Follow Vera Twomeys campaign for access to life saving cannabis for her daughter Ava who suffers from a severe form of epilepsy known as Dravet Syndrome https://youtu.be/8A577bBNvvE
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Cannabis activists from Northern Ireland have pulled a massive stunt for 2017’s 420 celebrations by writing the magic number across a mountain in the capital city The huge 420 sign on the Divis mountain could be seen across different parts of the city of Belfast and was a “joint” effort by Belfast Cannabis Group, CannabisNI, West Belfast Cannabis Support Group & Auntie’s Social Cannabis Society to promote worldwide cannabis celebrations. Cannabis remains illegal in Northern Ireland but there are plenty of local advocacy groups as well as ordinary people calling for changes to the legislation surrounding cannabis. The field known…
The New Zealand government should stop “lying” to its people over medicinal cannabis, a visiting doctor says United States physician Dr David Bearman, who specialises in medicinal cannabis effects and pain relief, said Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne needed some remedial education on cannabis. “And he needs to stop talking out of both sides of his mouth. I don’t see how on the one hand, he can say there’s no evidence that cannabis is medicine and then on the other hand approve Sativex, which is tincture of cannabis — it’s liquid cannabis.” However, Dunne said Bearman’s comments were inaccurate, ignorant,…
Memory performance decreases with increasing age. Cannabis can reverse these ageing processes in the brain. This was shown in mice by scientists at the University of Bonn with their colleagues at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel). Old animals were able to regress to the state of two-month-old mice with a prolonged low-dose treatment with a cannabis active ingredient. This opens up new options, for instance, when it comes to treating dementia. The results are now presented in the journal Nature Medicine. Like any other organ, our brain ages. As a result, cognitive ability also decreases with increasing age. This…
Berlin Researchers Hope to Recruit 25,000 Marijuana Consumers for Massive Study According to The Local, the group called the Research Initiative on Cannabis Consumption is hoping to get an application for a new study approved so that they can analyze the “consequences of cannabis for psychologically healthy, adult consumers”. The aim is to “understand what effects cannabis use has after several years”, according to the group, which was started by an attorney and a clinical psychology professor at the Medical School Hamburg. The group reported last week that they submitted an updated application to the Federal Institute for Drugs and…
The Tyrone GP who wrote a groundbreaking prescription for medicinal cannabis this week said he did so because his patient’s welfare outweighed all other issues. Dr Brendan O’Hare of Castlederg Group Surgery made the recommendation that 11-year-old Billy Caldwell, who suffers from life-threatening epilepsy, should continue to receive medicinal cannabis oil which is illegal in Northern Ireland. Billy had been to Los Angeles earlier this year where he responded extremely well to the oil, which can be used legally in California. However, the supplies his family brought home were about to run out which prompted Dr O’Hare to sign a…
Cape Town – The landmark Western Cape High Court’s order regarding the private use of dagga applies only to home use and cultivation, cautioned Dagga Party leader Jeremy Acton after the ruling in Cape Town on Friday. “It’s about privacy in your own home, it’s not about on the streets,” said Acton while a jubilant crowd of Rastafarians swirled around him following a judgment that gave users some wiggle room relating to criminal charges for private possession or use of the plant. With a police van parked nearby, Acton said that laws for use outside the home would still have…
Rob Hunt a partner at Tuatara Capital tralks about the future of “medicinal cannabis” https://youtu.be/aLUoCkLOXS4 Tuatara Capital, L.P. was founded in 2014 as a specialized alternative investment manager to focus on the legal cannabis industry. Tuatara Capital supports dynamic entrepreneurs and managers by providing capital, strategic advice, and access to the Tuatara network of relationships. Tuatara Capital makes investments throughout the cannabis industry supply chain from genetics to consumer consumption.
Leafly’s Cannabis 101 introduce you to cannabinoids, the chemical compounds found in cannabis that offer an array of effects and therapeutic benefits https://youtu.be/PkmWS3ghXYU This video gives you a quick breakdown of two of the most common cannabinoids, THC and CBD. However, cannabis contains a wide variety of these beneficial compounds – more than 85 different cannabinoids have been identified, many of which have documented medical uses.
Big Berner shows us around the Los Angeles cannabis scene. https://youtu.be/AnWd2mHedK0
