The story of medical cannabis is usually framed around a patient’s personal situation to try and allow people to see…
Jan 29
Dec 05
Two-year-old Jorja Emerson is first UK child to get cannabis prescription – for £1,000 a month
Two-year-old Jorja Emerson, who suffers with more than 30 epileptic seizures a day, has become the first child in the…
Nov 29
South Korea legalises CBD medicine in breakthrough for east Asia
South Korea – said to have the most oppressive anti-cannabis laws in the world – has become the first east…
Nov 18
This Week In Weed – 18 November 2018
THC helps boy’s Tourette’s An eight-year-old boy with Tourette’s saw his involuntary tics alleviated after being given daily doses of…
Nov 17
High doses of CBD inhibits methamphetamine consumption in rodents, says study
A new study in the Journal of Psychopharmacology provides evidence that high doses of cannabis compound cannabidiol (CBD) can inhibit…
Nov 11
This Week In Weed – 11 November 2018
Licence for London-based Dragonfly Biosciences London-based Dragonfly Biosciences Ltd has announced that it has secured a licence to create CBD…
Nov 02
Guidelines on prescribing cannabis products throw up range of barriers and hoops
With “cannabis-based” medicine becoming legal for specialist doctors to prescribe from 1 November, the Department for Health and Social Care…
Oct 22
New study: Cannabis oil ‘significantly improves the symptoms of Crohn’s disease and the quality of life of sufferers’
Cannabis oil has been shown to “significantly improve the symptoms of Crohn’s disease and the quality of life of sufferers”,…
Oct 08
This Week In Weed – 8 October 2018
Burton-based brewing corporation Molson Coors is to start selling cannabis-infused drinks – but only in Canada. Molson Coors Canada, the…
Oct 08
Medical cannabis expected to be available on prescription within a month
Medical cannabis will be available on prescription – by specialists only – in the UK within a month, according to…
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