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Chemicals in cannabis could be effective at treating painful migraines, research has revealed. And cannabinoids, the compounds in marijuana that make you feel high, may even be better at treating pain than recommended migraine medication. Researchers found that pills containing the...

A handful of drugmakers are taking their first steps toward developing marijuana-based painkillers, alternatives to opioids that have led to widespread abuse and caused the U.S. health regulator to ask for a withdrawal of a popular drug this month. The cannabis plant has been used for decades...

Cannabis is still the most common drug ''by a country mile'' found when staff are tested, farmers attending a workshop in Ashburton last week heard. Therese Gibbens, general manager of the Canterbury West Coast area for The Drug Detection Agency, said 80% of positive drug results from tests...

A veteran mail carrier was ordered held in custody on $100,000 bail Saturday after authorities said he ran a drug business out of his mail truck while working his route in the Near North neighborhood, authorities said. Judge Peggy Chiampas ordered Christopher Baxter held on $100,000 bail...

A handful of drugmakers are taking their first steps toward developing marijuana-based painkillers, alternatives to opioids that have led to widespread abuse and caused the U.S. health regulator to ask for a withdrawal of a popular drug this month. The cannabis plant has been used for decades...

Cuba has urged the US authorities to continue bilateral cooperation against drug trafficking. At a press conference on Thursday, Antonio Ibarra, Secretary of Cuba's National Drug Commission, said cooperation between the two nations had increased substantially after the implementation of a...

A handful of drugmakers are taking their first steps toward developing marijuana-based painkillers, alternatives to opioids that have led to widespread abuse and caused the U.S. health regulator to ask for a withdrawal of a popular drug this month. The cannabis plant has been used for decades...

In a letter that became public on Monday, June 12, it was revealed that U.S. Attorney Jeff Sessions personally asked Congressional leaders last month to end funding that restricts the Department of Justice from spending money to affect state medical-marijuana laws. What does that mean...

In April of 2016 the Denver Post was seeking a reporter for the marijuana beat – someone who could report on the business of pot, dig up the latest in cannabis cuisine, and do the occasional "gear review" of products the DEA would undoubtedly consider to be drug paraphernalia. But there was a...

Leading drug researcher Associate Professor Chris Wilkins from Massey University's SHORE and Whāriki Research Centre is calling for the adoption of a not-for-profit public health model for recreational cannabis. It would allow regulated cannabis products to be sold by philanthropic societies, in...

Non-profit societies could sell cannabis in the same way as the regime that runs pokie machines, a Massey University research paper has suggested. The report's author said gambling machines had been run in New Zealand for over 20 years by trusts, which last year paid out $260 million to the...

An effort in Arizona to legalize recreational marijuana failed last year. Insys Therapeutics helped make it happen. The drug maker donated $500,000 to an organization that opposed a marijuana legalization proposition. It makes sense that Insys would be against marijuana legalization. The...

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions' belief that "good people don't smoke marijuana" isn't just archaic. It's fueling what could become an all-out assault by the Justice Department to close dispensaries and turn back the marijuana clock in states that have legalized its recreational use. And...

Weed! As of two years ago, my mind had conjured up nothing but negative associations with the word. I have always been someone who likes to push at the edges, to think critically about whichever issue I have tackled–from the evolution of U.S. conservatism to Utah politics on same-sex marriage...

As North Dakota’s hemp industry grows, legal questions have kept producers from making one of the crop’s most desirable products. The Bismarck Tribune (Legal haze surrounds budding hemp industry | North Dakota News | bismarcktribune.com ) reports that bottles of cannabidiol were recently seized...

There's a great moment in the new History Channel miniseries, America's War on Drugs, when a former DEA agent named Celerino Castillo explains why America's crusade to purge drugs from the world is doomed to fail: "America is more addicted to drug money than they are addicted to drugs." After...

One month ago, the award-winning journalist Javier Valdez was pulled from his car and killed in broad daylight near his office in Culiacán, in Sinaloa state in Mexico. Valdez is the sixth journalist to be assassinated in Mexico this year, and his killing has sparked outcry and sent new...

There's an argument for the legalization of medical marijuana in Idaho. The argument runs thus: those suffering from the effects of chemotherapy may benefit from THC and CBD, both found in the marijuana plant, which can alleviate the nausea and lessen the inflammation and vomiting of the...

Amid a drug crisis that kills 91 people in the U.S. each day, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has asked Congress to help roll back protections that have shielded medical marijuana dispensaries from federal prosecutors since 2014, according to a letter made public this week. Those legal...

Utah lawmakers balked again this year at joining more than half of all U.S. states and passing a broad medical marijuana law. Instead, they gave state colleges and other institutions a green light to study the medical impacts of the drug with the hope of having comprehensive data by next...