While many are celebrating industrial hemp seed being allowed as food in Australian and New Zealand, the NZHIA said it's a "baby step".As we mentioned yesterday, the Australia and New Zealand Ministerial Forum on Food Regulation meeting held last week resulted in the approval of hemp seed foods.In New...
The end of the craziness surrounding buying and selling hemp seeds for food purposes in Australia and New Zealand is in sight.The Australia and New Zealand Ministerial Forum on Food Regulation meeting held last week saw Ministers supporting a draft standard allowing "low-THC hemp seeds"* to be sold as...
Bills relating to medical cannabis use in treating opioid addiction and industrial hemp have cleared another hurdle after being passed by Nevada's Senate.The first, Senate Bill 374, includes opioid addiction as a qualifying condition for access to medical cannabis.A study from Columbia University in 2015 revealed marijuana provided relief...
All Maryland residents with qualifying conditions have been able to register for the state's medical marijuana program since Monday.The registration has been staggered up to this point, with two enrolments. On April 10, those with last names A through L could register, followed by last names M through Z...
A marathon session late last week saw the passing of a medical cannabis bill that is now on Governor Terry Branstad's desk, awaiting his signature.According to OurQuadCities, law makers spent most of Friday and into the wee hours of Saturday putting together legislation that they all could agree upon...
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed a Bill into law last week that expands the use of the non-intoxicating cannabinoid, cannabidiol.Senate Bill 10 builds on the 2013 Wisconsin Act 267 that made cannabidiol (CBD) legal in the state and permitted doctors and pharmacists to dispense it. However, Act 267,...
Access to cannabis medicines will become easier for some South Australians from today - but still not easy.The South Australian Government has come under increasing pressure to cut the red tape involving medical cannabis prescriptions. As we mentioned earlier this month, doctors have been able to prescribe medical cannabis...
A recently published paper estimates that if all US states had a medical marijuana law in 2014, total savings for fee-for-service Medicaid could have been a whopping USD $1.01 billion.The new study is by the same authors of a previous paper that we reported on last year indicating medical marijuana...
Results from a newly-released large-scale study have indicated cannabidiol may reduce seizures by half for some children and adults with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS).A drug-resistant and rare form of epilepsy, one of the features of LGS are drop seizures, which occur in just over half of people with the condition....
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus researchers have concluded that the cannabinoid tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) may be useful in treating pruritus - severe itching.The occasional itch is certainly normal. You may even develop a sympathetic itch just while reading this article (which is a normal reaction too).However, in some people...
