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Talk of rescheduling marijuana has kept the cannabis industry and social media ablaze in 2016 - the year when the Drug Enforcement Administration will supposedly announce whether it will reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule II drug. Recent rumors had a decision coming down as...

Michigan will begin a one-year pilot test program later this year that allows trained state police officers to take roadside saliva drug tests from drivers whom they suspect are driving while impaired from drugs. Five counties, to be chosen by state police from areas where the most drug-related...

As marijuana legalization looms on California's horizon, employers are conflicted about their policies of drug testing. If voters agree to legalize pot on Nov. 8, business leaders and employment experts say employers could find themselves in trouble for asking a job applicant or underling to...

Marijuana is illegal for any reason under federal law, but states have boldly experimented with allowing its use anyway, starting with California 20 years ago. Some states have made the drug legal for medical purposes; others have removed jail sentences for carrying small amounts; and some...

The phones at the Georgia Department of Public Health no longer ring off the hook with people calling to find doctors or asking questions about how the state's medical marijuana registry works. Yet Georgia's quiet revolution in the year since it legalized a limited form of medical marijuana...

The phones at the Georgia Department of Public Health no longer ring off the hook with people calling to find doctors or asking questions about how the state's medical marijuana registry works. Yet Georgia's quiet revolution in the year since it legalized a limited form of medical marijuana...

The marijuana legalization initiative that will be on the November ballot in California is a disappointment to many in the cannabis decriminalization movement. California NORML, the granddaddy of political pot groups, has not fully endorsed it. These critics say that Proposition 64, which...

Drug felony arrests plummeted in California in response to 2014's voter-enacted Proposition 47 - which changed various state drug laws from felonies to misdemeanors, according to new data from the California Attorney General. Felony arrests for drugs dropped by between 68.2 percent and 73.6...

With four months to go before the election, an initiative campaign to legalize marijuana for adults in California has a $5.5 million war chest. Promoters of Proposition 64, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, got a $2 million boost in donations this week from two key financial backers. Sean...

Attitudes about cannabis have shifted, but when it comes to the workplace, change has been slower. If you've ever been in the job market, you've probably read words similar to these: Drug Free Workplace. Pre-Employment Drug Screening Required. Although the 2012 initiative legalizing...

On one side of an imaginary line, adults are mostly free to possess and consume cannabis. But on the other side, the same activities can result in arrest, court dates and a criminal record. Idaho is one of the most anti-marijuana states in the western U.S. It has no medical marijuana law and...

On one side of an imaginary line, adults are mostly free to possess and consume cannabis. But on the other side, the same activities can result in arrest, court dates and a criminal record. Idaho is one of the most anti-marijuana states in the western U.S. It has no medical marijuana law and...

Thailand's Minister of Justice, General Paiboon Koomchaya, recently ignited a heated debate when he proposed re-scheduling methamphetamine as a 'medicine' rather than a 'narcotic' drug. But given that one of the Minister's objectives is to avoid punishing people who use drugs, in particular...

Shares of INSYS Therapeutics Inc are trading 15 percent higher this morning, after the company announced that its cannabis-based medication has been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The innovative drug, which is called Syndros, is an orally taken liquid form of a...

Shares of INSYS Therapeutics Inc are trading 15 percent higher this morning, after the company announced that its cannabis-based medication has been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The innovative drug, which is called Syndros, is an orally taken liquid form of a...

Researchers are continuously finding that an oil derived from the cannabis plant is actually incredibly effective in treating and controlling a rare form of epilepsy. Since an estimated 30,000 Americans live with the particular form of this disease, this relatively recent discovery brings new...

Researchers are continuously finding that an oil derived from the cannabis plant is actually incredibly effective in treating and controlling a rare form of epilepsy. Since an estimated 30,000 Americans live with the particular form of this disease, this relatively recent discovery brings new...

DEA blocked marijuana research for 40 years, generating massive profits from the 'drug war' while committing heinous acts against growers. The medicinal value of cannabis cannot be ignored. This healing plant has successfully been used for treatment of pain, insomnia, rheumatoid arthritis...

Summary Insys has a PDUFA for Syndros scheduled for July 1. The drug is a sublingual spray reformulation of its currently marketed Marinol. An approval is a potential double-digit upside catalyst for the company. There are risks, and the company has a chequered past, the fallout...

Ottawa, Canada - Canada's health minister said Thursday that the government has formed a special task force to propose ways to regulate sales of recreational marijuana ahead of legalization in 2017. The group includes a former attorney general of Canada, an expert in pain management and...