Tag archive for medical marijuana

Despite the recent rise in popularity of CBD rich strains, many patients still remain unaware of their benefits. At Berkeley Patients Care Collective, we consider it of the utmost importance to educate ourselves and our patients to the best of our abilities in order to better understand what cannabis can do for us. For this reason, this weeks review will take a good hard look at two CBD rich strains: ‘Harlequin’ and ‘Terpene Queen’.

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…cannabis doesn’t just have variations in effect, but also in a wide range of smells and tastes. The sample I have been provided for this review is one of the most unique smells I have found in the cannabis world, even though it is the very embodiment of its namesake: Maple.

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Choosing the right strain of medical cannabis can be confusing at first with so many different and occasionally unusual names – the strain names are not always representative of the desired medicinal effects. This being said, it is much easier to decide what your desired effects are before you decide which strain to go with. To make things easier we have split the effects into two categories: HEAD and BODY.

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This page is specifically intended for those of you who are interested in using cannabis therapeutically but who are not fully familiar with what’s involved in becoming a patient in California. Whether you have been advised to try cannabis by your physician or, if you are wondering if medical cannabis could work for you, this guide will (hopefully) help you understand: how to become a medical cannabis patient; how to navigate the California dispensary framework; and various ways to use cannabis that you may encounter on your journey to better managing your health.

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How was your 2010? For the medical patient, 2010 posed a lot of questions about what we might want the future of cannabis access to look like. We now have 15 States in America with some kind of medical-use legislature (Welcome Arizona!) and have had one very close encounter at legalization here in California, with Prop 19.

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This Tuesday, a national coalition of medical marijuana advocates renewed their demand to the Drug Enforcement Administration to act on an eight-year-old petition to reschedule marijuana for medical use..The rescheduling petition offers a unique opportunity to narrow the ever widening gap between federal and state medical marijuana laws under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), to make it consistent with the now fifteen, state medical marijuana policies and that of its own Department of Justice. “

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