Top golfers take CBD for calmness, while Saracens locks George Kruis and Dominic Day were so impressed with it they launched their own businessThe first time I saw Charley Hoffman play, you would not have looked at him twice. That was at the Masters in 2015, where he stopped by the 1st tee box to…
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Campaigners dismayed as Nice decides there is not enough evidence to prove it helps Medical cannabis cannot be approved for use in children with severe epilepsy on the NHS because there is not enough evidence to prove it helps, a watchdog has ruled. The decision by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice)…
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Health minister confirms plans and calls on neighbouring countries to relax their laws Luxembourg has called on its EU neighbours to relax their drug laws as its health minister confirmed plans to become the first European country to legalise cannabis production and consumption. “This drug policy we had over the last 50 years did not…
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Oxfordshire farmers launch campaign against Home Office policy on hemp cultivation Two hemp farmers say they have been left devastated after they were forced to destroy 40 acres of the crop – the end product of which can be bought legally in high street shops. Patrick Gillett and Ali Silk said they had to cut…
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The illicit market is worth at least £1bn a year. We could empower the poor communities who suffer in the war on drugs Picture two 19-year-old men living in the same country, but in different worlds. One is in his second year at Oxford University, smoking cannabis in the garden of a house he shares…
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This documentary on the pleasurable highs and puritanical prejudices around cannabis use was lively and educational – even when its presenter got the munchies It is the best and the worst time to have a documentary that requires you to balance two contradictory thoughts in your head; we are out of practice. We are a…
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A CBD patch worn on the upper arm is supposed to manage the pain of intense stretches. It is not managing mine Turning up to a Gymbox class called Cannabliss (membership from £73, gymbox.com) is my twofold nightmare. First, group exercise has always struck me as torture plus humiliation. Second, drug talk makes me feel…
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Lizzie Post, the descendant of manners guru Emily Post, on navigating a world where pot vapor is in the air and part of an evening’s recreation In 1922, Emily Post published Etiquette, a guide to the mores and manners of a rapidly changing world. As the old social structures crumbled and class took on an…
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Demand is booming for medicinal cannabis to treat a variety of conditions, but researchers and doctors remain cautious More Australians are using medicinal cannabis to treat a host of health problems as reports of its supposed healing powers flood the media. But is this the green miracle patients have been waiting for? This week, the…
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Team of ex-firefighters given go-ahead to legally process crop for cannabidiol extraction Jersey has become the first place in the British and Irish Isles to grant a licence for farmers to harvest hemp flowers for cannabis oil. A former Royal Marine commando and two former colleagues will be the pioneers who process hemp for cannabidiol…
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