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  • Cannabis rules ‘deny sick children safe medicines’

    Cannabis rules ‘deny sick children safe medicines’0

    Medical cannabis was made legal almost three years ago but is difficult to access on the NHS. It is prescribed privately but doctors have said that strict guidance by the organisation that represents child neurologists means potential recipients are missing out. Although he has done research into child neurology, Hasson is not a qualified neurologist.

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  • Bid to weed out GPs’ oil objections

    Bid to weed out GPs’ oil objections0

    The Southern Hemisphere’s largest medicinal cannabis operation is quietly being developed in a former Hobart asylum-seeker detention camp, despite frustration at the slow uptake of its medicines by doctors. Tasmanian Botanics – owned by local farmers Tony and Rodney Fehlberg and Chinese-backed Y Cannabis – is ploughing $40m into the modern cannabis growing and processing

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  • Scammers hijack Maggie Beer’s image to peddle hemp gummies and CBD oil

    Scammers hijack Maggie Beer’s image to peddle hemp gummies and CBD oil0

    Scammers are using celebrity cook Maggie Beer’s image and name without authorisation to spruik hemp gummies and CBD oil, ripping off unsuspecting customers. The ads falsely promises to help with a range of health complaints, and in some cases uses customers’ details to then charge them in addition to the advertised amount. Complaints about the

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