SUMMARY: Governor Jack Markell signed legislation — Senate Bill 17, The Delaware Medical Marijuana Act — into law on May 13, 2011. State regulators have up to one-year to draft regulations to formally govern the program. The law removes state-level...
June 20th, 2011 By: Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director The combined administration of the plant cannabinoids THC and CBD (cannabidiol) provide neuroprotection in rat models of Huntington’s Disease (HD), according to experimental data to be published in theJournal...
June 14th, 2011 By: Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director The long-term administration of delta-9-THC, the primary psychoactive compound in marijuana, is associated with decreased mortality in monkeys infected with the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), a primate...
This prospective, decade-long study finds no support for the “gateway theory” that marijuana causes youth to move on to hard drug use. The study found that some youth followed the traditional gateway paradigm, starting with tobacco or alcohol and moving on to...
M. Guzman et al., “A pilot clinical study of 9-tetrahydrocannabinol in patients with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme,” British Journal of Cancer 95, issue 2 (July 17, 2006): 197-203. THC and other cannabinoids have been shown to have marked anti-cancer action in...
