On May 27, 2021, the Senate voted to amend the
United States Innovation and Competition Act (the Act), formerly the Endless Frontier Act, a bill that started as an effort to increase the United States’ competitive advantage in the world through investments in research and technology, but that has morphed into a broad China-centered legislative package including trade components. Included in the package is an amendment, entitled the
Trade Act of 2021, which would allow substantial opportunities for importers to obtain relief from the Section 301 tariffs currently imposed on certain Chinese-origin products.
The amendment, a bipartisan compromise between Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-ID) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR), would renew and extend expired exclusions to tariffs on Chinese goods resulting from the
Between 1850 and 1937, the U.S. Pharmacopoeia listed cannabis as a medicine for more than 100 separate diseases and illnesses. But, since its removal from the U.S. Pharmacopoeia in 1937, education around medical cannabis has been largely absent in most mainstream medical, nursing and healthcare provider training curricula.
Fortunately, as we know, cannabis is making a comeback, with more and more patients choosing it over prescription drugs and other over-the-counter medications.
However, the gap between the patient-driven need for cannabis therapeutic support and current medical provider knowledge is immense.
Seeking to better understand what’s going on, the Cannabis Center of Excellence (CCOE), Medicinal Genomics and UMass Dartmouth launched “The Healthcare Provider Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices Related to Medical Cannabis Research Study.”
China Daily, May 10, 2021.
Cheng Enfu is a principal professor at the University of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, director of the Research Center for Economic and Social Development at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and president of the World Association for Political Economy. He can be reached at 65344718[at]vip.163.com. Lu Baolin is a professor at the School of Economics, Qufu Normal University.
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