Nearly two decades after California established a medical marijuana program, the patchwork of local regulations on the billion-dollar industry is often distilled to just two words: Wild West. Supporters and critics alike use the same description, but year after year in the Legislature, attempts to enact statewide controls on medical marijuana cultivation and sales fall […]
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Medical marijuana operations find it tough to set up accounts
When medical marijuana becomes available in Minnesota on July 1, two state-approved companies will begin selling cannabis in pill and oil form to patients who suffer from cancer, HIV, AIDS, ALS and other conditions. But although state lawmakers made dispensing the drug to those patients legal, federal law still bans marijuana. That’s led to some […]
Anti-Legalization Group Calls For Medical Marijuana Research Overhaul
In a groundbreaking move for a group of its kind, a leading organization opposed to marijuana legalization released a report Thursday that seeks a major overhaul of marijuana research in the United States, calling on the federal government to recognize the medical value of cannabis. Former U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.), co-founder of Smart Approaches […]
Any dose of alcohol combined with cannabis significantly increases levels of THC in blood
Cannabis plus alcohol is one of the most frequently detected drug combinations in car accidents, yet the interaction of these two compounds is still poorly understood. A study appearing online in Clinical Chemistry, the journal of AACC, shows for the first time that the simultaneous use of alcohol and cannabis produces significantly higher blood concentrations […]