Article by TG Branfalt Jr., Ganjapreneur Canada’s Arthritis Society has awarded a three-year research grant to McGill University’s Dr. Mark Ware to explore the use of medical cannabis as a fibromyalgia treatment – making it the second round of medical cannabis research funded by the organization in the last 18 months. According to Statistics Canada numbers from 2014, the chronic ...

Article by Tyler Koslow, Merry Jane As tech billionaire and SpaceX founder Elon Musk prepares to send humanity to Mars, the idea of mankind living on other planets has quickly turned from a dream into a dawning reality. With cannabis legalization also on the rise, some have started to wonder whether astronauts will ever use the plant. While it might seem ...

Article by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, PsyPost States that enacted medical marijuana laws, on average, experienced reductions in traffic fatalities, according to a study by researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Overall, states that passed medical marijuana laws saw an 11 percent reduction in traffic fatalities, on average, after enacting the laws, and had ...

Article by David Moye, Huffington Post Even as more states move to legalize marijuana use, the plant’s genetic makeup remains a relative mystery. “It’s still quite an undeveloped species from the perspective of genetics,” Canadian botanist Jonathan Page told Vocativ. Page published the first paper with a draft sequence of a single cannabis strain, but federal laws against pot have long made academic ...

Article by Ricardo Oliveira, Lift There is a debate around medical cannabis concerning the benefits of using whole-plant vs. specific cannabinoid extracts. Modern medicine and regulatory institutions tend to favor the latter, as it provides more control and predictability when it comes to doses, therapeutic effects, and side effects. Some researchers and involved citizens, on the other hand, believe that ...

Article by Lindsey Tanner, Associated Press via ABC News U.S. women are increasingly using marijuana during pregnancy, sometimes to treat morning sickness, new reports suggest. Though the actual numbers are small, the trend raises concerns because of evidence linking the drug with low birth weights and other problems. In 2014, almost 4 percent of pregnant women said they’d recently used ...

Article by Eric W. Dolan, PsyPost Alcohol intoxication amplifies feelings of aggression while cannabis intoxication diminishes feelings of aggression, according to research published in Psychopharmacology. The study of 61 participants found alcohol consumption increased aggressive responses during a computer-based experiment designed to measure aggression, while cannabis consumption reduced aggressive responses. PsyPost interviewed the study’s corresponding author, Elizabeth de Sousa Fernandes Perna of ...

Article by Cresonia Hsieh, Miami Herald As director of the concussion program at the University of Miami, Dr. Gillian Hotz has spent years tracking head injuries of high school athletes. But starting in January, the research professor will see if she and her team can come up with a new way to treat a concussion — possibly with a pill ...

Article by Ricardo Oliveira, Lift Among the manifold roles of the mammal endocannabinoid (eCB) system is the regulation of metabolism and energy expenditure. This function extends to pathological conditions, as evidenced by previous research showing this system to be over-activated in conditions of obesity and diabetes type 2. A synthetic cannabinoid – Rimbonant – that interacts with cannabinoid type 1 ...

Article by Monterey Bud,  Merry Jane Exonerating the high holiday of 4/20, a new study demonstrates the typical spike in marijuana consumption on April 20th among U.S. college students offers “little evidence” that increased use during specific marijuana-related events leads to “more problematic” issues. 4/20 Study First published by the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, then posted by the ...