Author: Erin Elizabeth

As a 19-year-old woman, Rachel Battersby was full of life and perfectly healthy but those days have gone. Battersby, from the Gold Coast, Queensland, contracted Lyme disease while on a trip to Sweden and the UK, and over the last 6 years her life has radically changed; her days are now filled with regular and severe convulsions which leave her writhing in pain. From the article: “In an effort to raise money to fly to Germany for world class treatment, Ms Battersby has released a video showing her condition at its worst – a 30-second clip that shows her writing on...

The grass is definitely greener now in Colorado, since Amendment 64was passed in the state back in 2012, then legalized in 2014. The state reported that the legalized weed operation managed to generate almost $2.4 billion in the last 12 months; $1 billion of this comes in sales of cold, hard cannabis! The industry has muscled into 6th place in terms of the state’s economic output, even surpassing gold mining, performing arts, sports and non-grain crops. The remarkable aspect of this first year’s sales of 112 metric tons of bud, has meant the cannabis industry has outperformed all private...

Shoppers Drug Mart says it has submitted an application to be a distributor of medical marijuana.  A spokeswoman says in an email that the drug store chain has applied to Health Canada to become a licensed medical marijuana producer – but only for the purpose of distributing the drug. Tammy Smitham says Shoppers has “no intention” of producing cannabis. The application is an administrative requirement to be able to distribute the drug. However, even if Shoppers’ application is granted, the retailer won’t be permitted to dispense the drug through its stores unless the government updates the regulations. Under the current regime, patients...