I sat down with Clinical Conversations to talk through where the system is working and where it’s quietly failing the people it was supposed to help.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6cMY_VTpTw

#auspol #wapol #medicinalcannabis #cannabis #lcwaparty

#cannabis #weed #medicinalcannabis #CBD #THC

Yeshaya Dank - Happy weed - medical cannabis (2026) Photography url:

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#LegalizeMedicalCannabis #MedicinalCannabis #CannabisLegalization #CannabisEducation #CannabisAdvocacy #CannabisIsMedicine #MedicalCannabisAccess #WorldwideLegalization #YeshayaDank #Photography

Medicinal Cannabis & Driving: Legal or Not?: Australian Lawyer and Ex-Police Officer Explains what the go is with medicinal cannibas and driving. #MedicinalCannabis #DrivingLaws #LegalAdvice #CannabisAwareness #DrugPolicy

Medicinal Cannabis & Driving: Legal or Not? #MedicinalCannabis #DrivingLaws #LegalAdvice #CannabisAwareness #DrugPolicy

Medicinal Cannabis & Driving: Legal or Not?: Australian Lawyer and Ex-Police Officer Explains what the go is with medicinal cannibas and driving. #MedicinalCannabis #DrivingLaws #LegalAdvice #CannabisAwareness #DrugPolicy

There is no evidence that medicinal cannabis works for common mental health conditions, the largest ever review of its safety and efficacy has found #doctors #cannabis #medicinalcannabis www.doctors.net.uk/news/no-evid...

Medicinal Cannabis Boom Obscures Lack of Mental Health Evidence New University of Sydney research finds no evidence medicinal cannabis treats anxiety or depression despite rising prescriptions.

Medicinal Cannabis Boom Obscures Lack of Mental Health Evidence

#MedicinalCannabis #MentalHealth #AusHealth #AusNews

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🧠 Why averages fall short in medicinal cannabis research

New framework argues that context matters—patients can be responders and non-responders depending on time, situation, and outcome. Especially true for quality of life in palliative care.

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Living soil and retractable roofs: Scale’s cultivation strategy in South Africa All the roads lead to cannabis, or something like that, I guess. It is the role of proverbs to be applied to different facets of life, so no hard feelings towards the Roman Empire. That is…

South Africa | High numbers may be nice, but not enough when servicing patients with potentially life changing medicines. Trying to win on consistency, starts with the plant & how cultivated. Living soil, natural sunlight, & a patented soil system
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Patients with non-cannabis substance use disorder (SUD) may choose to use #cannabis to alleviate chronic pain, pain-related anxiety & poor sleep quality & as a harm reducing therapeutic during SUD treatment.
#MedicinalCannabis
#CaliSober
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Long-Term Pain Response to Cannabis Therapy in Chronic Low Back Pain
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This four year study says inhaled cannabis slashed back pain 66%. Average pain score dropped from ~8.1 (very severe) to ~2.7 (mild).
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#ChronicLowBackPain
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#RFKJr #UnitedStatesSecretaryofHealth&HumanServices
on Theo Von’s podcast 'This Past Weekend' admitted “I’m not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off toilet seats,” so there can hardly be objections to legitimate requests for #MedicinalCannabis prescribed by a doctor. Contact YOUR #Senator.

In the latest episode of Cannabiz in Conversation, released today, industry leaders speak about the “high human cost” of limiting patient access to medicinal cannabis. Watch now:
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✨ Learn how Medicinal Cannabis may support wellbeing, when it’s used, and what the evidence says — empowering you with knowledge and confidence on your health journey 💛
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A front-facing shot of a sleek black cat sitting on a dark wooden floor near a white wall. The cat’s bright, yellowish-green eyes stand out against its dark fur, and it is looking calmly at the viewer.

A top-down view of a colorful, circular silicone container with a red and blue rim. The container is filled with a mixture of finely ground green and purple dried herbs or botanical material.

A top-down, close-up view looking into a stainless steel tumbler filled with a frothy, light-brown iced coffee. Several large, clear ice cubes are submerged in the liquid, surrounded by a thick layer of creamy foam and small bubbles.

A top-down view of a colorful, circular silicone container with a red and blue rim. The container is filled with a mixture of finely ground green and purple dried herbs or botanical material.

