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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. In fact, there are some patients who prefer not to smoke because of their health conditions or other reasons. Click here to view.

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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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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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About Vaping THC “Juice”

Otherside Farms

Most medical marijuana patients that use vaporizers aren’t daily smokers but need medical marijuana to reduce the side effects of many diseases that exist to make life more painful and less enjoyable as opposed to not having marijuana in one’s system with a serious, chronic disease.

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Rationale for Genetically Guided Cannabis Therapy

Green Relief

Using genetic information to formulate a unique cannabis blend can decrease the “trial and error” phase upon starting cannabis, and provide more consistency in improving patient outcomes. Assessing an individual’s genetics specific to the Endocannabinoid System (including other system pathways that overlap) helps to guide cannabis therapy.

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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. They bought it from your dispensary in Eagle Rock in 2007, and it’s still in their nightstand. MB: I wouldn’t sell carts.

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

Cannabis Law Report

However, the nature of the government regulations and the subsequent complexity of prescribing, as well as doctors’ safety uncertainties and the stigma of the plant, remain contributing barriers to patient access. Patients can legally access medicinal cannabis through a doctor, via the TGA’s Authorised Prescribers and Special Access schemes.