cannabis

This weekend the Michigan medical marijuana industry will be taking over the Auto City Speedway in Clio for the annual Midwest Cannabis Cup. The event is going on its fourth year in Michigan and is hosted by the iconic counterculture magazine High Times. According to promotional material...

It's been three years since Clark County's first cannabis businesses appeared, and this corner of Southwest Washington has grown into the fifth largest cannabis market in the state, according to sales and excise taxes collected. What started out as a chaotic industry with major supply-side...

Come this fall, tourists and curious locals may be able to hop in a van, visit local cannabis farms, purchase primo bud and soak up Humboldt County's multi-generational marijuana culture during day-long tours. McKinleyville entrepreneur Matt Kurth is launching Humboldt Cannabis Tours, which...

Except for the labels on the cannabis, it looks like a Soho loft party. Natural light colors the city-block-long room in Southwest Portland, occupied by a snaking arrangement of tables set for 75 dinner guests. Nearby, a DJ spins downtempo, clubby beats, and a caterer holding a tray of...

Non-profit societies could sell cannabis in the same way as the regime that runs pokie machines, a Massey University research paper has suggested. The report's author said gambling machines had been run in New Zealand for over 20 years by trusts, which last year paid out $260 million to the...

I've had my orange tabby since he was a kitten and he will be 18 years old next month. He likes to sleep on me at night to stay warm. Probably because of arthritis – I can relate – he started changing positions every 5 or 10 minutes, which of course wakes me up. I started putting a few...

Medlab Clinical has received approvals to begin human trials of two different cannabis based medicines – NanaBis and NanaBidial. NanaBis is packaged as a mouth spray and will be clinically tested in advanced stage cancer patients with intractable pain. The drug is expected to meet a global...

The SCSO released the latest statistical data on illicit drug seizures made during 2017. The Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office reported the following: The SCSO released the latest statistical data on illicit drug seizures made during 2017. Operating primarily on private property using...

Donald Trump owes his electoral victory to pro-cannabis voters according to political strategist Roger Stone, who wants the president to repay the favor by getting out of the way of the movement to legalize marijuana. Stone - a longtime confidant of Trump - recently launched the United States...

At least three Texas-based cannabis companies are preparing to battle the state Department of Public Safety over its awarding of provisional licenses to dispense medical marijuana. Chad Sykes, founder of Indoor Harvest in Houston, said his company pioneered technology that has been embraced...

A coalition of academics is calling on the federal government to make researching the effects of pot a priority as Ottawa works to legalize and regulate marijuana by next July. An open letter from more than 50 researchers from across Canada says policy-makers should support efforts to learn...

As we consider marijuana legalization in New Jersey, the rights of everyday consumers should be at the forefront, and stay there. But the cannabis industry and out-of-state regulators have been hogging the table. Legalization means far more than a right to buy. It also means creating spaces...

Tampa's outspoken strip club entrepreneur, Joe Redner, wants to grow his own marijuana plants. So much so that he's filed a lawsuit against the Florida Department of Health, which under current rules bars Floridians from growing cannabis plants for their personal use, even those who are legally...

Cannabis consumers are frequently affiliated with lazy, unsuccessful and apathetic labels. But, contrary to the popular stereotype new research suggests they are in fact among the most satisfied and successful among us. The study, conducted by market researchers BDS Analytics, surveyed...

They are bankers, accountants and computer engineers — mainstream in every way but for one respect: their love of cannabis and the desire to make megabucks in a growing US industry. This week in New York, around 120 people took part in workshops on where and how to invest in cannabis...

Police say wild crops of cannabis could be growing in fields across Devon after they found a second plantation within seven days. A week ago police found cannabis growing in a field in Tamerton, to the north of Plymouth, and have now found another east of the city in Plympton. Pc Greg...

The mother of the child that Mississippi's Harper Grace's Law is named after has started a GoFundMe account to raise $6,000 to move the family to Colorado so her daughter will be able to freely get cannabis oil to treat her rare form of epilepsy. "This move is all I know to do at this point,"...

A marijuana aficionado in Colorado has launched a program he hopes will make the title of cannabis interpener as familiar as wine sommelier, cheesemonger and chocolatier. Max Montrose, the 29-year-old president and co-founder of the Trichrome Institute in Denver, said he designed the niche...

Cannabis companies are turning to the world's most popular digital currency in an effort to get rid of all of that cash. The inability to access traditional financial institutions is one of the marijuana industry's biggest impediments. Legal cannabis was a $6 billion industry last year and...

Brisbane man Michael Stoopman is a cancer survivor who believes the benefits of medicinal cannabis go way beyond palliative care. Last year he had a large ulcerating tumor eating into his carotid artery in his neck that threatened his life. Ulcerating tumors rarely heal and doctors told...