The results of a recent study indicates urinary cannabinoid biomarkers in children from homes where they are exposed to cannabis smoke.With cannabis legalized in many US states for medical/recreational use; there has been a rise in children ingesting cannabis products and then requiring hospitalisation. But it's not just exposure...

The government of the island nation of Saint Lucia is keen to build a cannabis industry - medical, recreational and also industrial hemp.Saint Lucia is situated in the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean, northwest of Barbados. It's a small country, both in terms of size (617 km2) and...

War may be raging on in Ukraine, but the nation's nascent hemp industry is still managing to make solid progress.Dmytro Kysylevsky, deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Economic Development, announced on Facebook this week that a new industrial hemp processing plant in the Ma’Ryzhany industrial park in...

Representative Heath VanNatter has joined the calls for safe and regulated access to marijuana in Indiana.Rep. VanNatter, a Republican, and members of the Safe & Regulated Indiana Coalition held a press conference at the Statehouse last week to introduce a new bill to legalize marijuana for adult use....

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders used her State of the State address last week to announce another good use of medical marijuana taxes.Medical marijuana has been legal in Arkansas since 2016 after a related amendment was supported by the state's voters. However, it wasn't until mid-May 2019 that it...

Hundreds of UK families are accessing medicinal cannabis illegally to treat their child's drug resistant epilepsy. And that count may just be scratching the surface.Medical cannabis was legalised in the UK to treat some forms of severe paediatric epilepsy years ago and specialist doctors are permitted  to prescribe cannabis...

The latest results from the New Zealand Drug Trends Survey (NZDTS) 2024 indicates a sharp rise in medical cannabis users with a prescription.Since New Zealand's Medicinal Cannabis Scheme was fully implemented in 2020, the survey has asked participants about their participation in it. The latest survey reveals medical cannabis...

A study of hemp has suggested customised mixtures of helpful microbes could help plants produce more cannabidiol (CBD) or have better-quality fibers.One of the positive attributes of hemp is that it doesn't require as many agricultural inputs such as chemicals as some crops - but that doesn't mean none.Hemp's...

A study involving more than 9 million patients in relation to the dispensing of prescription medications to treat mental health disorders in states with recreational and/or medical cannabis laws has revealed some interesting results.In the USA, 22.8% of adults reported having at least one mental health disorder (MHD) in...

The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) has approved four more qualifying conditions for the state's medical cannabis program, bringing the total number to 56.The new approvals are the first to be added to the list since 2019, and all in relation to conditions impacting women. The conditions are:...