Yet another study indicates patients with legal access to medicinal cannabis are ditching or decreasing their scheduled prescription medication in favour of it. University of New Mexico researchers collaborating with Industrial Rehabilitation Clinics of Albuquerque tracked the progress of a group of patients who enrolled in the New Mexico's state...

The USA's Food and Drug Administration is asking for feedback on cannabidiol in response to a request from the World Health Organisation for information. At the 37th meeting of the Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD), the World Health Organisation requested the Secretariat prepare relevant documentation to conduct pre-reviews...

The struggles of patients in Australia depending on medical cannabis to improve their quality of life has hit the headlines again. We've mentioned Ben Oakley a few times over the past couple of years. Ben suffers from a rare, extremely painful condition call Stiff Person Syndrome and has become one...

Earlier this week, Congressman Ryan Costello visited Rodale Institute in Pennsylvania  to check out progress on an industrial hemp research project. Rodale Institute's project is one of 16 that received a permit earlier this year for the inaugural planting of industrial hemp in Pennsylvania - the first time the...

The U.S. state of Arkansas is reportedly yet to see any applications lodged for growing and dispensing medicinal cannabis. The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment (Issue 6) was approved by the state's voters in November last year; one of four states at the time to get the green light from citizens...

University of Mississippi researchers have found more evidence that cannabidiol could be a powerful tool in addressing the scourge of opioid medicine abuse and addiction. The study involved the use of morphine and conditioned place preference (CPP) testing*. Mice received IP injections of either saline or morphine and increasing doses...

Legislation that would have decriminalised possession of small amounts of medical cannabis by seriously and terminally ill people in the Australian state of New South Wales has been voted down. Tabled in February by the Labor Party, the legislation sought to decriminalise possession of up to 15 grams of cannabis...

The first two medical cannabis dispensaries in Hawaii have been granted permission to go ahead with sales, another great leap forward for patients in the state. The good news comes just over a week after the state's Department of Health certified the first laboratory for testing products. The lack of...

Australia's cannabis industry is continuing to move forward, with significant announcements from two industry players yesterday - one related to medicinal cannabis and the other to industrial hemp. First, to Auscann, which announced it has been granted an Australian medicinal cannabis manufacturing licence by the nation's Office of Drug Control. Securing...

Texas State Senator José Menéndez has filed a bill (Senate Bill 79) that if successful will see medical cannabis available to a far greater number of patients in the Lone Star state. Medicinal cannabis is legal in the Texas, but the Compassionate Use Program isn't all that compassionate as it...