Sentences with phrase «medical cannabis use by»

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There are numerous other patient groups in America whose quality of life has been dramatically improved by the state - sanctioned use of medical cannabis.»

The bill forbids local authorities from working with federal agents, including using «agency money, facilities, property, equipment, or personnel to assist a federal agency to investigate, detain, detect, report, or arrest a person for commercial or noncommercial marijuana or medical cannabis activity that is authorized by law in the State of California.»

The success of the Canadian system of Licensed Producers and mail - only distribution, as evidenced by the country's willingness to move on to adult - use legality, has prompted a new wave of laws liberalizing access to medical cannabis.

The Mettrum discovery was made recently, when a random screening of the company's products by Health Canada turned up the unauthorized use of pyrethrin, a pesticide derived from the chrysanthemum plant that is also not approved for medical cannabis.

Myclobutanil, a chemical that is also prohibited for use on legal cannabis in Colorado, Washington and Oregon because of health concerns, was found in product recently recalled by Mettrum Ltd., a Toronto - based medical marijuana company.

A new study by researchers at Dartmouth has found that adolescents living in medical marijuana states with a plethora of dispensaries are more likely to have tried new methods of cannabis use, such as edibles and vaping, at a younger age than those living in states with fewer dispensaries.

«Given the many people, especially young people, who use and may be harmed by cannabis use, we are pleased to recommend this evidence - based harm - reduction guidance to Canadians who do choose to use cannabis,» says Dr. David Allison, Chief Medical Officer of Health for Newfoundland and Labrador, speaking on behalf of the Council of Chief Medical Officers of Health.

«Lowering health risks of cannabis use with new public health guidelines: Evidence - based recommendations endorsed by Canadian medical and public health organizations.»

In their paper published in the journal Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators Shane Shucheng Wong, MD, and Timothy Wilens, MD — both of the MGH Department of Psychiatry — report that their review suggests only two pediatric uses of medical cannabis — to relieve chemotherapy - induced nausea and vomiting and to reduce seizures — are supported by existing studies.

The cannabis community has another thing going for it: the fact that the legalization of recreational marijuana was preceded by legalizing the drug for medical use.

A Canadian research team led by Dr. Mark Ware from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI - MUHC) in Montréal has completed a national multicentre study looking at the safety of medical cannabis use among patients suffering from chronic pain.

Efforts to study these effects are hampered by federal classification of cannabis as a Schedule 1 drug, meaning it has no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.

«In Gonzales v. Raich, the Supreme Court rejected a constitutional challenge to the Controlled Substance Act, as applied to the cultivation, possession and use of cannabis for medical purposes as recommended by a physician and authorized by state law.

Amend the Education Act to include the requirement to discourage the use of alcohol, illegal drugs and, except by a medical cannabis user, cannabis as one of the purposes of a code of conduct established by the Minister, among other things.

Claims that medical cannabis use has reduced opioid overdose deaths in the United States have been challenged by a University -LSB-...]

Innovative Industrial Properties Inc., a provider of creative real estate capital solutions to the medical - use cannabis industry, closed its initial public offering in December 2016 and has been snapping up facilities tenanted by licensed growers ever since.