Sentences with phrase «over medical marijuana»

«However, individual - level inferences can not be made using the ecological studies cited frequently in the debate over medical marijuana.»

Back in January, Gov. Andrew Cuomo broke New York State's decade - long stalemate over medical marijuana by announcing that he'd dusted

The form of the drug was a point of contention in the initial debate over medical marijuana.

There is a furore in the US over medical marijuana.

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Prairie Plant Systems, the sole supplier of medical marijuana to Health Canada for over a decade, and its subsidiary CanniMed are the only two producers that have been granted licences under the new regime so far.

While customers must have a prescription from a doctor to make a purchase, per New York State's medical marijuana laws, anyone over 18 years old can enter the 2,000 square foot store to take a look at the merchandise.

Last month, the professional group updated its stance, saying it had growing concerns over what it calls a «lack of clinical oversight» in the use of medical marijuana if pharmacies don't play a «front - line role» in providing access to the drug.

The goal is for legal medical marijuana to bring back jobs lost over the past decades by the decline in the steel industry.

«Over the past 15 years, led by California, 15 states plus the District of Columbia have adopted laws permitting some form of marijuana consumption or distribution for medical use,» notes the See Change Strategy study.

If the US population remained constant over that time period, the researchers calculate, medical marijuana laws could be linked to 1.1 million additional cannabis users and 500,000 extra people with cannabis use disorder nationwide.

Canopy's reported that its number of registered medical marijuana customers shot up from more than 24,000 clients at the end of Sept. 2016, to over 63,000 at Sept. 30 of this year.

The bill seeks to remove marijuana from the federal Controlled Substances Act and resolve the existing conflict between federal and state laws over medical or recreational use of the drug.

however obama simply laughs off questions about marijuana helping the economy when you can be d@mn sure it would generate a lot of revenue, not only from the medical and recreational sale but from the over 25,000 uses the plant has.

A truck driver is suing Medical Marijuana Inc. over a product he used to alleviate hip and shoulder pain.

New York State currently provides a medical marijuana program for people with certain qualifying illnesses, but there has been renewed discussion over legalizing adult recreational use in recent years as states like Colorado and Washington pave the way.

Brooklyn Daily article on Brooklyn being passed over for a medical marijuana license, quoting BP Adams

Support is growing in the state Legislature for a full - scale legalization of medical marijuana, an issue that likely will be among a handful of battles in the Capitol over the next few months.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a radio interview on Monday said his concerns over a bill that would allow for medical marijuana stem from the fear that if done wrong, such a system would create «havoc» and a «public health disaster.»

Independent Democratic Conference Sen. Diane Savino in a radio interview on Monday called Gov. Andrew Cuomo's concerns over allowing a medical marijuana program inconsistent and complained that proposed bill language from his office hasn't been made available.

Sponsors of a medical marijuana bill continued to negotiate with Gov. Andrew Cuomo over the governor's objections to many of the measure's provisions, but say they are hopeful that a deal can be reached in the next couple of days.

The debate over legalization of medical marijuana could become one of the high profile issues lawmakers tackle.

But since medical marijuana went on the market in New York State a little over a year ago, just over 14,000 patients have enrolled to buy the drug at one of the 20 dispensaries scattered around the state.

Despite Cuomo's reservations, the medical marijuana bill was moved out of the Senate Finance Committee over Chairman John DeFrancisco's objections.

As the state finalizes the medical marijuana program's draft regulations, advocates are making a final effort to call attention to their concerns over accessibility and affordability before the regulations are approved in the coming weeks and businesses begin submitting applications.

Though the stalemate over the NYC rent laws has prevented lawmakers from reaching a so called «Big Ugly» deal at the Capitol, plenty of lower - level bills are getting passed — including a measure that would expedite access to medical marijuana for a select group of extremely sick children in New York.

«I have seen too much suffering — suffering that can only be alleviated by medical marijuana,» Grisanti said in a statement released over night.

Lawmakers in the Senate and Assembly over the weekend reached an agreement that would reconcile the different measures for medical marijuana.

She angered medical marijuana activists and major Democratic donors over this and her comparisons of medical marijuana dispensaries to «pill mills», which over-prescribe and over-dispense painkillers to patients with dubious symptoms.

