More Evidence: Cancer “Commits Suicide By Eating Itself” After Exposure to Cannabis

Christina Sanchez, a molecular biologist from Compultense University in Madrid, first reported in 1998 that TetraHydroCannabinol (THC), the primary psychoactive component of cannabis, induces tumor cell suicide while leaving healthy non-tumor cells alone.

She discovered that when exposed to THC, tumor cells not only ceased to multiply and proliferate but also destroyed themselves, both in lab tests and animal trials.

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Police across the UK are given green light to let cannabis users off scot-free and suggest they get treatment instead of punishment

• Police will ask cannabis users to go for treatment rather than prosecuting them
• The softening of approach was announced by the National Police Chiefs’ Council
• Chief constables can decide to arrest and charge, caution or warn those caught.

Police forces across the country were yesterday given the green light to stop arresting cannabis users.

Individual chief constables can now decide whether to arrest and charge, caution or warn those caught with the drug – or simply let them go.

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Beijing: US Legalization Of Cannabis Is A “Threat To China”

As CNN stated, Beijing’s main drug enforcement body has blamed the hashish legalization in Canada and some US states for a spike within the wide variety of drugs smuggled into the u . S ., describing it as a “new risk to China.”

At a press conference in Beijing nowadays, Liu Yuejin, deputy director of the China National Narcotics Control Commission, stated that the range of hashish users in China had grown by greater than 25% in 2018, rising to about 24,000 humans.

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Cannabis Oil Replaces 22 Pills For Little Boy With Seizures

The use of marijuana is a completely debatable topic in the medical network. Some properly-respected medical doctors say that it need to be used in some treatments and other docs are towards it and are involved approximately its long time results. The subsequent case is a proof that that the first group of docs were right.

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Bathing in Cannabis with CBD Bath Bombs! Great for Fibromyalgia & Improve Sleep.

A nice warm bath with Cannabis oil is liquid relaxation therapy. It is peaceful, soothing, pain relieving, great before you go to sleep and feel good when you wake up the next morning. But there is even more to that.

Over the past few years, cannabis has become a popular supplement among people suffering from arthritis, fibromyalgia and other chronic pain disorders. There are many cannabinoids in the plant, but THC and CBD are the ones “in charge” for fighting pain and inflammation. 

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Cannabis ‘to be legalised in the UK’ within five to ten years, say MPs

A group of cross-party MPs who’ve been on a fact-finding trip to Canada predict the UK will fully legalise cannabis use within five to ten years.

Canada became the first G7 country to allow recreational use of the drug in 2018.

Of the three politicians in the group one had a significant shift in his position.

Labour’s David Lammy now backs legalisation, against his party’s official stance.

Mr Lammy, alongside Conservative Jonathan Djanogly and Liberal Democrat Sir Norman Lamb were all filmed on their journey for a Radio 1 Newsbeat documentary called Legalising Weed: Canada’s Story.

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Mental Health and Cannabis: Anxiety and Depression

Anxiety and depression are all too common in the world. According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, 40 million American adults, or 18.1 percent of the population, are affected each year. As such, people suffering from an anxiety disorder are more likely to go to a hospital at a rate of three to five times more than others. A variety of factors can lead to the development of such a case. This includes genetics, personality, and life events.

Despite just about every person being susceptible to the condition, only 36.9 percent of anxiety disorders receive treatment. 

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10 Reasons Cannabis is Far Safer Than Alcohol for the Consumer and the Community

Guest writer for Wake Up World

We have been led to believe that cannabis is a dangerous and addictive drug that has destroyed the lives of countless teens and adults. We have also been encouraged to accept, through poorly designed scientific studies, that cannabis causes lung cancer and is a “gateway” to harder drugs. The government has even tried to convince the public that people who use cannabis are more at risk to themselves and the public than those who use alcohol.

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Cannabis Flavonoids Give Hope for New Way to Treat Pain, Study Finds

Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

Among the many extraordinary medicinal and health-bringing properties of cannabis, new research pinpoints two of the plant’s flavonoids with potential to completely change the way we treat pain.

First identified back in 1985, cannflavins A and B are molecules with potent anti-inflammatory properties; the original 1985 research showed that gram for gram, these cannflavins were nearly 30 times more effective than aspirin.

