cannabis

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...

Deep in the wild lands of northern Mendocino County, medical cannabis farmer Nikki Lastreto carefully tends 99 plants under the sun on her 190-acre ranch amid tall oak and fir trees. Lastreto, a gray-haired, 61-year-old former San Francisco newspaper and TV reporter who settled 13 years ago...

In just three days, Americans across our great country will head to the polls to decide the fate of a number of key issues facing our country, and our respective states. We'll be voting on who'll become our 45th president of the United States, who should represent us in Congress, and for...

It was about 10 years ago and Donna Weinholtz was doing her regular yoga workout when she felt a pop in her back that left her crumpled on the floor feeling "technicolor pain," unable to move. Doctors told her she had the spine of an 80-year-old woman, with several bulging discs and bone...

It was about 10 years ago and Donna Weinholtz was doing her regular yoga workout when she felt a pop in her back that left her crumpled on the floor feeling "technicolor pain," unable to move. Doctors told her she had the spine of an 80-year-old woman, with several bulging discs and bone...

A Derry club founded to campaign for the legalisation of cannabis and give advice to local consumers distributed 'pot' paraphernalia during a recent promotional event in the city centre. Tony McColgan, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the LegenDerry Cannabis Club has promised more events will...

HERB Mastering the Art of Cooking with Cannabis by Chefs Laurie Wolf & Melissa Parks with the team at HERB I do love to cook, I even plunged into my own website on cooking for awhile. Cooking is my second passion, the first is growing Cannabis. So, reviewing a cookbook using this fine Herb...

On a recent morning, as he does every morning, Eric Battuello gets to work in San Francisco's Dogpatch by 8 a.m. to check on "Maui" - a room full of potent, profitable marijuana flowers. Walking through the crowded, pungent rows of strains named Gorilla Glue and Cookies, Battuello looks at...

In the shadowy marketplace of quasi-legal cannabis, cash rules. North Bay cultivators, processors, distributors and dispensaries move product and transact millions of dollars' worth of business, but few people accept digital payments. Payments happen with stacks of cash - one form of green for...

A major new Australian industry could grow up around medicinal cannabis, with possibilities for global export opening up further down the track. The Narcotics Drugs Amendment Act 2016 came into force last week giving the green light to cultivating and manufacturing cannabis for medicinal or...

A major new Australian industry could grow up around medicinal cannabis, with possibilities for global export opening up further down the track. The Narcotics Drugs Amendment Act 2016 came into force last week giving the green light to cultivating and manufacturing cannabis for medicinal or...

The law on medicinal cannabis use is to be reviewed, the health minister has announced. Simon Harris said that the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA), which regulates medicines, had been asked to give scientific advice on the benefits of the medicinal use of the drug. "This is not...

The law on medicinal cannabis use is to be reviewed, the health minister has announced. Simon Harris said that the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA), which regulates medicines, had been asked to give scientific advice on the benefits of the medicinal use of the drug. "This is not...

Santa Fe, N.M. — The New Mexico Medical Cannabis Advisory Board is set to listen to public input on which, if any new uses for medical marijuana should be added to their list. The Medical Cannabis Advisory Board is set to listen to several new uses for medical cannabis Friday. The board meets...

Santa Fe, N.M. — The New Mexico Medical Cannabis Advisory Board is set to listen to public input on which, if any new uses for medical marijuana should be added to their list. The Medical Cannabis Advisory Board is set to listen to several new uses for medical cannabis Friday. The board meets...

A man accused of growing cannabis in his vegetable patch told police that God had given him a licence to do so, a court has heard. Police searched Matthew and Elizabeth Pallett's Carrum Downs home last May, and found about 15 and a half kilograms of cannabis in various forms, ledgers...

Vowing to "get this done," members of the Plumas County Cannabis Working Group outlined their goals and objectives at their inaugural meeting Oct. 20. Supervisor Kevin Goss, who was elected group chairman, said he wanted "to develop an effective (medical cannabis) ordinance for Plumas County in...

Take a glance at this petite lady with the business-like blonde bob, and you would have no idea the daily pain she endures. She has good days and bad, the worst when she has to sit down in the street, so exhausted she loses her bearings. But Laura Brennan-Whitefield doesn't let her chronic...

Take a glance at this petite lady with the business-like blonde bob, and you would have no idea the daily pain she endures. She has good days and bad, the worst when she has to sit down in the street, so exhausted she loses her bearings. But Laura Brennan-Whitefield doesn't let her chronic...

Health Minister Simon Harris has announced a review of Ireland's policy on medicinal cannabis, which is currently strictly controlled. The announcement comes a day after mother Vera Twomey began a 150-mile protest from Cork to Dublin to try to persuade the government to legalise cannabis for...