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If suddenly seized with paralysis, unable to speak and wracked with pain wasn't enough, Gary Froude constantly felt strung out, hyper, high. A cocktail of narcotics — oxycodone, hydromorphine, fentanyl and sleeping pills, to name a few – was prescribed to him after he succumbed to a mysterious...

An ever increasing body of scientific literature holds the idea that marijuana can actually save people from painkiller and heroin addiction. Not surprisingly, a number of doctors in Massachusetts and California have already experimented with marijuana as addiction treatment. The untimely...

If you are a chronic pain patient, you can be excused for saying, "Well, how about that!" The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has granted approval for a nonprofit to study marijuana's medical benefits on military veterans suffering from combat-related psychological disorders. The...

The growing number of patients who claim marijuana helped them drop their painkiller habit has intrigued lawmakers and emboldened advocates, who are pushing for cannabis as a treatment for the abuse of opioids and illegal narcotics like heroin, as well as an alternative to painkillers. It's a...

Former two-term Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White isn't just the CEO and security director of one of the state's new medical marijuana producers. He's a medical cannabis patient as well. The former Albuquerque public safety director said he became a convert to medical cannabis about two...

In our time of social change, the use of medical marijuana has come to the forefront. Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia now allow physicians to recommend the use of cannabis for their patients with a variety of medical illnesses and symptoms. New Approach Missouri is an...

Michael Wyllie got into a severe car accident in December 2011. He was ejected from a vehicle, breaking both of his legs below the knees and fracturing his skull. "I was discharged with morphine and oxycodone," Wyllie said. That led to about a year of being on various opioids, which he...

The over prescribing and abuse of opiates in our country and community, which can often lead to a heroin addiction, is running rampant and some want to fix it with medical marijuana. A Minnesota medical marijuana distribution company says a change in state law this August will allow some to...

Seeking an alternative to opioid drugs, Vireo Health has released a draft protocol outlining the replacement of oxycodone, morphine and others with medical cannabis for pain treatment. The protocol, called FREDOM – Flexible Reduction and Expedited Discontinuation of Opioid Medications – is...

It sounds like torture. A living nightmare. But it could just as easily happen to you or me. Accidents that result in severe nerve pain are quite common. Victoria, British Columbia businessman Dave Brownell, 68, found this out when he herniated a disc and ended up with serious nerve pain...

I'm a 61-year-old retired teacher. Now that I'm no longer teaching I thought that I would try growing my own to relieve chronic back pain. I've had 4 operations and have been using prescription Vicodin for years. I started smoking again after a 25-year pause and found that, while pot didn't...

I've had Chronic Pain for almost 30 years. My pain goes from 4-10 to 10-10 depending on my activity. I have Anklosing Spondlarthritis, Diabetes, Fibromyalgia, Asthma and Muscle Spasms. I am not interested in getting high or stoned. I am looking for CBD Cannabis: Charlotte's Web seeds or any...

"I crashed this motorcycle with no helmet on. Severe head trauma," recalls Herb, a medical marijuana patient. Speaking on a first name basis, for concern of someone coming after his prescription marijuana, he told WAND News how medicinal marijuana has impacted his life. Herb was 27 years-old...

My last blog post examined the current legal and medical status of using marijuana as medicine. But how about specifically for treating fibromyalgia symptoms? Many of my fibromyalgia patients report that medical marijuana/cannabis reduces their pain and improves sleep. A study of 28...

My last blog post examined the current legal and medical status of using marijuana as medicine. But how about specifically for treating fibromyalgia symptoms? Many of my fibromyalgia patients report that medical marijuana/cannabis reduces their pain and improves sleep. A study of 28...

I am a retired USAF Veteran and also Disabled from being a Railroad Conductor for 17 years. I had many surgeries about 15 in all and live with daily pain. I recently move from Cold weather Pennsylvania to Sunny Hilton Head SC and the heat does make a difference on Arthritis and other aches and...

The Cannabis CBD Controversy. Cannabis Sativa, the plant commonly known as marijuana, has been controversial since the 1600s. In the early 1920s prohibition of marijuana began and fell under national regulation as a narcotic in 1937. In 1970 the Controlled Substance Act gave it a Schedule 1...

Patients using medical marijuana to control chronic pain reported a 64 percent reduction in their use of more traditional prescription pain medications known as opioids, a University of Michigan study finds. The 185 patients from a medical marijuana dispensary in Ann Arbor also reported fewer...

My heart goes out to people in chronic pain who desperately need relief, but who don't want to end up in an even worse dilemma – addicted to the opioids that are dispensed far too frequently, and that lead far too often to damaged lives or even death ("Weighing risk of opioid addiction, many...

Greetings & Salutations to all hither, I am a semi-recently new member of 420 mag forum. This will also be my first thread posting on the forum....I think...and would love to hear from all you salty vets out there with major league experience producing medicine. I got the privilege to be a...