Israel has recently been in the news after the government issued its long-delayed final approval of medical cannabis exports. Still, Israel’s most important cannabis export will arguably continue to be clinical data. While research in the United States remains strangled in a Schedule 1 chokehold, Israelis are diligently engaged in cannabis R&D, fueled by the … Read More »
cannabis and the over 50's
The Nursing Home With A Medical Cannabis Program The Feds Can Live With
In hospitals and nursing care facilities across the country, patients are systematically denied access to medical cannabis, even if they are located in states where it is legal. The reason behind this is simple. As long as the vast majority of these institutions rely on funding from Medicare and other federal sources, they opt not … Read More »
‘Silver Dabblers’ And ‘Aging Ailers’: Cracking The Baby Boomer Cannabis Consumer
There are 77 million Baby Boomers in the United States, and according to AARP, they are projected to wield 70% of all disposable income within the next four years. Healthier and wealthier than any preceding generation, Baby Boomers are discovering—and re-discovering—cannabis at unprecedented rates, as a recent report on the California market indicates. But is the cannabis … Read More »
What to Consider Before Visiting a Marijuana Dispensary
For me, the term “dispensary” always brought to mind a clinic at an army base or summer camp, with a stern nurse dispensing aspirin. But when California passed Proposition 215 (the Compassionate Care Act) in 1996, reframing marijuana as “medicine”, a new institutional framework was needed for where such products could be obtained. Since then, … Read More »
Cannabis and the Golden Years
Like many baby-boomers, my youthful experiences with cannabis tapered off when I was in my twenties. Now, all these years later, re-discovering cannabis is like running into an old high-school boyfriend – but my, how amazingly well he’s aged! Cannabis today is not only more attractive, sophisticated and nuanced than it was when we … Read More »