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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.

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Study: Recent Cannabis Consumption is Connected to Fluctuations in Sleep Duration

Veriheal

The report titled “ Cannabis, Cannabinoids, and Sleep: a Review of the Literature ,” also revealed that delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) may reduce sleep latency. Each respondent’s feedback was delivered as part of the biennial National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) covering the years 2005 to 2018. .

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Marijuana and HIV: Much More Than Palliative Aid

Greencamp

Drugs used for the treatment of HIV and AIDS are called antiretroviral medications, and there are several different classes of these drugs: Fusion/Entry Inhibitors (they prevent, or more precisely slow down HIV from entering healthy cells). How classical pharmaceuticals fight HIV. They also reported an overall increase in pleasure. (

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Understanding the American Heart Association’s Statement on Marijuana

CannaMD

THC stimulates the sympathetic nervous system, which controls the body’s heightened response to danger or threat, while inhibiting the parasympathetic nervous system, which promotes rest and digestion. Furthermore, THC inhibits the enzyme necessary to activate some of the carcinogens found in smoke. CARDIAC AND VASCULAR EFFECTS.

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What are cannabis chemovars and chemotypes?

The Cannigma

Researchers conducting survey based studies today often only have access to the THC concentration of the cannabis that their participants are using. For example, Type 1 cannabis is THC dominant. Type I cannabis is THC dominant, Type II has a roughly 1:1 ratio of THC and CBD, and Type III is CBD dominant.

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Mixing weed and alcohol: the good, the bad and the ugly

The Cannigma

A clinical trial published in 2015 found that the test subjects had “significantly higher blood THC” levels when they used cannabis along with alcohol, and combining the two led to increased performance impairment. A 2010 study found that consuming alcohol “slightly prolonged” the half-life of THC in the blood.

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Why Does Marijuana Make You Lose Weight?

CannaMD

In 2011, researchers published cross-sectional data from two population-based surveys including over 50,000 respondents. For instance, in a 2005 review of 297 medical charts, the Journal of Addictive Diseases reported that the rate of cannabis use in the last 12 months was lower in obese subjects than in subjects with a lower BMI.

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