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The Marijuana Legalization Implementation Committee continues to work on regulating growers, sellers, and producers, how to protect public safety, and how to tax cannabis. Tuesday, the panel tackled the requirements for retail marijuana production facilities. Lawmakers are considering...

Just months after state voters legalized the recreational use of marijuana, the state Senate on Tuesday voted to prohibit its use in automobiles because of concerns over drugged driving. A bill by Sen. Jerry Hill (D-San Mateo) makes it an infraction for drivers and passengers to use marijuana...

After Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan decided to move forward with a softer approach towards cannabis use in March, the changes passed by the Knesset now finally take effect. The new cannabis decriminalization policy, which treats cannabis use as a misdemeanor, has now come into...

Six months have passed since California voted in favor of Proposition 64, the recreational marijuana initiative that allows adults 21 and over to possess up to an ounce of marijuana and cultivate up to six plants indoors. And in another six months, state-licensed marijuana stores will begin...

The legislature should form a special commission to make recommendations as to how marijuana could best be regulated and taxed for sale to adults aged 21 and older. The panel should be mandated to return its recommendations to the legislature in a subsequent session, at which time we would urge...

France will introduce a law by year's end that will end prison terms for cannabis use, although consuming the drug will remain a criminal offense, a government spokesman said Friday. French President Emmanuel Macron vowed to reform laws on cannabis use in his election campaign manifesto...

A colleague recently told me that the therapeutic efficacy of marijuana (or cannabis) is "settled science." That term always rubs me the wrong way. Newton's Laws of Physics represented "settled science" until Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity rewrote the rule book. The Annals of...

By now, pretty much everybody knows Michael Phelps. Olympic swimmer. Holder of seven world records (three individual, four relay). Winner of 28 Olympic medals, 23 of them gold. Now 31, Phelps also holds another distinction: he may be the most famous athlete ever caught smoking marijuana...

Illicit cannabis use and cannabis use disorders increased at a greater rate in US states with medical marijuana laws than in other states, research shows. A new study analyzes the differences in cannabis use and cannabis use disorders before and after states passed medical marijuana laws. The...

The clock is ticking on a big choice from Vermont Governor Phil Scott who must decide by mid-week if recreational marijuana should be legal in his state. Scott is now weighing whether to sign or veto a bill by the end of the day Wednesday that would legalize possession by adults 21-and-up of...

A drug addiction treatment center claims to be helping patients give up heroin and cocaine with medical marijuana. Cannabis is more frequently associated with getting high than getting sober — but the directors of one rehab facility in Los Angeles say it can reduce overall harm caused by drug...

The Canton Association of Business & Industry (CABI) hosted a "Lunch and Learn" event on Wednesday, April 26, on Marijuana and the Workplace: Understanding the New Regulations. CABI President Brian Mahoney welcomed the association's members and guests, and introduced the featured speakers...

Cannabis started to emerge as a major medicine in the United States during the mid-1800s and is often sold in tincture form by some drug manufacturers. It was introduced in the United States Constitution in 1850 as a treatment for many medical conditions in the history of medical cannabis...

The ongoing effort by New Jersey Senate Democrats to legalize recreational marijuana took another step forward last week with the introduction of a bill by Senate Judiciary Chairman Nicholas Scutari, D-Union, that would legalize the possession and personal use of up to an ounce of marijuana in...

Opponents of marijuana legalization have long warned that ending prohibition will cause rates of use among teenagers to skyrocket due to increased availability and less concern about the potential harms associated with getting baked on a regular basis. But yet again, new evidence shows the...

The most controversial thing about Canada's move to legalize marijuana nationwide may be setting the minimum age for use at 18 — three years lower than in U.S. states that have embraced legalization — a move that is being closely watched across the continent. Advocates for the measure, expected...

Harm reduction is a strategy for treating addiction that begins with acceptance. A friendlier, less disciplined sister of abstinence, this philosophy aims to reduce the overall level of drug use among people who are unable or simply unwilling to stop. What should naturally follow is a decrease...

Three South American countries have issued policies to regulate cannabis use for medical or recreational purposes. In recent weeks, moves that see the region taking firm steps forward to legalize the controversial plant. The move also opens new opportunities for research into its therapeutic...

Virginia Congressman Tom Garrett introduced legislation in February that aims to federally decriminalize marijuana. If passed, the bill would take marijuana off the federal controlled substances list. "I have long believed justice that isn't blind, isn't justice. Statistics indicate that...

In light of the eight different states that have approved the use of recreational marijuana and more than 60 percent of people in the country favoring legalization, state Senate Judiciary Chairman Nicholas Scutari has announced he will introduce new legislation to legalize personal use of small...