While it isn’t yet covered as a prescription drug, that may change With 29 states and the District of Columbia now allowing the use of medical marijuana, it’s conceivable that the drug could be covered under an employee health plan or workers’ compensation plan. In Canada, which has legalized medical marijuana, some large employers have…
Apopka City Council members, who banned medical marijuana dispensaries in September, have had a change of heart and now plan to allow them. City commissioners last week discussed the prohibition and then voted unanimously to revisit the city ban on state-approved shops that dispense physician-prescribed, medical cannabis to qualified patients. The second thoughts were driven…
Pennsylvania regulators have given the go-ahead to eight cultivators to begin growing medical marijuana, putting sales on track to begin in 2018. Once the product is ready, dispensaries should have plenty of customers to buy it, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The governor’s office said that more than 10,000 patients have signed up for the program,…
“This is the start of a big rush reform. Now a big effort is being done to switch the system from punishment to help.” Norway’s Parliament is set to decriminalize illicit drugs and divert people found with small quantities into treatment options rather than pursuing criminal prosecution. Drug use, from marijuana to cocaine and heroin,…
Following on from Operation Julie and hearing the other side of the coin it appears that Smiles and the rest of those involved were more of a Twm Sion Cati according to locals.
Mexico legalized the use of marijuana for medical and scientific needs in June but has maintained a ban on recreational use and cultivation. Mexico will legalize sales of marijuana-based medicines, foods, drinks, cosmetics and other products early next year, its health regulator said on Wednesday, bringing some forms of cannabis into legal commerce even as…
The medical marijuana program isn’t expected to be operational for another two years, but in the meantime NZ will decriminalize cannabis for patients in their last year of life.
Bermuda joins few Caribbean islands to decriminalize marijuana Bermuda has passed a bill decriminalizing the possession of cannabis after years of lobbying by advocates of the psychoactive drug which is used for both medicinal and recreational purposes. The island nation’s Misuse of Drugs [Decriminalization of Cannabis] Amendment Act 2017 removes criminal prosecution for the possession of not more…
“There’s a big stereotype that herbalists are just weed-obsessed hippies. But in my three years of training at MASH, cannabis came up only once in a protocol for glaucoma. I’ll never forget our instructor’s response when asked about it. She called cannabis a persecuted herb.
The Terror and violence in Jerusalem’s eastern neighborhoods has become a routine, but it turns out that in between throwing stones and Molotov cocktails the local youth are trying to maintain the balance with a cold beer and a little something to burn…