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Australia is continuing to make inroads into the use of medicinal medical marijuana with the announcement of a new trial specifically for children. In an Australian first, New South Wales (NSW) state will trial a cannabis-based Epidolex drug via the Sydney Children's Hospital for children...

Australia is continuing to make inroads into the use of medicinal medical marijuana with the announcement of a new trial specifically for children. In an Australian first, New South Wales (NSW) state will trial a cannabis-based Epidolex drug via the Sydney Children's Hospital for children...

Novato, California - Before Jim McAlpine works out... ... he lights up. "I personally use it for focus. It's not about getting high. It's about keeping my mind engaged in the activity I'm in," said Jim McAlpine, Founder of Power Plant Fitness McAlpine believes there are many athletes...

Most Ontario adults support government-controlled options for producing and selling cannabis, according to new survey results from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). While public opinion continues to swing toward liberalizing recreational cannabis use control, Ontarians favour...

Marijuana has expanded like a weed over the past two decades, but 2016 could be its greatest year yet. In November, residents in up to a dozen states could vote on whether or not to legalize medicinal or recreational marijuana. Five states have secured marijuana initiatives on their ballots...

Proponents of open and easy access to legalized marijuana will not be pleased by the tone of a new discussion paper released by the federal government. If anyone thought the breezy support for recreational pot offered by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the campaign trail would translate into...

Shares in medicinal marijuana firm MMJ Phytotech have surged after Canada's health regulator announced a taskforce to help design a framework for recreational use of the drug. MMJ Phyotech recently won a licence in Canada to grow marijuana for medical use. MMJ said on Tuesday that the...

Acceptance of marijuana seems to have reached a tipping point in the United States. Four states and the District of Columbia have already legalized it, half the states have medical marijuana laws now (two-thirds if you count the CBD-only states), and as many as a half dozen states, including...

Legal technocrats are currently scrutinising the details of an initial draft of legislative changes which will pave the way for legalising the use of medical cannabinoid oil in Cayman. The Office of the Premier, in response to queries from The Cayman Reporter on Friday (1 July), on the issue...

Legal technocrats are currently scrutinising the details of an initial draft of legislative changes which will pave the way for legalising the use of medical cannabinoid oil in Cayman. The Office of the Premier, in response to queries from The Cayman Reporter on Friday (1 July), on the issue...

Local marijuana advocacy groups are still conducting research on a possible proposal to legalize pot for recreational use in Guam. However, Andrea Pellacani, president of Women Grow Guam and founder of Grassroots Guam, said prior to pursuing full legalization, she wants to "see how the...

Local marijuana advocacy groups are still conducting research on a possible proposal to legalize pot for recreational use in Guam. However, Andrea Pellacani, president of Women Grow Guam and founder of Grassroots Guam, said prior to pursuing full legalization, she wants to "see how the...

Today the California Adult Use of Marijuana Act ("AUMA") officially takes its place on the November ballot as Proposition 64. The measure qualified for the ballot earlier this week. Prop. 64 will allow adults 21 and older to possess, transport and use up to an ounce of marijuana for recreational...

A lot of horror stories about marijuana and youths exist, but new data from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment busts at least one of them: no, marijuana legalization doesn't equate higher rates of teen smoking. Recreational marijuana use became legal for adults 21 and over...

One year to the day since the death of her 19-year-old son Alex, Nelson woman Rose Renton's fight for medicinal cannabis law reform continued with a protest held outside the offices of Nelson MP Nick Smith on Waimea Road this afternoon. More than 30 supporters joined Renton on the hour long...

One year to the day since the death of her 19-year-old son Alex, Nelson woman Rose Renton's fight for medicinal cannabis law reform continued with a protest held outside the offices of Nelson MP Nick Smith on Waimea Road this afternoon. More than 30 supporters joined Renton on the hour long...

Ottawa, Canada - Canada's health minister said Thursday that the government has formed a special task force to propose ways to regulate sales of recreational marijuana ahead of legalization in 2017. The group includes a former attorney general of Canada, an expert in pain management and...

Throughout my career in medicine, two principles have guided my work: to do no harm and to base all decisions on empirical evidence. Both tenets have led me to vigorously support legalization, taxation, and regulation of marijuana for use by adults 21 and older. Recently, state Sen...

Despite a subtle but unrelenting campaign by interest groups and civil society organisations for cannabis to be legalised in Ghana, the Mental Health Authority says the banned substance poses health hazards. Chief Executive of the Authority, Dr Akwasi Osei, says cannabis - also called...

In the District, medical marijuana is legal, residents can possess up to two ounces of pot and they can grow up to six plants in their homes. Now a D.C. government agency says the city should take the next step and fully legalize the sale of marijuana. In a new report published by the D.C...