Public use of marijuana is prohibited throughout Colorado. Now six months into legalization, 7NEWS has discovered a spike in the number of citations issued in Denver. According to Denver police statistics, there were 181 citations issued in 2013. That compares to 351 citations since the start of this year.

So far, 2014 has been a record year for California heat. While this may not be a bad thing for cannabis cultivators per se – some strains prefer a warm climate – farmers who fail to properly prepare their crop will lose money and may risk some of their plants. Here are some helpful hints on how to help your garden beat the heat.

The House Appropriations Committee passed an amendment to the 2015 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill intended to prevent the District of Columbia from implementing its recently passed law decriminalizing the possession of marijuana. The amendment, passed on June 25th, also has the potential to end the District’s medical marijuana program.

The Philadelphia City Council just voted 13-3 to end the criminalization of an ounce or less of marijuana, however the Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey said Friday, “I am not in favor at all of any form of [marijuana] legalization.” So Ramsey’s police will just ignore the decriminalization.

The medical cannabis community has recently received some major support from well known doctors, Dr. Oz and Dr. Sanjay Gupta. This trend of physicians supporting medical cannabis in droves has to do primarily with the spread of information about CBD rich cannabis and its numerous medicinal benefits.

The Czech Republic has been seen in the past twenty years as a very liberal country in terms of attitude towards the cannabis plant and the laws associated with it. US cannabis magazines regularly published articles about the Czech “cannabis heaven on Earth,” repeating clichés like, “everybody can freely light up a joint anywhere”, “the police do not prosecute marijuana growers”, or “possession up to 15 grams is only a minor offence”, and “medical cannabis is legal and available since the new law passed in spring of 2013.”

Delegates at the British Medical Association’s annual representative meeting in Harrogate are to debate whether cannabis should be legalized. “Existing drug policy is contradictory and ineffective. The number of drug users has sky rocketed in the last 30 years despite the introduction of tougher and tougher drug laws. Our policy makers aren’t prepared to have a sensible, rational, evidence-based debate on drugs.”

“I’d like to start helping people get their mind wrapped around what are we talking about today with a case,” Dr. Alan Ehrlich said, looking out over an auditorium packed with doctors, lobbyists and advocates for medical marijuana. They’d gathered for the Massachusetts Medical Society’s first continuing education course on the use of marijuana to treat medical issues.

As lawmakers try to decide if they’ll legalize a form of medical marijuana, a group of men supporting a broadening of medical marijuana use is walking across North Carolina with the aim of talking to lawmakers about a ballot referendum on the issue.

The Food and Drug Administration is conducting an analysis at the Drug Enforcement Administration’s request on whether the U.S. should downgrade the classification of marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug, said Douglas Throckmorton, Deputy Director for Regulatory Programs at the FDA, at a congressional hearing.

This powerful cannabis-infused cosmetic from Xternal has a relaxing herbal aroma and with the help of bentonite clay and eucalyptus oil (tea tree) it not only draws toxins out of the skin, tightens and firms, but also relieves acne breakouts.

Plumes of pungent smoke rise above the small but prosperous southern Albanian village of Lazarat, while gunfire and the occasional rocket-propelled grenade or even mortar greet the police advance.

Hundreds of pounds of industrial hemp seeds bound from Canada to Colorado have been seized by federal authorities in North Dakota, marking the latest bump along the road to legalization of marijuana’s non-intoxicating cousin.

Following reports that New Jersey’s medical marijuana program is suffering from low enrollment, Gov. Chris Christie called the program and similar programs across the U.S. “a front for legalization.”

At first glance, a new pamphlet produced by “CBD-Care.com” looks like some sort of altruistic white paper on the therapeutic benefits of cannabidiol. Curious about the pamphlet’s contents, I signed up to download the PDF – and sure enough, within five minutes my inbox had an email from HempMedsPX, offering to sell me a six-pack of their “CBD-rich hemp extract” for the bargain price of $2,000.00 USD.

A piece in the Washington Post highlights the growing backlog of untested rape test kits that are sitting in police storage units while rapists run free and victims suffer. Missing from the story, however, is one of the biggest contributors to this backlog, the enormous amount of police and tax resources spent targeting drug crimes, particularly marijuana possession.

The reality of the marijuana breathalyzer may soon be on the horizon. A former Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer has reportedly developed the first inception of a breath test aimed at giving law enforcement agencies the tools to bust stoned motorists.

British drug maker GW Pharmaceuticals released the first results on the efficacy and safety of Epidiolex, a purified form of the marijuana compound cannabidiol (CBD), on Tuesday. The drug led to an average reduction in seizure frequency of 50% among a group of 27 children and young adults with treatment-resistant epilepsy.

As Colorado grapples with the recent changes to state policies on marijuana use, journalists, analysts and politicians seem eager to discuss just about every aspect of the state-wide experiment. While the majority of these discussions remain confined to contemplation on policy effects within the country’s borders, it is important to note that, when it comes to the legalization of marijuana in the States, the whole world is watching.

CBD is all the rage in the public sphere these days, but how much does the average person actually know about it? In this issue of Cannabinoid Profiles, the properties of CBD are broken down and the therapeutic benefits are explored.