Sentences with phrase «use of cannabis for»

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«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.

Without state protection, federal law makes a veterinarian discussing the medical use of cannabis for animals illegal.

Two studies investigating the use of cannabis for spasticity and three case report on use for neuropathic pain, post-traumatic stress disorder or Tourette syndrome all lacked controls or blinding, conferring a high risk of biased findings.

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(To qualify to «Spend Christmas Vacation With Ron Paul,» applicants had to fill out an online questionnaire agreeing or disagreeing with statements like «after a complete audit of the Federal Reserve, the Fed should be abolished,» and «cannabis should be legalized for recreational use.»)

«Adult use» is the marijuana industry's preferred euphemism for legal recreational use of cannabis, weed, pot — call it what you like.

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.»

Aside from technology, the company is also expected to benefit from a contract it landed with the Ontario government, which said earlier this week that it would use Shopify's e-commerce platform for cannabis sales online and in stores as part of its plan to be the province's sole distributor of legal recreational marijuana.

Sun Life will also conduct periodic reviews of the growing body of clinical research supporting the use of medical cannabis for other conditions, and update its criteria if necessary, the company said in a document updating their client base of 22,300 plan sponsors.

Marijuana is illegal under federal law, but so far eight states and the District of Columbia have legalized the drug for recreational use, while 28 states in total have legalized medical cannabis.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has made no secret of his contempt for marijuana use, and his Department of Justice is on the verge of releasing a report that many in the burgeoning legal cannabis industry fear will propose prosecuting people engaging in marijuana sales — even if they are in states that have legalized the drug locally.

Brendan Kennedy, the cofounder of Privateer Holdings, which owns various marijuana companies like Marley Natural and Canadian pharmaceutical - grade cannabis producer Tilray, explains how Tilray is already exporting marijuana to countries like Croatia and Australia for use in clinical trials.

Researchers found that illegal use of marijuana and rates of cannabis use disorder rose to a greater extent in US states that adopted laws legalizing marijuana for medical purposes than in states that didn't adopt such laws.

Though marijuana is growing ever more popular throughout the U.S. as several states have legalized medicinal and recreational use of the drug, the tight restrictions on growing and selling cannabis products has been a barrier for entrepreneurs looking to enter the market.

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 case in Nova Scotia provides insight into how the use of medical cannabis is sometimes still perceived as an unconventional treatment despite having been legal in Canada for almost two decades.

After a solid majority of California voters legalized adult - use cannabis last November, the onus has shifted to California cities and counties to pass rules for how and where retail marijuana stores and other cannabis businesses would be allowed to operate.

The bast fibers lead to the coining of the word, «canvas», which was derived from cannabis, leading it's use for thousands of years in clothing, ropes, bags, ect.

** Canada's No. 2 marijuana producer Aurora Cannabis Inc has agreed to buy smaller rival CanniMed Therapeutics Inc for C$ 1.1 billion ($ 852 million) as companies jostle to benefit from the country's legalization of recreational marijuana use later this year.

After my trip to San Francisco, an important rallying point for the 1960s counterculture movement, it only seems fitting that I traveled to Colorado, one of the first states to legalize cannabis for recreational use.

According to national pollster Gallup, 64 % of respondents in its Oct. 2017 survey favored the idea of legalizing marijuana in the United States, which compares to just 25 % who felt the same way in 1995, the year before California became the first state to legalize medical cannabis for compassionate - use patients.

Carella founded the San Francisco - based company when cannabis was first legalized for medicinal use in the city and dispensaries needed more choices of edibles.

Its signature product, «More...» is cold - pressed juice that is all - natural, all - raw, organic, unpasteurized, premium juice infused with healthy levels of cannabis for medical use.

Consumption of alcoholic drinks has been largely static in recent years whereas the use of cannabis is growing and will continue to expand, offering a commercial opportunity for the alcohol industry in North America, according to Euromonitor analysts.

In that light, sports leagues» tests for cannabis can look somewhat like a charade: After speaking with several current and former athletes, it became clear that many of them weren't really scared of getting caught for cannabis use, because they believed the people who mandate the testing didn't really want to catch them.

Listen, if they only knew, they would be in favor of something that was non-toxic and non-addictive for athletes to use, and it's cannabis.»

As you'll see in this timeline, over the last few decades athletes were all too often punished by teams, leagues and the law for the use of cannabis.

