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Could the Up-and-Coming Medicinal Ketamine Market Rival the Cannabis Industry?

Veriheal

We’re talking about ketamine —a dissociative anesthetic that is featured on the World Health Organization’s List of Essential Medicines. Also known as “K,” “special K,” or “cat-valium,” ketamine is gradually climbing out of an abyss of K-fueled house parties and into the vortex of medicine.

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Cannabis and the Immune System

United Patients Group

In fact, cannabis has been used for thousands of years as a medicine. Cortisol helps regulate blood sugar levels and blood pressure, but it’s also essential for proper immune function because it helps control inflammation within your body. Cannabis and the Immune System. Conclusion.

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THC & CBD-Rich Cannabis for Fibromyalgia

Project CBD

For all modern medicine can do, many mysteries remain unsolved. Researchers have been investigating the use of cannabis to treat fibromyalgia’s constellation of symptoms for decades, with early clinical trials in the 2000s 1-4 suggesting a possible benefit of both pure THC and flower in managing the disease. What is long COVID?

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High Hype: Should You Try CBD?

Otherside Farms

So far, trying to treat epilepsy with CBD has undergone a few clinical trials and we have more and more research on it. This was much better than other pharmaceutical medicine they had tried in the past. CBD has recently been linked to several benefits for the heart, circulatory system, and even to reduce high blood pressure.

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Laughter – the overlooked benefit of cannabis use

Sensi Seeds

Respiration increases, raising the amount of oxygen in the blood. During laughter, heart rate and blood pressure increase (as during exercise) but after the physicality of laughing, which involves between thirty and forty muscles, blood pressure drops and a feeling of relaxation begins that can last for up to forty minutes.

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Relief the Natural Way: CBD Oil for Stress and Anxiety

Otherside Farms

Luckily, there is a natural and healthy alternative to these drugs that’s been utilized as medicine for centuries. The History Behind Cannabis as Medicine. While marijuana and hemp have only recently begun to be accepted and legalized, it’s actually been utilized as medicine for thousands of years. Let’s begin!

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

The Cannigma

2 3 As clinical trials around the world proceeded in the late 1960s and 1970s, patients began reporting difficulty tolerating ketamine’s unpleasant hallucinogenic and dissociative properties. And just like that, all of a sudden ketamine had found a new role in modern medicine – an anti-hyperalgesic. 17 How does ketamine feel?