All posts tagged "Glaucoma"

Medical

Can Cannabis Help Glaucoma Patients?

For decades, patients with glaucoma have used marijuana to treat their disease. But is cannabis an...

Culture

Q&A: NBA Player Al Harrington Passes the Joint

Retired NBA baller Al Harrington learned about the potential benefits of medical marijuana alongside his grandmother —...

Medical

Study Finds CBD May Actually Worsen Glaucoma

New research indicates that while THC helps fight glaucoma, CBD has the opposite effect — and...

Medical

Florida Patients Fight for the Right to Spark Up

Florida’s medical marijuana program currently forbids the smoking of cannabis flower, but patients say this contradicts...

Cannabis

40 Years of Medical Marijuana: Treating Glaucoma with Cannabis

This November marks an important anniversary for the medical cannabis movement.

Medical

NY May Create Emergency MMJ Access for Terminal Patients

Photo by The Dank Depot New York’s medical marijuana program, known as the Compassionate Care Act...

Medical

Illinois May Add Conditions to MMJ Program

Photo by Prensa 420 Photo Collective There’s some good news for residents of Illinois who are...

Medical

Minnesota Now Accepting Applications for Cannabis Growers

Photo by Gracie Malley After the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) released a first draft of...

Industry Events

Hundreds Gather for Medical Marijuana Forum in Minnesota

Known for its “10,000 lakes,” The Twin Cities, and The Mall of America, Minnesota may be...

Books

The Biblio-Files: 7 Books That Should be in Every Smokers Library

1. “Hemp Bound: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Next Agricultural Revolution” Doug Fine, author...

Politics

D.C. Council to Expand Access to Medical Marijuana

Two Washington D.C. Council amendments that will expand medicinal cannabis growth and consumption are pressing forward...

Medical

Glaucoma Left Out of New York Medical Marijuana Bill

Elvy Musikka is one of only four recipients of federal medical marijuana for glaucoma. On May...

Politics

Michigan Approves Medical Marijuana for PTSD Treatment

The Michigan Medical Marijuana Review panel has added post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to the list of...

Joint Opinions

Barack Obama: “No More Dangerous Than Alcohol” Is Opinion, Not Fact

Last week, President Obama was quoted in New Yorker magazine establishing that he indirectly feels marijuana...

Joint Opinions

CA NORML Conference Recap

What a whirlwind weekend!  The California NORML Conference commemorating 100 years of cannabis prohibition in California...

Films

Code of the West, Directed by Rebecca Richman Cohen

What place does a Harvard-educated woman have documenting the Montana legislative process as it debated the...

In The Magazine

Characteristics of Oregon Medical Marijuana Patients Served by Compassion Center

Compassion Center is a Eugene, Oregon based nonprofit medical marijuana clinic that has been serving patients...