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MS patients are being ‘denied’ access to NHS Sativex Says Media Report

Cannabis Law Report

The MS Society has said that thousands of multiple sclerosis patients are being denied access to the approved drug Sativex, which helps improve spasm symptoms in sufferers. Many are finding that despite the treatment being approved, they are being denied access in their area.”. How much longer are we going to have to wait?

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Cannabis laws in Estonia

The Cannigma

Since 2011, treatment may be offered to drug-dependent offenders as an alternative to prison only if the offender is sentenced to imprisonment for six months to two years and agrees to undergo the treatment course. Medical cannabis is legal in Estonia, with unconfirmed reports dating back to 2005. Medical marijuana in Estonia.

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Jason Straw: Medical Cannabis Policy, ISNA 2020 Conference

Cannabis Law Report

Now, he is the Vice-Chair of Indiana NORML — an organization who is currently focused on changing cannabis laws for the access to Medical Cannabis as therapeutic treatment in Indiana. The goal is to develop an evidence-based approach to its use in the treatment of disease and symptom management. . Washington DC: Author.

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Paper: Racial Capitalism and the African American Experience Entering the Cannabis Industry By Dr. Ayoka Nurse

Cannabis Law Report

Before the civil war, there were more cannabis farms than cotton farms (Green, 2005). Cotton plantation owners promoted cotton products, and society began to look at hemp clothing as inferior (Green, 2005). Theme 3 involved access to capital. American slaves and sharecroppers cultivated and tended to cannabis farms.

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In states with legal cannabis, teen use triggers concerns

Cannabis Chronicles

Underage kids have unbelievable access to nuclear-strength weed,” said Andrew Brandt, a Boulder, Colo., In the Denver area, visits to Children’s Hospital Colorado facilities for treatment of cyclic vomiting, paranoia, psychosis and other acute cannabis-related symptoms jumped to 777 in 2015, from 161 in 2005.

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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. The endogenous cannabinoid, anandamide, induces cell death in colorectal carcinoma cells: a possible role for cyclooxygenase 2 (full – 2005). Medscape: Medscape Access.

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How Good Is Cannabis for Multiple Sclerosis (MS)?

Greencamp

For patients who don’t respond well to conventional MS methods, cannabis treatment seems like a very reasonable choice. Since so little is known about the exact cause of this condition, and a cure hasn’t been found yet, treatment options are limited but they do exist. What is multiple sclerosis? Scientific research on cannabis and MS.