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  • 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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  • 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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  • Tennessee Lawmakers Push to Legalize Cannabis Oil for Medicinal Purposes

    A medical marijuana task force was formed earlier this year to study the topic of medical marijuana and then make a recommendation to be presented to the general assembly, according to WBIR.

    The co-chair of the task force, state Rep. Jeremy Faison, R-Cosby, is confident their bill will pass once it hits the table, but critics are urging a "no" vote again on the issue.

    "What you need to understand, in Tennessee, the cannabis plant is coming and it's coming to every state in America," Faison said Friday. "We don't want to wait until every state around us has something and then we are trying to build an airplane while we are flying."

    Faison said 30 states have already legalized medical marijuana including, most recently, Arkansas, which borders part of Tennessee.

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  • Can Your Dog Be Arrested for Using Cannabis Extract?

    Can Your Dog Be Arrested for Using Cannabis Extract?

    The question Thomas McDermott wanted answered Wednesday doesn’t get asked often during policy discussions in Indiana: Could his Labrador retriever be breaking the law by using a pain remedy extracted from cannabis?

    McDermott, who happens to be the Democratic mayor of Hammond, asked the question from the audience during an otherwise buttoned-down panel discussion on alcohol and marijuana policy at the BGD Legislative Conference in Indianapolis, according to the IndyStar.

    On the panel was Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill, a Republican who last month issued a legal opinion that said the use of cannabidiol oil, or CBD, was illegal in most circumstances in Indiana.

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  • Fed Shutdown Could Allow Sessions To Launch Marijuana Crackdown

    Funding for the federal government is set to run out on Friday, unless Congress enacts a bill extending current spending levels before the midnight deadline.

    Also set to expire is a current rider that prevents the Department of Justice from interfering with state medical cannabis laws, according to Forbes.

    If lawmakers fail to enact an extension, the marijuana protections would disappear but, because drug enforcement agents are considered "excepted" from furloughs, the Justice Department would be newly empowered to enforce federal cannabis prohibition wherever it wants, regardless of state laws.

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  • MMJ Driving Jobs in MA

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