Pharmacies initially showed some disagreement and refusal to implement the sale of this marijuana in their premises (El Observador)

Español Uruguay will finally be creating a registry for consumers who want to buy marijuana in pharmacies.

The government reported the amount of marijuana that is produced for sale in pharmacies is enough for distribution; however, according to experts and surveys of domestic consumers, it won’t actually cover the country’s demand.

Men have greater pain relief than women after smoking marijuana, new research reveals.

The study - the first to test this theory in humans - comes as more and more Americans turn to the drug to ease pain, driving a national legalization movement.

Medical professionals have welcomed the research as proof that the increasingly-political research field must focus on both genders to provide a detailed understanding of cannabis and its effects. 

The study - the first to test this theory in humans - found men feel less pain after smoking

'These findings come at a time when more people, including women, are turning to the use of medical cannabis for pain relief,' said Ziva Cooper, PhD, associate professor of clinical neurobiology (in psychiatry) at CUMC. 

Fabrizio Pellegrini is a 47-year-old street artist, pianist, and painter from Chieti, a small town central Italy’s Abruzzi region. For years he’s treated his fibromyalgia with cannabis and yoga. But while medical cannabis has been legal in Italy since 2007, Pellegrini and thousands like him are still suffering under political indifference. The artist’s case has garnered an unprecedented wave of solidarity and support — and it could mark a turning point for the country.

Cannabis is often credited as being the worst gateway drug into stronger things, but a new study has shown that alcohol is much worse.

Based on a collection of charts on decades of drug use in the United States – shown off on the website of Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, it has now been confirmed that cannabis has perhaps been getting some rather unfair labelling.

The Brian C Bennett Drug charts have traced the pattern of use of the drug for more than 40 years now, which has recently been fronted by William Martin, director of the Baker Institute’s Drug Policy Program.

Earlier this year, Ohio Governor and former Republican presidential candidate John Kasich signed a bill into law that authorized state physicians to prescribe medicinal marijuana to patients affected by a number of health conditions. Ohio has already began looking at ways to revolutionize the way money is transacted in the cannabis industry, as the state is looking to implement a “closed-loop” payment system that would make it easier to track payments between patients and business owners.

Four Colorado doctors accused of over-recommending high plant counts for medical marijuana patients have had their suspensions re-instated, after a judge reversed course and tossed out their lawsuit.

The decision means the doctors will go through with administrative hearings in the hopes of having their suspensions lifted. An attorney for the doctors says an appeal of the lawsuit’s dismissal is also likely.

Australian researchers have launched a study into whether the backyard use of cannabis-based extracts really does help children with severe epilepsy.

Families have reported dramatic benefits with small doses of oils and liquid extracts derived from cannabis. These are often taken on top of conventional antiepileptic drugs.

Researchers at the Lambert Initiative, in partnership with Epilepsy Action Australia, today launched the PELICAN study (Paediatric Epilepsy Lambert Initiative Cannabinoid Analysis).

Carterton mother Tracy Yeats hopes the government will take notice of a survey which shows overwhelming support for the legalisation and decriminalisation of cannabis for medicinal use.

Mrs Yeats’ daughter Grace, 14, has shown significant improvements in her health since she began taking Sativex, a cannabis based spray, eight months ago.

She has a rare condition, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, or Adem, which robbed her of speech and movement four years ago.

The then ten-year-old Saint Mary’s schoolgirl was left cognitively unimpaired but unable to walk, talk, eat or sit.

Those who support the nationwide legalization of marijuana for therapeutic use, were disappointed by the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) recent failure to reclassify marijuana's status from that of a Schedule I drug to another more appropriate classification.

Since 23 states have now legalized marijuana for medical use, and since numerous studies have confirmed its value as medicine and have proven that it is safe, it seemed the logical next step to begin relaxing the laws at the federal level.

The federal government cannot pay to prosecute state-sanctioned marijuana use, the federal court said

The Department of Justice cannot spend money to prosecute people who violate federal drug laws but are in compliance with state medical marijuana laws, a federal court ruled on Tuesday. The ruling prevents federal law enforcement from funding prosecution of anyone who obeys a state’s medical marijuana laws.