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The cabinet has approved a proposal to allow hemp, known as ganjong in Thai, to be grown as a cash crop in six selected northern provinces, as part of a project to use narcotic plants for medical purposes, the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) revealed Tuesday. ONCB secretary-general...

A bill to legalise the growing of industrial hemp in SA has been introduced into parliament and will be voted on next year. An international hemp consultant, a textile industries representative and Greens MLC Tammy Franks, who tabled the bill in parliament, believe the product has a future in...

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker signed a bill Friday aimed at delaying the opening of marijuana shops in the state until mid-2018. An aide to the Republican governor said Baker shares the desire of state lawmakers to thoroughly prepare for the launch of a new industry distributing a...

Qualifying patients in search of a prescription for medical marijuana may want to start a doctor-patient relationship sooner rather than later. Three months is the minimum time a physician must have treated a patient in order to prescribe medical marijuana and it could be longer than 90 days...

Washington — Of five states with recreational marijuana on the ballot this fall, Arizona was the only state where the initiative failed, after supporters ran into a well-funded opposition campaign backed by political heavyweights. But that hasn't stopped marijuana advocates from looking ahead...

Puerto Rico's first medical cannabis pharmaceutical company, IMC Corp., has been given the go-ahead to start operations in Ponce upon receiving its license from the Commonwealth's Health Department, company officials confirmed Thursday. IMC, founded by local entrepreneurs, will process and...

Medical cannabis campaigners have criticised governments for their approach to a so-called 'wonder drug'. Clinical trials of medicinal cannabis will soon begin in NSW, NSW Minister for Medical Research Pru Goward announced clinical trials for up to 250 patients would begin in January...

Governor Charlie Baker on Friday signed into law a measure delaying several parts of the state's new marijuana legalization law, announcing the move just as demonstrators gathered outside the State House to urge him to veto the plan. The likely opening date for recreational marijuana stores...

The Oregon Liquor Control Commission approved temporary rule changes Dec. 19 that take effect Sunday for recreational marijuana businesses. In one change, growers who accept responsibility for illegally applying pesticides will receive a warning for a first violation, according to an OLCC news...

Massachusetts lawmakers on Beacon Hill on Wednesday, December 28, passed a measure to delay portions of the recently approved ballot question legalizing recreational marijuana. The move has prompted frustration, even outrage, for pro-legalization advocates who believe the Legislature violated...

On Sunday, the recreational use of marijuana will become legal in Nevada following passage of the state's "Question 2" during this year's elections. The law will allow adults 21 and older to possess up to an ounce of cannabis or one-eighth ounce of cannabis concentrate with the start of the...

Government officials in and around Gary know of Jim Nowacki, a one-time Chicago resident who now lives in Gary and is oftentimes a government critic. But by sometime next week, Nowacki expects to be in Indianapolis, lobbying for medical marijuana in the Statehouse. Nowacki, who does not own an...

Senate President Stanley Rosenberg said he expects some lawmakers to attempt to repeal marijuana legalization next year, speaking in an interview one day after the legislature acted abruptly and without public debate to delay the opening of weed shops. "Believe me, people have rights. I'd...

Academic research on reducing the psychoactive component tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) level in cannabis will be conducted to discourage people using the crop as a narcotic, the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) said Thursday. ONCB secretary-general Sirinya Sitdhichai said the Public...

November brought not only the election of Donald Trump to the presidency, but also a nationwide trend toward marijuana legalization, both recreationally and medicinally. But not in New Mexico. While some people are looking longingly to the financial boon of the green boom of Colorado, the Land...

A licensed medicinal marijuana producer — the first to use fish to help grow the plants — is hoping to get Health Canada's blessing to sell cannabis. Flamborough's Green Relief Inc., which received its cultivation licence in February, was inspected on Nov. 10 to be licensed to sell, said CEO...

Jamie Howe has been disabled for years after complications from a gastric bypass surgery, and was diagnosed with exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, which she said causes debilitating pain. After opiates put her in the hospital and then into rehab, she looked to marijuana to alleviate the pain...

The state agency in charge of recreational marijuana sales is rushing to approve about 70 would-be retailers this week before new rules on sales take effect Jan. 1. Medical dispensaries wanting to cut into the generally more profitable recreational sales won't be able to do so anymore come...

The St. Clair City Council recently adopted an ordinance that city attorney Jim Downey called "unnecessary." The council voted unanimously at its regular meeting on Dec 19 to prohibit any of the four medical marijuana facilities allowable under the three state of Michigan public acts – P.A...

Boston - The leaders of both the House and Senate are on board with a six-month time frame for rewriting the state's marijuana laws after voters in November approved regulated sales of the intoxicating plant. In a brief hallway interview on Thursday, House Speaker Robert DeLeo concurred with...