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The Latin American Cannabis Landscape – Part Two: Regulated Markets and Patient Access

CannaTech

Medical cannabis continued to pop up across the region year after year: imports in Brazil began in 2014, trials started in Chile in 2014, regulations were implemented in Colombia and Jamaica in 2015, the same followed in the Cayman Islands and parts of Argentina in 2016, Paraguay in 2017, and the list carries on from 2018 to date.

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New CBD Study Involving NHL Players Offers Hope for Concussion Treatment

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The study, which began in 2016 and is set to conclude in 2021, began by assessing the therapeutic effects of CBD in animals with brain injuries. Researchers found that complementary CBD therapy in conjunction with conventional treatment yielded better results. NHL Players to Participate in Summer 2019. .

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Portland Funded its Police Department With Cannabis Tax Revenue

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According to the Oregon Cannabis Association (OCA) , police budgets received more than $2 million directly from cannabis tax proceeds last year – despite the city passing a measure in 2016 stipulating that those funds should be designated for substance misuse treatment, public safety, and small business development.

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Revamping Texas’ Medical Cannabis Program Is the Key to Ending the State’s Opioid Crisis

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opioid epidemic, which claimed a record number of lives in 2021 , is the result of America’s faulty regulation of these powerful pain-killing drugs and a widespread lack of access to safe and adequate pain management solutions. A 2019 study found that 76% of patients in the U.S. The Opioid Problem.

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Fentanyl-laced Cannabis Demonstrates the Danger of Illicit Markets

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In Connecticut specifically, more than 80% of drug overdose deaths since 2019 have been due to fentanyl. Between 2016 and 2019, the U.S. In 2019, 10.1 Opioids are typically prescribed for the treatment of severe pain , particularly after surgery, and can be effective when taken sparingly.

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The Status of Cannabis Legalization in the South

Cannabis Law Report

Arkansas voters approved a medical cannabis program on November 8, 2016, and the legislature subsequently amended the program through the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment of 2016. Until 2019, however, no law provided a way to access that oil. Nor do there appear to be any significant proposed bills that would do so.

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Cannabis laws in Cyprus

The Cannigma

In 2019, Cypriot lawmakers approved a law legalizing the possession, import and export, and cultivation of marijuana for medical use. In 2016, a new law was introduced that allowed people with drug charges outside of trafficking to apply for alternative treatment rather than prison. Medical: legal Recreational: illegal.

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