Marijuana / Cannabis

Assisted living communities can meet their residents’ desire for marijuana use with careful consideration and planning.

Emotional exhaustion was reduced, but five participants in the treatment group experienced serious adverse events.

A higher risk was seen for medical cannabis use and prescription opioid and tranquilizer/sedative use and misuse.

A bill that would legalize marijuana at the federal level will be discussed at a House Judiciary Committee meeting tomorrow, Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) announced Monday.

A Florida company must stop marketing its unapproved cannabidiol products using unsubstantiated claims that the products treat Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease and other conditions, the Food...

Federal law complicates medical cannabis use in assisted living communities … As seniors go into twilight years, some of them privately mull ‘rational suicide’

As a bill designed to expand access to medical cannabis heads for potential signing, associations representing assisted living operators are looking for guidance on whether it applies to assisted living...

As the legal use of marijuana for medical purposes becomes more widespread in states across the country, senior living community operators are encountering challenges with serving their residents while...

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Physician leaders as chief / corporate medical officers in healthcare is not a new concept. Such a role at the corporate leadership level in senior living, however, is relatively new. And greatly needed.