Category archives for: Countries Outside of the US

International Psychedelic Science Conference Returns to California

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Over 1,600 attendees from 33 countries are gathering in downtown Oakland to demonstrate the successes, the strength, and the spirit of the new wave of psychedelic science and medicine. By Brad Burge  |  Communications Director, MAPS Psychedelic Science 2013 starts tomorrow. It is a genuinely historic moment. At Psychedelic Science 2013, over 100 of the [...]

Cannabinoid Patent for Cancer Treatment Goes to GW Pharma

Map of Global Pharma Reach

The US Patent & Trade Office granted GW Pharma a medical patent covering all plant-based phytocannabinoids for use in the treatment and prevention of basically all forms of human cancer. By Ron Marczyk  |  Published in Toke Signals In January of this year, the National Cancer Institute updated its Cannabis and Cannabinoids PDQ® webpage with [...]

Marijuana Policy and Presidential Leadership: How to Avoid a Federal-State Train Wreck

(Photo credit: Salon.com)

Published by The Brookings Institute Stuart Taylor, Jr. examines how the federal government and the eighteen states (plus the District of Columbia) that have partially legalized medical or recreational marijuana or both since 1996 can be true to their respective laws, and can agree on how to enforce them wisely while avoiding federal-state clashes that [...]

ASA Medical Cannabis Unity Conference DVD Now On Sale

Steph Sherer, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Americans for Safe Access.

Order a copy of the DVD Today! By Steph Sherer  |  Executive Director, Americans for Safe Access Americans for Safe Access first ever National Medical Cannabis Unity Conference was a huge success! More than 250 patients, advocates, and others from thirty-four states met in Washington, DC, for three days of education, strategy, and skills building, [...]

Medical Marijuana Now On Sale in Czech Pharmacies

Czech police have been handing illegally grown cannabis over to patients with Parkinson's, MS, and other ailments for several years now.

By Phillip Smith  |  Published in StopTheDrugWar.Org Medical marijuana became legal Monday in the Czech Republic and is now available for sale in pharmacies. Monday was part of the Easter holiday there, so it didn’t actually go on sale until Tuesday. Medical marijuana is available by prescription only and has been approved for people suffering [...]

Cannabinopathic Medicine

Lester Grinspoon

By Sunil Aggarwal  |  Published by Americans for Safe Access I am honored and delighted to be able to publish here a new comprehensive piece written by Dr. Lester Grinspoon, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, entitled “Cannabinopathic Medicine”. Dr. Grinspoon started writing this piece in 2012, when I was privileged to read [...]

If You Want to Break Federal Law, It’s Better to be a Banker Than a Medical Marijuana Provider

Last summer's Caravan For Peace took over 100 victims from Mexico's Drug War to Wall St. before reaching D.C.

By Kris Hermes  |  Published in SafeAccessNow.Org According to Matt Taibbi, in his latest Rolling Stone exposé on the banking and financial industry “Too Big to Jail,” HSBC “helped to wash hundreds of millions of dollars for drug mobs, including Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel,” and also “moved money for organizations linked to Al Qaeda and [...]

University of Saskatchewan Researchers Discover Cannabis “Pharma Factory”

University of Saskatchewan adjunct professor of biology Jon Page led the research team that discovered the chemical pathway Cannabis sativa uses to create bioactive compounds called cannabinoids. (Photo: University of Saskatchewan)

By Michael Robin  |  Published in USASK.CA University of Saskatchewan researchers have discovered the chemical pathway that Cannabis sativa uses to create bioactive compounds called cannabinoids, paving the way for the development of marijuana varieties to produce pharmaceuticals or cannabinoid-free industrial hemp. The research appears online in the July 16 early edition of the Proceedings of [...]

Shafer Commission Report on Marijuana and Drugs, Issued 40 Years Ago Today, Was Ahead of its Time

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“Given forty years of escalation of the war on drugs in the U.S. and around the world, the global consensus that the policy is a deadly and costly failure, and that policies that hurt our fragile economies must be fixed, we need a new Shafer Commission to develop and recommend a drug policy that saves [...]

U.N. Development Chief Slams War on Drugs

Helen Clark

Helen Clark, a former health minister, says criminalizing drugs has created more problems than it has solved By McCarton Ackerman  |  Published in Salon.com Helen Clark, the head of the United Nations Development Program, has publicly slammed global strategies to combat drugs, claiming there is increasing evidence that “the war on drugs” has failed. The former prime [...]

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