Having a doctor’s recommendation for medical cannabis in 2018 will afford you significant benefits, like access to a larger list of dispensaries, with no limitations on products, access higher quality products, at least 14% savings on your cannabis purchases, and security when carrying and driving with products. These saving will add up quickly and far exceed the cost of getting your medical cannabis recommendation / card! Now it is an exciting time for cannabis advocates living in The Golden State of California. As the decades-old medical marijuana program continues to provide the highest-qu ..read more

At 62 pages long, Proposition 64 is a detailed and complicated document that spells out how California will regulate and tax the growth, transportation and sale of marijuana for recreational use. Although Californians will be able to possess and grow marijuana immediately if it passes, people will not have a place to legally buy nonmedical marijuana until stores are licensed — and the state has until Jan. 1, 2018, to begin issuing retail licenses. State officials estimate it will take up to a year to develop the regulations that will be applied to those who grow, transport, test and sell cann ..read more

According to researchers at Tel-Aviv University, adding tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) to the treatment of patients suffering with Alzheimer’s Disease provides “a potential treatment” for the deadly degenerative neurological disease. Costing America a little over $200 billion in 2013, Alzheimer’s Disease currently affects more than 5 million US citizens. As 1 in 3 seniors face the unpleasant reality of doing battle with AD or some other form of dementia in their lifetime, Alzheimer’s remains firmly entrenched atop the top 10 causes of death in the United States. Coming in at number six. After suc ..read more

The process of getting a medical marijuana card usually takes between 15 and 20 minutes. It consists of filling out a patient form and breifly speaking with the physician. If the Physician recommends that you use medical marijuana ..read more

Marijuana’s advocates believe the long-maligned plant can enhance life—and help deliver people from sickness and pain. A Seattle cannabis worker cradles the resin-dusted bud of a strain called Blueberry Cheesecake. Science Seeks to Unlock Marijuana’s Secrets As the once-vilified drug becomes more accepted, researchers around the world are trying to understand how it works and how it might fight disease. There’s nothing new about cannabis, of course. It’s been around humankind pretty much forever. In Siberia charred seeds have been found inside burial mounds dating back to 3000 B.C. The Chines ..read more

Spinal cord injuries (SCI) are uncommon but can have permanent and devastating effects on one’s daily life and well-being. Still, research has a long way to go in developing effective SCI medications without side effects or addictive potential. As early as the 1970s, studies began documenting cannabis’ ability to fight pain and spasticity in patients with spinal cord injury. Today medical marijuana offers patients an alternative regimen that treats these relentless and unpleasant symptoms that can take such a toll on life quality. Spinal Cord Injury Causes and Symptoms Severe pain, stiffness ..read more