TORONTO — UFC middleweight Elias (The Spartan) Theodorou returns to action in December in his home town of Toronto. But first he hopes to win his fight for the right to use medical marijuana. And medical cannabis allows me to even the playing field and fight at a baseline level.”It also helps him recover from the duress of cage-fighting. Cannabidiol or CBD — which unlike the THC component of marijuana does not have any psychoactive effects — is no longer prohibited. “But now they have forced me to go the route of exhausting all first-line medicine — so that’s painkillers, opioids etc.”The irony for Theodorou is that he already has something that works — medical marijuana.

Source: National Post October 18, 2018 21:33 UTC