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Medical marijuana news, December 2015

Alchimia

The three most populated Australian States (Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland) promised to organize studies on the efficiency of cannabis to alleviate terminally ill patients, controlling severe epilepsy in children, as well as for the treatment of side effects of chemotherapy. But on August 17, 2015 a judge has authorized Graciela?s

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Case Report Finds Cannabis Provides Symptom Relief in Those With Treatment-Resistant TBI

The Joint Blog

For the case report researchers from the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center reported on the effect of medical cannabis treatment in a TBI patient with post-traumatic stress and major depressive disorder. The patient had been unresponsive to conventional therapies.

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Georgia Medical Cannabis Patients Can Now Purchase Cannabis Oil From Pharmacies

Veriheal

Georgia medical cannabis patients will soon have greater access to treatment as cannabis oil will be sold in many more pharmacies. The Haleigh’s Hope Act and Georgia’s Hope Act Back in 2015, regulators in Georgia first legalized medical cannabis use by passing the Haleigh’s Hope Act.

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Is weed legal in Colombia?

The Cannigma

The country has had a medical cannabis program since 2015. In 2015, the government went a step further and decriminalized personal cultivation of up to 20 cannabis plants. Since 2015, Colombia scientists and researchers can grow, process, import, or export cannabis and its derivatives for medical and scientific use.

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New Research Shows How Medicinal Cannabis Eases Cancer Pain and Reduces Opioid Dependence

Veriheal

But what if a safe and effective complementary plant-based treatment was widely available to alleviate cancer pain? of patients experience pain after curative treatment, while 66.4% in cancer patients undergoing anticancer treatment, 50.7% in those who had completed treatment, and as high as 66.7%

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Jason Straw: Medical Cannabis Policy, ISNA 2020 Conference

Cannabis Law Report

Now, he is the Vice-Chair of Indiana NORML — an organization who is currently focused on changing cannabis laws for the access to Medical Cannabis as therapeutic treatment in Indiana. The goal is to develop an evidence-based approach to its use in the treatment of disease and symptom management. . IS NA STRONGLY SUPPORTS : . ?

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Idaho Law and Marijuana

Cannabis Law Report

and has no accepted medical use in treatment in the United States or lacks accepted safety for use in treatment under medical supervision.” In 2015, the Idaho Attorney General’s Office confirmed this interpretation through issuance of an informal opinion letter. 2015 Idaho Att’y Gen. Idaho Code § 37-2701 et seq.

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