Scientists who found THC to be more therapeutic than CBD in a groundbreaking study have called for all types of…
Alzheimer’s Research UK announces ‘cannabis-based’ Sativex trial for dementia
The UK’s leading dementia research charity Alzheimer’s Research UK has announced it will fund a “pioneering” clinical trial at King’s…
WHO recommends rescheduling cannabis and descheduling pure CBD – reaction
The World Health Organization’s Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD) has told the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND)…
Raphael Mechoulam joins GW Pharma hoping for a “fruitful collaboration”
The “godfather” of cannabis science is teaming up with the UK cannabis giant GW Pharmaceuticals, the world’s largest exporter of…
Parents of 35 UK epileptic children demand THC cannabis oil
Parents of Hope are mothers and fathers still living in fear for their children who are having access to legal…
What Would You Do? Steph and Dom Look To Cannabis For Son’s Epilepsy
The story of medical cannabis is usually framed around a patient’s personal situation to try and allow people to see…
Vaping cannabis gets people higher than smoking it – and it’s safer, too
Vaping cannabis gets users higher than smoking it, according to a small study carried out at Johns Hopkins University School…
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…
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…
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”,…