Earlier in 2023, Ohio Senators Stephen Huffman (R-Tipp City) and Kirk Schuring (R-Canton) introduced Senate Bill 9. This Bill sought to amend the medical marijuana law in the state…
The amount of marijuana users in the world is steadily growing. While some people use marijuana to relax, others use medical cannabis for chronic pain, rare epilepsies, glaucoma, multiple sclerosis…
Medical cannabis has been touted as an effective treatment for a variety of conditions: glaucoma, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, and even cancer. But is this controversial product also a potentially treatment…
According to the Des Moines Register, Iowa has a new medical marijuana program rolling out on December 1st, but many doctors in the state have reservations about enrolling patients. Iowa's…
The story starts in a Ana Alvarez's flat in Lima, Peru. Soon after, Ana will convert this apartment into a marijuana laboratory and underground medical center. The public will largely sympathize…
Sarah Trask had childhood cancer 32 years ago and had four brain surgeries. Sarah is a survivor. As a result, epilepsy is the side effect she is living with. Sometimes…
Imagine this: two elementary students are in the restroom at school, smoking a bowl. And then, the principal walks in. Rather than flying off the handle, the principal smiles and…
Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is a rare genetic disease. It causes tissue to form abnormally in patients at a young age. Different organs are affected by it, meaning that symptoms…
Marijuana use is certainly controversial and a debated topic. But what's less debatable is the progress of the movement to legalize and embrace it American society - especially for medicinal use.…
As more states open their arms to the wonders of marijuana (for medical purposes and for fun), they're also opening up a whole new way to look at treating rare…
Let's talk about medical marijuana for a moment. As soon as the word "marijuana" is introduced, people automatically think of users being "stoned," or they think of the fabled hippie…
Now that I've puffed on this piece from the Hippocratic Post, I thought I'd pass it on to you. Mike Barnes, a professor of neurological rehabilitation at Newcastle University, is…
This November, citizens of Montana will have something very important to vote on—besides who will be the leader of our country, of course. So, what exactly are they voting on?…
Few topics in medicine are as fraught with controversy as medical marijuana. Decades of debate over the harmful effects of recreational marijuana use—to mention nothing of its depiction in popular…
By 2013, 17 states plus the territory of Washington, DC legalized or formed legislation around medical marijuana. A study by the University of Georgia suggests that this change caused about a…
"The truth is, we don't always know how most medicines are going to work with patients until we prescribe it to them." This is according to Dr. Lynn Webster, who formerly…
For those of us with rare diseases, the subject of Marinol and other marijuana-derived substances has certainly come up in conversations with doctors, at least in terms of it's pain…
Depending on the intricacies of our personal health challenges, some of us may be motivated to take actions that others would find unreasonable. For example, I once met a man…
With public perceptions changing regarding the use of medical marijuana (cannabis) in the United States, studies are being conducted to determine the possible disease states that could be treated with the regulated…
Eric Mevis, suffers from dystonia, in his case oral mandibular dystonia, a rare disease that causes facial muscles, such as those in his lips and tongue, to twist and contract uncontrollably.…
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