Grace DeNoya is used to getting snickers when people learn she’s majoring in marijuana. “My friends make good-natured jokes about getting a degree in weed,” said DeNoya, one of the first students in a new four-year degree program in medicinal plant chemistry at Northern Michigan University. “I say, ‘No, it’s a serious degree, a chemistry …
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When the World Health Organization recommended earlier this year that cannabis be rescheduled under international law, advocates cheered the news. Kenzi Riboulet Zemouli, the head of research at Paris-based drug policy nonprofit FAAAT, called it “the best outcome that WHO could’ve possibly come up with.” But for the time being, the reforms—which would loosen restrictions …
Emerging industry, cannabis oil, legal in all 50 states, saw a significant bump in searches during the week of 4/20, a date popularly known as “cannabis Christmas.” Because medical marijuana is not legal in all 50 states, many people are turning towards cannabidiol (CBD) products such as CBD hemp oil which has many of the …
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The medical marijuana movement is in full swing. Slowly but surely, the rest of America is waking up to facts we’ve known for quite sometime – cannabis is a versatile plant with a host of practical uses and medicinal benefits. The cannabis plant owes its magical properties to a wide variety of active compounds. THC …
The use of a marijuana strain rich in cannabidiol (CBD) in epilepsy is a complex issue. Doctors and patients understanding of the myriad of perspectives around this issue continue to evolve as more and more case studies and patient reports are released publicly. Marijuana, and its components are classified as Schedule 1 drugs by the …
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The term “Gateway drug” usually pops up whenever anyone mutters the words “recreational marijuana”, “pot”, or “weed”, but does anyone really know what that term means anymore? Is anyone still considering marijuana a “gateway drug”? Apparently, more people than we know. A new argument has surfaced, based on a new study finding that the age …
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Following current hemp news or marijuana news, you might be hearing a lot about a very special character named Georgia. Georgia is marijuana patient and has been for a small amount of time now. Georgia had suffered from syringomyelia, a serious neurological disease, and the traditional medicine on the market just wasn’t going to cut …
There are thousands of different uses for the cannabis plant. One of the biggest and arguably the most useful could be the application toward medicine for people suffering from specific illnesses. Like seizures in little children, for example. Which is why a House bill that would legalize the use of a cannabis oil extract for …
Right now there are 22 states as well as the District of Columbia who have laws for allowing some type of medical marijuana legalization. Now, it appears Florida is hopping aboard the green train as well, passing laws just days ago to legalize the (limited) use of medicinal marijuana and recent polls show that voters …
You’re sitting in a sports bar or local music venue with a couple of your friends, throwing back some bottles of Budweiser and laughing about some recently syndicated television show, when you noticed a rowdy man in the corner, pushing another man and babbling on about being the toughest guy in his MMA fighting school. …
A former Canadian cop had a dream. A dream that one day the police would have a way to detect whether or not a driver was high on recreational marijuana whilst driving his or her vehicle. We already have the breathalyzer to detect alcohol levels in someone whom the police feel is driving under the …
The term “cool story bro” is thrown around a lot these days like the silly slang that it is, but really never held the water that it does in this specific situation. As some of you might have already heard or read, New Jersey governor, Chris Christie does not like marijuana. Medicinal or otherwise. Early …
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