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After Corey Hunt watched doctors overdose his girlfriend's mother on morphine while battling breast cancer, he knew there had to be something better out there. It was cannabis. So he started the Twitter campaign #illegallyhealed to take the message mainstream.
I do have one area of concern when dealing with mass production and distribution of cannabis: its effect on the environment.
Two years ago, in October of 2012, DEA agents and local officers in Ramona, California kicked in the door of the Little's home and arrested both Mr. and Mrs. Little. Their alleged crime - growing illegal amounts of cannabis. Now they are fighting back in a lawsuit against the officers who raided their home.
To date, Massachusetts DPH has banked $3,271,500 in application fees from 181 prospective dispensaries, with 100 paying $30,000 to make the final cut. Just 11 dispensaries stand to open their doors at this point.
For every article that comes out trying to lambast cannabis, I can find plenty more that show how cannabis alone has saved a life, helped with a troubling situation, or helped to battle anxiety and depression.
After stirring up a nationwide controversy over using medical cannabis on duty, Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer Ron Francis was found dead from an apparent suicide in his apartment
New York state lawmakers and advocates of medical marijuana gathered at an expo in New York City on Sunday to discuss the implementation of a new state law authorizing medical marijuana.
Prosecutors in Montgomery County, Texas, have filed paperwork to have Adrian Peterson's bail revoked and the Minnesota Vikings running back re-arrested after he told a drug tester that he had recently smoked marijuana before taking a urinalysis test Wednesday.
The D.C. Council voted unanimously in favor of a bill that would improve the process by which a person can seal criminal records pertaining to conduct that has since been decriminalized or legalized.
Police flying in helicopters looking for marijuana plants last week tracked down a man who they believed was illegally growing cannabis. Yet they soon discovered the plants were actually okra, a gumbo ingredient that’s very much legal.
According to a poll conducted by The University of Texas and the Texas Tribune, 77 percent of voters in Texas believe in some form of cannabis legalization.
Illinois is becoming a hotbed in the legal marijuana debate. The state recently authorized medical marijuana and now recreational use is at the heart of conversation between the current mayor and a woman who may have her sights set on his chair.
Morocco's marijuana farmers live in a strange limbo in which the brilliant green fields are largely left alone, while the growers face constant police harassment. A new draft law may bring some reprieve: It aims to legalize marijuana growing for medical and industrial uses...
SPD took a lot of hate when this story broke and I didn't agree with it. The Seattle PD I know is the one that realized that cannabis wasn't hurting anyone. The one that doesn't even train their dogs to sniff for cannabis anymore.
Many are unaware that before it was termed 'marijuana', most people in the U.S. referred to the plant as 'cannabis'. So where does the word 'marijuana' come from? Unfortunately this word has a complicated past tied with racism and xenophobia.
Departing Attorney General, Eric Holder, is showing greater and more direct support for rescheduling cannabis than just about any other official I can think of.
A move to replace criminal penalties with civil penalties for the possession of small amounts of marijuana surfaced Wednesday as a major issue in the contentious race for Houston's Harris County District Attorney...
Down a long dirt road snaking deep into the yellow hills of southern Colorado, Ryan Griego and his staff are harvesting green gold: legal marijuana. Here, 1,000 organically grown marijuana plants are being...
