The UK legalised cannabis for medical use in November 2018, while Australia amended the Narcotic Drugs Act to legalise the cultivation of cannabis for medical, pharmaceutical and scientific purposes in 2016.
“There are outdated historical stereotypes of who cannabis consumers are,” says Scott Rudder, president of the New Jersey Cannabusiness Association.
The Medical Cannabis Research Group at Imperial College London is a frontrunner and employs a team of scientists dedicated to developing new cannabinoid therapies.