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Marijuana and HIV: Much More Than Palliative Aid

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Examples include pneumonia, cancers, tuberculosis, chronic diarrhea, and inflammation-based conditions such as meningitis and encephalitis. Depending on what type of cell it is, but also the type of condition a person is struggling with, these factors determine the way how will a specific cell react to cannabinoids.

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Marijuana-Based Parkinson’s Medication Moves Forward

CannaMD

In a 2005 paper , Dr. Bob Melamede noted that endocannabinoid dysregulation might be a causal factor in the disease’s development, detailing how the Parkinson’s disease-related glutamatergic problems of lab rodents could be “suppressed by exo- as well as endocannabinoids.” To learn more about GB Sciences, see: GBSciences.com.

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Why Does Marijuana Make You Lose Weight?

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Besides going against all the classic “munchies/stoner” stereotypes, this finding is especially puzzling as cannabis is often used to increase weight gain in patients with medical conditions such as HIV/AIDS and cancer. So why are medical marijuana patients gaining weight when they need to, but losing weight when they don’t?

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A Hidden Origin Story of the CBD Craze

SMPL

Alas, Mr. Gardner wrote in 2005, that would require access to expensive testing equipment. In the fall of 2010, a Project CBD website was set up where anyone could look through studies organized by disease or condition. fast-tracked clinical trials of GW Pharmaceuticals’ 98 percent CBD drug, Epidiolex.

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

Cannabis Law Report

Medicinal cannabis has been legalised for use for a range of specified medical conditions in Australia since 2016. We also used manifest textual analysis to search for word frequencies, and specific conditions referred to in the articles retrieved. Spasticity from neurological conditions. Background. Conclusions. Bonini et al.

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ElleVet Sciences Publishes Safety Study On CBD For Animals

Cannabis Law Report

Wakshlag is well-known in the veterinary medicine community as the first doctor to conduct an efficacy study in dogs in a clinical trial at Cornell using ElleVet CBD/CBDA on dogs with multi-joint discomfort. The clinical trial results confirmed more than 80% of dogs showed significant or dramatic improvement.

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Incense: “Religious Viagra to TRPV3 Activator”

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Although drugs are available for both conditions not all patients are well treated and novel drugs in both conditions are badly needed. Ethnopharmacology, 101, 16-26 (2005). Boswellia resin: from religious ceremonies to medical uses: a review of in vitro, in vivo and clinical trials. Moussaieff, E. Shohami, Y.