinal cord injury (SCI) have self-medicated with cannabis for centuries. They may not [...]
Nov
Columbia University Receives National Institute on Drug Abuse Research Grant to Study Impact of Medical Cannabis on Opioid Use in Collaboration With Columbia Care
The grant research will build upon Columbia Care's pilot data demonstrating that 62 percent of [...]
Oct
Cannabis Oil Shows Strong Effects Against Crohn’s Disease
By Pat Beggan Israeli researchers presented a study at the European Gastroenterology Conference this week that [...]
Oct
Physician Retracts Claim That Marijuana Is a Gateway Drug
Dr. Nadia Alam, a physician who heads the Ontario Medical Association, an influential doctor’s organization [...]
Oct
The complicated relationship between cannabis, memories, and nostalgia
by TerpenesAndTesting Most people know that cannabis affects memory, sometimes negatively. It can also, however, restore [...]
Oct
CBD Shown to be Effective for Treating Schizophrenia in Randomized Controlled Trial
By David Cannabidiol has been shown to have beneficial effects for the treatment of schizophrenia [...]
Oct
Is THC an Effective Sleep Aid?
Even the National Academy of Sciences cannot find enough cannabis studies to determine whether marijuana [...]
Oct
How Topical CBD Products Work With Your Body to Provide Relief
CBD as an alternative to OTC & Rx Drugs for Topical Uses As we get [...]
Oct
DEA Reclassifies Cannabis-Derived Epilepsy Treatment from Schedule I to 5
By Moira Feeney DEA notes that status change is specific only to Epidiolex and does not [...]
Sep
Youth Marijuana Use Isn’t Increasing After States Legalize, Meta-Analysis Of 55 Studies Concludes
By Kyle Jaeger For good reason, there’s a lot of interest in tracking marijuana use trends [...]
Sep
CBD for Seniors: How I Helped My Grandma Treat Her Pain
CBD for seniors holds a lot of promise, but many elderly just don’t know about [...]
Aug
Differences between combined, isolated use of cannabis, nicotine on brain networks
Researchers at the Center for BrainHealth® at the University of Texas at Dallas investigated the [...]
Aug
Five (Legit) Reasons Why Weed Is Good For You
From restful sleep to reducing anxiety, science is proving that weed has many benefits beyond [...]
Aug
Dogs With Arthritis Benefit From Cannabis Oil, Study Says
By Kyle Jaeger More people are using marijuana as a substitute for traditional pharmaceuticals—and so are [...]
Aug
Medical Marijuana Laws Don’t Increase Crime, New Study Says
In the years since states started allowing patients to use medical marijuana, policymakers and researchers [...]
Aug