Tag Archives: 'Cannabis'

Hemp – The Answer To The Global Food Crisis?
02 July 2012

by Becca Wolford, Contributing Writer There are indications (and there have been for a while) that we are entering a stage where food will be in short supply in some regions of our world, [...]

The Hemp Conspiracy: Why U.S. Hemp Farming Was Banned
28 June 2012

by Becca Wolford, Contributing Writer For thousands of years industrial hemp was a common staple. It fed us, clothed us, housed us, sailed our ships with hemp rope and sails, it was part of [...]

Ending the Drug War Should Be a “Left, Right, and Center” Concern
28 June 2012

by Elizabeth Renter It doesn’t take a genius, a criminal justice scholar or an activist to realize that something is wrong with the fact that the United States incarcerates more people than any other [...]

Medical Marijuana Possible Treatment for Osteoporosis
23 June 2012

by Mike Barrett Although research is not conclusive, some studies shows that medical marijuana could be a potential solution for those suffering from osteoporosis. While osteoporosis is especially a problem among women, with approximately [...]

Uruguay to sell marijuana to take profits from dealers
22 June 2012

The Latin American country is planning not only to legalize marijuana, but to actually start selling it. By dose. ­The Uruguayan government has devised a new measure to fight drug trafficking: lawmakers are to [...]

Tommy Chong Reveals Prostate Cancer Diagnosis, Treating with Hemp Oil
13 June 2012

by Mike Barrett One-half of the German award-winning comedy duo Cheech & Chong, Tommy Chong has recently announced his battle against prostate cancer. While Chong was diagnosed about a month ago with prostate cancer, he [...]

Mainstream Media Peddles Tired Cannabis Cancer Myth
08 June 2012

by Keelan Balderson, Contributor In an extremely deceptive piece in the Independent and several of the UK papers today, The British Lung Foundation have been allowed to peddle a long-debunked myth that smoking cannabis poses a lung cancer [...]

Marijuana Constituents Effective For Easing Cancer Pain
05 June 2012

An investigational cannabinoid therapy helped provide effective analgesia when used as an adjuvant medication for cancer patients with pain that responded poorly to opioids, according to results of a multicenter trial reported in The Journal of [...]

Hemp seed oil: The new healthy oil
02 June 2012

by John McKiernan (NaturalNews) Hemp seed oil, pressed from the seeds of theCannabis sativaplant, has been named nature’s perfect food due to its balanced concentrations of omega fatty acids. Hemp used to be consumed [...]

Marijuana Oil Helps 3-Year-Old Son Beat Cancer, Dad Says
20 May 2012

by Mike Barrett What would you do if your 3-year old son was stricken with brain cancer? Most parents wouldn’t think twice about bringing their child to a mainstream doctor, only to undergo modern-day cancer [...]

The Many Uses of Hemp
05 May 2012

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Marijuana Found to Kill Cancer Cells – The Marijuana and Cancer Relationship
03 May 2012

by Patrick Gallagher Thanks to the available findings of a 2006 study showing that cannabis actually reduces the number of cancer cells, medical marijuana users can now feel even better about the widely abolished pain relief ingredient [...]

Are the Benefits of Medical Marijuana Being Completely Overlooked?
01 May 2012

by Patrick Gallagher Medical marijuana users would agree that the best no-nonsense painkiller out there is the daily usage of marijuana, and is quickly becoming hand over fist the highest demand medical product on the market. In [...]