All Entries in the "Patient Resources" Category
How THC Is Made
Below is a very interesting video explaining some of the science of cannabis, and specifically how THC is made within the plant. Millions of people get high and find medical benefit from marijuana everyday, yet many have no idea why or how cannabis came to be such an amazing thing to so many people. Even [...]
Ask An Old Hippie: Is Medical Marijuana For Real?
Q: Isn’t it true that “Medical Marijuana” is an oxymoron at best and a joke at worst? — Skeptical In Seattle Frankly, common sense and life experience seem to agree that a “weed that gets you high” has nothing to do with medicine or healing sick people. I must admit, that was my reaction when [...]
Cedars-Sinai Denying Liver Transplant to Medical Marijuana Patient
We are all human beings stuck on this planet together. To do this successfully, a certain level of compassion and empathy has to be the norm in society. Sixty-three year old medical marijuana patient Norman Smith is finding little compassion or empathy from the transplant team at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Doctors there [...]
Anorexia, Bulimia Associated With Cannabinoid Deficiency
It seems that some bright boffins asked themselves the question, “If marijuana causes the munchies, what’s the deal with people who have disorders like anorexia or bulimia and don’t eat right?” They rewrote that question in a much more scientific way, did a study, and found that women with anorexia either had low levels of [...]
Ask An Old Hippie: How Do You Make Green Dragon?
Dear Old Hippie: For a while now, I’ve heard rumors about the legendary Green Dragon that can get you high anywhere without smoking, yet I’ve never heard of anyone selling it. What can you tell me about this fabulous beast? A: The Green Dragon — and his consort, The Gold Dragon — are indeed real. [...]
Ask An Old Hippie: What’s The Best Strain For Me?
Dear Old Hippie: First off, thank you for all the great information you give. After two years of taking every pill on the pharmaceutical market, my doctor finally signed my paperwork to get my Medical Marijuana recommendation. I used to smoke in the past, but have not smoked any weed for at least two years now. Now that [...]
Ask An Old Hippie: What Can I Do With Marijuana Cooking Oil?
Dear Old Hippie: So I bought around a quarter ounce of weed and I ground all of it up. Then I put ¾ cup of canola oil in a pot and started to heat it. When it started to simmer, I put the weed in and added about a cup of water (so not to burn the [...]
Marijuana Smokers Found Less Likely To Be Obese
In yet another indication that traditional stereotypes of “pot smokers” are false and discriminatory, a recent study published in the American Journal Of Epidemiology shows that cannabis users are less likely to be obese than those who don’t partake. According to Dr. Yann Le Strat of the Louis-Mourier Hospital in France and the Toronto-based Centre for [...]
FDA Drug Profile: Vicodin vs. Cannabis
Vicodin is a very popular prescription pain relieving drug that’s actually a combination of two other medications: hydrocodone and acetaminophen. Hydrocodone is a semi-synthetic opioid that’s approximately as powerful as morphine (when taken orally). Symptoms of hydrocodone overdose include respiratory depression; extreme somnolence; blue, clammy, or cold skin; narrowed or widened pupils; bradycardia; coma; seizures; cardiac arrest; and death. Acetaminophen works [...]
Who Do You Trust: Your Own Eyes Or Big Pharma?
The medical properties of cannabis are many, and they are unquestioned by the millions of people who use marijuana to treat various ailments everyday. But many would have you believe that the only way to know if cannabis has medicinal value is the process of FDA approval. But why would the FDA study and approve [...]
Medical Marijuana Cancer Study
Cancer and marijuana is a subject we have covered a lot here at The 420 Times, even devoting an issue of our magazine to it back in March. It continues to be a topic our readers ask about, and below is an interesting video about a man who decided to do something about it. The [...]
Report: Genetic Code Of Cannabis Unlocked
A company in Massachusetts claims they have unlocked the genetic code of marijuana, paving the way for advanced research on the properties of cannabis and more effective treatments for ailments using cannabis. The company – known as Medicinal Genomics – posted raw sequence strings at midnight, and say they plan to make all 131 billion [...]
Cannabis Strain Review: Maui Wowie
Here is a strain review from a reader on a very popular strain, the legendary Maui Wowie. If you have a strain review you want to share with our readers, send it to joe@the420times.com and be sure to include a picture and the address of your website if you have one. Strain: Maui Wowie. This [...]
California Hospital Accused Of Denying Medical Treatment To Legal MMJ Patients
It’s against medical ethics and possibly even the law, but a hospital in Calaveras County, California is alleged to be preventing seriously ill patients from receiving needed medical attention based on the fact that they also use medical marijuana legally under Prop. 215. The Stockton Record originally ran the story about a number of patients who [...]
Federal Judge Throws Out Florida’s Drug Law
On Wednesday U.S. District Court Judge Mary Scriven of Orlando threw out the Florida Drug Abuse Prevention and Control law. In 2002 the Florida legislature amended the state’s drug law to eliminate the need for prosecutors to prove criminal intent on the part of defendants. Judge Scriven ruled that this amendment violated the due process of [...]
