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How Medical Marijuana Treats Epilepsy

Otherside Farms

One area which is now widely talked about is how marijuana treats epilepsy. Marijuana in treatment of epilepsy. Epilepsy is a neurological condition which causes one to have seizures. Some of the treatments methods which are available also might not help some people with types of epilepsy that are resistant to drugs.

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Concert to memorialize Charlotte Figi, the girl who changed medical cannabis

The Cannigma

Last April 7th, 13-year-old Charlotte Figi, whose battle with a rare, catastrophic form of early childhood epilepsy called Dravet syndrome raised awareness for medical cannabis across the world, died of cardiac arrest and respiratory failure brought on by a seizure.

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Realm of Caring Appoints Research Director to Oversee Groundbreaking Cannabis Data Registry and Medical Studies

Cannabis Law Report

and its Scientific Advisory Board, the Organization Publishes New Real-World Study on Epilepsy and CBD. His first initiative is co-authoring an original study on epilepsy using survey data gathered from RoC’s innovative Observational Research Registry (ORR). Under the Leadership of Nicolas Schlienz, Ph.D., COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.–(BUSINESS

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1 Kilogram of Cannabis Was the (Ultimate) Price of This Singaporean Man’s Life

Veriheal

On April 26, Singaporean authorities at Changi prison executed Singaporean Tamil national Tangaraju Suppiah, 46, who was purportedly involved in the trafficking of 1 kilogram of cannabis—a crime that his family believes he is innocent of committing. grams of cannabis in 2017. I do not know about this.

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Linked In Article: Lawyers and offices in Brazil embrace marijuana

Cannabis Law Report

If until recently working with cannabis was taboo for law firms, having experience in this niche today has become a lure of clients and new business opportunities as interesting as opening up an incipient sector with the potential to move millions of reais in the Brazil in the coming years.

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The Latin American Cannabis Landscape – Part Two: Regulated Markets and Patient Access

CannaTech

Thanks to the recent emergence of regulated medical cannabis markets, the success of this versatile plant can be followed from farm to pharma and prescriber to patient, however, the origins of cannabis as medicine cannot be as simply traced as the plant is today from seed to sale. It is not a story about profiting off of people.

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What is CBD? Everything you need to know

The Cannigma

Like all plants, cannabis contains a plethora of molecules, some of which have specific functions — such as determining the smell, taste and color of the plant, but also what types of effects it can have on you. This is why eating raw cannabis won’t necessarily get you high — it is full of non-decarboxylated THCA. CBD vs THC.

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