Addiction & Alcoholism

The Society of Cannabis Clinicians calls on the medical board for more sensible policies towards cannabis, which includes collaboration with medical cannabis dispensaries as well as removing the stigma of cannabis as a substance of abuse.

A recent Care by Design survey of 300 patients suggests that cannabis is better than Big Pharma meds for PTSD issues.

An important study from the Journal of Neuroscience shows that marijuana use does not cause structural brain changes.

Chronic marijuana use by young teens was not linked with mental or physical disorders more than two decades later, a new study found.

Pretty much everyone who has spent time smoking marijuana knows at least one diehard stoner. But cannabis doesn’t make a person into an addict anymore than food causes someone to become a compulsive eater.

A 2012 Duke University study made international headlines when it purported to find a link between heavy marijuana use and IQ decline among teenagers. Other researchers questioned the findings almost immediately.

On August 11 Gupta narrated a “Special Report” on CNN that provided dramatic examples of Cannabis’ beneficial effects. In the days before it aired he made media appearances to apologize for his role in having “systematically misled” the American people about marijuana.

Scientists have only recently begun to investigate and understand the critical role that the endocannabinoid system plays in alcohol addiction and various mood disorders. Alcohol dependence is linked to down-regulation of endocannabinoids and CB1 brain receptors.

The discovery of the endocannabinoid system has breathtaking implications for nearly every area of medicine, spawning a revolution in medical science.