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Lunch & Learn Episode 7: What is happening in Nebraska?

Americans for Safe Access

After exhausting all medications and available treatment options for Colton, his doctors mentioned medical cannabis treatment. Crista's passion for advocacy began when her youngest son, Colton, was diagnosed with intractable epilepsy just after he turned two.

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CBD Topical Medicine: What Does the Science Say?

Project CBD

Though the Canada-based authors conclude that transdermal delivery of CBD shows great promise and represents a potential novel treatment for chronic inflammatory pain, they also acknowledge that the jury is still out on its ability to achieve that key benchmark of offering tangible clinical benefits. Haffar, Amer et al., Heineman, John T.

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This app-guided psychedelic treatment works when antidepressants don’t

The Cannigma

Of the people who take antidepressants, 30% won’t respond to treatment. But what other options do people suffering from depression, particularly treatment-resistant depression, have? What is ketamine treatment? Ketamine treatment for depression may be one of the biggest leaps forward in mental healthcare in decades.

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Mississippi Becomes 37th State to Legalize Medical Cannabis With a Law that Provides Limited Access to Patients

Americans for Safe Access

On February 2, 2022, Governor Tate Reeves chose to sign SB 2095 into law, making Mississippi the 37th state to adopt medical cannabis laws. On January 26, 2022, the state legislature passed SB 2095, their watered down vision for medical cannabis in Mississippi. . ASA strongly opposes both of these provisions.

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CBD Enhances Glucose Metabolism via Nuclear Receptors

Project CBD

He had never taken anti-psychotic drugs nor received psychological treatment. Due to its excellent tolerability and promising efficacy … and its innovative new mechanisms of action, we decided to offer a respective treatment with cannabidiol to [the] patient,” they write. Cannabidiol as a potential treatment for psychosis.”

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Beta-Caryophyllene: Terpene Powerhouse

Project CBD

More recently, a July 2022 paper in BioFactors 8 by Iranian scientists reviewed the antioxidant and immunomodulatory effects of beta-caryophyllene, which was shown to reduce relevant proinflammatory cytokines while increasing anti-inflammatory cytokines. 48,4 (2022): 857-882. Pharmacology vol. 94,1-2 (2014): 1-12. doi:10.1002/biof.1869

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Significant Decrease in Mental Health Treatment Seen in States With Legal Cannabis

Veriheal

States legalizing recreational cannabis are seeing an unexpected and significant decrease in mental health treatment admissions. The data revealed that shortly after the adoption of recreational marijuana laws, states began to see fewer admissions to treatment centers for mental illness. It intensifies as time progresses.