New Cannabis Research
If more patients suffering serious illnesses, from epilepsy to cancer, had access to medicines derived from the cannabis plant, more sick people could control their health. The healing powers of cannabis, more commonly known...
Category: Health & Wellness
Women, Cannabis, and Health
More women are using different forms and combinations of cannabis for health reasons, according to recent surveys. One survey, by BDS Analytics, in Boulder, Colorado, reveals that women feel like they can take control...
Cancer Killer for All
Causes of cancer are well known by now: Genes determine risk factors, but lifestyle choices, especially decisions about food and drink, typically are the deciding factors. The choices which lead to good health are...
Will Big Pharma Take Over CBD?
A new class of medicines is entering the marketplace. The new medicines not only are more effective than conventional drugs for treating some kinds of illnesses. The new products, based on a compound called...
Where Will the Bombs Hit Next?
Rain bombs are coming, and they’ll hit land with not only more frequency but more force. Officially labeled wet microbursts, the highly intense and destructive blasts of water will strike communities which are completely...
Earth’s Failing Life Support System
Biodiversity, or the great variety of life on Earth, from the large number of forests in the Americas to the wide range of birds and mammals in Africa and the deep stocks of fish...
Scientists’ Second Warning to Humanity
The future holds large-scale death and destruction, and misery for the survivors, if human beings fail to solve a long list of environmental problems growing steadily worse on Earth today. It is the second...
Funding the War on Opioids
In the United States, as the opioid epidemic rages on, killing more than 140 people every day, many critics, who have long complained of an inadequate response to the epidemic by the federal government,...
Take Down the Opioid Makers
In Philadelphia, the United States’ 6th largest city, officials are taking a new step in a fight to address an opioid epidemic which has become a national public health crisis. They now are attacking...