Ladybud brings good news, Operation Grow4Vets announced a free marijuana giveaway for Veterans between 1:00 – 4:00 PM, on Memorial Day. Veterans attending the event will receive a gift bag containing a variety of items including: marijuana and marijuana-infused products, as well as other gifts being donated.

You can find places to buy weed in the app store. You can rate strains of weed. You can download apps that teach you more about marijuana, or get apps that will give you cosmetic weed changes to your phone. You can’t, however, download a game where you grow marijuana. At least, not a specific game, Weed Firm.

FBI Director James Comey clarified Wednesday that he has no intention of changing the bureau’s current marijuana policy, which bans employing anyone known to have used pot in the past three years. “I am determined not to lose my sense of humor, but unfortunately there I was trying to be both serious and funny,”

Jacob Lavoro, a 19-year-old from Round Rock, Texas, was charged with a first degree felony because he used hash oil instead of marijuana, allowing the state to weigh the brownies as a whole, including the sugar, cocoa, butter and other ingredients to calculate the weight of the drugs.

Florida set strict parameters for growing low grade medical marijuana. Some eligible farms see it as a potential economic boost, and the department of agriculture says the number of eligible nurseries will grow.

Tim Smale, founder and executive director of the Remedy Compassion Center in Auburn, said, “From the limited research we have available on the matter, I would tend to agree that cannabis use for those under 21, and perhaps even somewhat older, should be under physician care, but again, the research is early and unclear.”

According to Leaf Science, researchers in Scotland hope to conduct clinical trials on an experimental drug derived from marijuana. A team at Edinburgh University is applying for permission to study the treatment in children who suffer from severe forms of epilepsy.

FBI Director James B. Comey said Monday that if the FBI hopes to continue to keep pace with cyber criminals, the organization may have to loosen up its no-tolerance policy towards the hiring of people who like to smoke marijuana.

New York State Senate Health Committee passed (S.4406-B/Savino) by a bipartisan vote of 9 – 8. The bill, known as the Compassionate Care Act, would alleviate the suffering of thousands of seriously ill New Yorkers by allowing the use of marijuana to treat debilitating, life-threatening illnesses under a doctor’s supervision.

Medical marijuana looks to have a bright future, and if marijuana is ever legalized on the federal level, there will be marijuana stocks that will benefit. But they won’t be the scores of over-the-counter stocks investors are piling into today.

New rules proposed by state officials would require New Mexico’s 11,000 medical marijuana users to pay a new $50 annual fee to renew their state registry cards, and they would also triple some producers’ annual license fees to up to $90,000.

Despite enacting legislation that is supposed to decriminalize carrying small amounts of marijuana, the city of Chicago and state of Illinois continue to have a high number of arrests related to the drug, a new university study has found.

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which oversees management of federal water resources, “is evaluating how the Controlled Substances Act applies in the context of Reclamation project water being used to facilitate marijuana-related activities.”  The evaluation was apparently begun “at the request of various water districts in the West.”

High Times lets us know there is a free game currently climbing the iTunes charts called “Weed Firm,” which is a pot-slinging simulator for smartphones that allows users to sell marijuana without running the risk of an actual law enforcement shakedown.

Under the law passed by the Nevada Legislature and signed by Gov. Brian Sandoval in 2013, the medical marijuana industry will include up to 66 dispensaries statewide to sell the marijuana and marijuana products. Here is a quick guide to what is coming.

Drug research often walks a fine line between medicine and recreation—making the history between drug abuse and big pharma closer than the latter would like to admit. Pfizer’s connection to K2 would by no means be the first major drug to have roots in commercial enterprises. “Heroin” is considered by many to be a Bayer trademark.

What began several years ago with a trickle of women tiptoeing into the brave, new weed world has turned into a stream in Colorado. More than two dozen women in the Denver area, ranging in age from late 20s to mid 60s, are running large grow operations, opening storefronts and developing topical products and edible lines.

The state has issued the first recreational marijuana licenses in Whatcom County to two growers-processors. The state created three tiers for growers based on square footage. Tier 1 was originally for operations smaller than 2,000 square feet; tier 2 was 2,000 to 10,000 square feet; and tier 3 was 10,000 to 30,000 square feet.

Leaf Science introduces an indoor hydroponic greenhouse that lets you take care of your plants including water, feed and humidity all from an app on your smartphone. The company behind the invention says the system is designed to let you grow pretty much anything, from vegetables and fruits to herbs and, yes, “medicinal plants” too.

Minnesota lawmakers struck a deal to legalize medical marijuana, handing a major victory to severely ill children and adults whose emotional appeals for help propelled a major policy change that once appeared dead for the session. Gov. Mark Dayton said he would sign the legislation, which was closer to the House’s more restrictive bill than the Senate’s.