Toxicology tests found marijuana, cocaine, methadone and doxylamine, a drug found in over the counter sleep aids, in his system but the medical examiner found the substances were «noncontributory» to his death.

New York over the last year has sought to expand its fledgling medical marijuana program by allowing nurse practitioners and physician assistance to participate and expanded the number of illnesses to qualify for the drug.

Savino shot back, telling reporters that Cuomo's concern over smoking is «disingenuous» because he is pushing a pilot program that would allow patients to smoke marijuana as part of a medical study.

The bill also limits who can smoke medical marijuana, limiting smoking to patients over age 21.

The debate over the legalization of medical marijuana is still a «smoking» issue.

Those with specific medical conditions and who are over age 21 could smoke marijuana, although others might ingest an oil derived from the plant.

Sponsors of a medical marijuana bill continued to negotiate with Governor Cuomo over the Governor's objections to many of the measure's provisions, but say they are hopeful that a deal can be reached in the next couple of days.

With data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Fatality Analysis Reporting System covering 1994 to 2011, the researchers analyzed fatal motor vehicle crashes in Colorado and in the 34 states that did not have medical marijuana laws, comparing changes over time in the proportion of drivers who were marijuana - positive and alcohol - impaired.

Choo continued, «This adds to a growing body of literature published over the past three years that is remarkably consistent in demonstrating that state medical marijuana policies do not have a downstream effect on adolescent drug use, as we feared they might.»

In this study, Dr Deborah Hasin, Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA and colleagues examined the relationship between the legalisation of medical marijuana and adolescent marijuana use by analysing national «Monitoring the Future» survey data * from over one million students in the 8th, 10th, and 12th grades (aged 13 - 18) between 1991 and 2014 — a period when 21 contiguous states passed laws allowing marijuana use for medical puMedical Center, New York, USA and colleagues examined the relationship between the legalisation of medical marijuana and adolescent marijuana use by analysing national «Monitoring the Future» survey data * from over one million students in the 8th, 10th, and 12th grades (aged 13 - 18) between 1991 and 2014 — a period when 21 contiguous states passed laws allowing marijuana use for medical pumedical marijuana and adolescent marijuana use by analysing national «Monitoring the Future» survey data * from over one million students in the 8th, 10th, and 12th grades (aged 13 - 18) between 1991 and 2014 — a period when 21 contiguous states passed laws allowing marijuana use for medical pumedical purposes.

Although those studies show a correlation over time between the passage of medical marijuana laws and opioid overdose death rates, they do not provide any evidence that the laws caused the reduction in deaths.

Additional results of the study show that the relationship between lower opioid overdose deaths and medical marijuana laws strengthened over time; deaths were nearly 20 percent lower in the first year after a state's law was implemented, and 33.7 percent lower five years after implementation.

Over the last 17 years, 20 states and Washington, D.C. have enacted legislation, and four more states have legislation pending, to decriminalize marijuana for medical use.

As for the safety of medical marijuana as an opioid alternative, one of the most extensive reports to date was published late last year in the Journal of Pain and followed about 200 patients using cannabis for chronic pain over 12 months.

During the first survey, 22 percent of the students reported seeing at least one advertisement for medical marijuana over the past three months and the rate jumped to 30 percent the following year.

Dr. Rachna Patel has been practicing in the area of medical marijuana for over half - a-decade.

(There's a medical marijuana munchies interlude that feels like it was ported over from a geriatric Judd Apatow production.)

Medical marijuana is a big potential area of growth, along with specialty products that cross over into the bigger food and beverage territory.

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She identified herself as a medical marijuana patient when the officer who pulled her over indicated that he smelled marijuana.

A Denver medical marijuana patient has been acquitted by a jury of a marijuana - related DUI after being pulled over for having an expired license plate tag — not for unsafe driving.

a. elevated liver enzymes b. positive alcohol marker c. driving under the influence charge d. family / friends» concern over drinking habits e. blackouts f. withdrawal seizures g. medical complications related to alcohol (heart, etc.) h. use of other substances such as marijuana or cocaine