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Fast Company
February 2004
Bill Breen |
The Cannabis Conundrum As the founder of a British pharmaceutical company puts it, if it weren't called marijuana there would be an entire biotech business built around this plant. And that's just what's starting to happen (but not for the U.S. drug industry or the American patients these medicines might help).   |
Chemistry World
February 17, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
Clinical trials high on list for medical marijuana community The drug's controlled status is continuing to slow efforts to investigate the myriad compounds in the plant. |
Fast Company
February 2004 |
Pot Proponent Just Says No Medical marijuana's elder statesman is not convinced that the therapeutic benefits of cannabis can be separated from the psychoactive effects -- or that cannabis should be "pharmaceuticalized." |
Fast Company
February 2004
Bill Breen |
Dr. Dope's Connection David Watson, the CEO of the Dutch pharmaceutical R&D company Hortapharm, has assembled what is arguably the world's most comprehensive cannabis-seed library. |
Chemistry World
May 15, 2009
Katrina Megget |
Tripping over red tape The UK may be moving a step closer to allowing the use of a cannabis-based drug to treat the symptoms of multiple sclerosis |
Reactive Reports
October 2007
David Bradley |
How Cannabis Works What is it about the psychoactive component in marijuana, THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, that exerts its special effects? New clues about the cannabinoid receptor type 1 have now emerged thanks to German researchers. |
AskMen.com
October 28, 2000
Joshua Levine |
The Benefits Of Marijuana Are you sick of hearing your girlfriend nagging you about letting go of your pot pasttime? Have you been hearing a lot of negative things about the use of marijuana lately? Would you like to know what the real deal is behind the use of this infamous drug? |
Chemistry World
June 24, 2008
Hayley Birch |
Anti-Inflammatory Compound From Cannabis Found in Herbs A compound found in cannabis as well as in herbs such as basil and oregano could help to treat inflammatory bowel diseases and arthritis, Swiss scientists believe. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 51
David Bradley |
Cannabinoids and Osteoporosis Researchers have discovered a regulatory mechanism involved in bone loss linked to a chemical receptor in our bodies with a previously unknown function, which could lead to a new treatment. |
Chemistry World
June 4, 2013
Maria Burke |
'Legal high' production gathers pace New designer drugs are popping up in Europe at an unprecedented rate, sometimes on the illicit drug market and sometimes as 'legal' alternatives to controlled drugs, according to the latest report by the EU drugs agency. |
American Family Physician
July 1, 2001
Selim R. Benbadis |
Advances in the Treatment of Epilepsy Significant advances have been made in the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy over the past decade... |
BusinessWeek
December 27, 2004
Kerry Capell |
The End Of Obesity As We Know It Sanofi-Aventis' Acomplia takes aim at two of the great maladies of the century. But approval isn't a slam dunk. |
Fast Company
February 2004
Bill Breen |
Pipe Dream? Rick Doblin has a prescription for fixing NIDA's ailing medical-marijuana program: establish an alternative. |
Salon.com
March 29, 2001
Daryl Lindsey |
Up in smoke The U.S. Supreme Court seems poised to close down California's pot buyer's clubs... |
Fast Company
Alex Halperin |
The California-Colorado Cannabis War While California is the largest addressable cannabis market in the USA, the risks associated with setting up there outweighed the benefits. |
BusinessWeek
March 17, 2011
Justin Blum |
Cultivating Real Profits from Fake Weed Attempts by states to bar sales of substances that induce a marijuana-like high have been thwarted by nimble entrepreneurs. |
Chemistry World
August 25, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
Chemists wage war on designer drugs It is relatively simple to take a drug that has a known psychoactive effect and change one substituent group to make it into another drug that is not yet classified as illegal but provides the same or similar psychoactive high |
Reason
February 2007
Greg Beato |
Pot Clubs in Peril Are San Francisco zoning boards a bigger threat to medical marijuana than the DEA? |
CFO
September 1, 2010
Leibs & Tedesco |
"It Wouldn't Matter if It Was Widgets." While there may be no such thing as a typical CFO, it's a safe bet that Richard Cowan is less typical than most. An interview with Richard Cowan, CFO, Cannabis Science Inc. |
Salon.com
January 31, 2001
Chris Colin |
Doctor's orders: Get high A trip into the medical marijuana demimonde smokes out America's confusion about drugs, pleasure and morality... |
Salon.com
August 31, 2000
David Tuller |
Striking down medical marijuana San Francisco's pro-pot district attorney discusses the long-term implications of the Supreme Court's ruling. |
Chemistry World
June 12, 2013
Maria Burke |
'Scientific censorship' hamstringing psychoactive drug research Legal controls on psychoactive drugs have hindered neuroscience research and the discovery of new treatments for brain disorders in 'one of the most scandalous examples of scientific censorship in modern times', claim researchers. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 67
David Bradley |
No Munchies with Cannabinoid Antagonist Cannabinoid receptors in the brain are normally stimulated by natural chemicals in the body but also, as the name might suggest, by compounds in cannabis and in tobacco smoke. |
BusinessWeek
June 16, 2011
Ben Paynter |
The Big Business of Synthetic Highs Synthetic drugs that use legal compounds but mimic the highs of everything from marijuana to cocaine are proliferating among do-it-yourself pharma labs across the country. Bad trips - and fatal side effects - are increasing, too. |
Reason
March 2002
Sara Rimensnyder |
One Toke over the Line In effect, the nation's highest court decided that state laws legalizing cannabis for medical use weren't worth a dime bag... |
Chemistry World
January 15, 2009
Ned Stafford |
Synthetic cannabis mimic found in herbal incense A chemical substance first synthesized in 1995 in a university lab in the US is now being used by young people around the world to legally achieve a marijuana-like high and is causing alarm among health officials in Europe. |
American Family Physician
July 1, 2001 |
What Should I Know About Seizures and Epilepsy? What is a seizure, and what is epilepsy?... What causes epilepsy?... Who gets epilepsy?... Are all seizures the same?... How does the doctor find out I have epilepsy?... |
Chemistry World
June 12, 2015 |
Synthetic cannabinoid poisonings surge in US US poison control centres have experienced a 229% increase in the number of calls related to synthetic cannabinoid use in 2015 compared with last year. |
