cannabis

U.S. Attorney Jeff Sessions is working to make medical marijuana harder to access throughout the nation. On Monday, a letter was released where he proposed undoing federal medical marijuana protections currently in place. Chris Stone, the CEO of HCI Alternatives a medical cannabis...

Manhattan's Jacob Javits Center's northernmost corner is a vast maze of booths teeming with cannabis advocates – all part of the fourth annual Cannabis World Congress Expo – and right smack in the center of the maw is state Sen. Diane Savino, getting a crash education course on the Isodiol...

Pot. Weed. Mary Jane. Ganja. There are many names for the plant recently legalized in Nevada for recreational use. But not all words are created equal and some industry reps are using the term cannabis instead of marijuana because of its historical context. Let's turn to our contributor Brook...

Californians could order up some pot with their cotton candy and corn dog at the county fair if a budget trailer bill becomes law. Senate Bill 94 brings the rules and regulations for medical marijuana and recreational marijuana together. In doing so, there is some language in the bill the...

Nine months after Oregon issued the toughest rules in the nation to keep pesticide-tainted marijuana off store shelves, the state acknowledges that some contaminated products continue to reach consumers. The admission underscores the tricky work of effectively regulating a plant long tied to...

The Drug Enforcement Administration has released an intelligence report given out to law enforcement agents to help them keep up with the latest drug lingo. There are nearly 300 terms on the list; here's a sample, from A to Z, along with our definitions. 420 "420" is mostly used in cannabis...

Members of the President Donald Trump's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis will hold their first meeting today. The Commission is tasked with studying "ways to combat and treat the scourge of drug abuse, addiction, and the opioid crisis" – the latter of which was...

In the U.S., one square foot of indoor marijuana cultivation uses four times more energy than the same space in a hospital, eight times more energy than a commercial building, and 20 times more energy than a center for religious worship, according to a study by Lewis and Clark College. But a...

As more states legalize marijuana, consumer are discovering more and more varieties. Expert growers are creating a new market for the cannabis aficionado with a more refined palette. How do weed tastings fit in? The industry is slowly developing into a scene that reminds many of the boutique...

It looks as though we finally found something that not even David Copperfield could pull off. According to the New York Post, the crew at Acres Cannabis in Las Vegas seems to be more than ready for July 1, which is of course the day weed becomes legal in the great state of Nevada. Expecting...

On the Tuesday after Memorial Day, Dr. Barry Gordon stayed busy seeing patients who qualified or might qualify to use medical marijuana under Florida’s new program. A former ER doctor from Ohio, he and his wife, Patricia, and their business partner, Patrick DeLuca, opened the Compassionate...

There are articles being written around the country about the utilization of medical cannabis as an effective treatment for chronic pain and a broad range of other health problems. I have been clipping these articles and saving them, for I think it is important that we support medical...

The legal marijuana industry is seeing green, and over the past year, marijuana stock investors couldn't be happier. Expansion for cannabis has seemingly been around every corner. In the U.S., 28 states have legalized medical cannabis, while residents in eight states have voted to legalize...

New Mexico's top health official has rejected state Medical Cannabis Advisory Board recommendations to add opiate dependence and Alzheimer's disease to the list of conditions that qualify a person to legally buy medical marijuana. State Health Secretary Lynn Gallagher rejected the...

As growing consumer popularity and global exposure for cannabis and hemp-based products continues to expand, the demand for hemp-based products, CBD products and other forms of cannabis and legal marijuana items are rapidly trending upward. The global hemp and cannabis market is a multi-billion...

Kazakhstan has decided to profit from its natural cannabis riches and intends to start exporting hemp products to the Netherlands, Russia and China, TengriNews website has reported. TengriNews on June 15 cited the Agriculture Ministry as saying that around six square kilometers of industrial...

Cannabis companies are turning to the world's most popular digital currency in an effort to get rid of all 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 is...

In Congressional testimony on Tuesday, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein proved that he knows little about the science surrounding medical marijuana. In response to a question from Washington Rep. Derek Kilmer, Rosenstein repeated the canard that the plant lacks any accepted therapeutic...

Delivering legal cannabis is dangerous, as evidenced by a robbery on Jan. 29, 2016, in San Francisco, where thieves stole a delivery driver's car and $8,000 worth of marijuana. But a novel concept could increase the safety of cannabis deliveries and be a boon for marijuana stocks: drone...

Several Kentuckians who say they get relief from medical marijuana filed a lawsuit Wednesday to challenge the state's criminal ban on the drug, arguing that cannabis is naturally effective and does not have the addictive dangers of opioid painkillers. In their suit, filed in Franklin Circuit...