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Last week, the cannabis media platform Herb, announced it had raised $4.1 million in seed funding. Some of those who invested in this round included Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke and Liquid 2 Ventures, which is a firm led by football great Joe Montana. There was a real appetite for this capital...

A marketing campaign to "Support Santa Cruz Cannabis" will kick off at 7 p.m. Sept. 13 at the Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St. GreenTrade Santa Cruz, a coalition of local cannabis businesses, will present a vision for how Santa Cruz businesses can capture their share of an...

Officers were called to the property above fast-food takeaway Pizza Capital on Cavendish Street on Friday, September 1 and stayed at the scene throughout the next day. Four police cars were lined up on the street in the town center on Saturday as officers in white overalls could be seen...

The city may temporarily ban new recreational and medical cannabis businesses to buy more time for officials to tailor local ordinances for Stockton. Officials and the City Council's legislation committee discussed the matter at a meeting last week. The possible temporary ban is expected to...

Jacqui Ritchie spoke out after appearing at Aberdeen Sheriff Court and admitting producing the plants. The offence took place at her home in Stonehaven's Redcloak Drive on March 8 this year. The court was told that the mum-of-two was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014, and that it turned...

"The illegality of cannabis is outrageous," Carl Sagan said in 1969. "An impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world." Sure, but what else would you expect...

The newly formed California Native American Cannabis Association is asking Gov. Jerry Brown to begin government-to-government consultations with tribes to ensure that cannabis regulations include specific language to respect tribal sovereignty and the right to self-regulate. The law governing...

"Please honor your word." This was the call made by medicinal cannabis supporters to President Rodrigo Duterte, who said a year ago that he would not deprive the Filipinos of the medical benefits from cannabis or marijuana. On Facebook, the Philippine Cannabis Compassion Society (PCCS) shared...

State Rep. Jeremy Faison, R-Cosby, and Sen. Steve Dickerson, R-Nashville, have been appointed Co-Chairmen of the Joint Ad Hoc Committee on Medical Cannabis in the Tennessee General Assembly. Eight Republican members of the legislature have been selected from both the House and Senate to...

Lake Tahoe welcomed its first recreational cannabis dispensary in Incline Village this July, but as South Lake Tahoe City Council moves toward a temporary ban of retail sales and with Douglas County's prohibition already in place, it may remain the closest store for South Shore residents – at...

With voters outside the Kenai Peninsula's incorporated cities set to decide in roughly a month whether to allow commercial marijuana operations, cannabis industry supporters and opponents are readying for the vote – one side with public meetings and campaigning, the other with advocacy by...

More political parties are lining up firmly or cautiously behind cannabis decriminalization - with even stronger backing for making the drug available for pain relief in certain medical cases. There is also strong support among the public - around two-thirds support decriminalization or...

School's in session and cannabis is on the syllabus. Accredited schools including University of Vermont and Ohio State University have started offering courses on the biology and use of marijuana as well as legal issues around it. Credit and non-credit course available in this "growing" subject...

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Maryland's first legal medical marijuana crop is finally growing after years of delays. Industry officials estimate the drug will be available for purchase by early 2018. Here's what you need to know: How can I get it? First, you must register as a patient with the Maryland Medical...

The explosion that wounded me during a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan in 2010 left me with a traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress. In 2012 I was medically retired from the Marine Corps because of debilitating migraines, vertigo and crippling depression. After a nine-year career, I...

At long last, Maryland's first legal marijuana crop is growing. With 19 companies cleared to grow, process and sell the plant, the seeds of the medical marijuana program have literally been planted, four years after the state legalized cannabis for medical use. In coming months, plants...

We have reliable documentary evidence for medical cannabis that goes back almost 2,000 years. (And not-so-reliable evidence that points even hundreds of years farther back.) Among the various other medical properties first recognized in the plant, physicians of ancient India and the later...

A Lithia mother that has dedicated her time to helping pass medical cannabis laws will have to end her fight in Florida, as she will be relocating to Virginia with high hopes of finding better healthcare for her son. Renee Petro has been caring for her 15-year-old son Branden since he was...

When Scott Richard Short's house burned down, he lost everything - including his cannabis crop and growing set-up. The fire was not caused by the sophisticated growing operation he had at the South Dunedin address but fire investigators and police did not have to search too hard to find...