cannabis

Having already issued nine business permits for commercial cannabis businesses, Salinas now moves ahead with the establishment of fees and a regulatory framework for the pot industry. At Tuesday's Salinas City Council meeting city, council members are expected to vote on a resolution that...

A former kidnap victim caught with cannabis in his car admitted that he dealt the drug to his friends. Rohman Ahmed was planning to dish small bags of the class B drug out to pals at a party — but police pulled him over first. The 22-year-old pleaded guilty to possession of a drug with...

Revenue officers at Dublin Airport seized 11.6kg of herbal cannabis after stopping and searched a 31-year-old Malaysian man who had arrived on a flight from Madrid. The haul was discovered following routine profiling, with the assistance of detector dog Scooby. The drugs have an estimated...

A Soweto scientist aims to take advantage of the government's decision to allow the growing of cannabis for medicinal purposes. On Wednesday, the Medicines Control Council (MCC) announced that it would approve regulations for the growing of cannabis for medicinal purposes in the next few...

Few industries have been able to put up growth numbers like the legal marijuana industry over the past couple of years. Though estimates vary, most analysts estimate the legal weed industry can grow by 25% to 35% annually between 2016 and 2021. GreenWave Advisors is calling for perhaps the...

New Hampshire just became the 22nd state in the U.S. to eliminate the possibility of spending time behind bars for possessing small amounts of marijuana. Earlier this year, lawmakers passed, and Republican Gov. Chris Sununu signed, a bill to decriminalize cannabis in the Granite State. The...

Hollywood has a drug problem. As America slowly crawls out from under the devastating weight of a failed War on Drugs, much of the entertainment industry still treats legal marijuana as a low-hanging punch line or forgettable, if buzz-worthy backdrop – as opposed to the most significant drug...

Howdy y'all, Are you having temperature problems in your walking closet? I sure was! Proper ventilation is absolutely crucial to the health and vitality of the plant that you are trying so hard to cultivate. Unfortunately, I have been reading that a non-insignificant number of growers are okay...

The Willits City Council introduced the final draft of the medical cannabis ordinance at its regular meeting Wednesday night. "We feel in a much better position to regulate these activities," City Manager Adrienne Moore said, about taking another step to legalize medical cannabis. The...

Current city leaders have often seemed comfortable in a self-anointed role: the overwatch of an underdog municipality where being described as unorthodox is a source of pride. But as their cornerstone, open-throttle commercial cannabis industry ramps up, officials here have, too, noticed the...

A mid-morning raid by police uncovered a cannabis factory in Cambridgeshire with drugs valued at £250,000 after a tip-off. The latest raid of a cannabis factory comes as police target drugs lords in a bid to smash associated crime including human trafficking and modern-day slavery...

Maritime medical cannabis dispensary owners and other workers in the illicit side of the industry met in Halifax to discuss creating a not-for-profit group to present their concerns to provincial and federal governments, according to one store owner. "A collective voice with respect to any...

In the past several millennia, cannabis has been revered as highly spiritual. Whether it was for medicinal purposes, trade, nourishment, or rituals, the plant has long inspired connection, gratitude, and overall well-being, from the inside and out. Then, of course, came that oh-so-little speed...

If you're among the countless women who are forced to endure the wrath of PMS (or you love one who does), with its cramps, bloating, headaches, and mood swings each month, then cannabis just might be the solution you've been looking for. There's no definitive proof yet–largely due to the...

Cloverdale is cautiously opening the door to cannabis businesses with a measured approach to the newly legitimized industry. As the northernmost city in Sonoma County and the closest to the prized marijuana grown in the Emerald Triangle of Mendocino, Humboldt and Trinity counties, Cloverdale...

A B.C. pot activist and dispensary owner told MPs studying the government's cannabis legalization bill Friday that excluding edible cannabis products from next year's planned rollout will mean the black market will continue to supply them. "If the government is not going to allow edibles and...

Cannabis's federally illegal status makes it difficult to conduct licensed clinical research on the plant and products made from it, hampering medical and commercial advancements in cultivation, extraction and ingestion. Colorado legislators got tired of waiting for the feds, and in May passed a...

On June 19th, 2017, Mexico legalized medical marijuana, or more specifically, "pharmacological derivatives of cannabis" to be regulated and studied by the Ministry of Health. But, for now, Mexico's medical cannabis market will look much different than say, California's, which sells everything...

Two weeks ago, Phoenix resident Rebecca Masterson took in a kid who desperately needed a home. The 16-year-old boy has no parents and has "anger issues" from a life of neglect, she wrote on her personal blog on September 1. She met him earlier this year after choosing to become a foster parent...

The first two people that chef and restaurateur Jeff Black consulted before he officially decided to get in the medical cannabis business were his kids, then 12 and 13. "I sat them down, and I said, 'I'm not going to do this if there's going to be some stigma against you in school. I'm not...