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Nearly 90 percent of cannabis cardholders in Montana are without access to a legal provider, a roughly 300 percent increase since a Montana Supreme Court ruling went into effect Aug. 31 limiting medical marijuana providers to three clients. Initiative 182 on election ballots mailed out last...

At last, the state will vote on recreational pot smoking: California Proposition 64. The initiative is commonly known as The Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), and the fact that it's even up for a vote amazes me. I grew up at a time when weed was largely thought to turn your brain into a mound...

Mention marijuana advertising to anyone who was alive in the 1970s, and you might draw out of them a famous Cheech and Chong jingle. "No stems, no seeds that you don't need," goes the ditty, "Acapulco Gold is" - cue sound of someone toking on a joint - "badass weed!" It was a joke at the...

Activists at the SNP conference have overwhelmingly backed a motion in favour of the decriminalisation of cannabis for medical use. Delegates at the party's national conference in Glasgow have urged the UK Government to devolve powers to Holyrood to make the drug legal. They made the call...

Thousands of weed enthusiasts, business people, non-profits and growers will descend on downtown Phoenix this weekend to learn more about the marijuana market and its potential for growth. The conference arrives as early voting on Proposition 205, the state's recreational-marijuana ballot...

Iv'e been doing a lot of research lately and everything it's been pointing to has said not to smoke resin. I do it when i'm out of bud and desperate but is it really that bad for you to smoke? I also notice I get a headache sometimes after smoking it and iv'e heard other reports from people...

Toronto - Ontario's Liberal government defended allowing medical marijuana users to vaporize anywhere by saying they had consulted "very broadly" - but emails show those consultations involved the input of just two people, The Canadian Press has learned. Ultimately, the associate health...

Toronto - Ontario's Liberal government defended allowing medical marijuana users to vaporize anywhere by saying they had consulted "very broadly" - but emails show those consultations involved the input of just two people, The Canadian Press has learned. Ultimately, the associate health...

Tampa, FL - Tampa's first Family Medical Cannabis Clinic is now open for patients across Tampa Bay, offering a non-euphoric strain of marijuana as a treatment option for children and adults. "In particular the CBD that's found in the low THC medical cannabis - that's now for people with...

Tampa, FL - Tampa's first Family Medical Cannabis Clinic is now open for patients across Tampa Bay, offering a non-euphoric strain of marijuana as a treatment option for children and adults. "In particular the CBD that's found in the low THC medical cannabis - that's now for people with...

When Nikki Foxx noticed local edibles makers were fixated on unhealthy products like cookies, brownies, and candies, she decided somebody needed to teach people how cannabis-infused food could be medicine itself. Today, she's the founder and CEO of Gourmedd, a Phoenix-based company that creates...

Portland, Ore. - The budtenders of the Rose City are relentlessly helpful with tips pairing a marijuana strain that is "equal parts fruity and musky" with a stimulating Sichuan dish. As Oregon, the place where empires once clashed over the global trade of beaver furs, glides into a second year...

Boston — Eight years after Massachusetts voted to decriminalize the possession of less than an ounce of marijuana, racial disparities in arrests for marijuana possession have continued, a report from the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts found, and they disproportionately affect...

Despite the low pay and murky future, an increasing number of people are leaving cushy jobs in prestigious industries to study cannabis, launch startups, or take jobs in the Bay Area's booming medical marijuana industry. With or without the passage of legalized adult recreational use of...

Imagine a war that drags on for four decades, costs the American people over a trillion dollars, tears American families apart and makes little to no progress toward the desired outcome. By any measure, that is a failed war. Yet this perfectly describes the war on drugs. Legalizing...

In the state of Indiana, cannabis is not decriminalized. Cannabis is far less harmful than many other drugs, and it should be decriminalized because there are more serious crimes happening than possession of weed. It costs taxpayers more money and is more dangerous to those convicted or...

Madison - As the ongoing debate on whether to legalize marijuana continues, hundreds of protesters gathered on the steps of the capitol building to rally in support of legalizing the drug. The protest was part of the 46th annual Madison Hemp Festival. Many pro-marijuana activists spoke at the...

As more and more states have made the decision to legalize marijuana, we've started to get a more accurate picture of how people use cannabis. Among a number of fascinating revelations, this stands out: a number of people use marijuana to fuel workouts. "Marijuana relaxes me and allows me...

People who believe that the Bible should be taken as the literal word of God may be much less likely to support the legalization of marijuana than those who believe the Bible is a book of moral fables, according to a new study. The study found that people who reported in national surveys that...

The largest comprehensive study of marijuana users is under way. BDS Analytics is working on the industry's first scientifically rigorous consumer-research survey about cannabis consumption. Headed by Linda Gilbert, a market research veteran, the team is conducting a nationwide survey of 1,000...