Know Your Herbs

Leafly’s Dr. Nick Jikomes explains why weed gives some people The Fear—and why it’s sometimes beneficial to face it. Hip surgeries are painful. Patients require potent pain medication afterwards, often for extended periods. Some years ago, a woman named Jo Cameron had hip surgery but responded in a strange way: she reported a lack of […] The post Cannabinoids, pain, anxiety & fear: The biology of negative emotion appeared first on Leafly. Source: lfy

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Hankering for some rich cannabis knowledge? Rapper and NAPALM brand founder Xzibit digs into cannabis and all its layers in a new podcast, co-hosted by educator and entrepreneur Tammy the Cannabis Cutie. The post Xzibit and Tammy the Cannabis Cutie eat ‘Lasagna Ganja’ with new podcast appeared first on Leafly. Source: lfy

#thegem-divider-6520bdff29074 {margin-top: 27px !important;} Rooted in the over-prescription of high dose painkillers and carried on by the contamination of illicit drugs with fentanyl and similar drugs, opioid addiction and overdoses have reached a critical point. With almost one in five Canadians relying on living with some form of chronic pain or illness, it is not surprising that opioid addiction is has become an epidemic. When they were first marketed over twenty years ago, they were marked as “safe” and “effective”, but we now know that these drugs […]