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Cannabis and the Immune System

United Patients Group

Cannabis has also been used for centuries to treat gastrointestinal disorders, epilepsy, rheumatism and malaria. Immune System and Sleep Deprivation. Many neurological conditions are associated with dysregulation of the ECS (for example: epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease).

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UK: Assoc For The Cannabinoid Industry Founder Says UK World’s Biggest Market After The US

Cannabis Law Report

– ‘Pandemic increased demand’ – “The pandemic increased CBD demand because there obviously were stress, sleep problems, anxiety, these kind of risks,” ACI co-founder Steve Moore told AFP. That was almost a third higher than the UK trade group’s pre-pandemic 2019 projection. ” [link].

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What is CBD? Everything you need to know

The Cannigma

The first clinical research done on CBD as a potential treatment for epilepsy was in 1980, but the information gleaned didn’t make its way to the public eye until decades later. The perception that CBD is a wonder-drug version of cannabis — particularly known for its uses to treat epilepsy — that doesn’t get you high.

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Five Things to Know About Hemp-CBD in Pet Products

Canna Law Blog

This can include regulating things like appetite and digestion, motor control, sleep, and muscle and bone growth. THC binds to the CB1 receptors, but the way that CBD interacts with ECS is not fully understood in humans or animals, despite the fact that Epidiolex has been approved as a drug for treating epilepsy.

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CBD Market Report

Project CBD

5 In June 2018, the FDA approved Epidiolex® (GW Pharmaceuticals; Cambridge, UK), the first FDA-approved pharmaceutical drug to contain a “purified drug substance [CBD] derived from marijuana,” for the treatment of seizures associated with two rare epilepsy disorders. Epilepsy Behav. Available at: www.fda.gov/media/131878/download.

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Paper: The transition of cannabis into the mainstream of Australian healthcare: framings in professional medical publications

Cannabis Law Report

Chronic pain or pain were the conditions most frequently mentioned in articles about cannabis, followed by epilepsy, cancer or cancer pain, and nausea and chemotherapy. Refractory paediatric epilepsy. Conclusions. It was also used as a topical treatment for haemorrhoids, ear infection, and wounds (Aldrich 1997 ; Touw 1981 ).

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Can medical cannabis survive adult-use legalization?

The Cannigma

We’re not going to get over the fact that there’s not the same sort of clinical trial and that type of evidence for cannabis and cannabis treatments in the very near future for various reasons. There’s the one drug, one target, cannabis is multiple active ingredients and acts on multiple targets in the body.