CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, who recently changed his mind about medical weed, has a weed strain named after him, for now. Within 24 hours of the official press release being released, CNN contacted...
A New Orleans police officer who gunned down an unarmed 20-year-old man during a 2012 drug raid pleaded guilty to manslaughter last Friday and was led off to begin...
A June audit of Colorado’s Medical Marijuana Registry found serious breaches in the confidentiality that was supposed to be in place. Protesters gathered Wednesday along with an...
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) collected several applications today from prospective Registered Marijuana Dispensary (RMD) operators, as today marked the Phase I application deadline. With the passing...
Gupta Kush is a new indica organic pot strain from Helping Hands Herbals Dispensary in Boulder, CO named after CNN’s MMJ crusader Dr. Sanjay Gupta. GK has its origins...
Could Florida be the first state in the South to approve medical marijuana? A bill that would have done that was stymied this year in the legislature,...
DEA puts public safety and lives at risk On the heels of Dr. Sanjay Gupta‘s endorsement of medical cannabis, and Eric Holder’s speech advocating reform of the...
Years after such a system was supposed to be in place for medical marijuana, Colorado regulators are preparing to roll out a system using radio frequency tags...
Have you done LSD, psilocybin or mescaline? You are no more likely to exhibit symptoms of mental illness or find yourself in mental health treatment, says a new...
A new study from Denmark confirms what cannabis advocates have said for years — marijuana is much safer than other substances when it comes to driving impairment....
The Denver Police Department recently held a one-hour ask me anything session on reddit, and so many questions were asked about marijuana that the department decided to...
Dispensaries get regulation in Oregon, a dispensary will open in Delaware, and they’re already popping up in Arizona. There’s more medical marijuana news, too; let’s get to...
Granny Storm Crow has been collecting articles and research on cannabis for years and she is sharing it all with us. Our friend at Beyond Chronic have...
013 Canada’s police chiefs are ready to quit arresting people for marijuana possession. Meeting in Winnipeg over the weekend, the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police passed a resolution...
Forbes’ Howard Gleckman describes the motivation behind the legal marijuana industry’s eagerness to pay taxes: to be able to deduct expenses. He then uses this example to...
013 Four decades after President Richard Nixon ushered in the modern war on drugs, fewer than one out of 20 Americans think it is being won, according...
Connecticut’s Department of Consumer Protection released revised regulations for the medical marijuana industry in the state. Issues that were addressed include limiting background checks for caregivers and...
013 At the center of the Marijuana Policy Project’s “controversial” ad at NASCAR’s Brickyard 400 was the claim that cannabis is less toxic than alcohol. It’s true–just ask the...
On Huffington Post, Americans for Safe Access’ Executive Director Steph Sherer details the last and oldest obstacle to regulate dispensaries in California: police lobbyists. Ever since medical...
