11/26/2018
Australian researchers will conduct the world's first clinical trial to examine cannabis and tumors. A team from Endeavour College of Natural Health plan to investigate whether marijuana medicine helps brain cancer patients. If they find positive results, we could move one step closer to c Read More
06/04/2018
We've covered small-scale studies on the impact of cannabis medicine such as the Connecticut Hospice's research and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia study on autism. But, due to research restrictions in the United States, not many researchers have had the chance to work with large s Read More
04/18/2018
On Monday, April 2, 2018, two new studies were released that contained evidence of medical marijuana having the ability to stop the opioid crisis currently affecting thousands of people throughout America. Specifically, the studies found that the number of opioid prescriptions has decrease Read More
01/10/2018
We have a decent amount of research on medical marijuana’s ability to treat conditions like pain and seizures, but what about autism? Researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) want to find out how medical marijuana can treat autism symptoms. CHOP plans to work wi Read More
01/05/2018
With a conservative White House running the United States, you’d think we wouldn’t hear anything in favor of medical marijuana coming from a major federal official. But, it turns out not everybody in the Trump administration has a negative opinion of medicinal cannabis. Surgeon Gene Read More
10/20/2017
When Dr. Steven Pergam and his team from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center set out to learn more about medical marijuana and its usage among cancer patients, they were unsure about what they’d find. What they discovered both surprised — and concerned — them as they noted a h Read More
05/22/2017
Pennsylvania’s Department of Health continues to push towards its 2018 implementation goal of the state’s Medical Marijuana Program. Already, the state has developed its Medical Marijuana Physician Workgroup, reviewed applications for both growers and dispensaries and accomplished seve Read More
04/04/2017
Oxford University and Kingsley Capital Partners are teaming up to develop new medical treatments from cannabis. The research project aims to understand the therapeutic properties of cannabis and apply them to both chronic and acute conditions. The initial investment from the private equ Read More
01/23/2017
A new report released by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date look on the health benefits of marijuana. The committee behind this report considered more than 10,000 scientific abstracts published since 1999 that examine Read More
01/18/2017
Medical marijuana research is nowhere near as advanced in the U.S. as it is in other countries. In fact, some of the best research is being conducted in places you might never have associated with weed. Here’s a quick outline of the progress a couple of other countries are making in medi Read More
