Alfie Dingley, 7, suffered up to 75 seizures a day before taking cannabis oil dropsHe was hospitalised almost once a week before he began his cannabis treatmentThe government changed the…
Dr Sarah Pitt identified proteins in the slime which could fight bacteria It was effective against 'superbug' Pseudomonas aeruginosaThis causes lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients and many other infectionsThe discovery…
GW Pharmaceuticals' marijuana-based treatment Epidyolex has won a positive recommendation for marketing approval from a European Medicines Agency (EMA) panel on Friday for use as an additional treatment for two…
Scientists quizzed more than 13,000 people about their chocolate consumptionThose who ate dark chocolate were less likely to have depressive symptomsBut no such link existed among volunteers who had milk…
Scientists tested various doses of CBD on aggressive miceCBD made the mice attack less often than those not given any at allMore experiments found receptors which play a part in the…
Combining heart cells with stem cells could make heart tissue grow backAround 900,000 people in the UK have heart failure, as well as 5.7m AmericansStem cell therapy has failed in…
Cannabis is a complex plant with a complex history. It's been cultivated for at least 6,000 years, but because of its modern legal status, we're still learning new things about its medicinal…
When Shavo Odadjian, bassist of the band System of a Down, told me he was launching a cannabis strain called “Church,” I could not help but find it funny. Weed and religion don’t go…
A yellow vest protester waves a French national flag on International Workers Day in the Montparnasse district of Paris, France, on Wednesday, May 1, 2019. French President Emmanuel Macron has…
The U.S. government is growing the largest crop of research marijuana in five years, responding to interest in varieties with high levels of THC and CBD. The government is the…