Rose Renton, the mother of 19-year-old Alex Renton who is in an induced coma in Wellington Hospital, has felt a weight lift off her shoulders as Alex responds to the medicinal cannabis he's been treated with.

By Jo Moir

When Rose Renton was having a break from watching her son fight for his life in hospital, she found herself listening to Lecretia Seales talking about her right to choose how to die.

Talking about Seales brings tears to Renton's eyes.

Seales, a Wellington lawyer, died earlier this month from a brain tumour. Just days before she was told the High Court had turned down her bid to have her doctor help her die.

A particular strain of cannabis oil is showing remarkable benefits for children with severe epilepsy.

As a parent watching your child suffer with uncontrollable bouts of epileptic seizures, is there anything you wouldn’t do to make it stop? Would asinine state laws based on primitive mentalities prevent you from giving your child an effective treatment?

“My goal for him is to hear his voice…to hear him talk. We just want him to be happy,” says one parent in this heart-wrenching video.

Recent cannabis (marijuana) use by middle-aged HIV-positive adults is associated with poor mental health quality of life, lack of social engagement and under- and unemployment, investigators from the United States report in the June 1st edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.

The world was sad to hear that Tommy Chong was yet again announcing a cancer diagnosis. This is his second cancer diagnosis in the past three years, but Tommy Chong says he will fight cancer in the way that he knows best — with marijuana.

However, is Tommy Chong’s idea that marijuana can cure his cancer diagnosis a medically proven one?

These days, most people associate Tommy Chong with the 2014 Dancing With The Stars season. Outside of DWTS fame for being one of the oldest contestants, Tommy Chong has had a decades-long career as an actor, comedian, and marijuana advocate.

Hunter-gathers who take marijuana have a lower rate of infection by parasitic intestinal worms. This has been noted in the Aka people.

The finding has come from scientists based at Washington State University. Data indicates that the more often the hunter-gatherers smoke marijuana, then the less they are infected by intestinal worms. The Aka people are not taking the psychoactive substance for this purpose; the effect is an unintended consequence.

Wana Products on Tuesday announced the launch of WanaCaps XR, a family of extended release cannabis capsules that provide medicinal benefits for up to 12 hours.

Wana Products partnered with Cannabics Pharmaceuticals Inc., a United States-based Drug Development Company with research and development in Israel, that developed the proprietary technology behind the extended release formulation.

WanaCaps XR will be offered in three different formulations: capsules with a 10:1 CBD to THC ratio (WanaCaps XR High CBD Capsules), a 10:1 THC to CBD ratio (WanaCaps XR High THC Capsules), and a balanced formulation with 1:1 THC:CBD ratio (WanaCaps XR THC/CBD Balanced Capsules).

The American Medical Association’s latest attempt to shore up their medical monopoly could have stiff consequences for practitioners who don’t toe the line. Action Alert!

Angered by what they call “quack MDs,” the AMA recently decided to “actively defend the profession.” In particular, it plans to

A Camden County father will be honored by freeholders Thursday for advocating on his daughter’s behalf.

Ricardo Rivera has been a vocal supporter of medical marijuana and has called on political leaders to make it easier for patients to obtain legal cannabis.

His 8-year-old daughter, Tatyana “Tuffy” Rivera, was diagnosed at 10 months of age with a severe form of epilepsy called Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. Until she started taking a regimen of cannabis-infused coconut oil more than a year ago, she suffered up to 300 seizures a day and was unable to speak or feed herself.

Freeholder Carmen Rodriguez said she wrote the official proclamation about Rivera in time for Father’s Day. In it, the document states Rivera “helps his daughter daily by being her voice.”

California lawmakers are, again, getting close to adopting the state's first system to regulate medical marijuana. Even if they're 20 years late and it's difficult to craft laws for a largely lawless industry, legislators must not let another session end without passing a comprehensive bill to license and control medical marijuana.

Atopic diseases, or those that cause an individual to experience immediate allergic reactions (asthma being one of the more common), affect about 20 percent of the population in developed countries.