Jobs in the legal cannabis industry are on track to outpace those in the manufacturing, utilities, and government sectors, according to a New Frontier report outlined by Forbes. By 2020, the cannabis market is expected to create more than 250,000 jobs; while the Bureau of Labor Statistics expects manufacturing jobs to decrease by 814,000, utility…
“In a new paper published in the journal Trends in Neuroscience, a neurobiologist argues that using cannabis for opioid withdrawal and pain relief is a promising area of research that has been largely neglected in the scientific community. And in light of the current opioid epidemic and positive early trials of cannabis, this needs to…
“Some research has suggested that opioid use decreased in some states after those states legalized medical marijuana, according to Hurd.” In her review, Hurd looked at previous animal and human studies examining the potential of one particular marijuana compound — called cannabidiol, or CBD — for treating opioid addiction. For example, a study in rats…
Cannabis has been a big part of my life—I am proud to say that I was the biggest cannabis supporter at Harvard Business School. I believe cannabis helped me get accepted to Harvard Business School, and it certainly helped me graduate and figure out what is next. When I finished business school, I looked in…
“The researchers, however, need to test this further since they haven’t used the method on either mice and humans but only with neurons in the laboratory. They are hoping that the next step will be live clinical trials to further their research.” Now comes two separate research that has been done recently suggesting that strobe…
“[When they hired me] they forgot to get me to sign a confidentiality agreement — and boy did I know the dirt. They called me in and said ‘name your price, $10,000 a month? $20,000? What do you want Belita?’” she said during her presentation in Denver. But instead of cooperating, Nelson stormed from the…
“The new guidelines decriminalize the possession of small amounts of Marijuana, reversing a long-standing previous policy. The new guidelines are based on the successful experience of Portugal and were presented by the Chief Scientist of the Drug Enforcement Authority, Dr. Yossi Harel-Fisch.” “I heard about his model from my colleagues in Portugal. We learned a…
“A new Museum of Cannabis opens in the Uruguayan capital Montevideo” Aiming to exhibit different ways to use cannabis, celebrating the fact that the South American country was the first to regulate consumption, production and sales of the plant. Original Article (AZ Central):Cannabis museum celebrates legal weed in UruguayArtwork Fair Use: AndrewJGallacher
“The vote sent cannabis stocks in Canada and the U.S. soaring. Shares of Los Angeles-based Pineapple Express Inc. rose 29 per cent Wednesday while the legalization news pushed Canada’s largest marijuana company, Canopy Growth Corp. to a billion-dollar valuation…the longer it takes for U.S. federal law to deem marijuana legal, the longer the Canadian licensed…
“But most strikingly, the typical physician in a medical-marijuana state prescribed 1,826 fewer doses of painkillers in a given year.” Now a new study, released in the journal Health Affairs, validates these findings by providing clear evidence of a missing link in the causal chain running from medical marijuana to falling overdoses. Ashley and W.…
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