cannabis

How much is too much? As Hanford prepares to dive head-first into the cannabis business, the City Council decided how many cannabis permits the city is willing to take on. Council approved a resolution that established the application procedures, fees, forms and permits for the commercial...

Most women–up to 90 percent by some reckoning–experience some nausea or vomiting during pregnancy. Up to two percent of them suffer from the life-threatening condition hyperemesis gravidarum, which is super morning sickness. One of the oldest medical uses of cannabis was obstetric, both to...

Rich DiMarco cares about cannabis, including the terminology used to describe it. "Nobody who is serious about cannabis should ever call it marijuana," the Greensburg resident said. "Marijuana is a slang name that has no scientific connection at all to cannabis." DiMarco, a retired engineer...

These days, cannabis is Colorado's cash crop. (Ciao, corn!) In the three-and-a-half years since the state began allowing adults to purchase marijuana for recreational use, cannabis has contributed more than half a billion dollars in tax revenue to both state and local coffers. That's...

There are so many pot smokers in the NFL that ESPN.com has an "All-Weed" team listed on its website. It's an open secret that players can smoke weed as long as they pass the preseason drug test. The hypocrisy of the NFL handing out Percocet and Oxycontin like candy while suspending players for...

The use of medical marijuana is now legal in 29 states and the District of Columbia. Eight states have passed laws allowing for the legal use of marijuana recreationally. Michigan could become the ninth later this year, where the city of Detroit already allows the sale of marijuana in stores...

Twenty people representing cannabis business interests, real estate, schools, rural neighborhoods and other concerns were appointed Tuesday to advise the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors on its rules governing the region's emerging pot industry. Chosen from more than 100 people who applied...

A year ago, City Council decided to do away with cannabis clubs. But instead of straight-up banning the clubs, many of which had been operating for years, local lawmakers created an out: Clubs could apply for a "marijuana consumption club" license that gives them eight years to stay open – if...

There's a groundswell of support for cannabis legalisation in the United States, with 29 states, as well as Washington D.C. approved for medicinal cannabis, and eight for lifestyle use. Things are farther ahead in Canada. Regulations for production and sales have been in place for over three...

A group that believes there is an ancient and little-known connection between Christianity and cannabis plans to burn oil full of psychoactive cannabinoids inside the nation's largest Roman Catholic church during the solar eclipse on August 21. Anne Armstrong, a longtime cannabis activist and...

A medical marijuana chain opened the doors to its first dispensary in the city on Wednesday morning. Trulieve, one of only a handful of companies in Florida authorized to grow marijuana and produce and sell cannabis products, opened its new shop at 8435 Fourth St. N at 10 a.m. St...

The legal marijuana industry has been a monster in terms of growth, and marijuana stock investors have taken notice. In fact, a majority of pot stocks have doubled or tripled in value over the trailing 12 months. It's not hard to see why investors are so excited about marijuana stocks...

Sleeping pills have pretty grim effects on your health if you use them long-term — so should you just have a huge bong hit instead? Cannabis users in America are turning to weed, according to a report which came out this year — and there's (some) science to back up the idea, says science...

It takes courage to face an alcohol addiction. Unfortunately, for those who have been dependent on alcohol day in and day out for years, attempting to quit cold turkey or taper off can hold potentially fatal consequences. After years of usage the body develops a dependency on alcohol...

Medicinal cannabis should be grown under protected cropping conditions, not open fields, according to an industry expert. Widely known hydroponic cropping figure and author, Dr Mike Nichols, spoke at the Protected Cropping Australia Conference in Adelaide last week where he gave an insight...

The cannabis industry is this generation's version of the wild west. Instead of covered wagons and an Oregon Trail, intrepid entrepreneurs are diving headfirst into an industry that is evolving at the speed of light. The rapid pace of change is surprising, considering the product's...

By this time next summer cannabis may be legal in Canada as proposed by Ottawa. Having conducted and completed consultations with the public, the federal government now seeks to create and implement the legal framework for controlling the production, distribution, possession and sale of pot...

A Labor MP has urged druggies to smoke cannabis inside the House of Parliament in a bid to persuade politicians to change the law. Paul Flynn's bizarre outburst came as he admitted making a cup of cannabis tea for a campaigner when she visited him in the Palace of Westminster. Labor's...

With legalized recreational marijuana sales fast approaching, San Francisco is set to create a new Office of Cannabis to handle cannabis permits and complaints and serve as a centralized resource for the public and businesses. The new office, part of the city administrator's office, would be...

Ottawa entrepreneur Chuck Rifici dove in to the medical marijuana business with trepidation five years ago. "When I was first looking for investors and researching the creation of Tweed, you would whisper 'marijuana' in a Starbucks, talking to people," he recalls. "Mainstream discussion of...