Month: August 2020

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Medical Marijuana And Treatment Of Colitis And Crohn’s Disease

  • Can medical marijuana be used to treat colitis and Crohn’s disease? 

  • There exist several clinical and lab studies as well as abundant anecdotal evidence to suggest this to be the case.

  • Evidence for the efficacy and safety of cannabis in treating colitis and Crohn’s.

Best 5 strains of medical marijuana for Crohn’s and colitis

As medical marijuana policies continue to progress across the nation, more and more Crohn’s disease and colitis patients are discovering its healing properties. There is abundant evidence that cannabinoids found in marijuana possess powerful anti-inflammatory and immunomodulating benefits that can help to reduce the suffering and damage caused by these conditions.

Both Crohn’s disease and colitis are debilitating, chronic inflammatory conditions that can cause irreversible intestinal damage. Oftentimes, those suffering from these diseases have difficulty digesting food and are unable to properly absorb nutrients and eliminate waste from their bodies.

Crohn’s disease and Colitis patients suffer from…..

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Missouri issues 5 more medical marijuana licenses, 2 in St. Louis

ST. LOUIS — Five additional companies, including two in St. Louis, have been awarded medical marijuana infused-product licenses because duplicate licenses were mistakenly issued, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) reported.

Five infused-product manufacturing facilities submitted duplicate applications and received more than one license for a single facility, DHSS said. There was no prohibition against duplicate applications, but “one facility can only utilize one license,” DHSS said.

The five new licensees, who were next in line in the scoring of applications, are:

  • MidAmeriCanna, 2849 Union Blvd., St. Louis
  • Nature’s Med MO, 3615 Tree Court Industrial Blvd., St. Louis
  • ROI Labs of Atherton , 4610 N Main St, Independence
  • Missouri Made Marijuana,, 301 S. Outer Belt Road E., Grain Valley
  • Kings Garden Midwest, 3300 Pleasant Place, Trenton

Missouri authorized 60….

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Cannabis Flower and the Curious Case of the Entourage Effect

According to definition, an entourage is a group of people attending to an important person — such as a group of bodyguards. Another interpretation is a group of people that travel and work together to achieve a particular purpose.

Obviously, these are metaphors. So what are the similes in these metaphors?

The important person in this allegorical entourage is the overall effect that a particular strain of cannabis has on the human body — whether or not it makes you dozy or invigorates you, chills you out or makes you edgy, dulls your pain or heightens your senses, or any combination of a plenitude of potential effects.

The metaphorical group of people supporting our VIP (overall effect) consists of the various active compounds which are present in cannabis flowers (aka marijuana buds). These two families are large and diverse and their members number in the dozens.

But who exactly are the “characters” in this entourage, what are they doing here, what are their personalities, and what are their jobs in enhancing the overall impact.

The chief active compounds that are present in cannabis resins fall into two camps. Each family of compounds is unique in its….

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