Article by Michael Williams, Skunk Magazine IN RECENT YEARS, the medical cannabis community has been buzzing about cannabidiol, a.k.a. – CBD, and its ability to bolster many health benefits while being free of an intoxicating, psychoactive affect. There are numerous conditions for which scientific and clinical studies have shown the efficacy of CBD as a therapeutic medicine: chronic pain, cancer, ...

Article by High! Canada The marijuana industry is full of buzz these days. With the Canadian government’s commitment of a recreational market by summer 2018, and Health Canada ramping up approvals for cultivation and grow, there is a lot to be excited about. Certainly, this is good news for commercial licensed producers under the Canadian ACMPR program. In the last 12 ...

Article by Dr. Frank, Cannabis Culture Let’s get one thing out of the way: under no circumstances did medical schools in New York give any type of training on cannabis in the early-to-mid 80s (1982 to 1986, to be precise). Cannabis was never really mentioned or even bought up as an option or alternative to other pharmaceutical medications. Cannabis was just ...

Article by James Pegler, Fibromyalgia Treating Fibromyalgia is a complicated disease with many symptoms, and it affects each person differently. Cannabis is also a complicated medicine with different strains and cannabinoid compounds that act on the body in different ways. Saying that weed will help with fibro may or may not be true. If you are trying to treat chronic pain ...

Article by Mike Okada, Cannabis Life Network GreenMed is the first in the world to allow blockchain-based credit card and debit purchases of cannabis with its new mobile app, in addition to its ERC 20-compliant Ethereum tokens– meaning that GreenMed is bringing credit card and debit purchases to the cannabis industry while also giving customers the option to pay via cyptocurrency. On GreenMed’s website, ...

Article by High! Canada Strainprint™ Technologies Ltd. Announces partnership with Emblem Cannabis Corp. to create a licenced version of the Strainprint Medical Cannabis Research App Toronto, Wednesday, June 28, 2017 – Strainprint Technologies Ltd. (“Strainprint”) — the leader in cannabis patient and strain eficacy data — is excited to announce the launch of the first ever co-branded version of its ...

Article by Amanda Siebert, The Georgia Straight This past weekend, local and international cannabis aficionados came out to play at the first-ever High Times Cannabis Cup in Canada. Between two stages of music, a vendor’s expo, a cannabis cup, and multiple seminars, there was plenty to take in over the course of the three-day event, but we spent most of our time perusing the expo ...

Article by Get Lifted It doesn’t take a doctorate to know that inhaling any type of smoke is unhealthy for your lungs. Whether it be tobacco smoke or a barbeque grill, smoke particles in your lungs are never good. The main risk that comes from inhaling smoke is lung cancer, but when it comes to weed, it gets a little ...

Article byKelly Gibson, High! Canada There are several aspects of my life that are positively affected by Cannabis. It is a crucial tool that helps manage my health, inside and out. I use it to control the symptoms of a chronic illness, Crohn’s Disease and other complications. When used daily it controls my appetite, nausea, pain and depression. Without Cannabis my ...

Article by Gonzo Nieto, Lift News A review article published in the British Journal of Pharmacology earlier this year suggests that cannabidiol (CBD), the major non-psychoactive component of cannabis, may have utility as an adjunct to treatment approaches for anxiety disorders such as PTSD and substance abuse disorders. This is mainly due to the way CBD interacts with learning and memory processes. But ...