An Elk River family who for weeks fought for their daughter to have access to her medical cannabis on school grounds saw their persistence pay off over the weekend.
In a modest Kyiv apartment, off-duty soldiers meet to smoke cannabis and forget, for a moment, the things they have seen.
Despite years of determined campaigning by patients and their families, medical cannabis remains out of reach for many people. Aisling Hudson explains how access to this vital medicine is being opened up at a snail’s pace.
After his first 100 days as president, Moetai Brotherson announced this week that the project to legalise CBD in Polynesia was ready.
Now that cannabinoids, both psychoactive (THC) and non-psychoactive (CBD, CBG,THCA,CBN, etc.), have been made available to seniors with certain medical conditions, studies have shown that it can help to manage issues related to aging including chronic arthritic pain, anxiety and insomnia.
A woman from Bristol who has chronic pain conditions says taking part in a medicinal cannabis trial has “changed her life.”Andrea Wright was just 33 when she had to retire from her job due to ill health. She then discovered the trial, which is looking into the effects of the treatment so it can become more widely available on the NHS.
When Zhia Zariko told her manager she had a legal prescription for medical cannabis, she hoped it would help break down the stigma that people who use marijuana are “useless stoners”.
With the legalization of hemp cultivation, cannabidiol (CBD) products have become popular. It is widely known that CBD has been used in tinctures, balms, and oils to aid with health ailments.
New figures released by the NHS Open Prescribing service show GPs gave out dozens of medical cannabis prescriptions over the past five years.
People with breast cancer may use marijuana, also called cannabis, to manage symptoms and counteract treatment side effects.