Medical Cannabis is Now Maine’s Most Lucrative Crop
Wed / Dec 9th
Medical cannabis constituted Maine’s most lucrative crop in 2020, outpacing potatoes, milk, and other food crops.
In this section, you will find the latest medical marijuana news throughout the world. For a list of medical studies related to cannabis and its effect on various conditions & disorders, click here.
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Wed / Dec 9th
Medical cannabis constituted Maine’s most lucrative crop in 2020, outpacing potatoes, milk, and other food crops.
Fri / Dec 4th
Cannabis researcher Dr. Lyle Craker has filed suit over the DEA’s failure to license additional growers for research-grade cannabis.
Thu / Dec 3rd
New Mexico’s medical cannabis market is thriving this year despite retail restrictions imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Wed / Nov 25th
A Pennsylvania Appeals Court ruling has guaranteed a medical cannabis patient’s access to unemployment benefits after he was fired for failing a drug test.
Thu / Nov 19th
Two studies presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions found that cannabis users may be at a higher risk of heart disease but also that cannabis consumers are less likely to experience sudden kidney failure.
Wed / Nov 18th
The Mississippi Supreme Court is set to hear a legal challenge to the petition process used to qualify the state’s overwhelmingly successful ballot initiative for legalizing medical cannabis.
Mon / Nov 16th
Former NBA player Larry Hughes is partnering with former teammate Al Harrington to found two dispensaries and a cultivation/processing center in St. Louis, Missouri.
Fri / Nov 13th
A new presidential decree in Argentina allows for the home cultivation of cannabis by registered patients and will require insurance providers to cover medical cannabis costs.
Wed / Nov 11th
Texas Senator-elect Roland Gutierrez has pre-filed a bill that aims to legalize cannabis in Texas and dramatically expand the state’s limited medical cannabis program.
Wed / Nov 11th
Tennessee looks poised to make significant cannabis policy reforms in the coming year with at least one medical cannabis legalization bill planned for January’s legislative session.
Wed / Nov 11th
The Muscogee (Creek) Nation in Oklahoma has adopted legislation exempting medical cannabis patients from drug possession charges so long as they are in compliance with state law.
Tue / Nov 10th
Sean Worsley, the Purple Heart recipient and PTSD patient who was arrested in Alabama in 2016 for possessing medical cannabis, has been released from prison after he was approved for parole last month.
Mon / Nov 9th
Green Active, a UK-based CBD company, announced a donation program to help the family of an eight-year-old cannabis patient pay for his medicine as the NHS refuses to write a prescription providing it to the family for free.
Thu / Nov 5th
Florida’s Marion County School Board has fired high school dean Mike Hickman, who is also a military veteran, over his use of medical cannabis to treat combat wound-related chronic pain.
Wed / Nov 4th
Ohio regulators are now accepting petitions for adding new qualifying conditions to the state’s medical cannabis program.
Tue / Nov 3rd
Mississippi voters have overwhelmingly approved Amendment 65, an advocate-led ballot initiative to legalize medical cannabis.
Tue / Nov 3rd
Across the U.S. today, voters from Montana to New Jersey will consider a series of ballot initiatives that could represent yet another dramatic shift for the country away from our archaic cannabis and drug policies.
Tue / Nov 3rd
The UK’s National Health Service has only issued three prescriptions for medical cannabis oil since it was legalized two years ago, according to medical cannabis advocacy group End Our Pain.
Tue / Nov 3rd
Under a Michigan Court of Appeals ruling, individuals cannot make butane cannabis extractions and the practice — when done without a license — constitutes the manufacturing of a controlled substance.
Mon / Nov 2nd
Lawmakers in the New Jersey Assembly Appropriations Committee have advanced a bill requiring workers’ comp and personal injury protection auto insurance to cover medical cannabis under certain circumstances.
Fri / Oct 30th
Canadian researchers found that 43.5 percent of patients who started using medical cannabis to mitigate harmful alcohol consumption were able to reduce the frequency of their alcohol use.
Thu / Oct 29th
A lawsuit against Missouri’s medical cannabis system claims the state-imposed license caps violate Missourians’ constitutional right to farm.
Thu / Oct 29th
The Massachusetts Supreme Court has ruled that employees who use medical cannabis to treat a work-related injury cannot rely on workers comp insurance to cover it.
Wed / Oct 28th
Recent polling shows 65 percent of Ukraine voters support legalizing medical cannabis access for severely ill patients.
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