Authorized psychiatrists in Australia will be able to prescribe MDMA and psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, beginning in July. “The decision acknowledges the current lack of options for patients with specific treatment-resistant mental illnesses” said the TGA. “It means that psilocybin and MDMA can be used therapeutically in a controlled medical setting. However, patients may […]
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RMCP in New Brunswick are investigating after seven children, between 10 and 11 years old, ingested edibles at a middle school earlier this week. Five of the seven children were transported to Sackville Memorial Hospital for precautionary reasons, reports CTV News, and were later released. Hanson told CBC that charges are possible but “it depends […]
Progress toward launching a regulated medical marijuana market in Georgia has been stymied after the state’s cannabis regulator rescinded recently approved industry rules. However, the Georgia Access to Medical Cannabis Commission (GMCC) plans to revise the rules soon and try again. ADVERTISEMENT The GMCC had signed off on the rules in late January, paving the […]
Washington State lawmakers took public testimony Thursday on a bill that would, more than a decade after voters approved cannabis legalization, finally allow adults to grow the plant for themselves at home. House Bill 1614, heard by the House Committee on Regulated Substances and Gaming, would permit cultivation of up to six cannabis plants for […]
As we previously broadly summarized on December 27, 2022 (here), in late December 2022, the Office of Cannabis Management (“OCM”) released its first proposed adult-use cannabis rules and regulation for New York (the “Proposed Regulations”). The official document is 282 pages, so we won’t cover every detail. But we will highlight the big-ticket items, significant issues that […]
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British police this week reportedly uncovered thousands of cannabis plants in an abandoned tire factory in what is being called one of the largest weed busts in the area. The British newspaper The Independent reported that law enforcement in the otherwise sleepy Lincolnshire village “busted one of their largest ever cannabis factories after discovering 6,000 […]
A marijuana industry-backed campaign to put a legalization initiative before voters on the 2024 ballot has cleared its first hurdle, with enough signatures on a petition to initiate a state Supreme Court review of its language. Smart & Safe Florida filed the measure last summer, and the campaign has so far turned in 294,037 valid […]
One of the country’s most prestigious academic institutions will be home to a new research center dedicated to studying cannabis. The Yale School of Medicine announced the creation this week of “a research center to study the acute and chronic effects of cannabis and cannabinoids on neurodevelopment and mental health.” Called the “Yale Center for […]
The University of California, Davis announced this week that it is launching a new institute that aims to “advance basic knowledge about the mechanisms of psychedelics and translate it into safe and effective treatments for diseases such as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, addiction, Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, among others.” Called “the Institute for Psychedelics […]