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Cannabis ingredient can help you lose weight
The cannabis plant contains over 113 cannabinoids. Best known is tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the one that gets you stoned. A cousin is tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCV). ...
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Researchers say that UK doctors are “utterly deceitful” to withhold medicinal cannabis.
Researchers for the British Medical Journal argue that despite the legalisation of medicinal cannabis, the lack of education, reliance on randomised controlled trials, ...
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Pros and cons of elderly people taking cannabis
A study appeared recently in the United States in the Annals of Internal Medicine. It found that 13 percent of the men aged ...
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How does CBD tea work? Will it benefit my Anxiety?
Tea is a beverage that millions of people turn to release their stress and get a refreshing start to their day. But when ...
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So cannabis might prevent Covid-19 after all
At first, it was just a nonsensical urban myth that you could prevent Covid-19 with cannabis. A team of scientists in Canada, however, ...
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4 Ways CBD Can Help People With Heart Disease
4 Ways CBD Can Help People With Heart Disease CBD, unlike the psychoactive THC, does not cause the highs associated with marijuana consumption. ...
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You’ll want cannabis if you have high blood pressure
High blood pressure affects 32 percent of men and 30 percent of wimmen in the United Kingdom. It strikes almost everybody eventually. It ...
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Sickle cell disease makes it time for some cannabis
Blood cells contain oxygen. Healthy blood cells are disc shaped. Sickle cell disease, caused by red blood cells containing an abnormal protein, means ...
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What Makes a Good CBD Oil?
What really is a good CBD oil? The simple answer is “A good CBD oil is the one that works well for the ...
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Just how having a J makes you better at computer games
Famously, taking cannabis has an adverse effect upon driving: it leads to a worsening of cognitive skills like judgement and anticipation, executive functions ...
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Eek! Coming soon: the cannabis breathalyser
Cannabis has a drastic effect upon ability to concentrate, judgement, motor coordination and reaction time. Two major studies in Europe found that drivers ...
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Binge drinking gives you liver disease; smoking cannabis reduces the risk
It’s recommended that men have no more than two alcoholic drinks a day, and wimmen have just the one. Binge drinking is consumption ...
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Cannabis beats motion sickness
The US National Library of Medicine reported that motion sickness might affect a third of people. That rises to two thirds under severe ...
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Cannabis for bipolar disorder
Bipolar disorder was formerly known as manic depression. It sees a person’s mood alternate between low depressive and high manic episodes. In the ...
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Take cannabis for carpal tunnel syndrome (carpal what?)
Carpal tunnel syndrome was first documented in 1854. It’s a burning sensation, numbness, tingling or weakness in the hand. It results from pressure ...