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The number of marijuana dispensaries operating in the unincorporated areas of Stanislaus County currently sits at 14, but that number will soon be cut in half following the Board of Supervisors' approval Tuesday of a conservative strategy to allow the retail sale and cultivation of cannabis...

Canada-based PUF Ventures Inc. will build a 1 million-square-foot greenhouse operation, with large scale manufacturing, processing and office facilities for the cultivation, production and manufacture of medical cannabis and associated products in Australia. The project is the result of a...

I've been making money off marijuana these past several years by writing about the stuff. The bottom line in the media is, whether you are for or against it, anytime you bring up marijuana you are making money off of it. The folks at Project SAM (Smart Approaches to Marijuana) – pretty much an...

Vermont officials have awarded a fifth medical marijuana dispensary and cultivation license to an applicant that will have locations in St. Albans and Bennington. The Times Argus reports the Waterbury-based PhytoScience Institute will start dispensing medical marijuana within six months after...

Bexar County will implement a program that treats certain misdemeanors crimes, including low-level marijuana possession, similarly to traffic offenses and diverts offenders from jail. Flanked by Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar and County Judge Nelson Wolff, District Attorney Nico LaHood...

Before a single seed has been legally sown, a cannabis producer and dispensary operator is launching the state's first-ever marijuana marketing campaign. Its purpose: to alert Pennsylvanians to the medical marijuana program and get them thinking about it. Cresco Yeltrah was among 12 growers...

People eager to start buying recreational marijuana from shops in San Francisco when sales become legal throughout the state in January are going to have to wait a little longer. The city won't issue permits to sell recreational marijuana until it passes new laws to regulate the industry and...

With just nine months before recreational, or adult-use, marijuana is set to go on sale in Massachusetts, the state's new Cannabis Control Commission has set an aggressive schedule to hear from the public, hire a permanent executive director, and get down to the business of drawing up...

Manitoba is studying whether to involve the private sector in rolling out sales of marijuana in the Canadian province -- a contrast to Ontario's plan to sell the drug in government-run stores. Manitoba has issued an expression of interest for potential partners in the pot industry, Finance...

The Pennsylvania Department of Health issued a draft version of temporary regulations Monday for state residents who are considering taking part in the state's medical marijuana program. Seventeen conditions will qualify patients, among them terminal illness, cancer, PTSD, glaucoma, autism...

Stanislaus County supervisors could approve what officials are calling a conservative strategy for permitting marijuana dispensaries and other commercial cannabis activities. The Board of Supervisors will consider a proposal Tuesday for allowing no more than seven retail dispensaries in the...

I have an outdoor plant that is about 5-10 days away from harvest. I am going out of town and need to bring it in for 3 days. I don't have any lighting but will set it next to window and it will get indirect light, also will set up a fan. Will it be ok? I realize it's not ideal and that it...

Most grow info will not be needed once Pot is legal.. I plan on starting hundreds of feminised seedlings (using colloidal silver) in peat moss pucks.. 3 or 4 seeds per puck. I'll plant them out early and visit them now and again to give them some water... Then in the fall when the females are...

Peru has announced that it is drafting legislation to set up a wide-reaching medical cannabis program. The Congressional Committee on National Defense in Peru has agreed to the new bill, which will include a framework for medical cannabis. While officials there are not interested in...

Southern University has awarded a contract to grow, process and distribute medical marijuana to Advanced Biomedics, whose majority owner is Carencro native and entrepreneur Carrol Castille. Castille spoke about this opportunity saying, "My team and I are honored and thrilled to have been...

Clint Younge was tormented by bullies as a boy in elementary school in Stoney Creek, Ontario, long before he discovered the power of cannabis. His classmates made fun of his nervous tics, a side effect of the high-dose pharmaceuticals he was being prescribed for ADHD. "Kids didn't know back...

Two months after Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill categorizing industrial hemp as an agricultural commodity, interested growers will have the opportunity to learn more about the growing process. An open house and information session will be held from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at 2095 State...

In April, Gov. Jim Justice signed Senate Bill 386, legalizing cannabis for medical use within the state. With the new industry poised to make an impact, the West Virginia Medical Cannabis Society (WVMCS) will hold the inaugural West Virginia Medical Cannabis Seminar Sept. 30 at Morgantown...

With Mayor Ed Lee traveling abroad, Supervisor Malia Cohen signed her own legislation Friday to halt approvals of new cannabis business permits for 45 days in San Francisco. The moratorium comes just as the city's new Office of Cannabis prepares to roll out dispensary permitting regulations...

Approving a vendor is the last major hurdle to start the process of producing the state's cannabis. The university has not yet chosen a location for the secure indoor growing facility, which will be funded through third-party donors. Southern University is one step closer to getting medical...