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01/08/2016 / By medicalmarijuanaupdate

Medical marijuana reduces chronic pharmaceutical use, study finds

Medical marijuana may help reduce the use of pharmaceutical drugs among the elderly, providing a safer alternative to drugs that often carry serious side effects, according to a study conducted by researchers from Tel Aviv University. The researchers also found that elderly participants who took medical marijuana achieved not just pain reduction, but also improvement […]

01/08/2016 / By medicalmarijuanaupdate

Medical marijuana activist app launched

The largest medical cannabis advocacy group in the country, Americans for Safe Access, recently launched a free iPhone app for marijuana activists. The new app provides tools for activists including immediate updates on local, state and federal marijuana issues. There are existing activism apps for other causes (such as the ‘I’m Being Arrested” app used […]

01/08/2016 / By medicalmarijuanaupdate

Medical marijuana legalization reduces painkiller overdose deaths

A massive joint study (no pun intended) by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City was conducted to determine the impact on reducing prescription opioid deaths in states with medical marijuana. Would you have guessed […]

01/08/2016 / By medicalmarijuanaupdate

Medical Marijuana Debate: Science is Ignored

Across the United States, debates about medical marijuana fester in many communities and states. Currently, fourteen states of the fifty in the Union plus Washington, D.C. have legalized marijuana for medical use. Yet in those states, and many others who are considering similar measures, the argument rages on. What is most often ignored in these […]

01/08/2016 / By medicalmarijuanaupdate

At last, Connecticut takes the plunge and partially legalizes medical marijuana

Legislation that allows certain medical patients to access marijuana for medicinal use has been signed into law in Connecticut, making the Constitution State the 17th in the nation to at least partially deregulate marijuana for medical use. Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy has officially signed into law H.B. 5389, An Act Concerning the Palliative Use of […]

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