Toss the OxyContin and Turn to Pot for Pain Relief Instead?

More and more cancer patients are toking or turning to marijuana CBD pills for pain relief. Chuck Grimmett/Flickr

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wants Americans to jump off the dangerous OxyContin train. Instead, the CDC is advising people suffering chronic pain to take ibuprofen and commit to physical therapy.

Ibruprofen? Nonsense, says Dr. Gene Dorio, a Santa Clarita physician who specializes in geriatrics and internal medicine.
“The (CDC) wants doctors to stop using opioids but offers nothing as an alternative except Tylenol and ibuprofen,” Dr. Dorio says. “People who are bedridden have diffuse pain that over-the-counter drugs just won’t relieve. They’re just not effective. There’s no doubt that marijuana works on many different ailments.”
Dorio hosts a Wednesday morning radio show on KHTS 1220 AM and often talks about pain relief through marijuana. So does Dorio’s patient and co-host Barbara Cochran, 80, a cancer survivor who says she’s alive because of medicinal marijuana. She says she wants to make sure the CDC knows how she feels about the suggestion to take aspirin for severe pain.
“If you’ll pardon the expression,” Cochran says, “the CDC is full of shit.”

 
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http://www.laweekly.com/news/toss-the-oxycontin-and-turn-to-pot-for-pain-relief-instead-6957059

An All-Natural, Cannabis Toothpaste You Can Make At Home

By sousweed

 
Within these last few years, researchers have discovered that using just a spoonful ofcoconut oil instead of toothpaste can have a lot more of a positive effect on the hygiene in your mouth.
The team from AIT tested the antibacterial action of coconut oil and found that incorporating enzyme-modified coconut oil into dental hygiene products would be an attractive alternative to chemical additives. The oils were tested against strains ofStreptococcus bacteria which are common inhabitants of the mouth. They found that enzyme-modified coconut oil strongly inhibited the growth of most strains of Streptococcusbacteria which is also major cause of tooth decay.
You’ve probably heard the joke; Coconut oil fixes everything from dry skin, to cavities, to your bad credit. Coconut oil is pretty great but it’s even better when it’s got cannabis infused in it!
 
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https://www.weedhorn.com/marijuana-toothpaste-1807597035.html

Cannabis Helps My Epileptic Son. If Only We Had Known Sooner

Catherine Jacobson

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The debate can no longer be about whether to provide access.
In 2012, when other parents were trading stories about the difficulties of balancing homework with football training or swimming lessons, I was in my garage painstakingly measuring amounts of a schedule one narcotic to extract medication for my son. Tinkering with lab equipment and solvents usually only found in chemistry labs, I was trying to purify compounds from cannabis — not to get high, but to save my son’s life.
My son Ben has suffered thousands of seizures in his six-year life. Treatment-resistant epilepsy in children is a cruel disease that can lead to significant cognitive, motor, and behavioural delays and, not surprisingly, death.
 

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/catherine-jacobson/cannabis-helps-my-epileptic-son-if-only-we-had-known-sooner/

Miracle Plant: Cannabis Oil Helps Infant Beat Aggressive Eye Cancer

by Aaron Kase


 
Two-year old Waldo Dwyer dabs his finger in a small puddle of hot sauce on his high-chair tray and sticks it in his mouth. The child looks perturbed for a moment, then bursts into laughter at the spicy sensation.
Waldo has good reason to be happy. When he was six months old he was diagnosed with a rare form of eye cancer and was facing an uncertain future. Doctors said he had a 50 percent chance of losing his eye. Today Waldo is tumor free, an active, outgoing kid full of energy, thanks in part, his parents say, to cannabis oil.
“This story is incredibly hopeful,” says Brian Dwyer, Waldo’s father. “It’s about plants, the people who grow them, and medicine that is sacred.”
 
