The good folks of Alabama have a problem…
The Yellowhammer State has the highest level of prescription opioid use in the country.
Given the opioid epidemic cu...
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., has recently introduced legislation to legalize marijuana at the federal level. His bill will no doubt inspire the standard criticisms...
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, among the most well-known living scientists this side of Stephen Hawking, said this week that “there’s no reason for to eve...
As California braces for the impact of relaxed marijuana laws that allow recreational use for adults, several small, financially strapped cities in southeast Lo...
Medical marijuana supporters in Utah received a green light from state election officials on Thursday to start gathering the 113,143 signatures required to qual...
Johnsie Gooslin spent Jan. 16, 2015, tending his babies – that’s what he called his marijuana plants. More than 70 of them were growing in a hydroponic system o...
CBS recently did a story about a California man who was selling off his huge retail store. The first offer to buy it came from someone who wants to turn the vas...
The attorney general’s office sued Purdue Pharma on Tuesday, alleging that the drug manufacturer has continued its deceptive marketing of OxyContin in a state t...
Halfway through 2017, Colorado’s marijuana retailers amassed more than $750 million in sales, according to The Cannabist’s extrapolations of the latest tax data...
Seattle has dropped a $1,000 fine against the nonprofit organization that runs HempFest, the annual summer marijuana celebration.
The city accused Seattle Even...
A leading Colorado lawmaker dismissed a recent letter from Attorney General Jeff Sessions that expressed concerns about the state’s marijuana industry, calling ...
An independent national organization that supports state legislatures has again voiced its support for federal descheduling of cannabis.
The bipartisan Natio...
Days after Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed a new recreational marijuana bill into law, several officials at last week’s Easthampton, Massachusetts P...
Oregon is an amazing state, and it got even more so last month when its legislature voted to decriminalize cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, oxycodone, LSD and ...
Questions related to commercial marijuana operations, and the city’s interest in a permitting plan for the drug’s cultivation for personal use were among the qu...
Whenever Josh Wurzer buys legal California pot, he makes certain it was grown without pesticides.
That’s because Wurzer, as president of cannabis-testing com...
The betting was that law-and-order Attorney General Jeff Sessions would come out against the legalized marijuana industry with guns blazing. But the task force ...
A company specializing in cannabis products has announced it will buy an entire tiny town in southeastern California and turn it into a “cannabis-friendly” reso...
The NFL’s chief medical officer says it is “really important” for the league and the NFL Players Association to determine whether marijuana can be used as an ef...
Attorney General Jeff Sessions says Colorado isn’t making good on its promises to stop marijuana from spilling over its borders, nor is the state keeping it out...
The NFL has written to the NFL Players Association offering to work in tandem to study the potential use of marijuana as a pain management tool for players, acc...
Cannabis has been classified by the federal government as a Schedule I drug since President Richard Nixon kicked off the modern War On Drugs back in 1971. That’...
A writing error could cost a ballot measure campaign its chance to legalize recreational marijuana in South Dakota next year.
Cannabis advocacy group New App...
Recreational marijuana use is now legal in eight states plus the District of Columbia, giving public health researchers more leeway than ever to investigate som...
In California, the good news is that legal weed is on the way—big time. The bad news is that Cali has too much!
Observers of California’s potential billion-d...
he fundraising dinner for Gavin Newsom in Salinas was in most ways a typical night for a political candidate. Local business leaders paid up to $5,000 for a cha...
Public consumption of cannabis is the “next frontier” and the next big legal hurdle for Nevada and other legalized states, said Tick Segerblom, a state senator ...
According to the Georgia Department of Corrections, a drone that crashed in the yard of the Washington State Prison was carrying cell phones, tobacco, oxycodone...
A medical marijuana patient is asking the Nevada Supreme Court to reconsider its refusal to end mandatory state registration and fees for medical pot cards now ...
Ask advocates of marijuana legalization how their cause fared during the 2017 state legislative sessions and they’ll tell you that though the gains were increme...
As Los Angeles unfurls its long list of rules and regulations, as part of its effort to establish order in the state’s legal weed industry, input has been effus...
A Labour veteran is launching a new bid to legalise medicinal cannabis after more than a decade of campaigning.
Paul Flynn will attempt to put forward a form...
Republican lawmakers have blocked a vote on a bill that would have allowed Veterans Affairs doctors to recommend medical marijuana as a pain treatment in states...
A circuitous route brought me to my current teaching career as an instruction of traditional hash-making methodologies. After a short and uneventful experie...
The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved an amendment to protect state medical marijuana programs from federal interference, despite a written request f...
A SWAT-style raid to search for marijuana at the home of a Kansas City couple was an unjustified government intrusion based on nothing more than junk science, a...
The marriage of technology and cannabis entrepreneurship has gone from a passion-project for growers, to a full-fledged venture capitalist (VC) bonanza in just ...
Los Angeles city leaders are looking into the possibility of setting up a public bank that would do business with marijuana dispensaries, as well as cater to af...
Regulators of Ohio’s budding medical marijuana industry have received approval to spend an additional $6 million over the next two years on projects including a...
Some 7,000 protesters marched on the Philippines’ House of Representatives in the Batasan district of Manila on Monday as ultra-hardline President Rodrigo Duter...
I was reading one of the recent missives from the folks at Project SAMUEL that lamented that construction employers in Colorado are forced to bring in workers f...
The HPV (Human papillomavirus) vaccine has long been controversial due to its long list of serious side effects documented by the World Health Organization (WHO...
President Donald Trump and his advisers are privately discussing the possibility of replacing Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and some confidants are floating p...
I support marijuana legalization, but I wish pot smokers would stop stinking up the sidewalks.
I’m not alone. In places where using marijuana no longer carri...
If you’ve made it this far, you’re clearly asking yourself the question: Does Ben Affleck smoke weed? There’s no doubt Ben Affleck seems like a pretty chill dud...
From Red in “The Shawshank Redemption” to his Academy Award-winning role in “Million Dollar Baby,” Morgan Freeman is known for his acting work. But he should al...
Who doesn’t love a town cleanup… especially when the local pot shop is handing out free weed in exchange for filling a few trash bags?
Dennis Meehan and his ...
What is a pinner joint? For most weed lovers, rolling a joint is part of the basics. But there are many different kinds of joints to choose from. Some are fairl...
The Justice Department announced Thursday that it had shuttered an illicit Internet marketplace for drugs, firearms and fake documents in what Attorney General ...
