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Read Time: 4:30 Mins. This is the story about a remarkable patient with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, and how cannabis may have a therapeutic benefit for the disease. It affects the nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. ALS is rare but devastating, and only about 20,000 …

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4min. read As people across the nation open up their minds and laws to medicinal cannabis use, we as a community are becoming more educated and aware of the plant’s composition and potential. Cannabis is regaining its position as the mother plant of natural healing, offering a wide range of benefits thanks to its wide …

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Read Time: 5 Mins. Medical marijuana (MMJ) is legal in 30 U.S. states, Washington, D.C., and Canada. This wellness movement transcends politics, race, age, and social status because it is a grass-roots effort (pun intended) led by people, not politicians. Unfortunately, for decades, scientific and medical research languished as the federal government restricted access to …

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Read Time: 3:30 Mins. There is good news about more cannabis research! The federal government is expanding cannabis research on chronic pain, which is great news for mature adults as so many of us suffer from chronic pain. Last March, the U.S. government posted three different official notices seeking data about studies on opioid treatments, non-opioid treatments, …

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Read Time: 3:30 Mins In December 2018 the Hemp Farming Act was signed into law vastly expanding research and production of hemp across the nation. It is already bearing fruit so to speak. Last month, the Flowering HOPE Foundation in Boulder, CO, and Clover Leaf University in Denver announced their collaboration on the first approved U.S. clinical study investigating hemp-derived cannabinoid …

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8min. read The legalization of cannabis for adults in the United States has been a positive cultural and political development, and it is a rapidly growing movement. It began in 1996 when California voters passed Proposition 215 legalizing medical marijuana for adults. Currently, 31 states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, and Guam permit it. In addition, nine states …

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Read Time: 4:30 Mins. If you suffer from mornings where you are waking up with lower back pain, you are not alone. According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), about 80 percent of adults experience lower back pain at some point in their lifetimes. It is the most common cause of job-related …

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Part 1 of a Series Read Time: 4:00 Mins. Robert always considered himself to be a law-abiding, regular guy. To him, drug addicts were lazy, weak people, and most of them were downright criminals. If they overdosed, well, they shouldn’t have been using drugs in the first place. When he found his 24-year-old son in …

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Part Three in a Series Read Time: 4:30 Mins. Janet does not remember the car accident which changed her life. She recalls having a green light and going through the intersection, then, seeing a paramedic kneeling over her quickly waving a penlight back and forth over her eyes. Slowly, she realized he was asking her …

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Part Two in a Series Read Time: 4:00 Mins. This article is the second of a three-part series dealing with the opioid epidemic crisis engulfing our nation. In our first article, we explored the beginnings of it, and that it affects every social class and region. Again, the numbers are horrendous. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control …

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