cannabis

Rep. Matt Gaetz has been in Congress for less than a year, but the Florida Republican has already become one of the House's foremost leaders working to reform federal marijuana policies. From pushing to protect state laws to advocating marijuana's reclassification to pressuring the Justice...

If you blaze in Japan and get caught, you could face up to 7 years in prison off a rip from some shitty weed. But Japan wasn't always so incredibly anti-weed, man. In fact, Japan used to be a nation that wore weed proudly on their shoulders – literally. Historically, hemp was the most...

While some municipalities in British Columbia are hoping to benefit from the legalization of cannabis that takes effect in July 2018, the City of Richmond is taking the opposite approach. It's the largest city in the province without a marijuana dispensary in operation. Mayor Malcolm Brodie...

Any medicine, touted for everything from autism to asthma, sounds like snake oil. But there is biological plausibility for these claims. Researchers have unearthed receptors in the brain and body, that respond to THC, the psychoactive ingredient of cannabis. Pot works because it is...

For the past two years, Michael Zaytsev has sold tickets to the New York Cannabis Film Festival on Eventbrite. The yearly event shows off films that span from entertaining comedies to educational documentaries in Brooklyn's trendy Wythe Hotel. But this year, Eventbrite abruptly pulled the event...

Drugs — legal and illegal — have so come to dominate the conversation among federal, provincial and territorial ministers of health that perhaps we should start calling them ministers of drugs? At their most recent meeting, held last week in Edmonton, they discussed the following issues...

As wildfires have raged across Northern California, claiming lives and scorching more than 200,000 acres, they are also taking a toll on cannabis farmers who have lost both homes and valuable crops — and have little hope of getting help from insurance or banks in an industry that remains legally...

In a lab at the University of Nottingham in England, brain-cancer specialist Richard Grundy is growing cells from children's brain tumors to see if cannabidiol — a compound in marijuana — can kill them. Brain-tumor cells rarely thrive outside the body, though, so he'll be lucky if half a...

Praise for microdosing — the cannabis consumption method that involves ingesting the least amount of THC possible while still benefiting from the medicine — only seems to be growing louder by the minute. It only makes sense, then, that more and more products aimed at optimizing the practice...

A recent study from Saint Peter's University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey, highlights the need for further education among resident physicians in the use of medical cannabis. It found 38% of resident physicians thought medical marijuana was a prescribed substance, while 78% did not know...

In response to the letter from Helen Salter entitled "How cannabis oil has improved my life", I wish to echo Ms. Salter's comments. I, too, have experienced the significant benefits of medical cannabis. At first, I was skeptical that cannabis had any application except as an intoxicant used...

A police spokesman said: "The largest cannabis factory ever found in Hertfordshire has been dismantled and destroyed by police officers. "It was discovered last Tuesday (October 17) in Hatfield Road, Potters Bar, after police received an anonymous call by a member of the public." Around...

Legal marijuana is becoming big business–with this maturation of the marketplace, business analysts are attempting to understand consumer demographics and purchasing habits. Bottom line: the entire cannabis industry–with all of its ancillary products and start-up companies–is totally dependent...

If the recent reports in the media are correct, New Zealand may have a referendum on legalizing cannabis for personal use by 2020. Such a move would be consistent with recent polls suggesting that many Kiwis desire change in this area, with 65 per cent of those questioned believing...

Two men have been charged with drug offences after 27 cannabis plants were found growing in a Tennant Creek backyard. The plants, which were at various stages of growth, were seized by police with a further 250g of cannabis plant material after a search warrant was executed. Two men aged...

An illegal immigrant has been jailed for running a 214 plant cannabis factory in Bideford. Durim Salliu came to Britain from Albania hidden inside a lorry but found himself penniless and homeless and fell prey to a criminal gang who offered him work, food, money and housing. He was taken...

The California wildfires have left numerous marijuana farmers wondering how they will recover without the help of federal aid. At least 34 cannabis farms in northern California were either partially damaged or completely destroyed in the blazes and unlike wine and agriculture farms, marijuana...

A Navajo County judge's recent ruling about medical-marijuana extracts could lead to popular dispensary products like vape cartridges and edibles being taken off the shelves. Don't freak out: That's a worst-case scenario. But it's possible, if a higher court ultimately agrees with the...

There's a reason most cannabis cultivations in Colorado are in warehouses: People are scared. Afraid of the elements, pests and the unknowns of farming under the sun, most growers prefer to stay inside, taking control of their environments and nurturing their delicate crops with extreme care...

When Karan Wadhera abandoned a successful career as an investment banker in Asia to plunge into North America's cannabis industry, former colleagues could have been forgiven for thinking he was smoking weed himself. But for Mr Wadhera, Indian by birth but who has a US education and...