By: ABC
Big news today for children and adults hoping to get a form of medical marijuana to treat epilepsy.
The General Assembly has passed a bill allowing cannabidiol, or CBD, to be produced and distributed in Virginia.
Senator Dave Marsden said,
"Marijuana is a plant and there is...
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By: Alan Brochstein of New Cannabis Ventures
Health Canada data for quarter ending 9/30/15Health Canada, which oversees Canada’s medical cannabis program, released quarterly data on 01/18/16 for the quarter ending 09/30/15, the 2nd quarter of the fiscal year ending 03/31/16. The data can be found here.
The program began on...
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By: Arizona Daily Star
Arizona’s nearly 88,000 medical marijuana patients smoke, ate or otherwise consumed more than 19 tons of the drug last year.
That’s the equivalent of six Scooby-Doo Mystery Machine vans or, if you prefer, nearly 77,000 8-ounce bags of Cheetos. Looking at it another...
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By: Bradenton Herald
Here's another reason why Florida state government earns little respect from citizens: Two years ago the Legislature passed a law approving medical marijuana for a very small population of residents who suffer immeasurably from seizures. This was only a low potency cannabis that...
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By: Al Jazeera America
A bill introduced Thursday in the New Hampshire state assembly seeks to add post-traumatic stress disorder to the list of ailments eligible for medical marijuana treatment, which was legalized in 2013 but remains hard to obtain in the Granite state.
The proposed legislation...
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By: Live Science
Medical marijuana might help migraine sufferers reduce the frequency of their headaches, a new study suggests.
In the study of 121 people with migraines, 103 said they had fewer migraines after they began using marijuana, the researchers found. Another 15 people said the frequency...
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By: Cleveland.com
Ohioans have been mulling marijuana legalization since this time last year, but a medical marijuana amendment planned for this November by Marijuana Policy Project likely will now drive the debate.
The D.C.-based organization has had a hand in crafting most state marijuana decriminalization and legalization...
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