Category: Cannabis News

Weed Before Wine? Study Shows Cannabis Can Cut Heavy Drinking A federally funded human-lab study released recently found heavy users consumed about a quarter fewer alcoholic drinks—and had lower desire—when they inhaled legal cannabis prior to alcohol consumption. The study supports the case for cannabis as a harm-reduction substitute for some individuals who are not…

UK Clinicians Get Hands-On Training To Turn Policy Into Patient Access The cannabis debate in the UK is shifting from “if” to “how,” and a new one-day CPD-credited symposium is targeted straight at that gap. The conference provides practical, case-based teaching for experts, GPs and pharmacists: when to consider a trial of cannabis medicines, how…

EU Moves To Recognize Hemp Flower As A Crop The EU is mulling formal clearance for hemp flower as a crop, paving the way for mainstream incentives and lower red tape for compliant varieties. If it happens, farmers would then be able to finance, insure, and export flower across borders in a manner more similar…

AI Discovers Terpenes Drive Cannabis Pain Relief, Not Just THC A recent study found that medical cannabis does actually reduce pain—and that the combination of cannabinoids and terpenes is more critical than THC or CBD quantities. Scientists studied 329 patients who had used controlled cannabis and discovered ~200 cannabinoids and terpenes in the strains that…

Morocco’s First Legal Medical Cannabis Export Ships To Australia Morocco has marked a historic milestone: a first legal cannabis medicine shipment has arrived in Australia—enabling system-wide operational capability at the level of cultivation, processing, compliance, and logistics. Following Morocco’s multi-year effort to relocate portions of the Rif’s traditional production into an approved, added-value supply chain,…

Slovenia Files Adult-Use Bill As Medical Measure Advances Slovenian legislators have proposed a legislative bill to legalize cannabis for ownership among adults, home cultivation and non-commercial distribution—going further than the advisory referendums of last year. The bill would legalize cultivation of up to four plants (up to six per household), up to 7 grams outdoor…

Nepal’s Legal Cannabis Proposal Gandaki Province in Nepal has released a draft bill to legalize cannabis growing under a state-controlled pharmaceutical-type system that maintains control of the supply chain by the government. Nepali nationals only would be eligible for cultivation license, and foreign joint ventures would be allowed only if the Nepali side owns a…

New Law Could Let Small Cannabis Growers Ship Direct to Customers Democratic Reps. Jared Huffman and Val Hoyle re-introduced the SHIP Act, historic legislation allowing direct-to-consumer shipments by USPS and commercial carriers by small cannabis growers and manufacturers. The act aims at leveling the playing ground against the large multi-state operators that now control the…

Cannabis Relief: Fibromyalgia Breakthrough Shows Promise Italian Researchers found fibromyalgia patients with gastrointestinal conditions, with marked decrease in symptoms after treatment with plant-based cannabis drugs containing 19 percent THC and 1 percent CBD. Scientists, in a study presented in Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology, evaluated 46 fibromyalgia patients during registration, three, and six months. Researchers revealed…

Breakthrough Study: CBD Helps Autistic Boys Communicate for the First Time A first-of-its-kind study for UC San Diego’s Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research surveyed the autism-related properties of CBD in children, delivering shocking news to families for whom alternative medication is either desired or in some cases, the last resort. The 20-week double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover…