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The Powerful Benefits of Hemp Roots: The Hidden Part of Cannabis
Cannabis and Hemp (which is the more industrial version of Cannabis) have proven time and time again to be billion-dollar cash crops.The States that have legalized their use have seen an astounding increase in tax revenue created by the plant.We know it has at least 50,000 known ...
All Signs Point to a Corporate Takeover of the Marijuana Industry by Bayer-Monsanto
Following months of negotiations and various offers, Germany-based Bayer has finally sealed the deal with Monsanto, purchasing the seed giant for $66 billion. The merger is reported to be the largest all-cash deal on record.The purchase means a lot of things, and none of them goo...
Research: Smoking Marijuana Causes Complete Crohn’s Disease Remission in 45% of Patients
In the United States, according to the Controlled Substance Act:"hen it comes to a drug that is currently listed in schedule I, if it is undisputed that such drug has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States and a lack of accepted safety for use u...
As Feds Claim Pot Has ‘No Medicinal Use’ FDA Approving Horse Tranquilizer for Depression
Glaring evidence of the government’s drug war hypocrisy in the name of profit emerged Tuesday, with the announcement by Janssen Pharmaceuticals that the FDA placed ketamine on the fast track for approval to treat major depression.Ketamine, also called escatimine — which has a...
U.S. National Cancer Institute: Marijuana Kills Cancer Cells
Why is Marijuana still 'a drug with no medicinal purpose?'National legalization of marijuana may be drawing a smidgeon closer.The National Cancer Institute (NCI), one of the federal government sponsored agencies, has just updated the FAQs on its website to include recent studies ...
DEA Says Marijuana Will Remain Illegal at the Federal Level
Agency to make cannabis more available for researchMany hoped that the Obama administration would reschedule marijuana from a Schedule I substance to a Schedule II substance this year, but no such luck. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) also announced on August 11 that ma...
Alcohol Causes 7 Types of Cancer — Marijuana Prevents Them
Put down that drink and grab some weed. There is strong evidence that alcohol causes at least seven types of cancer, while cannabis prevents them.Writing in the journal Addiction, Jennie Connor at the University of Otago in New Zealand says alcohol is estimated to have cause...
Legalized Marijuana Will Reduce Prescription Drug Use By Billions
A well-known fact still denied by conventional medicine is that marijuana saves lives by curbing highly addictive prescription painkillers known to kill tens of thousands every year. In fact, drug overdoses by prescription opioids kills more people than suicide, guns or motor veh...
Cannabis Found to Destroy Toxic Protein That Leads to Alzheimer’s Disease
Scientists may have just found an ingredient in cannabis that could help people with Alzheimer’s.Over 5 million people in the US and around 850,000 in the UK suffer from Alzheimer’s disease. This is a severe condition where a person struggles with memory loss.Currently, peopl...
Superbugs Are Now Immune To Antibiotics — But Cannabis Kills Them
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria have become an out-of-control problem in our world, as doctors and leading health officials know too well. by Makia Freeman For over 100 years, Western Rockefeller Medicine and Big Pharma have been conjoined twins attached at the hip; you cannot have...
New Study Reveals Cannabis Can Be Used to Prevent and Treat Alzheimer’s
Recently published in the scientific journal, Aging and Mechanisms of Disease, a team of scientists at the Salk Institute released their entire study for public observation and research heavily demonstrating the massive aid that cannabis provides in the treatment of Alzheimer’s...
Two House Bills Would Completely Legalize Marijuana Across the U.S.
Yes, the United States federal government might just legalize marijuana. Two congressmen just filed two separate House Bills on Friday that together would legalize marijuana at the federal level. That means an effective end to the U.S. government’s prohibition policy on the pla...