Category: Conditions
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Medical Benefits of Cannabis
Twenty-three states around the country have legalized medical marijuana and experts are changing their minds too. Just recently, CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta reversed his opinion and looked more positively at the medical benefits of marijuana. While the issue of recreational marijuana is contentious, many believe that the drug should be legal for medical…
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Marijuana and Cachexia (Wasting Syndrome)
Cancer patients suffer mostly from wasting and appetite loss which, not only lessens their quality of life, but hastens death as these conditions develop cachexia which is an unbalanced loss of lean body tissue. Cachexia arises during the final stages of advanced pancreatic, lung, and prostate cancers. Proteins called cytokines, generated by the immune system…