However, this exciting discovery was not further developed at the time. With the relevant flavonoids present in cannabis at only very low levels, it was clear that it would not have been commercially viable to grow the plants and extract the flavonoids for medicinal purposes. Furthermore, the prevailing anti-cannabis narrative at the time made continued research extremely difficult, not least due to a lack of funding.

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Ex-cop who smuggled cannabis oil for sick son will not face criminal or child protection investigation

The news came as a huge relief to the Unison Lothian Health worker who smuggled a cannabis medicine containing the controversial ingredient THC into the country from Holland earlier this year

An ex-cop who smuggled cannabis oil into the country to save her sick son will not face a criminal or child protection investigation.

Lisa Quarrell was visited by police after admitting in a TV documentary that she brought medicine into Scotland illegally to treat Cole Thomson who has a rare form of epilepsy.

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FDA Approves Cannabis For Brain Cancer Treatment

Insys Therapeutics announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration had granted orphan drug designation to its proprietary cannabidiol product for the treatment of glioma. (A glioma is a type of tumor that starts in the brain or spine.)

To be granted orphan drug designation, the pharmaceutical must generally be intended to treat a disease that affects less than 200,000 people, although there are exceptions. Companies can apply for ODD through an FDA application. Part of this application includes a discussion of the scientific rationale for why the drug could benefit the intended disease. Acceptable evidence includes in vitro studies, preclinical animal testing, and any relevant human experience. If the rationale is not strong enough, then the FDA would reasonably deny the application.

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Study on cannabis chemical as a treatment for pancreatic cancer may have ‘major impact,’ Harvard researcher says

Pancreatic cancer makes up just 3 percent of all cancers in America. But with a one-year survival rate of just 20 percent (and five-year survival rate of less than 8), it’s predicted to be the second leading cause of cancer-related death by 2020.

Headlines about the illness, as a result, tend to be discouraging. But this month scientists from Harvard University’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have released some much-needed good news. In their study, published in the journal Frontiers of Oncology on July 23, the researchers revealed that a chemical found in cannabis has demonstrated “significant therapy potential” in treatment of pancreatic cancer.

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CBD May Take Up The Majority Of Cannabis Industry Sales If Current Trends Continue

According to a recent Headset market report, “Understanding the CBD market in state-legal cannabis”, CBD could potentially take up the majority of sales among non-inhalable products in legal cannabis states. If current trends continue, CBD products could even potentially become the majority of sales among the cannabis industry at large.

The data giant revealed insights into the shift in popularity and sales for CBD products, noting the passage of the U.S. Farm Bill as an important catalyst for allowing more people to access cannabis products. The report is quick to note that despite going into the mainstream, hemp-derived CBD products (now purchased at places like CVS Health Corporation (NYSE: CVS) and Walgreens) and cannabis-derived CBD products (traditionally purchased at dispensaries) are to be considered two different things.

Here are some important highlights of the Headset market report that Green Market Report finds of interest:

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How a failed Super Bowl ad signals the future of cannabis advertising

CBS’s consideration of a cannabis ad shows how far the industry has come in countering fearmongering and stereotypes

Come Sunday night, the Super Bowl will have its winner and its loser.

But before the two teams even made it to Atlanta, the country’s annual circus of consumerism and commercialism already had one clear victor: the marijuana industry.

CBS’s refusal to run a cannabis-focused investment firm’s ad advocating for the legalization of medical cannabis marked a coup for an industry whose product is still illegal federally. “The fact that an ad was even considered for the Super Bowl shows that we’ve turned a corner,” Lisa Buffo, the founder of the Cannabis Marketing Association

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Popular book on marijuana's apparent dangers is pure alarmism, experts say

Doctors and scientists criticize ‘flawed pop science’ of Tell Your Children – but author Alex Berenson stands by his claims

A group of 75 scholars and medical professionals have criticised a controversial new book about the purported dangers of marijuana, calling it an example of “alarmism” designed to stir up public fear “based on a deeply inaccurate misreading of science”.

Tell Your Children, by Alex Berenson, was released last month. It has reignited debate about the drug in a social and political climate rapidly trending towards the legalization of recreational use.

