Jeremy Miller proudly talks about last weekend's first ever cannabis farmers' market. The director of Sacred Plant Medicine Co-op says he came up with the idea after listening to his customers.

"We have patients come in all the time with extra medicine and they don't know what to do with it, so this in an outlet for that extra medicine because the state only allows them to carry 24 ounces," said Miller.

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Fast 40 Jahre lang hat sich die Wissenschaft gescheut, die therapeutischen Möglichkeiten illegaler Drogen wie Cannabis oder LSD gezielt zu erforschen. Nun haben neue Erkenntnisse aus Tierversuchen und Fortschritte bei Verfahren zur Darstellung von Vorgängen im Gehirn neue Projekte entstehen lassen.

Die Folge könnte sein, dass die Regierungen aufgefordert werden, Finanzierung und Spielregeln für derartige Studien neu zu überdenken, schreibt NewScientist.

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derstandard.at

The green cannabis genie is out of the bottle and now its out its out for good. With the licensing of cannabis medicine 'Sativex' being finally ratified in the UK its as good as an announcement on the BBC saying 'cannabis relieves pain' .

And whilst any talk of cannabis in the UK is likely to see you with SWAT helicopters hovering above your 2 up 2 down, for the rest of Europe and great swathes of America, its all systems go so far as medical cannabis is concerned.

cannazine.co.uk

Smoking cannabis from a pipe can significantly reduce chronic pain in patients with damaged nerves, a study suggests.

A small study of 23 people also showed improvements with sleep and anxiety.

Writing in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, the researchers said larger studies using inhaler-type devices for cannabis were needed.

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upi.com

Smokefree Innotec, Inc. (Pink Sheets:SFIO) Thomas Schroepfer, CEO, (http://www.sfio.us or http://www.realsmokefree.com) confirmed today the announcement by the Biotech company Cannabis Science /quotes/comstock/11k!cbis.e (CBIS 0.06, +0.00, +5.66%) regarding entering into a joint venture agreement to develop and market several high-tech smoke-free vaporized medical cannabis pharmaceutical products, as released by CBIS on August 13. He stated, "Pursuant to the joint venture, Smokefree Innotec Inc will supply its high-tech smoke-free vapor technology devices and Cannabis Science will provide all the medical cannabis extract formulations."

marketwatch.com

From above, the bushy green plants in backyard after backyard resemble English topiary gardens, neat and tidy.

But a closer look at the gardens hidden from passersby behind tall fences tell a different story: cannabis crops mushrooming under the umbrella of the 1998 Oregon Medical Marijuana Act.

mailtribune.com

After decades of marginalization, medical marijuana is gaining greater acceptance across the country and is becoming big business in states that have embraced it as a gentler, more natural medication for patients suffering from illnesses such as cancer, glaucoma and HIV.

Fourteen states, including Michigan, have legalized the drug for medicinal use, and another dozen are considering bills to start medical marijuana programs. The nation's capital could join their ranks since the District of Columbia's council in May unanimously approved legalizing and regulating the pain-soothing, appetite-inducing drug.

detnews.com

District liquor regulators will play a lead role in the city's new medical marijuana program when it debuts Jan. 1, according to draft rules issued Friday by Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D).

Under the regulations, the city health department would be responsible for registering legal marijuana users. But the licensing and oversight of the facilities that will grow and distribute medical cannabis would be handled by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board and its enforcement arm, the Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration. The prospect of having the same regulators overseeing medical marijuana and liquor stores concerns advocates who have fought to have cannabis recognized as a medical treatment, not just as a drug for recreational use.

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