The German city of Göttingen is turning green in protest of the prohibition of cannabis. A group calling themselves “A Few Autonomous Flower Children” set out in early...
Back in 2005, it was discovered that THC promotes neurogenesis, the growth of new brain cells. New evidence shows that CBD also promotes neurogenesis. That’s right, marijuana...
The U.S. House of Representatives approved a revised version of the highly-contested Farm Bill yesterday. Although representatives re-crafted the bill to remove provisions for food stamp funding, they left...
A retired Army veteran in Texas was recently barred from purchasing a gun after a background check turned up a misdemeanor marijuana conviction from 1971. Ron Kelly, who served...
Justin Hartfield, owner of the popular medical marijuana listing service weedmaps.com, seeks to expand his influence by potentially bringing a farmer’s market type of approach to the purchase of medical weed....
For medical marijuana dispensary owners and the patients who rely on them for access to their medicine, Colorado Congressman Ed Perlmutter’s (D) bill is common sense. Perlmutter introduced legislation...
Robert Sharpe of Common Sense for Drug Policy states that the use of so-called synthetic marijuana is an effect of marijuana prohibition. He points out the fact...
Cannabis reform activist Dana Larson has been granted approval by Elections BC to begin collecting signatures for a cannabis decriminalization petition. The “Sensible Policing Act” would forbid...
The National Institutes of Health has granted $3.3 million to Drexel University for a five-year study of medical marijuana’s impact on drug use and health in young adults....
A federal medical marijuana banking bill was introduced, an Oregon bill that would allow and regulate dispensaries heads to the governor’s desk, Berkeley and Oakland fight the...
Robin Room, the director of Australia’s leading alcohol research center, has released a statement calling for the legalization of marijuana for adults. His support is based on...
The US government has approved a prisoner transfer application for Marc Emery, the Canadian marijuana activist serving a five year sentence in the US for selling marijuana...
Here is the full text of my planned comments during Friday, The Science of Medical Cannabis panel at ASA’s National Medical Cannabis Unity Conference, 2/22-25/13, Washington, D.C. now published in Frontiers in...
After all the controversy caused by the judge’s decision to allow testimony about the levels of cannabinoids in Trayvon Martin’s system, the defense decided not to even...
District of Columbia Councilmember Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6) filed a marijuana decriminalization bill for the nation’s capital Wednesday. Wells is chairman of the council’s Committee on the...
The “Freedom of Choice” campaign kicked off in New Mexico Tuesday to protect veterans access to medical marijuana. PTSD is a qualifying condition for medical marijuana in...
Judge Debra Nelson, the Florida judge presiding over the Trayvon Martin case, has ruled to allow jurors to hear evidence of marijuana in Trayvon Martin’s system. The...
GW Pharmaceuticals has launched their Sativex cannabis extract spray in Italy for use by Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients. Beware of GW’s creeping monopoly on medical marijauna in...
Prominent orthodox rabbi Efraim Zalmanovich has officially declared that the use of medicinal marijuana is not only perfectly acceptable, but it also happens to be kosher. However, Zalmanovich clarified that, “Taking drugs to escape this...
