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CDC Seeks Public Comments Regarding Chronic Pain Management

NORML

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is seeking public comments on how Americans with chronic pain are successfully treating their symptoms. ” The CDC’s interest in alternative methods of chronic pain management may be of particular significance to many medical cannabis patients. percent in 2016).”

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CDC Still Soliciting Comments Regarding Chronic Pain Management Solutions

NORML

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is still seeking public comments on how Americans with chronic pain are successfully treating their symptoms. The CDC’s interest in alternative methods of chronic pain management is likely to be of particular significance to many medical cannabis patients.

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Medical Program Decline

Canna Care Docs

The Decline of Medical Marijuana in Massachusetts: What It Means for Patients In recent years, Massachusetts, once a pioneer in cannabis reform, has seen its medical marijuana program gradually overshadowed by the booming recreational market. The program aimed to provide safe, legal access to cannabis for patients with chronic conditions.

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Study Finds That Medical Marijuana Patient Registration Has Grown More Than 600% Since 2016

Veriheal

million registered in 2020 and an even more dramatic rise from the 678,000 registered in 2016. While there have been some drops in medical patient registration in states with adult-use (recreational) programs, pandemic-era programs also directly attributed to part of the increase in patient registration.

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Bipartisan Bill To Protect Employment Rights

NORML

Enacted in 1986, the Federal Drug-Free Workplace Program made it a condition for employment that all civilian employees at executive branch agencies be prohibited from using federally illegal substances on or off duty. Click here to send a message to your member of Congress and urge them to support this effort.

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The most common reasons people get medical marijuana cards: 2021 edition

The Cannigma

But in addition to the 18 states with legal adult-use (as well as medical), there are another 18 states that have fully functioning medical marijuana programs. As of July 1, 2021, all five states had both adult-use and medical cannabis programs. ? of patients reported chronic pain as their primary condition, while in Connecticut 70.4%

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From MMJ to Special K

Project CBD

But the quality of the government-issue reefer matters less than the fact that Uncle Sam has been supplying him with it regularly since 1982, when Rosenfeld won the right to smoke cannabis for reasons of medical necessity under the auspices of the federal government’s Compassionate Investigational New Drug (IND) program. J Clin Med.