Humans have cultivated and used the flowering tops of the female cannabis plant, known colloquially as marijuana, since history was recorded. Archaeologists in Central Asia even found over 2 pounds of cannabis in a 2,700 year-old grave of a...

Ayahuasca is an ancient psychedelic plant medicine that has been used by shamans in South America for centuries. It is a brew that is made by boiling the leaves and vines of specific plants from the amazonian jungle. Today,...

The data is very strong and there’s no toxicity associated with A compound found in cannabis could halt the spread of many forms of aggressive cancer, scientists say. The first research to show marijuana’s anti-tumor properties was presented at the...

A young boy named Landon Riddle was diagnosed with Leukemia, and was told by his doctors that he only had an 8-10% chance of living for more than a day or two. “His whole chest was full of leukemia tumors,...

The following story first appeared on The Conversation. It’s written by Dr Wai Lui, a Senior Research Fellow at St George’s, University of London, who was the lead researcher on a study which investigated the anti-cancer effects of Sativex in glioma cells. Here he...