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Medical Marijuana 101: What’s In Your Drug?

BOSTON — Jack Boyle reaches across the marble island in his kitchen for a small blue glass bottle with a black rubber cap. He holds it to the light, shaking the liquid, a marijuana concentrate.

“The person who made this didn’t make it properly,” Boyle says.

Boyle’s wife Susan Lucas uses the marijuana concentrate, or tincture, to prevent epileptic seizures. The first batch helped, so Boyle went back for more.

But then, “Sue started seeing her symptoms coming back,” he says. “We immediately took [the new batch] to the lab, had it tested. It didn’t have the CBD in it.”

The second batch, it seems, wasn’t heated enough to activate CBD, one of the compounds in marijuana that supporters say helps with muscle spasms and seizures. [Read More…]

Rob Meagher

Rob Meagher

Rob Meagher, CBE’s Founder, President and Editor-in-Chief is a 30 year veteran of the media world. His career has spanned from stints representing the Washington Post, USA Weekend, Reader’s Digest, Financial World & Corporate Finance to the technology world where he worked at International Data Group and Ziff Davis where he was part of the launch team for The Web Magazine, Yahoo Internet Life, Smart Business and Expedia Travels before starting his own marketing and Publisher’s Representative Firm. He also ran all print and online media sales and marketing for the Society for Human Resource Management before partnering with Forbes and then Fortune to create Special Sections covering a variety of topics. Rob, who started CBE Press in 2014, can be contacted at [email protected].

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