By: ABC Big news today for children and adults hoping to get a form of medical marijuana to treat epilepsy. The General Assembly has passed a bill allowing cannabidiol, or CBD, to be produced and distributed in Virginia. Senator Dave Marsden said, "Marijuana is a plant and there is...
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Dear my home state of California, To understand the coming crisis, you need to understand the underlying players. We have Veterans and Veteran Organizations that are doing yeoman’s work helping their ill-served brothers and sisters who risked so much for our freedoms. On the other side,...
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By: Alan Brochstein of New Cannabis Ventures Health Canada data for quarter ending 9/30/15Health Canada, which oversees Canada’s medical cannabis program, released quarterly data on 01/18/16 for the quarter ending 09/30/15, the 2nd quarter of the fiscal year ending 03/31/16. The data can be found here. The program began on...
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By: Arizona Daily Star Arizona’s nearly 88,000 medical marijuana patients smoke, ate or otherwise consumed more than 19 tons of the drug last year. That’s the equivalent of six Scooby-Doo Mystery Machine vans or, if you prefer, nearly 77,000 8-ounce bags of Cheetos. Looking at it another...
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By: Bradenton Herald Here's another reason why Florida state government earns little respect from citizens: Two years ago the Legislature passed a law approving medical marijuana for a very small population of residents who suffer immeasurably from seizures. This was only a low potency cannabis that...
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By: Al Jazeera America A bill introduced Thursday in the New Hampshire state assembly seeks to add post-traumatic stress disorder to the list of ailments eligible for medical marijuana treatment, which was legalized in 2013 but remains hard to obtain in the Granite state. The proposed legislation...
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By: Live Science Medical marijuana might help migraine sufferers reduce the frequency of their headaches, a new study suggests. In the study of 121 people with migraines, 103 said they had fewer migraines after they began using marijuana, the researchers found. Another 15 people said the frequency...
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By: Matt Haskin If you are in the pharmaceutical or recreation, commercial or consumer side of the $2.7 billion in sales cannabis industry, you know that quality controls at all levels of production, preparation and sales should become and remain the hallmark of your business. That is...
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By: Chuck Epstein Alarmed by the suicide rate of more than 22 veterans per day, a veteran’s group is challenging the U.S. Veteran Affairs Administration’s (VA) policies in court and on the public relations front about the restrictions of medical marijuana as an approved treatment for...
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