BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos signed a decree on Tuesday legalizing the growing and sale of marijuana for medical purposes, a dramatic shift in a country long identified with US-backed policies to stamp out drug crops. Read more »
Florida Supreme Court OKs medical marijuana amendment
Florida Supreme Court unanimously approved the language of the medical marijuana amendment on Dec. 17, according to United for Care, the official campaign organization for medical marijuana. Read more »
Federal Government Supports Cannabis Industry in Critical Supreme Court Case (Nebraska and Oklahoma v. Colorado)
After seven months, the federal government has finally weighed in on the U.S. Supreme Court’s request that it opine on the Nebraska and Oklahoma v. Colorado pot lawsuit. And we’re happy to write that the Solicitor General (i.e., the Fed’s top attorney) is telling SCOTUS (The Supreme Court of the United States) to throw in […]
Medical Marijuana: The Future of Breast Cancer Therapy?
CANNABINOIDS AND CANCER Although the medical properties of marijuana were first documented by human civilization over a thousand years ago, the therapeutic potential of cannabinoids – the medical compounds found in marijuana – in the treatment of cancer has only been discovered recently. Since the late 1990s, numerous preclinical studies have demonstrated the antitumor effects […]