The Florida Department of Health's recent report on the state's medical cannabis programs show the initiative is continuing to grow at a healthy clip.The Department says there are now 120,351 patients in the registry, an increase of 3,223 since its last report the week before. With a population of...

Not all cannabis testing is created equal it seems - and that can have implications for medical marijuana patients.A laboratory comparison prepared by Alaska State Environmental Health Laboratory for the Alcohol Marijuana Control Office (AMCO) summarised the results of data validation performed on samples collected and submitted by AMCO...

British luxury department store chain Harvey Nichols has inked an agreement with MGC Pharmacueticals' MGC Derma division to stock 18 of its products from the end of this month.The cannabidiol-based products will be available to consumers in store and online internationally, where such products are permitted to be sold."We...

A 12-year old boy with intractable epilepsy and his mother have been keeping the UK's medical cannabis laws and how it deals with patients in the spotlight.Billy Caldwell's condition was such that he used to have up to 100 seizures per day. However, in 2016, Billy began taking cannabis...

The Strengthening the Tenth Amendment Through Entrusting States (STATES) Act, if adopted, will also benefit the USA's industrial hemp industry.We briefly mentioned the Act's bill yesterday, which is designed to not only ensure each state has the right to determine its own approach to marijuana , but would also...

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell 's legislation to legalize industrial hemp has been included in the Senate Farm Bill and will be officially considered this week.Senator McConnell introduced a bill for the Hemp Farming Act of 2018 in April and since then, it has seen increasing support in...

New research indicates the cannabinoid cannabidiol (CBD) may be a useful tool in helping those attempting to quit tobacco smoking.According to TobaccoAtlas, 7.1 million deaths occur annually around the world as a result of smoking-related diseases. While there's certainly plenty of motivation for smokers to quit, even those trying...

A very important gathering has finished up in Geneva - the 40th meeting of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD), which is examining cannabis scheduling.“The current international policies on cannabis are outdated and are having a detrimental impact on patients in the United States...

This year's Hemp History Week, running June 4 - 10, has the theme "Deep Roots" and will seek to put more pressure on changing federal laws restricting industrial hemp cultivation."Farmers and entrepreneurs are so eager to begin producing hemp at full commercial scale, to finally be able to supply...

Industrial hemp is growing again at the site of Mount Vernon, the plantation house of the USA's first President, George Washington.Hemp seeds have been sown across a 1,000 square-foot area of the four-acre Pioneer Farm site as a nod to the founding father's foresight.“Through this program, we have been...