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How Charlotte’s Web Changed A Little Girl’s Life

Kind Meds (Cannabis Education Blog)

In 2006, three-month-old Charlotte Figi experienced her first seizure, which lasted an exhausting 30 minutes. At the age of three, Charlotte tested positive for a gene marker that indicates Dravet syndrome, a rare form of epilepsy that begins in infant or toddlerhood and causes more severe and more frequent seizures over time.

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What seniors need to know before getting a medical marijuana card

The Cannigma

The percentage of Americans over 65 who had reported using cannabis in the past year had increased tenfold between 2006 to 2018, from 0.4% If you’ve decided to start your journey with edibles or tinctures, try a small dose, perhaps even half the recommended portion. to 4.2%, according to a study published in February, 2020.

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Perfecting cannabis with Michael Backes

The Cannigma

So I did, I open up a dispensary in Eagle Rock in 2006 with a couple of partners called Cornerstone Research Collective. MB: Well, I mean, the thing is, is that the truth is in 2006, they were all LCM strains. So you look at these studies on CBD and epilepsy, I mean they’re not taking ten milligrams. CP: What year is this?

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AAFP ( American Academy of Family Physicians) Releases Marijuana, Cannabinoids Position Paper

Cannabis Law Report

5,16 Tinctures are liquid, ultra-concentrated alcohol-based cannabis extracts commonly applied in and absorbed through the mouth. Quality control of traditional cannabis tinctures: pattern, markers, and stability. www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2006/018677s011lbl.pdf (www.accessdata.fda.gov). J Epilepsy Res.