Medical Cannabis

This article first appeared on Huffington Post on 01/31/2014 — Since he was just a few months old, 10-year-old Zaki Jackson has suffered from a rare form of epilepsy that, at its worst, causes him to have thousands of seizures a day. The seizures, which his mother describes as a “full body electrocution,” render him unable to talk or walk, ...

Those of us who are either new, or long-time vigilant advocates of supporting legal medical cannabis with Amendment 2 (A2), it was a long time coming that it finally passed, and now that medical cannabis is now a constitutional law in Florida, those who sought to help those who were sick or in pain, can now find comfort knowing that ...

An overwhelming 71.3 percent of the vote in Florida passed the medical cannabis Amendment 2 bill which would allow physicians the discretion to recommend medical marijuana in any instance where they believe that its medical use “would likely outweigh the potential health risks” for their patients. However, the proposed new rules the Florida Department of Health (DOH) seek to change would ...

The U.S. government has been funding medical cannabis research for the past five decades. Only, they’ve been outsourcing that research to another country. For half of a century, the National Institute of Health has provided an annual grant to Israel for research on the herb. You may have heard of Dr. Raphael Mechoulam. Dr. Mechoulam is the man who first discovered ...

Earlier this year, the US government’s Department of Health admitted that Cannabis kills cancer cells. It is vital to understand that this is not a ‘discovery’, because it has been known for decades that the active ingredient of this naturally occurring plant – called Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) – is highly effective at destroying cancer cells! In 1974 researchers at the Medical ...

When it comes to marijuana policy, Bernie Sanders is the clear favorite out of all of the candidates trying to become the next President of the United States. Whereas the other candidates may respect states’ rights at best (depending on if you believe what they say), Bernie Sanders has introduced legislation to completely end federal marijuana prohibition altogether. “It is not ...

Is hemp Illegal because of Marijuana? No, Marijuana is illegal because of Hemp and power-hungry corporations and people in high places. Most people in the mainstream never really mention hemp. That’s because hemp can’t make you high and thus mainstream media focuses on “Marijuana”. In turn, people tend to think that Hemp is illegal as a byproduct of “Marijuana prohibition” ...

There is a lot of myth and misconception out there about the use of marijuana and while if you abuse it there can be bad side effects, the same rings true for alcohol, prescription drugs, cheeseburgers and just about anything else on the planet. Marijuana is now being widely accepted as having medicinal properties and even the mainstream media are ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has a sort of reassuring ring to it. Yet, even a little investigation into this organization reveals that it is essentially the junction where the US Government and Big Pharma are joined together in a profitable union. The seemingly impending legalization of medical and recreational marijuana across the country has the pharmaceutical industry more ...

By L. P. Langdon — Marijuana and hemp have been a part of our world’s culture for nearly 12,000 years. After the new Marijuana laws passed for Colorado and Washington, there has been much ambiguity about the fact that marijuana is still on the federal list of controlled substances. U.S. Representative Jared Polis {D-CO}, in an interview with President Obama, ...