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...
Cannabis Nation: Control and Consumption in Britain, 1928-2008, by James Mills (2013, Oxford University Press, 292 pp., $58.50 HC Amazon) Marijuanamerica: One Man’s Quest to Understand America’s...
Fun is an indie rock band which has received international attention with the release of their second album. Few songs have spoken to me as personally as the...
I attended my first cannabis-industry event this weekend: The Kush Expo, in Anaheim, CA. Thousands came together for two days to network, explore products / services available on...
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...
Now that cannabis consumers are expected to flock to Washington and Colorado, entrepenuers are getting creative with ways to cash in on “the Green Rush” without risking...
Pulmonary complications associated with the regular smoking of cannabis are “relatively small” and far lower than those associated with tobacco smoking, according to a recent review published in the...
Hydro World, a medical marijuana service center in Jackson, Michigan, was raided by police on July 1. After receiving word that the center was back in operation,...
At a meeting with drug reform advocates in San Francisco, former Mexican President Fox expressed support for California’s efforts to legally regulate cannabis, medical and otherwise. He...
Leadership is defined by dictionary.com as “the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group,” “ability to lead [defined as “to conduct...
With the advent of cannabis concentrates and oils and their top billing among cannabis concoctions, celebrations of the oil, or “710” have popped up here in Portland,...
The Washington State Liquor Control Board released its final proposed regulations for the state’s adult marijuana industry on July 3. Among the proposed rules are requirements that the industry ensure public...
A study looking at survey data pooled in 2010/11 comes from Northern Ireland and reveals that marijuana use rates tend to be greater for those engaged in higher...
On July 2, an article by Dr. Samuel T. Wilkinson was published in the Wall Street Journal positing that marijuana use can drastically increase one’s predisposition towards schizophrenia and other mental...
