Florida's Health Department approved Knox Medical to be the fourth organization in the state to distribute low-THC medical cannabis.  The announcement came less than a month before the full legalization of medical marijuana in the state becomes effective. 

Knox Medical Will Do In-Home Delivery Of Medical Marijuana

Knox Medical scored the highest out of all the nurseries that applied for permission to cultivate, process and dispense medical cannabis.  As a result, they were approved to dispense medical pot, and is set to begin in-home deliveries next week. 

President-elect Donald Trump will soon announce the selection of retired Marine Gen. John F. Kelly to lead the Department of Homeland Security, The Washington Post has confirmed.

Billy Caldwell has spent a large chunk of his life being, in effect, a refugee. Forced to leave home because of a lack of services to effectively treat his condition. At just 11 years old this fighter from Castlederg, Co Tyrone has a severe life threatening form of epilepsy called intractable epilepsy. He is also a status epileptic.

A Washington cannabis business group is starting a fund to help patients defray the cost of medical marijuana.

The Washington CannaBusiness Association said Tuesday that the new charitable effort will expand patient access to medical marijuana.

Marijuana’s illegal status at the federal level can present challenges to patients seeking the assistance they can get with so many other medicines.

“People don’t have access to the same kinds of opportunities to get assistance for their medicine,” said WACA Executive Director Vicki Christophersen.

“We heard, and have been hearing from patients - legitimate patients who have an authorization - there are people having a difficult time accessing their medications.”

Cancer patients will have the chance to join a world-first medical marijuana trial at Orange Health Service.

Currently, half of cancer patients treated with chemotherapy suffer significant nausea and more than a third experience vomiting.

Marijuana, or cannabis will be compared to anti-nausea medications.

Oncologist Rob Zielinski said the trial involved a new cannabis compound and would be administered through a tablet.

To be eligible, patients have to suffer nausea from chemotherapy.

“The actual (chemotherapy) drugs we choose to use have varying degrees, or severity of nausea,” Dr Zielinski said.

“Certain drugs cause nausea 100 per cent of the time.”

Especially if you use it every day.

If you thought weed was helping you chill out, you might want to listen up. New research suggests it might actually have the opposite effect on your sleep. 

A new study found that people who reported being regular marijuana users were nearly twice as likely to report having sleep problems as people who only occasionally light up or don’t smoke at all.

Steve Kerr has a bad back. The condition caused him so much physical pain that Kerr, the current head coach of the Golden State Warriors and a member of five NBA championship teams during his playing career, underwent surgery to resolve it. Complications and recovery from the procedure led to him missing the first half of the 2015-2016 regular season. He was in enough pain that he took marijuana to relieve the pain. And that has him a bit crosswise with some people in the NBA, which frowns on any use of marijuana.

On the 30th of November, politicians from the European Parliament gathered with a range of patients, activists, campaigners, entrepreneurs and scientists from the European cannabis community to discuss the future of the industry at the inaugural International Conference on Medical Cannabis.

The event was organised by the European United Left/Nordic Green Left European Parliamentary Group, led by German MEP Stefan Eck and Greek MEP Stelios Kouloglou. 

The aim of the Conference was to share knowledge about the state of legislation around the world today, and to educate regulators present about the importance of building legal, regulated cannabis markets in Europe.

A brand of medical cannabis products recently launched by television personality Montel Williams will be produced through a new partnership with BAS Research Center, a Berkeley, California-based medical cannabis manufacturing and research group.

“Montel had been looking for a licensed producer to manufacture and help formulate a number of his products,” BAS Research chief operating officer Doug Chloupek told Civilized. 

“After many meetings with Montel and [his] realizing what our abilities are in terms of the formulation and science and research component of BAS Research, he made the decision to utilize our services to manufacture his entire line of products.”