Zurich seeks to extend legal cannabis pilot until 2028

By |2025-10-24T03:02:34+01:0024 October 2025|

More than 2,300 people have been able to purchase cannabis legally through the city's pilot programme, with officials citing it's success in undermining the black market. This story first appeared on leafie, view here Author: Liam O'Dowd

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Combining cannabis and tobacco linked to mental health issues, study shows

By |2025-10-24T03:02:31+01:0024 October 2025|

New research reveals that people who use both cannabis and tobacco have significantly different brain chemistry compared to cannabis-only users, potentially explaining higher rates of anxiety, depression, and addiction in co-users. This story first appeared on leafie, view here Author: Kevin Dinneen

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Bridging the Gap with Dr Sue Clenton: Building Trust in a Disrupted Market

By |2025-10-24T03:02:20+01:0024 October 2025|

In her new bi-weekly series for Cannabis Health, Dr Sue Clenton, Consultant Oncologist and Medical Director at Releaf Cannabis Clinic, shares her insight from the front line of an emerging field of medicine, taking readers inside the clinic and offering a doctor’s perspective on what it [...]

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Thousands of UK Patients Left Suffering as Fewer Than 1% of Doctors Trained to Prescribe Legal Medical Cannabis

By |2025-10-24T03:02:14+01:0024 October 2025|

Almost seven years since medical cannabis was legalised in the UK on 1st November 2018, less than 1% of the UK’s approximate 100,000 doctors on the General Medical Council (GMC) Specialist Register have the training required to prescribe medical cannabis.  While the UK’s medical cannabis market [...]

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Medical Cannabis in Psychiatry: From Neurodiversity to Mental Health

By |2025-10-24T03:01:50+01:0024 October 2025|

A growing number of patients are now prescribed medical cannabis for common mental health issues and neurodiverse conditions, such as autism and ADHD. Ahead of Cannabis Health Symposium next month, we examine the research and real-world evidence behind the use of cannabis-based medicines in psychiatry. Many [...]

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Platform Launches Promising Insurance Coverage for Medical Cannabis—For Real?

By |2025-10-24T03:01:36+01:0024 October 2025|

A new health-tech company, EM2P2, has launched CannaLnx, a HIPAA-compliant platform it claims will make medical cannabis reimbursable under traditional health insurance plans for the first time in the U.S. The system, announced in partnership with the American Council of Cannabis Medicine (ACCM), is described as [...]

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