ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —The New Mexico medical cannabis advisory board will meet Friday in Santa Fe to consider adding ADHD to list of aliments approved for medical marijuana use.

Medical marijuana is approved to treat several diseases in New Mexico. The advisory board meets only twice a year.

People with ADHD, a brain disease, lack the receptors that give them the ability to concentrate. Without those receptors, they struggle to focus.

KOAT medical expert Dr. Barry Ramo said he can see why some might think medical marijuana could help, but the solution might not be that simple.

Germany's government has plans to set up a pharmaceutical agency to regulate the cultivation of cannabis for medicinal purposes, according to a media report. Such a step could make the drug more accessible to ill people.

A so-called cannabis agency has been proposed in draft legislation put forward by the federal health ministry, the "Welt am Sonntag" newspaper reported on Sunday.

The bill was reportedly awaiting approval from the office of Chancellor Angela Merkel. As outlined in the draft, the new state-owned body would be tasked with regulating the price of medicinal hemp and making sure the drug was grown and sold purely for pharmaceutical purposes. Patients in need of pain relief would not be allowed to grow their own cannabis plants.

SANTIAGO, Chile - The Chilean government approved the largest plantation in Latin America, nearly 7000 seeds of marijuana for medicinal use. The measure will benefit a total of 4,000 cancer patients, with refractory epilepsy, those who resist anticonvulsants, or who suffer chronic pain.
  
Permission was granted by the State Agricultural and Livestock Service (SAG) of the Maule, in the center of the country.
  
In Chile, the third largest consumer of marijuana in the region, cultivation, sale and transportation of marijuana is still prohibited by a strict law that has not changed and infringement means heavy prison sentences.
  

Cannabis should be on prescription soon - at least for pain patients. This emerges from a bill of the Federal Health Ministry, which is to audit the Federal Chancellery. As the "Welt am Sonntag" reported to regulate the cultivation and trafficking of cannabis for pain therapy in Germany, a State cannabis agency.

To avoid supply bottlenecks from the Netherlands, marijuana is to be produced in the state. Already at the beginning of the Drug Commissioner of the Federal Government, Marlene Mortler had demanded from the CSU, dispense the drug on prescription to chronically ill patients in pain. Cultivation for themselves remains still prohibited to patients.

In a draft bill, the health ministry recommends regulating the drug's cultivation and distribution by the state, German media reports

The GTA’s first medical marijuana consultation centre opened in Etobicoke on Thursday. Better by Tweed is located on Dundas St. W, near Kennedy Rd., and was established by Canadian medical marijuana supply company Tweed Marijuana Inc.

The Toronto Sun recently spoke with its chairman and CEO Bruce Linton.

Q: What does Better by Tweed do?

A: “They allow people who have any array of questions on medical access to marijuana: How do I get it? How do I use the product if I get it? They provide point of contact to the community. And the people who work in Better By Tweed locations answer those questions face to face. And on the occasions when there is no client present, they are part of a call queue assisting (people) on the phone.”

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Excerpt from Q&A, October 26, 2015.

Susan Humphreys likes to say she lives a strange life.

Picture frames are glued to the walls of her Bear home. The refrigerator has a lock.

The precautions were for her son, Scott, who suffered from autism and was extremely aggressive. Scott was diagnosed with Pica as well, a persistent eating condition causing people to almost unconsciously eat non-food items such as nails and dirt.

By the time he reached 41 Scott had used over 20 antipsychotic medications and had three major surgeries to remove items he had eaten from his body.

Her son was running out of medicinal options to try, Humphreys said, so she decided to look into a more natural approach: medical marijuana.

Did you happen to catch the one question that got passed from speak er to speaker like a lit joint during the first Democratic presidential debate? “If elected president, would you legalize medical marijuana?” Talk about peer pressure. Every candidate, even those who claim never to have smoked pot, drew a deep breath before exhaling a clear-headed position. The short answer was a repetitious yes.

But hold on just one hemp-picking moment. Brushing partisan politics aside, let's imagine medical marijuana being prescribed to patients as a legitimate treatment option. Will all hell break loose at CVS and Express Scripts, like some maniacal scene straight out of Reefer Madness? Not likely, according to those in the know.

Almost a year-and-a-half since Gov. Rick Scott and state lawmakers legalized a form of medical marijuana, the latest deadline for making it available to Floridians has gone up in smoke.

Again.