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Use of Cannabis-based medicinal products: NICE guidelines

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Cannabis-based medicinal products. Making decisions using NICE guidelines explains how we use words to show the strength (or certainty) of our recommendations, and has information about prescribing medicines (including off-label use), professional guidelines, standards and laws (including on consent and mental capacity), and safeguarding.

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South Africa: The Cannabis judgment: Implications for society and the workplace

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The Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act 140 of 1992 (Drugs Act) read together with the Medicines and Related Substances Control Act 101 of 1965 (Medicines Act), prohibits and criminalises the use, possession, purchase and cultivation of cannabis by any individual in South Africa. Medicines Act. Section 4(b) and 5(b). Schedule 7.

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Cannabis Was First Domesticated in East Asia 12,000 Years Ago, New Study Finds

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Humans have been domesticating cannabis plants to use as medicine, fiber, and food for at least 12,000 years , researchers have recently discovered. . As one of the first domesticated plants, it has a long and fluctuating history interwoven with the economic, social, and cultural development of human societies.

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Psychedelics: The Revolution Will Be Monetized & Trademarked

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Bruce Linton Talks Psychedelics Investments, Microdosing And LSD: ‘The Therapeutic Potential Of Psychedelics Is Greater Than Cannabinoids’ Earlier this year, Canopy Growth CGC 2.31% co-founder and former CEO Bruce Linton invested in a neuropharmaceutical company, Mind Medicine Inc.

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Paper: The transition of cannabis into the mainstream of Australian healthcare: framings in professional medical publications

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Medicinal cannabis has been legalised for use for a range of specified medical conditions in Australia since 2016. Focusing on professional medical publications, this study sought to investigate how medicinal cannabis is being represented in professional medical publications. The precis is simple. Background. Conclusions. Background.

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Lighting Up Florida’s Medical Marijuana People: The Medics Series, Part 6

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Michelle Beasley directly because of our mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship: if I do well, get healthier, stop opioids, and improve my quality of life, then she grows in her professional field of cannabis medicine. . Patient and physician are on this rocky journey together, for better or worse. .

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Federal Legalization – Then What?

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A substantial excise tax of say, 20-25% without an exemption for medical use cannabis would create an additional financial disaster for those whose only interest in cannabis is for its benefit as a medicine. Will the mandate for the DEA be changed to oversee another special agricultural legal crop or a medicine ?