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Stop thinking of Cannabis as a drug... Right now around the world there is a tremendous amount of confusion about the Cannabis situation. Some people act as though it is completely legal. Marketing and selling their products all over the internet and organising conferences for medical doctors...

One of the challenges of the campaign to legalize cannabis across the country is the lack of benchmark data that compares social-health issues before and after states legalize pot. Now the University of Colorado hopes to fill in some of those gaps with a long-term study on groups of test...

Yep - lived in Texas for 65 years. What a wonderful site. I want to get to a state with sane laws and end 48 years of paranoia. I've lucked out and haven't been busted, but been real close. I can only imagine what it will be like to walk into a store and buy pot. I am so glad I found this...

Thursday's event will discuss incarceration rates, sentencing and what happens after prison "for those not facing a life sentence for a plant." When most people think about advocates for the legalization of weed, they likely imagine tie-dye-wearing stoners just looking to get high without the...

Last month, the Dallas County district attorney charged more than 400 individuals with possession of less than two ounces of marijuana each. That means well over 400 people could have remained in the community but were instead arrested and put into jail. Some surely lost jobs, others surely had...

The war on drugs has taken a disproportionate toll on people who are poor, black or Latino, community activists have long lamented. Now that marijuana is on the brink of legalization in California, Los Angeles leaders want to make sure that disadvantaged people can cash in. L.A. has been...

A cannabis campaigner has said he wants to reopen a café for the plant's medicinal use in north Wales. Jeff Ditchfield was prosecuted twice when he ran the Beggar's Belief café in Rhyl for five years until 2007. But with MPs about to debate a Bill to legalize cannabis as a medicine, he is...

The Democratic candidates hoping to take on Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner next year gathered on a debate stage Wednesday for the second time in 12 hours, when most of them agreed they would support legalizing marijuana in Illinois. State Sen. Daniel Biss and entrepreneur and philanthropist J.B...

Henry Rollins doesn't use marijuana, but he's passionate about the importance of its legalization. "The history of cannabis is a story of bigotry, elitism and corruption, so I push against that," says Rollins, an actor, comedian, musician and activist who is the keynote speaker for the Oregon...

Hi there, The Introduction: One of the problems with an indoor, at home, grow. Is that you fail to notice, or underestimate, the way cannabis stinks. The smells that are ever present, somehow become invisible. I guess it's a bit like the guy that has body odour ... on the train/bus/tram/plane...

Learn about the expanding marijuana industry, meet people in the business, hear former Mexico President Vicente Fox's views on legalization, or just breathe deeply of cannabis culture. The third annual Southwest Cannabis Convention and Expo at the Phoenix Convention Center will let you do all...

Claudia Post and Jonathan Monk want to be blunt about the future of cannabis. The industry is blowing up, but the Jewish co-owners of Cannavation, Smokin' Hot Solutions and Kannakart, all based in Philadelphia, said those in the business are still struggling to market themselves. Post, or...

Mindy Segal, a James Beard Award-winning pastry chef, announced in December 2015 that she would be venturing into cannabis-infused edible products for medical marijuana patients. The acclaimed chef and owner of Mindy's HotChocolate recently spoke at Taste Talks about her line, Mindy's Artisanal...

Protesters will scoff cannabis tea and cakes outside Parliament tomorrow in a bid to legalize the drug for medicinal use. Campaigners expect hundreds of people at a 'cannabis tea party' which they've dubbed a "very civil bit of disobedience". Cancer patients and multiple sclerosis...

This July, a member of Parliament stood up for the rights of cannabis consumers. In protest of government inaction over medical cannabis, Paul Flynn, the Welsh MP encouraged civil disobedience in the form of public cannabis consumption–a demonstration now scheduled for Tuesday, October 10...

Whether it's your religious, right-wing aunt or the Attorney General of the United States, people love making unsubstantiated claims about marijuana. And unfortunately a large enough people in the population believe these myths to prevent cannabis legalization. But which lies are the most...

For civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton, cannabis legalization lands squarely under his purview. "I will never tell you how to grow marijuana, I don't know how to do that," Sharpton told an audience in Boston Thursday. "But I know how to agitate." Sharpton's remarks came during the...

Though marijuana is now legal in 29 states for either medical or recreational use, the number of arrests involving marijuana have actually increased across the country. Those numbers come from the Uniformed Crime Report compiled by the FBI from data sent to the agency from law enforcement...

Andy McConville has landed his dream job - and he owes it all to the fact he used to be a cannabis farmer. The 34-year-old horticultural specialist spent a decade growing weed for his own use at home. It was only when he suffered a mental health crisis about three years ago that he realized he...

Authorities seized more than 800 marijuana plants and 500 pounds of recently harvested marijuana in a major illegal grow bust in Pueblo County on Monday. The Pueblo County Sheriff's Office, alongside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, arrested nine people, including one juvenile...