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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Mainers will be able to legally buy marijuana at retail shops on Oct. 9, the state announced Friday, nearly four years after residents voted to legalize marijuana for recreational use. The state Office of Marijuana Policy will issue its first recreational marijuana business licenses on Sept. 8. That will give stores…
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These days, it is pretty clear that Americans are finally ready to end federal cannabis prohibition. Eleven states and Washington, D.C., have already legalized the plant for recreational use, and more than half of the country lives in a state with some form of medical marijuana law on the books. In the latest national opinion…
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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’s call to legalize the sale and use of marijuana is part of a broader plan that Wolf says will help Pennsylvania’s economy, which…
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The number of Missourians granted medical marijuana patient cards has more than doubled from last year, but with ongoing delays because of factors such as COVID-19, many are left wondering when dispensaries will be open with products readily available. There have been 57,354 cards approved to patients since the start of the medical marijuana program,…
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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 the globe to switch to telehealth appointments, but Michigan doctors providing medical cannabis certifications cannot legally do so, according to Andrew Brisbo, executive director of the state’s Marijuana Regulatory Agency.

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 communications. In many states, dispensary staff, often called budtenders, don’t have medical degrees. States vary in how much…
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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 oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological…
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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; Ortman, Velkoff, & Hogan, 2014). The Baby Boomer generation, consisting of births from 1946 to 1964, constitutes a large proportion…
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