Illinois state lawmakers are expected in the coming days to once again consider legislation that seeks to allow for the limited use of cannabis by authorized patients....
For patients who use marijuana to alleviate chronic pain, nausea or to stimulate their appetite, among other uses, legalizing marijuana is only part of the battle. Health...
The morning after Election Day, as news sunk in that voters in two states had legalized recreational marijuana, state Rep. Bruce Hunter was having conversations with constituents...
New Jersey’s first medical marijuana dispensary is set to open in Essex County, and some experts and officials have differing opinions on the state of the program...
Efforts to legalize industrial hemp in Kentucky are getting help from votes in Washington and Colorado to legalize marijuana, according to Kentucky agriculture secretary James Comer.
Prosecutors throughout Colorado and Washington state continue to dismiss hundreds of pending misdemeanor marijuana possession cases. On Thursday, Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey and City Attorney Doug Friednash announced that they...
ThePetitionSite.com has recently introduced a petition to limit Chris Williams prison sentence. Sign the petition and let U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen know how you feel.
02:46pm The parliament of Singapore has approved legislation abolishing mandatory death sentences in some drug trafficking cases. The action came last Wednesday, according to a press...
04:02pm Colorado and Washington may have legalized marijuana, but the drug war continues apace. We here record three more deaths in the name of drug prohibition....
Steve Kubby, one of the prime movers behind the original California Proposition 215 that gave us medical marijuana, is planning to leave not only the entire marijuana activist...
In a fad that seems to have gathered momentum over the summer, people in Rhode Island are smoking the product, at great personal risk, because they’ve wrongly...
This CNBC interview with Weedist Ethan Nadelmann which took place immediately following the election results was recently released by the Drug Policy Alliance. Trish Regan discusses the implications...
The U.S. Forest Service is urging hunters and fishermen to keep their eyes open for marijuana growing operations in Wisconsin’s Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest.
02:12pm A deputy from Mexico’s left-leaning Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) Thursday introduced a bill (not yet posted) to legalize the use, cultivation, and sale of marijuana....
Interstate Bakeries Corporation (aka, Hostess) is filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and will liquidate assets. A story of private equity versus unions again, and at this point it is...
01:31pm The president of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) Thursday voiced “grave concern” about the votes legalizing marijuana in the US states of Colorado and...
Next week most of us in the United States will celebrate Thanksgiving, a time to eat, watch football and break out your Thanksgiving football paraphernalia to smoke...
PopSci is asked “are hops and marijuana related?” Humulus lupulus (hops) and Cannabis are two genera in the family Cannabinaceae. However, the answer to the question is yes and no.
