Legal recreational cannabis use comes with an increase in innovation – but tends to focus on what marketers and businesses are interested in, rather than health benefits and risks.
Articles on Medical cannabis
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A ‘cannabis use disorder’ can make it difficult to control how often or how much cannabis you use. Here are some of the symptoms.
After Canada legalized recreational cannabis in 2018, many patients left the medical cannabis system. But those who remained used it more actively.
Malaysia and Indonesia have been considering whether to follow Thailand in legalizing the use of cannabis, particularly for medical purposes. But another country could serve as a better example.
France may be getting closer to legalizing cannabis. Still, arrests are rising quickly and often target Arab Muslim men.
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?
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Emeritus Consultant, St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst
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Professor in Substance Use, Liverpool John Moores University
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Research Scientist, BC Centre on Substance Use and Assistant Professor in the Division of AIDS, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia
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Assistant Professor and Director of Integrative Neurophysiology Lab, Colorado State University
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Ph.D Student. in Finance, University of Utah
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Principal Communications and Events Officer Centre for Medicinal Cannabis Research and Innovation Office of the NSW Chief Scientist & Engineer, Office of the Chief Scientist
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Professor in Criminal Justice and Faculty Director of Public Engagement, University of Kent
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Assistant Professor of Nursing, University of Calgary
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Exeter
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PhD candidate, UCL
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Emeritus Professor, The University of Melbourne
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PhD Candidate in Environmental Systems Research, University of Guelph
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Associate Professor in Psychopharmacology and Addiction Medicine at the School of Psychology, University of Sydney
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Professor Emeritus of Applied Philosophy, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Clinical Professor and Addiction Medicine specialist, University of Sydney