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Dr. Andrew Weil on Cannabis and Integrative Medicine

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Andrew Weil is the founder and director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. NM: Please tell us about the history of cannabis use in folk medicine. Dr. Weil: Cannabis has a long history of use in folk medicine throughout the world.

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Wake Network Retains CRO Santé Cannabis to Conduct Clinical Trials in Psilocybin Therapies

Cannabis Law Report

Both parties to this new relationship are committed to excellence in clinical research and patient access to psychedelic medicine with a focus on naturally derived psilocybin. As two emergent complementary medicines, many parallels exist between the medical cannabis industry and the currently developing psychedelic medicine industry.

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Final Phase of MDMA Clinical Trials Shows Drug Is 90% Effective at Treating PTSD

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A first-of-its-kind Phase 3 clinical trial has found that MDMA-assisted therapy provided meaningful relief from PTSD symptoms in nearly 90 percent of study participants. The subjects had been experiencing PTSD symptoms for an average of 14 years, and 84 percent had a history of developmental trauma. Image via.

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The history and science of psychedelics: from acid and shrooms to ketamine and salvia

The Cannigma

And while most psychedelics are currently illegal in the United States and around the world, researchers are exploring their use in medicine to treat conditions such as depression, PTSD, addiction, anxiety, OCD, migraines, end of life acceptance of mortality, and eating disorders. Now, psychedelic research is booming. Classical psychedelics

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Hope for CA’s Cannabis Farms, Australia Legalizes Psychedelics, and NC’s Medical Cannabis Push

Veriheal

Scientists stumbled upon a solution to California’s HLVd problem, Australia made psychedelic history, and a North Carolina senator is fighting for medical cannabis. Thankfully, a team of scientists at Medicinal Genomics may have just stumbled upon a solution. Let’s dive into this week’s canna-news. Currently, the U.S.,

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U.S. Government To Test Ibogaine As An Addiction Treatment……  “But it remains very speculative and a possibility, not a reality.”

Cannabis Law Report

Derived from the iboga shrub native to West Africa, it has a history as a spiritual sacrament in the Bwiti religion in the country of Gabon. Ibogaine is not the ideal addiction-treatment drug; it can cause cardiac arrhythmia (an irregular heartbeat) and its intense psychedelic experience is not for everyone.

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Use of Cannabis-based medicinal products: NICE guidelines

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Cannabis-based medicinal products. Severe treatment-resistant epilepsy. Severe treatment-resistant epilepsy. Consider nabilone as an add-on treatment for adults (18 years and over) with chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting which persists with optimised conventional antiemetics. Tools and resources. Recommendations.