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This is great step for chronic pain sufferers in NSW - but what about drivers crossing state eg border residents in the north , south, west of the state? Chronic pain sufferers need a nationally led solution. #medicinalcannabis #auspol

This is great step for chronic pain sufferers in NSW - but what about drivers crossing state eg border residents in the north , south, west of the state? Chronic pain sufferers need a nationally led solution. #medicinalcannabis #auspol

A Week Without Medicinal Gummies It's a little over a month since I was prescribed medicinal cannabis and have been taking half to a full gummy each evening (aside from not wanting to risk being impaired during the day, higher levels of daily use are associated with lower levels of pain relief). For my prescriptions to continue, I need to (virtually) attend a check up appointment in order to discuss whether it's proving effective (as well as ensure that there haven't been any issues etc). Conveniently (unfortunately?), I have just had a demonstration of efficacy. Last week, I attended a work on-site in Playa Del Carmen, Cancun. Unfortunately, I was unable to carry medicinal cannabis into the country (I asked the Mexican embassy in advance and they said "as far as we are concerned, it is prohibited"). That's _not great_ , but did lead to me having a better understanding of how much it's been helping ("You never realise the value of something until it's gone" and all that). This post talks about that experience. * * * ### Talking About Comparative Pain Levels Ever since starting on the gummies, I've had the sense that they were helping but it was hard to say by _how much_. Pain really is quite weird in that respect: * When you're _in_ pain you know about it (although meaningfully communicating about pain is a known problem area). * When you're suffering less pain, you're aware that it's reduced but it's very hard to say by how much (being _out_ of pain is easier, because you can say that it's gone... I live in hope) This makes it quite difficult to say _how effective_ a given form of pain relief is (particularly when improvements have been gradual). Although it'd be nice to be able to talk comparatively, you can only really talk about pain levels _now_ (the trick, for the record, is to focus on externalities rather than the pain itself - is it helping enough that you're comfortable, not miserable, do stairs make you want to cry etc) But... if you go back from an improved state to where you were, it suddenly becomes _uncomfortably_ easy to see how big the difference is. * * * ### Going A Week Without The relief that I had been getting lasted for about 2 days after my last gummy. After that, I was back to being extremely uncomfortable (even though I was still taking the medications that I _could_ carry into Mexico). Stairs, once again, became a serious obstacle and I strained my shoulder a little by having to support my weight on the handrail (something that I hadn't consciously noticed that I'd stopped needing to do). Swimming was also problematic. I only really felt able to do it on the first morning (whilst still benefiting a little from that previous gummy). Rather than going downstairs and socialising with others over breakfast, I ordered room service, sat on the balcony and tried to mentally prepare for a day of repeatedly getting up and moving around (although the hotel had a lift, there were also areas that were only accessible via stairs). My flying experience was quite different too: despite the seats being physically identical each way, my leg was _much_ more uncomfortable on the journey home. One thing that I'm **not** able to compare, is sleep: * Any sleep disturbances could equally be explained by jet lag and/or sleeping in an unfamiliar environment * I don't _usually_ go to bed full of beer and margaritas (alcohol at volume is also great at pain relief, but the associated loss of inhibition can lead to you making things worse1) Across the trip, there were days that I'd probably have preferred to be laid up (and, arguably perhaps should have been). There were a ton of other smaller differences too (like having to really work to regain focus in meetings after a pang throws your mind off). Because I had my daily tablets, it wasn't entirely unbearable, but could _definitely_ have been more pleasant. The experience made me think of a passage in the open letter that I wrote nearly eight years ago: > I spend every day of my life in pain that I know could be mitigated Pain is awful, but knowing that it could be alleviated and that you're suffering because of _someone else's_ misguided principles only serves to worsen the torment. I _loved_ Mexico, but I did not love how it made me feel. * * * ### Getting Home I've only been home a day, so have only had a single gummy. Much like the very first night of taking them, I had a little bit of relief directly after, but haven't got any today. Clearly, time is needed for it to build back up in my system (although going from ~28C to -1 also can't have helped). I was also a little unsure of dosage when I got home, not knowing whether I should: * pick up where I left off (and potentially find it was too much) * start small and work up (extending the amount of time before meaningful relief) In the end, I chose to pick up where I left off - it didn't end up blowing my head off, so this was presumably the right choice. * * * ### Judging Pain By Stopping It seems worth discussing one of the problems with judging the efficacy of pain relief by withdrawing it. Certain drugs are known to _cause_ pain. Codeine (and other opiates), for example, can cause headaches. The user will then treat that pain with more codeine, potentially leading to a self-fuelling addiction but certainly generating more frequent headaches. Some drugs don't cause pain while _in use_ , but can cause pain during withdrawal. Although it's uncommon, cannabis can be one of these. So, even aside from having to deal with pain, there _is_ a methodological issue with stopping medication to judge pain levels. In this particular case, I know that that's not been an issue: * It's unlikely that I've been using it long enough to develop a dependency * I've not had any other symptoms of withdrawal (I'd certainly recognise those from my previous experiences with Tramadol) * Because of the focus on externalities, it's possible to directly compare to my previous experiences and say that this was not a _new_ form of pain And, of course, I didn't stop solely to judge the pain - it was an unfortunate requirement of me wanting to travel to a country that doesn't currently recognise the validity of my prescription. Hopefully, those will be fewer and fewer over time. * * * ### Conclusion I'm sure that the doctor will have quite specific questions at my upcoming checkup, but last week has shown me that the cannabis gummies are actually more effective than I'd previously realised. Things aren't perfect and I do still have to be a little mindful of what I'm doing, but last week reminded me of various nuisances and pain that I've previously just had to accept as part of living with chronic pain. While writing this post, I also remembered just _how distracting_ it is - barely a paragraph has passed between being distracted by a painful leg twitch, a need to shift in my seat or a yelp as I move uncomfortably. It's now quite clear to me that my life _is_ improved by the availability of medicinal cannabis. It's not just the differences that I've described here, but the fact that it does something that my previous prescriptions never could: it allows me to achieve these benefits without a cost to clarity of mind during the day. * * * 1. One night, after _a lot_ of drinks (even by my standards), I was successfully peer pressured into dancing. I had fun, but the next day was **baaad** ↩

