Items tagged with medical cannabis
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| Colombia’s new, legal drug barons focus on medical marijuana [03.08.2016] | Last year, President Juan Manuel Santos spearheaded an overhaul of Colombia’s 30-year-old drug laws, which formally legalized medical marijuana for d ... |
| Legalize pot, but bring in quality controls [30.07.2016] | The take-home message from a Globe and Mail investigation that tested pot purchased in dispensaries for chemicals, is a lack of quality controls on m ... |
| Restrictions on pot-safety testing put public at risk, scientists warn [27.07.2016] | Health Canada’s restrictive approach to marijuana safety testing is putting the public at risk, a growing chorus of scientists and activists warns – ... |
| Danes want legal cannabis, but govt vows crackdown [27.06.2016] | Amidst a new debate on cannabis, spurred by a massive police action at Christiania, a majority of Danes are in favour of legalization. Berlingske new ... |
| Smoke clears on cannabis licensing regime [14.06.2016] | Over a year ago Jamaica brought about reform to the legal landscape with regards to ganja through the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act the (DDA). Afte ... |
| 'Marijuana superstore' wins legal battle over medical pot shops in California [11.05.2016] | The largest licensed medical cannabis dispensary in the US, once dubbed the “marijuana superstore”, has won a four-year legal battle with federal pro ... |
| German government to grow marijuana for medical use [03.05.2016] | A proposal from German Health Minister Hermann Gröhe to allow seriously ill individuals increased access to medical marijuana was approved by the Ger ... |
| Mexico's president proposes legalising medical marijuana [21.04.2016] | Following his statement at the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) in which he called for more prevention, partial decriminaliza ... |
| What a looming patent war could mean for the future of the marijuana industry [20.04.2016] | On August 4, 2015, US officials quietly made history by approving the first-ever patent, No. 9095554, for a plant containing significant amounts of T ... |
| Support for marijuana legalization has hit an all-time high [24.03.2016] | A survey released by the University of Chicago finds that a record-high percentage of Americans – 61 percent – say they support marijuana legalizatio ... |
| New Zealand's 'cannabis crisis': smokers confirm chronic shortage [17.03.2016] | New Zealand suffers from a chronic shortage of marijuana. The “catastrophic” situation was first reported on by Don Rowe, a staff writer at The Spino ... |
| Marijuana advocates say ‘next fight’ is legalizing storefront dispensaries [24.02.2016] | The federal government should use a court decision ordering it to rewrite the rules on medical marijuana as an opportunity to legalize the storefront ... |
| Canada’s medical pot producers set sights on recreational users [28.01.2016] | Canada’s producers of medical marijuana are sitting on a seven-tonne stash of weed, with the inventory steadily growing as supply exceeds demand in t ... |
| Medical cannabis market shows growing pains [26.01.2016] | The Czech Republic took a bold step back in 2013 when lawmakers agreed to legalise the sale of medicinal cannabis or marihuana. But the development o ... |
| Canadian investors show interest in local ganja [12.01.2016] | Following the lead of several US states in holding referendums which have been supportive of reducing the legal restraints on the use of the drug, Ja ... |
| Medical cannabis set to hit pharmacy shelves [11.01.2016] | Medical cannabis is set to hit pharmacy shelves in Israel in the form of cigarettes, cookies and oil, while the number of doctors permitted to prescr ... |
| Istiqlal party and PAM advocate the legalization of marijuana [30.12.2015] | Ilyas El Omari, President of the Regional Council of Tangier-Tetouan and Al Hoceima, revealed that a group of researchers are working on a study abou ... |
| Colombian president signs decree to legalise medical marijuana [21.12.2015] | Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos has signed a decree legalizing the growing and sale of marijuana for medical purposes, a dramatic shift in a ... |
| Justin Trudeau and the cannabis factory [18.12.2015] | Many consumers obtain their marijuana through storefront "dispensaries", which have sprung up across Canada, encouraged by liberalisation in the Unit ... |
| 'Grandma's magic remedy:' Mexico's medical marijuana secret [13.12.2015] | When her legs ache, this Mexican grandmother rubs them with marijuana-infused alcohol. She is well aware the homemade remedy defies the country's can ... |
| Chile president: Marijuana no longer on ‘hard drug’ list [03.12.2015] | Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has signed a decree that removes marijuana from the country’s list of hard drugs. The decree also authorizes the ... |
| Two months after Oregon legalization, pot saturation sends profits up in smoke [20.11.2015] | Along North-east Sandy Boulevard in Portland, Oregon, there’s a stretch known as the “Green Mile”. Here, medical marijuana dispensaries are budding. ... |
| Colombia to legalize commercial sale of medical marijuana [11.11.2015] | Colombia's government plans to legalize the cultivation and sale of marijuana for medicinal and scientific purposes, officials said in a surprise shi ... |
| Germany mulls state cannabis body for pain relief [31.10.2015] | A so-called cannabis agency has been proposed in draft legislation put forward by the federal health ministry, the "Welt am Sonntag" newspaper report ... |
| Government awards third ganja research licence [26.10.2015] | Canadian nutraceutical and pharmaceutical company, Timeless Herbal Care Limited (THC), which has operations in Jamaica, is the first private entity t ... |
