Weed World

Philip Bevington, of Camborne, admitted two counts of cultivating cannabis at Truro Crown Court. He told police they were for medicinal purposes to alleviate pain from kidney failure, after being caught by officers twice in two months.…

The research, recently published in the Communications Biology journal is part of a collaboration between Queensland researchers and Botanix Pharmaceuticals, which lead to the first new class of antibiotics for resistant bacteria in 60…

Yet, in the often paradoxical world of business, some industries have emerged from the crisis in a favourable position and cannabis is one of them. 2020 has ultimately been a breakthrough year of progress for the cannabis industry,…

The first step in these MPs’ bid to encourage the French political class to be more open to the idea of legalising cannabis was a citizens’ consultation launched on January 13. More than 175,000 people responded on…

“If they’re on opioids, why can’t they be prescribed cannabis?” said the former police officer, 66, who is not seeking re-election. “At the end of the day, opioids are a damn sight more dangerous than cannabis. It would be an improvement on…

Mexico’s health ministry on Tuesday published rules to regulate the use of medicinal cannabis, a major step in a broader reform to create the world’s largest legal cannabis market in the Latin American country. The new regulation, signed…

Recently, many countries have enacted new cannabis policies, including decriminalization of cannabis possession as well as legalization of medical and recreational cannabis. In this context, patients and their physicians have had an…

There’s been plenty of optimism that there could be significant changes ahead for the cannabis industry, including the decriminalization of marijuana and moving it off its current Schedule I classification with the Drug Enforcement…

Sometimes, the best way to research something is to do it yourself. For science, for Sensi Seeds, and for journalistic integrity, I tried a cannabis suppository and wrote about the results. Recreational rectal use of cannabis is not a…

The development of the Israeli medical cannabis industry, as well as the discussion about the opening of the recreational market (legalization), aroused high hopes among local farmers who felt it was a great opportunity to save the business…