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Cannabis is beginning to revolutionize culinary arts, its magical healing components multiplying in potency when ingested rather than smoked. It's easy to infuse into various forms such as butter, tincture, and cooking oil the magical molecules that have convinced many medical professionals the...

The marijuana industry will be listening intently to the confirmation hearings for Jeff Sessions for attorney general on Tuesday morning. While many people are focused on Sessions' past positions on civil rights, cannabis companies are very concerned that this marijuana critic could put the...

Over the past few years, the United States has taken great strides towards legalizing marijuana nationwide, but we aren't the only country moving in that direction. Around the world there is a growing push for the legalization of medical and recreational cannabis, especially as the...

Marijiuana, a divisive issue that normally resurfaces in Europe during election campaigns, has come home to France's hotly-contested presidential race. With eight months to go until the 2017 French presidential election, marijuana - or cannabis, as the French prefer to call it - is an honored...

The cannabis industry is trying to show a different face - one that is far from a stoner stereotype. The National Cannabis Industry Association, a trade association, has launched a new website and series of digital ads showcasing the stories of people who work in the cannabis industry...

This column, urging the normalisation of medical marijuana, is dedicated to the memory of Dr Chris Cresswell Like many readers, I attended the tangi/celebration of this man whose life was full, though far too short. My own meetings with him were few but meaningful, as he let me know of his...

Massachusetts was one of four states to legalize recreational cannabis at the ballot box Nov. 8, and some lawmakers are taking the cause of freedom even further. Sen. Jamie Eldridge is working to craft a bill that would free some of those in jail for cannabis possession and sales, as well as...

The annual turnover of the cannabis market in Australia is estimated to be bigger than our wine market. But unlike our wine market, not a cent of Australia's cannabis is taxed. In 2014-15, 66,309 people were arrested in Australia for possessing cannabis. The number of people arrested for...

Hi guys! First and foremost I would like to say thank you 420mag... ive been looking for so.eone to talk to, and finding this forum is AN ENORMOUS relieve For me. I'm a 28 year old man, and this is my lifes deepest secret. I first started smoking cannabis when I was 17-18. I had gone to a...

Atlanta – State Rep. Allen Peake (R-Macon) is filing a bill to create a statewide referendum in 2018 on whether to amend the Constitution of the State of Georgia to allow the in-state cultivation of medical cannabis. The referendum on a Constitutional Amendment will require two-thirds of both...

The online ad for Green Light District — a pot shop in a brick office building 5 miles from Disneyland — was clear: Anyone 21 years and older was welcome to buy weed with only a "valid ID." During a visit to the unlicensed Anaheim dispensary Tuesday, a worker behind tinted glass in the lobby...

Bartonsville, Monroe County - Tucked between a daycare and car dealership sits a vacant piece of property along Route 611 in Bartonsville. To a cannabis growing company called CannaMed, the land looks like gold. "I think it's good we're moving into the future like that," says Jessica VanWhy...

Despite Donald Trump's devastating Election Day win that put most of the country into a tailspin, cannabis supporters had one to celebrate this year, as eight states legalized weed for medicinal or recreational use. But as Trump's win proved true in politics, the cannabis industry, too, is...

Lawyers have warned the ACT government against legalising medicinal cannabis without easing the territory's controversial drug-driving laws. Assistant health minister Meegan Fitzharris has announced plans to establish a medical cannabis scheme as soon as practicable. But current...

There are good reasons why many medical professionals such as Dr. Sanjay Gupta of CNN have looked at the evidence and support therapeutic use of cannabis. One example is our effort to reduce Tennessee narcotic overdose deaths. Medical cannabis is an alternative to excessive use of narcotics...

Before Spokane County Commissioners passed a temporary ban on new pot farms, they never heard what cannabis farmers thought about it. But now, farmers are making sure their voices are heard. More than a month ago, Spokane County Commissioners purposely passed a temporary ban on new...

It's difficult to predict what the next four years will look like for cannabis users. While President-elect Trump has made a number of contradictory statements on the subject of legalization, his pick for Attorney General, Sen. Jeff Sessions, holds some radical viewpoints, once claiming, "Good...

Lawmakers are going back to work at the Roundhouse in 11 days, and it could bring changes to the medical marijuana program. A state senator wants to increase how much cannabis a patient can have at one time as demand for this program increases. Rachael Speegle is a registered nurse and the...

It's true, most of us can think of at least one committed stoner with a memory of a goldfish and a vacant, thousand yard stare. So it may seem counter-intuitive to suggest that the cannabis plant can actually protect the brain and prevent certain neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's from...

Since the day Obama became President, there have been rumors that on his last day of office he would somehow do a mic drop and make marijuana legal. This is not legally possible but there is something he could do before he leaves office to finally put an end to "reefer madness": update the Drug...