cannabis

The global market for pain relief drugs is currently US$60 billion, and will grow to more than $80 billion by 2024, according to Transparency Market Research. This category of pharmaceuticals includes opioids, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS), anesthetics, analgesics and...

When a U.S. Congressman recently told me that getting rid of Section 280E of the Internal Revenue Code "would amount to a tax cut for pot growers," I was caught off guard by his twisted interpretation of this tax policy. It was a huge reminder of how much more work organizations like the New...

An Irish girl whose family has been campaigning for her to have access to medicinal cannabis has arrived home to Co Cork from the Netherlands. Ava Barry (8), from Aghabullogue, was reunited with her siblings after going to the Hague last summer with her family to receive medicinal cannabis to...

Some 25,000 people are expected to head to San Bernardino this weekend to watch hip-hop shows, sample marijuana products and celebrate cannabis culture during Tommy Chong's Blazers Cup. The festival is one of a couple dozen marijuana-themed events held each year at the city's National Orange...

The Des Moines company selected to grow marijuana and manufacture medical cannabis products would like to produce tinctures, creams, soft gels, suppositories and even inhalers that allow patients with a variety of ailments to get customized therapies. "We want to create efficacious doses...

Well folks I'm really looking forward to Growing these Autoflower Mango strain of Cannabis It will be my 1st time - -

EUREKA, CA — Nov. 16, 2017 — Papa & Barkley, a best-in-class manufacturer of effective cannabis-derived pain and wellness products, today announced the release of its 1:1 THCa:CBD tincture, created to give users the same healing properties as products made with THC, but with little or no...

DOVER, DE - November 29, 2017 - Metatron (OTC PINK: MRNJ), a mobile and web technology pioneer having released over 2000 Marijuana, CBD, secure chat and related apps on iTunes and Google Play, is pleased to report the development of Bitweed, a cryptocurrency transaction and tracking app for...

For a long time, there were no marijuana brands. Cannabis growers spent so much time trying to conceal their identity from law enforcement and potential thieves that it simply made no sense to create distinctive packaging that would make it easier to track their product. Weed nerds might...

Riley McGee turned to medicinal cannabis in 2006 to treat his PTSD after returning to Canada after serving with the military in Afghanistan. He's now the president of Abba Medix Corp, the production facility that provides cannabis products for Marijuana for Trauma – an advocacy group dedicated...

The guidelines governing commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis were released on Nov. 16 by state regulators, giving potential commercial cannabis growers their first insight into the new industry’s statewide regulations. Regulators released 276 pages of rules that the aspiring industry...

Lab testing cannabis products is not currently required, it's voluntary. Even if a product is found to be contaminated, it can still make it's way into dispensaries to be sold, bought and consumed. This has been a problem in California because regulations about the quality of cannabis...

How strong is the legal pot Alaskans buy over the counter? That's a question that's been raised in a dispute about potency levels among various cannabis businesses. Now, the state's regulatory body is considering extra steps. In her report during the November 14th meeting of the Marijuana...

Now that Proposition 64 has legalized recreational marijuana use in California, you might think this is the end for medical marijuana. Think again. The initiative is laced with restrictions, and a closer look reveals several major benefits of getting a medical marijuana card in 2018. In fact...

In Italy, as in most of western Europe, medical cannabis is legal. What sets the country apart is that cultivation of the plant is a de facto army monopoly. The only place cannabis can be legally grown here is at a heavily guarded military facility in Florence where, this year, two...

The maturation of the cannabis industry is easily illustrated by the growth of its most popular conference. Just over 400 people attended the initial iteration of the Marijuana Business Conference & Expo (MJBizCon) when it debuted in Denver back in 2012 Back then, merely 16 states had legal...

CanniMed Therapeutics, a Saskatchewan-based licensed cannabis producer has rejected a hostile takeover bid from Aurora Cannabis, setting up the first in a series of potential showdowns between Big Weed and smaller producers they are attempting to acquire ahead of legalization. If the hostile...

One of a dozen companies licensed for large-scale cannabis cultivation has plans for Canton. The Ohio Department of Commerce on Thursday announced the provisional licenses for operations up to 25,000 square feet and a final license for small-scale operations of up to 3,000 square feet...

Starting in July, autism spectrum disorders and obstructive sleep apnea will qualify as conditions eligible to be treated in Minnesota with medical cannabis, the state Health Department said Thursday. The two conditions were chosen as part of the department's regular review of requests to...

As we reported previously, scientists from the University of New Mexico have been studying how access to marijuana may help alleviate the opioid crisis, declared a national emergency by President Trump. Their study has now been published in the journal PLOS One, with the researchers concluding...