Federal: Memo Stipulates That Cannabis Remains Off-Limits to Military Personnel, Even if Rescheduled
According to the new memo, any use of marijuana remains “punishable under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.”
Year: 2026
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“This study of patients qualified for chronic or intractable pain found almost 55 percent of patients were able to improve their life enjoyment and pain interference within four months of starting medical cannabis.”
“The present findings align with previous research demonstrating the potential benefits of cannabis-based medicinal products in ASD,” the study’s authors concluded.
“These data offer a new line of investigation in RLS treatment, which can have a major clinical impact in this population.”
Weighted for their populations, in 2025 Black people were 6.4 times more likely as white people to be arrested for marijuana crimes in California.
According to the Secretary of State’s office, initiative proponents failed “to submit the required number of valid petition signatures, both in total number of signatures and required legislative districts.”
Forty-two percent of respondents said that they substituted cannabis for prescription anxiolytics or antidepressants.
The most significant reductions occurred in participants who consumed higher doses of CBD (up to 600 mg/day).