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Can Medical Marijuana Help HIV Patients?

There are approximately 1.2 million people in the United States that have HIV and about 13 percent of them do not know they have the virus and need the testing. The highest rates of new diagnoses continue to occur in the South and HIV diagnoses are not evenly distributed across […]

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Can Medical Marijuana Help With Migraine Headaches

If you have ever had a migraine, you will know how debilitating it can be. In the United States, an estimated 30 million people suffer from these throbbing headaches, which are often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, and hypersensitivity to light. In the UK, approximately 15 out of 100 people experience […]

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Does Medical Marijuana Really Work?

When you say medical marijuana, it’s the usual plant that “potheads” roll and smoke like a cigarette in order to get high. The difference is that, medical marijuana refers to using the whole unprocessed plant or its extracts to treat symptoms of illness and various conditions. Unfortunately, medical marijuana is […]

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Marijuana – Ways it is Being Used Nowadays

Different countries and cities in the world have legalized the use of marijuana for different purposes, such as recreational, industrial and medicinal use. What interests us in this article is to highlight the medicinal use that the plant may have. Due to legalization in other countries, relatively more scientific research has […]

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Is Medical Marijuana the Next Arthritis Treatment?

Marijuana is much in the news these days. What with Colorado’s legalizing of the drug for recreational usage and with the controversy raging over using marijuana as medicine, it’s getting hard to find unbiased, objective information on anything related to the plant. Recreational usage is a whole other topic, and […]