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The end of marijuana prohibition is coming. But how the federal policies will change could have a dramatic effect on the nation's burgeoning legal marijuana businesses, which could fall victim to the same scourge that has hampered so many other nascent industries: regulations. At the end of...

The federal government classifies cannabis as a schedule I drug. According to the United States Drug Enforcement Agency website, drug scheduling is based on a drug's "acceptable medical use and the drug's abuse or dependency potential." It is further written, "Schedule I drugs, substances, or...

The federal government classifies cannabis as a schedule I drug. According to the United States Drug Enforcement Agency website, drug scheduling is based on a drug's "acceptable medical use and the drug's abuse or dependency potential." It is further written, "Schedule I drugs, substances, or...

In 1971, President Nixon declared a war on drugs; it has cost us approximately $1 trillion and counting, jailed or imprisoned thousands of people, been responsible for many deaths in Mexico and our country and has not reduced any drug's availability. By most accounts, our much ballyhooed war has...

Employers, including small businesses, should put in place employee drug policies to deal with legalized marijuana. Employee drug use, which includes marijuana, costs businesses more than $129 billion a year in lost revenue, and can cost a small business up to $7,000 a month in lost...

At the moment, it's easier to go outside and buy weed than it is to find the definitive number of people currently incarcerated on narcotics offenses, which tells you all you need to know about the efficiency of the U.S. prison system versus that of the drug trade. But if you dig, you can find...

Albany - Advocates for expanding the state's medical-marijuana program said Wednesday they will push for a package of reforms to be approved by the state Legislature before the legislative session ends next week. The state's medical-marijuana program, which started Jan. 1, allows patients with...

Albany - Advocates for expanding the state's medical-marijuana program said Wednesday they will push for a package of reforms to be approved by the state Legislature before the legislative session ends next week. The state's medical-marijuana program, which started Jan. 1, allows patients with...

Cannabis users seeking treatment often have an expertise about the drug which is leaving those trying to help them lagging behind, a conference has been told. A group of national experts was told about the "inverted expertise" seen in users at a meeting at York University to exchange ideas on...

The marijuana policy landscape changed rapidly between 2002 and 2013. During that time, 13 states passed medical-marijuana laws, 10 states relaxed penalties for marijuana use, and Colorado and Washington became the first states to fully legalize recreational pot use. Opponents of marijuana...

Fewer adolescents also report using marijuana. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that the number of teens with marijuana-related problems, and the percentage using the drug, have declined even as states have legalized and decriminalized pot. A...

Hi everyone i am 26 and approximately 187lbs, i have been smoking years usually about 0.2 gram a night after work to chill out, i have recently been offered a new job that requires a drug test, I have abstained for the past 2 weeks and my test is on the 6th june which would give me 3 weeks in...

Nimbin, Australia - Jai Whitelaw was 10 when he first took medical cannabis, given to him by his mother in a bid to treat the debilitating epilepsy that saw him endure up to 500 seizures a day. Support for the legalisation of cannabis has grown in Australia in recent years, with 91% in favour...

Although Pennsylvania has legalized medical cannabis — the bill was signed into law by Gov. Tom Wolf on April 17 — some health practitioners and patients are wondering how the industry will evolve here. The business community and other stakeholders gathered in Philadelphia last weekend to...

Advocates of medical marijuana are turning to philanthropic campaigns and charity drives to make the drug more accessible to patients who cannot access them, due to lack of funding, information, and/or government authorisation. Non-profit organisations and mothers are among those leading the...

All, Army regs prohibit eating popular health bar-Hemp seeds source of protein, banned by DA | Article | The United States Army I eat unshelled hemp seeds daily, and in large quantities. I have high cholesterol and a family history of heart disease. Seems that eating hemp seeds, a LEGAL...

A lame duck with nothing to lose but his legacy, Barack Obama is now in the peculiar position of being America's most cannabis-friendly president. He has earned this title passively: by doing nothing. Obama did nothing when Washington and Colorado legalized recreational cannabis in 2012. He did...

Who should control the production and supply of drugs : Governments or gangsters? That's the choice that politicians face — there's no third option in which drugs don't exist. Unlike the UK, Canada has recognised this reality. The country's health minister announced last week that the...

Cannabis activists in Saint Lucia want the government to decriminalize the drug. There is a growing movement for cannabis legalization in the Caribbean, and over the weekend proponents of the drug took to the streets and demanded their government modernize its approach to drug policy by...

We recently wrote about how U.S. medical and recreational legalization efforts this election cycle are "dangerously overextended." Many campaigns have very little cash and will fail if opposition donors mount a serious effort. That appears to be happening in Florida, where activists at United...