The endocannabinoid system (ECS) plays a key role in keeping various bodily systems in biochemical balance, i.e., in maintaining homeostasis. The ECS evolved epochs ago, and variations of the deep-rooted, critical system are found today across all vertebrate species. (This explains why veterinarians are finding success in using medical cannabis to treat dogs and cats…
Sunday Special and ECS followup: The terpenes and terpenoids… We’re adding a fifth to our week-long series on the endocannabinoid system (ECS) and how WHOLE PLANT – and whole plant extract – cannabis works in the body. (So maybe a good day to go back and review the others you may have missed.. …and a…
Long time coming, and we’ve hated not being able to give you a specific date during these many months of preparation… …until now: “Utah Patients Coalition officials said they will begin collecting signatures next week”….!! “ ‘Our volunteers — many of them patients or caregivers themselves — have been ready and early waiting,’ DJ Schanz,…
More than “as good as”…. At TRUCE we’re patient advocates. So we find these results of particular interest in that they’re based on surveying patient satisfaction with their treatment. This report comes out of prestigious Johns Hopkins University: “Medical cannabis consumers reported better ‘clinically meaningful’ health outcomes than non-consumers, and epilepsy sufferers in particular reported…
When Utah’s ballot initiative is passed, one of the methods for taking medical cannabis will be edibles, sometimes called “medibles”. But how do you know how much to take? This article might provide some clarity on dosing with edibles. #MMJ #Truce #UTpol #UtahNext #GetSerious See full article – Cannabis-Infused Edibles 101: What to…
This is the fourth recent article focusing on deeper aspects of the endocannabinoid system (ECS) and how medical cannabis actually works in the body. Not planned but a new wave of fairly in-depth articles have been coming out, they’ve been well received according to your likes, views and shares, etc., and since we find the…
The long wait for direct citizen participation in bringing a real whole plant medical cannabis to Utah is finally ending….!! See below for how you can get involved for real… See full article – Connor
More evidence the medical cannabis train has not only left the station, but is just starting to pick up speed… …all over the globe…. We find copious news about developments in every corner of journalism, from the most major of media, to the developing medical cannabis press, to research journals, the world’s local papers, our…
Meet an emerging diagnosis: “Clinical Endocannabinoid Deficiency” (CED)… Following up on our recent endocannabinoid system (ECS)-related posts, in many conditions, diseases which respond to medical cannabis are related to inadequate levels of the body’s own internally produced cannabinoids. Production can be inhibited due to many possible causes, from genetic factors to stress, to other diseases,…
Georgia, with a medical cannabis program similar to Utah, expanded the list of qualifying illnesses in May. The result? 100 more patients applied for medical cards that month. Meanwhile, Utah Medical Association still says cannabis is not medicine. #MMJ #UTpol #Truce #UtahMed See full article – Expanded Medical Marijuana Law Grows Georgia Program