(Natural News) Though it remains illegal at the federal level, a total of 29 states and the District of Columbia have now passed laws allowing for the medicinal use of marijuana. Eight of these, including D.C., have adopted even broader laws, allowing for the legal use of recreational marijuana. There are, of course, many who […]

(Natural News) Cannabis oil (CBD) has saved a 12-year-old girl from having life-threatening seizures caused by a rare form of epilepsy. Earlier this year, Annalise Lujan was competing in a Tucson gymnastics competition when she started vomiting and lost all feeling in her legs. “By her fourth event, she just couldn’t move. She couldn’t walk. […]

(Natural News) Riley Hancey, the Park City, Utah man initially denied of a lung transplant at the University of Utah over marijuana use, passed away at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. The cause of death was due in part to complications of double lung transplant he received from the latter. Riley was surrounded by […]

(Natural News) A representative from Georgia has been distributing cannabis oil to hundreds of people, relying on narrow provisions in the state’s medical marijuana law to evade felony charges for drug trafficking. Every month, Rep. Allen Peake receives a box of cannabis oil, which he hands out to hundreds of people who are part of the […]

(Natural News) Despite having the right-of-way in a collision that ultimately ended in the death of the other party, a woman was still sentenced to six months in prison after being found with traces of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive component in marijuana. Kali Su Schram, 20, was driving on Seaway Drive in Musekgon, Michigan, when she […]

(Natural News) Medical cannabis may be effective in managing chronic pain and inflammation and in treating neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s. It is also said to be a viable treatment for epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, for sleep disorders, and chronic cancer pain, among other maladies. Although research is ongoing, marijuana reportedly works with the […]

(Natural News) The myriad health benefits of marijuana are becoming increasingly well-known to the public, and this has resulted in more than half of U.S. states legalizing its medicinal use in recent years. Seven states and the District of Columbia have passed even broader laws, allowing both the medicinal and recreational use of cannabis. While […]

(Natural News) A Kansas grandmother who has been fighting colorectal cancer for the past five years, has been arrested for driving under the influence (DUI), not because she had been drinking alcohol, but because she chose to drive after taking Marinol, a drug prescribed by her oncologist to help fight nausea and to try to […]

(Natural News) At first, when Kalel Santiago of Puerto Rico survived a rare form of cancer called neuroblastoma, his parents, Abiel and Gladys, were overjoyed that the two years of grueling surgery, radiation and chemotherapy treatments had worked, and their little boy was going to be okay. But while he was in the hospital, they […]

(Natural News) Medicinal cannabis is an effective treatment in easing migraines. With more studies demonstrating the compound’s effectiveness in pain relief, PreventDisease.com has listed five medicinal marijuana strains that work best against migraines. Sour diesel – This type of medicinal marijuana is a sativa-dominant strain. Sour Diesel, also known as Sour D, is a fast-acting strain that induces energizing, […]