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 [...]
Today, Weed Finder is celebrating the 83rd birthday of, Willie Nelson! The Red Headed Stranger continues to touch lives everywhere he goes, but his reach extends beyond his music. Check out this short video of Willie telling jokes when he appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live. And go wish the Highwayman a Happy Birthday at the links below! Willie on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WillieNelson/?fref=ts Willie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/willienelson Willie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/willienelsonofficial/?hl=en Willie on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/WillieNelsonVEVO (Willie Nelson Tells Jokes – [...]
It’s not new news that cannabis may be helpful in treating cancer, specifically breast cancer. Now, researchers are gaining a more nuanced understanding of how cannabis can be an effective treatment. According to research from the California Pacific Medical Research Center published last year, CBD, the non-psychoactive compound found in cannabis, can help inhibit metastasis in breast cancer cells. Metastasis is a tumor’s ability to spread throughout the body. “We have found [CBD] inhibits key genes involved in tumor progression [...]
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The Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board this week introduced a rule that will allow investors from around the U.S. to help finance the state’s exploding legal marijuana industry. Oregon approved a similar practice last month, and Colorado is expected to follow suit, eliminating its two-year residency requirement for financiers. Though the change comes with risks of Big Marijuana or criminal cartels entering the markets, the states are moving quickly to attract more investors in expectation that California, with a [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider a lawsuit from Nebraska and Oklahoma against Colorado’s regulated sales of marijuana for recreational use, removing a major threat to the multibillion-dollar state-legal cannabis industry. Possession of marijuana for any reason outside limited research remains a federal crime, and marijuana reform advocates feared an unfavorable ruling would take a wrecking ball to laws in four states that allow recreational pot sales and medical marijuana laws in many others. Colorado’s neighbors argued [...]
A man who was left brain-dead after a drugs trial in France, went seriously wrong has died, according to the hospital which had been treating him. Five other volunteers were also hospitalized after taking the trial painkiller, initially said to be a new ‘synthetic cannabis,’ on January 7 are now ‘in a stable condition’, according to the statement released by the hospital in Rennes. But three of the men are suffering a ‘handicap that could be irreversible’, according to Pierre-Gilles [...]
