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Serious Conditions Are Responding To Cannabinoid Therapy

Peninsula Alternative Health

As medical cannabis emerges from the dark days of prohibition, researchers are finding a wide range of conditions responding successfully to it. clinical research is extremely difficult to conduct. Epilepsy Seizure disorders are on the list of qualifying conditions for most medical cannabis states. References Staff, T.

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A Moral COMPASS to Treat Mental Health Disorders Using the Magic of Psilocybin

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In the largest clinical trial to date, a new study conducted by the UK-based pharmaceutical company Compass Pathways shows that psilocybin or “magic” mushrooms can safely relieve depression. The trial included 233 patients from 10 countries in North America and Europe. In 2019, Denver became the first city in the U.S.

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Cannabis as a cancer cure: what is the research and where is it going?

The Cannigma

Patients are often left to their own devices when looking into cannabis and cancer, given the lack of clinical evidence, and stigma surrounding the use of the plant as medicine. Individuals who use cannabis-based medications often want to cure their cancer, not just reduce the symptoms that come with the condition. The answer: Maybe!

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NORML 2019 Legislative Report

Cannabis Law Report

This report contains a detailed summary of 2019’s federal and state legislative victories.” 2019 has been an unprecedented year for the passage of state-level marijuana law reforms. “Never before in American history has marijuana policy advanced in Congress as far or as fast in one year as 2019.

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Serious Conditions Are Responding To Cannabinoid Therapy

Peninsula Alternative Health

As medical cannabis emerges from the dark days of prohibition, researchers are finding a wide range of conditions responding successfully to it. clinical research is extremely difficult to conduct. Epilepsy Seizure disorders are on the list of qualifying conditions for most medical cannabis states. References Staff, T.

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DEA Faces Lawsuit For Denying End of Life Patients the Right to Try Psychedelics Therapy

Veriheal

In order to legally access other therapies including nature-based options such as psilocybin , you must gain access under a Right to Try law which requires you to have a terminal condition. The FDA refers to this program as the expanded access program on their website. A Push by Patients.

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A Strategy for Rescheduling Psilocybin

Canna Law Blog

To acknowledge its impressive safety record and potential for treating depression more effectively than existing therapies, the Food and Drug Administration designated psilocybin a breakthrough therapy in 2018 and 2019 for treating drug-resistant depression and major depressive disorder. But only if it is made affordable and accessible.