CBD-based epilepsy drug Epidyolex has finally been approved for use in the UK

<img src="https://www.theextract.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Epidyolex-min.jpg" width="800" height="360" class="alignnone size-medium"> The drug, which became the first CBD-based medication approved for use by the FDA in the United States (under the name Epidiolex), treats two…

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Did CBD shrink this woman’s ovarian cancer? Chemo-resistant tumors virtually ‘disappeared’ after surgery and unproven cannabis treatment

An UC San Diego case study reveals an unnamed woman's ovarian tumors all but disappeared within a year of starting a therapy of CBD and a nut oil  Her particular ovarian…

Continue ReadingDid CBD shrink this woman’s ovarian cancer? Chemo-resistant tumors virtually ‘disappeared’ after surgery and unproven cannabis treatment

Man claims he is ‘essentially cancer free’ after quitting chemotherapy in favour of cannabis oil – and says it helped to reduce his TWELVE brain tumours by 95 per cent

George Gannon, 30, from Basingstoke, had multiple brain tumours December 2018 started taking cannabis oil and in February quit chemotherapyBy August was told by medics he was almost completely cancer freeRevealed:…

Continue ReadingMan claims he is ‘essentially cancer free’ after quitting chemotherapy in favour of cannabis oil – and says it helped to reduce his TWELVE brain tumours by 95 per cent

Desperate mother fears her 17-year-old son will die because the family cannot continue to spend £4,000 a month on cannabis oil that stops him having hundreds of seizures every day

Bailey Williams, 17, from Cardiff, has suffered from epilepsy since he was twoTeenager can have hundreds of seizures a day and turn blue or drop to the floorHe is now…

Continue ReadingDesperate mother fears her 17-year-old son will die because the family cannot continue to spend £4,000 a month on cannabis oil that stops him having hundreds of seizures every day

Alfie Dingley, 7, had 75 seizures a day until he started taking cannabis oil. One year after the law was changed to help him, the jury is still out on whether it really works

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…

Continue ReadingAlfie Dingley, 7, had 75 seizures a day until he started taking cannabis oil. One year after the law was changed to help him, the jury is still out on whether it really works

CBD may make you less aggressive: Tests show the cannabis-derived compound activates two key brain receptors and calms mice down

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…

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CBD was easily a fit for me’: Two-time Masters champions Bubba Watson reveals he has been using CANNABIS OIL to prolong his career

Bubba Watson believes using cannabis oil will help prolong his golf careerThe 40-year-old uses cannabinoid (CBD) which purports to have health benefitsCBD is a non-intoxicating chemical found in hemp and…

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Cannabis-based medicine could HALVE the number of seizures suffered by children with a rare type of epilepsy

Children with Dravet syndrome have convulsive, prolonged seizuresBut cannabidiol, the component of CBD oil, reduced seizures up to 56% It does not contain the psychoactive chemical THC, as medicinal cannabis does The…

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Women are turning to cannabis to treat period pains: 60% surveyed say they already use it and 60% of non-users would consider it – as states mull approving the drug for cramps

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University interviewed more than 1,000 women across the USTwo-thirds of those who had never used cannabis said they would for their periodAnother survey of…

Continue ReadingWomen are turning to cannabis to treat period pains: 60% surveyed say they already use it and 60% of non-users would consider it – as states mull approving the drug for cramps

Most cannabis users take the drug FOR exercise: 82% said they smoke or swallow it before or after a workout

Researchers surveyed cannabis users in states where recreational marijuana is legal including California, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon and Washington82% said they used marijuana within an hour before working out and within…

Continue ReadingMost cannabis users take the drug FOR exercise: 82% said they smoke or swallow it before or after a workout