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Study: Marijuana a Useful Adjunct Treatment for Huntington Disease Symptoms

The Joint Blog

According to a new study published in the Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, using marijuana as an adjunct treatment for Huntington disease (HD) is both effective and safe. Study selection, quality assessment and data extraction was performed by three reviewers.

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Mumbai: Australian lobbying to legalise cannabis in India arrested at Mumbai’s Hawaiian Shack restaurant on LSD importation & distribution charges

Cannabis Law Report

Norhani is married to Guwahati -based model Tora Khasgir, who won the Best Asian Model award in 2002. According to its website, the firm aims to “lead the way for the future of medical cannabis use in India, from plantation, extraction, laboratory testing and analysis, scientific research, formulation to international export of its products.

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The history and science of psychedelics: from acid and shrooms to ketamine and salvia

The Cannigma

Scientists are hopeful that psychedelics might have more of a curative effect when it comes to mental health than many existing treatment options; meaning that unlike most psychiatric medications, psychedelics may be able to prompt long-term changes to our mental state with only a few doses. Are psychedelics safe?

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Why we haven’t cured cancer

Otherside Farms

Differential effects of repeated low dose treatment with the cannabinoid agonist WIN 55,212-2 in experimental models of bone cancer pain and neuropathic pain. Cannabis extract makes brain tumors shrink, halts growth of blood vessels. Cannabis extract makes brain tumors shrink, halts growth of blood vessels. news – 2002).

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Medicinal properties of CBD

Alchimia

A study published in February 2015 in the Pharmacology & Pharmacy journal showed that a CBD-rich extract from cannabis plants is much more efficient than CBD used in its pure form , mainly due the presence of other cannabinoids, terpenes and other molecules that greatly increase the dosage/efficiency ratio of CBD.

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Cannabis-Sharia-Finance: Sharia, Islamic Law and Narcotics or Psychoactive Drugs

Cannabis Law Report

Marijuana can be consumed by smoking, vaporizing, within the food, or as an extract. The main psychotropic ingredient of cannabis is a compound called tetrahydrocannabinol or better known as (THC), a compound responsible for causing an intoxicating effect. Under Sharia law, marijuana is categorized under narcotics or “Mukhaddir?t.”

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

Cannabis Law Report

Its use in China, Tibet, India, Nepal, Japan (McPartland and Hegman 2018 , Touw 1981 ), Ancient Greece and Rome (Butrica 2002 ), and Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, and the Balkans (McPartland and Hegman 2018 ; Lozano 1997 ; Aldrich 1997 ) goes back thousands of years. Bonini et al.