…(Medical marijuana is legal and available in more than half of US states and DC, but all marijuana use remains illegal under federal law.) Experts lament the dearth of research on medical effects of marijuana. Speaking about its best-documented health…
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…to medical dispensaries. And in New Jersey, medical marijuana companies have just received the go-ahead to sell to all adults—without needing a doctor’s okay — although the approval at first covers only sales of “medical marijuana.” (Compared to recreational marijuana,…
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iStock TO TAKE ADVANTAGE of currently legal marijuana-infused lotions, or “topicals”— with benefits from reducing inflammation, pain and itchy skin to amplifying sexual pleasure — you might want to visit a “medical marijuana state” like California or Colorado before Donald…
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…With DC’s marijuana legislation, each resident can grow up to three plants and enjoy the produce, so my younger son, Oliver, told me when he moved home after college. I had tried marijuana back in the day, but when it…
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iStock I HAD my first puff of marijuana at age 24 and now I am 72. It’s been an on and off thing since then, and I can’t see any way smoking the stuff has hurt me. I’ve driven under…
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…marijuana growers whom I know personally: one, a co-founder of a Colorado marijuana business; and the other, a DC backyard gardener. In turn, these two rely on professionals in the business: “samplers,” who work for grow-operations and elsewhere, and reviewers…
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…marijuana plant, on the other hand, are classified as medicine and subject to oversight by the FDA and state regulators. So, for example, marijuana-derived CBD products can be sold in Massachusetts dispensaries that are prohibited by law from providing CBD…
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…assessing his first attempt at making a brisket. “It’s good,” she said thoughtfully, “but not as good as the Colombian we had last week.” And so it was I learned my mother was smoking marijuana. Shocking to think my mother…
…cold pack (or bag of frozen peas), alternating with a heating pad or a warm bath (epsom salts can increase the healing effects). For residents of states with a “marijuana card,” marijuana-infused epsom salts may amplify the relief. Cold drinks…
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…no avail. She tried marijuana-based preparations purchased at a DC dispensary, both tinctures placed under the tongue and topicals. And she sampled several “alternative” treatments, including acupuncture and myofascial massage; also Pilates and Yoga—carefully. Over the years, she’d had a…
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…excessively tall young Jamaican at a Washington holiday party I asked what he does, as one does, and he said he’s in the marijuana-growing business, a startup, based in New Jersey. He’s hoping to begin importing some fine island weed….
…in those U.S. cities with the most easily available marijuana. “But you cannot say that cannabis causes psychosis,” says Columbia University psychiatrist Diana Martinez. “It’s simply not supported by the data.” Psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia are complicated disorders, and…
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…of all downtown and a glimpse of the East River, and planters with boxwood and bulbs, something always in bloom. (After Dad died she grew marijuana for some young friends, but that’s another story). In the summer we’d play Scrabble…
…period — of whom 22% said it helped them—clarifications may be in order. Above all, any CBD product purchased outside a medical marijuana pharmacy should contain less than .3% THC — the cannabis ingredient responsible for the “high” and other…
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…uncovered, pieces crowded and spaced, various seasonings. Each attempt a near miss. A solid week of fried chicken, no sides. I was perfectly content—just shocked that she was too. Some months later she would stun me with her marijuana crop,…
…overgrowth (SIBO) and increasingly popular treatments, such as the ionic foot bath. Thirty-something M.L., who worked as a nurse-practitioner and recently cofounded a new marijuana business, consulted a Denver naturopath to deal with a host of health issues, such as…
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…temporary flexibility, and include marijuana and heroin, as well as most psychedelic drugs, deemed to have no medical value and high risk of abuse, although Schedule 2 drugs include, for example, PCP, cocaine and meth.) In an early study of…
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…about 50% permanent loss of smell. He can detect a person smoking but not whether the smoke is marijuana—and he relies on a carbon monoxide monitor to detect smoke at home. Smell contributes about 30% to taste, according to JC’s…
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