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By Bill Freeman Trials of three cannabis-based drugs have produced promising results. British drug company GW Pharmaceuticals tested its three new drugs on 34 people with multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, or other conditions that caused severe pain, whom had not responded well to other medications. 82% of participants said that the drugs effectively relieved …
By Bill Freeman The Canadian Health Minister Allan Rock has revealed that the Canadian government has proposed that people with terminal illnesses and chronic conditions such as severe arthritis, cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy and spinal cord injury should be allowed to possess cannabis for medical purposes. The Canadian Health Minister Allan Rock has revealed …
By Bill Freeman Medical marijuana campaigners in Canada have celebrated a recent legal victory by launching an Internet site offering home delivery of the drug to the sick. The Marijuana Party Foundation launched www.marijuanahomedelivery.ca after a Superior Court Judge halted a drug-trafficking trial of two volunteers from the Compassion Club of Montreal – a group …
By Bill Freeman A unanimous decision by the California Supreme Court means that Californians who smoke the illicit drug marijuana for medical reasons can now do so without fear of prosecution. The decision reasserted the voter-approved law known as Proposition 215 or the Medical Use of Marijuana Initiative, which gives patients the right to possess …
By Bill Freeman The Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology – a division of the UK government, has recommended that the medicinal use of cannabis should be legalized. The committee also called for current research involving the development of cannabis-based drugs to be speeded-up so that patients could benefit as soon as possible. The …
By Bill Freeman Intellectual impairment associated with heavy marijuana use is apparently reversible with abstinence, researchers report. And marijuana withdrawal symptoms in habitual users are similar to those seen with nicotine withdrawal, according to a second report published in the October issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry. Intellectual impairment associated with heavy marijuana use …
By Bill Freeman GW Pharmaceuticals, a British drug company, has revealed that recent clinical trials of a cannabis-based drug for treating patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and other forms of severe pain has produced promising results. Results of the 70-patient strong phase II trial showed that the drug significantly reduced pain, muscle spasms, and bladder …
By Bill Freeman Recent study results suggest that dropping off to sleep surrounded by the scent of jasmine appears to encourage restful sleep. Dr Bryan Raudenbush and colleagues at the Wheeling Jesuit University in West Virginia monitored participants’ sleep for three nights. Each night, the rooms were filled with the scent of jasmine or lavender, …