Laguna Woods Village is an age-restricted retirement community in Southern California where, until recently, it was legal to sell medical cannabis. That changed on the first day of 2019, though, when an ordinance passed by the City of Laguna Woods banned all cannabis businesses from operating within the city limits. The new sales ban has […]
As Canada works towards next year’s launch of an adult-use cannabis market, there are still some key regulatory issues to hammer out. One of which is how the country should handle its existing medical marijuana program. A pair of pharmacology researchers at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, want to see officials separate medical and […]
This week in Cannabis: Seth Rogen is launching his own cannabis brand, packaging for medical cannabis and recreational cannabis will soon look more similar, and the NHS reports that the personal data of 34,000 medical cannabis patients was accessed in a data breach. We’ve rounded up this week’s top stories from across Canada. Medical Cannabis Products Will Soon […]
Once you’ve gone through all the trouble to get a medical cannabis card, the question arises: How long is it good for? Every state is different. In some states, the cards are good for many years. In others, patients must renew their medical recommendations every few months. A growing number of states are now considering reciprocity; […]
Despite the incredible need for donor organs, recipients and donors who are also cannabis consumers have traditionally been turned away, but new research and state legislatures are changing that. Each year, surgeons perform over 100,000 kidney, liver, and other solid organ transplants. Every 12 minutes, a new person is added to the organ transplant waiting […]
Take it as another sign of the mainstreaming of CBD: Last month Green Growth Brands (GGB), a company that focuses on CBD-infused personal care products, struck a deal with the Simon Property Group, America’s largest operator of shopping malls, that will bring Seventh Sense CBD (cannabidiol) products into dozens of the nation’s premiere malls. Starting […]
While cannabis is still prohibited in Texas, CBD’s growing popularity was visibly evident at SXSW in Austin last week—a microcosm of today’s broader CBD situation. RELATED STORY CVS Ignores DEA, Says It’s Already Selling CBD Products A simple stroll across the festival grounds brought visitors past an array of CBD-focused booths: Kentucky-based MedTerra, for example, […]
Medical cannabis will go under the microscope this fall when Leafly’s first European Medical Cannabis Conference brings together doctors, pharmacists, and researchers to meet in Berlin to discuss the use of cannabinoids in the medical practice. Taking place at the end of September at the Umweltforum Berlin, more than 350 participants and experts from all over […]
If you’ve ever wondered if your pets can get high, the answer is yes, but they don’t like it and it’s not good for them. While massive strides have been made recently when it comes to understanding our animal friends, their inability to self-report makes it impossible to ever know what’s actually going on in their […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — People angry about sweeping changes made to a voter-approved law legalizing medical marijuana in Utah called on the state’s highest court Monday to rein in the Legislature’s power to alter measures passed at the ballot box. RELATED STORY Utah Groups Sue to Block Medical Marijuana Compromise The revisions undid much […]
