Pennsylvania Medical Marijuana Education

We learned today that Pennsylvania is adding Anxiety and Tourettes to major medical conditions approved for MMJ.
Great news!

Today a company in Israel announced that it has started clinical trials for fast-acting cannabis tablets that are designed to dissolve under the tongue.
This new development could be a game changer for patients who suffer from chronic pain.

As I watch my Sunday morning shows, I am again reminded about the importance of education.
The topic of Medical Ma*****na in Philadelphia came up.
All of the speakers spoke about smoking Medical Ma*****na. The speakers clearly had no idea about administering Medical Ma*****na.
In Pennsylvania Medical Ma*****na currently comes as a pill, an oil, a cream,
and the organic plant form.
We are here to educate.

Happy New Year
2019 is going to be a great year! We will be adding educational articles on a weekly schedule. The first subject will be Neuropathy and Neuropathic Pain.
In addition look out for monthly live lectures.

I just learned that South Korea has become a country where Medical Ma*****na has become legal.
We have been working hard on medical education. More information is coming soon!

Big safety testing failure rate for California pot products LOS ANGELES (AP) - Nearly 20 percent of ma*****na products in California have failed tests for potency and purity since the state started requiring the checks on July 1, a failure rate some in the industry say has more to do with unrealistic standards and technical glitches than protecting consumer....

Job Growth
Pennsylvania had the highest rate of growth in the medical ma*****na industry. This is exciting news for our state!

“People who have post-traumatic stress disorder but do not medicate with cannabis are far more likely to suffer from severe depression and have suicidal thoughts than those who use ma*****na, new national research says.

Based on cross-country data from Statistics Canada, the observational study by researchers at the British Columbia Centre for Substance Use shows that Canadians with PTSD who use medicinal cannabis are 60 per cent to 65 per cent less likely to have major depressive episodes or thoughts of su***de compared with those who do not treat their symptoms with medical ma*****na. The study is the first national-scale indication of the effectiveness of cannabis at mitigating the hallmark symptoms of PTSD. It was presented on Thursday at the annual conference of the Canadian Public Health Association in Montreal.”
This is an interesting study. We need more research in the US.

A Florida judge ruled in favor of allowing a smoke product for the medical patients.

Currently a new bill is sitting on Presidents desk that would allow terminally ill patients to receive medical ma*****na. Lets hope he signs that bill.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that nearly half a million people in the U.S. died of opioid-related overdoses between 2000 and 2014.

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At 89, legendary psychiatrist and ma*****na advocate still wonders about Harvard professorship - The Boston Globe Ma*****na activists say Dr. Lester Grinspoon, the author of