Legalizing weed is the right move for New York, the state’s health department says The state of New York is weighing whether it should legalize marijuana — and a new report comes down hard in favor of the move, Bloomberg reports. Governor Andrew Cuomo asked for the report in January 2018, and ...

What Medical Marijuana Is, and Is Not, Good For In 2016, I was asked by Governor John Kasich to become an academic research member of Ohio’s Medical Marijuana Advisory Committee. Ohio’s statute allows physicians to recommend the use of medical marijuana to people suffering with twenty-one differ...

Marijuana Use Among Adults 50 Years or Older in the 21st Century Is Rising The older adult population in the United States will dramatically increase in the upcoming decades. By 2050, the population 65 years or older will increase to an estimated 83.7 million people (Colby & Ortman, 2014; Ortma...

The United States’ Patent on Marijuana – Cannabinoids As Antioxidants And Neuroprotectants Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxi...

Want A Medical Marijuana Card? Despite COVID-19, You Need To Meet In-Person With A Doctor Michigan patients seeking medical marijuana cards still need to meet in-person with a doctor, despite the threat of transmitting the novel coronavirus.  The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted physicians across t...

The Budtender Will See You Now Doctors greenlight patients for medical weed, but it’s often “budtenders” and “marijuana consultants” who guide them through the lotions, gummies and smokable strains at dispensaries, creating a whole new wave of gaps in health records and patient-physician c...

Pennsylvania Governor Calls For State To Legalize Marijuana, Citing Pandemic Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf is asking state legislators to legalize recreational marijuana, saying the government could use the tax revenue to support small businesses and to fund restorative justice programs. The governor&#...