Items tagged with medical cannabis
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| Youngsters try to weed out taboo [22.01.2018] | Should marijuana be legalised? Medical experts may be divided in their opinion on the subject, but many youngsters are citing examples from abroad to ... |
| Thailand eyes moves to allow medical marijuana plantations [21.01.2018] | Is Thailand now ready to legalise marijuana plantations for medical use? In recent days both legislators and state officials have been in the news af ... |
| The public really, really, really opposes current federal marijuana law [18.01.2018] | The overwhelming majority of Americans are opposed to current federal marijuana law. That’s the big takeaway from a new poll conducted by Mason-Dixon ... |
| Greece set to allow medical cannabis use [14.01.2018] | Greece's parliament is expected to approve the medical use of cannabis in the coming weeks, a deputy minister said Sunday, adding that the change wou ... |
| Portuguese doctors back marijuana medicine as bill enters parliament [11.01.2018] | Portugal's influential Doctors' Association called for the legalisation of marijuana-based medicines, the same day parliament started to debate a dra ... |
| Medical marijuana in ‘high’ demand with over 13,000 applications: report [10.01.2018] | More and more people in Germany are applying for prescription cannabis and receiving reimbursements from their health insurance company. Ten months a ... |
| Cannabis chaos — Sessions has no exit strategy for his war on drugs [07.01.2018] | One of the great social and political experiments of this decade, marijuana legalization, faces its greatest existential threat: Jeff Sessions. Twent ... |
| Marijuana legalization 2018: Which states might consider cannabis laws this year? [02.01.2018] | The legal marijuana market could blaze across the United States in 2018. At least 12 states are poised to consider marijuana legalization this year, ... |
| Canadian pot growers eye global expansion [28.12.2017] | Canadian medical marijuana is setting the stage to go global. The country’s emerging legal producers have a chance to seize opportunities in other co ... |
| Mumbaiites fight to legalise marijuana [27.12.2017] | The Bangalore-based founder of the Great Legalisation Movement (GLM), Viki Vaurora, wrote to the Prime Minister asking him to legalise hemp — leaves ... |
| Legal pot: Mexico to sell space cakes, cannabis drinks and marijuana lipsticks [21.12.2017] | Mexico is set to legalize the sale of marijuana-based products early next year, despite the country’s struggles with the illicit drug trade. Mexico’s ... |
| Government's cannabis plans include legal defence for terminal patients who use [20.12.2017] | The Government will not be legalising the medicinal use of cannabis in New Zealand, but it will allow terminal patients caught growing cannabis to us ... |
| Canadian cannabis firm licensed to produce in Denmark [19.12.2017] | Canadian medical marijuana producer Canopy Growth said its joint venture Spectrum Cannabis has been licensed to grow pot in Denmark for sale througho ... |
| Law on marijuana should be eased [17.12.2017] | In a long overdue move, the government this past week decided to relax the narcotics law and allow hemp to be grown as a cash crop in six provinces i ... |
| Jeff Sessions isn’t giving up on weed. He’s doubling down [16.12.2017] | When president-elect Donald Trump announced Senator Jeff Sessions would be his attorney general, advocates for marijuana law reform were suddenly sei ... |
| World Health Organization: Initial review of CBD doesn’t warrant scheduling [13.12.2017] | CBD, for now, should not be subject to international drug scheduling, a World Health Organization committee determined in an initial review of the ca ... |
| Medical cannabis cultivation: could Germany be the next Canada or Netherlands? [14.11.2017] | Despite the implementation of the legalization of medical marijuana in Germany in March, patients have been met with high prices, supply shortages an ... |
| Greece hopes its economy can get high from medical weed [14.11.2017] | Investors in medical cannabis projects are focusing on Greece, where a warm, sunny climate and potentially favorable future legislation could help th ... |
| Don't 'bank' on ganja! - Lawmaker says J'cans might be clinging to false hopes [09.11.2017] | The viability of Jamaica's legal ganja and hemp industry has been called into question, with lawmaker Marisa Dalrymple Philibert suggesting that Jama ... |
| Luxembourg legalises medical marijuana, but it's 'not solution to everything' [09.11.2017] | The Luxembourg Health Ministry led by Lydia Mutsch announced that a government bill legalising cannabis for medical use will soon come into force. Th ... |
| How big tobacco, alcohol and pharma companies could enter the cannabis industry [06.11.2017] | The entrance of Constellation Brands in the cannabis industry has broken the insulation around cannabis companies — it is now incumbent upon the indu ... |
| The green gold rush: Could Africa be on the verge of a weed race? [09.10.2017] | Several African governments are considering tapping a lucrative natural resource. More than 10,000 tons of cannabis are produced on the continent eac ... |
| What a probable Jamaica coalition means for possible cannabis legalisation in Germany [05.10.2017] | With the SPD out of the picture, Merkel will depend on two smaller parties, the Liberal Democrats (FDP) and Green Party (Die Grünen) to form a govern ... |
| Gov't urged to rethink medical ganja policy [02.10.2017] | Two of the Jamaica's leading thinkers have called on the Government to rethink its policy approach towards the development of the medical ganja indus ... |
| Legal dagga process draaaags on [29.09.2017] | Businesses that want to get in on the ground floor of South Africa’s great medical marijuana revolution, or at least the legal one, are bound to find ... |
