NORML

JANUARY 18, 2019

House lawmakers introduced The Medical Cannabis Research Act of 2019 (HR 601), to facilitate federally-approved clinical trials involving cannabis. Meanwhile, a decriminalization bill was defeated in the Virginia House this week. Click here to email your lawmakers in support of decriminalization. Virgin Islands.

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Canna Law Blog

MARCH 4, 2020

Recently, the decriminalization of psilocybin (by various cities) has been in the news as an emerging medicine. Similar to ketamine, psilocybin has shown great promise in clinical trials for helping to effectively treat depression and PTSD (and we’ve written about psilocybin several times on this blog, including here and here ).

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The Cannigma

MARCH 12, 2021

We’re not going to get over the fact that there’s not the same sort of clinical trial and that type of evidence for cannabis and cannabis treatments in the very near future for various reasons. There’s the one drug, one target, cannabis is multiple active ingredients and acts on multiple targets in the body.

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 30, 2019

The National Institute on Drug Abuse published a grant notice to encourage research on the effects of changing US cannabis laws and policies on public health. Iowa’s Medical Cannabidiol Board formally approved a measure to add chronic pain to the list of conditions that qualify a patient for medical cannabis.

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Cannabis Law Report

OCTOBER 17, 2019

As more countries legalize or decriminalize the cultivation, manufacture, sale, and use of cannabis, companies across a variety of industries are looking for opportunities to capitalize on this emerging market. Several bills have been introduced in Congress in 2019 that call for legalizing or decriminalizing the substance.

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NORML

JANUARY 28, 2019

Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump have voiced support for state governments deciding their own policies. The National Center for Biotechnology Information has summarized a group of FDA approved randomized clinical trials, finding evidence for cannabis as medicine. So, in seven years why hasn’t Kentucky moved forward?

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 30, 2019

Although the amendments represent an unprecedented level of support for pro-cannabis policies in the House, a similar level of support in the Republican-controlled Senate is unlikely. The Federal Aviation Administration issued a bulletin clarifying its cannabis and CBD policy for pilots.

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