All Entries in the "Patient Resources" Category
The Amazing Properties Of Hemp Oil
While many of you know how amazing and curative hemp oil is, there are still way too many people without this knowledge – perhaps the most important information you will ever possess. Share this story and the video below with everyone you can. This is information governments – including ours in the U.S. – go [...]
Activism and Advocacy: Speaking at City Council Meetings
Cannabis Activists have a favorable circumstance to let their voices be heard by speaking at city council meetings. Making a public comment at a city council meeting is a citizen’s right. After all, council members are public servants and they have an obligation to hear their constituents on matters that affect them, including medical cannabis.
Convictions Of Two CA Dispensary Operators Thrown Out
The convictions of two medical marijuana dispensary and collective operators in southern California has been thrown out by Long Beach Superior Court Judge Joan Comparet-Cassani, who cited many issues with the original trial, not the least of which was an obvious bias on the part of Judge Charles Sheldon toward the prosecution. Joe Byron and Joe Grumbine [...]
Cooking With Marijuana: Baking Spinakopita Puff Pastry
I’m going to try and start adding more informational content in my posts to go along with the wide range of news stories you get here at the420times.com, and since many medical marijuana patients use edibles to medicate, that includes even more information on cooking. Since I know as much about cooking as I do [...]
After $1B, Experts See Progress On Autism’s Causes
ATLANTA (AP) — More than $1 billion has been spent over the past decade searching for the causes of autism. In some ways, the research looks like a long-running fishing expedition, with a focus on everything from genetics to the age of the father, the weight of the mother, and how close a child lives [...]
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarcertion
I know it’s been the “in thing” for a couple of decades now to cry racism at every opportunity, but in the case of black men and drug arrests, what other explanation can there be? We’ve reported before on how black people are much more likely to be arrested for drugs (especially marijuana) than white [...]
Cannabis, A Proven Pain Reliever
According to a new review in The Clinical Journal of Pain, cannabis is an effective and safe treatment for pain. An investigator from New York University, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, conducted a PubMed search to survey the percentage of positive and negative published randomized controlled trials (RCTs) assessing cannabinoids as treatments for pain. [...]
Anti-Medical Marijuana Extremists
Interestingly enough, the extremist I’m referring to in the video below is not Dr. Drew, but one of his guests, Dr. Stuart Gitlow. So many things jump out at you when listening to Dr. Gitlow. First, the oddity of his last name and his feelings about marijuana. Much more serious, however, is the fact that [...]
Medical Marijuana And Cancer Patients
A recent study of Cancer patients who treated the pain associated with their illness showed nearly 2/3rds of those studies were satisfied with the effects of medical cannabis. In many states those in the study would be considered criminals by the government. Where is the compassion? Where is the empathy? What good reason is there [...]
Fighting Back In California
As many of our readers know, The California Supreme Court has decided to review a couple key medical marijuana regulation cases, meaning cities and towns in CA that want to ban dispensaries no longer have a legal reason to do so. The patient advocacy group Americans For Safe Access sent out an email yesterday, detailing [...]
Marijuana Doesn’t Harm Lung Function, Study Found
CHICAGO (AP) — Smoking a joint once a week or a bit more apparently doesn’t harm the lungs, suggests a 20-year study that bolsters evidence that marijuana doesn’t do the kind of damage tobacco does. The results, from one of the largest and longest studies on the health effects of marijuana, are hazier for heavy [...]
“Juicing” Medical Marijuana
Many of our readers know all of the ways people ingest cannabis: smoking, vaporizing, cannabis edibles and using hemp oils topically or orally. But there is a new trend in medical marijuana out of California that may change the way patients and advocates look at ingesting medical cannabis. Dr. William Courtney says he has discovered [...]
If Smoking Marijuana Is Harmful, Why Doesn’t It Cause Cancer?
Earlier this year we devoted an entire issue of The 420 Times magazine to the emerging research linking cannabis to anti-cancer effects in people. What is already known is quite stunning – as evidenced by those articles and the video below – and there is yet more to be discovered. While it’s true that smoking [...]
Oral And Transdermal Methods For Marijuana Cannabinoids
A great article was recently posted on a very popular health website, and I felt it was important to discuss it here. It talks about the amazing properties of cannabinoids and what they can do to relieve so many ailments. From cancer to diabetes, and from autism to Alzheimer’s, medical marijuana helps, and sometimes dramatically [...]
Ask An Old Hippie: Could Marijuana Be Causing My Nausea?
Dear Old Hippie: First, I love your column! Keep it up! Now for my question: has it been shown, or is it possible for chronic marijuana use to worsen or cause nausea, perhaps as a withdrawal symptom? Back story: I am a patient with Crohn’s disease, MMJ helps me immensely for pain and nausea, and I told my [...]
