The enactment of statewide medicinal cannabis laws is associated with a quantifiable decline in the use of traditional prescription drugs.
Month: July 2016
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Arkansas voters will decide this November on a statewide initiative to permit physician-authorized patients to possess and cultivate cannabis.
Regulators at the US Food and Drug Administration for the first time have approved the prescription of a liquid form of dronabinol (synthetic THC), to be marketed under the trade name Syndros.
A bipartisan coalition of House and Senate lawmakers have proposed legislation, the Medical Marijuana Research Act of 2016 and the Marijuana Effective Drug Studies Act, to facilitate and accelerate clinical investigations into the safety and efficacy of cannabis.
Eight percent of defendants sentenced to federal prison in 2015 were convicted of violating marijuana laws.
IL: Governor Bruce Rauner has signed legislation to expand and extend the state’s medical marijuana program.