Items tagged with cannabinoids
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| Possession of cannabis for personal use [01.01.2020] | The legal status of cannabis for personal use is one of the most controversial policy issues in the European Union. Although cannabis is a classified... |
| Where there’s smoke, there’s political fire [16.07.2017] | The rising popularity of marijuana that doesn’t make you high – a product known as “ cannabis light ” or “CBD cannabis” – is causing a headache for S... |
| Swiss supermarket to start selling 'legal cannabis' cigarettes [12.07.2017] | An independent Swiss cigarette maker has this month launched what it calls the first hemp cigarette in the world – and from July 24th they will be on... |
| ‘Swiss marijuana champion’ finds new markets with ‘cannabis light’ [28.06.2017] | There’s decaffeinated coffee, alcohol-free beer, and now marijuana that doesn’t make you high. The product known as “cannabis light” or “CBD cannabis... |
| Spice ruins lives and costs taxpayers a fortune. It doesn’t have to be this way [28.04.2017] | Spice-induced “zombie” outbreaks in New York and in Manchester have hit the headlines in the past year. Use of these new damaging and powerful forms ... |
| Swiss cannabis entrepreneurs develop craving for low-potency pot [22.03.2017] | Entrepreneurs have high hopes for cannabis in Switzerland, where business has suddenly taken off in recent months, six years after the country legali... |
| Don't smoke it with tobacco: scientists suggest ways to make cannabis safer [01.03.2017] | Scientists are calling for a major effort to make cannabis use less harmful as a rising number of countries look to replace long-standing and outrigh... |
| Mexican Senate passes medical marijuana bill [13.12.2016] | Mexico's Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill that would allow for the use of medical marijuana, in a further step toward outright legalization in a... |
| In Switzerland, high-CBD cannabis being sold legally as ‘tobacco substitute’ [24.10.2016] | An organic gardening company in Switzerland has managed to make high-CBD cannabis flower available to consumers by capping the THC content and regist... |
| Time to put ‘skunk’ out of business [21.06.2016] | In the scientific literature, 'skunk' has come to mean something more specific: cannabis that contains a high percentage of Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC... |
| Portland startup maps cannabis genome to protect weed from Monsanto patenting [23.04.2016] | A Portland biotechnology company has launched a 3-D map that charts the genetic evolution of cannabis genomes, protecting strains like OG Kush from f... |
| Three types of marijuana to hit Uruguayan pharmacies in 2016 [05.12.2015] | Uruguayans will be able to choose from three varieties of state-sanctioned cannabis when marijuana starts being sold in pharmacies next year, the Nat... |
| State of the Evidence: Cannabis Use and Regulation [31.07.2015] | As more and more jurisdictions reconsider their cannabis policies, the public discourse is filled with conflicting evidence about the impacts of cann... |
| Cannabis: The comeback of a banned medicine [22.06.2015] | "When pure and administered carefully, is one of the most valuable medicines we possess,” wrote British physician John Russell Reynolds in 1890, prai... |
| Cannabis for schizophrenia - A new medication? [01.04.2015] | Cannabidiol, which is an active substance in cannabis, helps relieve the symptoms of schizophrenia by helping to normalize brain metabolism. Schizoph... |
| Cannabis: what's in a name? [02.03.2015] | Users often make the claim that “sativas” produce a more “head-high” while “indicas” a more “body-high”, and that this could potentially be because o... |
| So smoking skunk cause psychosis, but milder cannabis doesn't? [16.02.2015] | The Mail on Sunday has shouted that " cannabis TRIPLES psychosis risk" and that skunk is to blame for "1 in 4 of all new serious mental disorders". I... |
| KanaVape: Cannabis e-cigarette to go on sale in the UK [16.12.2014] | The vaping trend seemingly knows no bounds as the first “cannabis” e-cigarette goes on sale in the UK. The KanaVape, which contains hemp, has been le... |
| The new strain of cannabis that could help treat psychosis [15.11.2014] | Dr David Potter and GW Pharmaceuticals – a company that is exploring how cannabis could help treat a range of illnesses ranging from epilepsy to canc... |
| A puff of logic [27.06.2014] | That cannabis and schizophrenia are linked is widely accepted. Several studies suggest the drug can set off short-term psychotic episodes in those al... |
| Non-psychoactive CBD oil made from marijuana plants poised to be game-changer [29.03.2014] | A Colorado marijuana innovation is changing the way lawmakers in even the most conservative parts of the country talk about cannabis and is poised to... |
| "Think cannabis is harmless?" No. Does anyone? [23.10.2013] | Cannabis is associated with psychosis (a symptom) and schizophrenia (an illness where this symptom is persistent) in complex, contradictory and myste... |
| The city of Utrecht wants to convince mentally ill marijuana users to smoke better pot [12.09.2013] | Thanks in part to the Netherlands' policy of marijuana decriminalization, there are people living in the Dutch city of Utrecht whose addiction to can... |
| Five biggest lies from anti-pot propagandist Kevin Sabet [07.08.2013] | Kevin Abraham Sabet-Sharghi, Ph.D., aka Kevin Sabet, has been a headline-grabbing right-winger ever since his U.C. Berkeley days —where he did not st... |
| New law’s pot definition impairs criminal cases [23.04.2013] | Prosecutors and crime-lab scientists say a little-noticed provision in Washington’s new law legalizing recreational marijuana has jeopardized their a... |
| Cannabis as an Adjunct to or Substitute for Opiates in the Treatment of Chronic Pain [31.05.2012] | There is a growing body of evidence to support the use of medical cannabis as an adjunct to or substitute for prescription opiates in the treatment o... |
| Marijuana compound treats schizophrenia with few side effects [29.05.2012] | A compound found in marijuana can treat schizophrenia as effectively as antipsychotic medications, with far fewer side effects, according to a prelim... |
| The Israeli pharmacologist who kick-started marijuana research [13.05.2012] | Half a century ago, Hebrew University Prof. Raphael Mechoulam isolated and synthesized THC, the main psychoactive compound in the cannabis plant. By ... |
| The neuroscience of pot [11.01.2012] | Marijuana has been shown to have both anxiolytic (anti-anxiety) effects and to induce anxiety and psychosis in certain people. In schizophrenics, it ... |
| Marijuana may both trigger and suppress psychosis [04.01.2012] | New research finds that the two main ingredients in marijuana have opposing effects on it. The study examined 15 normal men who had previously smoked... |
| Combination of cannabinoids and opiates could help reduce chronic pain [07.12.2011] | A UCSF study suggests patients with chronic pain may experience greater relief if their doctors add cannabinoids - the main ingredient in cannabis or... |
| Study finds no cancer-marijuana connection [25.05.2006] | The largest study of its kind has unexpectedly concluded that smoking marijuana, even regularly and heavily, does not lead to lung cancer. The new fi... |
| A tale of two cannabinoids [01.01.2006] | This study examines the current knowledge of physiological and clinical effects of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD) and presents a ra... |
| Marijuana and Medicine [01.01.1999] | The medical use of marijuana is surrounded by a cloud of social, political, and religious controversy, which obscures the facts that should be consid... |
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