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100 Pre-rolled joints in 2 mins.... - Green Rush Daily. Uk.businessinsider. Bashar - About Marijuana. FIGU Bulletin 67. 5 Reasons You Should Stop Smoking Cannabis And Start Juicing It. 1. Cannabis leaf juice won’t make you high. But it will make you healthier! Cannabis juice has a number of incredible healthy properties to them like… 2. Anti-inflammatory properties. Cannabis is an essential vegetable for our every day lives. 3. And it’s considerably safer than smoking cannabis buds. 4.

Don’t like the taste of cannabis juice? 5. Cannabinoids are the truly healthy compound in cannabis, and when you juice it, you get tons of ’em. Do you juice cannabis? Five Prescription Drugs that Could be Replaced by Pot. A new study published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Review found that people are increasingly substituting prescription medication, alcohol, and illicit drugs with cannabis, signaling a shift in the public's understanding of marijuana's medicinal benefits.

Of the 473 adult cannabis users surveyed by the Centre for Addictions Research of British Columbia, more than 86 percent of respondents reported giving up one or more of the substances for pot, with the majority (80.6 percent) forgoing pharmaceuticals for the non-toxic alternative. Those under 40 were also more likely to substitute all three for cannabis, demonstrating its dynamic appeal for both recreational and medical purposes. RELATED: Here's What Marijuana Does to Pain Here are five prescription medications that could be replaced by cannabis. 1.

Vicodin (painkillers) 2. RELATED: Here's How Marijuana Affects Anxiety 3. RELATED: Here's What Marijuana Does to Your Stress 4. RELATED: What Does Marijuana Do To Your Sleep Patterns? 5. Cannabis As A Pre Workout - TNM NEWS. Some people smoke marijuana to relax others use it as medicine, but this man inperdicualr uses pot as a performance-enhancer. That’s right cannabis as a pre workout. Here is the full story from Men’s Journal. Four to six times a week, elite triathlete Clifford Drusinsky wakes up at 3 AM to train. But before he sets out, he opts not for a sports drink but for 20 milligrams of THC in a marijuana energy bar. Drusinsky’s weed-fueled regimen seems to be working. Jocks like Drusinsky who publicly proclaim their cannabis use are rare. Medical marijuana’s benefits for alleviating pain, decreasing nausea, and improving mood are well known. But before you start a pot-fueled routine, know that marijuana can come with downsides.

There’s one last problem in parsing marijuana’s competitive advantages and disadvantages, says former Denver Broncos tight end Nate Jackson, who used marijuana during his six seasons in the NFL to deal with pain: Pot affects different people in different ways. Your kid’s brain on pot: The real effects of marijuana on teens. As the debate over legalization heats up, Adriana Barton examines the effects of marijuana on the developing brains of teenagers – our nation’s most prolific users – and finds there is no such thing as a harmless habit Photo illustration by Matt French/The Globe and Mail Like it or not, your kids will probably try marijuana. So will their friends. Canadian teens are more than twice as likely as adults to smoke pot – and have the highest rate of cannabis use in the developed world.

Marijuana has become as much a part of Canada’s youth culture as hockey or Katy Perry. Fully 28 per cent of Canadian children aged 11 to 15 admitted to using cannabis at least once in the past year (compared to 23 per cent in the United States, where pot is legal in the states of Colorado and Washington, and 17 per cent in the weed-friendly Netherlands), a 2013 United Nations Children’s Fund study found. Dr. Marijuana was the most likely culprit for the increased brain activity, Smith said. Here's What Marijuana Does To Broken Bones. At this point, it’s no secret that medical marijuana is useful for a variety of ailments. It can relieve glaucoma, reverse damage from smoking cigarettes and improve lung health, combat the severe seizure disorder Davet’s Syndrome, and can even stop cancer from spreading by turning off the Id-1 gene. And now, we can add healing broken bones to the list of marijuana’s medicinal uses. According to a study published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research by Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University, cannabidiol, an element in marijuana that does not result in psychoactive effects, rats with broken legs healed faster after 8 weeks than rats that were not given cannabidiol.

The lead of the study, Yankel Gabet of Tel Aviv’s Bone Research Laboratory, found that cannabidiol made bones stronger during the healing process and can help prevent future fractures. “After being treated with CBD, the healed bone will be harder to break in the future,” Gabet said. Molecular Biologist Explains How THC Completely Kills Cancer Cells. Below is a video of Dr. Christina Sanchez, a molecular biologist at Compultense University in Madrid, Spain, clearly explaining how THC (the main psychoactive constitute of the cannabis plant) completely kills cancer cells.

Not long ago, we published an article examining a case study recently published where doctors used cannabis to treat Leukemia, you can read more about that here. To read more articles and view studies about how cannabis is an effective treatment and cure for cancer, click here. Cannabinoids refer to any group of related compounds that include cannabinol and the active constituents of cannabis.

They activate cannabinoid receptors in the body. The body itself produces compounds called endocannabinoids and they play a role in many processes within the body that help to create a healthy environment. Cannabinoids have been proven to reduce cancer cells as they have a great impact on the rebuilding of the immune system. Help Support Conscious Alternative News.