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LAST month's federal law change making it legal for Australian patients and doctors to access medicinal cannabis has changed nothing for Jeremy Bester and his family. Mr Bester's mother Lyn Cleaver and her partner Malcolm Amundsen already provide him with spoonfuls of home-grown cannabinoid...

Queensland has ideal conditions for a commercial cannabis industry for use in medicine, according to a state government paper set to be released on Tuesday. The paper, an overview of medicinal cannabis, was obtained by Fairfax Media ahead of its publication, which was expected to be online...

Australia's "most progressive" medicinal marijuana legislation, which would give more sick Queenslanders access to the presently illegal drug, has been released for public comment. If passed, the Public Health (Medicinal Cannabis) Bill 2016 would create a formal process for Queensland doctors...

Chris Fairfax is looking into the future and sees one where marijuana gets equal if not greater billing than alcohol. He's thinking about joining the ranks of stores that are selling medicinal, even recreational pot, providing he can do so legally. Fairfax, who owns The Wolf Bar on Lougheed...

Former CTU president Helen Kelly has mounted a campaign that seeks to reform the government's procedures over medicinal cannabis. Kelly has blogged about her predicament and campaign — see: Life and death and Cannabis. This must-read post sets out her problems with getting appropriate treatment...

The recent Bill to enable the domestic cultivation and production of medicinal cannabis will overcome state laws that have restricted access to the drug in the past, writes Dr Teresa Nicoletti. In a ground-breaking session in the Federal Parliament, the Minister for Health, Sussan Ley...

Twenty-three states and Washington, D.C. have legalized medicinal marijuana use, and some Missourians are pushing to join those ranks. The Missouri Compassionate Care Act would allow licensure for up to 30 medical cannabis centers and 30 cannabis cultivation and production centers across the...

A senior minister will continue to work with the woman spear-heading access to medicinal cannabis despite her being investigated by police. Toni-Marie Matich, co-founder of United in Compassion (UIC), was last year thrust into the public eye through her work with Children's Commissioner...

The Mexican government is letting the parents of two more sick girls import a cannabis-derived medicine for their treatment. The Federal Health Commission says in a statement that it has authorized the parents' requests to bring hemp oil into the country. In a landmark decision last year, a...

The Livermore City Council decided on Jan. 11 to suspend the sale of medical marijuana for 18 months in order to make sure that the licenses are going to the patients who need it. "The benefit is to have local control of who gets medicinal marijuana and to preserve the rights," said John...

New York dispensaries have received medicinal marijuana licenses, and with them in hand, they are getting ready to sell cannabis legally starting on Thursday. Columbia Care is present in one of the busiest dispensary locations in New York City's Union Square neighborhood. In July, the state...

Marijuana consumers do not typically use cannabis and alcohol in combination with one another, regardless of whether they are consuming cannabis for medicinal or social purposes, according to data published online ahead of print in the journal Addiction. Investigators with the RAND Drug Policy...

2015 was a big year for weed in Australia, with medicinal use and bizarre sloth-starring anti-drug campaigns taking centre stage. If you didn't know, cannabis still stands as the most widely used drug in the country, with 35% of Australians over the age of 14 reporting they had consumed it at...

Saying that medical marijuana will "do more harm than good'' during a legislative hearing earlier this month, state Health Commissioner John Dreyzehner did actual harm to the hopes of thousands of hurting Tennesseans who need real help right now. And right now is the time for state lawmakers to...

Saying that medical marijuana will "do more harm than good'' during a legislative hearing earlier this month, state Health Commissioner John Dreyzehner did actual harm to the hopes of thousands of hurting Tennesseans who need real help right now. And right now is the time for state lawmakers to...

Cardinal Norberto Rivera, the Catholic Church's top authority in Mexico, said he has no problem with the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes. The cardinal said Sunday that the church has never had a problem recommending the use of "all elements from nature that can be used to help improve...

Cardinal Norberto Rivera, the Catholic Church's top authority in Mexico, said he has no problem with the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes. The cardinal said Sunday that the church has never had a problem recommending the use of "all elements from nature that can be used to help improve...

Phil Warner says that one of the big selling points about his cannabis is that you would have to smoke a "telegraph pole-sized joint" to get high. Warner is proud of the weakness of his cannabis because it promises an answer to one of the big issues facing the nascent medicinal cannabis...

My name is Chris and I'm new to the whole marijuana scene. I'm a medically retired vet and I use marijuana for medicinal purposes. I only do edibles though. I do want to get in to growing though. I live in Colorado and need some information on how to get a permit to grow medicinal marijuana. Any...

It may be thousands of kilometres away from Perth's corporate heart, but Christmas Island is being eyed off to become home to Australia's first medicinal cannabis industry. The planned new direction for the island's economy has been driven by research from Murdoch University that has debunked...