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Surgeon General’s Advisory Highlights Need for Further Cannabis Regulation, Not Criminalization

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In fact, it is precisely because marijuana use may pose potential risks to certain consumers — for example, adolescents or people with a family history of psychiatric illness — that NORML believes that lawmakers should regulate it accordingly. percent to 12.5

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Document: Patient’s Guide To CBD (2019) Americans For Safe Access 2019

Cannabis Law Report

A bit of background history is in order. Americans for Safe Access (ASA) is the largest national member-based organization of patients, medical professionals, scientists, and concerned citizens promoting safe and legal access to cannabis for therapeutic uses and research. 5 INTRODUCTION. 8 DEFINITIONS. 9 CANNABIS SATIVA L.

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Paper: Racial Capitalism and the African American Experience Entering the Cannabis Industry By Dr. Ayoka Nurse

Cannabis Law Report

From the systemic history of racism in the United States, African Americans exclusion from economic opportunities leads to maximizing profits for the White elite (Hirschman, 2019). Theme 3 involved access to capital. Before the civil war, there were more cannabis farms than cotton farms (Green, 2005). Recommendations. Hirilman, G.

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South Africa: The Cannabis judgment: Implications for society and the workplace

Cannabis Law Report

History – previous legal challenges relating to cannabis. Prince v President of the Law Society of the Cape of Good Hope & others [2002] JOL 9305 (CC). The court found that the criminalisation of cannabis (and its history) was characterised by racism and that many indigenous South Africans used cannabis. Medicines Act.

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Paper: The transition of cannabis into the mainstream of Australian healthcare: framings in professional medical publications

Cannabis Law Report

However, the nature of the government regulations and the subsequent complexity of prescribing, as well as doctors’ safety uncertainties and the stigma of the plant, remain contributing barriers to patient access. It also has an extensive and diverse history of medicinal use. 2018 ; Frankhauser 2008 ). Bonini et al.

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MAPS Is 36 Years Old – Doblin Provides Precis Timeline of the Organization

Cannabis Law Report

To celebrate this, we invite you to take a trip down memory lane and review highlights from every year of our history. For over three decades, we’ve been working to achieve mass mental health throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. Rick Doblin founded MAPS as an official 501(c)(3) non-profit research organization on April 8, 1986.

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New Frontiers in the Law of Psychedelics

Cannabis Law Report

Right to Try laws permit patients with serious or life-threatening diseases to access drugs that do not yet have government approval. Although ketamine is an FDA approved anesthetic with a long history of use in the clinical setting, it appears that ketamine may have uses beyond anesthetizing patients. 360bbb-0a. Ashcroft , 282 F.

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