cannabis

San Francisco's brand-new Office of Cannabis now has a director. On Aug. 28, longtime City Hall aide Nicole Elliott was appointed to head the newly established department, which was formalized by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on July 25. Elliott is now on the hook to deliver two...

Sri Lanka will launch its first cannabis plantation to export the drug to the US for medicinal use, the country's health minister announced. The 100-acre (400-hectare) farm could produce more than 25 tons of marijuana a year in a bid to meet the "high demand" for alternative medicine...

A man accidentally set fire to his council house trying to grow more than £10,000 worth of cannabis in his bedroom, a court heard. Police and firefighters discovered Sean Joyce's cannabis cultivation after it burned a hole through to the living room below at his Milnathort home. Joyce, 47...

A pay-to-play system has developed between state-licensed cannabis operators and municipal governments across the country for local zoning. The same model has quickly materialized in Pennsylvania, and now one town has gone too far. Muhlenberg Township in Berks County was trying to squeeze a...

It's true - the province has made a major move in its plan to regulate and dispense cannabis prior to the federal government's plan to legalize the substance next year. Now that the Ontario government will be overseeing the legal retail of cannabis all over the province, residents have weighed...

As I walked into the Jackson medical cannabis dispensary last weekend, I noticed behind me an old, frail woman. Her hands were shaking, and her voice was filled with tears. "The OxyContin doesn't take away the pain," I heard her say to the attendant. She asked the cashier for a few grams...

Local police on New Zealand's South Island are calling on a primary school to be on the lookout for illegal cannabis plantations. Havelock School in the picturesque Marlborough Sounds has run a police appeal in its latest newsletter - just below the cross-country race results - urging teachers...

Rural doctors are warning they are unprepared to prescribe medicinal cannabis, despite patients requesting access to the controversial drug. Victoria became the first state in Australia to legalize the use of cannabis for medical purposes, with the first access given to children with serious...

Trent Kitsch is opening a new door to the cannabis industry in Kelowna. He's a major grower – all perfectly legal – and he's also a facilitator. Kitsch is opening up a shop at the old Bean Scene in downtown Kelowna where he won't be selling cannabis but rather helping people who want it...

A new website launched Tuesday aims to be the cannabis industry's preeminent source for in-depth financial reporting. The Green Market Report will publish news briefs on all facets of the cannabis business, including banking issues, investment, cultivation and extraction, as well as...

Lesotho's Ministry of Health just granted South African medical company, Verve Dynamics, an official license for the cultivation of marijuana for medical and scientific purposes–making it the first marijuana production company on the continent to have been given administrative approval...

For an 83-year-old Utah Republican who says he is "strongly against recreational marijuana use," Orrin Hatch has a remarkable command of cannabis-related slang. "It's high time to address research into medical marijuana," Hatch said today in the Senate. "To be blunt, we need to remove the...

Election night 2016 was such a shocker nationally that maybe you’ve forgotten that, oh yes, California voted to legalize recreational marijuana. And come January, if you’re at least 21, cannabis can be officially taxed and sold to you, just like, oh, the cheese doodles you’ll be wanting to eat...

San Francisco will temporarily halt approvals of new cannabis dispensaries just months before the sale of recreational marijuana becomes legal in California, the Board of Supervisors decided Tuesday. The ordinance imposing a 45-day moratorium on the industry, which passed 9-2, prompted fierce...

In June, the Senate voted to amend Category A of the Therapeutic Goods Administration's (TGA) Special Access Scheme (SAS) and fast-track access to imported medical cannabis for a small group of terminally ill patients who had already been prescribed the treatment by their doctors. Medicinal...

The Greens leader, Richard di Natale, has accused the federal government of "ignoring the will of parliament" on the importation of medicinal cannabis as doctors complain that the current system has "multiple obstacles" that prevent terminally ill patients from obtaining the drug. Di Natale...

Canada should be legalizing edible weed candies and desserts once cannabis is legalized in 2018, says the chair of Canada's task force on marijuana legalization. Speaking at a hearing on the legalization of marijuana in Canada, Anne McLellan, chair of the marijuana legalization task force...

High-level staff at outdoor recreational outfitter REI have internally discussed entering the marijuana industry, but the company as a whole is concerned about ongoing uncertainty on the federal level. "We've talked about this at REI, because it makes a lot of sense," Elizabeth Dowd, REI's...

Thomas James Brennan makes a powerful case that military veterans deserve access to medical marijuana, which can help alleviate physical and mental war wounds ("Why Pot, Not Pills, Works for My T.B.I.," Op-Ed, Sept. 1). Mr. Brennan is correct that federal law prevents doctors in the...

Cannabis enhances yoga. Individually weed and yoga are scientifically proven to help you relax, but combined they're alchemic. Colorado-based 420 Yoga Retreats is launching two cannabis yoga weekends this Fall. The first retreat is for individuals and the second is a couple's retreat. The...