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Cannabis is making more appearances on television than at any point in our history. Is this growing prevalence of cannabis on television the result of slackening social and legal strictures or is television finally catching up to the culture which it mirrors?
Brandon Coats never expected he would end up as the test case pitting Colorado’s medical marijuana laws against the right of employers to have zero-tolerance marijuana policies. But now the Colorado Supreme Court will be hearing his case against Dish Network, the company that had employed him as a telephone operator at its call center, then fired him when he tested positive for marijuana on a random piss test.
Cannabidiol (CBD), a cannabinoid in marijuana, may help Parkinson’s disease sufferers overcome sleep problems, a new study from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil has found.
The medical marijuana advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) is running 30-second TV advertisements on MSNBC in Maryland and South Florida over the next few days to draw attention to Members of Congress who opposed medical marijuana reform in last week's House vote.
NORML PAC is endorsing state Senator Troy Jackson in his campaign to represent the 2nd Congressional District of Maine...
Maureen Dowd of the NY Times recently traveled to Colorado on assignment and decided she would try a pot edible to see what all the fuss was about.
The Temporary Platform Committee of the Republican Party of Texas (RPT) today passed an amendment to the Healthcare and Nutritional Supplements plank of the proposed 2014 RPT Platform that would allow Texas doctors to prescribe marijuana.
Here's the latest major medical marijuana news around the United States from the past week, as of June 4, 2014:
Take a look at cannabis news and politics from around the world in this new series, International Cannabis Update. This week features Israel and their rapidly expanding medical marijuana program, which aims to serve their population of eight million people.
Medical marijuana growers in northern California's Lake County were banned from growing cannabis outdoors Tuesday when voters approved an outdoor-growing restriction proposed by county supervisors.
Medical marijuana patient Larry Harvey, 70, has returned to Washington, D.C. this week to persuade the U.S. Senate to vote for an end to the type of Justice Department (DOJ)
New York state is partnering with a British company to hold clinical trials for marijuana-based medication for children who have seizures that are resistant to their medicine.
The Minnesota Department of Health is seeking a director for its new Office of Medical Cannabis, which will implement the medical marijuana bill signed into law last month by Gov. Mark Dayton.
VIP Cannabis' three retail marijuana stores and three growing operations in Denver are now up for auction on the internet over the next few weeks, after the DEA seized the facilities to pay for back taxes.
Cannabis reform won a historic vote in the House last week, which approved language blocking the federal government from interfering with state medical marijuana laws
A consortium of about a dozen San Jose marijuana shops are handing out free pot in exchange for your ballot stub or “I voted” sticker on June 3, which is election day for local races and battles for governor and secretary of state. The "Weed for Votes" coordinators are also handing out a voter guide, so people know when and who to vote for on marijuana-related issues.
After a long debate that had the US House of Representatives in session until after midnight, the lower chamber of Congress cast a historic 219 to 189 vote to restrict the Department of Justice and the Drug Enforcement Administration from using taxpayer funds to interfere in state-sanctioned medical marijuana programs in the 20+ states that have enacted them.
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs love to beat their chests about how disruptive they are. But that bravery hasn't extended to one booming industry that's experiencing a 68 percent growth rate: the legal cannabis market.
