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Q: What effect does marijuana have on epilepsy?

A: The experimental type of treatment based on taking THC (tetra-hydrocannabiol) has a sedative effect, relaxes the muscles. It reduces the CAMP level (cyclic adenosine monophosphate), a mediator of the signals of certain hormones that are unable to pass the cell membrane (e.g., adrenaline) thus reducing the stress. This is very important for patients with epilepsy. […]

Q: Is marijuana really capable of treating cancer?

A: By itself, of course, it is not capable, but it really helps as an auxiliary drug during chemotherapy. Today, there is a lot of scientific studies that clearly demonstrate how the CBD can prevent the emergence of new cancer cells, and moreover, destroy the existing ones. You can learn more about this by reviewing our […]

Q: Is it true that after using marijuana you will replace it by other drugs?

A: Is it true that after climbing the stairs, you will replace it by climbing Everest? After all, everyone who ascended to Everest had began by climbing the stairs. However, this is surely a false interconnection, because far from everyone who tried to climb the stairs went on to conquer Everest later. The same is in […]

Q: Does cannabis inhibit the development of mental disorders or, vice versa, can cannabis develop it?

A: Cannabis is a rather individual thing. And mental disorders are also quite individual things. The brain is an incredibly complex machine. This is not a stomach, where everything is trite and predictable. Cannabis makes some people cheerful, loads down others, and it makes paranoid still others. Others have got schizophrenia, others have got epilepsy, others […]

Q: Can depersonalization and derealization begin after using marijuana?

A: There is no unequivocal answer to this question, because everything in this world is too relative. We are all different, and this or that surfactant can affect everyone in very different ways. Besides, it depends on a whole chain of factors, such as the percentage of THC in the finished product, the grade, quantity, and, […]

Q: What is more harmful, marijuana or alcohol? Why?

A: To begin with, it is necessary to say that we do not consider alcohol harmful – it is not alcohol that kills, but its quantity. And this applies to everything: not food leads to obesity, but food amount. And in this factor, of course, alcohol is much more harmful, because, unlike marijuana, it leads to […]

Q: Does marijuana lead to dependence?

A: All this is individual. There can be no addiction from CBD. Neither from the THC, in fact, but a lot depends on the person who uses it. Just as some become dependent on food or computer games, others do not. However, it can be said for sure that there are not so many people dependent […]

Q: What is more harmful – marijuana or a cigarette?

A: Marijuana is less harmful because it is usually smoked much less, even by heavy smokers. Besides, its smoke contains less harmful chemicals. It has not been possible to establish a link between smoking cannabis and the occurrence of lung cancer. Also there is relatively little tobacco in modern cigarettes, but a lot of different impurities […]

Q: Why then has marijuana been banned throughout the world for so many years?

A: As they say in Hollywood movies, “Nothing personal – just business.” In the 30s of the last century, hemp was a serious competitor to the already formed alcohol, tobacco, cellulose, textile businesses. In 1916, the US Parliament expressed the opinion that by 1940, all paper products would be made from hemp, therefore tree cutting would […]

Q: Why hemp is banned today in many countries around the world?

A: If you look at the map, you will be surprised to find out that the more backward the country is in the economic and cultural sense, the stronger its prohibitions. And in many poor countries of Asia, the death penalty for marijuana is provided for. And you will see a completely different picture if you […]