«Smoking» in public health debates is usually used as a by - word for tobacco consumption, with cannabis treated separately as part of the drugs debate.

From the point of view of cannabis use, only 5.1 % of young adults have used the drug in the last year, according to the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, compared to 11.3 % in the UK.

Those same MPs who have for decades supported the Misuse of Drugs Act, that piece of arcane and ineffective legislation which outlaws the more «traditional» drugs - cannabis, cocaine, heroin, MDMA, etc - in every sense from personal use and possession all the way up to production, are now suddenly concerned with criminalising users.

Twenty - one years after it was legalised for medical use, and after a number of failed attempts to expand that arrangement, California is now home to the world's largest cannabis market.

However, rather than implying a swift liberalisation of illicit drugs, Sefatian suggested another direction: re-introducing the cultivation of plants such as poppy and cannabis under state supervision; legalisation of cannabis and opium use under specific circumstances outlined by ad hoc laws, for instance, only in private places and for opium — as he told me — only for people above a certain age.

The last time the FDP was part of a coalition (2009 - 2013), they vowed beforehand to «push for allowing the medical use of cannabis to ameliorate pain» (p. 21).

That is a quango that they appoint and in which one of our greatest advocates for the safety of cannabis and its medicinal use, Professor Les Iversen, has been bullied, intimidated and terrorised into silence.

As a Home Office minister calls for medicinal cannabis use to be made legal, we give the inside story on a campaign that may be on the verge of victory

Clear, a political party which campaigns for the legalised use of medicinal cannabis, is following the advert with a crowdfunding appeal seeking to raise money for a longer campaign.

With suitable scepticism over the use of cannabis falling we must also look at the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) figures for cannabis farms which has seen a 15 % increase in domestic farms with 3,032 in 2008 compared to 7,865 in 2011.

The following headlines splashed across the Mail: «The price of going soft on cannabis: Labour's experiment «pushed up hard drug use and crime», and the Telegraph: «Cannabis use soared by a quarter after Class C downgrade, study finds», and» «Softly softly» cannabis scheme drove up hospital admissions for hard drugs, studycannabis: Labour's experiment «pushed up hard drug use and crime», and the Telegraph: «Cannabis use soared by a quarter after Class C downgrade, study finds», and» «Softly softly» cannabis scheme drove up hospital admissions for hard drugs, studyCannabis use soared by a quarter after Class C downgrade, study finds», and» «Softly softly» cannabis scheme drove up hospital admissions for hard drugs, studycannabis scheme drove up hospital admissions for hard drugs, study».

Is it possible that the act of committing a crime in using cannabis reinforces an identity of outlaw and delinquent in young people, making it more like for them to develop other antisocial behaviours?

But a 2007 biography of the Tory leader by James Hanning and Francis Elliott revealed that he was disciplined for using cannabis while he was at Eton.

The main drugs used in prison were always cannabis and heroin, both of which were smoked (there's too much paraphernalia involved in injecting heroin for it to be viable in prison).

The government created a bit of a problem for itself when it allowed GW Pharmaceuticals to grow cannabis under license in order to produce Sativex - a cannabis tincture used to treat spasticity in multiple sclerosis patients.

Former Labour minister Vera Baird, now an elected police commissioner, has stripped all references to policing drugs out of her plans for the Northumbria force, and Lib Dem Sarah Brown this week urged Cambridge councillors that arresting cannabis smokers was not «a good use of resources».

In addition to criminalizing personal drug use, cannabis prohibition deprives society of the industrial benefits of hemp at a time when we must make use of every ecologically responsible resource to provide materials and energy in the face of looming environmental crises,» said Hawkins, who is seeking the Green Party nomination for Governor.

Because millions of British citizens regularly use and enjoy cannabis with no ill effects and many find it of enormous therapeutic benefit for conditions such as chronic pain, MS and Crohn's disease.

Simultaneously, the Home Office has granted a unique monopoly licence to GW Pharmaceuticals to grow 20 tonnes of cannabis a year for medicinal use.

In November 2012, voters in Colorado and Washington passed landmark measures to legalize the production and sale of cannabis for social use — a first not only in the United States but also the world.

Medical cannabis and synthetic marijuana extracts should not be used for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea, according to a position statement from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM).

After early animal studies demonstrated that the synthetic cannabis extract dronabinol improved respiratory stability, recent studies in humans have explored the potential use of dronabinol as an alternative treatment for sleep apnea.