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Article by Sy Mukherjee, Fortune GW Pharmaceuticals got a third set of impressive clinical trial results for its experimental marijuana-based therapy, sending its stock soaring and setting the stage for a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) application. GW shares closed at $126.06, just below its all-time high of $126.47, after the company announced Epidiolex continued to effectively treat Lenox-Gastaut Syndrome ...

Article by Jon Hiltz, Marijuana.com At long last, domestic Italian cannabis is here for the medical community; which is, as they say, fantastico! Colonel Antonio Medica completed the first portion of a very special mission: growing medical marijuana for the country. Army officials announced that the first shipment of 1,600 5-gram jars is ready for shipment to Italian hospitals and pharmacies in need. Italy passed ...

Article by New Cannabis Ventures We have profiled  a very innovative company, DeepCell Industries, previously, and Matthew Kind interviewed its CEO, Kelly Ogilvie, on his most recent episode of CannaInsider. Ogilvie was working with Washington Governor Jay Hensley’s as Senior Policy Advisor for economic development and business interests when he left to form DeepCell Industries, his fifth startup. DeepCell uses crystal ...

Article by Brian Anderson, Motherboard Quick: What’s something—perhaps one of the only things—Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump see eye-to-eye on? If you guessed supporting medicinal cannabis legalization efforts moving forward on a state-by-state basis, *bong rips*. That the respective Democratic and Republican presidential candidates have both expressed support for medicinal weed is certainly notable, especially in what’s become one of ...

Article by Adrian Nieoczym, CBC News Local government leaders will spend a lot of time talking about marijuana this week at their annual Union of B.C. Municipalities convention in Victoria. With the federal government looking to legalize the recreational use of marijuana sometime next year, up to four resolutions dealing with pot will be discussed. Regulation One asks senior levels of ...

Article by Bethy Squires, Broadly You’d think getting blazed out of your mind would encourage crazy dreams, but the opposite is actually true. If fear is the mind-killer, as the stoner-classic novel Dune posits, then weed is the dream-killer. But when you stop smoking, your dreams may come back with a vengeance. “On the few occasions that I don’t go ...

Letter by Abi Roach, Cannabis Friendly Business Association Dear Friends, The last eight months since Canada elected a pro Legalization government have been exciting, but not for the reasons we believed they would be. Cannabis was added to the Restricted List under then Narcotics Drug Act in 1923 and remains illegal to this day under the Controlled Drugs and Substances ...

Article by Zoe Wilder, Merry Jane Between Halloween, Election Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year’s Eve, and everything else worth celebrating, you have plenty of excuses to get dolled up. Why not make a statement with a one-of-a-kind, cannabis-infusedmanicure? Canna-manis are all the rage in weed-friendly states, sparking conversations and inspiring smoke sessions wherever they go. How did this ...

Article by Justin O’Connell, Merry Jane “Unconsciousness and ignorance—to [your] partner’s needs, desires, wishes, body, mind, et cetera—are the death of loving partnerships,” says Saku, founder of Ganja Devi, a Los Angeles-based holistic wellness startup that offers a variety of medicated yoga, tai chi, and tantra classes. “Truly conscious presence, laced with empathy and compassion, is the biggest gift one ...

Article by Jacquie Miller, Ottawa Citizen Since last spring, Toronto police have raided about 50 of the city’s marijuana dispensaries and charged dozens of people with drug trafficking. It hasn’t come close to stamping  out the illegal pot shops, though — dozens still operate across the city. That cautionary tale is not far from the minds of Ottawa police as they ...