marijuana

When Alex Roth's mother sent him an article announcing a new degree program being offered at Northern Michigan University, the sophomore immediately switched his major. Roth is now majoring in cannabis. The program, Medicinal Plant Chemistry, is the first program to offer a 4-year...

More than 100 Massachusetts cities and towns have imposed bans, moratoriums or other limits on marijuana shops since voters legalized the drug for recreational use last year, opening up a new battlefront in the debate over legal weed. Nearly two dozen communities north of Boston – including...

With New York's decriminalization of marijuana and the rise of near-odorless vaping – according to the Blinc Group, a cannabis-industry advocate, there are more than 6,000 purveyors in the five boroughs, selling vaping products – perhaps it's no wonder smoking weed on the job seems to be on the...

A majority of our "Political Insiders" say that medical use of marijuana should be legal, bucking the mainstream stance that more study is needed before taking that step. Utahns may get the opportunity to decide that question for themselves in 2018, as legalizing some types of medical...

Medical marijuana has been on municipal agendas in Michigan a lot this year, and it could be intensifying in the days and weeks ahead. On Monday night alone, three area municipalities will be discussing ordinances that could govern new medical marijuana businesses being allowed by the state...

Five political subdivisions within the Register's coverage area are among the approximate 100 possible statewide locations where medical marijuana could legally be grown from by next year. The Ohio Department of Commerce recently released the businesses interested in overseeing a cultivation...

A Mohawk-owned company is nearly ready to start growing and selling medical marijuana in Canada. Seven Leaf is retrofitting an old water bottling plant on Cornwall Island in Akwesasne. The multi-million dollar project hopes to employ 100 people. The company enters a booming and crowded market...

Ceres resident Bridget Ludy doesn't seem like your typical cannabis manufacturer. The 60-year-old married mother of two has lived in the Central Valley for the past 25 years. She is also a grandmother to two small children. She doesn't smoke or drink. And her company's Twitter feed is...

Medical marijuana has been legalized in 29 states, but it remains illegal for professional football players to use as a treatment for injuries and chronic pain. That doesn't mean players in the National Football League aren't using the drug. Quite the opposite. Eben Britton, who retired in...

Creswell residents have one issue on their Nov. 7 ballots, and one company stands to benefit greatly if residents vote yes. Measure 20-280 would allow recreational marijuana sales in Creswell if passed. Because of the careful wording of the measure, the first store that opens may be the only...

Marijuana legalization in Colorado appears to have led to a drop in opioid overdose deaths in that state, according to new research published in the American Journal of Public Health. "After Colorado's legalization of recreational cannabis sale and use, opioid-related deaths decreased more...

Canada's health minister says pilot projects have begun on roadside police testing for marijuana, and the plan is to have rules in place for edible cannabis around July 2019. "Our priority right now is to ensure that we can legalize cannabis by July 2018," Ginette Petitpas Taylor said Friday...

A medical marijuana patient's pilfered pot plants were recovered on Oct. 4, following the execution of a search warrant on Main Street in Richmond, near the town's police station. "The day after our last meeting on Oct. 3, we executed a search warrant on Main Street — not too far from the...

The wildfires scorching Northern California have burned down at least 34 marijuana farms, just as the state prepares to launch a legal recreational marijuana industry. Recovery poses unique challenges for the growers. Because selling marijuana violates federal law, even when it's allowed by...

A commission studying marijuana legalization is tasked with identifying "the good, the bad, and the ugly." That's how Rep. Patrick Abrami sums it up. He's the commission's chairman. Abrami's outline of guidelines at the first meeting of the commission this week points to the workload...

There's no better time than the present to discuss marijuana legalization according to Michael Steele, who helped shape national policy during his tenure as Chairman of the Republican National Committee. Steele recently told Civilized that the America is finally ready to take a critical look at...

Canada's health minister says pilot projects have begun on roadside police testing for marijuana, and the plan is to have rules in place for edible cannabis around July 2019. "Our priority right now is to ensure that we can legalize cannabis by July 2018," Ginette Petitpas Taylor said Friday...

Members of the La Verne City Council recently approved an ordinance banning all commercial marijuana activities in the city along with setting regulations for the personal cultivation of pot. Council members gave unanimous final approval to the ordinance, which was part of the Oct. 16 consent...

Public and industry support is growing for the regulation and use of cannabis plants, both in terms of marijuana legalization for medical and recreational use and industrial hemp as an agricultural crop. 
 At least 33 states have passed legislation to allow for industrial hemp and 29 states...

Last November, Maine citizens narrowly passed a referendum to legalize the adult use of recreational marijuana. Once that referendum was passed, the Legislature was tasked with the critical, and considerable, responsibility of implementing the law. Seventeen lawmakers from both parties...