cannabis

Live Oak - For a final time, roughly 60 U.S. military veterans gathered in the parking lot behind the Santa Cruz Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7263 on Monday to receive support - and free medicinal cannabis. The Santa Cruz Veterans Alliance, which provides a community-oriented cannabis...

The NSW government has funded the world's largest trial of medicinal cannabis that will prevent the side effects of chemotherapy. Patients who undergo chemotherapy treatment experience nausea, vomiting and for some, bouts of oesaphigitis or inflammation of the oesephagus. Chris O'Brien...

Many cannabis activists in Israel saw the development of Medical Cannabis as a first step to legalization. With regards to the public mind, they were probably right. The public tends to give credence to medical usage and over the past few years has become used to the idea that while people use...

Walk into any licensed cannabis grow op in Colorado and one of the first things you'll notice are the barcodes. Every plant has a brightly colored tag - blue for recreational and yellow for medicinal - zip-tied to its stalk or planted in its soil, and each tag bears a bar code and a Radio...

On Dec. 20, recent changes to Michigan's medicinal cannabis laws will take effect. Passed this fall, House Bills 4209, 4827 and 4210 (now, Public Acts 281-283 of 2016) clarify the voter-approved use of cannabis for medicinal purposes. (While the Legislature uses the term "marihuana," the...

There are some in our society who worship at the altar of intoxication. They promote a drunken "saloon" culture, how beer attracts beautiful women, make smoking tobacco look glamorous and encourage folks to consume large amounts of refined sugars and modified milk in their small amounts of...

Just because California legalized cannabis doesn't mean everyone in the pot industry will participate in the state's highly regulated, above-ground market. While many businesses will participate in the legal marketplace - estimated to be worth $4.3 billion by 2018 - those who remain in the black...

Alaska, the nation's newest adult-use marijuana market, is slowly but steadily getting up and running, although many shops are running short on product because demand exceeds supply. As of Nov. 29, 61 cannabis business licenses had been issued in the state, including 29 that are currently...

Looking for all you experienced growers! I'm sorry I cannot provide much information on the strain, as they were 'free seeds' with my order, with no label... But this is the plant I have.. wanting to know if I got ripped off or if this little guy will actually grow! (First timer here) I...

First things first, answering some the "Please Read Before Posting" questions. Do you grow? No, more specifically not yet! Do you use Cannabis for medicine? I do, as well as recreational. Do you have medicinal Marijuana in your state? Indeed, in California. With Prop 64 passing, it's...

Pueblo, Colo. - The Institute of Cannabis Research (ICR) at Colorado State University-Pueblo has finalized the awards for cannabis-related research that will be conducted on the campus in the coming year, using Pueblo County and state funding. The ICR exists to generate new knowledge of...

Cannabis future is looking bright in Berlin with the new coalition government which is planning scientifically monitored cannabis-pilot programs by which the zero tolerance policy is coming to an end! The cannabis possession amount varies among the different states of Germany with Berlin...

This could very well go down as the best year for the marijuana industry on record. It's tough to top 1996, the first year medical marijuana was approved in a state (California), or 2012, when Colorado and Washington simultaneously became the first states to legalize the sale of recreational...

On a quiet, rain-soaked block of Geary Boulevard in the Inner Richmond last month, in the back lounge of a chic medical marijuana retail store called Harvest, a middle-aged pot farmer named Lourdes was doing brisk business. A constant stream of well-to-do patrons with medical pot cards milled...

State Treasurer John Chiang has formed a working group focused on finding ways to provide banking services for the cannabis industry, which is now forced by federal law to operate largely in cash. California has about a year to come up with a plan. That's when the state's first recreational...

Michele Lazor was on bed rest for about five years, for about 22 to 24 hours a day, and was taking 50 pills a day, she said, to deal with her disease. Lazor, who is from Troy, suffered from Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, in which people "usually have overly flexible joints and stretchy, fragile...

While not exactly on the cusp of legality, the prospect of medicinal cannabis becoming a reality here has drawn considerably closer with the Government's decision to facilitate a Bill put forward by People Before Profit TD Gino Kenny. Minister for Health Simon Harris has confirmed he will not...

Studies show that cannabinoids found in the marijuana plant actually protect your lungs, and relieve the constriction and discomfort of asthma. It is estimated that one out of twelve people suffer from asthma, a chronic respiratory disease that typically becomes present during childhood...

Albania has become the largest producer of outdoor-grown cannabis in Europe. The potent plant has been described as "green gold" for struggling farmers. In a poor nation, it's a billion-euro industry. Off a dirt road, in a small village north of Tirana, there's a half-built, tumble-down...

If legalised, Irish patients would be able to obtain a legally protected, secure supply of medicinal cannabis. MS Ireland, the national organisation supporting people with multiple sclerosis, is welcoming the move. Ava Battles, CEO of MS Ireland says, "Ongoing research into the benefits of...