The always helpful doc Peter Grinspoon reminds us in a post on Harvard Health of some foundational facts about cannabis:
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Category: The Basics
Memories: THC can interfere with short term memory. The good news is CBD can help
Barbara Streisand’s hauntingly beautiful song Memory has a telling lyric that should interest cannabis users: Memory, all alone in the
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Cannabis, Candy, and Kids: If you make cannabis really yummy – to look & taste like candy – guess who’ll find it and possibly end up in the ER?
The Upstate New York Poison Center has seen a sharp increase – “a drastic change” – in the number of
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So, about that Ham Sandwich: CBD helps with a variety of illnesses, like MS. But studies show you’ll be helped even more if you combine CBD with proper nutrition
On your spice rack along with parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme you of course also have your favorite modified starches
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Cannabis U: Univ of Colorado Boulder’s online course on Medical Cannabis is an excellent way to learn how to use CBD & THC to better your health
Over 120 universities and colleges in the U.S. and Canada have courses that teach the basics of cannabis science and
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A Fifth Pillar of Cancer Treatment: Surgery, radiation, chemotherapy + immunotherapy are the standard cancer treatments. Cutting edge science is developing another pillar – the ketogenic diet
If you have cancer you can cut it out, burn it, drug it, train your immune cells to attack it,
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The endocannabinoid system is crucial to our health. But there’s a problem: “doctors know almost nothing about” how cannabis affects it
The title to an article posted on the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) website says it all: “Why doctors know
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Hunger Games: The food industry has mastered the art of making ultra-processed foods irresistible – and making you think they’re a healthy choice
Delicious, debilitating, and deadly, ultra-processed foods (UPFs) can undermine your health in less than a month. That’s what happened to
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The WHO says CBD is safe – with one caveat: If you’re taking blood thinners or heart or thyroid meds it could alter their effect on your body
CBD is probably as safe a medication as you’ll find. But there’s one thing in particular to watch out for:
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Not Under the Influence: CBD does not impair your ability to drive and it even has a sobering effect on THC consumption
Let’s say at some gathering over the Holidays you smoke a CBD-rich joint containing a whopping 83mg of CBD and
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