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Canadian insurers are being prudent about offering medical cannabis coverage

Aside from the costs associated with medical cannabis coverage in Canada, insurers are worried about the lax prescription process
Bethan Rose Jenkins, Cannabis News Writer/Editorial August 5, 2018

Canada’s cannabis industry is still in its infantile stages, but the North American country is on track to becoming a world leader in legal cannabis. Having recently passed the Cannabis Act, it’s...

States have rights to legalize cannabis, but Sessions wants DOJ to impose federal law

States have rights to legalize cannabis, but Sessions wants DOJ to impose federal law

During a Boston press conference, Sessions said “we’ll enforce the federal law” when it comes to cannabis
Bethan Rose Jenkins, Cannabis News Writer/Editorial August 4, 2018

An interesting twist of events has occurred for the U.S. cannabis industry. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has given states the go-ahead to legalize the green plant, but (of course there is a but,) he...

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/pp4e9b/this-is-how-much-the-uk-would-actually-make-if-it-taxed-cannabis

Great Britain prepares to legalize cannabis for medicinal use

The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) wants doctors to prescribe medicinal cannabis medicines that have been developed in accordance with safety standards.
Bethan Rose Jenkins, Cannabis News Writer/Editorial August 3, 2018

Medical cannabis is set to become available on prescription in the UK after the government approved a law to permit medicines derived from the cannabis plant. According to the Home Office, cannabis-based...

https://www.thestranger.com/weed/2017/08/16/25348810/what-is-jeff-sessions-smoking

Jeff Sessions might make cannabis stock investors wealthy

Thanks to Sessions’ disapproval of the cannabis industry, investors were able to funnel money into low-cost stocks and sell them on for a considerably higher rate just a few weeks later
Bethan Rose Jenkins, Cannabis News Writer/Editorial May 21, 2018

If there is one thing that U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is best known for, it’s probably his opposition to cannabis legalization. Despite this, Sessions could potentially aid cannabis investors...

Dispensaries in Hawaii plan to be cash-free by October

Dispensaries in Hawaii plan to be cash-free by October

Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen September 13, 2017

Hawaii officials said it will be the first state to conduct medical cannabis sales entirely without cash by October 1.  Medical cannabis dispensaries in Hawaii will not be allowed to accept cash after...

Sessions further impedes cannabis research

Sessions further impedes cannabis research

Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen August 21, 2017

An anonymous senior Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) official claimed Attorney General Jeff Sessions had effectively blocked an Obama Administration initiative to expand the number of cannabis suppliers for...

Trump hints at defying Congress and going after medical states

Trump hints at defying Congress and going after medical states

May 16, 2017

While Congress' budget bill included a provision protecting the 29 states who have legalized medical cannabis and 15 others who may do so from federal intervention, President Trump hinted that he may have...

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