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Hartford Supervisor Dana Haff may have just established his own mini-holiday. With a little help from Granville Supervisor Matt Hicks and Argyle Supervisor Bob Henke, Haff held his own "hemp appreciation day" at the Washington County Board of Supervisors meeting last Friday. Hicks...

Craig Gaudet hopes to soon sell medicinal marijuana in Summerside's downtown. Gaudet has an ambitious plan for a vacant Water Street building, known to many as either the old Royal Bank or Purple Parrot building. His plans are for an unconventional health centre, which would include the...

Because he's a scientist, not a back-slapping venture capitalist, Mowgli Holmes loathes using the term networking to describe even the portion of his job that entails shaking hands in the cannabis industry. But it was networking that brought the chief scientific officer of Phylos Bioscience in...

Ignore the righteous bloviating by the naysayers. You know, the fortunate ones to whom pain and suffering do not go. Listen instead to the ailing, the infirm, those riddled with pain from cancers, HIV/AIDS, autoimmune diseases or any of the countless debilitating medical conditions that shackle...

A young man suffering from an extremely rare disease has found a solution which may save his life - medical marijuana - but knows every time he uses it he could be arrested. Ben Oakley, 20, of Wollongong Sydney, suffers from 'Stiff Person Syndrome', which affects only 20 people in Australia...

Just looking around and came across alittle info about one of our favorite members in the cannabis fight in Canada, Dana Larsen. He is giving out tons of free seeds to Canadians to try and push legalization faster. So if you guys wouldnt mind signing the petition on his site and maybe donate...

Broadcaster Sir Paul Holmes turned to marijuana for pain relief in the weeks before he died, his widow has revealed. Holmes died in 2013, after battling heart problems and the return of prostate cancer. His name joins those of other well-known New Zealanders who have lent support to the...

Medical marijuana patients are left scrambling to find providers after a recent ruling from the Montana Supreme Court. The decision kept in place restrictions to limit providers to three patient and reporting of doctors who prescribe more than 25 patients a year. Medical marijuana patients...

George Hendrickson clasped his hands and peered down at lawmakers as they cast their votes on the House floor. He turned his gaze to the left, to the results of a vote on a medical marijuana bill that he hoped could provide relief for his three year old Eliyah, who suffers from multiple...

The sponsor of Utah's bold and controversial cannabis law says, at the end of the calendar year, he will move out of the country. Sen. Mark Madsen says his perception of conservative values does not jive with those of the Utah lawmakers with whom he serves. Madsen says by January 2017, he...

Days after giving his first speech on the West Virginia House of Delegates floor – about his experience with medical marijuana – Delegate Bill Flanigan's palms are still sweaty when he talks about it. The speech wasn't easy for Flanigan, the newest member of the House of Delegates, and it's...

Hundreds roamed around the Boulder County Fairgrounds Saturday for the opening of a two-day hemp festival – an event that is part conference, part education and part of the continued victory celebration for the legalization of marijuana in Colorado several years ago. Many strolled by varying...

Last week a federal judge struck down legislation that banned prescribed-patients from growing their own medical marijuana and has given the Liberal government six months to come up with new rules. Local medical marijuana user Robert Lefave is hopeful any new laws will mean he can grow his...

A Nova Scotia man who spent time in jail for growing medical marijuana is taking cautious hope in this week's Federal Court ruling striking down a ban on patients growing cannabis. James Malcolm Russell MacDonald, 37, spent 60 days in jail last year after police caught him growing ten...

If there's a man who exemplifies how the country and New Mexico has evolved on medical marijuana, it might be Darren White. "I had reasons for why I believed what I did," White said. "I'm not ashamed to sit here and tell you I was wrong." In the early 1990s, White sang anti-drug slogans as...

Dave Kallas spent over two decades busting drug dealers on the streets of Las Vegas. On Saturday, he became a dealer himself – a legal one – when his medical marijuana dispensary The Apothecarium, 7885 W. Sahara Ave., officially opened for business. Kallas, 60, and his business partner...

A Camp Hill man says he had a choice: die or break the law. He decided to risk arrest by illegally using medical marijuana. He shared his story with ABC27 three months ago. It went viral and was shared over 10,000 times on Facebook. ABC27 hid his identity to protect him and his family. Now...

As South Dakota lawmakers debate whether to allow farmers in the state to grow industrial hemp, the first North Dakota producers are preparing for their first growing season under a state-run pilot program. Adrian, N.D., producer Jamie Edwards and his dad, Lyle Edwards, account for two of five...

After a major traffic accident nearly crippled him, Anthony Schiozzi spent years searching for pain relief. He tried surgery, but it didn't work. A second surgery could happen soon, but doctors don't believe it will end the chronic pain that has made it difficult for the 39-year-old former...

Kieran McCrory (37) has been advised by doctors he has between three and five years to live. Last week in a BBC interview Kieran claimed that since using illegal cannabis oil in his drinks and food, doctors have told him that his tumour had stopped growing. It has not been proven...