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A Southern California company that planted a hemp farm in the Delta for "agricultural and academic research" has filed a federal lawsuit against San Joaquin County, after supervisors banned such farms and authorities seized the plants. Cannabis Science Inc., along with other plaintiffs...

A store that sells CBD - or cannabidiol oil - is open for business in at 4004 W. Central in Wichita. The owner of CBD American Shaman Wichita says the oils is THC free and legal to sell. He also says it can help with a variety of health problems. "We just put a full drop into the water...

Hardship rides the wind in the West End, a lonely basin where Colorado's Uncompahgre Plateau joins Utah's canyonlands. It started more than 30 years ago, when the collapse of the uranium market and the failure of the country's nuclear-energy renaissance decimated the town of Uravan and idled...

New Zealanders have a big decision to make - by 2021 they will decide whether the personal use of cannabis should be legal. The referendum is one of the Green Party's policy gains this election - albeit in a form palatable to the referendum-enthusiastic NZ First caucus. The question of...

The Tennessee Joint Ad Hoc Committee on Medical Cannabis met on Thursday to continue the debate on legislation surrounding medical cannabis. Rep. Jeremy Faison, Co-Chairman of the committee, laid out changes to the proposed legislation he and others on the committee plan to file. While Faison...

Cannabis is a big business on the upswing. The recreational marijuana market reached $6.5 billion in sales in 2016, according to a recent report from Greenwave Advisors, up 35 percent year-over-year. What's more, 29 US states and Washington D.C. have legalized marijuana in some form. It was only...

You'd be living under a rock if you hadn't noticed weed is having a moment (sartorially speaking, of course). Once the preserve of stoners, now it promises better sex, has infiltrated the catwalk and is even a part of Kendall Jenner's airport attire. It's safe to say that the cannabis plant...

Cell-sized cannabis factories could soon be producing medical treatments for epilepsy. A non-psychoactive compound found in marijuana plants called cannabidivarin (CBDV) has shown promise in the treatment of severe cases of epilepsy. However, to treat just 10 per cent of people with epilepsy...

Praise for microdosing — the cannabis consumption method that involves ingesting the least amount of THC possible while still benefiting from the medicine — only seems to be growing louder by the minute. It only makes sense, then, that more and more products aimed at optimizing the practice...

When Karan Wadhera abandoned a successful career as an investment banker in Asia to plunge into North America's cannabis industry, former colleagues could have been forgiven for thinking he was smoking weed himself. But for Mr Wadhera, Indian by birth but who has a US education and...

A commission studying marijuana legalization is tasked with identifying "the good, the bad, and the ugly." That's how Rep. Patrick Abrami sums it up. He's the commission's chairman. Abrami's outline of guidelines at the first meeting of the commission this week points to the workload...

The University of Northern Michigan is offering a new degree this year: medicinal plant chemistry. And apparently it pays. "All of our graduates are going to be qualified to be analysts in a lab setting," Brandon Canfield, the associate professor of analytical chemistry who started the...

In Northern California, two intoxicants are king — wine and weed. Both products drive the $3.2 billion-a-year tourism industry in Napa and Sonoma counties. But as wildfires continue to rage through the region this week, marijuana growers and winemakers are struggling to keep their crops safe...

Elkins Farms in Smiths Grove is busy growing fields full of hemp. Mike Bullock, local agriculture specialist with South Central Community and Technical College says the farm hopes to promote the hemp industry and educate people on the potentials available through growing commercial hemp...

A new report into cannabis in the UK has raised concerns about the potency of the drug. The study was conducted at Manchester Metropolitan University. Researchers there say it suggests most of the cannabis bought on the streets is high in the plant's most dangerous substance. Only 50...

Serial entrepreneur Wanda James, the first black owner of a marijuana dispensary in Colorado, does more than just sell cannabis. She is on the frontlines of the marijuana movement, working to expand the legalization and decriminalization of both medical and recreational use beyond her...

The pro medical marijuana advocacy group Grassroots Guam has sent out a release saying that they have heard reports that the Department of Revenue and Taxation has been denying cannabis business license applications. PNC contacted Rev&Tax director John Camacho who says that his agency is not...

Henry Rollins doesn't use marijuana, but he's passionate about the importance of its legalization. "The history of cannabis is a story of bigotry, elitism and corruption, so I push against that," says Rollins, an actor, comedian, musician and activist who is the keynote speaker for the Oregon...

UBC researchers are cautioning policy makers not to alter a cannabis distribution system that–while not legal yet–works well. Associate professor Zach Walsh, who teaches psychology at UBC's Okanagan campus, and PhD candidate Rielle Capler, say store-front dispensaries–often under fire by law...

Twelve-year-old Alexis Bortell uses a cannabis oil called Haleigh's Hope to prevent life-threatening epileptic seizures. She takes the oil orally by syringe twice a day, and always keeps a THC spray on hand in case she experiences an aura, or pre-seizure event. The auras happen maybe once every...