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Doctor Block…….”A Physician Botanist’s Insight to Cannabis species: The Naming of Plants and Products”

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Cannabis sativa – One plant, Many crops. Because of the challenges in determining geographical origin of modern plants and the possibility for reproduction across the genus, all plants in the genus are most accurately Cannabis sativa. Block, M.D. Founder, Nurturing Nature® Group Consultants. UF/IFAS Master Gardener (Miami-Dade County).

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Nevada veterinarians can now treat patients with certain cannabis products

Cannabis Law Report

Nevada voters approved medical marijuana for people by ballot initiative in 2000. The cannabis sativa plant contains more than 90 unique compounds, or cannabinoids, including CBD and THC, as well as almost 500 other terpenoids and phenylpropanoids. Cannabis became legal for recreational use in the state on Jan.

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The Evolution of Cannabis Products

Kind Meds (Cannabis Education Blog)

The cannabis or marijuana plant, known as Cannabis sativa, includes more than 100 chemical compounds. Introduced by an Irish physician, cannabis was found to help everything from migraines to stomach cramps and at one point, was included in more than 2000 “patent medicines” – pseudo medicines that sometimes had dangerous other chemicals.

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Italy: MINISTRY OF HEALTH DECREE – Definition of maximum levels of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in food

Cannabis Law Report

814/2000, (CE) n. of Cannabis sativa L. of the maximum concentrations. Council of 17 December 2013 on financing, management and. on monitoring the common agricultural policy and repealing i. Council regulations (EEC) no. 352/1978, (CE) n. 165/1994, (CE). 2799/1998, (CE) n. 1290/2005 and (CE) n. 73/2009 of the Council and in.

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Paper: The transition of cannabis into the mainstream of Australian healthcare: framings in professional medical publications

Cannabis Law Report

Using a content analysis approach, we investigated articles about medicinal cannabis from 2000 to the end of 2019 in the Medical Journal of Australia, Australian Doctor , Medical Observer , Australian Journal of General Practice , Australian Family Physicia n , and Australian Medicine. 2018 ; Frankhauser 2008 ). Data collection.

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10 benefits of CBD to treat unexpected diseases

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Research has found an important link between endocannabinoid concentrations and sexual arousal , which, in theory, means that CBD use could boost libido. Since the year 2000, nearly 400,000 Americans have died from opioid-related causes, slightly less than the number of soldiers killed in World War II. Emil A Tanghetti. (2) Gorzalka.

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Shemshemet: Cannabis in Ancient Egypt

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As noted in The Mummy Congress: Under the reign of the pharaohs, Egyptian traders had bartered avidly for seeds of Cannabis sativa. sativa—the flowering tops and leaves that yielded marijuana or the dark resin that produces hashish. But the Egyptians made little mention of the other parts of C. Pringle, 2001). Manniche, 1989).