People often joke about the “munchies” that marijuana can give you, but they could come to the rescue of patients with cachexia. Cannabis’ appetite-stimulating and anti-nausea properties can relive cachexia’s most prominent symptoms. Can Medical Marijuana Help IBD Patients Gain Weight? ...
Some spinal cord injury patients use medical marijuana to relieve symptoms and protect against more damage. It preserves the myelin, which is the protective fatty tissue that shields your spinal cord. Medical cannabis also helps with pain, spasticity and sleep issues. Can You Vape ...
All six subjects had their symptoms completely relieved by medicinal cannabis. Five smoked marijuana to treat their RLS successfully, and the sixth participant only had to take CBD to find the relief they needed. While this study had a small sample size, it opened up the opportunity for...
In the study, led by Michelle Sexton of the Department of Medical Research at the Center for the Study of Cannabis and Society Policy in Seattle, 1429 participants identified as medical marijuana users were anonymously surveyed on the conditions for which they use cannabis, their method of adminis...
New research has found that more than half of individuals who use medical marijuana products for pain management also experience multiple withdrawal symptoms between uses. Furthermore, approximately 10% of the study participants experienced worsening sleep, mood, mental state, energy level...
Investigators from California that offered an update of their research outcomes believe that marijuana shows potential for treating a number of precise, pain-associated medical disorders with mounting substantiation backing marijuana or the components of cannabis being beneficial as an adjuvant therapy of ...
Research on Medical Marijuana for Sleep Apnea A2002 study on rats with sleep apneashowed that delta 9 THC and oleamide, both types of medical marijuana, promoted normal breathing during sleep in the 11 rats used for the study. The study was based on observations that serotonin worsens sleep ap...
Medical ResearchMental HealthRecent medical evidence indicates that marijuana is more harmful than had previously been suspected. A review of recent research in the following areas is presented: tolerance and persistence, reproductive system, respiratory system, immune system, central nervous system, ...
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:Nora D. Volkow, MDDirector of the National Institute on Drug Abuse National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MDMedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study?How does vaping, hookah use, inhaled marijuana, smoking etc impact the risk of coronavirus in...
The Bradford research team had conducted asimilar studylast year, applying the same analysis to prescriptions under Medicare. The results of that study were comparable, with prescriptions for pain, anti-anxiety and antidepressant medications dropping sharply in states with medical marijuana. That investig...