Doctors are successfully using cannabis to treat a schoolboy with an ‘uncontrollable’ form of epilepsy.

Billy Caldwell, 11, from County Tyrone, Northern Ireland has been suffering frequent and life-threatening seizures for almost all his life.

But he’s gone 15 days without a fit after doctors in Los Angeles started giving him daily doses of cannabis oil to swallow.

His mother Charlotte, who flew to the US with him now hopes politicians in the UK will legalise the drug for medicinal use.

‘Billy isn’t sitting smoking joints, obviously, he gets daily syringes of the oil into his mouth – and the results speak for themselves,’ said Charlotte.

It's a sight typically seen in Royal Canadian Legion halls — veterans gathered and sharing stories. But instead, that was the scene at the opening ceremony for a new wellness centre in Headingley, Man. this weekend, which focuses on helping vets get medical marijuana.

The province's first Marijuana for Trauma centre opened on Saturday morning, the 13th such centre the company has opened in Canada.

The centre, located west of the Perimeter Highway at 4280 Portage Ave., helps veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and other conditions get access to marijuana for medicinal purposes.

"Marijuana for Trauma grew from an absolute need, a true need," said Riley McGee, the western Canada director of operations for the company.

Discussions regarding the use of marijuana as a safer pain-relief alternative have become more prevalent in the NBA since Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr acknowledged in early December he tried using it to treat chronic back pain, and former NBA All-Star Chauncey Billups spoke up on the topic Friday.

Medical marijuana is for suffering patients. That seems obvious, but there are a lot of policies in America that prevent suffering patients form using medical marijuana. Hospitals are centers for suffering people. It’s where people go to be treated and hopefully healed. Marijuana is a proven medicine, so one would think that people would be able to use marijuana in hospitals in certain forms. I don’t think that anyone would rationally think that anyone would smoke anything (marijuana included) in a hospital, but administering cannabis oil or marijuana edibles to a patient in need doesn’t seem like a big deal.

Crowds from around the globe flocked to Tel Aviv in March for the second annual CannaTech conference. The summit was aimed at attracting fledgling marijuana ventures to the country and included speakers from medicine, politics, science, agriculture, and investments.

“Everything is set up here to be the epicenter of cannabis research,” organizer Clifton Flack told Quartz.

Why medical marijuana research is blossoming in Israel.

The Israeli government's stance on medical marijuana research and the country's cultural landscape make it far friendlier to marijuana than the puritanical policies of the U.S. government.

Israel will begin the exportation of  medical marijuana abroad. The move comes after its government  approved measures in June to make medical cannabis more easily accessible to over 23,000 patients in Israel, Israel Hebrew daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Thursday.

Israel could bring in over NIS 1 billion ($264 million) annually from the exportation of medical marijuana and create thousands of jobs in agriculture in the country.

It's been an eventful year for marijuana stocks, with activity led by GW Pharmaceuticals '(NASDAQ: GWPH) and Corbus Pharmaceuticals '(NASDAQ: CRBP) clinical trial data releases and Insys Therapeutics '(NASDAQ: INSY) approval of its first cannabinoid product, Syndros.

Let's take a look back and see what the future holds for marijuana stocks.

UPDATED: The State Government has denied a medical marijuana entrepreneur's claims that Investment Attraction South Australia staff advised him to set up business in a different state.

Australian Cannabis Corporation co-founder Ben Fitzsimons posted to Facebook yesterday complaining that the State Government had “told us twice to go do business interstate”.

But a State Government spokesperson told InDaily after the publication of this article that Investment Attraction South Australia has been “working with Australian Cannabis Corporation in our stat and at no time have told them they should look interstate”.

That is by no means a definitive statement, but several new scientific studies and one in particular from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health just introduced a new science based angle. According to The Washington Post, researchers tracked fatal car crashes over 14 years in 18 states, analyzing the drugs-medical medical cannabis or opioids-found in the systems of those killed.

Another study is here to cloud up your thoughts on marijuana’s effects on sleep. Studies in years past have concluded marijuana makes it harder for people to sleep but can also facilitate sleep. A snew tudy from the University of Michigan found marijuana will probably not help you sleep, but it’s not that simple.