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A Jamaican farmer has offered President Obama 10 acres of marijuana for Malia Obama to become his daughter-in-law. According to Kenya Today, Roy Chambers of St. James Jamaica believes that Malia and his 17-year-old son would be the "perfect couple," and to prove it, he is willing to give up his "most valuable possession"—his marijuana farm.
While Herblore is inventive, I must criticize it for missing the core essence of cannabis, which is the plant's versatility. While the mod allows players to harvest either buds or hemp from the 'toke plants' it adds to the game, the uses of these products are remarkably limited
The weed market has reached a tipping point in Washington, due to an excess of cannabis available to consumers. Despite earlier concerns that there would not be enough legal cannabis to go around in Washington, pot producers have been able to supply far more ganja than expected.
A Northern California tribe has signed up to be the first tribe in the state to launch a large marijuana-growing operation. The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports that the Pinoleville Pomo Nation has contracted to build a $10 million facility to grow marijuana indoors.
In most countries in the world, if you asked the local authorities for permission to grow 750 cannabis plants in a residential area of the capital city, you would probably end up in trouble. But in Chile, the state has just agreed to such a project.
Cannabis, at its core, is an agricultural enterprise. As the model of the massive pot farm becomes more common with the onset of legalization and a growing acceptance of medical cannabis, the environmental impact of this industry needs to be considered as well.
This time it's not a child or a kitten being heroically rescued from a fire, but a weed harvest. Firefighters in Humboldt were able to save a drying cannabis harvest when they responded to put out a fire in a burning building in Redway.
A Georgia man woke up one morning to the sound of a helicopter hovering over his house. Moments later, his door was approached by deputies and a K-9 unit. The highly trained men of the Governor's task force on drug suppression could not tell the difference between okra and cannabis.
Water use and other actions by the marijuana industry in the Emerald Triangle of Northern California and Southern Oregon are threatening salmon already in danger of extinction, federal biologists said Tuesday.
Hemp and marijuana are two popular names for the cannabis plant. The word cannabis often brings to mind images of a burning joint or a bong filling up with white smoke. Most of the time, the term wouldn't be equated with ...
Calling all pot farmers: Uncle Sam is looking to buy. An arm of the National Institutes of Health dedicated to researching drug abuse and addiction “intends” to solicit proposals from those who can “harvest, process, analyze, store and distribute” cannabis, according to a listing posted Tuesday night on a federal government website.
The best part of hemp is that it is a CO2 sponge, greedily absorbing much more CO2 in its short growth cycle than many larger plants. This means if any biofuel has a chance of being CO2 neutral or even negative it is a hemp-based one.
Farmer Tom Lauerman is taking his farm to another level. From now until mid-September, he will offer tours of his organic cannabis farm.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime ranked Lebanon in 2011 as one of the world’s top five sources of cannabis resin. Recently, cannabis (hashish) legalization became part of the Lebanese debate. While some officials and farmers are lobbying to legalize it for trade and medicinal use, others are resisting these pressures, fearing an uncontrollable market.
The Drug Enforcement Agency is permitting Kentucky farmers to go forward with plans to engage in the state-sponsored cultivation of industrial hemp....
Earlier this week, the Drug Enforcement Administration ordered that 250 pounds of hemp seed be seized at Louisville Airport in Kentucky...
After being misled by the DEA about whether it would release imported heed seed destined for the state's hemp research projects, the state of Kentucky is now suing the federal anti-drug agency,
Leaf's editors interviewed Chris Van Hook for perspective on the drought in northern California, and how cannabis farmers can adapt to challenging times.
