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Many states in the South have legalized marijuana, at least for medicinal uses. Those states, Mikos said, allow ballot initiatives that let voters enact legalization even if socially conservative ...
Health benefits of marijuana The cannabis plant has been used for medicinal purposes for centuries, if not millennia. It appears to help with treating pain , insomnia, anxiety, and glaucoma, among ...
Faison said reclassifying cannabis will open doors for universities to do clinical trials – some of which could happen in Tennessee. “We don't have published, double-blind studies of the ...
On December 17, 2009, Rev. Bryan A. Krumm, CNP, filed a rescheduling petition for Cannabis with the DEA arguing that "because marijuana does not have the abuse potential for placement in Schedule I of the CSA, and because marijuana now has accepted medical use in 13 states, and because the DEA's own Administrative Law Judge has already ...
Cannabis in Tennessee is illegal for most use, with the exception of limited medical purposes. Possession of even small amounts is a criminal misdemeanor , but there are limited legal allowances for non-psychoactive CBD oil as medical cannabis , and the authorities have not been able to enforce the law. [ 1 ]
Effects have included an increase in cannabis-related calls to the Oregon state poison center, [29] an increase in perception among youth that marijuana use is harmful, [29] a decrease in arrest rates for cannabis related offenses, [29] stores sold $250 million in cannabis products which resulted in $70 million in state tax revenue (higher than ...
By rescheduling cannabis, the drug would now be studied and researched to identify concrete medical benefits, opening the door for pharmaceutical companies to get involved with the sale and ...
Due to increasing public awareness of the medical benefits of cannabis, and in anticipation of forthcoming changes to federal policy, a number of states passed laws in the late 1970s and early 1980s addressing the medical use of cannabis. [13] New Mexico was the first to do so in 1978, and by the end of 1982 over thirty states had followed suit ...