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The Top 7 Myths About Medical Cannabis Debunked

United Patients Group

The truth is that it’s impossible to fatally overdose on marijuana alone, as a study in the American Journal of Public Health found no deaths reported due to cannabis use between 1999 and 2007. The US federal government even owns a patent on cannabinoids for use as a neuroprotectant! Click here to view.

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Celebrating Those Loved and Lost as We Observe Rare Disease Day

Veriheal

The last day of February, the 28th, or the 29th during a leap year is World Rare Disease Day and this day has been designated to help bring awareness to rare diseases as well as the impact they have on patients and their lives. Patients and family members are open to trying anything that might help.

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Is cannabis legal in Australia?

The Cannigma

This represents nearly double the level of support found in a 2007 survey (21%). The country legalized medical cannabis in 2016, but patients in the country have long criticized the program as too restrictive, and access to cannabis-based medicines remains behind that of many other legal cannabis jurisdictions.

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About Vaping THC “Juice”

Otherside Farms

With a vaporizer, you have an effective way to continue heating the herbs to a temperature that’s high enough to extract the CBD, THC, or the other cannabinoids. 40% of patients’ pain is reduced when they use marijuana. 40% of patients’ pain is reduced when they use marijuana.

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Rationale for Genetically Guided Cannabis Therapy

Green Relief

The ECS deficiency state often results from a perfect storm of individual gene mutations negatively influencing ECS receptors, along with lacking intake of vital cannabinoid nutrients (ie: cannabis). Immune system pathways (for targeted cannabinoid therapy) 12. Vitamin d3/gcmaf (ECS receptors affected) 10. 2002 Feb-Mar;66(2-3):143-60.

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Perfecting cannabis with Michael Backes

The Cannigma

I was going to live at a place he was buying an Eagle Rock and this guy from Berkeley came in, Don Duncan, who had helped start Berkeley Patients Group and was going to open up LAPCG in Los Angeles. I mean, we’re just discovering the TRP Channels that are involved in maybe the headache effects of cannabinoids. Just for reference.

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The Endocannabinoid System: Here’s How it Keeps You Healthy and Happy

Greencamp

Nonetheless, the available collection of scientific work confirms that consuming cannabis-derived cannabinoids (phytocannabinoids) compels our body to produce more (endo)cannabinoid receptors, but also to create more endocannabinoids. These receptors are located on the membranes of many different cells, spread throughot the body.