“The most astonishing thing about the pandemic was the complete mystery which surrounded it. Nobody seemed to know what the
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Month: November 2021
The Kids Are Not All Right: The pandemic has had a “profound impact” on the mental health of children. Fortunately, there’s a way back to a normal healthy life – Vaccination
70% of children have experienced deterioration of their mental health over the course of the pandemic, according to a CBC
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A Question of Evidence: There isn’t a lot of research on whether cannabis can help treat opiate addiction. But people are flocking to it because they say it helps – yet doctors remain divided on whether that patient experience should count for anything
The Pennsylvania Psychiatric Society tried to get opioid use disorder (OUD) removed from the list of conditions that can be
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Cannabis prohibition in the U.S. is turning the industry into a climate criminal
As the UN-sponsored climate summit in Glasgow winds up today, it’s clear that the usual suspects – the oil, gas
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COP26: Frankie the Dinosaur has a message for humanity – Don’t choose extinction
Extinction expert: “Every year governments spend hundreds of billions of public funds on fossil fuel subsidies. Imagine if we had
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Cancer Treatment: Doctors observe “striking” shrinkage in lung cancer tumor after a woman took medicinal cannabis
An intriguing case report in the British Medical Journal describes a woman in her 80s with lung cancer who experienced
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The Opioid Crisis: CBD can be a safe and effective treatment for opioid withdrawal
The opioid crisis – an ongoing public health emergency in both the United States and British Columbia, Canada – might
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