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VERNON - Patients were lined up outside the closing Gartree Medical Clinic this morning, many of them trying to renew prescriptions for medical marijuana. "This is the best place, they don't judge you," local resident Scott Halverson says as he waits in line around 8 a.m. on Friday. "These...

Last summer, after eating weed brownies at the beach, I grew suspicious of seagulls. Along with my similarly altered girlfriend, we decided they were straying just a little too close to our blanket. What was their agenda? Was it safe to fall asleep? And what's with all the eye contact–did they...

Salem – The Oregon Liquor Control Commission has issued its first recall of recreational marijuana. The OLCC says samples of Blue Magoo marijuana contained a level of pesticide residue that exceeds the state limit. The marijuana was grown by Emerald Wave Estate and sold at Buds4U in Mapleton...

A Bay Area pot startup has made it even easier to "wake and bake," with a new marijuana-infused cold-brew coffee. Somatik, an artisanal pot-products company founded in 2016, teamed up with boutique roaster Ritual Coffee to create the drink, which hit cannabis dispensary refrigerators in...

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Hilo – A bill to replace the term "medical marijuana" with "medical cannabis" in state law is moving through the Legislature, though most other marijuana-related measures have died. Senate Bill 786, introduced by state Sen. Mike Gabbard, D-Oahu, says the word "marijuana" originated as a "slang...

Jai Armstrong, a 2009 graduate of Ashland High School, has come up with what he says is a million dollar idea, one that makes marijuana harvest a lot easier and more dependable and one that appears to be on track for hiring scores of local young people. It's called "Trimcamp," after the camps...

The issue of safety has become an unexpected focus of the nascent marijuana industry and one company, Aurora Cannabis (TSXV:ACB), is head and shoulders above the others in the area, says Cannacord Genuity analyst Neil Maruoka. On Thursday, Aurora introduced a new product testing disclosure...

Western Australia's first hemp home has been completed in Margaret River, as its builder revealed he has another three hemp building projects underway in the South-West. Gary Rogers finished the state's revolutionary hemp house in early March after almost eight months construction, using...

Saskatoon – Thirty children from across Canada are being recruited to take part in a new pilot study at the University of Saskatchewan looking at the safety and tolerability of cannabis treatment for childhood epilepsy. Health Canada recently approved the study, which will include children...

When the Pugsley Correctional Facility closed last year, the village of Kingsley lost more than 200 jobs. Now a medical marijuana company from Canada says it can replace about 100 of those jobs, if it's allowed to build a production facility in the Kingsley Industry Park. TheraCann says the...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is scheduled to consider a plan Wednesday to shut down all marijuana dispensaries in unincorporated areas of L.A. That would put about 70 medical collectives in the sheriff's crosshairs, which has alarmed Los Angeles pot advocates. "We're concerned for...

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A bill legalizing the production and sale of industrial hemp was tabled by the Senate Agricultural and Natural Resources Committee in Pierre yesterday. After an hour-and-a-half of debate, a motion to send the bill to the Senate floor failed but the committee then decided to...

A new cannabis chewing gum developed under a Southern California marijuana company is expected to hit the market in the next few weeks, its makers announced. Unlike most of the candy and edibles at your local dispensary, it doesn't make you high. In fact, anyone can purchase it – even kids...

Weed vapes have a pesticide problem. Think you're vaping pure cannabis oil? Think again. Some oils and concentrates that get tested have turned out to be contaminated with toxic chemicals. "This is really nasty stuff," says Adam Lustig, CEO and founder of Higher Vision Cannabis, which...

Standing outside a strip mall in Springfield, I pull on the handle of the double-deadbolted door of a storefront with dark windows and a paper green arrow that says "Herbs" hanging under the company sign, but it doesn't budge. I can hear men inside talking and laughing, so I give a knock and...

Before she started her own medical marijuana company, selling gourmet cannabis treats and products, Mina Carrillo staunchly opposed the use of marijuana. However, she had a change of heart when she saw the healing effects cannabis had on her daughter, who had chronic diseases from a young age...

In 2012, the L.A. cannabis industry needed friends. The Obama administration had not yet signaled a truce with state legal businesses, so federal agents raided dispensaries and dozens more received letters that they were violating federal law. Hundreds of unregulated shops had popped up in the...

In states like Colorado, where the recreational use of cannabis is legal, the population is divided into two categories: those who use marijuana, and everyone else. LucidMood, a Boulder-based company, is hoping to bridge that gap with a product it bills as "cannabis for the rest of us."...