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Oregon is rolling out its new recreational cannabis market, but pro-pot groups say state regulations are already choking producers and retailers. The regulations, implemented Oct. 1, mandate the most stringent pre-sale testing requirements of any regulated cannabis market in the United...

When: April 29, 2017 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM Where: The North Warehouse 723 N. Tillamook Street Portland, OR 97227 United States Website: Cultivation Classic 2017 See you in 2017! Enjoy this video recap by Dustin Tolman from the inaugural Cultivation Classic! Follow @cultivationclassic...

MEDICINAL cannabis crops on the outskirts of Perth will become a reality in 2017. Though don't expect to see fields of cannabis plants on the city's fringes because the "discreet" and "hard to access" facilities will employ military-style security to keep intruders out. WA-based companies...

Her visiting card has an imprint of the familiar five-bladed leaf of the cannabis plant on both sides, leaving no room for doubt about the cause she espouses. Dr Uma Dhanabalan is trained in family medicine, with a Masters in public health from Harvard University, but over the past four years...

There's more to Human Resources in the cannabis industry than just hiring and firing, salary and benefits. Here, Caela Bintner of Faces Human Capital Management in Denver and Gil Price of Price Management Group in Seattle offer tips on thinking through human resources issues to help cannabis...

Good day everyone! I am new to growing cannabis. However, home gardening has been a part of my life for a year now. Idea of growing cannabis came to me around 2 years ago after I saw 2 movies. 1st was The Union: the business behind getting high and right after that the 2nd The culture high...

Premier Mike Baird says his government has been working with the chief scientist and will have more to say in the new year about the supply of medicinal cannabis. In Newcastle on Monday, the Newcastle Herald asked Mr Baird how people were expected to take advantage of his "compassionate use"...

A task force makes recommendations on how the Canadian government should approach legalizing recreational marijuana, Ohio writes draft rules for MMJ dispensaries, and cannabis has a big week in Washington DC. Here's a closer look at some notable developments in the marijuana industry over the...

Not to be outdone by their sister cities in Nelson, which leads the area in pot shops, and Rossland, Grand Forks continues to go green with the recent addition of a second cannabis dispensary. Herbivore Cannabis is located in Kocomo's Coffeehouse at 7361-2nd Street and opened December 1. This...

It's brisk business on a Wednesday morning at Magnolia Wellness center, a medical marijuana dispensary in downtown Oakland. Although it's legal to smoke marijuana in California now for recreational purposes, medicinal cannabis isn't going away anytime soon. But have these patients ever talked...

All around the world, different countries are considering the question of whether to legalize marijuana for medical purposes, as well as the growing of hemp for industrial uses. There have been any number of reports and studies to gain support for this movement showing that medical cannabis...

This year marked a turning point for marijuana, both as a cultural movement and as an industry. Polls show a record percentage of Americans now favor legalization, and most of us already live in a state with some form of legal cannabis. California, home to more than a tenth of the U.S...

With medicinal marijuana legalized in 28 states and the recent passage of California's Proposition 64 legalizing recreational use in yet another state, a local professor is examining the ramifications that extend beyond the consumer. Jake Brenner, associate professor of environmental studies and...

Voters and legislatures in every state can approve constitutional amendments and legalize marijuana, but those will never supersede the U.S. Constitution. The Supremacy Clause contained in Article VI of the Constitution subordinates all state laws to federal laws. This clause dates back to our...

Almost one year ago, City Manager Bill Avera reminded the Hollister City Council during the Dec. 21, 2015 meeting about discussions on medical marijuana, and he provided them with the urgency ordinance adopted several years ago as well as the ordinance adopted by the city that prohibits...

The Calaveras County Board of Supervisors wants inspections of cannabis farms and related enforcement of county codes to continue, at least for now. The board on Tuesday voted without dissent to approve a contract for up to $50,000 to hire California Highway Patrol officers to accompany code...

John Stewart was at the helm of Purdue Pharma in 2013. He was in the business of making Oxycontin, a prescription opioid painkiller that has addicted an estimated 1.9 million Americans and led to countless overdose deaths. In fact, between 1999 and 2012, accidental overdoses from prescription...

Marijuana's most controversial and potent forms should be regulated and sold in Canada's future recreational weed market, regardless of how strong they are, according to recommendations released this week in a report by the government's special task force on legalizing pot. The...

San Juan — The criticisms that several New Progressive Party (NPP) legislators have expressed against the legalization of medicinal cannabis will be relegated to the past. The new law-making majority, which begins work in 2017, must pass legislation to legalize the use of medicinal cannabis...

On Tuesday, Colombia legalized medical marijuana through a decree signed by President Juan Manuel Santos, which regulates the cultivation, processing, import and export of cannabis and its derivatives for therapeutic purposes. Colombia thus joins Mexico, 23 states in the U.S., and Uruguay, which...