Category: Medical Cannabis News

We’re sorry to say we can’t currently verify this story. This is just let you know that it has been published in the Adelaide Advertiser which, we are sorry to say, is behind the great Murdoch paywall

A total of 8,505 cannabis products across 653 dispensaries were sampled. The team found that most of the products offered in the medical dispensaries in the study had more than 10 percent THC and that many had 15 percent or more, the same as is available in products at recreational dispensaries.

Sapphire Medical Clinics has become the first medical cannabis access clinic in the UK to be approved for video consultations. The approval from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) is expected to help improve patient access to medical cannabis products across the UK.

Veteran Labour politician Frank Field has hailed cannabis oil as a ­“wonder drug” – and told how he has spent thousands of pounds on a private prescription. Reports The Sunday Mirror

Ganjapreneur report….Two bills aiming to improve veterans’ access to medical cannabis have passed through the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee this week.

Dragonfly has turned away hundreds who sought to get in the door because they have not been qualified by Utah’s Department of Health as medical cannabis cardholders. They are cancer patients, people with glaucoma and other ailments that qualify them to get medical cannabis, said Hoang Nguyen, a manging partner at the medical cannabis pharmacy.

Sapphire Medical Clinic, which originally launched the UK’s first medical marijuana clinic in London last summer, is now opening Scotland’s first cannabis center. This new clinic, based in Aberdeen, will allow patients to visit doctors who are experienced with using medical cannabis to treat symptoms of chronic pain.

Millennials might be the top consumers of cannabis in Canada, but their older age cohorts the zoomers lead the way in consuming cannabis for health and wellness benefits. Today there are approximately 16.2 million zoomers or adults aged 45 years and older in Canada, comprising well over half (56%) of the Canadian population. Zoomers, representing 60% of all consumer spending and 70% of the wealth, also constitute 42% of the cannabis consuming market (legal and illegal), making them worth just under $3 billion in cannabis purchases according to Vividata’s 2019 Cannabis National Consumer Study.

Since the beginning of the medical cannabis program, medical cannabis sales have been limited to between the hours of 6 a.m. and 8 p.m., while adult use sales are permitted by law until 10 p.m. To address this, the Division of Professional Regulation has issued a variance to the medical cannabis administrative rules, effective immediately, to expand the hours during which medical patients and their caregivers can purchase cannabis.

Legislation to legalize medical cannabis is expected to be introduced today in the Alabama state Senate; the bill is based on a proposal approved by the Alabama Medical Cannabis Study Commission.

Health Europa write, “New varieties of medical cannabis will be sold to the Netherlands Government which could see more patients buying their medicine in pharmacies rather than coffee shops.”

‘This kind of set-up is potentially unethical.’ That is Dr Vicki Kotsirilos, GP and Australia’s first authorised GP prescriber of medicinal cannabis. Reports RACGP

The study by researchers from the University of Auckland and medical cannabis clinic owner Dr Graham Gulbransen looked at how patients were faring after using cannabidiol (CBD), the non-intoxicating compound in cannabis that has had so much attention these past few years.

The families of severely epileptic children have held a protest criticising the NHS for failing to prescribe medical cannabis.

Medical cannabis companies in Missouri could be prevented from hiring employees because state regulators might not be able to access a national fingerprint database.

This is what they are saying post the Senate hearing on Wednesday….

Another product has been approved for use under Ireland’s Medical Cannabis Access Programme (MCAP).

The Sicilian Region will cover the costs incurred by patients who use cannabis for therapeutic use as determined by a decree signed by the councilor for health, Ruggero Razza.

Here in Sydney we’d love to know the clinics and doctors that are actually prescribing. This report in hemp Gazette says there are actually only 22 official sanction prescribers of medical cannabis in the entire country. Maybe the Senate enquiry which is due to report at the end of February will help unravel some of these knots