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Hello everyone and welcome to our September Members Update. This monthly post is to keep you informed about what's been going on behind the scenes at 420 Magazine during the last few weeks, introducing you to our valued new and renewing sponsors and highlighting our monthly contest winners. A...

Hello everyone and welcome to our August Members Update. This monthly post is to keep you informed about what's been going on behind the scenes at 420 Magazine during the last few weeks, introducing you to our valued new and renewing sponsors and highlighting our monthly contest winners. A...

Cannabis is not accepted worldwide nearly as it should, I´ve been doing some research about countries with the most severe laws oposing cannabis consumption, has any of you experienced or heard of extreme anti cannabis policies?

Longtime New York medical marijuana advocate Dana Beal is back in the joint – this time in California. Beal, 70, was arrested on two pot charges Saturday night in a rural area about 100 miles south of the Oregon border, a Trinity County Sheriff's source told the Daily News. He was jailed...

A company approved to open a medical marijuana dispensary in Lebanon announced approximately when the center will open Thursday, as well as the methods of consumption that will be available. The center will open in mid first quarter 2018, a news release from Wellness Centers of PA said, which...

Packers tight end Lance Kendricks was cited in September for possession of marijuana, a charge that just came to light Saturday. It's the second time this week news surfaced of a Packers player being arrested on drug-related charges earlier this fall, following news reports on running back...

A specialized cannabis news website called The Leaf is generating quite a "buzz" since launching earlier this week, according to the editor of the Winnipeg Free Press. Paul Samyn said the newspaper thinks there is growing reader appetite locally and nationally for news about marijuana as...

Americans may soon be able to get medical marijuana from an unlikely drug dealer: Israel. Bloomberg reported Thursday that 2018 could be a big year for the country's quest to become a global pot provider. Israel's government is on track to pass regulations that would allow growers to export...

California voters legalized the recreational use of marijuana by those 21 and older when they passed Proposition 64 in November 2016. At the beginning of the new year, state officials must have regulations in place for this market that is expected to be huge. The implications for the county...

A mid-Michigan farmer has found about 69 marijuana plants growing along the edge of a cornfield on his property in Midland County. The Midland Daily News reports Tuesday that the 62-year-old Larkin Township farmer was cutting down corn when he came across the marijuana Saturday afternoon...

A Los Angeles lawyer has been sentenced to four years in federal prison for his involvement in large-scale marijuana cultivation operations in Sacramento and Sutter counties. Nathan Hoffman, 57, was sentenced Tuesday in Sacramento by U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez for conspiring to...

Four people were arrested and an estimated $778,000 worth of marijuana plants were seized when Yolo County sheriff's deputies served search warrants at three properties this week. Although marijuana cultivation in allowed in the county under certain circumstances, it requires a county...

What began as a routine traffic stop in Moab ended with the seizure of 10 pounds of marijuana. At 4:49 a.m. Friday morning a Moab City police officer pulled a car over at 200 South Hwy. 191 for equipment violations. According to a news release, "the officer made observations which resulted in...

Citrus Heights police seized approximately 300 marijuana plants from what was described as a sophisticated indoor growing operation in a residential neighborhood. Detectives with the department's special investigations unit served a search warrant in the 8000 block of Dicus Court about 9:45...

A medical marijuana producer in Gatineau, Que., says its processed products have been certified as kosher, just in time for one of the High Holidays on the Jewish calendar. The Hydropothecary Corp. said in a news release that the certification, by Rabbi Levy Teitlebaum, comes just in time for...

Watermelons weren't the only thing found in a recent shipment that was crossing the border, according to news release from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Customs and Border Protection officers on Wednesday referred a white Freightliner tractor-trailer for secondary inspection as it was...

Authorities say a man speeding down an interstate in Louisiana has been arrested after deputies found 2 pounds (1 kilogram) of marijuana in cereal boxes. News outlets report 23-year-old Donald Roots-Scott Jr. of Sacramento, California, was charged with possession with intent to distribute...

ABS-CBN News' six-part series on victims of the war on drugs in the Philippines took home the award for Excellence in Human Rights Reporting at the Society of Publishers in Asia's (SOPA) 2017 Awards for Editorial Excellence. The ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group's "War On Drugs: The...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised marijuana legalization in his 2015 campaign, and he's making good on that promise. By July 2018, our neighbors to the North are expected to legalize recreational cannabis throughout the country. Trudeau made the promise because it had broad support from...

The phrase "no news is good news" should mean an assurance that a situation is not dramatically worsening, and perhaps even improving. For the first 100 days of Trump's Presidency, the lack of news surrounding medical cannabis has been, for the most part, good news for the status quo. However...