The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) had granted GW Pharmaceuticals’ request to completely deschedule its cannabis-derived drug, Epidiolex. GW Pharma’s CBD extract previously sat in Schedule V, but as of Monday it’s been completely removed from the federal list of controlled substances — a first for a cannabis drug in the 21st century. See the original […]
Suffering with chronic pain after some major surgeries, Jackie Hyer was excited for some relief from her new medical marijuana prescription, and she says it worked. What she didn’t anticipate was the price. “It’s expensive. This 30-cc bottle is 180 dollars,” said Hyer. “I could cry right now because it’s so depressing. I’ve missed out […]
Things are moving fast in the international pharmaceutical industry’s push to turn the chemicals behind the remarkable properties of the cannabis plant into trademarked products. Fears about corporate cannabis have been mounting among small growers and their activist allies since the big push for legalization began nearly a decade ago now. This May alone, several […]
Across Connecticut, growers are cultivating marijuana for medical use in buildings with the exacting standards of pharmaceutical factories. Employees reporting for work at some plants will be required to change into scrubs. Then, they will pass through a room that will emit blasts of air to remove contaminants brought in from the outside. Computers will […]