cannabis

In April, Gov. Jim Justice signed Senate Bill 386, legalizing cannabis for medical use within the state. With the new industry poised to make an impact, the West Virginia Medical Cannabis Society (WVMCS) will hold the inaugural West Virginia Medical Cannabis Seminar Sept. 30 at Morgantown...

Drug user David Adams grew his own cannabis because he did not like dealers — then became one himself. The 33-year-old set up a cannabis farm at his home in Meir, then started offering the drug for sale to recoup the costs of the operation. Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard police had...

When more cannabis businesses begin operating in San Jacinto, Councilman Andrew Kotyuk said residents don't need to be struck with a case of reefer madness. "This is not Cheech and Chong," Kotyuk said. "This is a biotech doctorate and masters who work with highly trained technicians in a...

A tidal wave of establishment money is poised to crash over the state's cannabis industry, overtaking the advocates who spent decades eroding prohibition. That was my takeaway after attending a marijuana industry panel hosted by the Smith, Costello & Crawford Public Policy Law Group on Friday...

The members of the Cannabis Working Group met in front of a full room at the group's special meeting Sept. 14 in the Board of Supervisors' room in the courthouse in Quincy. The CWG and droves of community members flipped through a new draft ordinance and reviewed the changes. Who is on the...

The Department of City Planning drew up the maps based on proposed buffer-zone rules that prescribe an 800-foot distance between most pot retailers and schools, parks, libraries, churches and other dispensaries. That's larger than the average city block. Earlier this month, the Los Angeles...

With Mayor Ed Lee traveling abroad, Supervisor Malia Cohen signed her own legislation Friday to halt approvals of new cannabis business permits for 45 days in San Francisco. The moratorium comes just as the city's new Office of Cannabis prepares to roll out dispensary permitting regulations...

A vaping lounge that has yet to secure a physical location this week announced its intentions to become Denver's first business with a licensed cannabis consumption area. Denver Vape and Play, a proposed vaporizer bar for cannabis flower and concentrates, gave cannabis users a look at what might...

Legalizing cannabis doesn't just create jobs involving cultivation of the plant; it also creates businesses that aid those cultivations, infused-product manufacturers and dispensaries. Ancillary businesses to the cannabis industry can be in anything from extraction technology to industry...

I often get asked for advice about how to get rich on legal weed. Friends, family, strangers, amateur investors — everyone seems to believe that cannabis is some kind of magical industry where anyone can make millions overnight with little to no effort. After all, according to the folks over at...

When my daughter was 12 years old, she had her first seizure and for over 10 years she has been battling epilepsy. She has taken one prescription medication after another, enduring side effects such as slowed thinking, slow reflexes, difficulty with word retrieval, depression, sleepiness and...

Cannabis might still be illegal in the UK, but new research has found that the leafy substance might not be the vilified "gateway drug" it's widely thought to be. In fact, in might be the key to discouraging users from progressing to "harder" drugs, such as cocaine and ecstasy, claim...

University of Regina professor worried about outside influence on cannabis survey The provincial government has seen more than 32,000 people respond to their cannabis regulation survey since it was launched on Sept. 8. However, University of Regina education professor Marc Spooner is...

Cash and cannabis have long gone hand in hand. The federal government, with its insistence that marijuana is a schedule one controlled substance, makes federally insured banks and credit cards nervous about dealing with cannabis companies. But, Hawaii is looking to change that. By October 1...

With the legalization of cannabis in Nevada, we have a whole new world of compounds that can improve our health and well-being. One of things that can be helped most is sleep and the quality of said sleep. It turns out that a little known substance in cannabis that is usually considered a bad...

The long debate about medical marijuana played out again Thursday on Tennessee's Capitol Hill as skepticism was mixed with passionate support. It came at the first meeting of the task force appointed by the two legislative speakers to look into the issue. Medical Cannabis Task Force Chair...

A piece of lab equipment found outside a cannabis lab was identified as the projectile that shot through the building's roof just outside of Willits city limits on September 12, according to Captain Gregory L. Van Patten. The lid of a cylinder used to extract cannabis oil failed, after...

When you hear "green industry," you probably think of the current field that you are in and all that pertains to it, but the phrase can also refer to the booming interest in growing marijuana as more states legalize its medicinal and/or recreational use. While most individuals are happy to go...

As California's newly legalized cannabis market gears up for its January launch, pot farmers are looking for ways to meet new safety standards for their harvests. And in the rush to employ safe farming practices that result in high-quality yields, one California grower has adapted the farming...

Cannabis is often considered a "gateway drug" likely to send users on a downward spiral of substance abuse — inevitably leading midnight tokers to much harder forms of pain relief. It is such a common belief, state-funded research generally supports the notion that marijuana is a risk factor for...