Medical Cannabis News

Pennsylvania’s Medical Cannabis Program Celebrates First Birthday , 116K Patients With 1000 Physicians Approved To Certify Patients
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.
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MJ Biz Report Says Australia Now Has Over 2k Medical Cannabis Patients
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.”
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Australia: WA’s first medicinal cannabis-specific clinic opens
The Cannabis Access Clinic in Subiaco aims to streamline the access to medicinal cannabis with health professionals proficient in the area.Reports WA Today.
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Press Report: “The right blend”: $1 billion medicinal cannabis industry set to boom in South Australia
Leaders from the medicinal cannabis industry met in Adelaide this past week to discuss the future of the drug in Australia.
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Patients in Jersey will be able to get medical cannabis from all doctors after politicians voted to change the law. says BBC report
“I cannot see a logic in restricting prescriptions to hospital consultants, which narrows the pool of expertise, particularly in Jersey.
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In South Australia People Are Being Prescribed Medical Cannabis
109 to be exact.
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Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Awards $2.7 Million In Grant Funding
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.
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Media Report: The state of medical cannabis in Israel
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.”
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Petition against “cruel” and “ridiculous” guidance on access to medicinal cannabis attracts 400 000 signatures
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.
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Missouri Medical Profession Will Need More Persuasion To Start Accepting Medical Cannabis
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.
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