cannabis

Medical professionals, state legislators and local advocacy groups will be under one roof Thursday night. The topic? Medical cannabis. The Compassionate Care Act was introduced last session. It would allow medical cannabis for people with certain medical conditions like multiple sclerosis or...

When the Ridgecrest City Council meets November 1, they will be holding a public hearing on an ordinance amending the municipal code to prohibit, restrict, and regulate medical and non-medical cannabis and commercial cannabis activities to the fullest extent allowed under state law. The item...

One of the country's most well-known think tanks is calling out United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his repressive attitude toward cannabis, particularly medical marijuana. On October 25, the Brookings Institution published an essay criticizing Sessions for his "biases on the issue...

New Zealanders have a big decision to make - by 2021 they will decide whether the personal use of cannabis should be legal. The referendum is one of the Green Party's policy gains this election - albeit in a form palatable to the referendum-enthusiastic NZ First caucus. The question of...

Medical marijuana sellers and users are urging Napa to loosen its planned rules on selling the drug within the city. If land-use authorities have their way, there may be more areas open to sales than city officials have previously sought. Responding to a vocally pro-cannabis audience Thursday...

Responding to pleas from dozens of patients, city leaders may allow licensed dispensaries that deliver medical marijuana – but do not sell products in a store – to operate in the city. In June, the City Council adopted an ordinance allowing licensed dispensaries located outside the city to...

The members of the Plumas County Cannabis Working group have decided that if a Plumas County citizen wants to grow cannabis, he or she must apply for a Special Use Permit (SUP). At its regular meeting Oct. 19, the group reiterated that decision for all zones, excluding all residential zones...

Residents who use marijuana for medical treatment will be able to purchase cannabis locally, but buying and smoking pot for fun isn't in the cards for now. That's the intent of guidelines being considered by the Alameda City Council when determining how to license marijuana sales...

Prior to 1937, marijuana was considered medicine, and its versatile parent plant, hemp, was grown and refined for the production of paper, textiles, clothing, biofuels and more. But that all changed with a variety of state and federal bans, and today, most cannabis products remain illegal...

Municipalities in Ontario will find out in the coming weeks if a provincially run cannabis store could be located in their community. In a letter sent to the province's municipalities Friday, Finance Minister Charles Sousa said Ontario's store roll out aims to achieve the right geographic...

As of 1 January 2018 it will be possible to obtain a receipt for medicinal cannabis, thanks to a broadly-supported decision by Parliament last year. Now, a decision is to be made on whether it can be grown in Denmark. A total of 13 companies have already applied for permission from the...

The tide is turning on marijuana. And Big Pharma has no one to blame but itself. The horrific epidemic of addiction and death linked to the profligate distribution of opioid prescription pain relievers has moved Americans of all stripes to reconsider the advantages of a substance that used to...

Due to the changes in state laws, the City of Patterson has been investigating the possibility of allowing cannabis-based businesses to operate within city limits, and is now working on a pilot program to manage such businesses. In June, the City Council voted to obtain proposals from...

With legalization for medical use and also in some states recreational use, the cannabis industry has grown precipitously in the United States in recent years. To keep up, a new area of legal practice is growing up to provide services to companies with needs ranging from navigating regulatory...

Denver (October 26, 2017) - Five years ago this November, Colorado citizens voted to pass Amendment 64, the legislative act which legalized adult-use marijuana in the Centennial State. In recognition of this milestone, the Cannabis Business Alliance (CBA) has issued a release commenting on the...

CAN CANNABIS CURE STRESS? For over 5000 years now humans have known that the EC System is intricately linked to the pathway known as The Cortico-Limbic Circuit of the stress system which regulates the whole stress response. So we know that Cannabinoids regulate a variety of stress related...

It is estimated that illegal, outdoor marijuana sites, on private property alone, are expending up to 3 million gallons of water a day. According to Sheriff Lopey, “I would also like to remind my fellow citizens that we are not seeking enforcement against legitimate medical marijuana users or...

Stop thinking of Cannabis as a drug... Right now around the world there is a tremendous amount of confusion about the Cannabis situation. Some people act as though it is completely legal. Marketing and selling their products all over the internet and organising conferences for medical doctors...

MJ Freeway, a seed-to-sale tracking software platform for the cannabis industry, has struggled in recent months with hacks and outages, forcing some dispensaries to record sales by hand. The company – which was offered a $10.4 million contract from the Pennsylvania government in April –...

The Tennessee Joint Ad Hoc Committee on Medical Cannabis met on Thursday to continue the debate on legislation surrounding medical cannabis. Rep. Jeremy Faison, Co-Chairman of the committee, laid out changes to the proposed legislation he and others on the committee plan to file. While Faison...