Research - It's what we need and deserve
- Seniors MMJ Network
- Jun 12, 2016
- 2 min read
Many of us have warmed up to the idea of Marijuana as a medicine, however, many of us would feel more confident with a bevy of research supporting the benefits of MMJ. To date, there have been a significant number of meaningful studies conducted around the world, but given the wide reaching health potentials of Cannabis, more research is what we need and deserve.
To help solve that problem, there is a newly formed, nonprofit scientific organization, the Institute for Research of Cannabinoids (IROC). The group’s aim is not just to fill in the scientific gaps in what we already know about the potential benefits and risks of Cannabis, but also to find innovative ways to secure funding that MMJ researchers say is desperately lacking in their line of work. They join the likes of groups such as the International Cannabinoid Research Society, International Cannabis and Cannabinoid Institute as well as the highly funded Cannabinoid Research Institute at GW pharmaceuticals.
We highly recommend you visit the links above to learn more about Cannabinoids and the research currently being performed. Educate yourself!
In an exclusive to International Business Times, IROC Executive Director Marcel Bonn-Miller, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, said the institute will bring together many of the world’s top Marijuana scientists to undertake new cutting-edge Cannabis studies. “There is growing momentum to create and develop these kinds of programs,” said McGill University professor Mark Ware, executive director of the Canadian Consortium for the Investigation of Cannabinoids and member of IROC’s scientific board. “The dialogue nationally and internationally around Cannabis has reached a point where it is no longer possible to ignore it. And secondly, there is an industry emerging around medical Cannabis. I think you put these two things together, and it’s a perfect storm.”
As our experiences have shown us, there are mountains of anecdotal evidence, that for certain people, Medical Marijuana is a god send. Seniors MMJ Network teaches a variety of methods to find proper dosing, method of delivery and strain preference. The goal of this research is to know precisely why it works. We encourage you to periodically check back to the links above and learn about new and ongoing research. Another source for ongoing Marijuana research is our very own US National Institutes of Health. You can look at over 590 studies HERE
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