marijuana

Whether it's your religious, right-wing aunt or the Attorney General of the United States, people love making unsubstantiated claims about marijuana. And unfortunately a large enough people in the population believe these myths to prevent cannabis legalization. But which lies are the most...

The Sunnyvale City Council voted unanimously to ban outdoor personal and commercial marijuana cultivation and non-medical commercial marijuana activity within the city at its Sept. 26 meeting. The unanimous vote also included restrictions on indoor personal marijuana use such as limiting the...

Richard Hackler recently drove five-plus hours round trip from his home in Vero Beach to St. Petersburg, hoping to find out if medical marijuana could help with his post traumatic stress disorder. But the doctor he traveled to see seemed just as uninformed as the other physicians he had...

Georgia junior linebacker Natrez Patrick has been arrested on two misdemeanor charges, including marijuana possession – his second such arrest since joining the team. Patrick was booked into the Athens-Clarke County jail at 11:37 p.m. on Thursday night on charges of possession of less than...

Merced County Sheriff's deputies heard a buzzing as they approached a home Thursday night south of Delhi. The sound, as deputies found out after investigating the home in the 16300 block of Oak Street, came from generators helping run machines to grow 1,692 budding marijuana plants, Sgt Ray...

The city has taken the first step toward establishing guidelines for medical marijuana dispensaries that might be looking to open in New Port Richey. Medical marijuana dispensaries will not be allowed in New Port Richey's downtown zoning district, but they could pop up in any commercial and...

Although the city has been slow to embrace the idea of allowing marijuana businesses compared with some of its neighbors, such as Berkeley and Richmond, it is now making formal plans to join them within the next year. Part of the motivation to move ahead came with the passage of state Prop...

The House of Commons Health Committee has completed its study of Bill C-45, the government's bill to legalize marijuana, and has made some tweaks to the government's proposal, including cutting out the height restriction on homegrown marijuana plants. The original version of the legislation...

Dr. Aida Cuascut-Reyes says she's haunted by the screams of a patient whose rectal cancer caused such excruciating pain that not even morphine could ease her suffering. Cuascut-Reyes wishes the woman had lived long enough to be treated with medical marijuana. Based on her experience with...

For civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton, cannabis legalization lands squarely under his purview. "I will never tell you how to grow marijuana, I don't know how to do that," Sharpton told an audience in Boston Thursday. "But I know how to agitate." Sharpton's remarks came during the...

A year ago it might have been taboo for a utility company to set up shop at a conference devoted to marijuana, but no one batted an eye Thursday when a representative from National Grid got up to talk about how his company works with cannabis cultivators. "I get a lot of snickers when I tell...

Dozens of towns around the state have spent the past year scrambling to ban recreational marijuana operations within their borders since voters approved legalization last November. But a last-minute change to a proposed legislative rewrite of the Marijuana Legalization Act would make those...

Though marijuana is now legal in 29 states for either medical or recreational use, the number of arrests involving marijuana have actually increased across the country. Those numbers come from the Uniformed Crime Report compiled by the FBI from data sent to the agency from law enforcement...

New York's fledgling medical marijuana program has faced its share of obstacles: Tepid doctor interest, limited certified patients and a restrictive law that makes expansion difficult. But the main factor at the center of the state's ongoing struggle to build a sustainable medical marijuana...

UFC star Nate Diaz can soon breath a sigh of relief in-between draws from his vape pen. Late last month, the World Anti-Doping Agency removed CBD, an anti-inflammatory compound derived from cannabis, from its 2018 prohibited substances list. "Cannabidiol is no longer prohibited," WADA said in...

Weed, pot, marijuana, Mary Jane, ganja, the devil's lettuce, cannabis – whatever you call it, the wacky tobbacky's come a long way from "Reefer Madness," blooming into a massive industry and legitimate cultural phenomenon. The documentary "The Legend of 420" chronicles the current landscape of...

Every day, Anna Denny encounters people who know their way around a joint. Denny owns Elevated 916, a smoke shop in north Sacramento that sells tobacco products and smoking accessories. But many of her customers don’t limit their smoking to tobacco. Because they’ve been there, done that, Denny...

How about Atlanta "decriminalizing" marijuana? The word decriminalizing is in quotes because it is a misleading. Getting caught with an ounce of weed or less is still illegal, but, if Mayor Kasim Reed approves the ordinance, the penalty goes from a $1,000 fine and six months jail time to $75...

Just because marijuana is legal in California doesn’t mean people can drive around stoned. The state is establishing methods and protocols for testing drivers’ blood for marijuana and determining the legal limit for marijuana impairment while driving. “There are companies developing tests...

Twenty years after California voters legalized marijuana for medicinal use, they took the next big step at the ballot box last November by deciding it's OK to toke for fun too. But while 57 percent of the state's voters embraced the recreational use of pot by approving Proposition 64, South...