| Startups seek to cash in on cannabis, but some fear Israel will take a hit [24.09.2017] | With green in their eyes, Israeli entrepreneurs have spotted cannabis soon to be growing opportunity, and at least 700 have applied to the Israeli He ... |
| Sri Lanka to export cannabis from first plantation [13.09.2017] | Sri Lanka is to launch its first official cannabis plantation to supply the traditional medicine market and export to the United States, the health m ... |
| Few Jamaicans in local ganja industry — Dr Lowe [08.09.2017] | There is a negative buzz surrounding Jamaica's budding legal ganja industry. According to Dr Henry Lowe, owner of Medicanja, “It feels like our objec ... |
| Green gold: how China quietly grew into a cannabis superpower [27.08.2017] | Thanks to government support and a long tradition, China has quietly become a superpower in hemp production and research. This growth has in part bee ... |
| Marijuana on high ground [07.08.2017] | The demand for medical marijuana has been gaining ground in Himachal Pradesh's Kullu district, home to the world's best-quality "weed". Though illega ... |
| Congress is heading for a confrontation with Sessions over marijuana [03.08.2017] | Sessions is seeking to crack down on marijuana use while lawmakers from both parties are pushing legislation that would do the opposite. Measures hav ... |
| Union minister Maneka Gandhi suggests legalising marijuana for medical purposes [30.07.2017] | Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi has suggested legalising marijuana, a psychoactive drug, in India for medical purposes on the line ... |
| Cyprus follows in the footsteps of Greece and approves medical cannabis bill [27.07.2017] | The Cyprus government approved a bill allowing the cultivation and provision of medical cannabis, Health Minister Giorgos Pamborides said. Speaking a ... |
| Senators defy Jeff Sessions and vote to extend medical marijuana protections [27.07.2017] | A congressional committee voted to extend protections of state medical marijuana programs against federal interference, in defiance of a request from ... |
| Greece legalises medicinal cannabis [03.07.2017] | Greece's parliament has announced that cannabis is effectively legal for medicinal purposes. "From now on, the country is turning its page, as Greece ... |
| Mexico legalises medical marijuana [21.06.2017] | Medicinal cannabis has been made legal in Mexico. The President, Enrique Pena Nieto, has officially published a bill allowing its use for health and ... |
| Jeff Sessions personally asked Congress to let him prosecute medical marijuana providers [13.06.2017] | Attorney General Jeff Sessions is asking congressional leaders to undo federal medical marijuana protections that have been in place since 2014, acco ... |
| U.K. tobacco giant gets medicinal cannabis expertise [13.06.2017] | Imperial Brands Plc gained the services of a leader in the field of medicinal cannabis as the British tobacco manufacturer seeks to further its push ... |
| Could Thailand, which gave world the bong, legalise cannabis for medicinal use? [11.06.2017] | Thaksin Shinawatra considered legalising marijuana, and recently a justice minister aired same idea, amid mounting evidence of its medicinal benefits ... |
| Cannabis may help wean people off crack, study finds [16.05.2017] | Cannabis has been identified as a potential substitute for users of legal or illicit opioids, but a new Vancouver-based study shows the drug may also ... |
| Ganja lobby wrong [15.05.2017] | The Ministry of Health (MoH) of Jamaica has indicated that it has begun taking steps to change the schedule class of marijuana to effect amendments t ... |
| Israel eases restrictions on medical marijuana use and possession [15.05.2017] | Israel's Health Ministry recently released new directives easing restrictions on the possession and use of medical marijuana by authorized users. The ... |
| New medical marijuana prescription approved in Sweden [02.05.2017] | A further person has been granted a licence to use marijuana for medical purposes in Sweden three months after an historic decision from the country' ... |
| Use, production of medical cannabis may be legalized in Greece [23.04.2017] | The Health Ministry in Greece is set to propose changes to legislation covering the use and production of medicinal cannabis. Health Minister Andreas ... |
| Too much ‘dilly dallying’ around ganja issue, says minister [21.04.2017] | As the debate over the legalisation of ganja for medical use heats up, Minister of Science, Energy and Technology Dr Andrew Wheatley has thrown down ... |
| World Cannabis Day: ‘Flying leaves’ defy stigma to soar to new heights [21.04.2017] | Ironically, in Asia where cannabis cultivation first began, cannabis laws remain the strictest. China will probably be the last country to relax such ... |
| Six things to know about weed in Germany [20.04.2017] | There's long been talk of fully legalizing cannabis in Germany, especially in the capital of Berlin. But how close is Deutschland actually to making ... |
| Ottawa doctor pioneers use of cannabis to help opioid addicts [16.04.2017] | The patients at Dr. Mark Ujjainwalla’s methadone clinic are trying to beat their addiction to heroin, narcotic painkillers and other opioid drugs, bu ... |
| Push to undo hash ban in Nepal [14.04.2017] | Marijuana use was always culturally accepted in Nepal, and the cannabis indica plant grows wild across the country. Open sale of marijuana in governm ... |
| Medical ganja’s slow journey irks foreign investor [09.04.2017] | A foreign investor is expressing concern that Jamaica’s delay in establishing a medical ganja industry is providing other countries with the advantag ... |
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