medicinal

Opinion: In one world, opioids remain a vital and so far irreplaceable medical tool. In another, they are destructive, addictive drugs that keep criminal operations in business and wreak havoc among individual users. The difference is in the application; one is about controlled use at the...

Twenty-five states allow medicinal marijuana in the United States, and the closest state to us that allows it is Ohio, but Georgia passed a law last year and is next in line. Now one Republican Tennessee State Representative wants to make it legal here at home. Representative Faison, from...

Twenty-five states allow medicinal marijuana in the United States, and the closest state to us that allows it is Ohio, but Georgia passed a law last year and is next in line. Now one Republican Tennessee State Representative wants to make it legal here at home. Representative Faison, from...

Patients with a range of medical conditions will be allowed to access legal medicinal cannabis products in Queensland from March next year. The State Parliament last night unanimously passed the Public Health (Medicinal Cannabis) Bill 2016, will allow greater use of medicinal cannabis...

Patients with a range of medical conditions will be allowed to access legal medicinal cannabis products in Queensland from March next year. The State Parliament last night unanimously passed the Public Health (Medicinal Cannabis) Bill 2016, will allow greater use of medicinal cannabis...

The mother of the first person to get approval to use medicinal cannabis in New Zealand has made an emotional plea to Parliament to make it easier for others to get access to the drug legally. Rose Renton, from Nelson, presented a 17,000-signature petition to Labour MP Damien O'Connor on...

The mother of the first person to get approval to use medicinal cannabis in New Zealand has made an emotional plea to Parliament to make it easier for others to get access to the drug legally. Rose Renton, from Nelson, presented a 17,000-signature petition to Labour MP Damien O'Connor on...

SNP members will this week be urged to back the legalisation of cannabis for medicinal use. The party will vote at its autumn conference on whether the Class B drug should be available by prescription on the NHS. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon previously said she was not in favour of...

SNP members will this week be urged to back the legalisation of cannabis for medicinal use. The party will vote at its autumn conference on whether the Class B drug should be available by prescription on the NHS. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon previously said she was not in favour of...

Vancouver - The announcement on August 24 of the provisions under the newly-minted Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations (ACMPR) put the legal right to grow marijuana for medicinal use back in the hands of registered medicinal users. But as Vincent Vega once said: it's legal, but...

Vancouver - The announcement on August 24 of the provisions under the newly-minted Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations (ACMPR) put the legal right to grow marijuana for medicinal use back in the hands of registered medicinal users. But as Vincent Vega once said: it's legal, but...

One patient was a Vietnam Veteran living with chronic pain after an amputation. Another was a middle age woman suffering from late-stage multiple sclerosis. Others faced serious cancer or intractable epilepsy. They all came to hear Dr. Kenneth Moritsugu, the former U.S. Surgeon General, speak...

One patient was a Vietnam Veteran living with chronic pain after an amputation. Another was a middle age woman suffering from late-stage multiple sclerosis. Others faced serious cancer or intractable epilepsy. They all came to hear Dr. Kenneth Moritsugu, the former U.S. Surgeon General, speak...

The Health Ministry is making preparations for medicinal cannabis trials starting in 2018. According to ministerial documents obtained by Metroxpress newspaper, the health minister, Sophie Løhde, has proposed a four-year trial period that will prescribe cannabis to patients with four different...

The Health Ministry is making preparations for medicinal cannabis trials starting in 2018. According to ministerial documents obtained by Metroxpress newspaper, the health minister, Sophie Løhde, has proposed a four-year trial period that will prescribe cannabis to patients with four different...

A Tablelands agricultural company is sowing the seeds for success in the medicinal cannabis industry. Shane Garozzo and Joe Trimarchi of Trimpex International have launched an industrial hemp program with plans to obtain licences and permits for the cultivation and production of medicinal...

San Juan — Academic Sciences of Puerto Rico (ASPR) stressed the importance of broadening the knowledge about and functions of medicinal cannabis to treat chronic health symptoms and diseases while it promoted the beginning of registration to purchase and use the plant on the island. Distribution...

San Juan — Academic Sciences of Puerto Rico (ASPR) stressed the importance of broadening the knowledge about and functions of medicinal cannabis to treat chronic health symptoms and diseases while it promoted the beginning of registration to purchase and use the plant on the island. Distribution...

Far Northerners interested in growing medicinal cannabis will soon be able to apply under a national licencing system that aims to weed out dodgy operators. The Federal Department of Health has warned applicants will have to prove they are "fit and proper" to cultivate the crop and that it...

Far Northerners interested in growing medicinal cannabis will soon be able to apply under a national licencing system that aims to weed out dodgy operators. The Federal Department of Health has warned applicants will have to prove they are "fit and proper" to cultivate the crop and that it...