Medical marijuana benefits proven?

[Bsuds]

The statement of helping with Glaucoma interested me because I have that so I looked it up.

http://www.aao.org/eye-health/tips-prev ... a-treament

Quote "The research found that when marijuana is smoked or when a form of its active ingredient is taken as a pill or by injection, it does lower IOP. However, it only lowers IOP for a short period of time—about three or four hours.

This short period of time is a major drawback for the use of marijuana as a glaucoma treatment. Because glaucoma needs to be treated 24 hours a day, you would need to smoke marijuana six to eight times a day around the clock to receive the benefit of a consistently lowered IOP. Because of marijuana's mood-altering effect, smoking so much of it daily would leave you too impaired to drive, operate equipment or function at the peak of your mental ability."

So what else in that list of yours is false or misleading?

It reminds me of a Snake oil salesman of years past. It's not a cure all!

[jimmy4321]

Maybe there will be more stories like this to set the tone for whats to come for those who grow their medical marijuana?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ ... -1.3784620

[jimsenchuk]

Autistic Boy Gains Ability to Speak After Just 2 Days of Cannabis Oil Treatment

At 10 months of age, Kalel Santiago of Puerto Rico was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called neuroblastoma. He endured chemotherapy, radiation treatments, and surgery for two years—and survived.



Then he was diagnosed with something permanent: severe autism that disabled him from speaking.

“While he was in the hospital, we noticed he didn’t speak at all and had some behavior that wasn’t right, like hand flapping, and walking on his toes,” his father Abiel Gomez Santiago told Yahoo News. “But we waited until he was 3 and cancer-free to look at his behavior.”



According to Yahoo, “He and his wife Gladys — also parents to two older boys, now 18 and 20 — did a cram course in educating themselves on autism. They tried various schools and therapies and eventually found impressive success with a unique surf-therapy school near their home.”

Eventually, the Santiago family stumbled upon a treatment of real potency and potential: CBD oil.

Through a fundraising program, they were able to receive a tiny bottle of the oil. Kalel was given oral doses twice a day.

Within just two days, he was finally able to speak. “He surprised us in school by saying the vowels, A-E-I-O-U. It was the first time ever,” Abiel said. “You can’t imagine the emotion we had, hearing Kalel’s voice for the first time. It was amazing. The teacher recorded him and sent it to my wife and me and we said well, the only different thing we have been doing is using the CBD.”

Soon after, he began using consonants, too, speaking like his parents never thought possible.

“He said, ‘amo mi mama,’ ‘I love my mom,’” Abiel says. “I don’t know how to thank [the CBD oil makers].”

Kalel’s story is yet another piece of evidence piling onto the mountain of support for cannabis oil and full marijuana legalization. Please share this with as many people as possible!

http://www.organicandhealthy.org/2016/1 ... speak.html

[Gixxer]

Anyone on here using CBD oil? If so are you feeling the benefits?

[the truth]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/shopper ... -1.3820131 big phrma getting there filthy dirty corrupt hands on selling it, how much will they sell if for $25 a gram

[Fancy]

Don't you mean Loblaws?

Shoppers is owned by Loblaw Companies Ltd. and at the company's annual general meeting in May, chairman Galen G. Weston said he supported the industry's push toward dispensing marijuana via bricks and mortar pharmacies.

"We're an industry that is extremely effective at managing controlled substances," Weston said at the time.

"It gives pharmacists the opportunity to work directly in real time with patients as opposed to doing it through the mail, working on their doses and making sure it actually has the therapeutic effect that it is intended to have."

[jimsenchuk]

How Cannabis Works to Treat Seizures, ADD and IBS

All mammals, including humans, incorporate ontologically the old reptilian brain (the midbrain), which is responsible for most of our primitive emotions and is important to our survival. When the midbrain is over-stimulated it takes over some of the control, making humans inclined to act a lot more like reptiles and a bit less like people.

The term “reptilian” refers to the primitive, instinctive brain function. These functions are shared by all reptiles and mammals, including humans, and provide the most powerful and oldest of our brain’s coping mechanisms, what is often described as the “fight or flight” response. The reptilian brain sees things in black and white and it causes us to act first and think later. While this can often cause trouble, without our reptilian brain functions we might not be alive.

It is suggested that in humans the reptilian brain is important in the expression of obsessive-compulsive behavior; personal day-to-day rituals, superstitious acts; slavish conformance to old ways of doing things; ceremonial re-enactments, as well as responding to partial representations (coloration, strangeness, etc.), whether alive or inanimate, and all manner of deception.

