Tag: Medical Marijuana

Medical Marijuana Liquid May Help Children with Severe Epilepsy

A liquid form of medical marijuana may show promise as a treatment for children with severe epilepsy that is not responding to other treatments, according to a study released April 9th, that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 67th Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, April 18 to 25, 2015. For the 137 people who completed the 12-week study, the number of seizures decreased by an average of 54 percent from the beginning of the...

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Is Marijuana Medicine?

While many states have pushed for new laws to legalize the use of marijuana for medical reasons, there are few well-controlled studies that demonstrate its effectiveness. As such, most major state and national medical professional societies have not yet supported its use in patient care until further research is conducted to show it is a safe and effective medicine for use in a wide variety of settings. That’s the primary point a white paper titled...

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Marijuana Gears Up for Production High in U.S. Labs

Residents of 23 US states can buy medical marijuana to treat everything from cancer pain to anxiety, but US scientists must wade through onerous paperwork to score the drug for study. Their sole dealer is the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), which has a contract with the University of Mississippi in Oxford to produce marijuana for research purposes. The agency has long faced complaints that its marijuana is too weak to represent what is...

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Dr. Sanjay Gupta Honored for Reporting on Medical Marijuana

Dr. Sanjay Gupta—a practicing neurosurgeon and Chief Medical Correspondent for CNN—recently received the prestigious Alfred I. duPont Award for his work on a pair of influential documentaries on medical marijuana, according to a cover feature in the April issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The journal is published by Wolters Kluwer. A special cover essay highlights Dr. Gupta’s achievement in...

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Medical Marijuana for Depression? Study Shows Likely Benefit

Scientists at the University at Buffalo’s Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) are studying chronic stress and depression, with a focus on endocannabinoids, which are brain chemicals similar to substances in marijuana. The findings raise the possibility that components of marijuana may be useful in reducing depression that results from chronic stress. “In the animal models we studied, we saw that chronic stress reduced the production of...

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