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Study Finds Alcohol Sales Dropped in States with Medical Marijuana
Researchers recently sought to determine if there were a correlation between legalization of cannabis and reduced alcohol consumption. A study conducted... -
Researchers Think CBD Can Cure Your Fear Of Public Speaking
There’s only one thing Americans fear more than death: public speaking.
This fear frequently tops the list of America’s most common phobias, and anyone who’s experienced stage fright will understand why. Your hands start shaking, your throat closes up, your breath gets short—it’s as if you’ve been transported to a cold mountaintop, rather than a stage. Even if you’re confident in your material when the fear of public speaking takes hold it feels virtually impossible to slow... -
This Is Why Weed Makes Some People Feel Anxious And Paranoid
For many, cannabis provides relief from anxiety better than any prescription drug. Anxiety is one of the most popular conditions treated with medical cannabis in places like California and Colorado. However, cannabis can have a powerful effect in the opposite direction for some, leaving users with crippling anxiety and paranoia. Many of us have experienced a bit of cannabis-induced paranoia at one point or another, but the reasons why might surprise you. Delicate balance
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5 Methods Of Smoking Ranked From Most Healthy To Least Healthy
Smoking may be the most popular way of ingesting cannabis, but despite the healing properties of the plant, smoke inhalation is still a cause for concern for many health-conscious users. Carcinogens, tar, tobacco-based papers and high-heat can indeed result in some undesirable health effects when smoke inhalation occurs long-term, leaving many to wonder whether they should switch up their smoking methods for good. Let’s determine what the preferred smoking methods are from the healthiest to least... -
8 Ways To Properly Store Marijuana For Freshness
When it comes to how you store marijuana, the do’s and don’ts are pretty basic. But the guidelines can vary depending on your living arrangements,... -
10 Ways Cannabis Can Help Keep You Healthy This Fall
Nothing is better than fall and winter. There’s pumpkin spice everything, and maybe even a great ski season. Luckily, that isn’t all you have to look forward to. During the fall and winter months, using cannabis can be a game-changer for your health. Here are 10 ways cannabis can keep you healthy this season.
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As the work you begins to wind up, it’s important to keep your stress level low. Cannabis is a great way to relax during the busiest months of... -
Could Cannabis Eventually Replace Anti-Anxiety Medications?
A recent study thought to be the first of its kind has found that regular cannabis use may make a person less prone to anxiety over time, even when sober.
The study, published in the medical journal Psychopharmacology, found that people who use cannabis daily or almost daily had a blunted stress reaction when exposed to a high-stress situation after a period of abstinence from marijuana. While non-cannabis users reported feeling anxious and experienced elevated levels of the... -
Study Suggests Marijuana May Help Against Brain Aging
Since the legalization movement began hitting full stride, new research discoveries about marijuana’s potential health benefits have been surfacing with regularity. Among the most recent, a study shows that the psychoactive chemical in marijuana, THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), restores cognitive function in the brains of mice by rolling back the aging process.
The study builds from a theory that the brain’s endocannabinoid system (home of the receptors that THC binds to) is related... -
Can Smoking Weed Actually Help You Lose Weight?
You know that an ongoing punchline that stoners always have the munchies? Well, it’s not totally untrue. Research shows that smoking marijuana actually does affect the mechanisms that trigger hunger in our brain: receptors in our brain trigger the release of hormones that make us feel famished, causing us to gobble up everything in sight.
But even though there's a grain of truth to the flabby, Cheetos-munching stoner stereotype, that doesn't mean it's 100 percent legit. Some studies have shown... -
7 Reasons Why Eating Weed Is Actually Good for Your Health
Just 20 or 30 years ago, cooking with cannabis was still considered both completely taboo and reserved solely for Cheech & Chong-watching stoners. Far as anyone was concerned, the only health benefits of marijuana were that it got you stoned and made you laugh.
Of course, unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few years, you’re probably now aware that there are a ton of benefits of cooking with cannabis that have absolutely nothing to do with getting stoney baloney’d.... -
XLR-11
Acute Kidney Injury Associated with Synthetic Cannabinoid Use — Multiple States, 2012 (report – 2013)http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6206a1.htm First Metabolic Profile of XLR-11, a Novel Synthetic Cannabinoid, Obtained by Using Hu... -
WWL-70
Monoacylglycerol lipase limits the duration of endocannabinoid-mediated depolarization-induced suppression of excitation in autaptic hippocampal neurons (full – 2009) http... -
WIN 55,212-2
Effects of WIN 55,212-2 (a non-selective cannabinoid CB1 and CB 2 receptor agonist) on the protective action of various classical antiepileptic drugs in the mouse 6 Hz psychomotor seizure model (full – 2014)http://download.springer.com/static/...2786b&ext=.pdf The endocannabinoid/endovanilloid N-arachidonoyl dopamine (NADA) and synthet... -
VD-60
The peripheral cannabinoid receptor 1 antagonist VD60 efficiently inhibits carbon tetrachloride-intoxicated hepatic fibrosis progression (abst –... -
URB-937
UC Irvine discovery part of growing pharma effort to create new class of drugs (news – 2007)http://archive.today.uci.edu/news/re...l.asp?key=1631 Compound boosts marijuana-like chemical in the body to relieve ...