Seventy percent of the human brain is there to slow down or modulate the other 30 percent. This modulation is mediated by a complex system of neurochemical and electrical on-off switches. Too many neural signals going too fast almost certainly play an important role in the causes of bipolar disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, ADD/ADHD, seizure disorder, migraines, explosive anger disorder and irritable bowel syndrome, to name a few.

Our thinking can be hampered if too many neural signals, going too fast, get through to the brain. This may overwhelm the brain and make it difficult to concentrate or focus on any one idea or project. So, built into the brain we have mechanisms to dial back and slow the speed of neurotransmission.

One of these mechanisms uses the endocannabinoid system (ECS) which is found in all human bodies. The ECS is located on the central and peripheral nervous systems and regulates essential brain/body functions like pain, mood, digestion, sleep and appetite. Because humans also obtain cannabinoids from the cannabis plant, using cannabis can restrain the reptilian brain in treating neurological conditions.

The endocannabinoid system is critical for neuromodulation and homeostasis. It works by a mechanism called retrograde inhibition. According to UCI Professor Danielle Piomelli, Ph.D., those suffering from ADD are likely to have an endocannabinoid deficiency.

Nerves communicate with each other by sending signals across synapses between them going only in one direction. The endocannabinoid system represents a mechanism by which neurons go in both directions, actually communicating backwards across synapses to modulate/decrease their inputs. This is important because when the body is stressed from too many signals, as in seizures, it releases dopamine to calm things down. If there is a cannabinoid deficiency, the normal release is slowed down because the release of dopamine depolarizes the nerve, making it harder to stimulate. Increased free dopamine released by cannabinoids, because of this retrograde inhibition, stops the brain from being inundated by both internal and external stimuli.

Cannabinoid receptors are co-localized with dopamine receptors, suggesting that cannabinoids affect the release of dopamine. This probably influences neurons to depolarize, thereby making it harder to stimulate them. With fewer inputs to the higher centers of thinking and with the neural input being slower, it makes it that much easier for the patient to focus and process these thoughts. Additionally, when someone has a seizure disorder, the slowing down of the process by the increased availability of dopamine made possible by cannabinoids introduced to the body from the cannabis plant, reduces both the intensity and frequency of seizures.

The brain is not fully developed at birth. We finish our neuronal wiring out in the world. If brains didn’t continue development outside the womb, a baby’s head wouldn’t fit through the birth canal. Brain development is 90 percent complete by age three but continues through the mid 20s.

So, although we know cannabis can alleviate conditions caused by the reptilian brain, does this have an adverse impact? Some suggest that the consumption of cannabis before the brain is fully developed may adversely affect that development. At present there is no research or epidemiological evidence to support that speculation.

After all, cannabinoids are present in our bodies from birth, and cannabinoids, whether endogenous (produced in our bodies) or exogenous (introduced into our bodies) work by either stimulating or blocking the CB and/or CB2 receptor sites throughout the body.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/581 ... 8029520304

[the truth]

http://www.castanet.net/edition/news-st ... htm#180260 and people are concerned about marijuana lol

[Silverstarqueen]

More states pass laws permitting cannabis use: (sky has not fallen yet)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... healthcare

[jimsenchuk]

Harvard Study: Smoking Weed Improves Brain Functions

People are forever wandering onto KINDLAND territory and wondering out loud: What makes you people so *bleep* smart?

Well, scientific findings recently published in Frontiers in Pharmacology may have cleared up that mystery once and for all. Preliminary investigations by medical researchers from McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Tufts University indicate that pot use improves cognitive performance.

Cognitive performance, no need to tell you, is “our ability to utilize the knowledge acquired by mental processes in our brains.” In other words, perform tasks that require thinking, as in to be so *bleep* smart.

The behavioral scientists behind the work summarized in “Splendor in the Grass? A Pilot Study Assessing the Impact of Medical Marijuana on Executive Function” tracked 24 certified medical-marijuana patients over a three-month dosing period. The patients were repeatedly measured for cognitive proficiency through challenges to the intelligence that included the Stroop Color Word Test and Trail Making Test.

Staci Gruber, PhD, director of the Marijuana Investigations for Neuroscientific Discovery (MIND) program at McLean Hospital—Harvard Medical School’s largest psychiatric affiliate—is the lead “Splendor in the Grass?” researcher. Her initial report is twofold positive. For one thing, weed treatment led to patients breezing through an array of brainteasers with enhanced speed and accuracy.

From a McLean Hospital report:

“After three months of medical marijuana treatment, patients actually performed better, in terms of their ability to perform certain cognitive tasks, specifically those mediated by the frontal cortex,” explained Gruber.

