The Pennsylvania Medical Society, while still opposed to the broad-based legalization of marijuana for medicinal purposes, has “updated” its position on the issue.

This weekend, at the Medical Society’s annual House of Delegates meeting, the state’s largest physician organization voted overwhelmingly to ask the state to fund research on the use of marijuana for medical purposes.

I came have been advocating for the introduction of medicinal cannabis for about 4 years.

I am a solo mother of five children and my eldest daughter, 17, suffers from Dravet syndrome, a intractable, life-limiting and progressive form of epilepsy where she would seizure up to 1000 times a day.

My daughter has been on dozens of medications. She has undergone a vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) implant - one of the first in New Zealand - which was ineffective, high dosages of steroids, and other more alternative treatments such as sacral massage and naturopathic remedies.

WASHINGTON -- The number of people applying to medical school increased by 6.2% for 2015, which followed a 3.1% jump the previous year, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) announced Thursday.

A total of 52,550 people applied to medical school in 2014 for enrollment in 2015; of those, 38,460 were first-time applicants, an increase of 4.8% from the previous year, the AAMC said.

The campaign trail saw Justin Trudeau promise to legalize and regulate marijuana.

Now, with a Liberal majority, those in the medicinal pot industry are hoping Tudeau will turn his promise into a reality.

In Vernon, Selen Wong heads the online compassion club The Flower of Life. She's is excited to see what happens and what that will mean for her clients.

“For us, we are going to be able to provide access to legitimate medical cannabis users in a way that is even more safe and regulated than what is currently being provided,” says Wong.

However, for the clients of a downtown Vernon medical marijuana dispensary, there are a number of concerns they would like answered.

Hemp has been called a plant of “major economic importance,” as it grows like a weed, yet can be used in the production of food, personal care products, textiles, paper, and even plastic and construction materials.1

Strokes suffered by young adults who use cannabis are more likely to be ischemic, compared to the strokes experienced by non-users, according to a research letter published Oct. 26 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC).

The Roy Morgan poll found 91% of those surveyed said marijuana for medical purposes should be made legal, with strongest support in the 50-plus age group

Only 7% of Australians surveyed for their views on medical marijuana said they were opposed to the drug being made legal for medicinal purposes, a new survey shows.

In a poll released by Roy Morgan Research on Monday, 644 Australians aged 14 and above were asked: “In your opinion should the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes be made legal or remain illegal?”

“Physicians prefer thorough research before prescribing medications,” said Shapiro, an Abington cardiologist. “Obviously, this won’t please those who want the Medical Society to rubber stamp Senate Bill 3 or bills like it, but clearly there are many physicians who doubt that bill or any similar one is the right path to take and that compassionate care is best done through research-based programs that involve significant oversight and safety.

WASHINGTON (Oct. 26, 2015) -- A new study found strokes in young adults who use marijuana are more likely to be caused by stenosis, narrowing of the arteries, in the skull than strokes in non-users.

Previous studies have found an association between marijuana use and stroke, but the new study published today as a research letter in the Nov. 3 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology is the first to explore differences in stroke in marijuana users and non-users, an approach that can help researchers begin to identify possible mechanisms for stroke in users.

Marijuana is known to be linked with stroke. A new study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology suggests that it causes a different kind of stroke than in non-marijuana users.
Marijuana users are at risk of stroke caused by arterial stenosis.

The new study, the first to investigate differences in stroke between marijuana users and non-users, found that ischemic strokes in young adults who use marijuana are more likely to result from stenosis, or narrowing of the arteries in the skull, than strokes in non-users.