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  • Teen Drug Use Reaches a 43-Year Low (Except for Marijuana)

    Teens today are using fewer drugs than the age group has used over the the past 43 years, with one clear exception: marijuana.

    A recent University of Michigan study found that one in 10 high school seniors say they’ve vaped marijuana in the past year. The vape caveat is an important one. Richard Miech, the researcher in charge of the study, said the number of teens that are vaping the drug is much higher than he expected, The Chicago Tribune reports.

    Over the past few years, teen marijuana use has been flat. However, in this year’s study, use of the drug is up 1% in teens, with 25% of respondents saying they had vaped, smoked, or eaten marijuana over the past year.

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  • Cannabis Nasal Spray Goes Mainstream

    When listing off drugs you can snort up your nose, marijuana usually doesn’t make the list. But with cannabinoid-spiked nasal sprays, that’s now possible, though when it comes to how high it gets you, sniffing might not be any different than smoking.

    Homemade cannabis nasal sprays have existed on the fringes of the medical weed market for years now, but a Colorado company recently released a commercial version. Verra Wellness’s “nasal mist” comes in three ratios: 10:1 THC to CBD, 1:1, and 1:100. According to the company’s marketing material, spraying the mist up your nose allows for “increased bioavailability,” of the cannabinoids. But an expert I spoke to said there’s not much science to back up these kinds of claims.

    “A lot of the stuff about bioavailability and any drug tends to be kind of hype-y,” said Dr. David Casarett, the chief of palliative care at Duke University who has researched and written about medical marijuana. “If one product had a bioavailability of 50 percent over, say, 25 percent, you could use a little less but it’s not like it’s a life changer.”

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  • Marijuana and ‘Spice’ Could Trigger Seizures, Study Says

    While a number of studies have suggested that marijuana may be effective for reducing seizures, new research cautions that potent and synthetic forms of the drug have the opposite effect.

    Researchers from the University of Tsukuba in Japan found that both natural tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) — the psychoactive chemical in marijuana — and the synthetic cannabinoid JWH-018 known as “spice” caused seizures in mice.

    There has been increasing research for the use of marijuana – particularly a cannabinoid in the drug called cannabidiol (CBD) – in the treatment of seizures in patients with epilepsy. However, the new study from Malyshevskaya and team suggests that general use of high-potency marijuana may actually trigger seizures.

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  • Queens of the Stoned Age

    Jessica Assaf and Snoop Dogg co-created Queens of the Stoned Age for the weed lifestyle and culture website Merry Jane. In the series, Assaf, who created Cannabis Feminist, hosts a panel of weed-consuming women. According to the reports, they will consume cannabis and talk about a variety of different topics in a casual, relaxed environment.

    https://www.greenrushdaily.com/this-new-cannabis-show-focuses-exclusively-on-women-who-love-weed/
  • ‘Mum, Cannabis and Me’: A Moving Documentary Debuts in New Zealand

    ‘Mum, Cannabis and Me’: A Moving Documentary Debuts in New Zealand

    A medical student is set to add new perspective to the medicinal cannabis debate in New Zealand by sharing her terminally ill mother’s “heart-breaking” secret use of it in a new documentary. The 30-minute film “Mum, Cannabis and Me” premieres tonight in Wellington.

    It is narrated by fifth year medical student Victoria Catherwood, who hopes the film will inspire fresh conversations about medical marijuana — a hot topic after cannabidiol (CBD) was removed from the Misuse of Drugs Act in New Zealand yesterday.

    “We hope to bring this discussion into the public domain to kind of let doctors feel less stigmatized about talking about it, and also to let patients have these doctors informed so that all these unnecessary harms can be minimized and any benefits can possibly be utilized.”

    Catherwood’s mother is terminally ill with breast cancer.

    Click here to see the preview.

  • Cannabis Works Wonders for Arthritis

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  • Help with Post-Partum Depression

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  • Chemotherapy+CBD+THC kills leukemia

    International Journal of Oncology: Yup, chemotherapy, followed by CBD plus THC kills leukemia cells – in vitro. … “using cannabinoids after chemotherapy resulted in greater induction of apoptosis … allowing the dose of the cytotoxic agents to be dramatically reduced yet still remain efficacious.” Clinical studies are underway.

    Source: Green State Daily Briefing

  • Getting Well more than Getting High

    Getting Well more than Getting High


    Medical research and hundreds of years anecdotal evidence from human consumption of the plant have repeatedly shown cannabis provides comfort to people with conditions ranging from migraines and menopause to PMS and Parkinson’s Disease.

    In all of its formats — flower, concentrates, edibles, lotions — there are cannabis products available with low dosages of the psychoactive ingredient THC and higher concentrations of ingredients that provide relief and therapeutic benefits without getting you stoned.

    The ongoing normalization of cannabis helps more people get comfortable with its medicinal value. Even though more than half of the United States have passed laws allowing use of medical cannabis, social stigma associations prevent some people from exploring their options. The same stigma often prevents people from discussing the topic at all.

    Counseling from peers, discussions about choices, and good amounts of patience can help reticent friends and family make informed decisions about trying cannabis for themselves.

    If you live in a state where cannabis is illegal, you can order (Hemp-derived) CBD products online, which will help boost levels of your natural endocannabinoids and also protect against bone loss and osteoporosis. CBD can be taken in conjunction with ERT to lower your risk of developing breast cancer. There are several ways to take CBD. You can vaporize CBD only oil, or to get the full health benefits, eat CBD oil, edibles, or pills.
    Source: http://www.impactcannabis.org/medical-marijuana-women/