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Mississippi Becomes 37th State to Legalize Medical Cannabis With a Law that Provides Limited Access to Patients

Americans for Safe Access

On February 2, 2022, Governor Tate Reeves chose to sign SB 2095 into law, making Mississippi the 37th state to adopt medical cannabis laws. On January 26, 2022, the state legislature passed SB 2095, their watered down vision for medical cannabis in Mississippi. . ASA strongly opposes both of these provisions.

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Significant Decrease in Mental Health Treatment Seen in States With Legal Cannabis

Veriheal

States legalizing recreational cannabis are seeing an unexpected and significant decrease in mental health treatment admissions. The data revealed that shortly after the adoption of recreational marijuana laws, states began to see fewer admissions to treatment centers for mental illness. It intensifies as time progresses.

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Veriheal’s 2022 Innovation in Cannabis Scholarship Winners

Veriheal

We are honored to present the five recipients of Veriheal’s 2022 Innovation in Cannabis Scholarship. Innovation: The cannabis plant’s naturality is one of its biggest draws as a medical treatment, but cultivating it isn’t always great for the environment due to factors like heavy fertilizer use and high water consumption.

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Every Maryland Dispensary That MMJ Patients Need To Know

MMJ Recs

By the end of 2018 there were almost 60,000 patients, and nearly $100 million had been taken in the first year of sales. It is projected that there will soon be over 200,000 registered medical marijuana patients in Maryland. Or another chronic medical condition that is severe and for which other treatments have been ineffective.

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Video Report: Cedars-Sinai Denying Transplant to Medical Marijuana Patient with Inoperable Liver Cancer

Cannabis Law Report

Dec 13, 2022 Cedars-Sinai Denying Transplant to Medical Marijuana Patient with Inoperable Liver Cancer Sixty-three year-old medical marijuana patient Norman B. Smith was diagnosed with inoperable liver cancer in 2009 and sought treatment from the internationally lauded Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

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How Do I Get My Iowa MMJ Card In 2022?

MMJ Recs

Today, we’ll go through the process of how to get a medical marijuana card in Iowa in 2022. Initially, when the Iowa MMJ program was introduced, patients were limited to low-THC preparations. This changed in 2020, and Iowa now allows patients access to higher-THC preparations. So, how do I get my Iowa MMJ card in 2022?

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Press Release: Numinus Wellness Receives Health Canada Special Access Program Applicant Approval to Provide Psychedelic-assisted Therapy Treatment

Cannabis Law Report

This is Numinus’ first psilocybin-assisted therapy treatment outside of ongoing clinical trials, and among the first to use of this regulatory mechanism through Health Canada’s Special Access Program (“SAP”), which was amended January 5 th , 2022 to include access to psychedelic compounds on a case-by-case basis. .

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