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Medical Marijuana for Rare Conditions: Where Evidence Stands

The phrase Medical Marijuana can mean very different things depending on who is speaking. A patient may mean dispensary products with varying ratios of THC and CBD. A neurologist may mean a purified, prescription cannabidiol product studied in formal trials. A legislator may mean a qualifying condition on a state registry. Those differences are not semantic. They sit at the heart of why evidence for rare conditions can feel both promising and frustrating at t

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Medical Marijuana for PTSD: Current Evidence and Insights

Post-traumatic stress disorder is rarely tidy in real life. The textbook description, intrusive memories, nightmares, avoidance, hypervigilance, negative mood changes, captures the syndrome, but not the lived pattern. People with PTSD often do not arrive in a clinic saying, “I have trauma symptoms.” They talk about fractured sleep, a constant startle response, irritability that is hurting a marriage, or the exhaustion of spending every day braced for danger. It is in t

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