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UK Doctors Can Now Prescribe Medicinal Cannabis Products

Catherine Sherriffs

The tides are changing in the United Kingdom, where it is now legal to prescribe cannabis-based medications and products to patients who need them. The new legislation came into effect on November 1st and gives specialist doctors (not general practitioners) the right to prescribe medications containing both CBD and low levels of THC, the latter…

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Accredited Weed Growing Paper Published

Horticultural science researchers published their weed growing study in HortScience. A history in the making event, it is too. Because it’s the first such research paper ever published in North America. Naturally, this study took place in Canada where they’ve made more progress in ending cannabis prohibition than in the US. Still, scientists at Ontario’s…
November 13, 2017
Agent Green

Cannabis Chaos: Marijuana Laws Across North America

With cannabis use legal, in one way or another, in all but seven states in the US, you’d think we’d be approaching something akin to cohesive marijuana law. But that would make sense… instead we have the incoherent approach. For starters, black market marijuana pours over the border from Mexico into illegal US distribution. It’s…
August 14, 2017
Tammy Clayton

Cannabis By Dermis – CBD Oil Transdermal Patches

Transdermal patches can be used to slowly deliver a substance such as CBD oil to a person over an extended period of time. Modern patches are odourless, discrete, long-acting and convenient, allowing in some cases for an alternative to inhalation, oral or suppository use. The concept behind transdermal patches isn’t new. Medicated plasters were in…
May 20, 2017
Grubbycup Stash

Cannabis Education at Oaksterdam University

Oaksterdam University¹ is a cannabis cultivation and industry educational institution located in the “Oaksterdam” section of Oakland, California. Inspired by the Cannabis College of Amsterdam; Oaksterdam University was founded in 2007 by Richard Lee, and the current Executive Chancellor is Dale Sky Jones. Despite being targeted by the government, and weathering a raid in 2012; it…
May 13, 2017
Grubbycup Stash