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Pot Product Manufacturing Jobs Fell By One-Third This Year, StatsCan Says

Canopy Growth has laid off an unspecified amount of staff from one of its Ontario facilities, The Canadian Press reports. The newswire service said Canopy conducted a number of layoffs from its facility located at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., but didn’t …

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Give Cannabis To Elderly People With Chronic Pain, Doctors Say

Experts say cannabis-based medicines, including those that contain THC, should be used instead of opioids. Elderly people with chronic pain including back and joint injuries should be prescribed cannabis instead of conventional painkillers, doctors hav…

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Here’s How Cannabis Can Help Fight Chronic Gut Problems

Though cannabis provides therapeutic value for those with IBD, its primary benefit doesn’t really seem to have to do with pain. A primary reason that many patients turn to medicinal cannabis is to treat chronic pain. In fact, a 2019 study published in …

Senior Sparkers – 1 in 20 Older Americans Say They Regularly Smoke Cannabis Now

This could be a problem especially since Older people tend to have a small pharmacy they consume daily combating not only physical afflictions – but also the side effects of the medication they are consuming. Thus – while cannabis may be able to knock …