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    Marijuana Linked To Lower Bladder Cancer Risk

    People who smoke marijuana may be less likely to get bladder cancer than those who smoke cigarettes, a new study says. Kaiser Permanente researchers compared the risk of bladder cancer in more than 83,000 men who smoked cigarettes only, marijuana only or both substances, USA Today reports. The men were aged 45 to 69, and they were examined over 11 years. “Cannabis use only was associated with a 45 percent reduction in bladder cancer incidence, and tobacco use only was associated with [...]

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  • Marijuana Fearing Mother Converts Into Medical Cannabis Activist

    Marijuana Fearing Mother Converts Into Medical Cannabis Activist

    Meet Joni Whiting. Joni is a reluctant warrior for medical marijuana. You see after Joni’s daughter Stephanie was diagnosed with melanoma in 2000, she underwent several experimental surgeries, and consumed fistfuls of ‘promising’ pharmaceutical drugs – to no avail. As Joni watched her daughter’s face slowly disfigured, one inch at a time, and witnessed the agony she was made to endure, Joni could only sit back and watch as her daughter wasted away. Sick from this aggressive form of cancer. Suffering, sad and [...]

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    Study Shows Marijuana Eases Crohn’s Disease

    Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba, Israel is recruiting Crohn’s Disease sufferers for a study on the ability of cannabis to treat the inflammatory bowel disease. According to the U.S. National Institutes of Health’sClinicalTrials.gov, researchers with Meir are currently recruiting participants for phase 1 and 2 studies of the effectiveness of pot molecules THC and CBD on the painful, diarrhea- and vomiting-inducing GI tract illness, which affects 400,000-600,000 North Americans. There’s significant evidence cannabis treats Crohn’s Disease, though the United [...]

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  • Czech Republic Pharmacies Begin Selling Medical Cannabis

    Czech Republic Pharmacies Begin Selling Medical Cannabis

    Medical cannabis has officially been made available in pharmacies throughout the Czech Republic effective April 1, 2013, and no we aren’t foolin’. The miraculous substance will be available for those individuals that have been authoritatively diagnosed with one or more of the numerous ailments designated via the government’s rubrics and regulations. Unfortunately, the Czech Republic’s governmental officials don’t foresee the substance in question being covered under health insurance policies regardless of its worthiness of a pharmacopeia listing. For the first year of [...]

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