With patient rolls slowly ticking up and state regulators revamping calculations for the 90-day supply purchase limits in April, average weekly sales of medical marijuana in Ohio are trending up. The Ohio marijuana industry is still operating short of its potential, though. While 51 of 57 provisionally licensed dispensaries... Read more
The state has licensed its first testing lab to better regulate and improve the safety of medical-marijuana products sold at the state’s three dispensaries and grown as well by state-licensed cultivators. Green Peaks Analytical, of Warwick, will be the first licensed third-party business to sample and test those products... Read more
Many of the 55 or so state-licensed cultivators who now grow medical marijuana for the three existing dispensaries have their eye on winning one of the licenses. The state Department of Business Regulation will begin accepting applications Friday from businesses hoping to win a license to operate one of... Read more
You are here: Home / Policy & Legal / Idaho / Idaho group pushing for medical marijuana offers state ultimatum, threatens lawsuit July 16, 2020 by AggregatedNews Leave a Comment An Idaho group working on a November initiative to legalize medical marijuana has threatened to sue the state later... Read more
Ben Emerson had never tried cannabis edibles before his birthday in April. He was raised in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, which he left five years ago, and marijuana was “this thing that I had never really even thought that I was allowed to do,” he said. “And then I’m... Read more
The coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on the state’s economy, but those in the medical marijuana industry say the virus legitimized the fledgling program in Ohio. The medical marijuana program, which is run by the Ohio Board of Pharmacy and the Commerce Department, was fully functional in April 2019.... Read more
Ohio’s list of medical marijuana conditions grew by one on Wednesday. But advocates of adding anxiety and autism spectrum disorder to the list of treatable conditions were left disappointed. The Ohio State Medical Board approved adding cachexia, a wasting syndrome marked by severe weight loss, to the 21 conditions... Read more
Nearly a year after medical marijuana went from seed to shelves at nine pharmacies in Louisiana, there is a second player in a market that’s about to get a larger pool of patients suffering from a wide-open range of medical conditions. Southern University medical marijuana licensee Ilera Holistic Healthcare... Read more
The Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension Center, part of the Southern University System, together with Ilera Holistic Healthcare (Ilera Holistic), on Wednesday became the nation’s first historically Black university (HBCU) to launch its own THC medical cannabis products. The university and Ilera share one of two cannabis licenses... Read more
June 30, 2020 by AggregatedNews Leave a Comment Other reviews show how cannabis also delivers a mental boost for athletes. Studies have shown training with marijuana increases focus and motivation in the gym. But it can also allow professionals and amateurs alike to reduce anxiety, depression, and tension in competition,... Read more