Study participants also reported improvements in their specific clinical conditions, sleep, and overall health as well as a decreased use of conventional medications, particularly opiates.

“We saw a 42 percent reduction in opioid use,” reported Gruber. “This is significant, particularly for those of us in Massachusetts and other areas of the country where the opioid epidemic is ravaging so many. This preliminary finding certainly warrants deeper and broader investigation.”

In less than a week, electorates in five states (one of them being Massachusetts) have the opportunity to vote themselves into the legal-marijuana club. If just one of these states, California for instance, opts for legal adult use, literally millions more Americans will be granted the option to use marijuana without fear of police intervention. Perhaps not everyone who picks up a joint in this newly normalized landscape will become as intelligent as the Kindland smarties.

But you don’t need to be a brilliant visionary to recognize that the preliminary findings from McLean Hospital’s pilot study assessing the favorable impacts of cannabis on adult human brains demand further exploration. Deeper, broader investigations into marijuana’s ability to improve our mental functioning and reduce our susceptibility to opioid dependence should be happening sooner than later.

In that regard, “Splendor in the Grass?” lead Staci Gruber appears to be every bit as invested in the public wellbeing as she is smart in her approach to unraveling and establishing best marijuana practices.

“People are going to use it,” she concludes. “It’s up to us to figure out the very best and safest ways in which they can do that.”

http://www.thekindland.com/harvard-stud ... SocialFlow

[jimsenchuk]

Justin Trudeau Exaggerates Involvement Of Organized Crime In Canada’s Marijuana Black Market

The Canadian government and media aren’t painting an accurate portrait of the black market for marijuana, according to a report released last week by researchers for the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition (CDPC). Their recommendations – which are being sent to Canada’s marijuana task force – call on the government to base regulations on research instead of rhetoric.

One of the primary offenders in misrepresenting the black market is none other than Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. When discussing legalization last December, Trudeau said, “We need to make sure we’re keeping our kids safe and keeping our communities safe by removing the black market and the criminal gangs and the street organizations from [the marijuana trade].”

The only problem with that argument is that street gangs and crime syndicates aren’t overly involved in the black market for marijuana.

“The evidence base suggests that despite the illicit nature of the current cannabis market, it is not dominated by organized crime but rather by otherwise law-abiding citizens,” the CDPC report reads.

Researchers came to that conclusion by reviewing current research, including a 2011 study that found the involvement of organized crime in Canada’s marijuana market is minimal.

“A 2011 federal Department of Justice report studied a random sample of 500 marijuana production cases, drawn from Crown prosecutor case files and RCMP criminal history files over an 8-year period. Only 5% of the files yielded any indication that the offender was affiliated with organized crime or street gangs.”

According to the CDPC, most illegal cultivators in Canada are small-scale growers who aren’t primarily interested in profiteering. Instead, they generally grow cannabis for the sake of supplementing their income, controlling the quality of the marijuana they consume and, somewhat paradoxically, “avoiding the illegal market.”

The CDPC also found that most growers want to be part of a legal framework. And the research group believes that seasoned growers and dispensary owners are important parts of their community who could provide the government with invaluable advice about marijuana.

“Cannabis producers, both small and large, are an important part of the economy and should be considered as valuable contributors to the policy process. These are, generally speaking, individuals who want to participate in a legal market premised upon thoughtfully constructed regulations. We recommend that the new regulations be informed by and incorporate this representative segment of the pre-existing market in order to benefit from their insights and experience.”

But most importantly, the CDPC is calling on the government and media to tone down the rhetoric on the black market. “Erroneously painting current industry participants as organized criminals, with predatory actions and intentions, could lead to unfounded restrictions on participation in this emerging legal market,” researchers wrote.

Full report in pdf format is at the end of the story at this link:
https://www.worldcannabis.net/organized ... n-trudeau/

[the truth]

http://www.castanet.net/edition/news-st ... htm#180863 on and on it goes big pharma and the govt in bed with each other and there concerned about thc lol lol

[Silverstarqueen]

Any idea as to why Clark is claiming pot is being laced with fentanyl when there is no evidence of this?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c ... -1.3857412

[jimsenchuk]

Any idea as to why Clark is claiming pot is being laced with fentanyl when there is no evidence of this?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c ... -1.3857412

It's just a scare tactic from the neo-libs

[the truth]

http://www.castanet.net/edition/news-st ... htm#181808 i get there point, but why do they not have the same problem with doctors giving kids big pharma meds , and turning them into junkies and doped up zombies