If you’re having trouble finding a doctor to help treat your chronic pain with medical cannabis, just know that you’re
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Category: Research News
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. Which side is right?
The Pennsylvania Psychiatric Society tried to get opioid use disorder (OUD) removed from the list of conditions that can be
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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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Mental Health: People are sick & tired of feeling sick & tired and are moving from standard meds to medicinal cannabis. Is the shift warranted?
Anxiety and depression are leading causes of disease and disability around the world. In the U.S. alone, anxiety disorders affect
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Blinded by Bias? Medicine’s old guard criticize people who turn to medical cannabis for help with mental health. But cannabis experts are challenging this old school “wisdom”
A rather telling report in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal says people are turning to medical cannabis (MC) to treat mental
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Nearly half of U.S. breast cancer patients use medical cannabis to treat the side effects of chemo, surgery, radiation, etc.
A national survey of 612 breast cancer patients found that almost half of them – 42% – use medical cannabis
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Steroids on steroids? With lab-made “super potent” cannabinoids we’re on the verge of transforming our ability to treat inflammatory-driven disease
What if we could add to or even replace steroids, the current gold standard treatment for serious inflammation, with something
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A Hair-Raising Study: Can the daily application of CBD oil cause significant hair regrowth? New research says it can
US researches enrolled 28 men and 7 women in a hair regrowth study, all of whom were suffering from hair
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Case Report: Nothing was able to treat a man’s severe itching caused by nerve damage. So his doctors tried medical cannabis – and they got results within days
Imagine having severe itching over your whole body – and not being able to scratch it. That was the case
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