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Patients welcome UK’s first medical cannabis ID scheme
People who have been legally prescribed medical cannabis in the UK can now sign up for a patient ID card to prove their status. Hundreds of patients in the UK […]
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“I have to believe in something to sell it”
CBD salesman-turned entrepreneur forms market alliance.
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Gut health and CBD – study
CBD can alter the human gut, researchers have found, but they don’t yet know if these changes are beneficial or damaging to our long-term health. The human gut is a […]
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How teenage adventure sparked CBD empire
Paul Shrive can trace his journey with cannabis back to when he was 15 years old…
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From alcoholic wine to cannabinoids: one teetotaller’s journey to CBD
The founder of a cannabinoid drinks company who swapped her evening tipple for cannabis with a twist talks to Cannabis Health. When Alana Burstein, founder and president of Viv & […]
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Placebo effect in focus
Some scientists believe medical cannabis and CBD may have a placebo effect – although that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The placebo effect has long fascinated scientists. Countless studies have […]
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From cannabis sceptic to advocate
How Michele Ross, who educates people about the use of medical cannabis, started her life being very much against it.
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Quality of life boost among medical cannabis patients – study
Medicinal cannabis results in less pain, a better perception of health and fewer hospital visits, new research suggests.
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Change how we test and regulate medical cannabis, MP argues
Despite the law change in November 2018 to allow some medical cannabis products to be legally prescribed to some patients, people are still not getting access to medicinal cannabis, and this needs to change, argues Crispin Blunt, Conservative MP for Reigate.
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How Melbourne is becoming an international medical cannabis research centre
Medical cannabis was legalised in Australia in 2016, and since then it has made strides to becoming an international research centre, as Jessica Brown reports.
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Medical cannabis could help long-term effects of COVID-19, says David Nutt
Medical cannabis could play an important role in combatting the long-term health problems associated with COVID-19, says David Nutt, former government drug advisor and professor of Neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London.
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CBD consortium aims to speed route to market
A new consortium has formed to help get companies get their CBD products on the market before a looming deadline that would ban them from doing so.
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Fresh call for medical cannabis access on the NHS
A medical cannabis campaigner is urging the government to help families struggling to pay for private prescriptions during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.