Maybe it’s all the Black Friday marketing blitz that has people thinking about the holidays and the “Season of Giving”, but a few cannabis users have recently...

Hemp seeds are among the nutrient-dense healthy foods I incorporate into my regular diet. I eat hemp seeds shelled and raw, which has a slightly nutty flavor...

Glaucoma is a disease that causes optic nerve damage in the eyes, usually caused by abnormally high pressure inside your eye. Worldwide, glaucoma affects 60 million people, is...

I still take marijuana tolerance breaks approximately every three months for a week (a good rule of thumb from my doctor at Medicann), so I don’t have...

Dabs may be all the rage these days, but I still love my flowers. When it comes to sampling a new marijuana strain, my preference is to...

Quick, wine connoisseurs, panic! Morgan Stanley Research released a report on Monday showing global demand for wine exceeded supply by approximately 300 million cases. The report goes...

In a nod to minimalism, pop culture and cannabis we present: Celebrity Weedists. It’s a homage to the famous pot smokers who’ve helped bring cannabis more into...

On August 31, 2013, medical marijuana activist and founding member of Moms for Marijuana International “Jenny Kush”, 34, was killed in a head-on collision with a drunk driver going the wrong way in Colorado. According to the Memorial site on Facebook, “The beautiful and courageous, Jenny Kush, was killed by a drunk driver. Her life was spent promoting awareness and spreading the truth about Marijuana, a safer alternative to the “legal” drug that has stolen her life”.

Last week, the Huffington Post covered a group of law enforcement officers who slammed Attorney General Eric Holder for releasing a marijuana policy memo stating the federal...

First and foremost, as a parent seeing a high school teacher sentenced to one month in prison after admitting to raping a 14-year old student (who took...

Newark Mayor and Senate candidate Cory Booker has just begun testing an innovative solution to the racial problems plaguing law enforcement’s use of stop-and-frisk: hold officers accountable by making details of every stop accessible to the public. According to the Center for Constitutional Rights, only 1 in 143 NYPD stops of African Americans result in a seizure of guns, drugs or other weapons.

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 in the Hindu Kush Mountains of South Asia, a rich green color and a thick, hashy, floral taste. Onset is said to be immediate and effects are long lasting, “causing waves of relaxation to move through the body, calming nerves, and allowing the user to get some deep conscious rest before drifting off to sleep,” said HHD owner Jeff Kless.

Seattlepi shares portraits of 13 NFL players who thrived after getting busted for weed. Tyrann Mathieu, after getting kicked off LSU’s college team, is reportedly dominating in training camp for the Arizona Cardinals and is “just the latest reminder that giving up on talented players because of weed-related issues places NFL teams at a huge competitive disadvantage.”

Dr. Sanjay Gupta made a huge statement for cannabis reform, when he appeared on Piers Morgan last night and apologized on air for opposing marijuana legalization in...

Massachusetts medical marijuana advocates are outraged with the Department of Public Health, tasked with writing the rules and regulations for the use and distribution of cannabis, after deciding that each “caregiver,” or person who grows the drug for patients to use, can only serve one patient at a time.

Las Vegas Senator Segerblom (D) said future Nevada pot dispensary owners are in a perfect position to make millions of dollars because Nevada is the only state that plans to accept out-of-state medical marijuana cards. Segerblom also hopes LV hotels and casinos will permit medical marijuana usage, in a further boost to cannatourism.

Jerry Cox, president of an Arkansas conservative “family values” group that campaigned against legalizing medical marijuana, agreed not to refer in certain ways to Medicine Dispensing Systems Inc.’s medical marijuana vending machines in order to settle a lawsuit. Cox was publicly stirring up misinformation stating that the machines would be placed all over, whereas the truth is they’d be found in hospitals, pharmacies and doctor’s offices, authorizing users through key cards and fingerprints.

Nevada medical marijuana users are concerned as the state’s dispensaries open for business in 2014 that they could easily violate Nevada’s DUI standard; driving with more than 2 ng of marijuana per milliliter in your blood, or 5 ng of marijuana metabolite. Cannabis has a stricter standard than cocaine or heroin (50 ng), methamphetamine (100 ng) or LSD (10 ng), and there is no exception for medical marijuana patients.

Jamen Shively, a former Microsoft engineer and creator of the Diego Pellicier ‘premium’ marijuana retail brand, is scheduled to speak Monday at noon at San Francisco’s Sir Francis Drake Hotel, near Union Square. Joined by former Mexican President Vicente Fox, they’ll talk about how legalization is hurting Mexican drug cartels.

The Tick: The Animated Series will always have a special place in my (high TV) heart. Originally airing from 1994-1997, these were the days of that first post-college...