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

Cannabis Law Report

Chronic pain or pain were the conditions most frequently mentioned in articles about cannabis, followed by epilepsy, cancer or cancer pain, and nausea and chemotherapy. 2018 ; Frankhauser 2008 ). 2008 )—were difficult for any plant to compete with, especially one whose active constituents would not be revealed for another 30?years

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A Hidden Origin Story of the CBD Craze

SMPL

Mr. Gardner, the writer whose CBD advocacy eventually inspired the 2011 summit at Ms. DeAngelo, who had been in contact with Mr. Gardner about the urgent need to institute better testing, agreed to help fund a cannabis analysis lab, Steep Hill, which began its operations in 2008. But the research wasn’t enough.

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Virginia, Marijuana, and How Medical Legalization May Unfold in the South

NORML

These were moms and dads and grandparents of children [with intractable epilepsy] who were using medical cannabis oils. As in, no to anyone who wasn’t an epilepsy patient.]. chuckles ] Way, way back in the day, in 2015, this was originally being drafted to only serve patients with intractable epilepsy.

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