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Doctors Get New Clinical Guidelines for Managing Chronic Pain With Cannabis, Courtesy of Canadian Researchers

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Chronic pain —a condition that affects 50.2 annually — is one of the most common reasons why medical marijuana is sought out by patients in the United States, Canada, and beyond. Nonetheless, guidelines pertaining to the use of cannabis-based treatments for chronic pain relief have been somewhat hazy…up until now.

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Survey Reveals Almost Half of Canada’s MMJ Patients Reduced Their Alcohol and Opioid Consumption

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New data published in the Journal of Cannabis Research claims that almost one in two authorized medical cannabis patients in Canada managed to either completely stop or reduce their intake of controlled substances, such as alcohol and opioids , by using cannabis. Cannabis’ Place in Substance Abuse Recovery .

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Doctors to Debate Medical Pot as More Patients Expected to Ask for Prescriptions

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VANCOUVER — Doctors with opposing views on whether medical marijuana should be prescribed for various conditions agree on one thing: their profession is ill-prepared to deal with patients asking for a drug that lacks adequate clinical research. “It’s a tough situation. .” “So I think a lot of the claims are false.”

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Cleadon Pharama Lists On Alternative Investments Market – First British Company To Join In 21 Years

Cannabis Law Report

Its admission represents a ‘huge milestone for Celadon’, according to the new entity’s CEO James Short, but also for the UK cannabis industry at large. It also owns a majority stake in LVL Health , a chronic pain clinic, alongside a minority stake in cannabinoid-based biopharmaceutical company Kingdom Therapeutics. Admission

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Pushing Cannabis into Modern Healthcare

CannaTech

Changing Cannabis Conversations Worldwide. Canada has been at the forefront of shaping much of the rhetoric surrounding cannabis since 2001. While Canada’s medicinal cannabis framework has gone through many iterations, Canada has led the way in showing to the world how to think about cannabis.

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Cannabis as Medicine: 101

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For most cultures, the use of cannabis as a medicine can be traced back to thousands of years ago. The Canadian government paid less attention to cannabis having medicinal properties, and added it to a list of restricted drugs under the Opium and Narcotic act in 1923. Without a doubt, pills were immediately introduced to the market.

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The Future of Medicinal Cannabis in Canada

Sensi Seeds

Context of the Medicinal Cannabis Situation. Since 2001, Canadians seeking to use cannabis for medical treatment have had access to it under the Marihuana Medical Access Regulations (MMAR ). The procedure for sourcing cannabis from an authorized producer is relatively simple. The Canadian Medical Association (CMA).