Prohibition kills: Coventry man shot dead in police raid Police have shot dead a man in Coventry after raiding a “suspected cannabis farm”. Sean Fitzgerald, 31, was killed at an
The lead author of a study which found that THC potency in cannabis has doubled across Europe says regulation is the alternative if governments want to take control of the
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital has blocked one of its neurologists from prescribing cannabis medicine to a nine-year-old boy who suffers up to 300 seizures a day. Joanne Griffiths fears her
On 8 September 2018, UKCSC chairman Greg de Hoedt took part in a panel discussion at the Big Tent Ideas Festival at the Babraham Research Institute in Cambridgeshire. The panel,
Canopy Growth launches UK subsidiary Canopy Growth, the world’s largest cannabis company, is launching a new UK subsidiary in a challenge to the hitherto monopoly of GW Pharma. Spectrum Biomedical
US legalises hemp farming It is now legal to grow hemp in the US after President Donald Trump signed the 2018 Farm Bill – as long as it contains no
Charlotte Caldwell has been forced to take her son Billy to Canada to seek medication after doctors cited strict NHS guidance to say they could not prescribe cannabis unless there
Fewer young people are using cannabis in the US now compared to 2012, when the first states moved to legalise cannabis, according to a federally funded study – once again
Vaping cannabis gets users higher than smoking it, according to a small study carried out at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Participants who vaporised cannabis at 25 milligram strength
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has published an “interim guide” for GPs advising them on how to handle enquiries from patients about cannabis medicine. Only specialists, not GPs,
