Topic: medical cannabis

A Summary Court magistrate has given Phillip Sweet of the Little Big Town country band an absolute discharge after he pleaded guilty to bringing 11 medicinal cannabis gummies into Cayman.

A legal drama that began in 2019 with a police and customs raid on Doctors Express took a new twist this week when a judge ordered the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to disclose how it decided not to prosecute individuals who were party to the unlawful raid.

Describing a drawn-out defence of their actions as “highly improper”, Grand Court Judge Robin McMillan has ordered the heads of customs and police and former Chief Medical Officer Dr. John Lee to pay Doctors Express its full legal costs after it challenged an illegal raid on its premises.

A Crown counsel has told the Grand Court that Customs and Border Control officers cannot be held legally liable for executing a search warrant...

A judicial review into the authorisation and execution of a warrant used by Customs and Border Control officers to raid Doctors Express for medical cannabinoids and vapes resumed in the Grand Court on Tuesday, 3 Nov.

The Doctors Express medical clinic is once again stocking pharmaceutical-grade vaporisable medical cannabis almost a year after being ordered to stop prescribing and selling those products.

Health insurance providers in the Cayman Islands that previously did not cover medical cannabis are now reviewing their positions, according to the leader of Cayman’s health insurance advisory group.

The Health Services Authority has confirmed that its medical staff treated two e-cigarette users but stopped short of linking their symptoms with the use of those products.

Customs and Border Control officers searched Doctors Express Tuesday, days after the medical facility was forced to pull cannabis vaping products from its shelves, according to a government spokesperson.

In the 16 months his pharmacies have been dispensing cannabis products, David Pellow said about 300 people have filled prescriptions for the drug, which is dispensed in the form of an oil or pill.

The woman who inspired a movement to legalize medicinal cannabis in the Cayman Islands has died.

Our country seems to be of two (or more) conflicting minds about ganja, and whether its use should be tolerated, discouraged or punishable by prison.