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How Cannabis Research is Affecting Parkinson’s Disease

The Joint Blog

Numerous trials have been run using medical marijuana and CBD tinctures to treat or reduce the symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease. Cannabis and CBD oils have often been used to reduce the effects of epilepsy and several other neurological issues, so why not Parkinson’s? This is not the first medicinal trial of its kind.

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The ‘Father of Cannabis Research’ Leaves a Lasting Legacy Aged 97

Veriheal

This fed the late professor’s interest in marijuana which, at the time, had not yet been isolated. Aside from isolating and synthesizing cannabis compounds and proving the plant’s medicinal potential, he also invested his efforts into proving that cannabis can treat autoimmune diseases and epilepsy.

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

Cannabis Law Report

Chronic pain or pain were the conditions most frequently mentioned in articles about cannabis, followed by epilepsy, cancer or cancer pain, and nausea and chemotherapy. Refractory paediatric epilepsy. Data collection. Conclusions. Palliative care indications. Cancer pain. Neuropathic pain. 2019 ; Sarris et al.