cannabis

Cannabis is slowly becoming a mainstream product as state laws continue to change and brands launch innovative lifestyle offerings around the psychotropic plant. (Think: laced lip balms, snakeskin joint holders, and vegan dark chocolate caramels sprinkled with matcha salt.) But on Saturday, when...

A high-end maker of cannabis-infused chocolate has signed a tentative deal to open a store in the Westfield San Francisco Centre, which experts say would be the first time a major class-A mall has agreed to house a marijuana-based outlet. While the deal is not finalized and must win city...

Five people have been sentenced over a £10m cannabis operation involving more than 6,000 plants across three sites. Police uncovered plants at a rented Northamptonshire warehouse in October 2014, before finding more plants on a Lincolnshire industrial estate and at a property in Northampton...

To understand Californians' favorite methods for ingesting cannabis, Joshua Hoffman likens it to the different ways of experiencing music. Think of smoking cannabis flowers like attending a live concert, he said. The second most popular method – vape pens – is like listening to a CD on...

Hello. First time posting. My question is can I cut an outdoor clone and grow roots in a fresh water aquarium? I'm reading that the water needs air circulation and my aquarium provides that. Would the fish and plants be bad for the cannabis clone or the cannabis be bad for the fish? Or should...

UK drug dealers are now giving their customers 'medical advice' and prescribing different cannabis strains for various ailments. Cannabis dealers and growers are trying to gain an edge on their competition by copying sophisticated marketing methods of American medical cannabis companies...

To stave off prison time, Mark Shanklin of St. Louis must convince the Missouri Supreme Court that in 2014, Missouri voters approved a pro-farming constitutional amendment with the intent to legalize growing marijuana. Putting aside the question of whether Shanklin succeeds – the court is...

As proposed legislation to decriminalize recreational marijuana use awaits approval from the attorney-general, the Agriculture Ministry recently announced it is classifying medical-grade-cannabis growing as an official farming sector. The move thereby entitles between 15 and 20 marijuana...

Advocates of medical marijuana are in high spirits after the health committee of the House of Representatives endorsed a bill allowing the use of cannabis to treat chronic or debilitating health conditions. The House panel on Monday unanimously approved the committee draft report on the...

Today, the PA Medicinal Cannabis Education Tour will be taking place a few miles off of Penn State campus, at State College's Celebration Hall. Attendees and healthcare professionals will learn about the underlying science pertaining to the pharmacologic and therapeutic options associated...

The number of marijuana dispensaries operating in the unincorporated areas of Stanislaus County currently sits at 14, but that number will soon be cut in half following the Board of Supervisors' approval Tuesday of a conservative strategy to allow the retail sale and cultivation of cannabis...

Canada-based PUF Ventures Inc. will build a 1 million-square-foot greenhouse operation, with large scale manufacturing, processing and office facilities for the cultivation, production and manufacture of medical cannabis and associated products in Australia. The project is the result of a...

Prospective cannabis businesses are circling Davis, which is set to be a hot market for recreational and medical marijuana sales when the city begins issuing permits for dispensaries and delivery services. At least eight dispensaries are hoping to open up shop in Davis. Only four of those...

The munchies are driving up fast-food sales in states where marijuana is legal. Cannabis has been shown to increase users' appetite, sending many customers of legalized dispensaries to fast-food chains, according to a new study by Green Market Report and Consumer Research Around Cannabis...

City officials in Carlsbad voted 4-1 Tuesday to prohibit commercial marijuana activity including pot shops. The proposed ordinance would have changed the language in the Carlsbad Municipal Code to ban commercial outdoor cannabis growing as well. The new city ordinance matches state law...

Months before California allows the sale of marijuana for recreational use, the state has launched an education campaign about the drug, including highlighting the potential harms of cannabis for minors and pregnant women. The state is scheduled to issue licenses starting Jan. 2 for growing...

Cannabis Benchmarks has released a new Mid-2017 Wholesale Market report on the spot prices for cannabis in legal markets. Cannabis Benchmarks is a division of New Leaf Data Services and gathers its pricing information from in-the-field reporters who contact cultivators and dispensaries...

If you've lived in L.A. long enough, you probably remember a Venice beach that was gritty, graffitied and full of ganja. The smell of weed was ubiquitous, and would often emanate from the Sunday afternoon drum circle where locals and tourists roll and smoke joints with little discretion. They...

A subcommittee has directed the city manager to present four businesses with coveted medical marijuana dispensary licenses as early as Monday, according to Mayor Rich Kerr, and the successful applicants are a list of familiar names. The Cannabis Permit Committee –which consists of Kerr, Mayor...

A bill that would legalize and regulate the medical use of cannabis hurdled the House committee on health more than a year after it was first filed at the House of Representatives. The House panel, chaired by Quezon 4th District Representative Angelina Tan, approved the draft committee report...