Co-authored by Ruth Fisher, PhD

The following post explores the bioavailability and efficacy of various cannabis products, followed by a brief overview of the legal protection afforded to each as an intellectual property asset.

Over the millennia, our bodies have evolved to better protect themselves. Protection from outside our bodies comes from our skin, which creates a barrier that’s quite difficult to penetrate by most foreign substances (pathogens). Protection from within our bodies comes from barriers (epithelial tissues) that line all our internal organs and pathways, to make sure nothing penetrates areas it should not. The result of all this protection is that it can be difficult for cannabis substances to penetrate our bodies and travel to the sites needed to generate their effects.Continue Reading Technologies for Enhancing Cannabis Bioavailability and Their Legal Methods of Protection

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at the world of legalized marijuana.  The big news is that Ohio has now officially legalized medical marijuana (medijuana, as we like to call it).  See TBT’s post on that here.  But that’s not the only thing that’s been going on.


Continue Reading The Week in Weed: June 17, 2016