Today Spain has taken the step that had been blocked for years: the Council of Ministers has approved the Royal Decree regulating the prescription, preparation, dispensing and use of standardised magistral formulas based on standardised cannabis preparations. This completes a political, parliamentary and technical journey that began more than four years ago. Publication in the … Read more
Spain’s Ministry of Health publishes the draft Royal Decree on medical cannabis Today the Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices (AEMPS) published the draft Royal Decree laying down the conditions for the preparation and dispensing of standardised magistral formulas of standardised cannabis preparations. The text is currently open to public consultation. This Royal Decree … Read more
How are CBD and other cannabinoids used in cancer treatment? There is a lot of talk about the use of CBD and other cannabinoids in cancer treatment, but there are still no clinical studies setting guidelines for using cannabinoids in anti-tumour treatments, and no country has included cannabinoids in its medical cancer treatments. That said, … Read more
There is little scientific evidence on how cannabis affects people with autism. Whether cannabinoids improve or worsen the symptoms of autism spectrum disorder is still under debate. But what is known so far about the effect of cannabis on people who have difficulty socialising and communicating with others? In this post we review the studies … Read more
Medical cannabis, the Trojan horse that is leading the way to marijuana legalisation in so many countries, and the treatment demanded by thousands of patients who have found unprecedented relief in cannabinoids. In Spain you often hear that growing medical cannabis is legal, or that when cannabis is used as medicine it refers to a … Read more
Cannabis has been removed from Schedule IV of the 1961 Single Convention, the list reserved for the most dangerous and addictive substances with no therapeutic value. Cannabidiol (CBD) preparations remain in legal limbo, as they could be brought under international control at any time. After two years of waiting, with meetings between States, technical reports, … Read more
Athletics and cannabis use can easily be seen, and often are, as incompatible. Today, however, smoking cannabis or consuming it as edibles or in other forms before training is becoming a more normal practice, and a number of athletes say they have noticed an improvement in their sport when trying the combination. “Marijuana relaxes me … Read more
Thanks to scientific progress in medical cannabis research, more and more innovative treatments aimed at women’s health problems are becoming available. Every day there are more specific alternative treatment options beyond conventional medicine. How is cannabis benefiting women’s health? Some laboratory studies show that cannabis compounds kill breast cancer cells. With breast cancer the leading … Read more
The leading Journal of Psychopharmacology has published the results of a promising study carried out in rats. The study shows that high doses of CBD sharply reduce methamphetamine use and relapse, although further research is needed. A new study published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, a specialist medical journal, provides evidence that cannabidiol (CBD), a … Read more