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EDIBLE MARIJUANA like these cookies made in Gardiner are helping patients living with symptoms from diseases like cancer and Lou Gehrig’s cope.IT’S HIGH TIMES for the medical marijuana industry in America. Across the country, 23 states and Washington, D.C. now allow legalized doses of marijuana for residents to ameliorate pain associated with disease. In Maine, where weed has been approved for the infirm since 1999, the industry is starting to innovate.
THE LIST OF purported benefits linked to marijuana edibles is long. For cancer and HIV patients, some research shows it may dull the side effects from their treatments, working to increase appetites, alleviate symptoms of stress and even PMS.
OVER THE PAST YEAR, 50 percent of the Wellness Connection of Maine’s 8,000 members have tried medibles — a typical dose is a quarter of a cookie.
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