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Health Minister Simon Harris has announced a review of Ireland's policy on medicinal cannabis, which is currently strictly controlled. The announcement comes a day after mother Vera Twomey began a 150-mile protest from Cork to Dublin to try to persuade the government to legalise cannabis for...

Health Minister Simon Harris has announced a review of Ireland's policy on medicinal cannabis, which is currently strictly controlled. The announcement comes a day after mother Vera Twomey began a 150-mile protest from Cork to Dublin to try to persuade the government to legalise cannabis for...

The Health Products Regulatory Authority has been asked to provide expert scientific advice on medicinal cannabis by Minister for Health Simon Harris. Mr Harris said he wanted to review current policy and have the latest evidence on the potential medical benefits of cannabis for some people...

The Health Products Regulatory Authority has been asked to provide expert scientific advice on medicinal cannabis by Minister for Health Simon Harris. Mr Harris said he wanted to review current policy and have the latest evidence on the potential medical benefits of cannabis for some people...

In 2004 Montana voters, by wide margin, passed an initiative to allow marijuana use for medical purposes. Persons with specified debilitating conditions, such as multiple sclerosis, epilepsy and chronic pain, could receive a medical marijuana card, if certified by a medical doctor. This provided...

In 2004 Montana voters, by wide margin, passed an initiative to allow marijuana use for medical purposes. Persons with specified debilitating conditions, such as multiple sclerosis, epilepsy and chronic pain, could receive a medical marijuana card, if certified by a medical doctor. This provided...

Marijuana is an ancient plant with borderline mystical properties - just ask the 266 million people who smoke it every year. Hemp, the industrial strain of Cannabis sativa, has been used for many purposes - food, fuel and textiles among them - for tens of thousands of years. Unlike its sister...

This coming Election Day, nearly 20 percent of American states will vote on whether to legalize marijuana. In exactly a week, we'll know whether Florida voters joined the legal-pot club. For the second straight election, Orlando superlawyer John Morgan has backed a massive campaign to legalize...

This coming Election Day, nearly 20 percent of American states will vote on whether to legalize marijuana. In exactly a week, we'll know whether Florida voters joined the legal-pot club. For the second straight election, Orlando superlawyer John Morgan has backed a massive campaign to legalize...

Logan Bowers, owner of Seattle's #Hashtag pot store, is as adamant about pot legalization as a person can be. Since pot became legal in Washington state in 2014, he's enjoyed the societal - and financial — benefits of legal weed. But he admits feeling a tad conflicted when he sees the growing...

New Delhi: Dharamvir Gandhi, Lok Sabha MP from Punjab, wants to legalise cannabis. And he is getting able support from a few of his Parliament colleagues like actor-turned-politician and BJP MP Vinod Khanna besides a former head of India's narcotics watchdog. Gandhi, the AAP MP from Patiala...

​Legalization and the impact it could have. November 8th is right around the corner and all of this rhetoric we have heard over the last year has been exhausting. It has been difficult to sift through the nonsense to make an informed decision but that's not why I'm here. This year 5 states...

If Arizona voters pass Prop 205 legalizing recreational marijuana, it could have a big impact on the industrial and retail market around the state. Consider what has happened in Colorado, for example. The marijuana industry accounted for 35.8 percent of Denver's newly occupied and constructed...

There are plenty of crucial decisions America must make in the next week, not the least of which being whether or not Californians will finally get to smoke their good kush in peace. California's Proposition 64 would do just that, making recreational marijuana legal for anyone over 21. (Medical...

In an apparent effort to mislead voters about Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's marijuana policy, supporters of Republican nominee Donald Trump started spreading fake memes under the hashtag #StopThePot over the weekend. The memes - designed to mimic images shared by the...

Diane Schwenke, the CEO of the Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce, said at a meeting at Main Street Bagels this morning that the chamber's board hasn't even discussed or considered the possibility of bringing retail marijuana commerce to Grand Junction as a way to boost the local economy...

Regulation is on the horizon for California's medical marijuana industry - and for recreational weed, too, if voters pass Proposition 64 next month - but from now until at least 2018, it's up to consumers to make sure their pot is free of harmful doses of toxins. In the decade marijuana has...

The "No on 2" campaign is extremely concerned about the incident and is urging all counties to be proactive in order to ensure a legitimate election and furthermore urging State Attorneys across the state of Florida to investigate forms submitted by United for Care. "And frankly, I'm absolutely...

In any large family there will be the earnest brother or sister and the fun-loving, irresponsible sibling. So it is with Cannabis sativa, in which one variety, known as hemp, has a huge range of potential applications, while the other, with a high concentration of the psychoactive component...

The schizophrenic federal government has left cannabis as a Schedule 1 drug on its forbidden list even though it actually applied for a medical patent for it in 2003 to explore potential medical uses for the drug. And few would or could deny some clear medical benefits of cannabis. The...