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South Africa is set to legalize the cultivation and use of marijuana, locally called dagga, becoming the first nation in Africa to permit its medical use by April next year after the Parliamentary health committee pedaled implementation of a proposed bill. The use of high quality marijuana...

Recreational marijuana in Washington is sold in packages of plastic, metal, and layers of red tape from state laws that frequently change. One example of these laws can be found in the stickers and labels affixed to many marijuana products. While these labels contain valuable information for...

Those suffering from chronic pain will soon be among those able to use medical marijuana in New York state, the state's health department announced Thursday. "After conducting a thorough review of the scientific literature, it became clear that there may be certain benefits in the use of...

The failure of Prop 205 may have been a sobering realization for some, but others still have high hopes for the future of marijuana in Arizona. Several new efforts have popped up to change the landscape of Arizona's marijuana landscape since voters rejected this year's recreational...

It took Chris Abbott six stressful months to find a new space for his growing company. The 10,000-square-foot warehouse on the outskirts of Portland, Ore., was once used to store industrial-strength compressors. Now the gritty space, its cinder walls repainted white, resembles a cross between...

On a typical day, Daphnée Elisma will fire up her vaporizer and inhale roughly three grams of marijuana. She can go through a quarter-pound of weed a month, spending about $500 in the process. But Elisma, 41, isn't what you might call a burnout. She's in her third year of law school...

The business of medical marijuana is off to a fast start in Erie County. Three separate groups have announced plans to establish ventures here just months after Pennsylvania's Medical Marijuana Act was signed into law in April. Two of the three - a group of out-of-state investors eyeing a...

South Dakota marijuana advocates said Wednesday that they're prepared to explore multiple avenues in hopes of blazing an effective path to legalization. Melissa Mentele, 39, said she plans to submit two ballot measures to the attorney general's office this month and is also ready to fight for...

St. Paul, Minn. - More changes may be coming to Minnesota's medical marijuana program. The Minnesota's Department of Health is expected to announce today whether it would expand the program to people suffering post-traumatic stress disorder, autism, arthritis and others. The health commissioner...

Marijuana should be treated as a "public health issue, the same way we do with cigarettes or alcohol," said President Obama in a post-election interview with Rolling Stone. In the interview made public this week, the president, who has admitted to smoking marijuana in his younger days...

Albany - Medical marijuana will soon be available to New Yorkers suffering from chronic pain. The state Health Department said Thursday it is developing regulations to allow doctors to prescribe medical marijuana to patients with chronic pain, although it has yet to define what symptoms will...

Sacramento, Calif. - Changing marijuana laws aren't necessarily making weed more welcome in the workplace. For now, many employers appear to be sticking with their drug testing and personal conduct policies, even in states where recreational marijuana use is now permitted. Others are keeping...

Tallahassee - After an overwhelming majority of Floridians approved an expansion of medical marijuana in the state, lawmakers are preparing to hash out the regulatory set-up for the growing industry. And that's when things may get interesting, again. Some lawmakers still are cautious about...

The elections are over and the legislative season is yet to begin, so things are pretty quiet on the medical marijuana front. Still, here are a couple of tidbits. Maryland On Monday, the state moved to improve diversity in the medical marijuana industry. The state Cannabis Commission...

The debate over whether Georgia will become a safer space for marijuana, in medicinal or any other form, is poised to pick up speed next year. But only if the incoming Donald Trump administration doesn't shut it down. And with the nomination of U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama as the...

It took Chris Abbott six stressful months to find a new space for his growing company. The 10,000-square-foot warehouse on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon, was once used to store industrial-strength compressors. Now the gritty space, its cinder walls repainted white, resembles a cross between...

Wilsonville, Ore. - Marijuana testing is creating several quandaries for Oregon regulators at a time of overall uncertainty for the newly legalized crop, according to a state official. Testing for pesticides poses one challenge, as the necessary instrumentation is expensive and complicated...

Little Rock - Medical marijuana products sold in Arkansas would have to include detailed labels with information about their laboratory analysis, dosage, source and warnings under a draft of rules being prepared for the launch of the first medical marijuana program in the Bible Belt. The...

Los Angeles - California's legal marijuana industry is expected to involve everything from backyard growers to sprawling fields in the farm belt, storefront sellers along rural roads to chain-store like outlets in Los Angeles. State tax collectors are taking initial steps to get a hand into...

Ottawa - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet had expected to receive findings from a task force studying the legalization of marijuana, but the document is stuck in translation limbo. The team behind the report says it will be given to ministers and the public when it is in available in...