Portland, Maine may become the first city to defy both state and national marijuana laws. Following a vote by City Council on Monday, June 15, voters residing...
Joe Cain, Owner of the Medical Marijuana Farmer’s Market, is organizing a protest for August 13, 2013. That is when the Jackson city council will revisit the...
Cannabis consumption is associated with mitigated symptoms of opiate withdrawal in subjects undergoing methadone maintenance treatment, according to the findings of a new study published online in The American Journal...
Pulse Glass impressed me greatly at the Kush Expo. Their booth caught my eye early on, with beautifully crafted glass work displayed against a black tablecloth with...
With medical marijuana gaining steam in Florida, the discussion of marijuana laws has become more widespread in the state. Many people (including us at Weedist, of course)...
When Washington’s Liquor Control Board released its draft rules, it ruled that cannabis extracts and concentrates (such as hash and hash oils) can’t be sold in retail...
John Glowik has been meeting with officials in Grafton, Massachusetts to discuss his proposal to open a 30,000 square foot medical marijuana dispensary in a local business...
What’s up with those 40,000-year-old cave paintings left behind by our earliest ancestors? The ancestors. They were high. On drugs. So claims a group of Tokyo-based researchers, after...
Oregon’s recently-passed medical marijuana dispensary law won’t help owners and operators that were arrested before its passage. Not only that, there is a specific amendment in the...
Patient advocacy group argues that over 200 peer-reviewed studies are more than adequate to show medical efficacy. Medical marijuana patient advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA)...
Federal prosecutors asked the 9th Circuit to let them pursue charges over a Washington drug-growing operation even though the state decriminalized the manufacture of medical marijuana. Washington...
I am a big fan of science, particularly astronomy. It is incredible to sit, smoke and think about other planets, other stars, other galaxies and really ponder...
With Hempfest 2013 deliciously approaching, I thought I’d take a few words to mention not only a great stoner destination, but also one only steps from Hempfest....
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...
