Residual Limb Pain
Updated on April 1, 2020. Medical content reviewed by Dr. Joseph Rosado, MD, M.B.A, Chief Medical Officer Many people end up having pain after they undergo surgery. It’s part of the natural healing process. But once your tissues begin repairing themselves, this pain typically subsides. When it comes to recovering and healing after an amputation though, […]
Honor our nation’s heroes. Save veteran lives. Join the fight for veterans’ cannabis access.
Improving the Lives of Those Who Protected Ours America’s prolonged military conflicts over the past 17 years have exposed an aging and ineffective health care system, ill-prepared for the type and severity of the latest round of war-related injuries. Upwards of 20 percent of the 2.7 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans will experience post-traumatic stress […]
WHAT FARMERS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GROWING HEMP
By Betsy Freese 1/17/2019 Farmers have a lot of questions about hemp, so we asked expert Michael Bowman, founding chair of the National Hemp Association, to answer a few. SF: WHAT IS THE HISTORY OF HEMP? MB: Hemp was poised to be a billion-dollar crop in the 1930s with Henry Ford a big supporter, but the Marijuana […]
GOP Lawmakers File Another Marijuana Research Bill For Military Veterans
Published 2 months ago By Kyle Jaege on April 30, 2021 A pair of Republican lawmakers on Friday introduced a congressional bill meant to promote research into the medical potential of marijuana for military veterans. This is the latest piece of legislation focused on cannabis and veterans that’s been filed this Congress. It comes one day after a […]
Relieving Phantom Pain and Opioid Dependency with Medicinal Marijuana
Shared from inMotion | Volume 28, Issue 2 | March/April 2018, Page 38 by Meredith Bower Holt In January 2006, when I was 29, I lost my left leg below the knee in a car accident. After months in a coma, I awoke to my brain fixating on the last signal from the now-missing limb: being […]
What’s the Difference Between Delta-8 and Delta-9 THC?
Jun. 4, 2021 12:00 a.m. MARKETPLACE Delta-8 THC vs. Delta-9 THC: Side-by-Side Comparison “…The “8” in Delta-8 indicates the location of the chemical bond – which is only one spot over from that of Delta-9. Thanks to these structural similarities, Delta-8 also shares many of the same properties as Delta-9 THC (euphoric, relaxing, body and […]
Why are so many countries now saying cannabis is OK?
By Dr John CollinsLondon School of Economics. Published 11 December 2018 Around the world attitudes towards the use of cannabis are shifting. IMAGE COPYRIGHTGETTY IMAGESimage caption. Farmers harvest a cannabis crop in Germany Mexico’s new government plans to legalise recreational cannabis use, as does the incoming government of Luxembourg. Meanwhile, New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda […]
Dealing With Delta-8 ‘Riskiest Thing You Can Do’ in Cannabis: Q&A With Rod Kight
Konrad | Adobe Stock The attorney says the government “never contemplated naturally occurring compounds that could also be produced from other naturally occurring compounds.” Patrick Williams May 24, 2021 Delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), patenting psychedelics and certificates of analysis: these are some of the hot topics North Carolina and Oregon-licensed attorney Rod Kight focuses on at […]
Best Strains For PTSD And Anxiety To Help Alleviate Common Symptoms
May 22, 2020 Empathic Practice Is Indica Or Sativa Better For PTSD? “…The two types of cannabis strains are Indica and Sativa. Both strains of cannabis have two main cannabinoids: THC and CBD. THC is the reason why cannabis creates a high feeling, while CBD is not psychoactive and can counteract the high feeling. Therefore, strains of […]
MEDICAL CANNABIS AND VETERANS CONDITIONS
As of May 2013, there were more than 23 million total living veterans of military service in the US. Of those, almost 17 million served in wars. That includes more than 1.7 million veterans of WWII, 2.2 million veterans of the Korean War, 7.4 million veterans of the Vietnam War, 2.3 million veterans from the […]