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German Adult-Use to Revolutionize Cannabis Inventory Strategies

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03
Apr

As the dust settled on the 2021 federal election in Germany, excitement among cannabis enthusiasts erupted — with good reason. Before the election late last year, members of what would become the governing coalition expressed a desire to legalize cannabis in Germany. Many of them spoke at the International Business Conference in Berlin just weeks before the […]

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Argentina Creates a National Agency for Cannabis

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02
Apr

In the context of the law sanctioned last May through which the regulatory framework is created to start an industrial process with the cannabis plant in Argentina, finally this Monday the national government created the Regulatory Agency for the Hemp Industry and the Medicinal Cannabis (ARICCAME), the state body whose main task will be to convert the […]

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Cannabis Smoke Not Associated With Impaired Lung Function

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02
Apr

Cannabis opponents do their best to try to lump cannabis smoke and tobacco smoke into the same category, and to be fair, it’s something that many people accept unless they have looked at the body of research on the topic. Anyone that has researched cannabis smoke versus tobacco smoke knows that they are not the […]

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Will Amsterdam’s New Cannabis Smoking Ban Become a Trend?

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31
Mar

Late last year New Zealand passed the world’s first ban on tobacco cigarette sales, prohibiting retailers from selling cigarettes to anyone born on or after January 1, 2009. Obviously, some people will still be able to purchase cigarettes in New Zealand, but eventually the ban will apply to everyone as the nation’s population ages. The […]

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Cannabis Can Help Treat Headache Disorders

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30
Mar

Anyone that has experienced a headache knows that it is no fun at all. A headache is a painful sensation in any part of a person’s head, with pain ranging from minor to severe. According to the Mayo Clinic, “Chemical activity in your brain, the nerves or blood vessels surrounding your skull, or the muscles of […]

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Correlation With Cannabis Use and Lower Blood Pressure

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28
Mar

A French researcher has concluded that both current and lifetime cannabis use are associated with lower blood pressure levels after assessing the relationship between cannabis use and blood pressure among a population-based cohort of over 91,000 subjects. The research findings were recently published in the journal Nature: Scientific Reports. The investigator reported: “In adjusted covariates models, […]

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Limited Adult-Use Cannabis Sales Project Moves Forward in Zurich

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28
Mar

Switzerland’s experiment with adult-use cannabis pilot programs is reportedly expanding, with Zurich’s city government and the Zurich University Hospital indicating today that the Federal Office of Public Health has given the ‘greenlight’ for the local pilot program to proceed later this year. A cannabis pilot program is, in theory, designed to permit limited local cannabis […]

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THC-Dominant Extracts Reduce Alzheimer’s-Induced Agitation

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28
Mar

The cannabis plant may be able to help reduce Alzheimer’s-induced agitation according to a new study out of Italy. As of 2012, researchers estimated that as many as 24 million people globally were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and that the number of people diagnosed with the condition would double every 20 years for the foreseeable future. “Alzheimer […]

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Tourette Syndrome Patients Improve Following Cannabis Therapy

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27
Mar

Global statisticians estimate that around 0.5-1% of the planet’s population has been diagnosed with some level of Tourette Syndrome, although the true diagnosis rate of people suffering from the condition could be larger due to gaps in identification and treatment in some parts of the globe. According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, “Tourette […]

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Spain to Quadruple Legal Medical Cannabis Production This Year

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27
Mar

Late last month lawmakers in Spain considered a cannabis reform measure, and while the measure did not pass, Spain’s emerging legal cannabis industry will undergo a fairly substantial expansion this year regardless. The Spanish Medicines Agency recently notified the International Narcotics Control Board that it plans to (roughly) quadruple the amount of legal medical cannabis […]

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