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Media Report: Support for legalising marijuana in Australia nearly doubles over six years. 40% now say yes to personal use

Cannabis Law Report

The nationally representative surveys, last conducted in 2019, have been collating data on drug use and attitudes every two to three years since 1985. A review of the survey data showed that 41.1% of respondents supported the legalisation of cannabis for personal use in 2019 – a significant rise from 25.5%

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Weekly Cannabis Roundup November 5

Veriheal

Researchers from Eastern Virginia Medical School and Saint Louis University analyzed data across 43 states and found a pattern of arrests associated with cannabis prohibition. The study concluded that the Army “should be less concerned with these recruits if they have no misconduct offenses.”.

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Survey Reveals Almost Half of Canada’s MMJ Patients Reduced Their Alcohol and Opioid Consumption

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New data published in the Journal of Cannabis Research claims that almost one in two authorized medical cannabis patients in Canada managed to either completely stop or reduce their intake of controlled substances, such as alcohol and opioids , by using cannabis. As of 2020, the market was worth CAD $2.6 billion (USD $2 billion).

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Portuguse medical cannabis exports increase by 600% says new report

Cannabis Law Report

At the end of 2019, in an interview published on Observador.pt , Eurico Castro Alves, former president of Infarmed (Autoridade Nacional do Medicamento e Produtos de Saúde) had stated that, within a few years, cannabis would soon become one of the protagonists of the Portuguese GDP. Here are all the details. If in 2020 Portugal had sold 4.5

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Doctors Get New Clinical Guidelines for Managing Chronic Pain With Cannabis, Courtesy of Canadian Researchers

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The team peered into the findings of numerous articles published between 2001 and 2019. Once they felt satisfied with their takeaways, they put together specific guidelines featuring data from 70 studies, 51 of which were original studies and 19 of which were systematic reviews.

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Open Secrets.Org Releases Numbers on Cannabis Industry Lobbying Numbers in The US

Cannabis Law Report

Data for the most recent year was downloaded on October 23, 2019. Data for the most recent year was downloaded on October 23, 2019. Marijuana, 2019. All lobbying expenditures in the report come from the USA Senate Office of Public Records. Here’s the lowdown. Here are the “star'” lobyists.

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Marijuana & Pregnancy: Top Studies

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Significantly higher numbers come from the Centers for Disease Control , which in 2019 reported that some 16% of pregnant women aged 18 to 44 years self-reported frequent to daily marijuana use. These numbers reflect both non-medical and medicinal marijuana use.