cannabis

A Maltese man was arrested on Christmas Eve in what is believed to have been a major operation conducted by Customs Department and the police. One News reports that 150 kilograms of cannabis were seized in a car belonging to a Maltese national who was on his way from Sicily to Malta. The...

Nationwide cannabis legalization will not be on Canada Day 2018, as many Canadians had originally thought. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that the legalization date ?would not be July 1,? which was the hard deadline for legalization. Instead, Trudeau vaguely stated that legalization...

Information booklets on medicinal cannabis, which aim to make it easier for doctors to prescribe the controversial drug, have been released. Advocates have placed part of the blame on the low adoption of medicinal cannabis products on most doctors having little knowledge about it. While...

Until firestorms overtook the North Bay in October, cannabis had been the business story of 2017. Voters legalized adult-use cannabis in November 2016 and opened the door to new businesses that had the sanction of the state, though not the federal government. Cannabis already had a foothold in...

California is days away from launching a legal marketplace for adults to buy and sell recreational marijuana. On Jan. 1, the state will carry through on a vision voters endorsed by passing Proposition 64 last year. Yet as legal cannabis moves from campaign pitch to reality – amid lots of...

A month ago, it was reported that a 12-year-old girl, Alexis Bortell, was suing an Attorney General in the US for the country's national policy restricting access to medicinal marijuana. Bortell suffers from epilepsy, and after extensive trial and error, she found that cannabis oil is the only...

Edmonton police are promising to crack down on black market marijuana sales, after a pair of recent raids on two illegal cannabis operations in south Edmonton. Acting on a tip, Edmonton police on Nov. 30 went to a business in a commercial area near 46th Avenue and 101st Street, where they say...

Medical marijuana is coming to West Ocean City in about a month's time, after the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission granted final approval to Positive Energy last week. The dispensary, at 9939 Jerry Mack Road, is expected to fully open in late January once product is received, according to...

The lobby of Green Point Wellness looks more like the entrance to a nice spa. Marbled counters. Fancy TVs. Soft benches. All of it colored with minimal green lighting. And while wellness is in the name, the soon-to-be-open location in Linthicum isn't a new place to get a massage. It...

The internet is full of claims about miracle cures for diseases like cancer - with some people suggesting cannabis could be of them. There has been speculation for a long time that cannabis could not only help cure cancer, but also both prevent it and help relieve its symptoms. On the flip...

Joanna Arenstein has a slogan: "Jews and weed go together like ... Jews and weed." As the executive director of East Bay Canna, she knows a lot of people in the cannabis community – and that means she knows a lot of Jews. "We're everywhere," Arenstein said with a laugh. Pushing...

One week after state regulators began issuing temporary licenses to sell recreational cannabis, San Diego has received more of those licenses than any other city in California. Seven marijuana dispensaries in San Diego have been granted temporary licenses to sell both medicinal and "adult use"...

On Jan. 1, at 6 a.m., Mayor Jesse Arreguín will stand outside the Berkeley Patients Group at 2366 San Pablo Ave. and cut a ribbon that officially opens sales of recreational cannabis in Berkeley. Arreguín won't be purchasing any marijuana for himself, he said, but he will probably be an...

There are fewer than 10 days to go before California launches its legal marketplace for the retail sale of recreational marijuana. How smoothly that transition goes will depend on how many cities and counties opt in to allow commercial cannabis business in their jurisdictions. At this...

The legal marijuana industry isn't just called the "green rush" because it sounds snazzier. The industry is growing at an incredible rate, and investors have certainly taken notice, with a majority of larger marijuana stocks having at least doubled in market cap this year. Regardless of your...

Alison Ettel, MBA, has never got high for fun, but she'd like to feed your dog cannabis. Why? Alison is the CEO of TreatWell Health, a Californian firm making medical marijuana products for people - and their canines. Her rivals include Treatibles, which sells a hemp oil "for animals of...

Australian doctors have been given official guidelines on how effective medical cannabis is for treating patients with chronic pain and epilepsy. New guidelines released today also provide advice about whether patients with multiple sclerosis or chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting could...

The Edmonton Police Service (EPS) said a number of charges are pending against a number of people after officers found two illegal cannabis dispensaries operating in the city. The first dispensary was discovered Thursday, November 30, when EPS Southeast Division officers followed up on a tip...

The Alberta College of Family Physicians (ACFP) recently published a statement reflecting their stance on medical cannabis, basically stating there is insufficient evidence to recommend it, and that adverse effects outweigh any benefits. As a physician working in Edmonton's only legitimate...

Members of Denver's cannabis community are holding fundraisers to support Sweet Leaf employees affected by the indefinite shutdown of Sweet Leaf outposts by the Denver Police Department, state Marijuana Enforcement Division and other agencies on December 14. All ten of Sweet Leaf's metro...