Small doses of a THC compound found in marijuana have made old mice suddenly come alive with a “young brain, according to a study by a team of Bonn University researchers and colleagues from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, published in the journal Nature Medicine. When asked how they had tested a mouse’s memory, Professor…
“It’s a watershed event to get FDA approval,” says Sasha Kaplun, vice president for corporate development at Auxly Cannabis Group Inc., an investment partnership in Toronto. Approval should help alleviate skepticism among some physicians about the plant’s medical uses, Kaplun says. At the company’s headquarters in London’s Mayfair district, a preferred locale for hedge funds, the…
New Hampshire’s new platform was passed by acclamation, meaning it did not require a vote to pass, while in Texas the entire platform passed by a voice vote. Democrats in both states supported alternative approaches to drug policy which shift the focus away from law enforcement. “We believe that marijuana should be legalized, taxed and regulated,”…
The Oregon Court of Appeals has overturned commercial cannabis restrictions in Josephine County. The restrictions included zoning and size limits for growing plots… Original Article (KTVL):Josephine County cannabis ordinance overruledArtwork Fair Use: Alex Ang
“CBD is not the component that most consumers look for. It certainly has its merits… But the THC is what gives people that buzz, which is similar to the alcohol buzz that people get from beer, spirits, and wine. A lot of consumers of cannabis look for that buzz.” -Keith Villa (Creator of Blue Moon)…
Employers and many others are quietly taking what once would have been a radical step: They’re dropping marijuana from the drug tests they require of prospective employees. Excluding marijuana from testing marks the first major shift in workplace drug policies since employers began regularly screening applicants in the late 1980s. They did so after a…
In February of 2018, Maine went so far as to bar companies from refusing to hire or firing someone for marijuana use outside work, effectively preventing employers from doing random or pre-hire drug testing. Some Massachusetts employers have already started treating marijuana like alcohol, telling workers that they can’t use it at work or bring…
Like a barrier between forlorn lovers, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TBB) just won’t let the two substances unite [for now]. Province Brands [of Canada] is developing what could very well be the first legal beer brewed from cannabis. They filed a patent for the first beers brewed from the cannabis…
Law enforcement officials made it clear that the targeting of low-level sales will end. To add icing to the cake, the charges against all 47 people arrested in the first five months of 2018 will be dismissed. The 47 people who were arrested so far in 2018 were approached by undercover officers posing as buyers.…
The state has taken another massive step toward embracing cannabis’s medical benefits—by allowing children to take medical marijuana at school. The law only applies to cannabis oil and other “non-smokeable” marijuana like CBD oil, and requires that students have a medical marijuana card and written permission from their parents and school principal. Basically, the law…
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