January, 2016

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Release from the Spanish Observatory of Medicinal Cannabis

Alchimia

Spanish Observatory of Medicinal Cannabis. On the occasion of the sad news published yesterday in France , in which cannabis was falsely indicated as cause of one death and five severe cases among the patients of a clinical trial , the Spanish Observatory of Medicinal Cannabis states: The French Ministry Health of France has officially confirmed that the drug used in this trial does not contain any cannabinoid , neither natural nor synthetic.

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Medical marijuana news, December 2015

Alchimia

Australia will allow to grow cannabis for medical studies. Australian health minister Sussan Ley announced on October 17th that a new legislation will allow to cultivate marijuana for scientific research and medical trials, thus ending a prohibition coming from 1967. The three most populated Australian States (Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland) promised to organize studies on the efficiency of cannabis to alleviate terminally ill patients, controlling severe epilepsy in children, as well as