cannabis

An information session focusing on using cannabis for health reasons is being held in Kelowna next week. Representatives from Do No Harm Clinic Kelowna, UBC Okanagan and Vital Alternatives Healing Association will give presentations on the uses of cannabis as medicine. The session takes...

While the medical marijuana industry is budding, business is booming in Santa Cruz County. The region's 14 dispensaries rang up $32 million last year from the sales of flowers, concentrates, tinctures, edibles and other forms of the drug. And it's a boost to local coffers. In 2014, voters...

The architects behind the vision of San Francisco when marijuana is a legal recreational drug convened their first meeting Wednesday, selecting as chair nightlife industry representative Terrance Alan. For the next year, the 22-member Cannabis State Legalization Task Force, which was...

Tweaking Minnesota's relatively new medical marijuana law isn't in the cards this year. That was the word from the 2014 law's Senate sponsor, Sen. Scott Dibble, DFL-Minneapolis, after Tuesday's meeting of the Task Force on Medical Cannabis Therapeutic Research, which Dibble co-chairs. The...

You can thank the state legislature for this. In their zeal to pass comprehensive medical cannabis regulations, they somehow overlooked a provision stating that if cities and counties didn't have their own laws in place by March 1, the state would assume control. So now we have a flurry of bans...

When senior research scientist Suman Chandra first came to the University of Mississippi's National Center for Natural Products Research in 2001, he had no idea that he would be involved in one of the most pivotal programs in the School of Pharmacy's history. Chandra, who has extensive...

A seven-year-old Ottawa boy who uses cannabis oil to alleviate seizures caused by a rare form of epilepsy can't get the treatment from a local producer, so his mother is making it herself. Liam McKnight suffers from Dravet syndrome, a condition causing frequent and severe seizures that often...

Wall Street investors are deciding it's time to just say yes to marijuana as legalization of cannabis in more U.S. states has them smelling money-making opportunities. Hundreds of East Coast investors, dressed in business suits and ties, gathered in New York on Wednesday to learn more about...

Dale Jackson never thought he would support legalizing marijuana. He says he's actually never seen marijuana before until he realized cannabis oil was the medical solution to help ease some of his autistic son's pain. Dale Jackson's 7-year-old son Colin is severely autistic and completely non...

In case you've been living under a rock, in 2014, Colorado became the first state in the US to legalise cannabis. And when we say 'legalise', we mean LEGALISE. It's not only now legal to possess up to one ounce (if you're a resident), and gift one ounce to friends, but you can also buy it in...

Before today, it would be highly improbable that you would hear the following terms in a single story: Idaho resident, Mormon, conservative, father of five, hemp farmer, cannabis advocate. However, these all describe Trevor Hill, who is coming out pro cannabis in a very conservative State. His...

Marijuana use by adolescents is not associated with lower IQ or poorer educational performance once adjustments are made for potential confounders, specifically cigarette smoking, according to longitudinal data published online ahead of print in the Journal of Psychopharmacology. British...

Marijuana use by adolescents is not associated with lower IQ or poorer educational performance once adjustments are made for potential confounders, specifically cigarette smoking, according to longitudinal data published online ahead of print in the Journal of Psychopharmacology. British...

Toronto is getting a taste of what a recreational marijuana market could be as a new dispensary and lounge opens in the city's east end. Goodweeds is the city's first vapor lounge that also sells dabs (high potency cannabis extracts), bong hits, and other marijuana products – and is one of...

A measure aimed at closing The Higher Calling cannabis club in Fairbanks has been postponed, with sponsor Councilman David Pruhs saying he wants to see how the Alaska Legislature handles marijuana clubs before the city takes action. "I am not backing down," Pruhs said Tuesday, a day after the...

Anchorage voters will get the chance to decide whether or not to tax cannabis in the months ahead. Both law-makers and industry advocates support the proposed tax, but disagreements over regulation continue to grow. Discussion of a proposed plan to tax retail sales of cannabis products...

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Following last year's legislative session where hopes of legal medical marijuana went up in smoke, a group of Utah military veterans banded together in hopes of achieving a different outcome in 2016. Sandy resident Drew Reese, part of Utah Veterans for Medical Cannabis, said they'd grown...

A bill in the state House of Representatives that would license limited medical marijuana cultivation has the signatures of 60 percent of representatives. Its sponsor, state Rep. Allen Peake, R-Macon, said he is pleased with the support. Peake's House Bill 722 would let the state license...

A new study published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Review found that people are increasingly substituting prescription medication, alcohol, and illicit drugs with cannabis, signaling a shift in the public's understanding of marijuana's medicinal benefits. Of the 473 adult cannabis users...