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What’s the deal with ketamine? Q&A on Special K

The Cannigma

According to the DEA, “substances in this schedule have a potential for abuse less than substances in Schedules I or II and abuse may lead to moderate or low physical dependence or high psychological dependence.” And just like that, all of a sudden ketamine had found a new role in modern medicine – an anti-hyperalgesic.

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AAFP ( American Academy of Family Physicians) Releases Marijuana, Cannabinoids Position Paper

Cannabis Law Report

26 Evidence is most substantial for nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy, chronic pain treatment, multiple sclerosis spasticity, and intractable seizures associated with Dravet syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. Cannabinoids have been assessed for chronic pain management.

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What is THC? Here’s everything you need to know

The Cannigma

Marijuana (defined in the US as any cannabis plant where THC>0.3%) is a schedule I drug according to the DEA and FDA. But despite lots of marketing efforts that suggest otherwise, D-8 THC is not federally legal and the DEA recently clarified that it is considered a Schedule I substance. THC and PPAR-gamma.

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