A survey of more than  2,400 medicinal cannabis users indicates a significant percentage of patients are ditching traditional medicines in favour of products containing cannabidiol (CBD).Cannabidiol is a non-intoxicating cannabinoid extract from cannabis plant that is showing great promise in treating a range of conditions.A recent survey conducted by...

Thousands of patients in Hawaii will be celebrating after a private independent laboratory was given the green light to begin testing medical cannabis early this week.As we mentioned last month, further delays to medicines being made available in Hawaii have resulted from the state's Department of Health not having...

The New York State Department of Health has announced authorisation of five additional medical marijuana producers to help address growing demand in the state.At the beginning of August,  there were 25,736 certified patients participating in the state's program, an increase of 72% since chronic pain was added to the...

An Indian Minister wants to see cannabis legally used as medicine in her country, and suggested fellow ministers look to examples set in other nations.According to a news item published by the Press Trust of India, Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi proposed legalising medical cannabis at a...

Draft regulations for the cultivation and processing of industrial hemp in South Australia were released on Monday, and public feedback on the document has been invited.As in most western nations, the regulations will be quite strict.Under the rules, only persons considered to be "fit and proper" will be able...

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions' plans to end protection of state cannabis programs went up in flames last week.Last month, it was revealed AG Sessions sent letters to lawmakers, urging them to end protection of legal state medical cannabis programs under the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer amendment.His efforts were in vain as...

Medical cannabis may be legal in the Australian state of Queensland, but the lack of prescribing doctors and other factors make it anything but easily accessible to those who could benefit from it.According to a Brisbane Times report, there have been 10 applications for single-patient prescribers for medicinal...

After having reviewed its position on cannabis as a medical treatment for people with multiple sclerosis, the UK's MS Society is calling on the nation's government to legalise cannabis to treat pain and muscle spasm in MS patients, when other treatments have been unsuccessful.Around 100,000 people in the UK...

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is among the defendants named in federal lawsuit  challenging the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) in relation to cannabis.The 90-page complaint says the CSA is "so irrational" in classifying Cannabis as a Schedule I drug, that the situation is unconstitutional.For a drug to qualify as...

More Australians have been dying from pharmaceutical opioid overdoses than heroin - a disturbing issue that medical cannabis may be able to help address.A report from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre has found accidental deaths due to opioids has more than doubled among Australians aged 35 to...