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lung disease. Taken together, it is clear that inflammation contributes broadly to chronic illnesses that affect a large proportion of Canadians...” You can access the full write up titled Inflammation in Chronic Disease by clicking here. The two sentences in red are, in my opinon, key.

My long-standing over-riding theory when it comes to me and science is that if I can think of it then it stands to reason so has science and well before I did. This March 2018 article titled Cannabis: The Anti-Inflammatory Key to an Epidemic is as close as I could find and I found it well after I wrote this article – in other words I inserted this paragraph afterwards. The article leads with the sentence “When you look at some of the health claims around cannabis, it can seem a little bit ridiculous” - that indeed lines up perfectly with my hypothesis. What is missing is the call for clinical studies to test the hypothesis and I am hoping such a study is not far off. Click Here for this article.

Recent studies such as CBD From Marijuana Plus Chemotherapy Tripled Cancer Survival Rates In Mice remind us all how cannabis may revolutionize modern medicine and treatment (click here). For those wanting the more scientific source for this study please click here.

This article titled Legal Pot Will Mean a Boom in Canada Cannabis Research (Click Here) references several sources stating:

The landscape for cannabis is changing in Canada,” Milloy said. “There are more bodies who are willing and able to fund the research necessary to understand cannabis better.” According to Dr. Jonathan Page, CEO and co-founder of Vancouver-based Anandia Labs, legalization will boost the immediacy and importance of cannabis research, primarily in its biological, sensory, clinical and societal impact.

“Scientists know a lot about cannabis, but there are still many areas that haven’t been researched effectively,” Page said. Page says a lot of basic and fundamental science remains unknown about the cannabis plant. “Cannabis is like the Ferrari of the plant world,” Page said. “There’s no other plant that can produce cannabinoids in such high quantities.”

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