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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Nov. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cannabis Science, Inc., (CBIS) announces Harvard Medical School releases peer-reviewed study in the Genes & Cancer Journal strongly suggesting that Cannabidiol inhibits growth and induces programmed cell death in Kaposi Sarcoma-associated Herpesvirus-Infected Endothelium. These results from the study at Harvard Medical School support Cannabis Science's approach to the development of CS-TATI-1 to inhibit Kaposi Sarcoma....
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Nov. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cannabis Science Inc., (OTC: CBIS) is pleased to announce an opportunity to directly respond to our investors regarding our corporate developments and preclinical initiatives via a 1(st) Q of 2013 webinar investor call. As we continue to build our team of world-renowned experts to bring CS-S/BCC-1 and CS-TATI-1 through our preclinical investigation and into subsequent human clinical studies to satisfy the FDA regulatory process...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Nov. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cannabis Science Inc., (CBIS) is pleased to see the support of freedom, and science demonstrated by the voters on Election Day along side the re-election of President Obama, History was made for the citizens of Colorado and Washington who clearly voiced their desire to decriminalize the use of cannabis by adults. NBC News reported; Voters in Colorado and Washington on Tuesday approved measures allowing adults to use marijuana...
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- BG Medical Technologies, Inc. (OTC: RIGH) CEO Angel Stanz is scheduled to speak on Friday, joining industry leaders at the aptly-timed National Marijuana Business Conference in Denver, Colorado. He appears alongside top industry professionals in technology, business operations, finance, law, and policy reform in discussing trends and forecasts for the medical cannabis industry. Mr. Stanz will focus specifically on Internet-related...
fMRI study finds neural correlates to support cognitive model Researchers at the University of Bergen in Norway have found new support for their theory that cannabis use causes a temporary cognitive breakdown in non-psychotic individuals, leading to long-term psychosis. In an fMRI study published this week in Frontiers in Psychiatry, researchers found a different brain activity pattern in schizophrenia patients with previous cannabis use than in schizophrenic patients without prior...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Nov. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cannabis Science Inc., (CBIS) announced today the appointment of Christopher Meenan MS., MBA, as Executive Vice President of Product Research and Development, adding significant expertise to Cannabis Science's investigation of CS-TATI-1 for Karposi's Sarcoma and CS-S/BCC-1 for Basal and Squamous Cell Carcinomas, the Company's lead initiatives entering initial clinical development. Christopher Meenan joins Dr. Roscoe Moore,...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Oct. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cannabis Science (CBIS), a pioneering U.S. Biotech Company developing pharmaceutical products for global public health challenges, supports ASA's appeal to the federal courts for the rescheduling of the case on the medicinal value of cannabinoids. Recently the federal appeals court for the DC circuit heard the case in which Americans for Safe Access (ASA) appealed the 2002 ruling that medical marijuana is a class one drug....
Multiple sclerosis and extract of cannabis: Results of the MUSEC trial Up to 90 per cent of MS patients endure painful muscle stiffness at some point during the course of their disease, which reduces their mobility and interferes with daily routine activities and sleep quality. But current treatments often fail to resolve symptoms fully, and can be harmful, as a result of which many MS patients have experimented with alternative therapies, including cannabis. Adult MS patients with...
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Medical Marijuana, Inc. (OTC: MJNA), a leading hemp industry innovator and its CanChew Biotechnologies portfolio company are pleased to announce the planned introduction of their CanChew CBD chewing gum product line with a free market trial offer for patients suffering from MS Spasticity, Cancer Pain, and Neuropathic Pain. This market trial offer will begin October 15, 2012 and will be managed by CanChew Directors; Dr. George Anastassov, Dr....
Certain withdrawal symptoms are more correlated to risk of relapse in cannabis users Cannabis users have a greater chance of relapse to cannabis use when they experience certain withdrawal symptoms, according to research published Sep. 26 in the open access journal PLOS ONE led by David Allsop of the National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre (NCPIC) at the University of New South Wales. The authors tested a group of dependent cannabis users over a two week period of abstinence...
