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Understanding the American Heart Association’s Statement on Marijuana

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In contrast, CBD reduces heart rate and blood pressure, improves vasodilation, and reduces inflammation. The authors do note that “compared with smoking tobacco, smoking and inhaling cannabis regardless of THC content has been shown to increase the concentrations of blood carboxyhemoglobin 5-fold with a 3-fold increase in tar.”

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The Marijuana Conspiracy

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The AMA understood cannabis to be a MEDICINE found in numerous healing products sold over the last hundred years. MEDICINES SHOULD BE MADE FROM HEMP. Cannabis is a medicine and not a drug. In 2005, this writer penned ‘The Real Reason Marijuana is Illegal’ and it became (by far) my most popular article. Yep, in every city.

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Report: “Key pharmacological differences between side effects of refined, pharmaceutical CBD formulations and whole plant extracts:”

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Ultimately, the cannabinoid system works by way of multiple molecules affecting multiple receptors at once – the entourage effect, and thus such singular approaches to treatment by way of the cannabinoid system are not effective. If so, CBD medicines should warn of this at least for the purposes of drug testing. (32).