cannabis

San Diego - As entrepreneur Whitney Beatty contemplates the upcoming election, which some say could topple federal marijuana prohibition in one fell swoop, she eventually finds the metaphor that fits the mood here on California's southernmost edge. "It's hard to prepare on some levels...

Copenhagen - The Danish government on Tuesday announced a four-year trial programme for medical cannabis use starting in 2018, saying it would target "some of the patients who self-medicate with illegal products." "Patients with a number of selected diseases and symptoms that have previously...

Copenhagen - The Danish government on Tuesday announced a four-year trial programme for medical cannabis use starting in 2018, saying it would target "some of the patients who self-medicate with illegal products." "Patients with a number of selected diseases and symptoms that have previously...

Thousands of cannabis aficionados filled the Oregon State Fair & Exposition Center for the Hemp & Cannabis Fair on Saturday. More than sixty percent of the 87 vendors were Salem businesses showcasing herbal remedies, marijuana strains and edibles. "We want to have a platform for the local...

Deltona, Fla. - A fifteen-year-old suffering from an incurable brain tumor became one of the first patients in Florida to receive a full-strength medical cannabis product on Monday. Juan Isaiah Cruz III, who also goes by Juju, was diagnosed with Stage 3 Spindle Cell Rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare...

Deltona, Fla. - A fifteen-year-old suffering from an incurable brain tumor became one of the first patients in Florida to receive a full-strength medical cannabis product on Monday. Juan Isaiah Cruz III, who also goes by Juju, was diagnosed with Stage 3 Spindle Cell Rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare...

Dr. Ilo Leppik has dedicated his career to searching for ways to improve treatment for seizures that afflict those with epilepsy. "My passion is to find a better treatment for this condition," the physician and University of Minnesota pharmacy professor said of his patients' debilitating -...

For years, medical marijuana advocates have asserted that cannabis may be more effective and have fewer side effects than prescription opiates for chronic pain. Without scientific proof, however, it was only anecdotal. With mounting concern by doctors, nurses and even the CDC about opioid...

For years, medical marijuana advocates have asserted that cannabis may be more effective and have fewer side effects than prescription opiates for chronic pain. Without scientific proof, however, it was only anecdotal. With mounting concern by doctors, nurses and even the CDC about opioid...

If California's Proposition 64 to legalize recreational marijuana passes as expected on Nov. 8, Sonoma County now needs to seriously ask what it will do with all the cash it generates from cannabis cultivation and sales. Because while it may be considered legal on a state basis, marijuana...

No government on earth had ever created a for-profit marijuana market — until voters decided to do so in the United States. Now the fall of marijuana prohibition — not yet federally, but state-by-state — may feel inevitable. A record 61 percent of Americans support legal adult use, according...

I must be the most maladapted pothead in Maine. Since 2013, I have had a Maine medical marijuana authorization card, for treating painful nerve damage in my elbows and hands. The thing is, though, I don't actually like being high; it makes me feel a little sad, a little disengaged. I like...

Been smoking cannabis since i was 10, i am over 60 and still smokin, now its medical, whatever,, LOL, back in my teens it was all about getting high, so i've seen how society's attitude toward cannabis has changed over 50 years i have been taking care of my wife's medical cannabis needs for...

Punctuated by sharp intakes of breath, Max Simon repeated himself softly, trying to mask a deep frustration. "We ... are ... a ... media ... company. We produce media." Like many startup founders, he has his spiel down. He gave it nine times, to nine different bankers. Eight rejected him. But...

Near the coast of Vancouver, Canada, a new corporate headquarters has shot up like a manmade behemoth among the mountains of British Columbia. Inside, the facility is more sterile than a hospital, more orderly than a bank. Rows and rows of product sit on metal shelves, waiting for employees to...

In the 6th hour of an already contentious evening of civics in the City of Davis Community Chambers, The City Council voted 4-0 (R. Swanson not present for vote) on Tuesday, November 1st to enact two urgency moratoriums, defining new regulations for marijuana in the city (or the more appropriate...

A state advisory board that makes recommendations to the Health Department on New Mexico's rapidly expanding Medical Cannabis Program voted 5-1 Nov. 4 in favor of adding "opiate use disorder" to the list of conditions that qualify, a move one health professional said could transform the state's...

A state advisory board that makes recommendations to the Health Department on New Mexico's rapidly expanding Medical Cannabis Program voted 5-1 Nov. 4 in favor of adding "opiate use disorder" to the list of conditions that qualify, a move one health professional said could transform the state's...

You could almost say Veronica Carpio was born to sell cannabis. Aside from having a birthday on 4/20, the 38-year old Colorado native was also the first female dispensary owner in the state, ran a covert coffee shop appropriately called The Front, and now oversees the largest hemp seed exchange...

Cannabis Science, a company specialized in the development of cannabis-based therapeutics, recently announced the development of two new medications for pain relief in people with fibromyalgia and diabetic neuropathy nerve pain. The two new pharmaceutical pain relievers will be marketed as...