Cannabis and Acupuncture: These Ancient Approaches to Health and Healing Share Commonalities That Are Being Scientifically Validated Today Acupuncture, a tool of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), involves the use of very fine needles that are placed very specifically on strategic points along or near the body’s subtle-energy channels or meridians. TCM posits that our life […]
Cannabis, Opioids, and Pain: Part Two
Why opioids can kill and why natural cannabinoids do not By now everybody knows that opioid overdoses can be fatal. What you may not know is that most opioid overdose-related deaths are due to respiratory arrest. That is, once an opioid enters the system in an excessive dosage—via injection, inhalation, snorting, ingestion, or direct application […]
Cannabis, Opioids, and Pain: Part One
Opioids, Cannabis, and Pain: Which is Going to Work Best for My Pain? Pain in general is defined as an unpleasant physical, mental, and emotional experience that is linked to real or anticipated damage to our body or psyche. Ancient evolutionary forces of survival have hard-wired us to respond very quickly to the experience of […]