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Serious Conditions Are Responding To Cannabinoid Therapy

Peninsula Alternative Health

As medical cannabis emerges from the dark days of prohibition, researchers are finding a wide range of conditions responding successfully to it. Epilepsy Seizure disorders are on the list of qualifying conditions for most medical cannabis states. Because cannabis is still a schedule 1 drug in the U.S., improvement in good sleep.

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Medicinal properties of CBD

Alchimia

A study published in February 2015 in the Pharmacology & Pharmacy journal showed that a CBD-rich extract from cannabis plants is much more efficient than CBD used in its pure form , mainly due the presence of other cannabinoids, terpenes and other molecules that greatly increase the dosage/efficiency ratio of CBD.

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Interview With FN's Lisa Pittman Featured In Dallas News

MJ Business Attorneys

She came to the industry not from the recreational side, but as a mother seeking treatment for her child with epilepsy. In 2014, I was reading the Senate Bill 339 [Texas’ Compassionate Use Act enacted in 2015] testimony of mothers of children with epilepsy. This law was passed in 2015.

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Check Out This Texas-Sized Cannabis Legalization Update

Veriheal

Texas passed a medical cannabis law called the Compassionate Use Act in 2015. It allowed for low THC cannabis products for patients in Texas that had intractable epilepsy. HB 1535 – Adding More Conditions to Qualifying Conditions List for Medical Cannabis in Texas. In 2019 the law was updated thanks to HB 3703.

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Serbian Patients Face Jail as Medical Marijuana Legalisation Stalls. so far 20 have gone to jail

Cannabis Law Report

Balkan Insight is reporting… eople with long-term illnesses are still being given prison sentences in Serbia for using cannabis to treat medical conditions, as the government has been stalling on legal reform while vowing even harsher anti-drug enforcement.

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Cannabis laws in Georgia

The Cannigma

The program was legalized in 2015 and patients with qualifying conditions can get a prescription for up to 20oz of low THC oil, capsules, patches, or lotion. In 2015, Georgia legalized possession of up 20 fl. oz of 5% or less THC oil for medical patients with qualifying conditions. Georgia’s medical cannabis program.

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Cannabis laws in Texas

The Cannigma

In recent years, lawmakers have eased up on a number of cannabis-derived formulations, and since 2015, people with epilepsy can obtain cannabis oil that contains less than 0.5% Qualifying Conditions. These include HB 43 , which would expand the qualifying conditions to include anything that a doctor prescribes it for.

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