The city council in Longmont, Colorado voted 4-2 (with one council member absent) to ban recreational marijuana businesses and 6-0 to ban private cannabis clubs. Opponents of...
California dispensaries continue their vanishing act, thanks to feds and local officials, but Arizona fends off a challenge, and frustrated New Jersey patients rally. Let’s get to...
The Seattle city attorney, with the mayor’s blessing, has sent a letter to the Liquor Control Board suggesting regulations for the legal marijuana industry. Among these recommendations,...
Vincent Keber, managing director of the company behind Dixie Elixirs, was arrested for possession May 18 at the Hangout Music Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama. For the next...
Marc Emery, Canada’s “Prince of Pot,” has been released from a week of solitary confinement in a Mississippi prison for taking pictures of his prison music band...
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has signed legislation, House Bill 1441, into law that criminalizes drivers from operating a motor vehicle if they have any detectable amount of THC and/or its...
A California M.D. says it’s time to repeal marijuana-prohibition laws. ‘At long last and practically against my will, I am doing the right thing,’ writes Daniela Drake.
As New Jersey legislators consider a marijuana decriminalization bill, a new poll suggests strong public support for such a move—and more. The poll of likely voters conducted...
Despite 40 years and $1 trillion-plus of taxpayer money spent trying to stop – not robbery, not rape, not murder, not even shoplifting – but mostly trying...
Charlotte was having violent seizures 20, 40, 60 times a day. Her parents tried at least a dozen medications, many with harmful side effects. Despite some promising...
Pre-clinical study data published online in the scientific journal Nutrition & Diabetes reports that tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCV) — a naturally occurring analogue of THC — possesses positive metabolic effects in animal models of obesity....
Marijuana is one of the first plants cultivated by man. Shrouded in controversy, the intriguing history of cannabis as a medication dates back thousands of years before...
At the behest of Social Affairs and Health Minister Marisol Touraine, France has modified its Public Health Code to allow for the use of marijuana-based medicines, apparently...
Sensible BC has already auto-dialed nearly 1.4-million households in the province trying to drum up support and is now set to unveil a new billboard in West Vancouver...
On Friday, marijuana reformers recorded the closest vote for a legalization measure on the floor of a state legislature in recent history. Rep. Diane Russell’s LD 1229,...
New Jersey’s Senate Judiciary Committee approved a measure to remove the requirement of a pediatrician and psychiatrist to endorse the use of medical marijuana for children that...
Doug Fine, author of “Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution,” debunks five popular cannabis legalization myths: If pot is legal, more people...
Canadian marijuana seed magnate and political dissident Marc Emery, who is about four years into a five-year US prison sentence for selling pot seeds over the Internet,...
