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As Illinois begins accepting the first patient applications Tuesday, industry officials expect the state to be one of the most expensive places in the country to buy medical marijuana due to Illinois' high fees, taxes and investment costs, and with only 60 dispensaries allowed statewide...
Italy is poised to release about ten thousand inmates due to a shift in sentencing laws that eases punishment for cannabis use, growth and possession. The change comes as a result of the striking down of a law that previously tripled cannabis related sentences.
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.
Illinois Democrat Governor Pat Quinn has signed legislation, HB 5085, authorizing state universities to cultivate industrial hemp for research purposes...
Findings of a preclinical study published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, suggest very small doses of THC, a chemical found in marijuana, slow down the production of thebeta-amyloid protein, which builds up to create plaques in the brain, an accumulation of which is a known hallmark of Alzheimer's disease.
Here's the latest major medical marijuana news around the United States from the past week, as of August 27, 2014:
Santa Fe on Wednesday became the latest U.S. city to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana, with lawmakers in the New Mexico capital voting to change local statutes rather than put the issue to a public ballot in November.
As part of a survey of 100-plus players conducted by ESPN.com's NFL Nation, 75 percent of the 82 players who answered said they agree with Obama's statement - that he does not think marijuana is more dangerous than alcohol ...
As we've reported previously, three cities in Maine could be voting this November on initiatives that would direct local police not to arrest adults age 21 and over for possession of small amounts of marijuana.
Canada's "Prince of Pot" Marc Emery has finally returned home after spending just over 4 ½ years in US federal prison for selling marijuana seeds over the Internet. From his base in Vancouver, BC, Emery parlayed his pot seed profits into a pro-marijuana legalization political juggernaut.
Despite the controversy surrounding marijuana not being FDA approved, medical experts insist there is increasing evidence to suggest that smoking marijuana is less of a detriment to public health than cigarettes.
Over the weekend, The Oregonian, one of the most popular newspapers in Oregon, lent its support to Measure 91, which would make marijuana legal for adults in the state. Voters will decide on the initiative in November.
Two Canadian medical marijuana producers, Bedrocan (BED)& OrganiGram (OGI), began public trading on Monday, joining their competitor Tweed Inc. on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Marijuana use by newly married couples is predictive of less frequent incidences of intimate partner violence perpetration, according to longitudinal data published online ahead of print in the journal Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.
Weed is now legal in Washington state. However, you can still be issued a citation/ticket if you are found using cannabis in one of the aforementioned "no-no" zones. That doesn't mean the public or even law makers are behind the police on this one.
The enactment of medicinal marijuana laws is associated with significantly lower state-level opioid overdose fatalities, by an average of 24.8%, according to data published online today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Internal Medicine.
The use of alcohol significantly increases one’s likelihood of becoming either a perpetrator or a victim of a violent act, But not surprisingly, according to a just-published study in the journal Psychology and Addictive Behaviors, couples who use pot are particularly unlikely to engage in intimate partner violence.
The California Assembly Appropriations Committee held SB 1262 (Correa/Ammiano) in committee on August 15, meaning the bill will not proceed to the floor for a vote or be adopted this year. The…
