Author: Andy

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…

Cannabis and Sexual Satisfaction: The Green Light for Better Intimacy A landmark doctoral dissertation at Queens University examined the connection between cannabis use and sexual functioning in two large studies involving over 1,600 participants. The research demonstrates that cannabis use is associated with greater sexual desire and arousal, and lower sexual distress. The study found…

Shadow Bans and Censorship! Cannabis Advocates Call Out Facebook In an open letter, groups such as Students for Sensible Drug Policy, NORML, the Marijuana Policy Project, and the Drug Policy Alliance state that Meta’s platforms continue to censor educational, medical, and advocacy information regarding cannabis even though they remain in compliance with local law. A…