A Week Without Medicinal Gummies
Author: Ben Tasker

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#health #medicinalcannabis #thoughts

Petition e-6874 - Petitions

Canada’s cannabis system is still a patchwork with no unified federal-provincial coordination. This petition calls on Ottawa to create a Ministers’ Table on Cannabis so all can benefit from consistent standards. #canada #medicinalcannabis

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🌿 #HerbalMedicineWorks
💚 #EndocannabinoidSystem

GPhC medicinal cannabis supply review flags gaps in information sharing The GPhC has called for stronger collaboration between clinics, suppliers and pharmacies involved in the supply of cannabis-based products

GPhC medicinal cannabis supply review flags gaps in information sharing

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Oh, for heaven's sake, once one is established on #MedicinalCannabis driving is no different than vacuuming the house. Not a risk.

Motivations and Pathways: A Thematic Analysis of Interviews with Medicinal Cannabis Consumers in Australia Medicinal cannabis has been legally available in Australia since 2016. The current study examined the motivations for seeking medicinal cannabis and the pathways through which Australians accessed ...

New publication ‼️

Check out this interesting new paper led by Danielle Dawson featuring AddPro program lead @vale-addiction.bsky.social on medicinal cannabis motivations and pathways 🍃👉

Link to full paper: doi.org/10.1080/1082...

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Go Michael! I have so much respect for him, and those around him. They help so many people with health problems. #MedicinalCannabis

Medicinal cannabis concerns include psychosis and child poisonings
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MPs push for reforms on drivers who take prescribed medicinal cannabis A legislated medical defence for drivers using medically prescribed cannabis was recommended by last year's drug summit. Independent MP Alex Greenwich, who takes medical cannabis, is pushing for refor...

#MedicinalCannabis works wonders for my anxiety. Time to get past the stereotypes.

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CAPE TO CAPE FOR CANNABIS 2026 CAPE TO CAPE FOR CANNABIS 2026 is a unique, purpose-driven event & charity walk taking place from 17–20 April 2026 along Western Australia’s iconic...

Imagine walking Margaret River’s coastline… the sun on your face, your footsteps echoing hope.

Every step you take fuels cannabis research.
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Did you know? Between 2015–2020, more than 1,000 clinical trials on medicinal cannabis were registered in the US (NLM, 2024). Yet stigma, regulation, & lack of training remain barriers. #MedicinalCannabis #Cannabis #Colombia