Berenson argues that proponents of marijuana use have ignored evidence that the drug’s active compound, THC, may precipitate the onset of schizophrenia and provoke acts of violence in individuals who experience a psychotic “break”.

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Edible marijuana sends outsize number of people to hospital, Colorado study finds

University researchers say effects of edibles can be longer lasting than people realize after study reveals ‘striking results’

Edible marijuana products are a small slice of cannabis sales in Colorado, but were linked to a large proportion of cannabis-related emergency room visits in the state, according to a study published on Monday.

From January 2012 to December 2016, edibles accounted for 10.7% of emergency room visits attributable to cannabis use at the University of Colorado Health emergency department in Aurora, Colorado, though they only accounted for 0.32% of cannabis sales in that same period, according to the Annals of Internal Medicine study.

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Does marijuana use really cause psychotic disorders?

Alex Berenson says the drug causes ‘sharp increases in murders and aggravated assaults’. As scientists, we find his claims misinformed and reckless

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oes marijuana cause psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia, and do associated symptoms like paranoia lead to violent crimes? That’s what writer Alex Berenson is claiming. As part of his new book promotion, Berenson published a New York Times op-ed that also blames the drug for “sharp increases in murders and aggravated assaults” purportedly observed in some states that allow adult recreational marijuana use.

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Can marijuana help end the opioids crisis?

In states where medical marijuana is legal, doctors write fewer opioid prescriptions and patients consume lower doses

Legalization opponents call marijuana a “gateway drug” that leads users to more dangerous substances. But could it also be an “exit drug” that helps ease the opioids crisis?

The data is scarce, but the anecdotes are plentiful.

After more than a decade in the US air force, Jennifer Baxter needed foot surgery. It wasn’t successful, and she had to have two more procedures to correct her “severely disfigured, painful and mechanically incorrect foot”.

Baxter had had surgeries before, and had taken opioids to recover. But, as she tells it, this time she connected with a civilian doctor known for his generosity with pain medication.

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Marijuana: is it time to stop using a word with racist roots?

As marijuana arrests disproportionately affect minorities, controversy grows over a term prohibitionists hoped would appeal to xenophobia

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t’s been known as dope, grass, herb, gage, tea, reefer, chronic. But the most familiar name for the dried buds of the cannabis plant, and one of the few older terms still in use today, is “marijuana”.

For the prohibitionists of nearly a century ago, the exotic-sounding word emphasized the drug’s foreignness to white Americans and appealed to the xenophobia of the time. As with other racist memes, a common refrain was that marijuana would lead to miscegenation.

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Helicopter reveals rooftop marijuana plantations while filming Vuelta

Police in Catalonia have seized dozens of marijuana plants from a roof terrace after social media users spotted the plantation in video footage filmed by a helicopter following the Vuelta a España cycling race.

Officers from the regional force, the Mossos d’Esquadra, headed to the town of Igualada, north-west of Barcelona, after video from Saturday’s stage eight was posted on social media

“We received information via social media that there was a marijuana plantation on the roof of a block of flats in Igualada,” said a spokeswoman for the force.

“We began an investigation, which is still under way, and we have seized 40 plants. For the moment, there have been no arrests.”

She added that officers were trying to determine who the plants had belonged to as the roof terrace was not connected to the flats.

The United Association of Guardia Civil officers later posted the revealing aerial shots on social media.

Saturday’s rain-blasted stage was won by Sunweb’s Nikias Arndt. After Tuesday’s 11th stage, Primoz Roglic leads the race in the red jersey.

The Vuelta, a gruelling 21-day race through Spain and parts of France and Andorra, is the final Grand Tour of the year and finishes on 15 September.

On Tuesday, the Guardia Civil in Extremadura announced its largest ever seizure of marijuana in the western Spanish region.

Officers raided a plantation hidden on a farm near Alcuéscar in Cáceres province at the end of August, where they found 22,000 marijuana plants, 281kg of marijuana buds and a large amount of growing equipment.

Nine Albanian nationals were arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking, while a Spanish man was arrested on suspicion of people trafficking and employment offences.

Growing marijuana in Spain remains illegal despite consumption of the drug being decriminalised.

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