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WIT Research Shows Marijuana Can Cure Hepatitis C

June 29, 2014 at 8:25 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

Hepatitis C has negatively impacted millions of lives, and medical researchers have tried for decades to develop a vaccine with no luck. But today, our team at the Wyoming Institute of Technology is pleased to announce that, with the help of our pharmaceutical partners, we’ve cracked the code and can deliver a cost-effective vaccine and cure to the world within the next 14 to 18 months… and we owe it all to cannabis. Our research into the field of hepatitis [...]

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Why Marijuana Doesn’t Increase Your Lung Cancer Risk

June 28, 2014 at 7:48 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

A new study confirms that smoking marijuana does not raise the chances of developing lung cancer. Researchers from Canada, the United States and New Zealand pooled data from six previous studies spanning more than 2,000 lung cancer cases and nearly 3,000 controls to determine whether cannabis use was associated with lung cancer. The findings, published June 20 in the International Journal of Cancer, showed no link between marijuana smoking and cancer risk. “Results from our pooled analyses provide little evidence for [...]

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Pot Shops Not Selling to Kids

June 27, 2014 at 7:51 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

State regulators and local police in Colorado found no pot shops breaking the law in a series of sting operations launched after legal recreational marijuana sales began in 2014. Mirroring alcohol laws, it is illegal in Colorado to sell recreational marijuana to people under 21 years of age. Medical marijuana may be purchased by shoppers over 18 years old if they are carrying a valid medical marijuana card. Sting operations targeted 20 marijuana stores in Denver and Pueblo in recent [...]

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Americans Are Smoking More Pot

June 26, 2014 at 7:34 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

But global cannabis use has declined Americans are increasingly consuming marijuana but also seeking treatment for problems caused by their use of the drug, according to a new report. The World Drug Report was released Thursday against the backdrop of a country whose states are increasingly liberalizing legal access to marijuana for both recreational and medical purposes. The report suggests that as laws have relaxed toward the herb, more people have begun to use it–from 2008-2012, marijuana use among “people 12 [...]

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Watch This Little Girl’s Seizure Stop When Given Emergency Cannabis Oil

June 23, 2014 at 8:45 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

By now nearly everyone that is paying attention knows that cannabis is a highly effective seizure treatment. In the last two years, nearly every state in the Union without medical marijuana laws on the books has seen legislation introduced, in many cases driven by parent advocacy groups comprised of parents of children with severe seizure disorders, most notably Dravet Syndrome. In many of these cases states have rushed to pass legislation approving cannabis extracts that are high in Cannabidiol (CBD) [...]

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Marijuana Considered for Looser Restrictions by U.S. FDA

June 22, 2014 at 8:03 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

U.S. regulators are studying whether restrictions on marijuana should be eased, a step toward decriminalizing the drug at the federal level. The Food and Drug Administration is conducting an analysis at the Drug Enforcement Administration’s request on whether the U.S. should downgrade the classification of marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug, said Douglas Throckmorton, Deputy Director for Regulatory Programs at the FDA, at a congressional hearing. Schedule 1 drugs carry the most restrictions of the five DEA classifications and are [...]

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NY Deal on Medical Marijuana Reached

June 19, 2014 at 9:12 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

New York is poised to become the 23rd state to legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes. But the deal announced by Cuomo with legislative leaders Thursday afternoon does not allow for the smoking of the drug. Instead, patients would have to ingest it through other forms like vaporization or pills. Cuomo, citing the state’s efforts to combat smoking and the fact the benefits of marijuana can be had in other forms, would not sign off on a deal that allowed the [...]

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Drug Maker Will Soon Hold Patent On THC, CBD As Cancer Cures

June 18, 2014 at 8:50 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

GW Pharmaceuticals, a drug company that specializes in cannabis-based pharmaceuticals, has received early approval on a patent covering the use of marijuana chemicals for treating brain cancer. GW Pharmaceuticals announced Wednesday that it has been issued a Notice of Allowance from the U.S. Patent Office for a patent application involving the use of THC and CBD, the two main chemicals in marijuana, for treating gliomas. Once a patent application is deemed a genuine invention, the Patent Office sends a Notice of Allowance [...]

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30 Members Of Congress Demand Increased Access To Marijuana For Research Purposes

June 17, 2014 at 8:14 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

Thirty members of Congress, led by Reps. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), H. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.), Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) and Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell on Tuesday demanding an end to the federal monopoly on marijuana research so that more studies can be done by scientists around the nation. “We write to express our support for increasing scientific research on the therapeutic risks and benefits of marijuana,” the letter reads. “We ask that you take [...]

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