| Cannabis research 'being stifled' by US government, says think tank [19.10.2015] | In a new report, Ending the U.S. government’s war on medical marijuana research, researchers at the Brookings Institution call on the federal governm ... |
| Ganja ready for the big times [17.09.2015] | Going by the announcement by Canada-based Timeless Herbal Care Limited (THC), Jamaica stands to benefit from a US$100-million deal to develop medical ... |
| Region should explore billion-dollar ganja industry, Caricom heads told [30.08.2015] | The Caribbean Community (Caricom) is considered to have some 'competitive' advantage in the cultivation of the marijuana plant for medicinal purposes ... |
| ‘Medical cannabis could be worth more to Israel than natural gas’ [15.08.2015] | If Israel grew pot instead of peppers, said Dr. Tamir Gadot, CEO of pro-medical cannabis agricultural association Breath of Life, the economy would b ... |
| In ‘revolutionary’ shift, cannabis to be sold in pharmacies [26.07.2015] | Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman announced that pharmacies in Israel will be stocked with medical marijuana to ease the often arduous bureaucrat ... |
| Chile takes step toward cannabis decriminalisation [08.07.2015] | Chile has taken a step forward in decriminalising the use of cannabis after the lower house of congress approved by a wide margin a bill that seeks t ... |
| It's official: Marijuana is medicine [30.06.2015] | The nation's top medical organization released a major series of papers on medical cannabis last week in the Journal of the American Medical Associat ... |
| Studies find medical marijuana unproven to help many illnesses [22.06.2015] | Medical marijuana has not been proven to work for many illnesses that state laws have approved it for, according to the first comprehensive analysis ... |
| Cannabis: The comeback of a banned medicine [22.06.2015] | "When pure and administered carefully, is one of the most valuable medicines we possess,” wrote British physician John Russell Reynolds in 1890, prai ... |
| Ganja is our 'life blood' – western farmers [01.06.2015] | With Science, Technology, Energy and Mining Minister Phillip Paulwell stating that Jamaica plans to become a world leader in exploiting the economic ... |
| Lib Dem leadership candidate Norman Lamb calls for cannabis legalisation [31.05.2015] | The Liberal Democrat leadership candidate Norman Lamb has called for the UK to legalise, regulate and tax the sale of cannabis. The former care minis ... |
| Jamaica hoping to be world leader in medical marijuana [15.05.2015] | The Government intends to make Jamaica a world leader on the medical uses of marijuana. Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining Phillip Pa ... |
| Puerto Rico governor signs order to legalize medical pot [02.05.2015] | Puerto Rico's governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla signed an executive order to authorize the use of medical marijuana in the U.S. territory in an unexp ... |
| The path to legalizing marijuana in Chile [19.04.2015] | Chile’s Congressional Health Committee approved a bill that would modify the country’s current drug law, known as Law 20,000. The bill would allow up ... |
| Chile opens debate on marijuana bill [07.04.2015] | Chile's congressional health committee approved a bill that would legalize the cultivation of marijuana for private recreational or medicinal use, se ... |
| Canadian company to tap into Jamaica for medicinal cannabis supply [04.04.2015] | A Canadian company is seeking to tap into the Jamaican market for the supply of dried marijuana to the medicinal marijuana industry in Canada. Market ... |
| Critical updates needed in state marijuana laws [25.03.2015] | Washington's experiment with legal recreational marijuana is "teetering on the brink" of a market failure. That is the candid assessment of Hayden Wo ... |
| Farmers encouraged to make use of ganja opportunities [18.03.2015] | Small ganja farmers across the island are being encouraged to make use of the opportunities that will be available in the medicinal ganja industry. S ... |
| In Germany, it's a painstaking path to medical marijuana [05.03.2015] | Only few Germans are allowed to smoke marijuana to relieve pain. But that all could change. The federal government wants to prevent citizens from bei ... |
| UN special envoy: ‘The current international control system for drugs has failed’ [03.03.2015] | Marijuana will become an unavoidable policy issue for health watchdogs in coming years. Growing scientific evidence about the medical benefits and a ... |
| Lowe wants public sector cooperation on ganja [28.02.2015] | Executive Chairman of Medicanja, Dr Henry Lowe, is urging a spirit of cooperation between government ministries and agencies involved in the developm ... |
| Why Canada is no longer a leader in global drug policy [26.02.2015] | Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s statement about the failures of Canada's drug policy is mostly on point. It’s just the last bit he gets wrong: “I thi ... |
| Marijuana activists push legalization of medical cannabis in Costa Rica [25.02.2015] | Pien Metaal, who follows Latin American drug law reform ... told The Tico Times ... that legalizing medical marijuana in Costa Rica “would clearly se ... |
| Ganja law gets green light [24.02.2015] | The much anticipated amendment to the Dangerous Drugs Act, often referred to as the ganja law, has been passed in the House of Representatives of Jam ... |
| Senate passes ganja law [06.02.2015] | The Senate debated for nearly five hours about the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2015, which was later passed with five amendments. The legislatio ... |
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