All Entries in the "Medical Research" 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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
