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Difference between Recreational and Medical Marijuana

Otherside Farms

Marijuana is a type of plant that is utilized for recreation, medicinal use, personal use, religious use, and even used in industrial settings. According to the World Health Organization, marijuana is considered as the world’s most popular recreational drug. What is Recreational Marijuana? THC vs CBD. What is Medical Marijuana?

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Is weed legal in Portugal?

The Cannigma

Medical: Legal Recreational: Decriminalized. In 2001, in one of the most progressive social moves surrounding drug usage, Portugal decriminalized all drugs, weed included. It is illegal to plant, sell, possess, buy or smoke cannabis for recreational purposes in Portugal. Is marijuana legal in Portugal?

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Canada: The Constitutional Right to Marijuana in Canada: R v Parker

Cannabis Law Report

The judge agreed with him, saying (at para 28): The seizures associated with Parker’s epilepsy constitute a serious threat to his health and safety. The Marihuana Medical Access Regulations (MMAR) has, since 2001, permitted many people who met stipulated medical criteria to lawfully use and possess marijuana.

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Cannabis laws in Japan: Is weed legal?

The Cannigma

Medical : Illegal Recreational : Illegal *CBD products are legal in Japan, as long as they contain no THC whatsoever and are not made from cannabis flower. In 2019, Japan approved clinical trials for Epidiolox — a cannabis derived medicine used to treat severe forms of childhood epilepsy such as Dravet and Lennox-Gastaut syndromes.

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Pushing Cannabis into Modern Healthcare

CannaTech

Canada has been at the forefront of shaping much of the rhetoric surrounding cannabis since 2001. What began as a legal medicine more than 15 years is now being legalized for adult recreational use. What was once an illegal drug is slowly being heralded as an alternative to opioids, or a way to manage rare forms of childhood epilepsy.

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Can cannabis products be used to increase overall health and well-being?

Leaf Science

In the UK, cannabis was legalized for medicinal purposes in 2018 which saw patients of epilepsy and multiple sclerosis able to access pharmaceutical cannabis derivatives such as Sativex and Epidiolex.

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Mid-Atlantic States Enact Historic Reforms, But Remain Stalled on Legalization

Cannabis Law Report

After Murphy and Sweeney came to an early 2019 agreement regarding how recreational marijuana would be taxed, the stage appeared finally set for a legislative vote. Efforts to legalize recreational marijuana have struggled to gain traction. Two Commerce Square, 2001 Market Street, Suite 3100. Patrick McKnight.