cannabis

Morass is defined as a bog, marsh and also a difficult situation. That description appears fitting for our county. Calaveras County voters approved Measure C, enacting taxes and fees on marijuana production, at the Nov. 8 election. In legal terms, Measure C is described as Calaveras County...

After a three-month long hiatus, Montana's medical marijuana dispensaries will be reopened immediately, a judge ruled Wednesday. The dispensaries were closed due to an error in drafting a voter-approved ballot measure. The error resulted in pushing back the date on which a key portion of the...

Back in August, we learned through the Wikileaks email dump that an alcohol lobbying group was peddling propaganda to lawmakers in the attempt to stifle cannabis legalization. Claiming to be "neutral" on the subject, they did not hesitate to spout falsehoods and fear-mongering about the...

Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley wants to ensure that people of color have equal access to jobs and business opportunities in the Commonwealth's emerging marijuana industry. Massachusetts residents voted to legalize recreational marijuana in November, but there's still a lot to figure...

The Cannabis Party's plans to offer exclusive tours to California to buy legal cannabis have been thwarted by Ministry of Health advice. The ministry and Customs today released new information to travellers entering New Zealand from the United States with medical cannabis products...

As the Oakland art community remains devastated by the events of the recent Ghost Ship warehouse fire, the city's cannabis community is banding together to provide some relief to the victims affected. Several Bay Area cannabis companies are helping out by donating to the Oakland A's community...

San Francisco - Free after eight years of federal imprisonment, one of the nation's most celebrated cannabis convicts came home to California on Wednesday, walking off a United Airlines flight into the warm embrace of supporters - and a profoundly changed world. Charles "Eddy" Lepp, a defiant...

For so long I believed pain was a good thing. As a young child, when the pain in my stomach grew so bad that I couldn't walk, it made realise I should probably call a parent. A few hours later and what was left of my appendix was removed. As a clumsy teenager, pain taught me the difference...

I am someone from the Netherlands and in the third grade we had someone who was teaching us "facts" about drugs, including Cannabis. So we went through some things about weed and we were 14 15 or 16 years old back then I can't remember exacly, but at that ages there is no way you are someone...

When: December 14, 9 AM - 5 PM Where: Human Development Center Auditorium, LSUHSC 411 S. Prieur Street New Orleans, LA 70112 Contact: 20161214 - Cannabis and Its Medicinal Potential: State of the Research and Policy | Registration Form A daylong seminar in New Orleans next week will...

Now that California voters have approved cannabis for both medical and adult use, businesses tied to the crop will need warehouse space to process cannabis and office space to run the operations. Because cannabis remains federally a Schedule 1 illegal drug under the Controlled Substances Act...

Spokane, Wash. — Snoop Dogg will visit Spokane's Royal's Cannabis on Wednesday from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. The rapper will be in town on his way to his "Puff Puff Pass" tour in the Tri-Cities. Employees at the pot shop started preparation for the D-O-double-G on Tuesday and are ready for a...

Düsseldorf City Council on Wednesday took the next step in its plan to legalize the regulated sale of recreational cannabis to over 18-year-olds, taking advice from experts in psychology, crime and economics during a consultation at City Hall. Representatives from other city councils...

Since passage of the Medical Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act in California ("MCRSA"), our California marijuana business attorneys have been getting calls nearly non-stop regarding what folks can do now to have a medical marijuana business later in the Golden State. The passage of Proposition...

Attitudes toward marijuana legalization are shifting. Many Americans, however, still believe the myths purporting the "dangers" of cannabis. Those beliefs are still being pandered to from certain public figures. Notably, guys like Trump's Attorney General pick Jeff Sessions. And former...

For the US forum members anyone who wants to bring in Medical Cannabis products from the US into New Zealand while they are in New Zealand for working or tourism purposes can no longer do so as the New Zealand Customs has changed the criteria for Medical Cannabis products from the US must be FDA...

Chairman of the Somerville Board of Alderman's Committee on Public Health and Public Safety, Alderman at Large Jack Connolly, and Ward Six Alderman Lance Davis, will host a neighborhood meeting on Monday, Dec. 12, at 6 p.m. at the Community Baptist Church, 31 College Ave., Somerville. The...

A leading cannabis campaigner from Tyrone has said a landmark bill passed in the Dáil could open the door for medicinal cannabis users in the North. Barry Brown of CISTA (Cannabis is Safer Than Alcohol) was in the Dáil on Thursday, where the bill introduced by People Before Profit TD Gino Kenny...

There's a movement underway in America. It involves changing the way Americans view a federally designated controlled substance it classifies as a Schedule I narcotic. Over the last few years, twenty-nine U.S. states have now acted against the federal government's ban on marijuana, and have...

A national nonprofit advocacy group supporting legal access to medical marijuana has petitioned the U.S. Justice Department to require drug enforcers to correct allegedly false and misleading information about cannabis use on its website. Americans for Safe Access, represented pro bono by...