Category: Medical Cannabis News

Louisiana’s State Board of Medical Examiners voted 8-1 to remove a cap established in 2016 that limited physicians to 100 medical marijuana patients. People seeking the treatment pushed elimination of the cap, worried they will have difficulty getting the medication when it becomes available later this year, estimated around November.

The French National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products (ANSM) has tasked the committee with….

It’s a amazing what happens when the midterms are in play..

Interesting piece about the growing debate in Korea and the fact that online purchase of CBD products in Japan and China are relatively simple and in the case of China very cheap.

Thanks to Andrew Sacks of SWD for highlighting this interesting study,

But then again.. be warned unless you have an official prescription it isn’t easy either.

“Political parties have united around a campaign to see a proposed new law allowing the prescription of medicinal cannabis extended to Northern Ireland.” Says a media report.

The London-based pharmaceutical company, GW Pharmaceuticals (GWPH), today announced the release of its financial results for the quarter ending on June 30, 2018.

Hold your breath and breathe out deeply…”$32,500 per year. Company representatives said in a phone call with investors this week that the cost reflects that of other epilepsy medications. Patients should expect a wait time of about three weeks between when a physician prescribes the medication to when they actually receive the drug.”

“Patients can just seek it out on their own, they won’t have to find another doctor or to go to a cannabis clinic. They can go down to the dispensary and see if it works for themselves.”

The BMJ write in their editorial, “Last week’s recognition by the UK government that cannabis has medicinal value and should be available on prescription is an important step (doi:10.1136/bmj.k3290). It offers the hope of potentially safe and effective treatment for thousands of children and adults with conditions that are currently beyond the help of licensed drugs, and it brings the UK in line with 40 other countries and 29 US states where medicinal use of cannabis is already legal. It also greatly opens up the prospects for research.”

Health Minister Giulia Grillo vowed in a Facebook post to ramp up the country’s marijuana production capacity.

The Tampa Bay Times reports, “Christian Bax, the embattled director of the state’s Office of Medical Marijuana Use, is resigning after a three-year stint marked by rule-making delays, rocky litigation and continued criticism over patients’ problems accessing the drug since medical cannabis was broadly legalized more than a year ago.”

Very interesting piece of research by Cannabis Wire….

“Legal restrictions on the grounds that cannabis has no therapeutic use have impeded research, says M P Barnes, but evidence shows cannabinoids may have benefit in several indications, calling for doctors to be allowed to prescribe the drug as they can in many other countries”

This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1111/bph.14426.

The Home Secretary Javid said: “I am grateful to the chief medical adviser for her review of the medicinal and therapeutic benefits of cannabis and to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs for their short-term advice on scheduling. I am carefully considering both recommendations and will make a decision shortly.”

Mea Culpa, this bypassed us last week. “The agency overseeing Oregon’s medical marijuana industry conceded in a report it has not provided effective oversight of growers and others in the industry, creating opportunities for cannabis to be diverted to the black market”