With recreational marijuana legalized in 4 states, questions about weed’s effect on relationships are doing the rounds. This post from Cosmopolitan brings together the first hand opinion of eight readers on what smoking marijuana does to dating. Now that 23 states and DC have legalized weed, 4 of them for recreational use as well as medical, the debate about whether it ... Continue Reading
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Cannabidiol Paste Looks Promising in Treating Lyme Disease
A revolutionary new paste called cannabidiol looks promising in the treatment of several illnesses including Lyme disease. In this post from Chilliwack Progress, Erin Knutson turns the spotlight on Dr. Ernie Murakami’s extensive research on Lyme disease and his early findings on the healing properties of cannabidiol paste that suggest a medical revolution could be just round ... Continue Reading
STUDY: Evaluation of the potential of the phytocannabinoids, cannabidivarin (CBDV) and Δ9-tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCV), to produce CB1 receptor inverse agonism symptoms of nausea in rats
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The cannabinoid 1 (CB1) receptor inverse agonists/antagonists, rimonabant (SR141716, SR) and AM251, produce nausea and potentiate toxin-induced nausea by inverse agonism (rather than antagonism) of the CB1 receptor. Here, we evaluated two phytocannabinoids, cannabidivarin (CBDV) and Δ9-tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCV), for their ability to ... Continue Reading
STUDY: Endocannabinoid System and Psychiatry: In Search of a Neurobiological Basis for Detrimental and Potential Therapeutic Effects
ABSTRACT: Public concern on mental health has noticeably increased given the high prevalence of neuropsychiatric disorders. Cognition and emotionality are the most affected functions in neuropsychiatric disorders, i.e., anxiety disorders, depression, and schizophrenia. In this review, most relevant literature on the role of the endocannabinoid (eCB) system in ... Continue Reading
STUDY: Multiple mechanisms involved in the large-spectrum therapeutic potential of cannabidiol in psychiatric disorders
ABSTRACT: Cannabidiol (CBD) is a major phytocannabinoid present in the Cannabis sativa plant. It lacks the psychotomimetic and other psychotropic effects that the main plant compound Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) being able, on the contrary, to antagonize these effects. This property, together with its safety profile, was an initial stimulus for the investigation of CBD ... Continue Reading