President Donald Trump last Friday reiterated his support of states choosing whether to legalize cannabis. When asked on the White House lawn by a Washington Examiner reporter whether cannabis would become legal during his Administration, Trump stated, “We’re going to see what’s going on. It’s...
Earlier this month, surprising many in the industry, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced it is proposing to significantly increase the amount of cannabis it will permit to be grown for research purposes in 2019. The 2018 limit, about 1000 pounds, will be increased to over...
The United Kingdom this week approved the legalization of medical cannabis. The decision was made by the Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, who said, "Recent cases involving sick children made it clear to me that our position on cannabis-related medicinal products was not satisfactory." As a...
An Israeli peer-reviewed study, just published in the European Journal of Internal Medicine, reports that pain and nausea of cancer patients can be lessened through the use of medical cannabis. The study included thousands of cancer patients using medical cannabis between 2015 and 2017. Over...
A potentially groundbreaking federal lawsuit brought last summer was dismissed by New York judge Alvin Hellerstein today. The case, brought by five plaintiffs including two children, two veterans and former NFL player Marvin Washington, all of whom use state legal medical cannabis, claimed that the Controlled Substances Act is...
According to the Marijuana Business Daily, a Quebec-based producer of medical cannabis has joined a New York medical cannabis licensee in obtaining certification of their products as kosher under Jewish dietary laws. This means that more observant Jews, who seek to restrict their diets to kosher...
[Updated July 4, 2017 to reflect the addition of Greece which legalized medical cannabis.] A fascinating article in Wikipedia scours the globe to see which countries have taken action to legalize or decriminalize the use of cannabis. While we focus heavily on the dramatic trend here in the...
Florida Gov. Rick Scott this past Friday signed legislation to implement the legalization of medical marijuana there. Over 70% of Florida voters approved a constitutional amendment last fall setting up the new regime. Scott, a Republican, opposed the constitutional amendment, but signed the bill without...
In a major development for New York, its Department of Health officially approved a regulation, first proposed in December, to allow people with "any severe debilitating pain that the practitioner determines degrades health and functional capability" that has lasted or is expected to last at...
In what is mostly a blow to the burgeoning legal marijuana industry, the Drug Enforcement Administration decided not to remove marijuana from the list of Schedule I drugs under the Controlled Substances Act, continuing to deem it as dangerous as heroin and LSD. Meanwhile, other...