Last November, Florida voters overwhelming voted to legalize access to medical marijuana with 71% of voters approving Amendment 2. On Friday, the will of the voters was finally cemented when Governor Rick Scott signed SB 8A into law. For the last several months, lawmakers have struggled to come to an agreement on the fine points
It’s official. On June 19, 2017, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto signed a decree legalizing the use of medical cannabis. Although the details of Mexico’s medical marijuana laws are still unclear, advocates are hopeful that this new development will bring relief to patients and a reduction in crime and violence to a country where an
Today, a bi-partisan group of politicians including Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Rand Paul (R-KY), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Al Franken (D-MN), and Mike Lee (R-UT), along with Representatives Steve Cohen (D-TN) and Don Young (R-AK), reintroduced legislation to protect patients from federal prosecution in states with legal cannabis. The CARERS Act, an acronym
Ever since it first passed in the House of Representatives in 2014, the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment has provided the only legal protection at the federal level for medical marijuana businesses and their patients. The law prevents the Department of Justice (which includes the DEA) from spending federal dollars to prosecute medical marijuana businesses or their patients
Schizophrenia is a chronic mental illness that typically requires long-term treatment with potent antipsychotic medications. But for about one-third of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, conventional antipsychotics fail to provide adequate control of their symptoms. However, recent research suggests that cannabidiol (CBD), a compound found in the cannabis plant, may be as effective as antipsychotic drugs