Search Results: medical marijuana (83)

Medical marijuana easing pain, and lessening side effect for people fed up with the side-effects of conventional medications In the fall of 2012, 9 months after starting chemotherapy for Stage 3 colon cancer, Shannon Flowers of Seattle developed nerve pain in her hands and feet that was so intense she couldn’t sleep at night. […]

[…] health advisory concerning the risks associated with the use of kratom. The plant, which grows in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, is being turned into medical and recreational products that are increasingly being imported into the US. Kratom is used to treat serious medical conditions such as pain, anxiety and depression, and […]

People who are heavy marijuana smokers are at a higher risk of developing weaker bones and osteoporosis, as well as more likely to have lower body weight compared to non-users. Researchers in Scotland enrolled 170 people who smoked cannabis regularly for recreational use as well as 114 people who were cigarette smokers but did […]

[…] the efficacy of cannabis for treating disease states, which we have very little of right now. Without these studies we are basically flying blind with regard to medical marijuana in my opinion.” We need to test the theory that pot has medicinal benefits. Equally important, we can test the harms that marijuana might do. We […]

Drugs containing compounds found in marijuana may have a modest benefit in treating the symptoms associated with multiple sclerosis (MS). Researchers analyzed 17 clinical trials involving more than 3,100 patients with MS to determine the safety and effectiveness of cannabinoids, chemical compounds found in marijuana. Use of medications containing cannabinoids led to “limited and […]

[…] potential for abuse. In contrast, marijuana is listed as a Schedule I drug, meaning it has a high potential for abuse as well as no currently accepted medical purpose. Epidiolex does not contain THC, the compound in cannabis that can give users a high. It is important to note that the FDA didn’t reschedule […]

Researchers have found that regularly smoking marijuana can increase the risk for vision problems. Although the study French researchers conducted was rather small – only 52 study participants and only 28 of them used cannabis regularly – they found that in regular users, the cells in a part of the eye known as the […]

[…] coming out almost daily, new research sometimes contradicts previous work.  So we’ve done the work for you: Here is your guide to what the best of the medical marijuana studies have found through the year 2022. This article is intended to be used as a reference on medical cannabis and cannabis-based medications. All medical decisions […]

[…] allowed cannabis to be prescribed for medicinal purposes. Now, it’s 25 states. The pair focused on scripts written in these states that could potentially be substituted for medical marijuana instead, to treat conditions such as glaucoma, nausea, pain, seizures, depression and anxiety. Fewer prescriptions were written for most of the conditions: A drop of 1,826 […]

If you have cardiovascular disease or a heart condition, you might want to lay off eating marijuana edibles as they may cause a heart attack. That’s a warning from researchers, based on the case of a 70-year-old man with stable heart disease who ate a marijuana edibles, one of the main compounds found in […]