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MJ Biz Report: Health Canada referred almost 500 cannabis-related cases to federal police over 2-year period

Cannabis Law Report

Health Canada referred nearly 500 cannabis business-related cases to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) for possible enforcement action during the two years ending in March 2021, a major increase over fiscal year 2018-19. Here’s the introduction to the piece.

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Jamaican Lion: The Industry’s First Comprehensive Cannabis Reference Genome

Medicinal Genomics

Medicinal Genomics Corporation (MGC), a pioneer in using genomics to improve the transparency, safety and yield of cannabis has today announced the industry’s most comprehensive Cannabis reference genome, a high quality de novo genome assembly of the Jamaican Lion cannabis strain.

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Australia: Making A Submission To “The Senate Community Affairs References Committee” On Medical Cannabis

Cannabis Law Report

Current barriers to patient access to medicinal cannabis in Australia. On 14 November 2019, the Senate referred an inquiry into the current barriers to patient access to medicinal cannabis in Australia to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee for inquiry and report by 12 February 2020.

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What’s in a name? Marijuana, Cannabis, and Hemp

Americans for Safe Access

Adapted from The Medicalization of Marijuana: Legitimacy, Stigma, and the Patient Experience (Routledge, 2019) by Michelle Newhart and William Dolphin. As with all things involving social controversy, dispute over what to properly call the plant known by the botanical name Cannabis Sativa L. are marijuana, cannabis, and hemp.

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Finding Rare Cannabinoids in Non-Cannabis Plants

Project CBD

Special glands protruding from cannabis flowers express a series of unique molecules. Cannabinoids, as they are known, exist in cannabis. But it turns out that identical molecules are present in non-cannabis plants, as well. 1 Sourcing Rare Cannabinoids in Non-Cannabis Shrubs How did the Israeli scientists figure this out?

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Marijuana reform is budding in New Hampshire!

NORML

It passed the House on 2/27/2019 by a vote of 209-147. 175 was referred to the Health and Human Services Committee and HB 461 was referred to the Health, Human Services, and Elderly Affairs Committee on 1/03/2019. It was referred to the Environment and Agriculture Committee on 1/03/2019.

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Cannabis Activism Now List – “700 Medical Cannabis Studies Sorted By Disease”

Cannabis Law Report

Published in 2019 but still relevant Here is a collection of clinical studies, papers and references providing the ultimate resource for medical disorders helped by cannabis.