Health

Before his owners started dosing him with a daily drop of marijuana, Garfield the cat’s nine lives were rapidly running out. The 18-year-old feline — whose name has been changed to protect patient confidentiality — suffered from a host of painful conditions. These included thyroid and heart disease, severe arthritis, renal failure and chronic pancreatitis, a condition that caused him …

Since cannabis has increased in legality across the USA, there have been a lot of discussions about whether or not it is safe, or indeed has the health benefits people talk about. In actual fact, cannabis oil has a lot of benefits for general health and is used by a lot of people as a supplement. However, cannabis oil is …

Before modern medical science came into existence, cannabis and other products of nature were extensively used to heal and repair the human body. In the nineteenth century, cannabis, or marijuana, was highly revered in the West for its medicinal benefits for a range of conditions, including respiratory illnesses, migraine, menstruation-related issues, pain management and insomnia. Marijuana gradually earned a bad …

When it comes to cancer, it is still, one of the leading causes of death in the world. The number of victims of both sexes is increasing every year and the therapies to solve the problem are unfortunately still limited. Brain cancer is a disease that, in the US alone, affects over 700,000 people. Unfortunately, some of them lose the …

Cannabis seeds are essentially seeds of a plant commonly known as the Sativa and are considered to be one of the most nutritious elements to be grown in the wild. The seeds are produced primarily by cross-pollination by the cannabis plants and they can be further segregated into categories such as feminized cannabis seeds, hemp seeds, autoflowering cannabis seeds and …

Terpenes are the oils produced by similar pot plant glands which are producing CBD and THC during the flowering process. More than 100 terpenes were identified so far and each one of them comes with a unique taste and smell, including the medical marijuana properties. Right from muscle tension, breast cancer, asthma, to depress, gallstones or stress, rest assured that …

Marijuana and alcohol are equally addictive. In fact, around 10% of people who smoke weed will become addicted to it. This means that 90% of people can use weed for recreational purposes, but for the other percentage of people, weed is not harmless. People who are addicted to weed have a hard time controlling their usage. Although they know weed …

Marijuana was popular in the 1900s among jazz musicians apparently because unlike alcohol which dulls and incapacitates, marijuana allowed users whose job involved playing long into the night to forget how exhausted they were. In addition, the drug seemed to make their compositions more imaginative and their music sound more unique – at least according to the people who played …

Though smoking Cannabis may be carcinogenic, THC in Cannabis can be effective in easing inflammation in the lungs. THC helps dilate the bronchi and bronchioles, decreasing resistance in the respiratory airway and increasing airflow to the lungs. Study The acute effects of smoked 2 per cent natural marijuana (7 mg per kg) and 15 mg of oral Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) on …

Now that the eventual legalization of medical marijuana appears to be almost certain in the United States, everyone from the casual grower to big corporations are making plans to cash in. Although this might actually be what it takes to push this legisl…