Santa Fe, NM – Yesterday afternoon the Secretary of Health denied the recommendation of the Medical Advisory Board to add opioid use disorder as a qualifying condition for medical cannabis in New Mexico. The Secretary’s decision flies in the face of the overwhelming support of the Medical Cannabis Advisory Board, which recommended approving both conditions […]
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Medical Experts Press UN on Decriminalization
A group of 22 medical experts convened byJohns Hopkins UniversityandThe Lancet, Britain's foremost medical journal, on March 24 issued a call for the decriminalization of all non-violent drug use and possession, flatly calling the international War o… Read article here: High Times
Legal Experts Urge Caution as Tribes Enter Pot Business
Tribes across the U.S. are finding marijuana is risky business nearly a year after a Justice Department policy indicated they could grow and sell pot under the same guidelines as states. Read article here: High Times
New York State Officials Ignore Patients, Providers and Industry Experts to Instead Pursue One of the Nation’s Most Unworkable Medical Marijuana Programs
Advocates: Final Regulations to Leave Thousands of Patients to Suffer Needlessly Abandoned by Cuomo Administration, Critically Ill Patient and Families Vow to Return to the Legislature to Fix New York's Broken Medical Marijuana Program New York – Last night the New York State Department of Health (DOH) released the final regulations for New York’s medical marijuana […]
Experts Agree, It Is Time to Acknowledge The Medicinal Effects Of Marijuana
Marijuana was a popular botanical medicine in the 19th and early 20th Centuries, common in US pharmacies of the time, and its use can actually be dated back to 2700 BC. Today a wealth of research shows Marijuana does have outstanding promise as a medicinal plant, largely due to its cannabidiol (CBD) content. Cannabinoids interact […]
Medical Experts: Smoking Weed Is Better Than THC Pills
Pills have become the standard in regards to how the majority of medicine is administered. But in the case of medical marijuana, most research finds it to be the least effective method. High Times
World’s Leading Experts Issue Standards on Cannabis, Restore Classification as a Botanical Medicine
American Herbal Pharmacopoeia monograph lays scientific foundation for quality assurance and expanded research WASHINGTON, DC — In an historic move, the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia (AHP) released the first installation of a two-part Cannabis monograph yesterday that classifies cannabis (marijuana) as a botanical medicine, alongside many other widely accepted Complementary and Alternative Medicines. Written and reviewed by the world’s leading […]
DECRIMINALIZE MORE THAN JUST POT, EXPERTS URGE
The personal use of illegal drugs, including heroin and crack cocaine, should be decriminalized as part of a federal-provincial strategy to tackle drug abuse, a B.C.-based national coalition of drug policy experts argue. In a report to be released Thursday, the coalition denounces the Harper government’s aggressive war on drugs, which puts the emphasis on […]