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You can click here for more information and the Canabo Medical Clinic is no stranger to investors because it is part of Aleafia Health Inc (TSXV:ALEF).

Marijuana For Trauma (MFT) has a larger list of conditions – Chronic Pain, Arthritis/Inflammatory Conditions, Crohn’s Disease/Colitis/IBS, PTSD,

Anxiety, Depression, Insomnia, Stress, Brain Injury, Alzheimer’s, ALS, Autism, Cancer, Brain Tumor, MS, HIV, RCPS (aka RSD), Epilepsy, and Parkinson’s Disease. MFT’s site including how you can start the process to see if medical cannabis is for you can be accessed by clicking here. LP’s such as Emblem Corp also have extensive health and education divisions - Emblem’s health and education subsidiary Grow-Wise Health Limited can be accessed by clicking here.

I appreciate that MFT’s list specifically names “chronic pain” and “inflammatory conditions”. MFT is part of Canada House Wellness Group Inc (CSE:CHV).

Some other sites will show a much larger list of conditions said to benefit from medical cannabis. For example, the site marijuanadoctors.com lists 283 conditions (click here) although it does have a top ten list with nine conditions identical to Canabo’s. The one difference is this source has “severe nausea” as #10 whereas Canabo has “end of life care”. Included on that much larger list are Alzheimer’s, Coronary Heart Disease (and Heart Attacks), Cancer, and Diabetes. We already know there has been a significant increase in all four of those including referring to them as being epidemics.

These lists do not appear to include some evidence that CBD may act as a powerful antibiotic equivalency. This 2008 report (click here) that appeared in “MIT Technology Review” discusses this with specific reference to the superbug MRSA. Since that report’s publication, there have been many articles, that you can look up on your own, that explore this further. This article, The Healing Power of Cannabis: CBD is a very good read and please scroll to the bottom of the article to see the first rate sources it used

(click here).

Now as I wrote in a recent article published in our American edition – just imagine if there is a major breakthrough in just one of these major conditions with respect to the effectiveness of treatment with/by cannabis/hemp. Yes, we can point to a growing body of evidence demonstrating that cannabis appears effective in the treatment of many medical conditions – epilepsy perhaps at or near the forefront. None of that is particularly new other than the

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