Patients can smoke it, eat it and soon, they may be able to chew it.

Cannabis-focused biotech company AXIM Biotechnologies AXIM, -92.56% last week said it launched clinical trials on humans for medical cannabis chewing gum as a treatment for multiple sclerosis. The gum, MedChew RX, contains 5 milligrams of cannabidiol — a non-psychoactive component of cannabis — and 5 milligrams of THC — a psychoactive cannabinoid.

Every species within the animal kingdom, contains the Endocannabinoid System (ECS), except for insects.

The ECS was named after cannabinoids, which are found abundantly in cannabis as well produced naturally within the human body.

Research conducted on cannabinoids such as THC, CBD, CBG and CBC that are produced by cannabis lead to the discovery of the Endocannabinoid System (ECS).

A look at the different methods some patients use to take cannabis for medical reasons.

Many people connect cannabis with smoking joints. Indeed, cannabis cigarettes have long been used to treat asthma, as it was thought that inhaling cannabis opened the airway. Recent research has found that, while short-term exposure to cannabis can do this, the effects don’t last if cannabis is used over a six-to-eight-week period.

Some people try to forget the day they were arrested for marijuana possession but, with the hindsight of four decades, I can say it was one of the best things that ever happened to us.

It was August 24, 1975 and my husband, Robert C. Randall, and I were living a rather ordinary life, just eight blocks from the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. in a neighborhood that could kindly be referred to as "pre-gentrification." The Metropolitan Police executed the warrant, ransacked our house and removed six marijuana plants from our sun deck. It was, of course, traumatic and life-changing.

Richard Secklin has led a remarkably storied life. Growing up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he started his career as a professional bodybuilder after returning from a four year enlistment in the U.S. Navy. Richard eventually moved to New Mexico and opened his own gym, which he successfully managed for several years.

“SOMEDAY PEOPLE WILL LOOK BACK AT THE ERA OF PROHIBITION AND SEE THE INJUSTICE.” -RICHARD SECKLIN

BILLINGS, Mont. — Gone are the flashing green neon lights advertising $200 ounces of pot. Gone are the caravans of cannabis doctors who signed up hundreds of people in a single day.

The medical marijuana business in Montana boomed after voters legalized it in 2004. At one time, this state of only a million people had almost 30,000 patients and 4,900 providers.

But the industry has been crippled by state legislators and a determined grass-roots opposition. And a state Supreme Court decision coming as early as October could all but wipe it out.

Indian doctors met for the "Seminar on Chronic Pain”, organised by AIIMS-Bhubaneswar and Medicinal Cannabis Foundation of India (MCFI) this month to discuss how chronic and cancer pain can be controlled using marijuana.

India's relationship with marijuana

Most importantly, the event focused on marijuana's pain relieving properties, and saw notable speakers, including Indian-American physician-scientist Sunil Kumar Aggarwal, M.D., Ph.D., who spoke on Cannabinoid Integrative Medicine.  He spoke on how India has since long understand  the medical properties of Cannabis, making it a part of Ayurveda. “Cannabis Sativa”, has also been formally introduced into India's digital library to protect it international biopiracy.

Cannabis, and the cannabinoid compounds found within it, has been shown through a large amount of scientific, peer-reviewed research to be effective at treating a wide variety of cancers, ranging from brain cancer to colon cancer. Below is a list of over 60 studies that demonstrate the vast anti-cancer properties of cannabis.

A SYNTHETIC cannabis that makes users psychotic and gives them apparent superhuman strength has been banned in South Australia.

Attorney-General John Rau added two new synthetic chemicals that mimic cannabis — known by the street names Full Moon and Sinsence — to the list of substances outlawed in the state.

They are believed to be similar to a type of synthetic pot known as Spice, which has become prevalent among homeless people in the US and UK because it is a cheap high, but which has side effects likened to crack cocaine.

The drug increases body temperature, sometimes leading users to strip naked. It has been dubbed “weaponised marijuana” by New York’s police chief because it makes addicts impervious to normal police take-down measures such as Tasers.

Dr. Mackey is Division Chief for Pain Medicine at Stanford University, and is the current President of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. Here, he summarizes his PAINWeek 2014 lecture on the neurophysiology of pain transmission, with a focus on what the frontline clinician should know.