cannabis

The MS Society's statement on cannabis last week flew under the news radar, but it's an important development in the drug debate. For the first time, the organization said the drug should be "legalized for medicinal use for people with MS to relieve their pain and muscle spasms when other...

Alcohol does more harm than cannabis, an expert testified on Friday in bid to have dagga legalized in the high court. “A society where cannabis replaced alcohol would be a nicer place to live and would have better health benefits and less health harms, and should be considered,” Professor David...

There's a rally in Auckland on Saturday to call for better access to natural affordable cannabis. Organisers NORML and Auckland Patients Group say they're against synthetic products. There have been as many as 10 deaths linked to synthetic cannabis in Auckland in the month of July. The...

A disused council leisure center in Newport was bought and turned into a cannabis farm worth up to £1.6m. Mohammed Nawaz allowed drug dealers to use buildings he owned across Britain, Cardiff Crown Court heard. One was Underwood Leisure Centre which he leased to Abdul Manuf, 46. Nawaz...

Nipton, Calif., 60 miles south of Las Vegas, isn't convenient to a whole lot. It sports a hotel, a trading post, a historical plaque and a whole lot of passing trains. And as of this week, Nipton has something else: a cannabis company for an owner, with designs on turning the hamlet into a...

Legalizing marijuana, California voters were told last year, would create a "safe, legal and comprehensive system" allowing adults to consume the drug while keeping it out of the hands of children. Marijuana would be sold in highly regulated stores, the Proposition 64 campaign promised, and...

This week, Senator Cory Booker introduced legislation to legalize marijuana nationwide. If passed, the New Jersey's Democrat's bill would "expunge federal marijuana convictions and penalize states with racially-disparate arrest or incarceration rates for marijuana-related crimes," according to...

Nipton, CA (population 20), located on the border of California and Nevada, is a remnant of the California Gold Rush. Now one of the first publicly traded companies to specialize in the legal cannabis space is hoping it will be the centerpiece of a 21st Century Green Rush. American Green has...

A large cannabis farm has been sniffed out in the upstairs of a Sunderland social club . The haul was uncovered by officers who were responding to a call out on a separate issue. Police were called to the Ivy Leaf Club, on Suffolk Street, Hendon, in Sunderland at 6.46pm on Sunday, July...

Four months after the Western Cape High Court's ruling that cannabis would be legalized in South Africa, supporters of the law change are gearing up for the biggest clinical cannabis convention the country has ever seen. Set to be held in Pretoria on Saturday, the convention will be attended...

A tribal Cannabis consulting firm in Nevada has helped arrange key compacts with Native American tribes. Tribal Cannabis Consulting (TCC) is a national consulting firm specializing in Native American cannabis policy. It successfully established the first cannabis compacts between the Nevada...

Days after Gov. Charlie Baker signed a new recreational marijuana bill into law, several officials at Tuesday's Planning Board meeting said they would support a strong, thriving legal cannabis trade in Easthampton. "There was some concern expressed about this becoming a marijuana destination...

Police have busted yet another two cannabis-growing houses in recent days in Perth, seizing close to 500 plants in the process. The recent drug houses are the latest in a long line of similar drug busts across Perth in the past year, involving homes, mostly rental properties, being converted...

The High Court in Pretoria will on Wednesday hear whether a case brought by the so-called dagga couple should be live streamed. Julian Stobbs and Myrtle Clark brought the matter before the court after they were arrested in 2010 in their home for smoking and growing cannabis. They claim the...

Earlier this month, the Alameda City Council voted 4-1 in favor of a referral from Mayor Trish Herrera Spencer to instruct staff to draft preliminary ordinances that would reverse the ban on cannabis cultivation and dispensaries within the city, and replace them with a regulatory framework that...

A new report on the cannabis industry has identified several emerging trends as more states boldly ignore the federal government and push forward with legalization. Massachusetts is the most recent state to begin establishing a legal market for adult use marijuana. Governor Charlie Baker, who...

One of the new members of Treasurer Deb Goldberg's Massachusetts Cannabis Advisory Board said the unpaid 25-member body is in "a holding pattern" until the full cannabis commission has been formed. Shanel Lindsay, an attorney and owner of a medical marijuana device company, said the advisory...

How does a really good outdoor grow compare to a really good indoor? Sun-grown weed gets a bad rap, mostly because back in the day, all the outdoor weed was smuggled in from out of the country or grown by irresponsible rapscallions more interested in profit than growing good cannabis. Also...

Winnipeg's modest legal-cannabis industry wants the Progressive Conservative government to foster a made-in-Manitoba marijuana sector as the clock ticks down toward the legalization of recreational weed. Cannabis producers and retailers say Brian Pallister's government ought to allow an array...

Despite failing health, Ivan Crump allowed his property to be used by others to grow more than 1000 cannabis plants for the Auckland market worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. After police busted one of the largest cannabis growing operations in Northland in March 2016, Crump denied he...