Despite the fact that the majority of Americans support medical marijuana, there have been two recent incidents involving marijuana that show the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is not quite ready to embrace medical cannabis as of yet. The first incident involved a NASCAR Monster Energy Cup…
According to a recent news article from the New York Times, questions have arisen regarding the level of expertise of a medical marijuana “panel of experts” in charge of vetting dispensary applicants. The commission was established New York decided to legalize medical marijuana in 2014. Like other states, the process…
What started out as a small grassroots effort to get patients their much-needed medical cannabis has become a billion-dollar industry. While we often hear about how much money is being made in Colorado, which was among the first to legalize marijuana for recreational use, it is California that is leading…
A resident physician at Stanford Hospital, Dr. Nathaniel Morris specializes in mental health. In a recent editorial in Scientific American about the difference between the way health care providers view marijuana and the way the federal government regulates it, Morris expresses disbelief at the decision by the U.S. Drug Enforcement…
Could medical marijuana by a viable – and much safer – alternative to opioid drugs? A growing body of evidence suggests this to be true, but as a recent Scientific American article noted, scientists are having to trudge through heaps of red tape just to study it. It was two…