cannabis

In a white-walled room deep inside a southwest Santa Rosa building once used to manufacture heart stents, 11 specialized machines to extract concentrated cannabis rumbled, hummed and popped in production for California's largest legal marijuana manufacturing operation. Five months ago, law...

The Dagga Party has called for marijuana related convictions to be declared invalid. The party is arguing that sections of the Criminal Prohibition of Dagga Act are unconstitutional. The matter is being heard in the Western Cape High Court. The party's Jeremey Acton says, "Obviously if...

Cannabis. It's a word that elicits an instant negative response in many people – and it's one which isn't entirely deserved. Sure, it may give rise to the much-stigmatized drug we know as marijuana, but it is also one of the most versatile and health-giving plants on the planet. Science is...

Johannesburg — The South African Medical Association (Sama) has warned the public that the proposed amendments to allow for the medical use of dagga would be implemented along strict guidelines. "On 23 November, Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Health announced that the Department of Health...

Last week a core group of quasi-legal marijuana dispensaries in L.A. threw its weight behind Proposition M, the City Council—sponsored measure that would fully legalize the city's current medical pot collectives and likely would provide permitting for future recreational ones. The measure also...

The political debate about cannabis regulation matured into adulthood Tuesday with the release of a federal report on marijuana legalization. After a year-long study, nine Liberal appointees made more than 80 recommendations with nary a snigger to frame the legal regulatory regime for the...

Santa Rosa - Amid the euphoria of this weekend's famed Emerald Cup weed fest, there was this creeping buzzkill: the glacial rollout of legalization. Right when it seems like "The Great Pot Moment" is upon us, it turns out there are a lot of really tough regulatory issues to resolve first...

An Americans for Safe Access [ASA] national report released last week calls for an end to contradictions between federal and state guidelines with regard to medical marijuana policies. Showing that not only do opiate related deaths drop an average of 24.8% in states with medical cannabis...

Dani Geen was 18 when she was in a severe accident: the car spun violently and was smashed on all four sides. The force of the seatbelt broke all of Geen's ribs and caused internal abscesses. She came to in an ambulance, panicking from pain and shock, and felt the sharp stab of a needle–the...

The nexus of Wall Street and recreational cannabis has always been looming on the sidelines, attracting would-be investors curious about the new market and repelling enthusiasts who would rather keep operations small and local. Yet the recent passage of Proposition 64 is ushering in a new...

As marijuana legalization spreads across the country, the financial impact has extended throughout some areas of the economy. One sector seeing a big benefit is industrial warehouses. Because large facilities are needed to grow and store marijuana -- and because local laws often limit where...

A record-breaking estimated 30,000 California medical pot farmers, family, friends and fans swamped Santa Rosa for a gargantuan marijuana festival dubbed the Emerald Cup at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds over the weekend. The agricultural competition featured more than 1,100 flowers, extracts...

As Canada struggles to reduce the number of people addicted to and overdosing on opioids, some doctors say cannabis may be part of the solution. They are finding it can replace or reduce the use of pharmaceutical painkillers. "Can cannabis be used to help manage patients who are currently...

Look around and you'll struggle to find an industry that's more blazing hot than marijuana. Back in 1995, not a single state had a law on its books legalizing medical cannabis or recreational pot. Today, following the November elections in which residents in eight out of nine states voted in...

So I've decided to make A journal or logbook to help keep track of what I'm doing. Nothing in here is backed by any scientific study or clinical trials. It's a storey of my efforts and my best description of what happens in my body. The storey starts in the middle since I'm at day 80...

Come this Thursday recreational marijuana users in Montreal will be able to walk into a store, browse for their favourite strains and walk away with a few grams of cannabis – all in defiance of federal drug laws. That's because a Canadian chain of recreational marijuana dispensaries is...

Southwest Wellness Center, the only legal medical cannabis grower in Taos, is set to open a storefront dispensary in early 2017. The nonprofit is in the process of building out a series of outdoor greenhouses to complement an indoor growing operation. The facility includes a 6,000-square foot...

One of the most instantly identifiable characteristics of cannabis to both connoisseurs and amateurs, is its particularly strong and distinct aroma. For those enthusiastic users, this scent and the associated flavors are nuanced and most people have their particular favorites. The distinct...

Doctors are successfully using cannabis to treat a schoolboy with an "uncontrollable" form of epilepsy. Billy Caldwell, 11, has been suffering life-threatening and frequent seizures for almost all his life. But he's gone 15 days without a fit after doctors in Los Angeles, USA, started...

On Friday afternoon, the Medical Cannabis Commission announced companies that won preliminary licenses to dispense medical marijuana – now called cannabis by the commission to distinguish it from recreational marijuana – including at least two companies that will sell medical pot in Carroll...