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Hugh Hempel, a technology industry veteran, has become a health care entrepreneur and a surprising supporter of medicinal cannabis. In 2006, his identical twin daughters were diagnosed with Niemann Pick Type C, a rare and fatal neurodegenerative disease, often referred to as “Childhood Alzheimer’s.” Since then, Hugh and his wife have done a lot of research and discovered that a simple sugar compound called cyclodextrin could save their daughters lives. They have successfully filed applications with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and received permission to try this never before used treatment on their daughters. Their journey to develop...

The journal Health Affairs released a new report in July which confirms what marijuana legalization advocates have been saying for many years: “legalized marijuana leads to less prescription drug use and abuse, as well as a decrease in Medicare spending”. A research team from the University of Georgia looked at the 17 states where medical marijuana had been legalized (since 2013 and earlier) and found, “painkiller prescriptions, as well as prescriptions for other medication, dropped dramatically compared to states where medical marijuana remained illegal,” reports Red Dirt Report. In those states, doctors prescribed fewer antidepressants, less seizure medication, and less anti-nausea...