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For a long time, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has taken a firm stance against marijuana use among competitive athletes. The WADA is a foundation initiated by the International Olympic Committee to promote, coordinate and monitor the fight against drugs in sports. Initially, the WADA...

On Dec. 15 it became legal for individuals to grow a small number of marijuana plants in Massachusetts. On that same date, Aaron Voog stopped having to advise cannabis-curious customers on how to grow "tomatoes." "Now we're able to talk about things like adults in here," said Voog. Voog...

Closer inspection revealed 260 packages filled with high-grade marijuana. They called the cops, who laid in wait for the shipment's recipient, one Steven Yang. Yang would plead guilty to first-degree drug possession with intent to sell 258 pounds. At his sentencing this month, his attorney...

Seantrel Henderson isn't your typical user. Marijuana serves as a pain reliever for the 24-year-old Buffalo Bills offensive lineman who was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease one year ago. Doctors told Henderson medical marijuana was the best medicine for his inflammatory bowel disease, which caused...

Las Vegas – Two-years-ago the kitchen table at Jed Snyder's house was covered in prescription bottles. The pills were lined up, as they are every day, for his son Nico. Nicolas Snyder was born with a rare, and severe form of epilepsy known as Dravet Syndrome. It caused daily seizures ranging...

BRAVE NEW WEED Adventures Into the Uncharted World of Cannabis By Joe Dolce On the same evening Donald Trump became the president-elect, four states – California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada – voted to legalize recreational marijuana, and three others voted to allow it for medicinal...

Seekonk, Mass. - With temperatures falling through the 20s on this landmark day in a state founded by Puritans, store manager Alex Wolowicz prepared for another round of inquiries from eager new plant growers. Pot growers. As of 12:01 Thursday morning it became legal to grow and possess...

"We will continue to stay open," said Cody Bass, founder and executive director of the Tahoe Wellness Cooperative after being told by the City Council Tuesday that he no longer has a Medical Marijuana Dispensary Permit to operate in South Lake Tahoe. "We are going to take this to the end."...

Doctors are successfully using cannabis to treat a schoolboy with an "uncontrollable" form of epilepsy. Billy Caldwell, 11, has been suffering life-threatening and frequent seizures for almost all his life. But he's gone 15 days without a fit after doctors in Los Angeles, USA, started...

F or the past week or so, Max Cirello, 19, has begun his day the same way. He awakens inside a mobile home at 7 a.m., walks to a wooden shed just steps away and begins processing his recently harvested marijuana. It is a tedious job. He takes totes stuffed with a quarter to half a plant and...

Silas Hurd, 9, arises in the morning these days giddy with anticipation. "Oh, he is excited, just really excited," said his father, Forrest Hurd. "He asks over and over again, just to confirm that he is really going." This month, the reddish-haired boy from Nevada County went back to...

For Perry Davidson the recent deal signed with pharmaceutical giant Teva to distribute his medical marijuana inhaler is the culmination of his decade-long goal to mainstream medical cannabis treatments. "I wanted to get rid of the 'bad boy' reputation that marijuana has," Davidson, an Israeli...

Connecticut has joined the mix of states whose medical marijuana laws are running afoul of a federal statute that still lumps it in with illegal controlled substances such as cocaine and heroin. A case playing out in the Nutmeg State revolves around a 36-year-old East Hampton man suing Amazon...

Steve Kerr's admission that he turned to marijuana in dealing with chronic pain following back surgery last year has sparked conversation around the NBA. Kerr, the 51-year-old Warriors head coach, said he used marijuana twice in the past year. He began last season on a leave of absence...

Gov. Asa Hutchinson and state lawmakers announced five people who will sit on a committee to oversee medical marijuana regulation after Arkansans voted to legalize it in November. At a news conference Wednesday, the governor stressed the importance of having scientific expertise on the...

Spokane, Wash. — Snoop Dogg will visit Spokane's Royal's Cannabis on Wednesday from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. The rapper will be in town on his way to his "Puff Puff Pass" tour in the Tri-Cities. Employees at the pot shop started preparation for the D-O-double-G on Tuesday and are ready for a...

Hunter S. Thompson's widow is the latest entry to the growing celebrity-branded marijuana market. Anita Thompson kept 12 bags of the famous journalist's marijuana and hash stash and has sent them to a lab in Boston to be analyzed. "I will be looking for a grower as soon as I know what I will be...

Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr admitted on Friday that he used medical marijuana before in order to deal with pain management while recovering from multiple back surgeries this past year and, as you would expect, his comments made plenty of headlines throughout the basketball world...

When it comes to doing business, Leaf isn't discrete. The friendly 25-year-old saunters around Dolores Park in San Francisco with a big teddy bear on his shoulder and a ring of plastic marijuana leaves around his neck. You can't miss him. Selling weed is his game, one he won't quit anytime...

When David Sparer arrived at his Airbnb in Venice, Italy, he encountered an unsurmountable challenge: the spiral staircase. He was debilitated by his arthritis. His friend, the founder of Los Angeles—based cannabis company the Clear, gave him some cannabidiol (CBD) to put under his tongue and on...