cannabis

New Jersey is almost certain to legalize marijuana for adult recreational use within a year, and that's sure to have major repercussions on Pennsylvania's nascent medical cannabis industry. Gov.-elect Phil Murphy ran on a platform calling for full legalization of all forms of marijuana for...

Dutch cannabis breeder Barney's Farm has made a $2.1 million investment in Tel Aviv-listed medical cannabis company Medivie Therapeutic. Barney's received around 244,000 of Medivie's ordinary shares, allocated according to a company value of $14.2 million for Medivie, as well as a seat on...

Mario Oriani-Ambrosini introduced the Medical Innovation Bill in Parliament in September 2014. The MP was then diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and commenced a campaign to legalize the medical use of cannabis. The objectives of the bill are to legalize and regulate the use of cannabinoids...

Medical marijuana dispensaries are temporarily prohibited within the Hamilton city limits, but just down the road outside of Victor, Heirloom Remedies is providing patients with cannabis and the general public with an eclectic range of quirky products and services. It's an under-the-radar...

A special team of forest department officials unearthed nearly 1,000 cannabis plants cultivated clandestinely inside the reserved forest at Kurumalai region and subsequently destroyed them. District Forest Officer Muhammed Shabab, who headed the special operation on Saturday and Sunday, told...

An Ontario college is offering a new class in response to the growing demand for skilled professionals to support Canada's expanding medical marijuana industry as legalization looms. And it's not exactly reading, writing and arithmetic. The two-day class, offered this weekend by Durham College...

After a long series of fits and starts in Maryland's medical cannabis program, Frederick dispensaries are preparing for marijuana to become available to patients by the first week of December. "We are planning and staffing and spending money based off the assumption that we are going to have...

Researchers say they've found evidence that cannabis may benefit people with heart failure. They're quick to emphasize, however, that this research shouldn't be taken as a recommendation (at least not yet) that heart failure patients take up cannabis use. Researchers at Englewood Hospital...

The Council approved an amendment by a 4-1 vote that regulates cannabis activity in the city and expands the eligible area for the establishment of delivery services. During its Nov. 21 meeting, the Council approved changing the eligible area for cannabis delivery service businesses by...

California cannabis entrepreneurs will earn $5.2B in revenue in 2018 as recreational use becomes legal there. The state of California will collect about one billion dollars in accompanying marijuana taxes. These numbers, estimated by Matt Karnes, industry analyst and managing partner of New...

Few if any industries are growing at a quicker and more consistent pace in the U.S. than marijuana. A report released earlier this year by Marijuana Business Daily entitled "Marijuana Business Factbook 2017" found that the U.S. legal-weed market is expected to grow by 45% in 2018, and an...

Hemp growers in Canada may soon be able to sell the whole plant. Health Canada currently prohibits growers from selling the leaves and flowers of hemp plants. Those parts of the plant can be used to make cannabinoids (CBD), compounds that provide pain relief and have anti-inflammatory...

I've dealt with chronic pain since I broke my hip at 17, and few years ago I had to have a second hip surgery. The recovery was long and arduous and the extent to which I would recover was uncertain. I was warned (as I was after my first hip surgery) that I would likely need a hip replacement...

For now, little clusters of green leaves make up the "mother plants" inside the Aurora medical cannabis facility that just opened in Pointe-Claire. They look more like small house plants than the "source of all the genetic material" the company's executive vice-president Cam Battley says...

A cannabis grower from Machynlleth has been jailed for his role in a major national drug distribution network worth £1.2 million. Mark John Roberts of Pencaemawr, Penegoes, near Machynlleth will serve two years four months in jail after being found guilty of cultivating the plant at two...

Members of the Special Enforcement Section of the Integrated Criminal Investigation Division raided two different Halifax cannabis dispensaries on Friday morning. In the first series of raids, officers with the SES along with RCMP and Halifax Regional Police executed four separate search...

Two upcoming elections will test the influence of companies that grow and sell medical marijuana, and plan to sell recreational cannabis next year in San Diego. Local voters strongly approved the recreational use of marijuana when they voted "yes" in big numbers for Proposition 64, last...

Cowboy hats and flasks adorned with imitation jaguar and snakeskin prints dot the market of the Paraguayan border town of Pedro Juan Caballero. Cross the two-lane avenue outside and one will have entered Brazil. Not far away, one will find casinos, motels and brothels typical of a...

Happy Thanksgiving weekend! Hopefully you enjoyed a tasty meal yesterday, and if you spent time with relatives, that you were able to cope without pulling out too much hair. Meanwhile, in the world of weed, a report shows hemp acreage growing across the United States, a Swiss Company sells 'low...

On Tuesday, the Government of Canada announced the beginning of a consultation process to implement regulations pertaining to the country’s impending legalization of marijuana. But buried deep in the government-released consultation paper were some changes to the medical cannabis program that...