The term shell shock was originally coined in 1915 to describe the psychological aftereffects of combat. Now it’s recognised as a form of ...

Aspirin, properly known as acetylsalicylic acid, has existed since the mid-1800s but comes from willow extract, a traditional remedy for pain relief dating ...

Multiple sclerosis is a dreadful disease of the central nervous system that can be fatal and is most often found in people between ...

The world’s leading agency in the fight against doping in sport regards cannabis as a performance-enhancing drug, but its Canadian branch, the Canadian ...

A recently completed study by Florida State University has found that people with ardent religious beliefs smoke less cannabis. The findings were published ...

Most people have three to 21 bowel movements a week, but if they are at the bottom end of this range or worse, ...

Diabetes, or diabetes mellitus to give it its full name, is the state where a person has high blood sugar either because their ...

A major US newspaper has cut its cannabis section, which was considered to be ground-breaking, being the first of its kind for a ...

Cannabis Europa will be held in the Barbican Centre in the Square Mile on 22 May 2018. It billed itself as “the foremost ...

Synthetic marijuana, properly known as synthetic cannabinoids, but hey, we’re speaking taboidese, acts on those brain receptors that are affected by proper cannabis. ...

In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned hospital emergency rooms of a new kind of synthetic marijuana ...

Keith Villa, who retired from US drinks behemoth Molson Coors in January 2018 after 32 years of service, has now launched Ceria Beverages, ...

We have yet another entry to the massive list of diseases that respond well to cannabis (as detailed at this very website): psoriasis. ...

A woman in North Carolina in the United States has been arrested after posting a video of her one-year-old child smoking a joint ...

Not so long ago, cannabis was a young people’s thing. Now that medical marijuana has been legalised in most US states and also ...