Medicine & TechnologyStudies have shown the positive effects of marijuana as painkillers. A company has invented a marijuana chewing gum that can help relieve fibromyalgia pain and its symptoms.
Further research is to be conducted by the experts from the Penn State College of Medicine to uncover the full potential of Cannabis as a medical alternative.
An Ohio State University research placed an indirect link between the proliferation of property crimes and the existence of legal marijuana shops. The result indicates an increased rate in adjacent communities.
With pending signature from Governor Doug Burgum, the approval of the North Dakota Medical Marijuana Law has uplifted the hopes of individuals with neurological illnesses in the states. This is in the hopes that regulated marijuana use can improve their state.
The Vice-mayor of the city says that because of the ordinance, as many as five or six medical marijuana dispensaries may be built in the business and industrial districts of the area.
According to researchers, in a group of children and young adults with the most severe forms of epilepsy, a liquid form of marijuana known as cannabidiol reduced seizures by more than 50% without the expected high from the drug.
Georgia governor Nathan Deal will sign a bill legalizing the use of medical marijuana after the Georgia House overwhelmingly passed the bill. This makes Georgia the latest in a long line of states to legalize the drug for medical use. At the same time, the latest bill presented at the federal level has been killed in committee.