Benefit of CBD too Obvious to Deny, US Weighs Rescheduling a molecule by Fred Gardner

•Senate Drug Caucus Investigates Political Potential of CBD

•  ‘Charlotte’s Web’ grown as hemp; Importers eye domestic options

• Paige Figi pushes CBD measure in Congress;

• ASA’s Steph Sherer backing ‘CARERS’ bill

• Cannavest

• Breyer to DOJ: Acts of Congress Matter

• THCV Plants in California —Enough to Start Breeding Up by O’S News Service

• The Editorial Page

Adding Cannabis to the Curriculum  —editorial

Is Cannabis-Based Medicine a Valid —and Viable— Specialty?  An interview with Jeffrey Hergenrather, MD 

• An Introduction to the Endocannabinoid System by Dustin Sulak, DO

• Cannabis in the Treatment of Pediatric Epilepsy by Bonni Goldstein, MD

• Tod Mikuriya’s Discovery by Inference

• CBD-Drug Interactions by Adrian Devitt-Lee 

• Dr. Abrams’ recruitment problem: patients already know treatment helps 

• PTSD Associated with Cannabinoid Deficits by Martin A. Lee

• Findings and Observations by Robert Sullivan, MD

• Dupuytren’s Contracture Resolved With Cannabis Salve by Dr. John Lovejoy

• How Does CBD Regulate Gene Expression? by Adrian Devitt-Lee and Martin A. Lee  

• Appendino’s Advice to ICRS Scientists: ‘Consider ‘New Targets, Chemistry, Plant Sources’ 

• The Flavonoids Unique to Cannabis 

• Correct(ed) Vernacular Nomenclature by John McPartland  

• The ICRS Highlights

•  Treatment with cannabis and cannabinoids: practical aspects and controversies by Ethan Russo, MD 

• Nursing home staffers document a versatile boon for the elderly from Tel Aviv (by Zach Klein) to Sonoma County (by Jeffrey Hergenrather)

    • The Nurse as Organizer —Karen Mankins

• CBD-rich cannabis (whole plant extract) is better medicine than single-molecule CBD

• Hemp is Closer to Indica

• 2015 Hemp Harvest in Kentucky, Colorado, Tennesee

• When Hemp Reigned in Kentucky

• Harvard, Marijuana and Me by Lester Grinspoon, MD

• Zenia Gilg’s direct challenge to marijuana’s schedule 1 status

• Dr. O’Shaughnessy in India by Binaybhushan Ray 

• Xerostomia AKA Cotton Mouth by Joshua Ahn

• Cultivators hoping to breed up THCV levels by O’S News Service

•  CBD producers meeting demand despite raids in California

• Raphael Mechoulam is ‘The Scientist’ (Zach Klein’s new documentary)

• ‘Savages’ Reviewed by Saul Landau 

• Lawrence Ringo

• Obituaries: Rik Musty, Mike Gray, John Vasconellos, Joe McNamara

• Books: Three Prime Movers (Stroup, O’Leary, Sperling) reviewed by FG 

• Plant Senses reviewed by Zara Axelrod

• Cannabis Evolution and Ethnobotany reviewed by Michael Backes

• Notes From Prison by Dustin Costa

• Commentaries and Correspondence

    •  Saying no to GMP Cannabis

    •  Deferred Entry of Judgment

    •  Wrestling With Self-Promoters (Werner v. Sabet)

    • Hemp Russet Mites: an appalling pest (letter from Love, note from Hillig)

    • Deadliness of Downers Documented

•  Marijuana and the Developing Brain

•  Indigo Rose