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Pediatricians say they are getting increasing requests from parents for medical cannabis for kids for a growing list of conditions.
NICE has concluded that more research is needed before it can recommend the use of cannabis based products for medicinal use.
Medical cannabis in the UK? Don’t hold your breath.
Society persists in criminalising the use of cannabis but it is morally indefensible.
Cannabis, medical marijuana and CBD oil explained.
Cannabis may not be legal yet in Canada, but university students are already big consumers and increasingly willing to talk about it.
Medical cannabis challenges scientific norms and the usual regulation of medicines.
The legal cannabis industry will have to develop scientific research and evidence based growth methods and technology if it is to succeed against the secretive illicit industry.
As Canada moves towards legalization of cannabis in 2018, there is growing evidence of the drug’s potential to treat opioid addiction itself, as well as the chronic pain that often drives it.
Mexico and Canada are about to turn medical cannabis into North America’s most lucrative new market.
There are many anecdotal reports indicating cannabis’ beneficial effects for treating MS symptoms, but research with cannabis is difficult to do.
NSW is about to embark on the largest and most definitive clinical trial ever of medicinal cannabis for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting.
The Australian government will now accept licence applications for groups wanting to grow cannabis for scientific and medical purposes. But there’s still a lot we don’t know about this complex plant.
Nine states are deciding whether to legalize marijuana. Yet the drug’s prohibition at the federal level has created an unstable financial environment for producers and retailers.
When asked about importing cannabis oil to treat child epilepsy, rural health minister Fiona Nash told Q&A that the TGA can allow importation of products not registered in Australia. Is that right?
The legislative changes poised to increase the availability of cannabis are outpacing our understanding of the impact that the drug has on the brain.
Queenslanders and Victorians with particular chronic illnesses will be eligible to join New South Wales medicinal cannabis trials, due to start mid next year.
A bill to permit medical cannabis use in Australia is set for debate in Senate. If medical cannabis use is legalised, doctors could become gatekeepers between patients and a controversial drug. Lessons…
International acceptance of medicinal cannabis is growing because it can provide relief for people who can’t be sufficiently helped with current pharmaceutical drugs. But despite growing evidence of its…
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