Medical Marijuana’s Warning Label
Based on numerous research studies that illustrated the unique benefits of marijuana in counteracting the pain, nausea and the “wasting-effect” that often often occurs in the late stages of AIDS and cancers, Californian’s voted in 1996 to legalize medical marijuana.
The state even went as far as providing marijuana vending machines to supply those who were in need and medical qualified to have it.
Now the state lawmakers have decided that, while it’s of medical benefit to treat side effects of serious illnesses, it possibly can cause cancer.
That doesn’t mean that medical marijuana will now be banned. Instead, the plan is to have …read more
A Little Marijuana for Your MRSA?
September 4, 2008 by Liberty Kontranowski
Filed under Drugs, Extreme, Medicine
Ready for yet another possible medicinal use for marijuana? How about fighting MRSA, the staph infection resistant to most antibiotics.
Indeed, researchers in Italy and the UK tested five of marijuana’s major chemicals (called cannabinoids) on different strains of MRSA, and all five proved to be germ destroyers in lab tests. In addition, some synthetic cannabinoids showed that same capability. Interesting.
So why does marijuana work when traditional antibiotics don’t? Because the cannabinoids kill bacteria in a different way, and they are possibly able to bypass that bacterial resistance.
And what about marijuana’s trademark “high”? So far it’s been found that at least …read more
