Medical Marijuana - Cannabis in Australia

The Importance of Personalized Medicine and Its Role in the Cannabis Industry

Also known as “precision medicine, P4 medicine, and/or stratified medicine,” personalized medicine is the practice of tailoring medical decisions, prescriptions, practices, and interventions to a particular individual. The concept is simple, really: no two people share the same exact genetic content; seeing as genetics play a...

CDC Calls for Physicians to Stop Drug Testing for THC

By The Compassion Chronicles

The National Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published their “Guideline for Prescribing Opioids For Chronic Pain, United States 2016″ on March 18. In it was a statement of discouragement of urine testing for THC, the psychoactive component of marijuana, and a warning against terminating...

Medical Cannabis Reduces Use of Opioid Pain Meds, Decreases Chronic Pain Risk, Finds Study

Patients using medical cannabis to control chronic pain reported a 64% reduction in their use of more traditional prescription pain medications known as opioids, a University of Michiganstudy released today has found.

The study’s participates also reported fewer side effects from their medications and a 45% improvement in quality of life...

Stop the war and start the education

The Judiciary Committee in the Hawaii House of Representatives today gave approval to a resolution – HCR 127 – that would establish a study on the potential decriminalization of all drugs. The vote was 7 to 1.

Specifically, the measure directs the state’s Legislative Research Bureau to “conduct a study on the...