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Americans for Safe Access, the nation’s largest member-based medical cannabis advocacy organization, held a webinar discussing the recent recommendation made by the Department of Health and Human Services to reschedule cannabis.

The Knowns and Unknowns: Americans for Safe Access Discusses Cannabis Scheduling and its Potential Impacts on Patients

Madeline Colli is the Associate Editor for Cannabis Patient Care and Cannabis Science and Technology magazines at MJH Life Sciences.

On Wednesday, August 30th, the Department of Health and Human Services made its recommendation to the Drug Enforcement Agency to classify cannabis as a Schedule III drug, paving the way for reform, industry expansion, and research opportunities.

Shifting Tides: US Department of Health and Human Services Recommends Cannabis Rescheduling from Schedule I to Schedule III

A judge in Pinellas County, Florida suggested to a 21-year-old defendant to look into Xanax to treat her anxiety instead of medical cannabis.

Judge Suggests Xanax Instead of Medical Cannabis to Treat Defendant’s Anxiety

If approved, the newly licensed facilities will have 120 days to open their doors. More applications are anticipated in the future.

First Dispensary Licenses Issued in Georgia Eight Years after Medical Cannabis Was Legalized in the State

The legislature of Hawaii this week approved a non-binding resolution encouraging the governor to create a clemency program for prior cannabis convictions.

Hawaii Governor Urged to Create Cannabis Clemency Program

Bipartisan legislation was recently reintroduced to remove barriers preventing veterans accessing medical cannabis as recommended by health care providers at the VA.

Veterans Equal Access Act Introduced to Allow Veterans Affairs Doctors to Recommend Medical Cannabis

In late March the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled that workers’ compensation must cover the cost of medical cannabis for treatment of injuries suffered on the job. 

Pennsylvania Court Rules Workers’ Compensation for Medical Cannabis is Not Illegal

A civil lawsuit filed in Arkansas by a medical cannabis patient alleges that three cannabis growers and one testing laboratory inflated the amount of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in numerous cannabis products.

Civil Lawsuit Accuses Arkansas' Largest Cannabis Testing Laboratory of Conspiring with Cultivators to Inflate THC Levels

 For years, Congress and various veterans' advocates have been working to get Veterans Affairs to drop the obstacles blocking medical cannabis use for veterans. Now real progress is at hand and we speak with Congressman Earl Blumenauer on the work he’s been doing as well as updates on the current state of legislation related to veteran access to medical cannabis.

Bipartisan Support Steps in to Help Veterans’ Access to Medical Cannabis

Brittany Griner had been arrested in Moscow, Russia and sentenced to prison for cannabis possession, which is illegal in Russia.