cannabis

One in four Americans may soon be living in places where marijuana is fully legal, thanks to state ballot initiatives this November. California, Massachusetts, Arizona, Maine and Nevada will all be asking voters next month whether to end prohibition on the recreational consumption of...

State pols did their part last year in finally bringing some semblance of order to the state's 20-year-old medical marijuana industry. Now it's the bureaucrats' turn. The three new state agencies tasked with making real the landmark Medical Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act have been on...

State pols did their part last year in finally bringing some semblance of order to the state's 20-year-old medical marijuana industry. Now it's the bureaucrats' turn. The three new state agencies tasked with making real the landmark Medical Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act have been on...

On Tuesday, Anaheim Police Chief Raul Quezada moderated a marijuana legalization workshop, in which seven panelists took on the impacts of California's Proposition 64, or the Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA). During the two-hour seminar, however, it became apparent that it was going to be less...

Voters in five states – Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada – will decide this November on ballot initiatives seeking to legalize and regulate the adult use, production, and retail sale of marijuana. Polling data shows these measures to be leading among likely voters...

Nurse Practitioner: 16 January 2016 - Volume 41 - Issue 1 - p 50 - 54 Feature: THERAPEUTIC CANNABIS Cannabis for posttraumatic stress disorder: A neurobiological approach to treatment Krumm, Bryan A. MSN, RN, CNP, BC Article Outline Bryan A. Krumm is a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner...

In the early 1900's when marijuana first came under heavy scrutiny by the governing bodies of the United States, it was rare to mention marijuana without mentioning minorities. It was after all, the new influx of Mexicans entering the USA that popularized the use of the plant for recreational...

The clock has run out on a proposal to allow medical cannabis to be grown in agricultural areas in Frederick County. A bill introduced by Council Vice President M.C. Keegan-Ayer (D) will die Wednesday under a provision of the county charter that requires bills to be enacted within 90 days of...

The clock has run out on a proposal to allow medical cannabis to be grown in agricultural areas in Frederick County. A bill introduced by Council Vice President M.C. Keegan-Ayer (D) will die Wednesday under a provision of the county charter that requires bills to be enacted within 90 days of...

Small-scale medical marijuana growers and businesses that manufacture medical cannabis products are set to get a boost from two new laws, both sought by California's burgeoning medical pot industry. Both laws, signed last week by Gov. Jerry Brown, continue filling in the specifics of the...

Small-scale medical marijuana growers and businesses that manufacture medical cannabis products are set to get a boost from two new laws, both sought by California's burgeoning medical pot industry. Both laws, signed last week by Gov. Jerry Brown, continue filling in the specifics of the...

California will soon be moving away from an unregulated marijuana marketplace to a state-regulated medical marijuana regime. The new licensing requirements will be the most comprehensive and complicated in the nation, attorneys say. At a recent meeting in Oakland, Lori Ajax of the Bureau of...

California will soon be moving away from an unregulated marijuana marketplace to a state-regulated medical marijuana regime. The new licensing requirements will be the most comprehensive and complicated in the nation, attorneys say. At a recent meeting in Oakland, Lori Ajax of the Bureau of...

The Health Ministry is making preparations for medicinal cannabis trials starting in 2018. According to ministerial documents obtained by Metroxpress newspaper, the health minister, Sophie Løhde, has proposed a four-year trial period that will prescribe cannabis to patients with four different...

The Health Ministry is making preparations for medicinal cannabis trials starting in 2018. According to ministerial documents obtained by Metroxpress newspaper, the health minister, Sophie Løhde, has proposed a four-year trial period that will prescribe cannabis to patients with four different...

Despite the low pay and murky future, an increasing number of people are leaving cushy jobs in prestigious industries to study cannabis, launch startups, or take jobs in the Bay Area's booming medical marijuana industry. With or without the passage of legalized adult recreational use of...

Oakland, Calif. - Oakland's Harborside Health Center, a medical marijuana pioneering enterprise in California, is celebrating it's 10th anniversary today. California will soon decide at the ballot box on whether to allow all adults to use pot for recreational use with Proposition 64 come...

Oakland, Calif. - Oakland's Harborside Health Center, a medical marijuana pioneering enterprise in California, is celebrating it's 10th anniversary today. California will soon decide at the ballot box on whether to allow all adults to use pot for recreational use with Proposition 64 come...

California's Wild West of medical marijuana is about to be tamed, on the eve of a historic vote that could greatly expand recreational use of cannabis. Just as labeling allows consumers to trust the difference in potency between a strawberry-rosé spritzer and 190-proof grain alcohol, new...

California's Wild West of medical marijuana is about to be tamed, on the eve of a historic vote that could greatly expand recreational use of cannabis. Just as labeling allows consumers to trust the difference in potency between a strawberry-rosé spritzer and 190-proof grain alcohol, new...