As suicide rates and rampant opioid addiction and abuse plagues our bravest and brightest, US elected officials have stabbed Veterans in the back yet again. How long will the men and women that place their life on the line for Freedom be denied safe access to medical marijuana? (Congress Denies US Veterans Access to Medical Cannabis – Weed Finder™ News)
Can medical marijuana help infants with terminal brain cancer? Dr. William Courtney says he has witnessed it happen. He exclaimed he was “quite a skeptic 5 or 6 years ago”, and that, “my youngest patient is 8 months old, and had a very massive centrally located inoperable brain tumor.” The child’s decided to ergo unconventional treatment by administering cannabis oil. “They were putting cannabis oil on the baby’s pacifier twice a day, increasing the dose… And within two months there [...]
For almost a year, the medical cannabis that Alex Repetski has been administering to his three-year-old daughter has been against the law. All that just changed with the Supreme Court of Canada’s recent unanimous decision. Repetski gives Gwenevere cannabis oil to treat epilepsy. Under rules in place until this week, cannabis oil has been illegal because medical pot users were only permitted to use dried marijuana. The court ruled that restricting medical marijuana patients to the cured form infringed on their [...]
Four-year-old Kyla Nuessler was born with intractable epilepsy — the kind that can’t be controlled with pharmaceutical drugs — and used to have 300 seizures a day. And no matter what her family tried, real relief always seemed out of reach until they discovered Charlotte’s Web, a cannabis-based oil that brought her seizures down to just one a week. But the Colorado-made product that was previously delivered to their doorstep never made it in February, having been seized by the [...]
Earlier today, the House of Representatives has voted to allow doctors to recommend medical marijuana to US military veterans in all states with pre-existing laws for medical cannabis. Members voted 233 to 189 today in favor of the Veterans Equal Access Amendment, offered by Rep. Blumenauer (D-OR) to the Fiscal Year 2017 Military Construction, Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations bill, that prohibits the federal government from sanctioning V.A. physicians who wish to recommend cannabis therapy to their patients. This [...]
Libertarian party candidate Gary Johnson thinks President Obama will reschedule marijuana this year. (Libertarian Party Candidate Gary Johnson on Marijuana – Weed Finder™ News | Video Credit: NowThis)
EAST SCHODACK, N.Y. (NEWS10) – Patients in New York have had access to medical marijuana for about three months, and for the first time, NEWS10 ABC is seeing one young girl’s progress. Haley Hilt has been battling a rare form of epilepsy since she was born. Her mom, Melissa Hilt, said Haley’s seizures have decreased since she started taking medical marijuana in oil form. “She rode a tricycle at school for the first time,” Melissa said. It was a moment so precious, that Melissa [...]
While smoking marijuana is never good for the lungs, the active ingredient in pot may help fight lung cancer, new research shows. Harvard University researchers have found that, in both laboratory and mouse studies, delta-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) cuts tumor growth in half in common lung cancer while impeding the cancer’s ability to spread. The compound “seems to have a suppressive effect on certain lines of cancer cells,” explained Dr. Len Horovitz, a pulmonary specialist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York [...]
Oregon will be ready to officially launch its recreational marijuana industry in January 2017. The Oregon Liquor Control Commission approved its first recreational marijuana licenses Friday, approving eight cannabis cultivators. The agency was given official oversight of Oregon’s recreational cannabis industry. “These licensees reflect the pioneering spirit Oregon is known for,” said Rob Patridge, OLCC Chair in a release Friday. “They come from a variety of backgrounds and experiences and possess the entrepreneurial spirit of this industry.” Eight licenses were given [...]
