Category: Medical Cannabis News

There are now 72 licensed medical marijuana provisioning centers, and about 50 unlicensed shops will face cease-and-desist letters from state officials after March 31, said David Harns, spokesman for the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs. They’ve been allowed to temporarily operate without a license for the past year, selling untested weed grown by caregivers to patients. Reports Michigan Live

Which in reality probably means 100 to 1. As the ABC report says, an independent regulator is needed, and quickly, to fix the confusion of of over regulation and rulings on both a state and federal level.

In recent times, Medical marijuana has grown to be one of the most wanted and required natural remedies in the world, and has become popular in just about each and every country on Earth, though one can say that this popularity existed long before the scientific and health benefits of Medical Marijuana were discovered. In more western countries such as the USA and Canada, the strains of Medical Marijuana have become known for being a much, much better alternative to the usual prescription drugs that one has to take in order to reduce their pain.

Listen to a radio report from the ABC on medicinal cannabis prescriptions rising in Australia

Quietly Pennsylvania’s medical program has been put into play and although the market isn’t a CA or CO if the numbers are extrapolated from the patient base it’s a new steady tax revenue for the state and even better so for the likes of Canopy, Aurora et al.

They write, “The country saw 568 medical cannabis approvals in November, a 42% increase on-month, bringing the total number of approvals for the first 11 months of 2018 to 2,072, according to the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), which regulates medical marijuana in Australia.”

The Cannabis Access Clinic in Subiaco aims to streamline the access to medicinal cannabis with health professionals proficient in the area.Reports WA Today.

Leaders from the medicinal cannabis industry met in Adelaide this past week to discuss the future of the drug in Australia.

“I cannot see a logic in restricting prescriptions to hospital consultants, which narrows the pool of expertise, particularly in Jersey.

109 to be exact.

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has awarded $2.7 million in grant funding for two research studies to investigate the potential therapeutic uses of marijuana.

 Both research studies are random controlled trials, the type of research considered to be the “gold standard” in the scientific community. One study will research marijuana as a treatment for chronic spine pain and will evaluate its use as a therapy to reduce prescription opioid use. The other will research the efficacy and safety of cannabidiol (CBD) to treat children with autism spectrum disorder.

Israeli business publication, Globes, writes, “With the aid of a survey by Cann10 of the Shizim group, in collaboration with Deloitte and crowdfunding platform OurCrowd carried out in advance of an international conference held two weeks ago, “Globes” presents here the areas of activity and the outstanding companies in the cannabis industry, and analyzes the forces at work in the market.”

The BMJ reports….. The parents of severely epileptic children have launched a campaign to try to get the strict new guidelines for the provision of medicinal cannabis revised after some found that doctors were reluctant to prescribe the recently legalised medication.

All the state’s major physician groups—including the Kansas City Medical Society, of which Mammen is president—opposed every marijuana measure on the ballot. Reports Medical Xpress.com.

To alleviate suffering for thousands of Texas patients, Senator Jose Menendez filed Senate Bill 90, a comprehensive and compassionate medical cannabis bill. If passed, Texas would become the 33rd state to offer medical cannabis for qualifying patients. The proposed legislation would increase the number of debilitating medical conditions that qualify for the Texas Compassionate Use Program (T.CUP). Senate Bill 90 would also allow doctors to treat medical cannabis like any other medicine.

It became legal for doctors to prescribe cannabis based drugs on 1 November. But who will be able to issue these products, for what conditions, and what’s the evidence? Nigel Hawkes reports