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Senate passes marijuana medication bill
The Senate passed a bill on Wednesday night time that will grow exploration into the likely health care added benefits of cannabis and CBD. The Medical Cannabis and Cannabidiol Research Growth Act was handed on Wednesday by means of unanimous consent by a voice vote and will now head to President Biden’s desk to be […]
GOP takes indirect aim at Fetterman’s health in Pennsylvania Senate race
The perfectly-wishing is above. Now Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman’s stroke is formally a campaign concern in the swing state’s U.S. Senate race. But instead than instantly criticize Fetterman more than his health and fitness, Republicans are taking a unique strategy: bashing the Democrat for not remaining far more clear about the stroke that hospitalized […]
NC Senate Republicans float Medicaid expansion bill
By Rose Hoban and Rachel Crumpler It finally happened. In a move that many health care advocates have been pushing for years, the state Senate introduced a bill on Wednesday that would expand the state’s Medicaid program to some half million-plus low-income North Carolinians. Until this point, Medicaid has been reserved mostly for children from […]
Senate narrowly adopts bill affirming access to off-label drugs for COVID-19
TOPEKA — A Kansas state senator amid well being professionals investigated by the Board of Healing Arts for alleged misconduct during the COVID-19 pandemic voted early Thursday for legislation to legalize the prescribing by doctors and dispensing by pharmacists of treatment for off-label use from the coronavirus. The bill adopted by the Senate on a […]
Senate Passes Bipartisan Grassley Bill to Expand Cannabidiol Research
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley
 (R-Iowa), rating member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and co-chair of the
 Senate Caucus on Intercontinental Narcotics Management, along with Dianne Feinstein
 (D-Calif.) and Brian Schatz, applauded the passage of their laws to
 increase scientific and healthcare exploration on cannabis and its compounds,
 such as cannabidiol (CBD). The bill unanimously […]