A new study lends more support to the concept that medical marijuana could help reduce opioid dependency. The research found “behavioral economic evidence that cannabis access may modestly reduce demand for opioids in persons who have pain.” The team of researchers used an online survey to assess the frequency and dependency of cannabis and opioid use […]

In a new Federal Register filing set to be published soon, the Drug Enforcement Agency is moving to more than quintuple the amount of cannabis that can legally be grown in the U.S. for research purposes—from roughly 1,000 pounds in 2018 to more than 5,400 pounds next year. At the same time, DEA is also […]