Category: Advocacy

“My experience is not one of getting high, but one of feeling calm and not thinking about the pain.” Beyond opioids, a new era in pain treatment A year and a half ago, Jerry started the pain-management routine that has changed his life. At his home in a Fairfield County …

MEDICAL MARIJUANA IS FINALLY SOLD IN MARYLAND AFTER YEARS OF DELAYS For years, many Maryland residents anxiously awaited the sale of medical marijuana, but continual delays proved to be a setback. On Friday, the doors finally opened to the much-anticipated medical marijuana dispensary, called Potomac Holistics. watch full video here: http://www.newsweek.com/medical-marijuana-finally-sold-maryland-after-years-delays-729731 …

DEA Reschedules Synthetic Weed — Leaving Actual Plant As Illegal As Meth Nov 27, 2017 Taking the cowardly route, the DEA announced Wednesday, just prior to the Thanksgiving holiday, it will be rescheduling synthetic THC, the primary psychoactive component and presumed impetus for federal prohibition of cannabis, to a Schedule …

Veterans are key as surge of states OK medical pot for PTSD A worker looks at a marijuana plant at the Desert Grown Farms cultivation facility in Las Vegas on June 28. Twenty-eight states plus the District of Columbia have enabled the use of marijuana to treat PTSD. (John Locher/Associated …

How Does Cannabis Help PTSD Patients? Medical marijuana is replacing pill bottles for PTSD patients. November 23, 2017 By Ab Hanna Post-traumatic stress disorder is an anxiety condition caused by a traumatic experience like military combat. In many states with medical marijuana, PTSD is one of the qualifying conditions. Here’s everything …

Study Proves Cannabis Is a Viable Crohn’s Disease Treatment Brandon Marji, Staff Writer November 21, 2017 BenSchonewille/shutterstock.com There is an alarming number of people who suffer from Crohn’s disease. Crohn’s disease is defined as an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). It affects the body by causing inflammation in the digestive tract. This …

WASHINGTON — A veteran committed suicide by setting himself on fire in front of a New Jersey VA clinic after staff at the clinic repeatedly failed to ensure he received adequate mental health care, an investigation of the death found. Department of Veterans Affairs staff canceled an appointment Charles Ingram …

Townsend Letter – The Examiner of Alternative Medicine Cannabinoid Deficiency and Its Impact on Human Health and Disease, Part 3 by Jonn Desnoes, OMD, MD, PhD, and Sandra Kischuk, MSMIS, MCPM Page 1, 2 The Endocannabinoid System The discovery of the endocannabinoid system not only changes our understanding of human body …