by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Aug 2, 2019 | Pain
Psychedelics Take the TED Talk Stage for the First Time Preparing for this talk has been scarier for me than preparing for LSD therapy,” began Rick Doblin, the founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), in his...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Jun 26, 2018 | Pain
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of Epidiolex to treat two severe forms of epilepsy, making it the first cannabis-based drug to be legalized in the United States. It’s welcome news—but patients won’t have access to the medicine until the Drug...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Apr 10, 2018 | Pain
Joel Brown says that he didn’t know a lot about pot’s properties before he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma cancer in 2014. “But when you’re facing death, you want to really become part of the treatment and figure out what’s going on,” he says. “So I started...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Apr 2, 2018 | Pain, Parkinson's Disease
House lawmakers have introduced legislation that would make it easier for veterans to get medical marijuana in states where that is legal. The Veterans Equal Access bill, sponsored by Reps. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., and Earl Blumenaur, D-Ore., would allow Veterans...
