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Transplant Denied To Med Marijuana Patient With Liver Cancer

Otherside Farms

A medical marijuana patient in Los Angeles with inoperable liver cancer has been removed from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s transplant list after testing positive for marijuana. Sixty-three-year-old medical marijuana patient Norman B. The letter also urges Cedars-Sinai to change its transplant eligibility policy.

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Court Dismisses Case Demanding DEA to Move Expeditiously to License Cannabis Cultivators

NORML

The agency in 2016 first announced its intent to license private entities to grow cannabis for FDA-approved clinical trials. Since 1968, the agency has only licensed the University of Mississippi to engage in the growing of cannabis for FDA-approved clinical research.

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Cannabis laws in Japan: Is weed legal?

The Cannigma

Japan has some of the harshest drug policies on Earth, including for cannabis — and is one of the worst places on Earth to get arrested on marijuana possession charges. What marijuana products are allowed in Japan? That could potentially change in the near future, however. Amphetamines are the most popular drug of choice in Japan.).

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Pain Relief: Marijuana vs. Opioids

CannaMD

Marijuana has long been used for pain in medical traditions around the world. Today, both patient experience and modern scientific research support claims of medical marijuana’s effectiveness for pain management. It is also known that marijuana targets the body’s pain receptors in ways similar to synthetic opioids.

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Marijuana and HIV: Much More Than Palliative Aid

Greencamp

2011 ( 5 ). The research showed that those who used marijuana had a lower amount of the virus in their blood compared to those who didn’t use marijuana. But I haven’t seen any clinical trials looking at the direct effects of THC on the virus. Researchers frequently analyze SIV to draw conclusions about HIV.

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Cannabis for IBS: Treating Irritable Bowel Syndrome with Medical Marijuana

Greencamp

Crohn’s Disease and Marijuana: Efficacy, Research and Dosing. Cannabis research still has a long way to go regarding this topic, and it will take more clinical trials to fully understand how cannabis helps with IBS. What are the symptoms of IBS? How to choose the best strain for IBS?

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Debunked: Study Linking Cannabis Use and Metabolic Syndrome

Freedom Leaf

19 that correlates cannabis use with slightly elevated risk of metabolic syndrome (MetS) is inconsistent with previous research into the relationship between marijuana and related risk factors, such as elevated blood sugar levels and obesity. A study published by the Journal of Addiction Research and Therapy on Feb.