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http://reset.me/story/miracle-plant-cannabis-oil-helps-infant-beat-aggressive-eye-cancer/

Kids Can Now Use Medical Marijuana In Colorado Schools Thanks To New Policy



 
Thanks to a new policy adopted by the Colorado school board this week, kids requiring medical marijuana can now receive doses of cannabis during school hours.
In a unanimous vote, the District 49 Board of Education in Peyton, Colorado, decided to allow cannabis use on campus grounds by passing “Jax’s Policy,” named after 16-year-old Jackson “Jax” Stormes. In May of last year, Stormes was suspended for having cannabis oil in his backpack, a medication he uses to treat Juvenile Parkinson’s along with an extremely rare form of epilepsy called Dravet Syndrome.
His mother, Jennie Stormes, said in a press release,

In 2012, we pretty much ran out of options. We started cannabis, and almost immediately he did better. His seizures were in better control. He was just starting to thrive and do so much better.

 
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http://elitedaily.com/envision/kids-can-now-use-medical-marijuana-colorado-schools-thanks-new-policy/1495061/

Eugene Monroe Donates $80K for Medical Marijuana Research for NFL Players

 
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http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2639799-eugene-monroe-donates-80k-for-medical-marijuana-research-for-nfl-players

Hempcrete renovation in Belgium


A material made by mixing hemp with lime and water forms a new layer of insulation around this house in Belgium, as part of a renovation by Ghent studio Martens Van Caimere Architecten
Known as hempcrete, the hemp-based render was applied in thick layers to all four walls of the small house to help it retain heat and make the structure more weather-resistant. The result is a textured surface with a similar appearance to rammed earth.
 
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http://www.dezeen.com/2015/10/27/martens-van-caimere-architecten-hempcrete-hemp-render-striated-skin-renovated-house-belgium/

Hempcrete housing development in UK

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London architects Riches Hawley Mikhail have completed an affordable, sustainable housing scheme within an existing village in Suffolk, UK.
The buildings make use of use a spray-on material made from a mixture of hemp and lime, which captures carbon from the atmosphere. A biomass heating system using locally-sourced woodchips heats all the homes from one boiler.
 
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http://www.dezeen.com/2008/11/18/clay-fields-by-riches-hawley-mikhail/

2016 Latin American Medical Cannabis Conference to be held in San Jose, Costa Rica – July 27-29

BY EMILY GRAY BROSIOUS
Costa Rica to host major medical cannabis conference(Photo credit: David McNew/Getty Images)
 
The Latin American Medical Cannabis Conference is scheduled to take place in San Jose, Costa Rica this summer from July 27-29.
Leading cannabis industry members, policy experts and medical cannabis patients from the United States, Colombia, Uruguay and Costa Rica will speak to a number of medical marijuana issues, and will share first-hand accounts of their experiences in the medical cannabis field, according to arelease.
According to conference organizers:

The purpose of this conference is to provide education on the subject of the fast-growing Medical Cannabis Industry, and provide first-hand stories from people who have been helping patients using Medical Cannabis.
In Latin American, Colombia and Uruguay have already passed Medical Cannabis legislation and Costa Rica; Chile, Peru, Mexico and Argentina have bills in the works. In the US, there are 9 states that will be voting on Cannabis expansion in November 2016 and there are 23 states already allowing some type of Medical Cannabis.

“If you’re interested in the medical cannabis industry in Latin America or the US, whether as an investor or as an advocate or patient, the Latin America Medical Cannabis Conference is a great place to learn first hand about the many benefits of medical cannabis,” TD Morales of Cannabis Industry Association Costa Rica said in a release.
 
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http://extract.suntimes.com/information-resources/10/153/19443/costa-rica-host-major-international-medical-cannabis-conference
 
 

Cannabis To Be Planted Legally in West Virginia For The 1st time In 70 years


 
Morgantown, WV – The era of industrial hemp will come to West Virginia next week as hemp seeds will be planted legally for the first time since the end of World War II.   Industrial hemp is a cousin of the marijuana plant (aka Cannabis sativa) with very small amounts of the psychoactive ingredient THC, but is still regulated like marijuana in the eyes of the federal government.  The first planting of hemp will be in Morgantown as part of a West Virginia University research study that will investigate the plant’s ability to remove contaminants from the soil using a process known as phytoremediation.
 
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http://www.huntingtonnews.net/136044