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Vera Twomey's walk to the Dáil was a landmark moment for patients all over Ireland, and the latest moment in a wide history of people having to fight for access to medicinal cannabis, writes David Linnane. The real drive for legal medicinal cannabis started in the 1980s in San Francisco...

As most marijuana-reform advocates know, getting any bill passed in Texas relating to even the tiniest amounts of pot "is like trying to clean the Statue of Liberty while licking it," as State Representative Harold Dutton (D-Houston) once described it. But at least on Monday, one marijuana...

People with epilepsy resort to cannabis products when antiepileptic drug side-effects are intolerable and epilepsy uncontrolled. The first Australian nationwide survey on the experiences and opinions of medicinal cannabis use in people with epilepsy has revealed that 14 per cent of people...

Hi all - i have been told that people who are 420 friendly in Canada, Vancouver mainly, have been advertising their lodgings and holiday lets for years in local papers, press, online etc, but i cannot find anything anywhere online or otherwise that lists these kind of things. Can anyone help...

I have been a medical card holder since 2001, yet I recently lost my job due to a random drug test because the Feds consider it illegal! Where is the justice in this? It has been proven time & time again that people that use marijuana are more reliable employees than those that don't!

Several speakers and audience members at a Hampton NAACP forum on marijuana legalization Monday voiced concern about what they termed unfair current enforcement of the state's pot laws. Claire Guthrie Gastanaga, executive director of the ACLU of Virginia, said that black and white people use...

Cannabis and strength training may not seem like a natural combination, but one San Francisco entrepreneur wants to change that perception by opening the first cannabis-friendly gym, where people can work out and smoke pot in the one place. Power Plant Fitness will be just like an ordinary...

When people first consider cannabis as a pain remedy, they often don't know where to start – and they have lots of questions. Fortunately, Lynn Honderd, CEO of Mary's Medicinals, who co-founded the company in 2013, has lots of answers. We recently sat down with Honderd to talk about Mary's...

It should come as no surprise that the fastest-growing group of cannabis consumers in Washington state and other parts of the U.S. are baby boomers. Many boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, smoked weed in their 20s, but stopped as public opinion swayed toward the "Just Say No" attitudes of the...

Ruth Brunn finally said yes to marijuana. She is 98. She pops a green pill filled with cannabis oil into her mouth with a sip of vitamin water. Then Ms. Brunn, who has neuropathy, settles back in her wheelchair and waits for the jabbing pain in her shoulders, arms and hands to ebb. "I...

Cape Town - Marijuana support groups have welcomed the green light given by the government for the manufacture of cannabis for medicinal use, but criticised the proposed guidelines attached to its usage. The suggested framework would allow cannabis for medicinal purposes, but under strict...

Hello everyone ..I am new here but not new to a site like this going way back to Overgrow ..They are so beneficial to a first time grower as good people are willing to share their advice based on experience . I live in southern ontario canada not far from Toronto and been puffing since 1979...

Wines have their sommeliers, cheeses have their mongers and coffees have their cuppers, but what about people who pride themselves in being weed experts? Max Montrose, president of Trichome Institute, has used his love for cannabis and years of researching and dissecting the many complexities of...

The second annual Hawaii Cannabis Expo is wrapping up this weekend at the Blaisdell Exhibition Hall as vendors from across the state gathered to promote the state's growing medical marijuana industry. With the third medical marijuana dispensary getting the go-ahead to start growing its...

Coming home after a long day at work has become synonymous with pouring a big glass of wine, but is this long-held American tradition changing? California-based medical marijuana technology company Eaze just released a new report which shows that alcohol drinkers in California are turning to...

Tallahassee, Fla. - The debate over how to implement the medical marijuana amendment in Florida continues. New proposals from the Florida Department of Health are now coming under fire. But Department of Health officials say before making anything permanent, its Office of Compassionate Use is...

Drug policy is race policy. To honor drug-policy reformers on the front lines, this Black History Month, the Drug Policy Alliance, in partnership with The Root, is bringing you the stories of four phenomenal people who have been instrumental in shaping conversations around drug policy and its...

Leah Heise is sitting in a green room behind the stage of the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, by a wide mirror that takes up the entire wall beneath a row of round-bulb makeup lights. Countless performers have prepared for the stage in this room, but now it's Women Grow's turn to shine. Women...

A drug-policy consultant will visit Buffalo on Tuesday to argue that New York should legalize recreational marijuana not simply because, in his view, the current system squanders police resources, targets certain minorities and fosters a dangerous, underground economy. Legalizing marijuana...

Jacksonville, Fla. - With the passage of Amendment 2 and the state of Florida now in the process of writing a law that allows medical marijuana to be sold in the state, local prospective business owners are looking into how to profit off what is a multi-billion dollar business nationally...