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Author: Brad Dunn

  • Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in Detroit Can Get Temporary Reprieve

    Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in Detroit Can Get Temporary Reprieve

    Detroit’s 62 medical marijuana dispensaries can get a reprieve and continue to operate after Feb. 15 despite continuing confusion and uncertainty over the city’s medical cannabis ordinances.

    As they work through legal challenges to the two ordinances passed by Detroit voters in November, the city will offer the necessary paperwork for dispensary owners to fill out and hand in with their applications for a state license, according to the Detroit Free Press.

    The reprieve, however, is temporary and could expire on June 15 if the city hasn't sorted out the challenge by then.

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  • Poll Shows Strong Support for Medical Marijuana in South Carolina

    Poll Shows Strong Support for Medical Marijuana in South Carolina

    A recent poll has found strong support for medical marijuana legislation in South Carolina, according to the Independent Mail.

    Sixty-one percent of the people surveyed last month by Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy expressed support for a bill that would allow South Carolina doctors to prescribe medical marijuana for specific conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorders. A total of 31 percent were opposed and 8 percent had no opinion.

    The poll showed the lowest support for medical marijuana is in the Upstate, where 53 percent of respondents expressed support and 35 percent were opposed. Support for medical marijuana topped the 60-percent threshold in every other part of South Carolina, according to the poll.

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  • Women Lead the Way at Canadian Cannabis-Testing Facility

    It has been said that Canada’s burgeoning cannabis industry is largely dominated by men, so when the Georgia Straight learned about a cannabis-testing lab run by a team of women, the publication sent a reporter to check it out.

    At Northern Vine Labs in Langley, British Columbia, resident scientists Katherine Maloney, Claire Maloney (the two are cousins), and Jaclyn Thomson work in sync to offer quality-control testing of cannabis and cannabis products to licensed producers and registered medical patients. 

    During an interview with the four women at the lab, McCarthy says that although there wasn’t a directive to hire women exclusively, Northern Vine simply acquired the best people for the job.

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  • Legalized Cannabis Gets Academic Makeover as Students Flock to Study It

    Legalized Cannabis Gets Academic Makeover as Students Flock to Study It

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    The relentless march of legalised pot across the US has spawned a raft of cannabis-linked courses at colleges across the country. Cannabis is already big business, with Wall Street piling into an industry that experts say could be worth $21 billion by 2021, and now it's being given an academic makeover.

    Northern Michigan University is the first to offer a dedicated four-year science of cannabis course.

    Already there are 50 students in the course, and another 500 looking to enroll. The course encompasses the properties of the drug and how it reacts to pesticides, among other things, according to The Telegraph.

    Michigan Medical marijuana license applications available online a week earlier than scheduled 

    "What we have done is take pieces from various curricula which are out there and packaged them into a four-year undergraduate programme," said Brandon Canfield, associate professor of chemistry.

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  • Are CBD Dog Treats The New Wave Of Cannabis?

    Are CBD Dog Treats The New Wave Of Cannabis?

    Like humans, dogs have an endocannabinoid system.

    Since we’re not 100 percent sure of all of its functions and finer details, all we can really decipher is that it’s under-serviced for the time being. In humans, that often means throwing the broad spectrum of cannabinoids at a concern, but this strategy does not work with dogs, according to the Fresh Toast.

    THC is never a good idea for a pup, as it makes them nervous and anxious. We do know that non-psychoactive in humans CBD is also not psychoactive in dogs, so many have been seeking it out to help with various canine issues.

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  • Texas Cannabis Growers Worried, But Not Too Worried, About Sessions Push-Back on Pot

    U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions' Thursday announcement couldn't have come at a worse time for Texas' nascent medical cannabis industry.

    After years of detente during the Obama administration, Sessions rescinded the Cole memo, a Department of Justice directive that federal law enforcement not crack down on marijuana-related activity otherwise protected under state law.

    In Texas, where advocates have only recently won the right to grow low-THC cannabis for processing into cannibidiol (CBD) oil, Sessions' gambit could be a big blow against a movement that's just getting started, if the Lone Star state becomes a target, according to the Dallas Observer.

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  • Mom Begs Doctors to Give Severely Epileptic Daughter Cannabis Oil

    A desperate mother in Preston, England, has begged doctors to give her 2-year-old daughter cannabis.

    Jenna Heary hopes that the drug could help cure little Olivia's epileptic seizures, according to The Sun. 

    She hopes to get her daughter onto a trial in the hope that it might make her "just that little bit more comfortable", she added that if the drug reduced her seizures it "would be a real bonus."

    The tot currently suffers with over 100 seizures everyday, is on six different medications and follows a Ketogenic diet to try and control them – but it's not helping.

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  • As Vets Demand Cannabis for PTSD, Science Races to Unlock Its Secrets

    Thousands of military veterans have pressured federal and state legislators to legalize medicinal cannabis and ease rules on research into the plant’s apparent therapeutic properties, arguing that it could help reduce suicide rates among former soldiers.

    Backed by overwhelming public support for broader legalization, their demands are starting to resonate in statehouses across the country, according to Scientific American.

    This past November, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo chose Veterans Day to make PTSD a qualifying condition for the state’s tightly controlled medical marijuana program. New York joined seven other states this year—and 27 overall—that include PTSD in their lists of conditions that qualify for medical cannabis.

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  • Australia Aims to Be World’s Top Medicinal Cannabis Supplier

    Australia’s budding medicinal cannabis sector is set for a major windfall after winning approval to begin exports.

    The health minister, Greg Hunt, said allowing medicinal cannabis product exports will help the developing domestic market to grow.

    “By helping the domestic manufacturers to expand, this, in turn, helps to ensure an ongoing supply of medicinal cannabis products here in Australia,” Hunt said in a statement.

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  • The Top CBD Cannabis Studies of 2017

    The past year was important for proponents of medical cannabis.

    Those seeking to remove cannabis’ Schedule I status are now armed with even more evidence for its medicinal and wellness benefits from a combination of human and rodent studies, according to Leafly.

    From benefits in epilepsy, autism, and beyond, here are some of 2017’s biggest medical cannabis news stories.

    This installment covers insights relating to CBD, but tune in to the second part of this series for more discoveries uncovered in 2017.

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