Former NBA commissioner David Stern said he is convinced that marijuana does have medicinal qualities and should be taken off the league’s list of banned substances. Stern sat down for an interview with former NBA player Al Harrington, who has become a medical marijuana entrepreneur and advocate. During Stern’s tenure as commissioner (1984-2014), marijuana became more […]
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Fear And Loathing: The FDA and Marijuana Medical Claims
The Food Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDAC) gives the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) broad regulatory powers over legal drugs and more limited power over the regulation of food. For drug makers, the FDA is the fearsome elephant in the room because of the immense amount of time and huge levels of money it takes […]
Why Not Hemp?
Ohio has legalized medical cannabis, yet hemp remains illegal. The only connection hemp has to cannabis is that they’re genetically from the same plant family. To lump the two together is akin to lumping tigers in with your domestic kitty. They may both be felines, but are vastly different. Hemp was swept up in the […]
Independent Testing of European CBD and Hemp Oils Leads to Alarming Discoveries
Independent testing on the quality and composition of CBDs and hemp oils offered on the European market has confirmed substantial deficiencies – and possibly even risks to consumers. Results clearly indicate the need to introduce precise standards for the safe production and distribution of cannabis-based products – and systematically monitor their adherence. The historically first […]
How Strong Is Today’s Pot Compared to Back in the Day?
If you’ve ever smoked up with someone who lived through the 1960s, you may have heard them remark that marijuana is much stronger than it used to be. But is that actually true, or just a hippie myth? Here’s the straight dope. How we measure marijuana strength Because it’s too difficult to ask Willie Nelson, we’re forced to measure weed’s potency the only way we […]
CBDRx Will Donate Phyto Rich Hemp Extract to Veterans Groups Across America
PRESS RELEASE January 2, 2017. Boulder, Colorado—CBDRx, the world’s premiere nutraceutical hemp company is set to donate large amounts of phyto rich hemp extract to Veterans groups across the country. CBDRx announces the donation of their proprietary hemp extract to Veterans groups across the United States. Passion is what makes CBDRx the best hemp company […]
CBD: The Medical Marijuana ‘Game-Changer’
Jackson Leyden had always been a healthy kid; he practiced taekwondo, and he played lacrosse and baseball. But in 2011, a few months after his eighth birthday, he began having seizures several times a day. Many were brief, a half-minute of staring into space, but he also had severe episodes in which he would collapse, […]
Non-psychoactive CBD converts into psychoactive THC during the digestive process
By Stephen Goldner A very significant laboratory finding[*1] in-vitro shows how CBD dosed orally can convert to delta-9-THC in the human gut. If confirmed in-vivo, this finding may place CBD products, previously considered non-psychoactive, in the same category as psychoactive THC cannabis. The authors used simulated gastric juice, a standard methodology, with well-validated analytical techniques […]
UK Government Says Marijuana Does Have Medicinal Value
The government’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has found that Cannabidiol (CBD) has a “restoring, correcting or modifying” effect on “physiological functions” when administered to humans, in a potential milestone in the campaign to legalise cannabis and bring about evidence-based laws regarding drugs. The review of CBD, a cannabinoid accounting for up to […]
Big Pharma Seeks to Capitalize on Pain-Reducing Compound Derived From Cannabis
The medicinal properties of cannabidiol (better known as CBD), a compound found in the Cannabis sativa L. plant species, are quickly drawing the attention of scientists, plant-medicine lovers, dietary-supplement companies, venture capitalists, professional athletes and Big Pharma — not to mention people living with serious, chronic medical conditions. Insiders predict the burgeoning market will be […]
