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New Seedbank ‘Medical Marijuana Genetics’ Release Groundbreaking 20:1 CBD Strain
Medical Marijuana Genetics, a newly founded seedbank, have released a medical strain that offers a 2…
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This European Country’s Government is Funding Cannabis Education for Doctors
While a growing number of countries are adopting medical cannabis laws, it is rare to see government…
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The Rising Popularity of CBD Topicals
Music plays loudly through computer speakers as a woman darts around the spacious room in a West Oak…
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GW Pharmaceuticals Stocks Soar After Successful Epilepsy Trial
GW Pharmaceuticals stocks have soared yet again after a clinical trial conducted on their product Epidiolex was deemed successful.In a statement released by the British company, Epidiolex was found to have "induced a statistically significant improvement in reducing seizures" in patients with severe epilepsy during clinical trials.After the news broke earlier this week, the company which is publicly traded saw their stocks rise by 16% to a record high 811 pence on the London Stock Exchan…
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CBD Available Soon on the NHS?
CBD could soon be available on the NHS, according to reports. The Independent have claimed that the producers of the MediPen - a CBD vaporiser - have been “consulting with a group of production and regulatory support pharmacists from the NHS for the past few months, who have been testing their proprietary cannabis oil formulation.”No one from the NHS has been able to comment, thanks to a nondisclosure agreement which prevents them from sharing client information, but if MediPen’s clai…
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Butane Hash Oil: The Medical Godsend and the Media Villain
For at least the past three years, every time a new cannabis scare story has emerged - particularly the periodic, hyperbolic wailing about ‘super-strength skunk’ - wry smiles have spread across the faces of legalisation activists. “Just imagine,” reformers have always pondered, “what the Daily Mail are going to do when they discover concentrates.” Now those fears have finally come true, and the results have been only too predictable. The BBC have undertaken an investigation into exp…
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What Medical Cannabis Products are Actually Available in Europe?
Medical cannabis patients in the U.S. and Canada enjoy access to hundreds of cannabis strains, from which they can choose the most effective for treating their specific condition. But in Europe, where medical marijuana programs have only recently gained political attention, the selection is extremely limited. In some countries only purified (and often synthesized) THC is available, while in others — such as Italy, Germany, or the Netherlands — only a small number of patients can obtain raw c…
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GW Pharmaceuticals Stock Soars 25%
British pharmaceutical company GW Pharmaceuticals has seen its share price soar by 25% following the…
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We Spoke to Cancer Research UK About Internet Cannabis Oil Scammers
Now that more and more people believe that cannabis oil can alleviate the symptoms of cancer, the UK…
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Israeli Company Proposes Medical Cannabis Plant in the United States
Israel-based medical cannabis devices company Panaxia has finally found a US partner that is willing…
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Medical Cannabis Users Losing Out in Holland
Despite legal access to ‘medical cannabis’, Dutch patients are being hit hard by the government war on coffeeshops. Campaigners have long maintained that the cannabis they can get from a pharmacy – Bedrocan – is of inferior quality, is too expensive, and doesn’t provide the variety needed to properly control their various illnesses and the symptoms that go with them.The solution has always been the same – they get their medicine from a coffeeshop like everyone else. The price is …
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CBD in Slovakia – A Banned Substance
It is an antispasmodic, it reduces stress and anxiety. It is used to treat some forms of epilepsy. It can ease severe pain. And yet in Slovakia, you can not buy this plant extract legally. We are of course talking about CBD, a substance derived from the cannabis plant.Because of its affiliation with cannabis, Slovak legislation considers the extract a psychotropic substance and therefore will not allow its sale within their country.The main issues regarding this substance in Slovakia inv…
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Will Sativex Make it to French Pharmacies?
In 2014, France’s Health Ministry gave the green light to Sativex, the first cannabis-based medicine in the country. The prescription-only mouth spray is manufactured by U.K.-based G.W. Pharmaceuticals, and is intended for multiple sclerosis patients with severe muscle spasms.Although many in France favor the use of medicinal cannabis – an informal poll in Le Parisien reports that more than 70 percent of respondents support it – the country maintains some of the strictest cannabis law…
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