A recently published study looked at the associations between past and present cannabis use and current cognitive abilities among dementia-free older adults, with some encouraging results.Older adults have been increasingly using cannabis for chronic health conditions and/or recreationally thanks to laws loosening in many countries. In the USA, the...
A recent YouGov survey indicates the majority of US adults believe recreational marijuana should be legal, cannabis has legitimate medical uses and approve its reclassifying to a less restrictive category.The survey was conducted among 31,080 US adults on December 22, 2025. This was just after US President Donald Trump...
Michigan's Wayne State University recently officially began studies delving into cannabis as a potential therapy for veterans with PTSD and depression.While veterans make up only 8% of the USA's adult population, they represent 15% of all adult suicide deaths.The use of medical cannabis by veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder...
Senior Senator for Minnesota Amy Klobuchar is advocating to reverse the USA's recently enacted federal ban on hemp, working across the aisle to change it.The future legal availability of intoxicating hemp products in the USA is looking particularly precarious after a vote for a government funding deal struck to...
A recently published study suggests cannabis could be a useful and safer tool for the treatment of chronic low back pain (CLBP).Chronic low back pain affects over half a billion people worldwide, with current conventional treatments offering limited efficacy along with significant risks; particularly in relation to the use...
The American Nurses Association (ANA) has reiterated its stance on the potential rescheduling of cannabis from Schedule I to III.On December 18 this year, US President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order directing the reclassification of cannabis from Schedule I, a category that includes drugs like heroin, to Schedule...
A recently published study shone a spotlight on the prevalence and reasons for cannabis use among people with disabilities in the USA.University of Nevada and George Mason University, Fairfax, VA researchers used data relating to 1,119 patients from Wave 5 (2023–2024) of the National Survey on Health and Disability...
New Jersey's medical marijuana program enrolment has plummeted again in 2025 as a result of the state's legalised adult use marijuana market.Adult-use cannabis was legalized in New Jersey early in 2021 and licensed recreational sales kicked off in April 2022. This had a pretty much immediate effect on the...
A recent study reveals the sale of intoxicating hemp-based THC products to underage purchasers in a couple of Minnesota cities are occurring at alarmingly high levels.After the 2018 Farm Bill that legalised hemp at a federal level in the USA, the Minnesota Legislature passed restrictions on hemp-derived THC products...
The first (and currently only) dispensary to offer legal medical cannabis in the US state of Kentucky has been forced into hiatus after running out of product.The Post Dispensary in Beaver Dam — a small community situated in Ohio County at the junction of U.S. Routes 62 and 231...
