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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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CBD Ban: Brits Take Up Fight And Send Lawyers To Brussels

Cannabis Law Report

London law firm Mackrell Turner Garrett, together with a leading food and trading standards barrister, were instructed by the Cannabis Trades Association UK (CTA) to make representations to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). He also defended several national companies against allegations of mis-selling or misleading prices.

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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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Italy: MINISTRY OF HEALTH DECREE – Definition of maximum levels of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in food

Cannabis Law Report

178/2002 of the European Parliament and of. Council of 28 January 2002, which establishes the principles and. the European Food Safety Authority and establishes procedures in the. food safety; Having regard to Regulation (EC) no. food): «Scientific Opinion on the safety of hemp (Cannabis. 178/2002 no.

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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. The FDA formally decided to open the door to psychedelic research in human participants, and later accepted MAPS’ Phase 1 MDMA safety and tolerance study protocol. Rick Doblin, Ph.D., and Michael Mithoefer, M.D.,

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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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New Frontiers in the Law of Psychedelics

Cannabis Law Report

The bill was approved by the State Senate on June 1, 2021, and was approved by the Assembly’s Public Safety Committee on June 29, 2021. 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. Ashcroft , 282 F.

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