As reported earlier this week on Harborside Medical’s website and reposted here on Weedist, the federal government is now going after medical marijuana in one of the...
Pennsylvania Hempland Security held their third rally this year for cannabis legalization in Pennsylvania in Penn Square in Reading on Saturday. The rally was in support of...
This Saturday, August 31 at 1 PM, Birmingham’s Cannon Hill Park will be home to a campaign effort for cannabis legalization. The event will showcase speakers, music,...
Last week, MedPage Today surveyed over 5,600 of their readers about their opinion of medical marijuana use. 60.7% reported they’d always supported the use of medical marijuana,...
One of four surviving federal medical marijuana patients, stockbroker Irvin Rosenfeld suffers from a rare bone disease. He has been smoking government joints for more than 30 years...
As reported Wednesday by Rolling Stone, a recent study published in the peer-reviewed academic journal European Neuropsychopharmacology has shown that ∆9-tetrahydrocannabinol (otherwise known as THC) has significant effects on the...
The city of Napa, California, is generally fairly compassionate. The City Council wrote a law several years ago to approve and allow medical marijuana dispensaries, but they...
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 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...
CNN reports that — despite the increasing calls from activists, the public, and even Dr. Sanjay Gupta (who was Obama’s original pick for Surgeon General) to reschedule marijuana...
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...
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...
I believe each individual should explore the rationale for self-medicating. I’m not suggesting to anyone that they fully ignore conventional wisdom, medical evidence or your doctor’s advice,...
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...
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...
