The Sad Reality Of Medical Marijuana Users Being Prisoners In Their Home States
Five-year-old Charlotte Figi of Denver, Colorado is the subject of a documentary about the medical benefits of marijuana by CNN's chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. After years of trying...
View ArticleThere's A New Strain Of Marijuana Called 'Sanjay Gupta'
Helping Hands Herbals Dispensary in Boulder, Colorado has announced the release of a new strain of marijuana named after Dr. Sanjay Gupta, cannabis news site Marijuana.com reports.Gupta — who until...
View ArticleFather Of Weed Science Says Research Limits Are 'Tragic'
JERUSALEM — An award-winning professor of medicinal chemistry and natural products at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Raphael Mechoulam is a trim gentleman who wears tweed jackets and silk...
View Article29 Tips For Growing The Best Marijuana In America
Now that marijuana is set to be legal in Colorado, the next step is to grow some. Denver Relief, one of the oldest dispensaries in Colorado, are the experts you want to hear from on this.Their strain...
View ArticleMarijuana Legalization Is Inevitable And It's Time For The Feds To Admit It
Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy is demanding Congressional hearings in September to address the growing divide between state and federal marijuana laws.With twenty states now having legalized the medical...
View ArticleHUGE: Federal Government Won't Challenge Colorado's Marijuana Legalization
Attorney General Eric Holder announced Thursday that the legalization of cannabis in both Washington and Colorado will be uninhibited by federal interference, a massive overturn of decades of U.S. drug...
View ArticlePolice Allegedly Found Guns And Evidence Of Drug Use On 2 Chainz Tour Bus
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Police in Oklahoma City discovered two semi-automatic pistols and a 12-gauge pump shotgun along with some prescription painkillers and marijuana residue on a tour bus occupied by...
View ArticleThere Is So Much Cool Science Happening In The Marijuana Industry These Days
With the forthcoming legalization of marijuana in Colorado, entrepreneurs and researchers finally have the opportunity to do more with cannabis than has been achieved before. While typically people...
View ArticlePolice Discover Professor's Massive Marijuana Operation While Investigating...
A Northwest Missouri State University professor being investigated for threatening a mass shooting will not be charged for it, as police cannot determine the seriousness of the threat. However the...
View ArticleHere's A Cop Helping Someone Light Up A Gigantic Two-Pound Joint
Marijuana legalization appears to be going well in Washington State. Here's a picture of a policeman helping a man light a marijuana joint that weighs two pounds at the Northwest Harvest Fest in Bow,...
View ArticleThe Feds Might Remove A Huge Impediment To The Legal Marijuana Business
Following the successful passage of a constitutional amendment legalizing marijuana in Colorado last year, the cannabis industry is on track to be a fully legal state market by 2014.Until this change,...
View ArticleWhy Colorado Pot Businesses Are Paying Taxes Up To 93%
In Colorado alone, the newly legal marijuana market is poised to be worth $600 million, bringing $130 million in estimated state tax revenue. However, the Federal government's taxation policies are...
View ArticleCheck Out Leafly, The Yelp For Marijuana
There's still a pretty easy way to find your weed online.No, we're not talking about the famed anonymous black market of the Internet called Silk Road. This is a friendly-looking startup with a site...
View ArticleThe True Story Of The Great Marijuana Crash Of 2011
Buying marijuana in Denver is a downright pleasant experience.Customers wait in a well-appointed waiting room. There's a variety of reading material — feel free to choose between the gardening magazine...
View ArticleThe Changing Patterns Of Illicit Drug Use In The US [CHARTS]
Yesterday we told you which states have the biggest problems with which drugs.What about for the country as a whole?Via the DEA, here is the evolution of drug seizures between 1986 and 2012.The figures...
View ArticleA New Subscription Service For Pot Smokers Sends Cannabis-Related Goodies To...
With marijuana legalization becoming a reality in many places around the U.S., it was only a matter of time before someone came up with a monthly "swag" subscription service for pot smokers.Cannabox is...
View ArticleHow States And Businesses Can Keep Marijuana Legalization From Spiraling Out...
The future of marijuana legalization hangs perilously in the balance.While some may view decriminalization as a fait accompli, the reality is that the results of initial implementation efforts in...
View ArticleHow I Discovered That Smoking Weed Is Legal In North Korea
The discovery came during my recent tour of Rason in North Korea, at the time of the 2013 Korean Crisis. The DPRK was - potentially - poised on the brink of nuclear war with the South, with Japan, the...
View ArticleMore Teenagers Now Smoke Pot Than Cigarettes
Michael Scherer of Time just tweeted this chart.It's based on data from the 2012 University of Michigan "Monitoring The Future" study.It appears the message that it's not cool to smoke cigarettes is...
View ArticleHere's Why Vermont Has The Highest Rate Of Illicit Drug Use In America
Vermont has the highest rate of illicit drug use in the country with 15% of people saying they've used within the past month (compared to 4.2% in Utah, where illicit drug use is the lowest), according...
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