by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
Super-majorities of voters believe that medical cannabis should be legal, and most men additionally support legalizing marijuana for all adults, according to the results of a Quinnipiac University Swing State poll.
Pollsters gauged support for marijuana law reform…
GW Pharmaceuticals announced in a press release that its marijuana-derived drug candidate showed positive "proof of concept" against schizophrenia.
GW Pharmaceuticals said that its study of 88 schizophrenics found that those who took its drug cannabidiol in addition to antipsychotic drugs showed improvement…
Aphios, a biotechnology company based in Massachusetts, has announced news today that the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded it a Phase II of a Fast Track SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) grant to manufacture CBD from marijuana.…
The City of Vancouver has received 176 applications for medical marijuana-related businesses after setting out new zoning and business licence regulations in June to address concerns related to public safety. Of these Stage One applications, 69 have the potential to be licenced…
The first P.E.I medical marijuana facility is under construction.
Called Canada's Island Garden, the 24,000-square-foot facility, which will contain two floors for growing cannabis and a 3,600-square-foot office, is slated for completion in November. It is in BioCommons Research Park — a business…
Kwantlen Polytechnic University in British Columbia will be offering a medical marijuana course this autumn.
The course called Introduction to Professional Management of Marijuana for Medical Purposes in Canada, will teach students how to operate a marijuana business under new government regulations, and…
The top oncologists of Bengaluru, India have decided to lobby with the Center to lift the ban on cannabis to allow them to explore the medicinal uses of the plant.
"We are encouraging cultivation of tobacco that causes various types of cancer. At…
Health Canada has granted Hydropothecary, CanniMed, and Tilray medical marijuana oil production licences.
On July 8, 2015 the Government of Canada announced it would allow licensed producers of medical marijuana to produce and sell medical marijuana oil under new supplementary licences. This was…
By Samantha Spooner, Mail & Guardian Africa - August 3rd 2015.
It could generate $79.8 billion a year and Africa is already the biggest cannabis producer in the world.
The buzzword in relation to Africa is that the continent is rising and one of…
The up to 15 year prison term for planting, selling and transporting marijuana might now become a thing of the past in Chile, after lawmakers approved a marijuana decriminalization bill to allow Chileans grow marijuana for medical purpose.
Members of the Lower House…