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Serbian Patients Face Jail as Medical Marijuana Legalisation Stalls. so far 20 have gone to jail

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Balkan Insight is reporting… eople with long-term illnesses are still being given prison sentences in Serbia for using cannabis to treat medical conditions, as the government has been stalling on legal reform while vowing even harsher anti-drug enforcement. I tried standard medicine, but there wasn’t much of a result.

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Is weed legal in Portugal?

The Cannigma

In 2001, in one of the most progressive social moves surrounding drug usage, Portugal decriminalized all drugs, weed included. Medical marijuana has been approved by the Portuguese government for use in treating pain pathologies, such as oncology, multiple sclerosis, and epilepsy. Medical: Legal Recreational: Decriminalized.

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UK Baker & McKenzie Article – United Kingdom: London’s First Medical Cannabis Clinic Opens to Waiting List

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As reported in the Guardian, Analytical Cannabis emphasises the importance of this for those suffering from conditions such as chronic pain, epilepsy and neurological and psychiatric disorders who have long been seeking access to what they hope is a transformative medicine. Prospect of a wider legalisation of cannabis in the UK?

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SciSparc Announces Positive Topline Results For Proprietary Pain Management Compound In Pre-Clinical Study

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The study was conducted at the University of Calgary under the leadership of Dr. Tuan Trang , Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Biology & Experimental Medicine, a renowned researcher in the clinical management of pain conditions.

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Mid-Atlantic States Enact Historic Reforms, But Remain Stalled on Legalization

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Pennsylvania now includes anxiety and Tourette’s on the list of qualifying conditions for enrollment in its medical marijuana program. The recent move by the Pennsylvania Health Department will allow medical marijuana for conditions beyond cancer, epilepsy, seizures, post-traumatic stress disorder, and terminal illness.

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Report: “Key pharmacological differences between side effects of refined, pharmaceutical CBD formulations and whole plant extracts:”

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This differs sharply from the conventional course of cannabis medicine, which is to use whole, clean plant extracts to treat epilepsy and to gradually discontinue use of conventional pharmaceuticals. An Israeli study of cannabis versus epilepsy, however, used natural extracts with a ratio of 20:1 CBD:THC. Lancet Neurol Dec 23 2015.

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Cannabis laws in Japan: Is weed legal?

The Cannigma

Japan does not have a medical cannabis program and does not allow the use of cannabis for patients seeking to treat a medical condition. In 2019, Japan approved clinical trials for Epidiolox — a cannabis derived medicine used to treat severe forms of childhood epilepsy such as Dravet and Lennox-Gastaut syndromes.

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