Article excerpt: After an 87th Legislature that saw Texas lawmakers introduce some 60 bills related to reforming the state’s marijuana laws, only two made it to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk. Dr. Bryon Adinoff, a former Texas resident who is executive […]
The Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries, are hosting an online event to honor Dr. Lester Grinspoon on Thursday, June 24, from 7-8:30 p.m. The event, a conversation among experts and activists mentored and inspired by the late […]
Article excerpt: Cities and towns in New Jersey will soon have to decide if they will ban businesses that grow, process and sell marijuana, even though there is still much that remains unknown about how the state’s powerful cannabis commission […]
DFCR expert Hugh Blumenfeld, MD, Ph.D. and DFCR Founder and board President David L. Nathan, MD make the case in an op-ed that, This year, Connecticut has the opportunity to join the 15 states that have replaced the failed policy […]
Article excerpt: As marijuana legalization spreads across U.S. states, so does a debate over whether to set pot policy by potency. Dr. Rachel Knox, an Oregon physician who counsels patients on using cannabis for various conditions, says she doesn’t see […]
Article excerpt: In the retail cannabis industry, labeling and regulation go hand in hand. Within the United States, cannabis labeling regs are implemented state by state. Not surprisingly, each set of regulations is different from the next. A universal standard […]
Group—Made Up of Current and Former Cannabis Regulators, Public Health Professionals, Criminal Justice Reform Advocates, Civil Rights Attorneys & Social Equity Industry Leaders—Weighs in on What Just & Equitable Regulation Should Look Like
The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that employers must reimburse employees for medical marijuana when it is prescribed by their doctors as a reasonable and necessary form of treatment for their workplace injuries. Read the decision below and view […]
Article excerpt: The AMA actively supports cannabis prohibition, a cornerstone of the drug war, even as it hypocritically condemns systemic racism for creating inequity and limiting access to health care among communities of color. The organization fails to appreciate or […]
Article excerpt: Using tobacco, marijuana or any drug at a young age “primes the receptors in the brain to expect that substance will keep coming,” said David Nathan, a psychiatrist and board president for Doctors for Cannabis Regulation. “That’s true […]
Article excerpt: Q2 Clinic, the first international chain of Endocannabinology clinics, today announced the appointment of Dr. Peter Grinspoon, M.D. as Chief Medical Director (CMD). Dr. Grinspoon is a primary care physician and cannabis specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital and […]
Article excerpt: As a proud member of the NJUMR coalition, Doctors for Cannabis Regulation is grateful for all the hard work put in by lawmakers and fellow advocates to bring us to this historic moment in the advancement of public […]
Article excerpt: A coalition of civil rights and drug policy reform groups is calling on the governor of New Jersey to systematically issue pardons for people with marijuana convictions to supplement the state’s voter-approved move to legalize cannabis. While lawmakers […]
Article excerpt: There’s more evidence that smoking marijuana can be dangerous for people with heart disease, according to two new studies presented recently at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions. But in an unexpected twist, people who use cannabis were […]
DFCR experts Mikhail Kogan, MD and Leslie Mendoza Temple, MD serve as guest editors for Elsevier’s Complementary Therapies in Medicine. With the growing trend in legalization and increased patient use of medical cannabis, students of health professions are likely to […]
Article excerpt Monica Taing talks very fast. Enthusiasm is her accelerator pedal as the 29-year-old pharmacist from Jersey City describes cannabis’ potential to expand the options for chronically ill people — especially those who are leery of using addictive opioids […]
Article excerpt: Public question No. 1 on the general election ballot would amend the New Jersey State Constitution to legalize the possession and use of marijuana for adults 21 years or older. If it passes, the state would oversee a […]
Article excerpt: Peter Grinspoon is a primary care physician at Harvard Medical School. He’s also on the board of the advocacy group, Doctors for Cannabis Regulation. He tells Inverse that Delta-8-THC does have “vast” potential, as do many of the […]
Article excerpt: “Do you approve of amending the Constitution to legalize a controlled form of marijuana called ‘cannabis’? Only adults at least 21 years of age could use cannabis. The State commission created to oversee the State’s medical cannabis program […]
Article excerpt: This story is part of a series of profiles, The CannaInfluencers: The people shaping the cannabis industry in the Garden State. Written by NJ Cannabis Insider reporters, the profiles will publish in the weeks leading up to the […]