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Cannabis: The New Health Food Trend
Medical cannabis has gained traction in recent years along the same timeframe that health food trends have sky rocketed. Cannabis is often seen as a …
Illegal Opioid Prescriptions Kill More People
Death Toll with Opioids Rising 19,000 people died from opioid overdoses in 2014 caused by legal opioids alone. One of the biggest problems in the …
California Marijuana Legalization: Prop 64
In this post, our CEO, Mark Hadfield talks about the impending cannabis legalization vote in November. Will cannabis go legal, and if so, what are …
Doctors Lack Proper Cannabis Education
Doctors Need Additional Medical Training Marijuana sentiments have changed greatly in the United States over the past 20 years. California became the first state to …
Marijuana Takes on Big Pharma on the Opioid Front
A paper released by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) has shown that state-sanctioned medical marijuana dispensaries have been linked to a decrease in …
Rescheduling Marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule II
Congress has expressed interest in rescheduling marijuana from a Schedule I to Schedule II substance in the near future. The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) announced …
Canadian Prime Minister's Case for Marijuana Legalization
Justin Trudeau, the Canadian Prime Minister, spoke at an economic conference in early June and provided very sound reasoning for marijuana legalization: marijuana legalization is …
Problems with California’s Medical Marijuana Regulations
MMRSA – It Has Issues The Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act (MMRSA) was the much needed update to medical marijuana policy in the state …
Cannabis Juicing: A New Health Trend
Move Over Kale, Cannabis is the Next Juicing Trend Donald Abrams, the Chief of Hematology Oncology at San Fransisco General Hospital, has become an advocate …
California Slated to be Center of Marijuana Industry
California’s tech industry is going to have to move aside to make way for the next big thing, marijuana. HelloMD is one of the many …
Myth-busting Marijuana: How the Gateway Theory Holds No Clout
If there is one thing that every american has heard about marijuana it is that marijuana is a gateway drug. But what does a gateway …
Brookings Institute: Recommendation Could Improve Access
The Brookings Institute, a nonprofit research and policy think tank, recently released a paper entitled "Ending the U.S. government’s war on medical marijuana research." In …